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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
 237       <para revision="284523">A new flag, <literal>-c</literal>, has
 238         been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility, which allows
 239         specifying the capacity of the target disk image.</para>
 240     </sect2>
 241
 242     <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
 243       <title>Contributed Software</title>
 244
 245       <para revision="282746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 246         &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version
 247         3.7.0.</para>
 248
 249       <para revision="283270">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated
 250         to the OpenBSD 5.7 version.</para>
 251
 252       <para revision="284398">Timezone data files have been updated to
 253         version 2015e.</para>
 254
 255       <para revision="284460">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been
 256         updated to version 20150515.</para>
 257
 258       <para revision="284778">The &man.file.1; utility has been
 259         updated to version 5.23.</para>
 260
 261       <para revision="285206">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
 262         updated to version 1.5.3.</para>
 263
 264       <para revision="285305">The <application>sendmail</application>
 265         utility has been updated to version 8.15.2.</para>
 266
 267       <para revision="285330"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
 268         been updated to version 1.0.1p.</para>
 269     </sect2>
 270
 271     <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
 272       <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
 273
 274       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 275     </sect2>
 276
 277     <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
 278       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
 279         Scripts</title>
 280
 281       <para revision="284009">A new &man.rc.8; script,
 282         <filename>growfs</filename>, has been added, which will resize
 283         the root filesystem on boot if <filename>/firstboot</filename>
 284         exists.</para>
 285     </sect2>
 286
 287     <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
 288       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
 289         Scripts</title>
 290
 291       <para revision="277520" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
 292         &man.periodic.8; script,
 293         <filename>510.status-world-kernel</filename>, has been added,
 294         which evaluates the running userland and kernel versions from
 295         the &man.uname.1; <literal>-U</literal> and
 296         <literal>-K</literal> arguments, and prints an error if the
 297         system userland and kernel are not in sync.</para>
 298     </sect2>
 299
 300     <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
 301       <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
 302
 303       <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library,
 304         &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para>
 305
 306       <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been
 307         updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on
 308         failure.</para>
 309     </sect2>
 310
 311     <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
 312       <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
 313
 314       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 315     </sect2>
 316   </sect1>
 317
 318   <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
 319     <title>Kernel</title>
 320
 321     <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
 322       tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
 323       categorized.</para>
 324
 325     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
 326       <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
 327
 328       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 329     </sect2>
 330
 331     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
 332       <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
 333
 334       <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor"
 335         sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option,
 336         <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables
 337         multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para>
 338
 339       <note>
 340         <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not
 341           officially supported by &intel;.</para>
 342       </note>
 343     </sect2>
 344
 345     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
 346       <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
 347
 348       <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
 349         and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have
 350         been turned off by default.</para>
 351
 352       <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 353         &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
 354         increased.  The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
 355         the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
 356
 357       <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor"
 358         sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
 359         been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
 360         using seconds precision.  A new &man.sysctl.8;,
 361         <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
 362         when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
 363         timestamps for these operations.</para>
 364
 365       <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
 366         and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
 367         &man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
 368
 369       <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
 370         &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
 371         added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
 372         &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
 373         A new kernel configuration option,
 374         <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
 375
 376       <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 377         <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
 378         <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
 379         default.</para>
 380
 381       <note>
 382         <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
 383           <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
 384           <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
 385           <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
 386           &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
 387       </note>
 388     </sect2>
 389   </sect1>
 390
 391   <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
 392     <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
 393
 394     <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
 395       device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
 396
 397     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
 398       <title>Device Drivers</title>
 399
 400       <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
 401         been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
 402     </sect2>
 403
 404     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
 405       <title>Storage Drivers</title>
 406
 407       <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
 408         updated to version 1.1.1.</para>
 409     </sect2>
 410
 411     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
 412       <title>Network Drivers</title>
 413
 414       <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
 415         &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has
 416         been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and
 417         &man.me.4;.</para>
 418
 419       <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added,
 420         which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in
 421         a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network.  The &man.vxlan.4; driver is
 422         analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited
 423         for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para>
 424     </sect2>
 425   </sect1>
 426
 427   <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
 428     <title>Hardware Support</title>
 429
 430     <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
 431       machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
 432       as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
 433       other sections of this document.</para>
 434
 435     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
 436       <title>Hardware Support</title>
 437
 438       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 439     </sect2>
 440
 441     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
 442       <title>Virtualization Support</title>
 443
 444       <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
 445         updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for
 446         virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para>
 447
 448       <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
