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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 2<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN" 3 "../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [ 4<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" "release.ent"> 5 %release; 6 7<!-- local entities not available in doc/release/10.0.0 tag --> 8<!ENTITY man.drill.1 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>drill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 9<!ENTITY man.freebsd-version.1 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>freebsd-version</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 10<!ENTITY man.jemalloc.3 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>jemalloc</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 11<!ENTITY man.bhyve.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>bhyve</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 12<!ENTITY man.nvme.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>nvme</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 13<!ENTITY man.virtio.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>virtio</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 14<!ENTITY man.virtio_balloon.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>virtio_balloon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 15<!ENTITY man.virtio_blk.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>virtio_blk</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 16<!ENTITY man.virtio_scsi.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>virtio_scsi</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 17<!ENTITY man.vmx.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>vmx</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 18<!ENTITY man.pkg.7 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>pkg</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 19<!ENTITY man.bhyve.8 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>bhyve</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 20<!ENTITY man.bsdconfig.8 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>bsdconfig</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 21<!ENTITY man.unbound.8 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>unbound</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 22]> 23<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 24<info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 25 26 27 <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author> 28 29 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: releng/10.0/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 260611 2014-01-13 23:15:51Z gjb $</pubdate> 30 31 <copyright> 32 <year>2000</year> 33 <year>2001</year> 34 <year>2002</year> 35 <year>2003</year> 36 <year>2004</year> 37 <year>2005</year> 38 <year>2006</year> 39 <year>2007</year> 40 <year>2008</year> 41 <year>2009</year> 42 <year>2010</year> 43 <year>2011</year> 44 <year>2012</year> 45 <year>2013</year> 46 <year>2014</year> 47 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder> 48 </copyright> 49 50 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 51 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 52 &tm-attrib.ibm; 53 &tm-attrib.ieee; 54 &tm-attrib.intel; 55 &tm-attrib.sparc; 56 &tm-attrib.general; 57 </legalnotice> 58 59 <abstract> 60 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary 61 of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 62 &release.branch; development line. 63 This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since 64 the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os; 65 kernel and userland. 66 Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para> 67 </abstract> 68</info> 69 70<sect1 xml:id="intro"> 71 <title>Introduction</title> 72 73 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 74 &release.current;. It 75 describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;. 76 It also provides some notes on upgrading 77 from previous versions of &os;.</para> 78 79 <para>The latest, up-to-date version of the release notes are 80 available online at <uri 81 xlink:href="&release.url;10.0R/relnotes.html">&release.url;10.0R/relnotes.html</uri>.</para> 82 83 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes 84 apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development 85 branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary 86 &release.type; distributions along this branch 87 can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 88 89 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes 90 apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development 91 branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;. 92 Information regarding 93 pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch 94 can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 95 96 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a 97 &release.type; distribution. It can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or any of its mirrors. More 98 information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type; 99 distributions of &os; can be found in the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 100 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; 101 Handbook</link>.</para> 102 103 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before 104 installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 105 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 106 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 107 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to 108 documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 109 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 110 111</sect1> 112 113<sect1 xml:id="new"> 114 <title>What's New</title> 115 116 <para>This section describes 117 the most user-visible new or changed features in &os; 118 since &release.prev;. 119 In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch; 120 branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features. 121 </para> 122 123 <para>Typical release note items 124 document recent security advisories issued after 125 &release.prev;, 126 new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, 127 major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also 128 list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering 129 practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single 130 change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses 131 primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major 132 architectural improvements.</para> 133 134 <sect2 xml:id="security"> 135 <title>Security Advisories</title> 136 137 <para>No security advisories.</para> 138 139 </sect2> 140 141 <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> 142 <title>Kernel Changes</title> 143 144 <para revision="248508">The use of unmapped VMIO buffers eliminates the need to perform 145 TLB shootdown for mapping on buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the 146 amount of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30% 147 of the system time on i/o intensive workloads.</para> 148 149 <para arch="amd64" revision="254466">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel 150 can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para> 151 152 <para>A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added 153 for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and 154 assignment. The &man.cpuset.1; userland utility has been added 155 to allow manipulation of processor sets.</para> 156 157 <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an output capture 158 facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured 159 to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or 160 a textdump. The new <command>capture</command> command controls 161 this feature.</para> 162 163 <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting 164 facility, which supports a set of named scripts consisting of a 165 set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can be managed from 166 within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new &man.ddb.8; 167 utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual 168 page.</para> 169 170 <para role="merged">The kernel now supports a new textdump format of kernel 171 dumps. A textdump provides higher-level information via 172 mechanically generated/extracted debugging output, rather than a 173 simple memory dump. This facility can be used to generate brief 174 kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging information, but 175 are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely 176 synchronized source code. More information can be found in the 177 &man.textdump.4; manual page.</para> 178 179 <para>Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While 180 the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful 181 in bringing threading to FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the 182 KSE library was never developed to its full potential. 183 Backwards compatibility for applications using KSE threading 184 will be provided via &man.libmap.conf.5; for dynamically linked 185 binaries. The &os; Project greatly appreciates the work of 186 &a.julian;, &a.deischen;, and &a.davidxu; on KSE support.</para> 187 188 <para>The &os; kernel now exports information about certain kernel 189 features via the <varname>kern.features</varname> sysctl tree. 190 The &man.feature.present.3; library call provides a convenient 191 interface for user applications to test the presence of 192 features.</para> 193 194 <para arch="amd64">The &os; kernel now has support for large 195 memory page mappings (<quote>superpages</quote>).</para> 196 197 <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64,powerpc" role="merged">The ULE 198 scheduler is now the default process scheduler 199 in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</para> 200 201 <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="240135">Support was added for 202 the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number 203 generator, found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs, 204 accessible with RDRAND instruction.</para> 205 206 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 207 <title>Virtualization support</title> 208 <para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included 209 with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT) 210 support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond 211 (e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para> 212 213 <para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added. &man.virtio.4; is the 214 name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but 215 since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen). 