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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.gptboot.8 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>gptboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 21<!ENTITY man.bsdconfig.8 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>bsdconfig</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 22<!ENTITY man.unbound.8 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>unbound</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 23]> 24<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 25<info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 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 260620 2014-01-14 03:18:29Z 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 48 Project</holder> 49 </copyright> 50 51 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 52 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 53 &tm-attrib.ibm; 54 &tm-attrib.ieee; 55 &tm-attrib.intel; 56 &tm-attrib.sparc; 57 &tm-attrib.general; 58 </legalnotice> 59 60 <abstract> 61 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 62 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 63 &release.branch; development line. This document lists 64 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 65 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 66 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 67 presented.</para> 68 </abstract> 69</info> 70 71<sect1 xml:id="intro"> 72 <title>Introduction</title> 73 74 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 75 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 76 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 77 upgrading 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 84 these release notes apply represents the latest point along the 85 &release.branch; development branch since &release.branch; was 86 created. Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type; 87 distributions along this branch can be found at <uri 88 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 89 90 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to 91 which these release notes apply represents a point along the 92 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and the 93 future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, binary 94 &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at 95 <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 96 97 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; 98 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be 99 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or 100 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) 101 &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the <link 102 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 103 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link 104 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</link>.</para> 105 106 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before 107 installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 108 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 109 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 110 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to 111 documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 112 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 113</sect1> 114 115<sect1 xml:id="new"> 116 <title>What's New</title> 117 118 <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed 119 features in &os; since &release.prev;. In general, changes 120 described here are unique to the &release.branch; branch unless 121 specifically marked as &merged; features.</para> 122 123 <para>Typical release note items document recent security advisories 124 issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new 125 commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software 126 upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or 127 release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot 128 list every single change made to &os; between releases; this 129 document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible 130 changes, and major architectural improvements.</para> 131 132 <sect2 xml:id="security"> 133 <title>Security Advisories</title> 134 135 <para>No security advisories.</para> 136 </sect2> 137 138 <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> 139 <title>Kernel Changes</title> 140 141 <para revision="248508">The use of unmapped VMIO buffers 142 eliminates the need to perform TLB shootdown for mapping on 143 buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the amount of IPIs 144 for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30% 145 of the system time on i/o intensive workloads.</para> 146 147 <para arch="amd64" revision="254466">The maximum amount of memory 148 the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to 149 4TB.</para> 150 151 <para>A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added for thread to CPU 152 binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment. The 153 &man.cpuset.1; userland utility has been added to allow 154 manipulation of processor sets.