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22 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
25 <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
28 <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
32 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
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
65 which these release notes apply represents the latest point
66 along the &release.branch; development branch since
67 &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built,
68 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
70 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
72 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to
73 which these release notes apply represents a point along the
74 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and
75 the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built,
76 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
78 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
80 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
81 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be
82 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
83 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or
84 other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the
86 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
87 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
88 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
89 Handbook</link>.</para>
91 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata
92 before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
93 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
94 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
95 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections
96 to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
97 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
99 <para>This document 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
103 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
104 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
105 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to
106 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly
107 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
108 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
109 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
113 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
114 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
116 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
117 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
118 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade
119 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
120 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as
121 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8;
122 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
125 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
126 base system from source code) from previous versions are
127 supported, according to the instructions in
128 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
131 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after
132 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
137 <sect1 xml:id="security-errata">
138 <title>Security and Errata</title>
140 <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and
141 Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para>
143 <sect2 xml:id="security">
144 <title>Security Advisories</title>
149 <sect2 xml:id="errata">
150 <title>Errata Notices</title>
156 <sect1 xml:id="userland">
157 <title>Userland</title>
159 <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland
160 applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para>
162 <sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
163 <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
165 <para revision="313206">The &man.inetd.8; utility is now built
166 without <literal>libwrap</literal> support when
167 <literal>WITHOUT_TCP_WRAPPERS</literal> is set in
168 &man.src.conf.5;.</para>
170 <para revision="316046">The &man.libthr.3; library and related
171 files are now evaluated and removed by the
172 <literal>delete-old-libs</literal> target when upgrading the
173 system if <literal>WITHOUT_LIBTHR</literal> is
174 set in &man.src.conf.5;.</para>
176 <para revision="319243">The
177 <literal>WITH_RPCBIND_WARMSTART_SUPPORT</literal>
178 &man.src.conf.5; knob has been added, which when enabled
179 allows building &man.rpcbind.8; with
180 <literal>warmstart</literal> support.</para>
183 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
184 <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
186 <para revision="298427">The &man.truss.1; utility has been
187 updated to include the <literal>-H</literal> flag, which logs
188 the thread ID of a thread invoking a system call.</para>
190 <para revision="308915">The &man.zfsbootcfg.8; utility has been
191 added, providing one-time &man.boot.config.5;-style options
192 for &man.zfsboot.8;.</para>
194 <para revision="316348">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated
195 to properly respect &man.pw.conf.5;, if present.</para>
197 <para revision="319390">The &man.cxgbetool.8; utility has been
198 added, providing command-line access to features and debugging
199 facilities of &man.cxgbe.4; devices.</para>
201 <para revision="320646">The &man.rcp.1;, &man.rlogin.1;,
202 &man.rsh.1;, &man.rlogind.8;, and &man.rshd.8; utilities have
203 been marked as deprecated, and planned for removal in
204 &os; 12.0-RELEASE.</para>
206 <para revision="320772">The &man.syslogd.8; utility has been
207 updated to restart logging a subprocess that had restarted
210 <para revision="320824">The &man.gdb.1; and &man.kgdb.1;
211 utilities have been marked as deprecated, and planned for
212 removal from the base system in the future. A newer version
213 is available in the <filename
214 role="package">devel/gdb</filename> port.</para>
216 <para revision="321242">The &man.cron.8; utility has been
217 updated to add support for including files within <filename
218 class="directory">/etc/cron.d</filename> and <filename
219 class="directory">/usr/local/etc/cron.d</filename> by
222 <para revision="321234">The &man.syslogd.8; utility has been
223 updated to add the <literal>include</literal> keyword which
224 allows specifying a directory containing configuration files
225 to be included in addition to &man.syslog.conf.5;. The
226 default &man.syslog.conf.5; has been updated to include
227 <filename class="directory">/etc/syslog.d</filename> and
228 <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/syslog.d</filename>
231 <para revision="321263">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been
232 updated to support logging to &man.syslogd.8; in a format
233 compliant with RFC5424. For more details, see the description
234 for the <literal>T</literal> flag in
235 &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para>
238 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
239 <title>Contributed Software</title>
241 <para revision="309512"><application>Subversion</application>
242 has been updated to version 1.9.5.</para>
244 <para revision="309848">&man.file.1; has been updated to version
247 <para revision="310490">The &man.amd.8; utility has been updated
248 to version 6.2.</para>
250 <para revision="312516">&man.xz.1; has been updated to version
253 <para revision="313796">&man.zlib.3; has been updated to version
256 <para revision="316069">&man.ntpd.8; has been updated to version
259 <para revision="316350">Timezone data files have been updated to
260 version 2017b.</para>
262 <para revision="316958">&man.tcsh.1; has been updated to version
265 <para revision="321304">&man.libarchive.3; has been updated to
266 version 3.3.2.</para>
268 <para revision="321964"><application>bmake</application> has
269 been updated to version 20170720.</para>
271 <para revision="322244"><filename>pci_vendors</filename> has
272 been updated to version 2017.07.27.</para>
275 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
276 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
278 <para revision="321202" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
279 default <acronym>EFI</acronym> partition created by
280 &man.bsdinstall.8; has been increased from 800KB to
284 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
285 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
291 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
292 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
298 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
299 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
301 <para revision="316040">The &man.kvm.close.3; function has been
302 updated to return the accumulated error from previous
303 &man.close.2; calls.</para>
305 <para revision="320312">The &man.syslog.3; function has been
306 updated to be more resilent to thread cancellation occurring
307 in supported deferred mode, eliminating possible lockups in
308 multi-threaded applications that often create and cancel
309 threads using the function, such as <filename
310 role="package">net/mpd5</filename>.</para>
312 <para revision="321074">The &man.stdio.3; function has been
313 updated to be deferred cancel-safe, eliminating possible
314 lockups in multi-threaded applications using functions such
315 as &man.funopen.3;, &man.fropen.3;, and &man.fwopen.3;.</para>
318 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
319 <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
321 <para revision="309258">The type <literal>max_align_t</literal>
322 is now defined for C11 compliance.</para>
325 <sect2 xml:id="userland-debug">
326 <title>Userland Debugging</title>
328 <para revision="304017">&man.ptrace.2; now supports events for
329 thread creation and destruction, permitting more reliable
330 debugging of threaded processes.</para>
332 <para revision="304499">&man.ptrace.2; now supports events for
333 &man.vfork.2;, permitting reliable debugging across
334 &man.vfork.2; invocations.</para>
336 <para revision="306786">Process core dumps now include the
337 process ID (<acronym>PID</acronym>) and command line
342 <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
343 <title>Kernel</title>
345 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
346 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
349 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-misc">
350 <title>Miscellaneous Kernel Changes</title>
352 <para revision="321198">The &man.vt.4; driver has been updated,
353 increasing the maximum framebuffer size.</para>
356 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
357 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
359 <para revision="317434">The &man.ipf.4; packet filter has been
360 updated to prevent <literal>keep state</literal> from
361 incorrectly implying <literal>keep frags</literal>, matching
362 the behavior documented in &man.ipf.5;.</para>
364 <para revision="322793">The &man.geom.4;
365 <literal>JOURNAL</literal> class has been updated to fix
366 <literal>flush_queue</literal> handling.</para>
369 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
370 <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
375 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
376 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
378 <para revision="321024">The
379 <literal>kern.features.linux</literal> and
380 <literal>kern.features.linux64</literal> flags have been
381 added to the <literal>kern.features</literal> &man.sysctl.8;,
382 which when set to <literal>1</literal>, indicate the kernel
383 is configured with compatibility for 32-bit and/or 64-bit
384 linux binaries, respectively.</para>
388 <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
389 <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
391 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
392 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
394 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
395 <title>Device Drivers</title>
397 <para revision="306533" contrib="sponsor"
398 sponsor="&chelsio;">&man.devctl.8; now supports a "clear
399 driver" command as a complement to "set
403 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
404 <title>Storage Drivers</title>
406 <para revision="319436">The &man.mpr.4; driver has been updated
408 (<acronym>SAS</acronym>/<acronym>SATA</acronym>/<acronym>PCIe</acronym>)
409 Broadcom® storage adapters.</para>
411 <para revision="321067">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver has been
412 updated to version 1.40.00.00, adding support for ARC-1884
413 <acronym>SATA</acronym> controllers.</para>
416 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
417 <title>Network Drivers</title>
419 <para revision="309447" contrib="sponsor"
420 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbev.4; driver has been added,
421 providing support for Virtual Function devices
422 (<acronym>VFs</acronym>) on Chelsio T4 and T5 adapters.</para>
424 <para revision="309560" contrib="sponsor"
425 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated
426 to provide support for Virtual Function devices
427 (<acronym>VFs</acronym>) on Chelsio T6 adapters.</para>
429 <para revision="309560" contrib="sponsor"
430 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver now supports
431 devices using T6-based adapters which support 10, 25, 40, and
434 <para revision="312359">The &man.alc.4; driver has been updated
435 to provide support for Atheros® Killer E2400™
436 Gigabit ethernet cards.</para>
438 <para revision="314019" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ms;">The
439 &man.alc.4; driver has been updated to provide support for
440 Atheros® Killer E2500™ Gigabit ethernet
443 <para revision="316485">The &man.qlnxe.4; driver has been added,
444 providing support for Cavium® Qlogic™ 45000 Series
447 <para revision="319270" contrib="sponsor"
448 sponsor="&chelsio;">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated
449 to firmware version 1.16.45.0 for T4, T5, and T6 cards.</para>
453 <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
454 <title>Hardware Support</title>
456 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
457 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
458 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
459 other sections of this document.</para>
461 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
462 <title>Hardware Support</title>
467 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
468 <title>Virtualization Support</title>
470 <para revision="306520" contrib="sponsor"
471 sponsor="&chelsio;"><acronym>PCI</acronym> passthrough with
472 &man.bhyve.4; resets functions via <acronym>FLR</acronym> when
473 a virtual machine is started and stopped.</para>
475 <para revision="306472" contrib="sponsor"
476 sponsor="&chelsio;"><acronym>PCI</acronym> passthrough with
477 &man.bhyve.4; supports more dynamic configurations permitting
478 devices to be marked for passthrough or host use at
482 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
483 <title>ARM Support</title>
489 <sect1 xml:id="storage">
490 <title>Storage</title>
492 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
493 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
495 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
496 <title>General Storage</title>
501 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
502 <title>Networked Storage</title>
504 <para revision="318675">The <acronym>NFS</acronym> client now
505 properly handles <literal>NFS4ERR_BAD_SESSION</literal> errors
506 received from an <acronym>NFS</acronym> server. Additionally,
507 the kernel <acronym>RPC</acronym> client has been updated to
508 prevent creating new <acronym>TCP</acronym> connections when
509 <literal>ERESTART</literal> is received from
510 &man.sosend.9;.</para>
512 <para revision="321031">The <acronym>NFS</acronym> client has
513 been updated to support <acronym>pNFS</acronym>
514 <literal>commit</literal> through the
515 <literal>DS</literal>.</para>
518 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
524 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
525 <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
531 <sect1 xml:id="boot">
532 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
534 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
535 boot-related changes.</para>
537 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
538 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
543 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
544 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
550 <sect1 xml:id="network">
551 <title>Networking</title>
553 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
556 <sect2 xml:id="network-general">
557 <title>General Networking Changes</title>
559 <para revision="313558" contrib="sponsor"
560 sponsor="&dellemc;">The network stack has been modified to fix
561 incorrect or invalid <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses if
562 multiple threads emit a <acronym>UDP</acronym>
563 <literal>log_in_vain</literal> message concurrently.</para>
565 <para revision="317375" contrib="sponsor"
566 sponsor="&multiplay;">The <acronym>TCP</acronym> stack has
567 been changed to use the estimated <acronym>RTT</acronym>
568 instead of timestamps for receive buffer auto resizing.</para>
571 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
572 <title>Network Protocols</title>
574 <para revision="309340" contrib="sponsor"
575 sponsor="&dellemc;">Support for <acronym>GARP</acronym>
576 (gratuitous <acronym>ARP</acronym>) retransmit has been added.
577 A new &man.sysctl.8;,
578 <literal>net.link.ether.inet.garp_rexmit_count</literal>, has
579 been added, which sets the maximum number of retransmissions
580 when set to a non-zero value.</para>
584 <sect1 xml:id="ports">
585 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
587 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports
588 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
589 installation tools.</para>
591 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
592 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
597 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
598 <title>Packaging Changes</title>
605 <title>Documentation</title>
607 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation
608 Project sources and toolchain.</para>
610 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
611 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
616 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
617 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
623 <sect1 xml:id="releng">
624 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
626 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
627 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para>
629 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
630 <title>Integration Changes</title>