 449         Hyper-V&trade; drivers have been updated with several
 450         enhancements:</para>
 451
 452       <itemizedlist>
 453         <listitem>
 454           <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel
 455             support.</para>
 456         </listitem>
 457
 458         <listitem>
 459           <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather
 460             support, in addition to performance improvements.</para>
 461         </listitem>
 462
 463         <listitem>
 464           <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug
 465             fixes.</para>
 466         </listitem>
 467       </itemizedlist>
 468
 469       <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
 470         &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum
 471         offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para>
 472     </sect2>
 473
 474     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
 475       <title>ARM Support</title>
 476
 477       <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
 478         driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
 479         frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
 480         <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
 481     </sect2>
 482   </sect1>
 483
 484   <sect1 xml:id="storage">
 485     <title>Storage</title>
 486
 487     <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
 488       and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
 489
 490     <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
 491       <title>General Storage</title>
 492
 493       <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 494         &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten,
 495         replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms
 496         with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para>
 497
 498       <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 499         &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
 500         non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
 501
 502       <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 503         &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
 504         &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which
 505         allows automatically mounting removable media, such as
 506         <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash
 507         drives.</para>
 508
 509       <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 510         &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
 511         &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which
 512         handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to
 513         <literal>noauto</literal>.</para>
 514     </sect2>
 515
 516     <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
 517       <title>Networked Storage</title>
 518
 519       <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 520         &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for
 521         registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on
 522         <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers.  This provides a mechanism
 523         which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find
 524         targets and portals without requiring active
 525         discovery.</para>
 526     </sect2>
 527
 528     <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
 529       <title>ZFS</title>
 530
 531       <para revision="275490">A new tunable,
 532         <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added,
 533         which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para>
 534
 535       <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
 536         statistics are now visible through the
 537         <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;.  As a result of this
 538         change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
 539         &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
 540         <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
 541         &man.sysctl.8;.</para>
 542     </sect2>
 543
 544     <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
 545       <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
 546
 547       <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 548         &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
 549         limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
 550         and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
 551         to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
 552
 553       <para revision="282861">Support for the
 554         <literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>,
 555         and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym>
 556         partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
 557     </sect2>
 558   </sect1>
 559
 560   <sect1 xml:id="boot">
 561     <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 562
 563     <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
 564       boot-related changes.</para>
 565
 566     <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
 567       <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 568
 569       <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to
 570         support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
 571         loading the kernel.  To enable this behavior, add
 572         <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
 573         &man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
 574
 575       <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 576         memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms
 577         has been disabled by default.</para>
 578
 579       <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class,
 580         <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added.  This is similar to
 581         the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined
 582         baudrate.</para>
 583
 584       <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
 585         arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been
 586         updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>,
 587         <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by
 588         default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para>
 589     </sect2>
 590
 591     <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
 592       <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
 593
 594       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 595     </sect2>
 596   </sect1>
 597
 598   <sect1 xml:id="network">
 599     <title>Networking</title>
 600
 601     <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
 602       &os;.</para>
 603
 604     <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
 605       <title>Network Procols</title>
 606
 607       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 608     </sect2>
 609   </sect1>
 610
 611   <sect1 xml:id="ports">
 612     <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
 613
 614     <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Ports
 615       Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
 616       installation tools.</para>
 617
 618     <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
 619       <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
 620
 621       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 622     </sect2>
 623
 624     <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
 625       <title>Packaging Changes</title>
 626
 627       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 628     </sect2>
 629   </sect1>
 630
 631   <sect1 xml:id="doc">
 632     <title>Documentation</title>
 633
 634     <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Documentation
 635       Project sources and toolchain.</para>
 636
 637     <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
 638       <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
 639
 640       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 641     </sect2>
 642
 643     <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
 644       <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
 645
 646       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 647     </sect2>
 648   </sect1>
 649
 650   <sect1 xml:id="releng">
 651     <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
 652
 653     <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
 654       &os;&nbsp;Release Engineering processes.</para>
 655
 656     <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
 657       <title>Integration Changes</title>
 658
 659       <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 660         Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support
 661         building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for
 662         supported boards where a corresponding
 663         <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports
 664         Collection.</para>
 665
 666       <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 667         &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now
 668         created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way
 669         the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para>
 670     </sect2>
 671   </sect1>
 672 </article>