</para> 155 156 <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an 157 output capture facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can 158 now be captured to a memory buffer for later inspection using 159 &man.sysctl.8; or a textdump. The new 160 <command>capture</command> command controls this feature.</para> 161 162 <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple 163 scripting facility, which supports a set of named scripts 164 consisting of a set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can 165 be managed from within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new 166 &man.ddb.8; utility. More details can be found in the 167 &man.ddb.4; manual page.</para> 168 169 <para role="merged">The kernel now supports a new textdump format 170 of kernel dumps. A textdump provides higher-level information 171 via mechanically generated/extracted debugging output, rather 172 than a simple memory dump. This facility can be used to 173 generate brief kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging 174 information, but are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or 175 precisely synchronized source code. More information can be 176 found in the &man.textdump.4; manual page.</para> 177 178 <para>Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While 179 the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful 180 in bringing threading to FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the 181 KSE library was never developed to its full potential. 182 Backwards compatibility for applications using KSE threading 183 will be provided via &man.libmap.conf.5; for dynamically linked 184 binaries. The &os; Project greatly appreciates the work of 185 &a.julian;, &a.deischen;, and &a.davidxu; on KSE support.</para> 186 187 <para>The &os; kernel now exports information about certain kernel 188 features via the <varname>kern.features</varname> sysctl tree. 189 The &man.feature.present.3; library call provides a convenient 190 interface for user applications to test the presence of 191 features.</para> 192 193 <para arch="amd64">The &os; kernel now has support for large 194 memory page mappings (<quote>superpages</quote>).</para> 195 196 <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64,powerpc" role="merged">The ULE 197 scheduler is now the default process scheduler 198 in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</para> 199 200 <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="240135">Support was added for 201 the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number 202 generator, found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs, 203 accessible with the RDRAND instruction.</para> 204 205 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 206 <title>Virtualization support</title> 207 <para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, 208 &man.bhyve.8; is included with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires 209 Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT) support. 210 These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond (e.g. 211 Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para> 212 213 <para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added. 214 &man.virtio.4; is the name for the paravirtualization 215 interface developed for the Linux KVM, but since adopted to 216 other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception 217 of Xen). This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room 218 implementation of the virtio kernel drivers for disk IO 219 (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO 220 (&man.vtnet.4;), memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), 221 and PCI. Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and 222 &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 223 224 <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="255524">Paravirtualized 225 drivers which support Microsoft Hyper-V have been imported and 226 made part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel. For i386, these 227 drivers are not part of GENERIC, so the following lines must 228 be added to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to load 229 these drivers:</para> 230 231 <programlisting>hv_ata_pci_disengage_load="YES" 232hv_netsvc_load="YES" 233hv_utils_load="YES" 234hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> 235 236 <para>Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be added to the 237 i386 kernel by adding <literal>device hyperv</literal> to the 238 kernel config, and then recompiling the kernel. Please refer 239 to <link xlink:href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV">FreeBSD 240 and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V support</link> for full 241 instructions on how to set up Hyper-V support under 242 FreeBSD.</para> 243 244 <para revision="254738">The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added. 245 &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from 246 OpenBSD.</para> 247 248 <para revision="255744" arch="amd64,i386">Xen PVHVM 249 virtualization is now part of the GENERIC kernel.</para> 250 </sect3> 251 252 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 253 <title>ARM support</title> 254 255 <para revision="239922">Raspberry PI support has been added. 