216 This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers 217 for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;), 218 memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI. 219 Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 220 221 <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="255524">Paravirtualized drivers which 222 support Microsoft Hyper-V have been imported and made 223 part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel. For i386, these drivers are not part of 224 GENERIC, so the following lines must be added to 225 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to load these drivers: 226 <programlisting>hv_ata_pci_disengage_load="YES" 227hv_netsvc_load="YES" 228hv_utils_load="YES" 229hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be added to the i386 230 kernel by adding <literal>device hyperv</literal> to the kernel config, and then 231 recompiling the kernel. Please refer to: 232 <link xlink:href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV">FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V support</link> 233 for full instructions on how to set up Hyper-V support under FreeBSD.</para> 234 235 <para revision="254738">The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added. 236 &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from 237 OpenBSD.</para> 238 239 <para revision="255744" arch="amd64,i386">Xen PVHVM virtualization is now 240 part of the GENERIC kernel.</para> 241 242 </sect3> 243 244 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 245 <title>ARM support</title> 246 247 <para revision="239922">Raspberry PI support has been added. 248 Refer to these <link xlink:href="http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164">setup instructions</link> 249 and <link xlink:href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide">quick start 250 guide</link>.</para> 251 252 <para revision="253396">The default ABI on ARM is now the ARM EABI. This brings a number of 253 improvements and allows future support for VFP and Thumb-2.</para> 254 255 <para revision="239268">ARM support has been greatly improved, including support 256 for ARMv6 and ARMv7, SMP and thread-local storage (TLS). 257 Additionally support for some newer SoC like the MV78x60 and OMAP4 was added. 258 See <link xlink:href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-August/003757.html">this announcement</link> 259 for further details.</para> 260 261 <para revision="254918">Superpages support on ARM has been added. Superpages support 262 provides improved performance and scalability by allowing TLB 263 translations to dynamically cover large physical memory regions. 264 All ARMv6 and ARMv7-based platforms can take advantage of this feature. 265 See <link xlink:href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMSuperpages">this page</link> 266 for further details.</para> 267 268 </sect3> 269 270 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 271 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 272 273 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The BTX kernel used by the boot 274 loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real 275 mode. This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB 276 devices.</para> 277 278 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">A new gptboot boot loader has 279 been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. A 280 new <command>boot</command> command has been added to 281 &man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the 282 required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot 283 partition if required.</para> 284 285 </sect3> 286 287 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 288 <title>Hardware Support</title> 289 290 <para role="merged">The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040 291 PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para> 292 293 <para>The &man.syscons.4; driver now supports Colemak keyboard layout.</para> 294 295 <para role="merged">The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon 296 Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been 297 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 298 299 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 300 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 301 302 <para revision="240609">Support for version 2.0 of the USB Audio reference design 303 has been added. New devices should support higher bandwidth, 304 increased sampling frequency and wider dynamic range.</para> 305 306 </sect4> 307 308 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 309 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 310 311 <para>The &man.ale.4; driver has been added to provide support 312 for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet controllers.</para> 313 314 <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been split into two drivers 315 with some common parts. The &man.em.4; driver will continue 316 to support adapters up to the 82575, as well as new 317 client/desktop adapters. A new &man.igb.4; driver 318 will support new server adapters.</para> 319 320 <para>The &man.jme.4; driver has been added to provide support 321 for PCIe network adapters based on JMicron JMC250 Gigabit 322 Ethernet and JMC260 Fast Ethernet controllers.</para> 323 324 <para>The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to provide 325 support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network 326 adapters.</para> 327 328 <para>The firmware for the &man.mxge.4; driver has been 329 updated from 1.4.25 to 1.4.29.</para> 330 331 <para>The &man.sf.4; driver has been overhauled to improve its 332 performance and to add support for checksum offloading. It 333 should also work on all architectures.</para> 334 335 <para>The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a 336 number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL) 337 support.</para> 338 339 <para>The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a 340 number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all 341 architectures.</para> 342 343 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver has 344 been updated to include a number of stability fixes.</para> 345 346 <para revision="248925">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated to support 347 40G/10G Ethernet NICs based on Chelsio's Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC.</para> 348 349 <para revision="256694">The iw_cxgbe driver has been added. This is an 350 experimental iWARP/RDMA driver 351 (kernel verbs only) for Chelsio's T4 and T5 based cards.</para> 352 353 <para revision="255932">The Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) and 354 OFED Infiniband core has been 355 updated to the same version as supplied by Linux version 3.7</para> 356 357 <para revision="255932">The Mellanox Infiniband driver has been updated to firmware 358 version 2.30.3200 for ConnectX3 NICs. Support has been added for ConnectX3 VPI NICs, where 359 each port can be used as Infiniband 56 GB/s or Ethernet 40 GB/s. Support has been added 360 for dynamically loading kernel modules for Infiniband core (ibcore) and 361 IP over Infiniband (ipoib).</para> 362 363 <para revision="227614">&man.netmap.4; has been added. &man.netmap.4; is a framework for 364 high-performance direct-to-hardware packet IO, offering low latency and high PPS 365 rates to userland applications while bypassing any kernel-side packet processing. 366 With &man.netmap.4; it is trivially possible to fully saturate a 10 Gbps network interface with 367 minimal packet sizes. For more information, see: 368 <link xlink:href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/">Netmap Project</link>.</para> 369 370 </sect4> 371 </sect3> 372 373 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 374 <title>Network Protocols</title> 375 376 <para revision="228571">&man.carp.4; has been rewritten to make addresses 377 more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such as 378 quagga/zebra. It also brings support for a single redundant 379 address on the subnet (carpdev), switching state with 380 &man.ifconfig.8;, better locking and using modern kernel 381 interfaces to allocate multicast memberships. 382 Configuration of the CARP protocol via &man.ifconfig.8; has changed, as well as format 383 of CARP events submitted to &man.devd.8; has changed. See &man.carp.4; 384 for more information. The arpbalance feature of &man.carp.4; is currently 385 not supported anymore.</para> 386 387 <para revision="240233">The &man.pf.4; firewall now supports fine-grain locking 388 and better utilization on multi-cpu machines resulting in 389 significant improvements in performance.</para> 390 391 <para revision="250700">Support for up to 65536 routing tables has been 392 introduced.</para> 393 394 <para revision="248552">Support for setting/matching differentiated services 395 codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has been added to 396 &man.ipfw.8;.</para> 397 398 </sect3> 399 400 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 401 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 402 403 <para role="merged">The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than 404 2TB in size.</para> 405 406 <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for 407 disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests 408 have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down 409 until the next request. The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now 410 supports a <command>spindown</command> command to configure 411 this feature.</para> 412 413 <para role="merged">The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2 414 from Highpoint.</para> 415 416 <para revision="240616">&man.nvme.4; has been added and provides NVM Express support. 417 NVM Express is an optimized register interface, command set and feature set of 418 PCI Express (PCIe)-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs). For more information, 419 see <link xlink:href="http://http://www.nvmexpress.org/">nvmexpress.org</link>.</para> 420 421 </sect3> 422 423 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 424 <title>File Systems</title> 425 426 <para revision="255570">A new kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator has been 427 added</para> 428 429 <para revision="243246">UFS filesystems can now be enlarged with &man.growfs.8; while 430 mounted read-write. This is especially useful for virtual 431 machines, allowing the addition of more harddrive space without 432 interruption of service.</para> 433 434 <para revision="241519">A state of the art FUSE implementation is now part of the 435 base system. It allows the use of nearly all fusefs file 436 systems</para> 437 438 <sect4 xml:id="fs-zfs"> 439 <title>ZFS</title> 440 441 <para revision="">&man.bsdinstall.8; now supports installing 442 ZFS on the root file system. It includes a single configuration menu 443 that allows you to select all of the required details, including 444 which drives to use, what ZFS RAID level to use (taking into consideration 445 the selected number of drives), GPT or MBR, GELI encryption, forcing 4K sectors, 446 pool name, etc.