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9 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
12 <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
15 <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
33 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
36 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
46 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
47 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
48 &release.branch; development line. This document lists
49 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
50 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
51 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
56 <sect1 xml:id="intro">
57 <title>Introduction</title>
59 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
60 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or
61 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on
62 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
64 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to which
65 these release notes apply represents the latest point along the
66 &release.branch; development branch since &release.branch; was
67 created. Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type;
68 distributions along this branch can be found at <uri
69 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
71 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to
72 which these release notes apply represents a point along the
73 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and the
74 future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, binary
75 &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at
76 <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
78 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
79 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be
80 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
81 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other)
82 &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the <link
83 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
84 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
85 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</link>.</para>
87 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
88 installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
89 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
90 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
91 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
92 documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
93 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
97 <title>What's New</title>
99 <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
100 features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
102 <para>Typical release note items document recent security advisories
103 issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new
104 commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software
105 upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or
106 release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot
107 list every single change made to &os; between releases; this
108 document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible
109 changes, and major architectural improvements.</para>
111 <sect2 xml:id="security">
112 <title>Security Advisories</title>
118 <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
119 <title>Kernel Changes</title>
123 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
124 <title>Virtualization support</title>
130 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm">
131 <title>ARM support</title>
137 <sect3 xml:id="boot">
138 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
144 <sect3 xml:id="proc">
145 <title>Hardware Support</title>
150 <title>Multimedia Support</title>
156 <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
157 <title>Network Interface Support</title>
164 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
165 <title>Network Protocols</title>
171 <sect3 xml:id="disks">
172 <title>Disks and Storage</title>
179 <title>File Systems</title>
186 <sect2 xml:id="userland">
187 <title>Userland Changes</title>
191 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
192 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
199 <sect2 xml:id="contrib">
200 <title>Contributed Software</title>
202 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
203 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para>
207 <sect2 xml:id="ports">
208 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
214 <sect2 xml:id="releng">
215 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
222 <title>Documentation</title>
229 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
230 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
232 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
233 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
234 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade
235 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
236 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an
237 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility
238 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
241 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
242 base system from source code) from previous versions are
243 supported, according to the instructions in
244 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
247 <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
248 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration