1 Release notes for FreeBSD 14.0.
3 This file describes new user-visible features, changes and updates relevant to
4 users of binary FreeBSD releases. Each entry should describe the change in no
5 more than several sentences and should reference manual pages where an
6 interested user can find more information. Entries should wrap after 80
7 columns. Each entry should begin with one or more commit IDs on one line,
8 specified as a comma separated list and/or range, followed by a colon and a
9 newline. Entries should be separated by a newline.
11 Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
13 ba48d52ca6c8,4ac3d08a9693,2533eca1c2b9:
14 The default bell tone is now 800Hz. It may be set with kbdcontrol
15 again. There's devd integration for people wishing to use their sound
19 net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait enabled by default. It prevents
20 creation of timewait entries for TCP connections that were
24 sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user.
27 libncursesw has been split into libtinfow and libncursesw, linker
28 scripts should make it transparent for consumers. pkg-config files
29 are also now installed to ease ports detecting the ncurses setup from
33 LLVM's MemorySanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels. See the
34 kmsan(9) manual page for more information.
37 LLVM's AddressSanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels. See the
38 kasan(9) manual page for more information.
40 f39dd6a97844,23f24377b1a9,628bd30ab5a4:
41 One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
42 (20210727). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
43 either up streamed or discarded. Notable changes include:
44 o Locale is no longer used for ranges
46 o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
48 The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
49 we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
50 interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
51 true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
54 A second change, less likely to be noticed, is the historic wart
55 if -Ft meaning to use hard tab characters as the field separator
56 is deprecated and will likely be removed in FreeBSD 14.
59 Commit ee29e6f31111 added a new sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio
60 that can be used to increase the maximum I/O size for the NFS
61 server to any power of 2 up to 1Mbyte while the nfsd(8) is not running.
62 The FreeBSD NFS client can now be set to use a 1Mbyte I/O size
63 via the vfs.maxbcachebuf tunable and the Linux NFS client
64 can also do 1Mbyte I/O.
65 kern.ipc.maxsockbuf will need to be increased. A console
66 message will suggest a setting for it.
69 gconcat(8) has added support for appending devices to the device
70 not present at creation time.
73 Remove support for asymmetric cryptographic operations from
74 the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
77 The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
78 supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
80 The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.