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 2fb4f839f3fc,d89513ed2050,3413ee88c39d,f97a19ecb985,021562c5020d,431d2a81d421:
14 sendmail has been updated to the latest upstream version (8.17.1).
16 4a30d7bb373c,d670a8f7c596,af01b4722577,4e240e55d818:
17 The growfs(7) script can now add a swap partition at the end of
18 the expansion area, and does so by default if there is no existing
22 llvm-objump is now always installed as objdump.
25 mta_start_script along with othermta rc.d script has been retired.
28 The default mail transport agent is now dma(8) replacing sendmail.
31 L3 filtering on if_bridge will do surprising things which aren't
32 fail-safe, so net.link.bridge.pfil_member and
33 net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge now default to zero.
36 A new DTrace provider, kinst, is introduced and documented in
37 dtrace_kinst(4). The provider allows kernel instructions to be traced,
38 similar to the FBT (function boundary tracing) provider except that all
39 instructions may be probed instead of logical entry and return
40 instructions. The provider is currently amd64-only.
45 981ef32230b2,33721eb991d8:
46 These commits make the use of NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts with the "intr"
47 mount option fairly usable, although not 100% correct, so long as
48 the "nolockd" mount option is used as well. See the mount_nfs(8)
49 manual page for more information.
51 b875d4f5ddcb,0685c73cfe88:
52 The NFSv4.1/4.2 client and server will now generate console messages
53 if sessions are broken, suggesting that users check to ensure
54 that the /etc/hostid strings are unique for all NFSv4.1/4.2 clients.
57 makefs(8) has ZFS support; it can create a ZFS pool, backed by a
58 single disk vdev, containing one or more datasets populated from
59 the staging directory.
61 78ee8d1c4cda,f4f56ff43dbd:
62 The in-tree qat(4) driver has been replaced with Intel's QAT driver.
63 The new version provides additional interfaces to the chipset's
64 cryptographic and compression offload functionality.
66 This will have no visible change for most users; however, the new
67 driver does not support Atom C2000 chipsets. To preserve support for
68 those chipsets, the old driver has been renamed to qat_c2xxx and kept
69 in the tree. Users of qat(4) on C2000 hardware will thus need to
70 ensure that qat_c2xxx(4) is loaded instead of qat(4).
72 da5b7e90e740,5a8fceb3bd9f,7b0a665d72c0,13ec1e3155c7,318d0db5fe8a,1ae2c59bcf21:
73 Boottrace is a new kernel-userspace interface for capturing trace
74 events during system boot and shutdown. Event annotations are
77 - The boot and shutdown paths in the kernel
78 - Some key system utilities (init(8), shutdown(8), reboot(8))
79 - rc(8) scripts (via boottrace(8))
81 In contrast to other existing boot-time tracing facilities like TSLOG,
82 Boottrace focuses on the ease of use and is aimed primarily at system
85 It is available in the default GENERIC kernel and can be enabled by
86 toggling a single sysctl(8) variable.
88 See boottrace(4) for more details.
91 Kernel TLS offload now supports receive-side offload of TLS 1.3.
94 if_stf now supports 6rd (RFC5969).
96 c1d255d3ffdb, 3968b47cd974, bd452dcbede6:
97 Add WiFi 6 support to wpa.
99 ba48d52ca6c8,4ac3d08a9693,2533eca1c2b9:
100 The default bell tone is now 800Hz. It may be set with kbdcontrol
101 again. There's devd integration for people wishing to use their sound
105 net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait enabled by default. It prevents
106 creation of timewait entries for TCP connections that were
110 sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user.
113 libncursesw has been split into libtinfow and libncursesw, linker
114 scripts should make it transparent for consumers. pkg-config files
115 are also now installed to ease ports detecting the ncurses setup from
119 LLVM's MemorySanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels. See the
120 kmsan(9) manual page for more information.
123 LLVM's AddressSanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels. See the
124 kasan(9) manual page for more information.
126 f39dd6a97844,23f24377b1a9,628bd30ab5a4:
127 One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
128 (20210727). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
129 either up streamed or discarded. Notable changes include:
130 o Locale is no longer used for ranges
132 o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
134 The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
135 we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
136 interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
137 true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
140 A second change, less likely to be noticed, is the historic wart
141 if -Ft meaning to use hard tab characters as the field separator
142 is deprecated and will likely be removed in FreeBSD 14.
145 Commit ee29e6f31111 added a new sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio
146 that can be used to increase the maximum I/O size for the NFS
147 server to any power of 2 up to 1Mbyte while the nfsd(8) is not running.
148 The FreeBSD NFS client can now be set to use a 1Mbyte I/O size
149 via the vfs.maxbcachebuf tunable and the Linux NFS client
150 can also do 1Mbyte I/O.
151 kern.ipc.maxsockbuf will need to be increased. A console
152 message will suggest a setting for it.
155 gconcat(8) has added support for appending devices to the device
156 not present at creation time.
159 Remove support for asymmetric cryptographic operations from
160 the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
163 The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
164 supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
166 The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.