256 Refer to these <link 257 xlink:href="http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164">setup 258 instructions</link> and this <link 259 xlink:href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide">quick 260 start guide</link>.</para> 261 262 <para revision="253396">The default ABI on ARM is now the ARM 263 EABI. This brings a number of improvements and allows future 264 support for VFP and Thumb-2.</para> 265 266 <para revision="239268">ARM support has been greatly improved, 267 including support for ARMv6 and ARMv7, SMP and thread-local 268 storage (TLS). Additionally support for some newer SoC like 269 the MV78x60 and OMAP4 was added. See the <link 270 xlink:href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-August/003757.html">announcement</link> 271 for further details.</para> 272 273 <para revision="254918">Superpages support on ARM has been 274 added. Superpages support provides improved performance and 275 scalability by allowing TLB translations to dynamically cover 276 large physical memory regions. All ARMv6 and ARMv7-based 277 platforms can take advantage of this feature. See the <link 278 xlink:href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMSuperpages">ARM 279 Superpages status</link> page for further details.</para> 280 </sect3> 281 282 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 283 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 284 285 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The BTX kernel used by the 286 boot loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real 287 mode. This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB 288 devices.</para> 289 290 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">A new &man.gptboot.8; boot 291 loader has been added to support booting from a GPT labeled 292 disk. A new <command>boot</command> command has been added to 293 &man.gpart.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the 294 required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot 295 partition if required.</para> 296 </sect3> 297 298 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 299 <title>Hardware Support</title> 300 301 <para role="merged">The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey 302 CardMan 4040 PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para> 303 304 <para>The &man.syscons.4; driver now supports the Colemak 305 keyboard layout.</para> 306 307 <para role="merged">The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for 308 Silicon Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, 309 has been imported from OpenBSD.</para> 310 311 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 312 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 313 314 <para revision="240609">Support for version 2.0 of the USB 315 Audio reference design has been added. New devices should 316 support higher bandwidth, increased sampling frequency and 317 wider dynamic range.</para> 318 </sect4> 319 320 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 321 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 322 323 <para>The &man.ale.4; driver has been added to provide support 324 for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet 325 controllers.</para> 326 327 <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been split into two drivers 328 with some common parts. The &man.em.4; driver will continue 329 to support adapters up to the 82575, as well as new 330 client/desktop adapters. A new &man.igb.4; driver 331 will support new server adapters.</para> 332 333 <para>The &man.jme.4; driver has been added to provide support 334 for PCIe network adapters based on JMicron JMC250 Gigabit 335 Ethernet and JMC260 Fast Ethernet controllers.</para> 336 337 <para>The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to provide 338 support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network 339 adapters.</para> 340 341 <para>The firmware for the &man.mxge.4; driver has been 342 updated from 1.4.25 to 1.4.29.</para> 343 344 <para>The &man.sf.4; driver has been overhauled to improve its 345 performance and to add support for checksum offloading. It 346 should also work on all architectures.</para> 347 348 <para>The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a 349 number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL) 350 support.</para> 351 352 <para>The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a 353 number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all 354 architectures.</para> 355 356 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver has 357 been updated to include a number of stability fixes.</para> 358 359 <para revision="248925">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been 360 updated to support 40G/10G Ethernet NICs based on Chelsio's 361 Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC.</para> 362 363 <para revision="256694">The iw_cxgbe driver has been 364 added. This is an experimental iWARP/RDMA driver (kernel 365 verbs only) for Chelsio's T4 and T5 based cards.</para> 366 367 <para revision="255932">The Open Fabrics Enterprise 368 Distribution (OFED) and OFED Infiniband core has been 369 updated to the same version as supplied by Linux version 370 3.7</para> 371 372 <para revision="255932">The Mellanox Infiniband driver has 373 been updated to firmware version 2.30.3200 for ConnectX3 374 NICs. Support has been added for ConnectX3 VPI NICs, where 375 each port can be used as Infiniband 56 GB/s or Ethernet 40 376 GB/s. Support has been added for dynamically loading kernel 377 modules for Infiniband core (ibcore) and IP over Infiniband 378 (ipoib).</para> 379 380 <para revision="227614">&man.netmap.4; has been added. 381 &man.netmap.4; is a framework for high-performance 382 direct-to-hardware packet IO, offering low latency and high 383 PPS rates to userland applications while bypassing any 384 kernel-side packet processing. With &man.netmap.4; it is 385 trivially possible to fully saturate a 10 Gbps network 386 interface with minimal packet sizes. For more information, 387 see: <link 388 xlink:href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/">Netmap 389 Project</link>.</para> 390 </sect4> 391 </sect3> 392 393 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 394 <title>Network Protocols</title> 395 396 <para revision="228571">&man.carp.4; has been rewritten to make 397 addresses more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such 398 as quagga/zebra. It also brings support for a single redundant 399 address on the subnet (carpdev), switching state with 400 &man.ifconfig.8;, better locking and using modern kernel 401 interfaces to allocate multicast memberships. Configuration 402 of the CARP protocol via &man.ifconfig.8; has changed, as well 403 as the format of CARP events submitted to &man.devd.8;. See 404 &man.carp.4; for more information. The arpbalance feature of 405 &man.carp.4; is currently not supported anymore.</para> 406 407 <para revision="240233">The &man.pf.4; firewall now supports 408 fine-grain locking and better utilization on multi-CPU 409 machines, resulting in significant improvements in 410 performance.</para> 411 412 <para revision="250700">Support for up to 65536 routing tables 413 has been introduced.</para> 414 415 <para revision="248552">Support for setting/matching 416 differentiated services codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has 417 been added to &man.ipfw.8;.</para> 418 </sect3> 419 420 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 421 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 422 423 <para role="merged">The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes 424 larger than 2TB in size.</para> 425 426 <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for 427 disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests 428 have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down 429 until the next request. The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now 430 supports a <command>spindown</command> command to configure 431 this feature.</para> 432 433 <para role="merged">The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to 434 version 1.2 from Highpoint.</para> 435 436 <para revision="240616">&man.nvme.4; has been added and provides 437 NVM Express support. NVM Express is an optimized register 438 interface, command set and feature set of PCI Express 439 (PCIe)-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs). For more information, 440 see <link 441 xlink:href="http://www.nvmexpress.org/">nvmexpress.org</link>.</para> 442 </sect3> 443 444 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 445 <title>File Systems</title> 446 447 <para revision="255570">A new kernel-based iSCSI target and 448 initiator has been added.</para> 449 450 <para revision="243246">UFS filesystems can now be enlarged with 451 &man.growfs.8; while mounted read-write. This is especially 452 useful for virtual machines, allowing the addition of more 453 harddrive space without interruption of service.</para> 454 455 <para revision="241519">A state of the art FUSE implementation 456 is now part of the base system. It allows the use of nearly 457 all fusefs file systems.</para> 458 459 <sect4 xml:id="fs-zfs"> 460 <title>ZFS</title> 461 462 <para revision="">&man.bsdinstall.8; now supports installing 463 ZFS on the root file system. It includes a single 464 configuration menu that allows you to select all of the 465 required details, including which drives to use, what ZFS 466 RAID level to use (taking into consideration the selected 467 number of drives), GPT or MBR, GELI encryption, forcing 4K 468 sectors, pool name, etc.</para> 469 470 <para revision="240868">TRIM support has been added for 471 ZFS.</para> 472 473 <para revision="246586">Support for the high-performance LZ4 474 compression algorithm has been added to ZFS. LZ4 is usually 475 faster and can achieve a higher compression ratio than LZJB, 476 the default compression algorithm.</para> 477 478 <para revision="252140">Support for L2ARC compression has been 479 added to ZFS.</para> 480 481 <para revision="243524">The zio nop-write improvement from 482 Illumos was imported into &os;. To reduce I/O, nop-write 483 skips overwriting data if the (cryptographically secure) 484 checksum of new data matches the checksum of existing data. 485 It also saves space if snapshots are in use. This 486 improvement only works on datasets with enabled compression, 487 disabled deduplication and sha256 checksums. ZFS will now 488 compare the checksums of incoming writes to the checksum of 489 the existing on-disk data and avoid issuing any write I/O 490 for data that has not changed. This will reduce I/O as well 491 as space usage because if the old block is referenced by 492 a snapshot, both copies of the block are kept even though 493 both contain the same data.