</para> 447 448 <para revision="240868">TRIM support has been added for 449 ZFS.</para> 450 451 <para revision="246586">Support for the high performance LZ4 compression algorithm 452 has been added to ZFS. LZ4 is usually faster and can achieve a 453 higher compression ratio than LZJB, the default compression 454 algorithm</para> 455 456 <para revision="252140">Support for L2ARC compression has been added to ZFS.</para> 457 458 <para revision="243524">The zio nop-write improvement from Illumos 459 was imported into &os;. To reduce I/O, nop-write skips overwriting 460 data if the checksum (cryptographically secure) of new data 461 matches the checksum of existing data. It also saves space if 462 snapshots are in use. This improvement only works only on 463 datasets with enabled compression, disabled deduplication and 464 sha256 checksums.</para> 465 466 <para>ZFS will now compare the checksums of incoming writes to 467 the checksum of the existing on-disk data and avoid issuing any 468 write I/O for data that has not changed. This will reduce I/O 469 as well as space usage because if the old block is referenced 470 by a snapshot, both copies of the block are kept even though 471 both contain the same data.</para> 472 473 </sect4> 474 475 </sect3> 476 477 </sect2> 478 479 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 480 <title>Userland Changes</title> 481 482 <para revision="255321">On platforms where &man.clang.1; is the default 483 system compiler, (such as i386, amd64, arm) GCC and GNU libstdc++ are no 484 longer built by default. &man.clang.1; and libc++ from LLVM are used on 485 these platforms by instead. GCC 4.2.1 and libstdc++ are still built 486 and used by default on pc98 and all other platforms where &man.clang.1; 487 is not the default system compiler. 488 </para> 489 490 <para revision="251662">&man.clang.1; and llvm have been updated to 491 version 3.3 release. Please refer to 492 <link xlink:href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html"> 493 Clang 3.3 Release Notes.</link></para> 494 495 <para role="merged" revision="255949">BIND has been replaced by &man.unbound.8; for 496 local dns resolution in the base system. With this change, nslookup 497 and dig are no longer a part of the base system. Users should 498 instead use &man.host.1; and &man.drill.1; Alternatively, 499 nslookup and dig can be obtained by installing the 500 dns/bind-tools port.</para> 501 502 <para revision="225937">sysinstall has been removed from the base system. 503 Auxiliary libraries and tools used by sysinstall such as libdisk, libftpio, 504 and sade have also been removed. sysinstall has been replaced by 505 &man.bsdinstall.8; and &man.bsdconfig.8;.</para> 506 507 <para revision="256106">&man.freebsd-version.1; has been added. This tool 508 makes a best effort to determine the version and patch level of 509 the installed kernel and userland.</para> 510 511 <para revision="255191">GNU patch has been removed from the base system, and replaced 512 by a BSD-licensed &man.patch.1; program.</para> 513 514 <para revision="241511">GNU sort has been removed from the base system, and replaced 515 by a BSD-licensed &man.sort.1; program.</para> 516 517 <para revision="235723">Berkely yacc (byacc) has been imported 518 from <link xlink:href="http://invisible-island.net/byacc/">invisible island</link>. 519 This brings bison compatibilities to &man.yacc.1; while preserving full 520 backwards compatibility with previous version of &man.yacc.1;.</para> 521 522 <para revision="250881">&man.lex.1; has been replaced by flex 2.5.37</para> 523 524 <para revision="250699">&man.make.1; has been replaced with the 525 "Portable" BSD make tool (bmake) from NetBSD.</para> 526 527 <para role="merged">The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports 528 a <option>-M</option> option to set the mode of a new user's 529 home directory.</para> 530 531 <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.ar.1; and &man.ranlib.1;, 532 based on <filename>libarchive</filename>, have replaced the GNU 533 Binutils versions of these utilities.</para> 534 535 <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.bc.1; and &man.dc.1; have 536 replaced their GNU counterparts.</para> 537 538 <para role="merged">&man.chflags.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag for 539 verbose output and a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors 540 with the same semantics as (for example) 541 &man.chmod.1;.</para> 542 543 <para>For compatibility with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now 544 supports a <option>-a</option> flag, which is equivalent to 545 specifying the <option>-RrP</option> flags.</para> 546 547 <para>BSD-licensed version of &man.cpio.1; based on 548 <filename>libarchive</filename>, has replaced the GNU cpio. 549 Note that the GNU cpio is still installed as 550 <filename>gcpio</filename>.</para> 551 552 <para>The &man.env.1; program now supports <option>-u 553 <replaceable>name</replaceable></option> 554 which will completely unset the given variable 555 <replaceable>name</replaceable> by removing it from the environment, 556 instead of just setting it to a null value.</para> 557 558 <para>The &man.fdopendir.3; library function has been added.</para> 559 560 <para role="merged">The &man.fetch.3; library now support HTTP 1.1 561 If-Modified-Since behavior. The &man.fetch.1; program now 562 supports <option>-i <replaceable>filename</replaceable></option> 563 which will only download the specified HTTP URL if the content 564 is newer than <replaceable>filename</replaceable>.</para> 565 566 <para>&man.find.1; has been enhanced by the addition of a number 567 of primaries that were present in GNU find but not &os; 568 &man.find.1;.</para> 569 570 <para>&man.kgdb.1; now supports a new <command>add-kld</command> 571 command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel 572 modules.</para> 573 574 <para>The &man.ls.1; program now supports a <option>-D</option> 575 option to specify a date format string to be used with the long 576 format (<option>-l</option>) output.</para> 577 578 <para>&man.nc.1; now supports a <option>-O</option> switch to 579 disable the use of TCP options.</para> 580 581 <para>&man.nc.1;'s <option>-o</option> switch has been deprecated. 582 It will be removed in a future release.</para> 583 584 <para>The &man.ping6.8; utility now returns <literal>2</literal> 585 when the packet transmission was successful but no responses 586 were received (this is the same behavior as &man.ping.8;). 587 It returned a non-zero value before this change.</para> 588 589 <para>The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display 590 detailed information about processes.</para> 591 592 <para role="merged">The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports 593 a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress warnings; it now also 594 accepts multiple paths on its command line.</para> 595 596 <para>&man.sh.1; has many bug fixes, some new features, and will now 597 refuse to parse some invalid scripts. Additionally, it now 598 has filename completion and defaults to the "emacs" editing 599 mode.</para> 600 601 <para>The &man.split.1; utility now supports a <option>-n</option> 602 flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks.</para> 603 604 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-Z</option> 605 flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style 606 compression/decompression.</para> 607 608 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a 609 <option>--numeric-owner</option> flag to ignore user/group names 610 on create and extract.</para> 611 612 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports an 613 <option>-S</option> flag to sparsify files on extraction.</para> 614 615 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-s</option> 616 flag to substitute filenames based on the specified regular 617 expression.</para> 618 619 <para>The &man.tcgetsid.3; library function has been added to 620 return the process group ID for the session leader for the 621 controlling terminal. It is defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 622 (POSIX).</para> 623 624 <para>&man.top.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> flag to 625 provide per-CPU usage statistics.</para> 626 627 <para>&man.zdump.8; is now working properly on 64 bit architectures. 628 </para> 629 630 <para>&man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS 631 number for each hop with the new <option>-a</option> switch; a 632 new <option>-A</option> option allows selecting a particular 633 WHOIS server.</para> 634 635 <para>&man.traceroute6.8; now supports a <option>-U</option> flag 636 to send probe packets with no upper-layer protocol, rather than 637 the usual UDP probe packets.</para> 638 639 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 640 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 641 642 <para>The followoing &man.rc.8; scripts have been added:</para> 643 644 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 645 <tgroup cols="2"> 646 <colspec colwidth="1*" /> 647 <colspec colwidth="1*" /> 648 <thead> 649 <row> 650 <entry>&man.rc.8; Script</entry> 651 <entry>Function</entry> 652 </row> 653 </thead> 654 655 <tbody> 656 <row> 657 <entry><filename>ctld</filename></entry> 658 <entry><para>iSCSI target daemon startup 659 script</para></entry> 660 </row> 661 <row> 662 <entry><filename>iscsictl</filename></entry> 663 <entry><para>iSCSI initiator management utility 664 startup script</para></entry> 665 </row> 666 <row> 667 <entry><filename>iscsid</filename></entry> 668 <entry><para>iSCSI initiatior daemon startup 669 script</para></entry> 670 </row> 671 <row> 672 <entry><filename>kfd</filename></entry> 673 <entry><para>Kerberos ticket forwarding daemon 674 startup script</para></entry> 675 </row> 676 <row> 677 <entry><filename>local_unbound</filename></entry> 678 <entry><para>Unbound startup script for the local 679 caching resolver</para></entry> 680 </row> 681 <row> 682 <entry><filename>postrandom</filename></entry> 683 <entry><para>Generates a new entropy file at system 684 boot</para></entry> 685 </row> 686 <row> 687 <entry><filename>swap</filename></entry> 688 <entry><para>Replaces <filename>swap1</filename>; 689 enable swap at system boot</para></entry> 690 </row> 691 <row> 692 <entry><filename>swaplate</filename></entry> 693 <entry><para>Enables swap with <quote>late</quote> 694 set at system boot</para></entry> 695 </row> 696 <row> 697 <entry><filename>utx</filename></entry> 698 <entry><para>User accounting database startup and 699 shutdown script</para></entry> 700 </row> 701 </tbody> 702 </tgroup> 703 </informaltable> 704 705 <para>The following &man.rc.8; scripts have been removed:</para> 706 707 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 708 <tgroup cols="2"> 709 <colspec colwidth="1*" /> 710 <thead> 711 <row> 712 <entry>&man.rc.8; Script</entry> 713 <entry><para>Reason</para></entry> 714 </row> 715 </thead> 716 717 <tbody> 718 <row> 719 <entry><filename>encswap</filename></entry> 720 <entry><para>Replaced by <filename>swap</filename> and 721 <filename>swaplate</filename></para></entry> 722 </row> 723 <row> 724 <entry><filename>named</filename></entry> 725 <entry><para>Removed with 726 <application>BIND</application></para></entry> 727 </row> 728 <row> 729 <entry><filename>swap1</filename></entry> 730 <entry><para>Replaced by <filename>swap</filename> and 731 <filename>swaplate</filename></para></entry> 732 </row> 733 </tbody> 734 </tgroup> 735 </informaltable> 736 </sect3> 737 </sect2> 738 739 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 740 <title>Contributed Software</title> 741 742 <para revision="251300">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to 3.4.0. 743 See <link xlink:href="http://www.facebook.com/jemalloc/">this link</link>. 744 for more details.</para> 745 746 <para role="merged"><application>AMD</application> has been updated from 6.0.10 747 to 6.1.5.</para> 748 749 <para role="merged"><application>awk</application> has been updated from 1 May 750 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release.</para> 751 752 <para role="merged"><application>bzip2</application> has been updated from 1.0.4 753 to 1.0.5.</para> 754 755 <para revision="251794"><application>CVS</application> has been removed from the 756 base system, but is still available from ports</para> 757 758 <para revision="251886">Subversion has been imported into the base system and 759 is installed as <application>svnlite</application>. <application>svnlite</application> 760 should only be used for checking out &os; source and committing, and does not 761 replace the full Subversion port.</para> 762 763 <para revision="234449"><application>file</application> has been updated to 5.11.</para> 764 765 <para revision="252726"><application>hostapd</application> has been 766 updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para> 767 768 <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to 5.1.2.</para> 769 770 <para revision="250592"><application>less</application> has been updated to 771 v458.</para> 772 773 <para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from 774 to 5.7-20081102.</para> 775 776 <para role="merged"><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated 777 to 6.4.</para> 778 779 <para revision="236109"><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated to 780 the Micrampelis release.</para> 781 782 <para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from 783 8.14.1 to 8.14.7.</para> 784 785 <para role="merged">The timezone database has been updated from 786 the <application>tzdata2008h</application> release to 787 the <application>tzdata2009m</application> release.</para> 788 789 <para>The stdtime part of libc, &man.zdump.8; and &man.zic.8; 790 have been updated from the <application>tzcode2004a</application> 791 release to the <application>tzcode2009h</application> release. 792 If you have upgraded from source or via the &man.freebsd-update.8;, 793 then please run &man.tzsetup.8; to install a new /etc/localtime. 794 </para> 795 796 <para revision="252726"><application>WPA Supplicant</application> has been 797 updated to 2.0.</para> 798 799 <para role="merged"><application>xz</application> has been updated 800 from snapshot as of 12 April 2010 to 5.0.0.</para> 801 802 <para revision="258231" role="merged">&man.nvi.1; has been updated to 2.1.2.</para> 803 804 <para revision="254225">&man.nvi.1; supports wide character locales.</para> 805 806 </sect2> 807 808 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 809 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 810 811 <para revision="257444">The pkg_add, pkg_create, pkg_delete, pkg_info, 812 pkg_updating, and pkg_version utilities have been removed. 813 &man.pkg.7; must now be used to install binary packages. &man.pkg.7; 814 is the next generation &os; package manager, also referred to as "pkgng".</para> 815 816 </sect2> 817 818 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 819 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 820 821 <para role="merged">The supported version of 822 the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment 823 (<package>x11/gnome2</package>) has been 824 updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22.</para> 825 826 </sect2> 827 828 <!-- 829 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 830 <title>Documentation</title> 831 832 <para/> 833 834 </sect2> 835 --> 836</sect1> 837 838<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 839 <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title> 840 841 <para arch="amd64,i386">Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, 842 binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the 843 various security branches) are supported using the 844 &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure will 845 update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC or 846 SMP kernels distributed as a part of an official &os; release. 847 The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being 848 upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para> 849 850 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 851 base system from source code) from previous versions are 852 supported, according to the instructions in 853 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 854 855 <important> 856 <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after 857 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 858 files.</para> 859 </important> 860</sect1> 861</article> 862