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8 <info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
11 <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
13 <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
30 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
33 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
43 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
44 of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
45 &release.branch; development line.
46 This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
47 the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
49 Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para>
53 <sect1 xml:id="intro">
54 <title>Introduction</title>
56 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
58 describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;.
59 It also provides some notes on upgrading
60 from previous versions of &os;.</para>
62 <para>The latest, up-to-date version of the release notes are
63 available online at <uri
64 xlink:href="&release.url;10.0R/relnotes.html">&release.url;10.0R/relnotes.html</uri>.</para>
66 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
67 apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development
68 branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary
69 &release.type; distributions along this branch
70 can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
72 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
73 apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development
74 branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;.
76 pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch
77 can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
79 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
80 &release.type; distribution. It can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or any of its mirrors. More
81 information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
82 distributions of &os; can be found in the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
83 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
84 Handbook</link>.</para>
86 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
87 installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
88 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
89 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
90 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
91 documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
92 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
97 <title>What's New</title>
99 <para>This section describes
100 the most user-visible new or changed features in &os;
101 since &release.prev;.
102 In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch;
103 branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features.
106 <para>Typical release note items
107 document recent security advisories issued after
109 new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options,
110 major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also
111 list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering
112 practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single
113 change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses
114 primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major
115 architectural improvements.</para>
117 <sect2 xml:id="security">
118 <title>Security Advisories</title>
120 <para>No security advisories.</para>
124 <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
125 <title>Kernel Changes</title>
127 <para revision="248508">The use of unmapped VMIO buffers eliminates the need to perform
128 TLB shootdown for mapping on buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the
129 amount of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30%
130 of the system time on i/o intensive workloads.</para>
132 <para arch="amd64" revision="254466">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel
133 can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para>
135 <para>A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added
136 for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and
137 assignment. The &man.cpuset.1; userland utility has been added
138 to allow manipulation of processor sets.</para>
140 <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an output capture
141 facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured
142 to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or
143 a textdump. The new <command>capture</command> command controls
146 <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting
147 facility, which supports a set of named scripts consisting of a
148 set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can be managed from
149 within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new &man.ddb.8;
150 utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual
153 <para role="merged">The kernel now supports a new textdump format of kernel
154 dumps. A textdump provides higher-level information via
155 mechanically generated/extracted debugging output, rather than a
156 simple memory dump. This facility can be used to generate brief
157 kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging information, but
158 are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely
159 synchronized source code. More information can be found in the
160 &man.textdump.4; manual page.</para>
162 <para>Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While
163 the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful
164 in bringing threading to FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the
165 KSE library was never developed to its full potential.
166 Backwards compatibility for applications using KSE threading
167 will be provided via &man.libmap.conf.5; for dynamically linked
168 binaries. The &os; Project greatly appreciates the work of
169 &a.julian;, &a.deischen;, and &a.davidxu; on KSE support.</para>
171 <para>The &os; kernel now exports information about certain kernel
172 features via the <varname>kern.features</varname> sysctl tree.
173 The &man.feature.present.3; library call provides a convenient
174 interface for user applications to test the presence of
177 <para arch="amd64">The &os; kernel now has support for large
178 memory page mappings (<quote>superpages</quote>).</para>
180 <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64,powerpc" role="merged">The ULE
181 scheduler is now the default process scheduler
182 in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</para>
184 <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="240135">Support was added for
185 the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number
186 generator, found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs,
187 accessible with RDRAND instruction.</para>
189 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
190 <title>Virtualization support</title>
191 <para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included
192 with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT)
193 support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond
194 (e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para>
196 <para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added. &man.virtio.4; is the
197 name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but
198 since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen).
199 This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers
200 for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;),
201 memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI.
202 Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;.</para>
204 <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="255524">Paravirtualized drivers which
205 support Microsoft Hyper-V have been imported and made
206 part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel. For i386, these drivers are not part of
207 GENERIC, so the following lines must be added to
208 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to load these drivers:
209 <programlisting>hv_ata_pci_disengage_load="YES"
212 hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be added to the i386
213 kernel by adding <literal>device hyperv</literal> to the kernel config, and then
214 recompiling the kernel.</para>
216 <para revision="254738">The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added.
217 &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from
220 <para revision="255744" arch="amd64,i386">Xen PVHVM virtualization is now
221 part of the GENERIC kernel.</para>
225 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm">
226 <title>ARM support</title>
228 <para revision="239922">Raspberry PI support has been added.
229 Refer to these <link xlink:href="http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164">setup instructions</link>
230 and <link xlink:href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide">quick start
233 <para revision="253396">The default ABI on ARM is now the ARM EABI. This brings a number of
234 improvements and allows future support for VFP and Thumb-2.</para>
236 <para revision="239268">ARM support has been greatly improved, including support
237 for ARMv6 and ARMv7, SMP and thread-local storage (TLS).
238 Additionally support for some newer SoC like the MV78x60 and OMAP4 was added.
239 See <link xlink:href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-August/003757.html">this announcement</link>
240 for further details.</para>
242 <para revision="254918">Superpages support on ARM has been added. Superpages support
243 provides improved performance and scalability by allowing TLB
244 translations to dynamically cover large physical memory regions.
245 All ARMv6 and ARMv7-based platforms can take advantage of this feature.
246 See <link xlink:href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMSuperpages">this page</link>
247 for further details.</para>
251 <sect3 xml:id="boot">
252 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
254 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The BTX kernel used by the boot
255 loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real
256 mode. This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB
259 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">A new gptboot boot loader has
260 been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. A
261 new <command>boot</command> command has been added to
262 &man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the
263 required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot
264 partition if required.</para>
268 <sect3 xml:id="proc">
269 <title>Hardware Support</title>
271 <para role="merged">The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040
272 PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para>
274 <para>The &man.syscons.4; driver now supports Colemak keyboard layout.</para>
276 <para role="merged">The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon
277 Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been
278 imported from OpenBSD.</para>
281 <title>Multimedia Support</title>
283 <para revision="240609">Support for version 2.0 of the USB Audio reference design
284 has been added. New devices should support higher bandwidth,
285 increased sampling frequency and wider dynamic range.</para>
289 <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
290 <title>Network Interface Support</title>
292 <para>The &man.ale.4; driver has been added to provide support
293 for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet controllers.</para>
295 <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been split into two drivers
296 with some common parts. The &man.em.4; driver will continue
297 to support adapters up to the 82575, as well as new
298 client/desktop adapters. A new &man.igb.4; driver
299 will support new server adapters.</para>
301 <para>The &man.jme.4; driver has been added to provide support
302 for PCIe network adapters based on JMicron JMC250 Gigabit
303 Ethernet and JMC260 Fast Ethernet controllers.</para>
305 <para>The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to provide
306 support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network
309 <para>The firmware for the &man.mxge.4; driver has been
310 updated from 1.4.25 to 1.4.29.</para>
312 <para>The &man.sf.4; driver has been overhauled to improve its
313 performance and to add support for checksum offloading. It
314 should also work on all architectures.</para>
316 <para>The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a
317 number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL)
320 <para>The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a
321 number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all
322 architectures.</para>
324 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver has
325 been updated to include a number of stability fixes.</para>
327 <para revision="248925">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated to support
328 40G/10G Ethernet NICs based on Chelsio's Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC.</para>
330 <para revision="256694">The iw_cxgbe driver has been added. This is an
331 experimental iWARP/RDMA driver
332 (kernel verbs only) for Chelsio's T4 and T5 based cards.</para>
334 <para revision="255932">The Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) and
335 OFED Infiniband core has been
336 updated to the same version as supplied by Linux version 3.7</para>
338 <para revision="255932">The Mellanox Infiniband driver has been updated to firmware
339 version 2.30.3200 for ConnectX3 NICs. Support has been added for ConnectX3 VPI NICs, where
340 each port can be used as Infiniband 56 GB/s or Ethernet 40 GB/s. Support has been added
341 for dynamically loading kernel modules for Infiniband core (ibcore) and
342 IP over Infiniband (ipoib).</para>
344 <para revision="227614">&man.netmap.4; has been added. &man.netmap.4; is a framework for
345 high-performance direct-to-hardware packet IO, offering low latency and high PPS
346 rates to userland applications while bypassing any kernel-side packet processing.
347 With &man.netmap.4; it is trivially possible to fully saturate a 10 Gbps network interface with
348 minimal packet sizes. For more information, see:
349 <link xlink:href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/">Netmap Project</link>.</para>
354 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
355 <title>Network Protocols</title>
357 <para revision="228571">&man.carp.4; has been rewritten to make addresses
358 more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such as
359 quagga/zebra. It also brings support for a single redundant
360 address on the subnet (carpdev), switching state with
361 &man.ifconfig.8;, better locking and using modern kernel
362 interfaces to allocate multicast memberships.
363 Configuration of the CARP protocol via &man.ifconfig.8; has changed, as well as format
364 of CARP events submitted to &man.devd.8; has changed. See &man.carp.4;
365 for more information. The arpbalance feature of &man.carp.4; is currently
366 not supported anymore.</para>
368 <para revision="240233">The &man.pf.4; firewall now supports fine-grain locking
369 and better utilization on multi-cpu machines resulting in
370 significant improvements in performance.</para>
372 <para revision="250700">Support for up to 65536 routing tables has been
375 <para revision="248552">Support for setting/matching differentiated services
376 codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has been added to
381 <sect3 xml:id="disks">
382 <title>Disks and Storage</title>
384 <para role="merged">The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than
387 <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for
388 disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests
389 have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down
390 until the next request. The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now
391 supports a <command>spindown</command> command to configure
394 <para role="merged">The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2
395 from Highpoint.</para>
397 <para revision="240616">&man.nvme.4; has been added and provides NVM Express support.
398 NVM Express is an optimized register interface, command set and feature set of
399 PCI Express (PCIe)-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs). For more information,
400 see <link xlink:href="http://http://www.nvmexpress.org/">nvmexpress.org</link>.</para>
405 <title>File Systems</title>
407 <para revision="255570">A new kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator has been
410 <para revision="243246">UFS filesystems can now be enlarged with &man.growfs.8; while
411 mounted read-write. This is especially useful for virtual
412 machines, allowing the addition of more harddrive space without
413 interruption of service.</para>
415 <para revision="241519">A state of the art FUSE implementation is now part of the
416 base system. It allows the use of nearly all fusefs file
419 <sect4 xml:id="fs-zfs">
422 <para revision="">&man.bsdinstall.8; now supports installing
423 ZFS on the root file system. It includes a single configuration menu
424 that allows you to select all of the required details, including
425 which drives to use, what ZFS RAID level to use (taking into consideration
426 the selected number of drives), GPT or MBR, GELI encryption, forcing 4K sectors,
427 pool name, etc.</para>
429 <para revision="240868">TRIM support has been added for
432 <para revision="246586">Support for the high performance LZ4 compression algorithm
433 has been added to ZFS. LZ4 is usually faster and can achieve a
434 higher compression ratio than LZJB, the default compression
437 <para revision="252140">Support for L2ARC compression has been added to ZFS.</para>
439 <para revision="243524">The zio nop-write improvement from Illumos
440 was imported into &os;. To reduce I/O, nop-write skips overwriting
441 data if the checksum (cryptographically secure) of new data
442 matches the checksum of existing data. It also saves space if
443 snapshots are in use. This improvement only works only on
444 datasets with enabled compression, disabled deduplication and
445 sha256 checksums.</para>
447 <para>ZFS will now compare the checksums of incoming writes to
448 the checksum of the existing on-disk data and avoid issuing any
449 write I/O for data that has not changed. This will reduce I/O
450 as well as space usage because if the old block is referenced
451 by a snapshot, both copies of the block are kept even though
452 both contain the same data.</para>
460 <sect2 xml:id="userland">
461 <title>Userland Changes</title>
463 <para revision="255321">On platforms where &man.clang.1; is the default
464 system compiler, (such as i386, amd64, arm) GCC and GNU libstdc++ are no
465 longer built by default. &man.clang.1; and libc++ from LLVM are used on
466 these platforms by instead. GCC 4.2.1 and libstdc++ are still built
467 and used by default on pc98 and all other platforms where &man.clang.1;
468 is not the default system compiler.
471 <para revision="251662">&man.clang.1; and llvm have been updated to
472 version 3.3 release. Please refer to
473 <link xlink:href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">
474 Clang 3.3 Release Notes.</link></para>
476 <para role="merged" revision="255949">BIND has been replaced by &man.unbound.8; for
477 local dns resolution in the base system. With this change, nslookup
478 and dig are no longer a part of the base system. Users should
479 instead use &man.host.1; and &man.drill.1; Alternatively,
480 nslookup and dig can be obtained by installing the
481 dns/bind-tools port.</para>
483 <para revision="225937">sysinstall has been removed from the base system.
484 Auxiliary libraries and tools used by sysinstall such as libdisk, libftpio,
485 and sade have also been removed. sysinstall has been replaced by
486 &man.bsdinstall.8; and &man.bsdconfig.8;.</para>
488 <para revision="256106">&man.freebsd-version.1; has been added. This tool
489 makes a best effort to determine the version and patch level of
490 the installed kernel and userland.</para>
492 <para revision="255191">GNU patch has been removed from the base system, and replaced
493 by a BSD-licensed &man.patch.1; program.</para>
495 <para revision="241511">GNU sort has been removed from the base system, and replaced
496 by a BSD-licensed &man.sort.1; program.</para>
498 <para revision="235723">Berkely yacc (byacc) has been imported
499 from <link xlink:href="http://invisible-island.net/byacc/">invisible island</link>.
500 This brings bison compatibilities to &man.yacc.1; while preserving full
501 backwards compatibility with previous version of &man.yacc.1;.</para>
503 <para revision="250881">&man.lex.1; has been replaced by flex 2.5.37</para>
505 <para revision="250699">&man.make.1; has been replaced with the
506 "Portable" BSD make tool (bmake) from NetBSD.</para>
508 <para role="merged">The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports
509 a <option>-M</option> option to set the mode of a new user's
510 home directory.</para>
512 <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.ar.1; and &man.ranlib.1;,
513 based on <filename>libarchive</filename>, have replaced the GNU
514 Binutils versions of these utilities.</para>
516 <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.bc.1; and &man.dc.1; have
517 replaced their GNU counterparts.</para>
519 <para role="merged">&man.chflags.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag for
520 verbose output and a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors
521 with the same semantics as (for example)
522 &man.chmod.1;.</para>
524 <para>For compatibility with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now
525 supports a <option>-a</option> flag, which is equivalent to
526 specifying the <option>-RrP</option> flags.</para>
528 <para>BSD-licensed version of &man.cpio.1; based on
529 <filename>libarchive</filename>, has replaced the GNU cpio.
530 Note that the GNU cpio is still installed as
531 <filename>gcpio</filename>.</para>
533 <para>The &man.env.1; program now supports <option>-u
534 <replaceable>name</replaceable></option>
535 which will completely unset the given variable
536 <replaceable>name</replaceable> by removing it from the environment,
537 instead of just setting it to a null value.</para>
539 <para>The &man.fdopendir.3; library function has been added.</para>
541 <para role="merged">The &man.fetch.3; library now support HTTP 1.1
542 If-Modified-Since behavior. The &man.fetch.1; program now
543 supports <option>-i <replaceable>filename</replaceable></option>
544 which will only download the specified HTTP URL if the content
545 is newer than <replaceable>filename</replaceable>.</para>
547 <para>&man.find.1; has been enhanced by the addition of a number
548 of primaries that were present in GNU find but not &os;
551 <para>&man.kgdb.1; now supports a new <command>add-kld</command>
552 command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel
555 <para>The &man.ls.1; program now supports a <option>-D</option>
556 option to specify a date format string to be used with the long
557 format (<option>-l</option>) output.</para>
559 <para>&man.nc.1; now supports a <option>-O</option> switch to
560 disable the use of TCP options.</para>
562 <para>&man.nc.1;'s <option>-o</option> switch has been deprecated.
563 It will be removed in a future release.</para>
565 <para>The &man.ping6.8; utility now returns <literal>2</literal>
566 when the packet transmission was successful but no responses
567 were received (this is the same behavior as &man.ping.8;).