</para> 494 </sect4> 495 </sect3> 496 </sect2> 497 498 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 499 <title>Userland Changes</title> 500 501 <para revision="255321">On platforms where &man.clang.1; is the default 502 system compiler (such as i386, amd64, arm), GCC and GNU libstdc++ are no 503 longer built by default. &man.clang.1; and libc++ from LLVM are used on 504 these platforms by instead. GCC 4.2.1 and libstdc++ are still built 505 and used by default on pc98 and all other platforms where &man.clang.1; 506 is not the default system compiler.</para> 507 508 <para revision="251662">&man.clang.1; and llvm have been updated to 509 version 3.3 release. Please refer to <link 510 xlink:href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html"> 511 Clang 3.3 Release Notes</link>.</para> 512 513 <para role="merged" revision="255949">BIND has been replaced by 514 &man.unbound.8; for local DNS resolution in the base system. 515 With this change, nslookup and dig are no longer a part of the 516 base system. Users should instead use &man.host.1; and 517 &man.drill.1; Alternatively, nslookup and dig can be obtained by 518 installing the dns/bind-tools port.</para> 519 520 <para revision="225937">sysinstall has been removed from the base 521 system. Auxiliary libraries and tools used by sysinstall such 522 as libdisk, libftpio, and sade have also been removed. 523 sysinstall has been replaced by &man.bsdinstall.8; and 524 &man.bsdconfig.8;.</para> 525 526 <para revision="256106">&man.freebsd-version.1; has been added. 527 This tool makes a best effort to determine the version and patch 528 level of the installed kernel and userland.</para> 529 530 <para revision="255191">GNU patch has been removed from the base 531 system, and replaced by a BSD-licensed &man.patch.1; 532 program.</para> 533 534 <para revision="241511">GNU sort has been removed from the base 535 system, and replaced by a BSD-licensed &man.sort.1; 536 program.</para> 537 538 <para revision="235723">Berkely yacc (byacc) has been imported 539 from <link 540 xlink:href="http://invisible-island.net/byacc/">invisible 541 island</link>. This brings bison compatibilities to 542 &man.yacc.1; while preserving full backwards compatibility with 543 previous version of &man.yacc.1;.</para> 544 545 <para revision="250881">&man.lex.1; has been replaced by flex 546 2.5.37.</para> 547 548 <para revision="250699">&man.make.1; has been replaced with the 549 <quote>Portable</quote> BSD make tool (bmake) from 550 NetBSD.</para> 551 552 <para role="merged">The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports 553 a <option>-M</option> option to set the mode of a new user's 554 home directory.</para> 555 556 <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.ar.1; and &man.ranlib.1;, 557 based on &man.libarchive.3;, have replaced the GNU Binutils 558 versions of these utilities.</para> 559 560 <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.bc.1; and &man.dc.1; have 561 replaced their GNU counterparts.</para> 562 563 <para role="merged">&man.chflags.1; now supports 564 a <option>-v</option> flag for verbose output and 565 a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors with the same 566 semantics as (for example) &man.chmod.1;.</para> 567 568 <para>For compatibility with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now 569 supports a <option>-a</option> flag, which is equivalent to 570 specifying the <option>-RrP</option> flags.</para> 571 572 <para>BSD-licensed version of &man.cpio.1; based on 573 &man.libarchive.3;, has replaced the GNU cpio. Note that the 574 GNU cpio is still installed as 575 <filename>gcpio</filename>.</para> 576 577 <para>The &man.env.1; program now supports <option>-u 578 <replaceable>name</replaceable></option> which will completely 579 unset the given variable <replaceable>name</replaceable> by 580 removing it from the environment, instead of just setting it to 581 a null value.</para> 582 583 <para>The &man.fdopendir.3; library function has been 584 added.</para> 585 586 <para role="merged">The &man.fetch.3; library now supports HTTP 587 1.1 If-Modified-Since behavior. The &man.fetch.1; program now 588 supports <option>-i <replaceable>filename</replaceable></option> 589 which will only download the specified HTTP URL if the content 590 is newer than <replaceable>filename</replaceable>.</para> 591 592 <para>&man.find.1; has been enhanced by the addition of a number 593 of primaries that were present in GNU find but not &os; 594 &man.find.1;.</para> 595 596 <para>&man.kgdb.1; now supports a new <command>add-kld</command> 597 command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel 598 modules.</para> 599 600 <para>The &man.ls.1; program now supports a <option>-D</option> 601 option to specify a date format string to be used with the long 602 format (<option>-l</option>) output.</para> 603 604 <para>&man.nc.1; now supports a <option>-O</option> switch to 605 disable the use of TCP options.</para> 606 607 <para>&man.nc.1;'s <option>-o</option> switch has been deprecated. 608 It will be removed in a future release.</para> 609 610 <para>The &man.ping6.8; utility now returns <literal>2</literal> 611 when the packet transmission was successful but no responses 612 were received (this is the same behavior as &man.ping.8;). 613 It returned a non-zero value before this change.</para> 614 615 <para>The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display 616 detailed information about processes.</para> 617 618 <para role="merged">The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports 619 a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress warnings; it now also 620 accepts multiple paths on its command line.</para> 621 622 <para>&man.sh.1; has many bug fixes, some new features, and will 623 now refuse to parse some invalid scripts. Additionally, it now 624 has filename completion and defaults to the <quote>emacs</quote> 625 editing mode.</para> 626 627 <para>The &man.split.1; utility now supports a <option>-n</option> 628 flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks.</para> 629 630 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-Z</option> 631 flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style 632 compression/decompression.</para> 633 634 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a 635 <option>--numeric-owner</option> flag to ignore user/group names 636 on create and extract.</para> 637 638 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports the 639 <option>-S</option> flag to sparsify files on extraction.</para> 640 641 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-s</option> 642 flag to substitute filenames based on the specified regular 643 expression.</para> 644 645 <para>The &man.tcgetsid.3; library function has been added to 646 return the process group ID for the session leader for the 647 controlling terminal. It is defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 648 (POSIX).</para> 649 650 <para>&man.top.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> flag to 651 provide per-CPU usage statistics.</para> 652 653 <para>&man.zdump.8; is now working properly on 64-bit 654 architectures.</para> 655 656 <para>&man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS 657 number for each hop with the new <option>-a</option> switch; a 658 new <option>-A</option> option allows selecting a particular 659 WHOIS server.</para> 660 661 <para>&man.traceroute6.8; now supports a <option>-U</option> flag 662 to send probe packets with no upper-layer protocol, rather than 663 the usual UDP probe packets.</para> 664 665 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 666 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 667 668 <para>The followoing &man.rc.8; scripts have been added:</para> 669 670 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 671 <tgroup cols="2"> 672 <colspec colwidth="1*" /> 673 <colspec colwidth="1*" /> 674 <thead> 675 <row> 676 <entry>&man.rc.8; Script</entry> 677 <entry>Function</entry> 678 </row> 679 </thead> 680 681 <tbody> 682 <row> 683 <entry><filename>ctld</filename></entry> 684 <entry><para>iSCSI target daemon startup 685 script</para></entry> 686 </row> 687 <row> 688 <entry><filename>iscsictl</filename></entry> 689 <entry><para>iSCSI initiator management utility 690 startup script</para></entry> 691 </row> 692 <row> 693 <entry><filename>iscsid</filename></entry> 694 <entry><para>iSCSI initiatior daemon startup 695 script</para></entry> 696 </row> 697 <row> 698 <entry><filename>kfd</filename></entry> 699 <entry><para>Kerberos ticket forwarding daemon 700 startup script</para></entry> 701 </row> 702 <row> 703 <entry><filename>local_unbound</filename></entry> 704 <entry><para>Unbound startup script for the local 705 caching resolver</para></entry> 706 </row> 707 <row> 708 <entry><filename>postrandom</filename></entry> 709 <entry><para>Generates a new entropy file at system 710 boot</para></entry> 711 </row> 712 <row> 713 <entry><filename>swap</filename></entry> 714 <entry><para>Replaces <filename>swap1</filename>; 715 enable swap at system boot</para></entry> 716 </row> 717 <row> 718 <entry><filename>swaplate</filename></entry> 719 <entry><para>Enables swap with <quote>late</quote> 720 set at system boot</para></entry> 721 </row> 722 <row> 723 <entry><filename>utx</filename></entry> 724 <entry><para>User accounting database startup and 725 shutdown script</para></entry> 726 </row> 727 </tbody> 728 </tgroup> 729 </informaltable> 730 731 <para>The following &man.rc.8; scripts have been removed:</para> 732 733 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 734 <tgroup cols="2"> 735 <colspec colwidth="1*" /> 736 <thead> 737 <row> 738 <entry>&man.rc.8; Script</entry> 739 <entry><para>Reason</para></entry> 740 </row> 741 </thead> 742 743 <tbody> 744 <row> 745 <entry><filename>encswap</filename></entry> 746 <entry><para>Replaced by <filename>swap</filename> and 747 <filename>swaplate</filename></para></entry> 748 </row> 749 <row> 750 <entry><filename>named</filename></entry> 751 <entry><para>Removed with 752 <application>BIND</application></para></entry> 753 </row> 754 <row> 755 <entry><filename>swap1</filename></entry> 756 <entry><para>Replaced by <filename>swap</filename> and 757 <filename>swaplate</filename></para></entry> 758 </row> 759 </tbody> 760 </tgroup> 761 </informaltable> 762 </sect3> 763 </sect2> 764 765 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 766 <title>Contributed Software</title> 767 768 <para revision="251300">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to 769 3.4.0. See <link 770 xlink:href="http://www.facebook.com/jemalloc/">this 771 link</link> for more details.</para> 772 773 <para role="merged"><application>AMD</application> has been 774 updated from 6.0.10 to 6.1.5.</para> 775 776 <para role="merged"><application>awk</application> has been 777 updated from the 1 May 778 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release.</para> 779 780 <para role="merged"><application>bzip2</application> has been 781 updated from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5.</para> 782 783 <para revision="251794"><application>CVS</application> has been 784 removed from the base system, but is still available from Ports 785 Collection.</para> 786 787 <para revision="251886">Subversion has been imported into the base 788 system and is installed as <application>svnlite</application>. 789 <application>svnlite</application> should only be used for 790 checking out the &os; source trees and committing, and does not 791 replace the full Subversion port.</para> 792 793 <para revision="234449"><application>file</application> has been 794 updated to 5.11.</para> 795 796 <para revision="252726"><application>hostapd</application> has 797 been updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para> 798 799 <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to 800 5.1.2.</para> 801 802 <para revision="250592"><application>less</application> has been 803 updated to v458.</para> 804 805 <para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated to 806 5.7-20081102.</para> 807 808 <para role="merged"><application>OpenSSH</application> has been 809 updated to 6.4.</para> 810 811 <para revision="236109"><application>OpenPAM</application> has 812 been updated to the Micrampelis release.</para> 813 814 <para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been 815 updated from 8.14.1 to 8.14.7.</para> 816 817 <para role="merged">The timezone database has been updated from 818 the <application>tzdata2008h</application> release to 819 the <application>tzdata2009m</application> release.</para> 820 821 <para>The stdtime part of libc, &man.zdump.8; and &man.zic.8; have 822 been updated from the <application>tzcode2004a</application> 823 release to the <application>tzcode2009h</application> release. 824 If you have upgraded from source or via the 825 &man.freebsd-update.8;, then please run &man.tzsetup.8; to 826 install a new <filename>/etc/localtime</filename>.</para> 827 828 <para revision="252726"><application>WPA Supplicant</application> 829 has been updated to 2.0.</para> 830 831 <para role="merged"><application>xz</application> has been updated 832 from snapshot as of 12 April 2010 to 5.0.0.</para> 833 834 <para revision="258231" role="merged">&man.nvi.1; has been updated 835 to 2.1.2.</para> 836 837 <para revision="254225">&man.nvi.1; supports wide-character 838 locales.</para> 839 </sect2> 840 841 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 842 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 843 844 <para revision="257444">The pkg_add, pkg_create, pkg_delete, 845 pkg_info, pkg_updating, and pkg_version utilities have been 846 removed. &man.pkg.7; must now be used to install binary 847 packages. &man.pkg.7; is the next generation &os; package 848 manager, also referred to as <quote>pkgng</quote>.</para> 849 </sect2> 850 851 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 852 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 853 854 <para role="merged">The supported version of 855 the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment 856 (<package>x11/gnome2</package>) has been 857 updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22.</para> 858 </sect2> 859 860 <!-- 861 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 862 <title>Documentation</title> 863 864 <para/> 865 866 </sect2> 867 --> 868</sect1> 869 870<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 871 <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title> 872 873 <para arch="amd64,i386">Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, binary 874 upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various 875 security branches) are supported using the &man.freebsd-update.8; 876 utility. The binary upgrade procedure will update unmodified 877 userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels 878 distributed as a part of an official &os; release. The 879 &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being 880 upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para> 881 882 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 883 base system from source code) from previous versions are 884 supported, according to the instructions in 885 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 886 887 <important> 888 <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after 889 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 890 files.</para> 891 </important> 892</sect1> 893</article> 894