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  16   <info>
  17     <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
  18
  19     <author>
  20       <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
  21     </author>
  22
  23     <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
  24
  25     <!-- Last rev: 284813 -->
  26
  27     <copyright>
  28       <year>2015</year>
  29       <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
  30         Project</holder>
  31     </copyright>
  32
  33     <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
  34       &tm-attrib.freebsd;
  35       &tm-attrib.ibm;
  36       &tm-attrib.ieee;
  37       &tm-attrib.intel;
  38       &tm-attrib.sparc;
  39       &tm-attrib.general;
  40     </legalnotice>
  41
  42     <abstract>
  43       <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
  44         a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
  45         &release.branch; development line.  This document lists
  46         applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
  47         release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
  48         userland.  Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
  49         presented.</para>
  50     </abstract>
  51   </info>
  52
  53   <sect1 xml:id="intro">
  54     <title>Introduction</title>
  55
  56     <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
  57       &release.current;.  It describes recently added, changed, or
  58       deleted features of &os;.  It also provides some notes on
  59       upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
  60
  61     <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to
  62       which these release notes apply represents the latest point
  63       along the &release.branch; development branch since
  64       &release.branch; was created.  Information regarding pre-built,
  65       binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
  66       found at <uri
  67         xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
  68
  69     <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to
  70       which these release notes apply represents a point along the
  71       &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and
  72       the future &release.next;.  Information regarding pre-built,
  73       binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
  74       found at <uri
  75         xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
  76
  77     <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
  78       &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution.  It can be
  79       found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
  80       any of its mirrors.  More information on obtaining this (or
  81       other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the
  82       <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;
  86         Handbook</link>.</para>
  87
  88     <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata
  89       before installing &os;.  The errata document is updated with
  90       <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
  91       release cycle or after the release.  Typically, it contains
  92       information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections
  93       to documentation.  An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
  94       &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
  95
  96     <para>This document describes the most user-visible new or changed
  97       features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
  98
  99     <para>Typical release note items document recent security
 100       advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
 101       support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
 102       contributed software upgrades.  They may also list changes to
 103       major ports/packages or release engineering practices.  Clearly
 104       the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
 105       between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
 106       advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
 107       improvements.</para>
 108   </sect1>
 109
 110   <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
 111     <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
 112
 113     <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
 114       (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
 115       using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade
 116       procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
 117       unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as
 118       a part of an official &os; release.  The &man.freebsd-update.8;
 119       utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
 120       connectivity.</para>
 121
 122     <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
 123       base system from source code) from previous versions are
 124       supported, according to the instructions in
 125       <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
 126
 127     <important>
 128       <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after
 129         backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
 130         files.</para>
 131     </important>
 132   </sect1>
 133
 134   <sect1 xml:id="security-errata">
 135     <title>Security and Errata</title>
 136
 137     <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and
 138       Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para>
 139
 140     <sect2 xml:id="security">
 141       <title>Security Advisories</title>
 142
 143       &security;
 144     </sect2>
 145
 146     <sect2 xml:id="errata">
 147       <title>Errata Notices</title>
 148
 149       &errata;
 150     </sect2>
 151   </sect1>
 152
 153   <sect1 xml:id="userland">
 154     <title>Userland</title>
 155
 156     <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland
 157       applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para>
 158
 159     <sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
 160       <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
 161
 162       <para revision="276991">The &man.termcap.5; file is installed
 163         as-is from sources, instead of reordering, creating
 164         <filename>/etc/termcap.db</filename> by default, providing
 165         a performance improvements to applications that use the
 166         &man.termcap.5; database, such as &man.vi.1; and
 167         &man.ncurses.3;.</para>
 168     </sect2>
 169
 170     <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
 171       <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
 172
 173       <para revision="275040">A new utility, &man.dpv.1;, has been
 174         added to the base system, providing a &man.dialog.1;-style
 175         progress view from one or more input streams.  A corresponding
 176         library, &man.dpv.3;, has also been added.</para>
 177
 178       <para revision="275945">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been
 179         updated to support capability mode provided by
 180         &man.capsicum.4;.</para>
 181
 182       <para revision="277434" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 183         &man.fstyp.8; utility has been added, which is used to
 184         determine the filesystem on a specified device.</para>
 185
 186       <para revision="278968" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 187         &man.mkimg.1; utility has been updated to support the
 188         <acronym>MBR</acronym> <acronym>EFI</acronym> partition
 189         type.</para>
 190
 191       <para revision="281044">A regression in the &man.libarchive.3;
 192         library that would prevent a directory from being included in
 193         the archive when <literal>--one-file-system</literal> is used
 194         has been fixed.</para>
 195
 196       <para revision="281161" contrib="sponsor"
 197         sponsor="&limelight;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, has
 198         been added to the &man.netstat.8; utility, which is used to
 199         dump <acronym>RSS</acronym>/flow information.</para>
 200
 201       <para revision="281936" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 202         &man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set
 203         <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS</literal> and
 204         <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT</literal> to disallow
 205         directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to
 206         &man.tar.1;.</para>
 207
 208       <para revision="282278">A race condition in &man.wc.1; that
 209         would cause final results to be sent to &man.stderr.4; when
 210         receiving the <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal has been
 211         fixed.</para>
 212
 213       <para revision="282870" contrib="sponsor"
 214         sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has
 215         been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when
 216         a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed.</para>
 217
 218       <para revision="282974" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 219         &man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para>
 220
 221       <para revision="283875" contrib="sponsor"
 222         sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.chflags.1;, &man.chgrp.1;,
 223         &man.chmod.1;, and &man.chown.8; utilities now affect symbolic
 224         links when the <literal>-R</literal> flag is specified, as
 225         documented in &man.symlink.7;.</para>
 226
 227       <para revision="285092">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated
 228         with a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, that sets the root
 229         directory within which the utility will operate.</para>
 230
 231       <para revision="283258">The &man.date.1; utility has been
 232         updated to print the modification time of the file passed as
 233         an argument to the <literal>-r</literal> flag, improving
 234         compatibility with the <acronym>GNU</acronym> &man.date.1;
 235         utility behavior.</para>
 236     </sect2>
 237
 238     <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
 239       <title>Contributed Software</title>
 240
 241       <para revision="282746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 242         &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version
 243         3.7.0.</para>
 244
 245       <para revision="283270">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated
 246         to the OpenBSD 5.7 version.</para>
 247
 248       <para revision="284398">Timezone data files have been updated to
 249         version 2015e.</para>
 250
 251       <para revision="284460">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been
 252         updated to version 20150515.</para>
 253
 254       <para revision="284778">The &man.file.1; utility has been
 255         updated to version 5.23.</para>
 256
 257       <para revision="285206">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
 258         updated to version 1.5.3.</para>
 259
 260       <para revision="285305">The <application>sendmail</application>
 261         utility has been updated to version 8.15.2.</para>
 262
 263       <para revision="285330"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
 264         been updated to version 1.0.1p.</para>
 265     </sect2>
 266
 267     <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
 268       <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
 269
 270       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 271     </sect2>
 272
 273     <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
 274       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
 275         Scripts</title>
 276
 277       <para revision="284009">A new &man.rc.8; script,
 278         <filename>growfs</filename>, has been added, which will resize
 279         the root filesystem on boot if <filename>/firstboot</filename>
 280         exists.</para>
 281     </sect2>
 282
 283     <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
 284       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
 285         Scripts</title>
 286
 287       <para revision="277520" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
 288         &man.periodic.8; script,
 289         <filename>510.status-world-kernel</filename>, has been added,
 290         which evaluates the running userland and kernel versions from
 291         the &man.uname.1; <literal>-U</literal> and
 292         <literal>-K</literal> arguments, and prints an error if the
 293         system userland and kernel are not in sync.</para>
 294     </sect2>
 295
 296     <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
 297       <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
 298
 299       <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library,
 300         &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para>
 301
 302       <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been
 303         updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on
 304         failure.</para>
 305     </sect2>
 306
 307     <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
 308       <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
 309
 310       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 311     </sect2>
 312   </sect1>
 313
 314   <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
 315     <title>Kernel</title>
 316
 317     <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
 318       tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
 319       categorized.</para>
 320
 321     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
 322       <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
 323
 324       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 325     </sect2>
 326
 327     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
 328       <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
 329
 330       <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor"
 331         sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option,
 332         <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables
 333         multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para>
 334
 335       <note>
 336         <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not
 337           officially supported by &intel;.</para>
 338       </note>
 339     </sect2>
 340
 341     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
 342       <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
 343
 344       <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
 345         and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have
 346         been turned off by default.</para>
 347
 348       <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 349         &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
 350         increased.  The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
 351         the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
 352
 353       <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor"
 354         sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
 355         been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
 356         using seconds precision.  A new &man.sysctl.8;,
 357         <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
 358         when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
 359         timestamps for these operations.</para>
 360
 361       <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
 362         and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
 363         &man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
 364
 365       <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
 366         &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
 367         added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
 368         &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
 369         A new kernel configuration option,
 370         <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
 371
 372       <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 373         <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
 374         <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
 375         default.</para>
 376
 377       <note>
 378         <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
 379           <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
 380           <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
 381           <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
 382           &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
 383       </note>
 384     </sect2>
 385   </sect1>
 386
 387   <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
 388     <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
 389
 390     <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
 391       device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
 392
 393     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
 394       <title>Device Drivers</title>
 395
 396       <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
 397         been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
 398     </sect2>
 399
 400     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
 401       <title>Storage Drivers</title>
 402
 403       <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
 404         updated to version 1.1.1.</para>
 405     </sect2>
 406
 407     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
 408       <title>Network Drivers</title>
 409
 410       <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
 411         &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has
 412         been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and
 413         &man.me.4;.</para>
 414
 415       <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added,
 416         which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in
 417         a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network.  The &man.vxlan.4; driver is
 418         analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited
 419         for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para>
 420     </sect2>
 421   </sect1>
 422
 423   <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
 424     <title>Hardware Support</title>
 425
 426     <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
 427       machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
 428       as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
 429       other sections of this document.</para>
 430
 431     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
 432       <title>Hardware Support</title>
 433
 434       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 435     </sect2>
 436
 437     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
 438       <title>Virtualization Support</title>
 439
 440       <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
 441         updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for
 442         virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para>
 443
 444       <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
 445         Hyper-V&trade; drivers have been updated with several
 446         enhancements:</para>
 447
 448       <itemizedlist>
 449         <listitem>
 450           <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel
 451             support.</para>
 452         </listitem>
 453
 454         <listitem>
 455           <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather
 456             support, in addition to performance improvements.</para>
 457         </listitem>
 458
 459         <listitem>
 460           <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug
 461             fixes.</para>
 462         </listitem>
 463       </itemizedlist>
 464
 465       <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
 466         &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum
 467         offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para>
 468     </sect2>
 469
 470     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
 471       <title>ARM Support</title>
 472
 473       <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
 474         driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
 475         frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
 476         <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
 477     </sect2>
 478   </sect1>
 479
 480   <sect1 xml:id="storage">
 481     <title>Storage</title>
 482
 483     <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
 484       and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
 485
 486     <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
 487       <title>General Storage</title>
 488
 489       <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 490         &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten,
 491         replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms
 492         with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para>
 493
 494       <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 495         &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
 496         non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
 497
 498       <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 499         &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
 500         &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which
 501         allows automatically mounting removable media, such as
 502         <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash
 503         drives.</para>
 504
 505       <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 506         &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
 507         &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which
 508         handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to
 509         <literal>noauto</literal>.</para>
 510     </sect2>
 511
 512     <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
 513       <title>Networked Storage</title>
 514
 515       <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 516         &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for
 517         registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on
 518         <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers.  This provides a mechanism
 519         which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find
 520         targets and portals without requiring active
 521         discovery.</para>
 522     </sect2>
 523
 524     <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
 525       <title>ZFS</title>
 526
 527       <para revision="275490">A new tunable,
 528         <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added,
 529         which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para>
 530
 531       <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
 532         statistics are now visible through the
 533         <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;.  As a result of this
 534         change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
 535         &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
 536         <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
 537         &man.sysctl.8;.</para>
 538     </sect2>
 539
 540     <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
 541       <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
 542
 543       <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 544         &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
 545         limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
 546         and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
 547         to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
 548
 549       <para revision="282861">Support for the
 550         <literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>,
 551         and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym>
 552         partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
 553     </sect2>
 554   </sect1>
 555
 556   <sect1 xml:id="boot">
 557     <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 558
 559     <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
 560       boot-related changes.</para>
 561
 562     <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
 563       <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 564
 565       <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to
 566         support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
 567         loading the kernel.  To enable this behavior, add
 568         <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
 569         &man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
 570
 571       <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 572         memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms
 573         has been disabled by default.</para>
 574
 575       <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class,
 576         <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added.  This is similar to
 577         the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined
 578         baudrate.</para>
 579
 580       <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
 581         arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been
 582         updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>,
 583         <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by
 584         default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para>
 585     </sect2>
 586
 587     <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
 588       <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
 589
 590       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 591     </sect2>
 592   </sect1>
 593
 594   <sect1 xml:id="network">
 595     <title>Networking</title>
 596
 597     <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
 598       &os;.</para>
 599
 600     <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
 601       <title>Network Procols</title>
 602
 603       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 604     </sect2>
 605   </sect1>
 606
 607   <sect1 xml:id="ports">
 608     <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
 609
 610     <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Ports
 611       Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
 612       installation tools.</para>
 613
 614     <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
 615       <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
 616
 617       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 618     </sect2>
 619
 620     <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
 621       <title>Packaging Changes</title>
 622
 623       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 624     </sect2>
 625   </sect1>
 626
 627   <sect1 xml:id="doc">
 628     <title>Documentation</title>
 629
 630     <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Documentation
 631       Project sources and toolchain.</para>
 632
 633     <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
 634       <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
 635
 636       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 637     </sect2>
 638
 639     <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
 640       <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
 641
 642       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 643     </sect2>
 644   </sect1>
 645
 646   <sect1 xml:id="releng">
 647     <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
 648
 649     <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
 650       &os;&nbsp;Release Engineering processes.</para>
 651
 652     <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
 653       <title>Integration Changes</title>
 654
 655       <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 656         Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support
 657         building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for
 658         supported boards where a corresponding
 659         <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports
 660         Collection.</para>
 661
 662       <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 663         &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now
 664         created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way
 665         the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para>
 666     </sect2>
 667   </sect1>
 668 </article>