568 It returned a non-zero value before this change.</para>
570 <para>The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display
571 detailed information about processes.</para>
573 <para role="merged">The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports
574 a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress warnings; it now also
575 accepts multiple paths on its command line.</para>
577 <para>&man.sh.1; has many bug fixes, some new features, and will now
578 refuse to parse some invalid scripts. Additionally, it now
579 has filename completion and defaults to the "emacs" editing
582 <para>The &man.split.1; utility now supports a <option>-n</option>
583 flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks.</para>
585 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-Z</option>
586 flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style
587 compression/decompression.</para>
589 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a
590 <option>--numeric-owner</option> flag to ignore user/group names
591 on create and extract.</para>
593 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports an
594 <option>-S</option> flag to sparsify files on extraction.</para>
596 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-s</option>
597 flag to substitute filenames based on the specified regular
600 <para>The &man.tcgetsid.3; library function has been added to
601 return the process group ID for the session leader for the
602 controlling terminal. It is defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
605 <para>&man.top.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> flag to
606 provide per-CPU usage statistics.</para>
608 <para>&man.zdump.8; is now working properly on 64 bit architectures.
611 <para>&man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS
612 number for each hop with the new <option>-a</option> switch; a
613 new <option>-A</option> option allows selecting a particular
616 <para>&man.traceroute6.8; now supports a <option>-U</option> flag
617 to send probe packets with no upper-layer protocol, rather than
618 the usual UDP probe packets.</para>
621 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
622 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
630 <sect2 xml:id="contrib">
631 <title>Contributed Software</title>
633 <para revision="251300">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to 3.4.0.
634 See <link xlink:href="http://www.facebook.com/jemalloc/">this link</link>.
635 for more details.</para>
637 <para role="merged"><application>AMD</application> has been updated from 6.0.10
640 <para role="merged"><application>awk</application> has been updated from 1 May
641 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release.</para>
643 <para role="merged"><application>bzip2</application> has been updated from 1.0.4
646 <para revision="251794"><application>CVS</application> has been removed from the
647 base system, but is still available from ports</para>
649 <para revision="251886">Subversion has been imported into the base system and
650 is installed as <application>svnlite</application>. <application>svnlite</application>
651 should only be used for checking out &os; source and committing, and does not
652 replace the full Subversion port.</para>
654 <para revision="234449"><application>file</application> has been updated to 5.11.</para>
656 <para revision="252726"><application>hostapd</application> has been
657 updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para>
659 <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to 5.1.2.</para>
661 <para revision="250592"><application>less</application> has been updated to
664 <para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from
665 to 5.7-20081102.</para>
667 <para role="merged"><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated
670 <para revision="236109"><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated to
671 the Micrampelis release.</para>
673 <para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
674 8.14.1 to 8.14.7.</para>
676 <para role="merged">The timezone database has been updated from
677 the <application>tzdata2008h</application> release to
678 the <application>tzdata2009m</application> release.</para>
680 <para>The stdtime part of libc, &man.zdump.8; and &man.zic.8;
681 have been updated from the <application>tzcode2004a</application>
682 release to the <application>tzcode2009h</application> release.
683 If you have upgraded from source or via the &man.freebsd-update.8;,
684 then please run &man.tzsetup.8; to install a new /etc/localtime.
687 <para revision="252726"><application>WPA Supplicant</application> has been
688 updated to 2.0.</para>
690 <para role="merged"><application>xz</application> has been updated
691 from snapshot as of 12 April 2010 to 5.0.0.</para>
693 <para revision="258231" role="merged">&man.nvi.1; has been updated to 2.1.2.</para>
695 <para revision="254225">&man.nvi.1; supports wide character locales.</para>
699 <sect2 xml:id="ports">
700 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
702 <para revision="257444">The pkg_add, pkg_create, pkg_delete, pkg_info,
703 pkg_updating, and pkg_version utilities have been removed.
704 &man.pkg.7; must now be used to install binary packages. &man.pkg.7;
705 is the next generation &os; package manager, also referred to as "pkgng".</para>
709 <sect2 xml:id="releng">
710 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
712 <para role="merged">The supported version of
713 the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment
714 (<package>x11/gnome2</package>) has been
715 updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22.</para>
721 <title>Documentation</title>
729 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
730 <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
732 <para arch="amd64,i386">Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE,
733 binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the
734 various security branches) are supported using the
735 &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure will
736 update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC or
737 SMP kernels distributed as a part of an official &os; release.
738 The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being
739 upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
741 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
742 base system from source code) from previous versions are
743 supported, according to the instructions in
744 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
747 <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
748 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration