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   8   <info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
   9
  10     <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
  11
  12     <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
  13
  14     <copyright>
  15       <year>2014</year>
  16       <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
  17     </copyright>
  18
  19     <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
  20       &tm-attrib.freebsd;
  21       &tm-attrib.ibm;
  22       &tm-attrib.ieee;
  23       &tm-attrib.intel;
  24       &tm-attrib.sparc;
  25       &tm-attrib.general;
  26     </legalnotice>
  27
  28     <abstract>
  29       <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
  30         of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
  31         &release.branch; development line.
  32         This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
  33         the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
  34         kernel and userland.
  35         Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para>
  36     </abstract>
  37   </info>
  38
  39   <sect1 xml:id="intro">
  40     <title>Introduction</title>
  41
  42     <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
  43       &release.current;.  It describes recently added, changed, or
  44       deleted features of &os;.  It also provides some notes on
  45       upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
  46
  47     <para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
  48       &release.type; distribution.  It can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or any of its mirrors.  More
  49       information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
  50       distributions of &os; can be found in the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
  51       &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</link>.</para>
  52
  53     <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
  54       installing &os;.  The errata document is updated with
  55       <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
  56       release cycle or after the release.  Typically, it contains
  57       information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
  58       documentation.  An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
  59       &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
  60   </sect1>
  61
  62   <sect1 xml:id="new">
  63     <title>What's New</title>
  64
  65     <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
  66       features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
  67
  68     <para>Typical release note items document recent security
  69       advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
  70       support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
  71       contributed software upgrades.  They may also list changes to
  72       major ports/packages or release engineering practices.  Clearly
  73       the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
  74       between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
  75       advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
  76       improvements.</para>
  77
  78     <sect2 xml:id="security">
  79       <title>Security Advisories</title>
  80
  81       <para>Problems described in the following security advisories have
  82         been fixed.  For more information, consult the individual
  83         advisories available from
  84         <uri xlink:href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</uri>.</para>
  85
  86       <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="1">
  87         <tgroup cols="3">
  88           <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
  89           <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
  90           <colspec colwidth="3*"/>
  91           <thead>
  92             <row>
  93               <entry>Advisory</entry>
  94               <entry>Date</entry>
  95               <entry>Topic</entry>
  96             </row>
  97           </thead>
  98
  99           <tbody>
 100             <row>
 101               <entry><link xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:01.bsnmpd.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:01.bsnmpd</link></entry>
 102               <entry>1&nbsp;January&nbsp;2014</entry>
 103               <entry><para>Fix &man.bsnmpd.1; remote denial of service
 104                   vulnerability</para></entry>
 105             </row>
 106
 107             <row>
 108               <entry><link xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd</link></entry>
 109               <entry>1&nbsp;January&nbsp;2014</entry>
 110               <entry><para>Disable <quote>monitor</quote> feature in
 111                   &man.ntpd.8; by default</para></entry>
 112             </row>
 113
 114             <row>
 115               <entry><link xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:04.bind.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:04.bind</link></entry>
 116               <entry>1&nbsp;January&nbsp;2014</entry>
 117               <entry><para>Remote denial of service
 118                   vulnerability</para></entry>
 119             </row>
 120           </tbody>
 121         </tgroup>
 122       </informaltable>
 123     </sect2>
 124
 125     <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
 126       <title>Kernel Changes</title>
 127
 128       <para revision="258962">A workaround has been implemented
 129         in the &man.bge.4; driver for hung transmission on BCM5719
 130         and BCM5720 chipsets.</para>
 131
 132       <para revision="259002">A kernel panic when listing sysctls
 133         on a system with <literal>INVARIANTS</literal> enabled has
 134         been fixed.</para>
 135
 136       <para revision="259466">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
 137         <literal>kern.supported_archs</literal> has been added,
 138         which will list the <envar>MACHINE_ARCH</envar> values
 139         whose binaries can be run on the system.</para>
 140
 141       <para revision="259519">Several problems that could trigger
 142         kernel panic on &man.kldload.8; and &man.kldunload.8; have
 143         been fixed.</para>
 144
 145       <para revision="260082">A kernel panic triggered by some
 146         multi-threaded applications has been fixed.</para>
 147
 148       <para revision="260134">The &man.runfw.4; firmware has been
 149         renamed from <literal>runfw</literal> to
 150         <literal>run.fw</literal> for consistency with other firmware
 151         files.</para>
 152
 153       <para revision="260433">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
 154         <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been
 155         added.  This allows tuning the amount of time the system
 156         will wait before rebooting after &man.panic.9;.  The
 157         <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal> value defaults
 158         to the kernel configuration option,
 159         <literal>PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME</literal>.</para>
 160
 161       <para revision="260644">Hardware Random Number Generators have
 162         been disabled by default.</para>
 163
 164       <para revision="261483">Support for GPS ports has been added
 165         to the &man.uhso.4; driver.</para>
 166
 167       <para revision="262116">A memory leak of compressed buffers
 168         has been fixed in
 169         <literal>l2arc_write_done()</literal>.</para>
 170
 171       <para revision="262153">The &man.netmap.4; framework has been
 172         updated to match the version in <literal>head/</literal>,
 173         which includes netmap pipes, kqueue support, and enhanced
 174         VALE switch port.</para>
 175
 176       <para revision="262175">A deadlock triggered by sending
 177         a mounted &man.zfs.8; snapshot has been fixed.</para>
 178
 179       <para revision="262231">Support for SIIG X1 PCI-e has been added
 180         to &man.ppc.4;.</para>
 181
 182       <para revision="262564">Support for the ext4 filesystem
 183         has been enabled, supporting read-only mounts.</para>
 184
 185       <para revision="262594">A kernel panic triggered by inserting
 186         a USB ethernet device on VIMAGE-enabled systems has been
 187         fixed.</para>
 188
 189       <para revision="262988">TTM, a memory manager used by video
 190         drivers, has been merged.</para>
 191
 192       <para revision="263103">Support for
 193         <literal>/sys/kernel/random/uuid</literal> has been added
 194         to &man.linprocfs.5;.</para>
 195
 196       <para revision="263128">A memory leak in the
 197         <literal>zpool_in_use()</literal> function has been
 198         fixed.</para>
 199
 200       <para revision="263391">The
 201         <literal>extensible_dataset</literal> &man.zpool.8; feature
 202         has been added.  See &man.zpool-features.7; for more
 203         information.</para>
 204
 205       <para revision="263408">A memory leak has been fixed in
 206         <literal>libzfs</literal>.</para>
 207
 208       <sect3 xml:id="boot">
 209         <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 210
 211         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 212
 213       </sect3>
 214
 215       <sect3 xml:id="proc">
 216         <title>Hardware Support</title>
 217
 218         <para revision="261510">Trackpad support for
 219           &apple;&nbsp;MacBook products has been added.</para>
 220
 221         <para revision="261973">The &man.nve.4; driver has been
 222           deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used
 223           instead.</para>
 224
 225         <para revision="262968">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been
 226           updated to support MegaRAID Fury cards.</para>
 227
 228         <para revision="263170,263171">The Radeon KMS driver has been
 229           added.</para>
 230
 231         <para revision="263340">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been
 232           updated to version 3.2.5.</para>
 233
 234         <sect4 xml:id="mm">
 235           <title>Multimedia Support</title>
 236
 237           <para>&nbsp;</para>
 238
 239         </sect4>
 240
 241         <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
 242           <title>Network Interface Support</title>
 243
 244           <para revision="258965">The &man.bge.4; driver has been
 245             updated to support the BCM5725 chipset.</para>
 246
 247           <para revision="258967">The &man.bge.4; driver has been
 248             updated to support the BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782,
 249             BCM57786 and BCM57787 chipsets.</para>
 250
 251           <para revision="259457">The &man.run.4; driver has been
 252             updated to support MediaTek/Ralink chipsets RT5370 and
 253             RT5372.</para>
 254
 255           <para revision="259460">The &man.usb.4; wireless radiotap
 256             headers have been realigned, allowing wireless adapters
 257             to work on &arch.arm;, &arch.mips;, and other similar
 258             platforms where alignment is important.</para>
 259
 260           <para revision="260119">The &man.run.4; firmware has been
 261             updated to version 0.33.</para>
 262
 263           <para revision="260252">The &man.bxe.4; driver has been
 264             merged from <literal>head/</literal>, providing support
 265             for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb PCIe adapters.</para>
 266
 267           <para revision="261865">The &man.run.4; driver has been
 268             updated to include support for the MediaTek/Ralink RT3593
 269             chipset.</para>
 270
 271           <para revision="261933">The &man.run.4; driver has been
 272             updated to include support for the DLINK DWA-127 wireless
 273             adapter.</para>
 274
 275           <para revision="262153">The &man.axge.4; driver has been
 276             added.</para>
 277
 278           <para revision="262362">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been
 279             imported from OpenBSD.</para>
 280
 281         </sect4>
 282       </sect3>
 283
 284       <sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
 285         <title>Network Protocols</title>
 286
 287         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 288
 289       </sect3>
 290
 291       <sect3 xml:id="disks">
 292         <title>Disks and Storage</title>
 293
 294         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 295
 296       </sect3>
 297
 298       <sect3 xml:id="fs">
 299         <title>File Systems</title>
 300
 301         <para revision="263410">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
 302           updated to support the <literal>bookmarks</literal>
 303           feature.</para>
 304
 305       </sect3>
 306     </sect2>
 307
 308     <sect2 xml:id="userland">
 309       <title>Userland Changes</title>
 310
 311       <para revision="259243">A segmentation fault and internal
 312         compiler error bug in &man.gcc.1; triggered by throwing
 313         a warning before parsing any tokens has been fixed.</para>
 314
 315       <para revision="259269,259406">Several updates to &man.gcc.1;
 316         have been imported from Google.</para>
 317
 318       <para revision="259448">A byte-order bug in the Heimdal
 319         <literal>gss_pseudo_random()</literal> function which would
 320         prevent interoperability with other
 321         <application>Kerberos</application> implementations has been
 322         fixed.  In particular, this would prevent interoperability
 323         with the MIT implementation.</para>
 324
 325       <para revision="260007">The &man.hastctl.8; utility has been
 326         updated to output the current queue sizes.</para>
 327
 328       <para revision="260197">The &man.ps.1; utility will no longer
 329         truncate the <literal>command</literal> output column.</para>
 330
 331       <para revision="260208">The &man.protect.1; command has been
 332         added, which allows exempting processes from being killed
 333         when swap is exhausted.</para>
 334
 335       <para revision="260507">The &man.gmirror.8; utility now prevents
 336         deactivating the last component of a mirror.</para>
 337
 338       <para revision="260507">A new &man.gmirror.8; command,
 339         <command>gmirror destroy</command>, has been added, which will
 340         destroy the &man.geom.8; and erase the &man.gmirror.8;
 341         metadata.</para>
 342
 343       <para revision="260650">The &man.etcupdate.8; utility, a tool
 344         for managing updates to files in <filename
 345           class="directory">/etc</filename>, has been merged from
 346         <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
 347
 348       <para revision="260651">The &man.find.1; utility has been
 349         updated to fix incorrect behavior with the
 350         <literal>-lname</literal> and <literal>-ilname</literal>
 351         flags.</para>
 352
 353       <para revision="260868,260869">The
 354         <literal>hw.uart.console</literal> is now always updated when
 355         the comconsole setup changes.</para>
 356
 357       <para revision="260909">The &man.kldload.8; utility has been
 358         updated to display a message directing to &man.dmesg.8;,
 359         instead of the cryptic message <quote>Exec format
 360           error</quote>.</para>
 361
 362       <para revision="261674">A bug that could trigger an infinite
 363         loop in KDE and X has been fixed.</para>
 364
 365       <para revision="262076">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been
 366         changed to use the size of the file, instead of the blocks the
 367         file takes on the disk to matche the behavior documented in
 368         &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para>
 369
 370       <para revision="262105">A bug in &man.zdb.8; which would cause
 371         numeric parameters to a flag as being treated as additional
 372         flags has been fixed.</para>
 373
 374       <para revision="262124">The default number of &man.nfsd.8;
 375         threads has been increased from <literal>4</literal> to
 376         <literal>(8 * N)</literal>, where <literal>N</literal> is
 377         the number of CPUs as reported by
 378         <command>sysctl -n hw.ncpu</command>.</para>
 379
 380       <para revision="262134">The &man.pciconf.8; utility now has
 381         a <literal>-V</literal> flag, which lists information such
 382         as serial numbers for each device.</para>
 383
 384       <para revision="262158">A bug that would allow creating
 385         a &man.zfs.8; snapshot of an inconsistent dataset has been
 386         fixed.</para>
 387
 388       <para revision="262160">Receiving a &man.zfs.8; dataset with
 389         <command>zfs recv -F</command> now properly destroys any
 390         snapshots that were created since the incremental source
 391         snapshot.</para>
 392
 393       <para revision="263031">Installation from a read-only
 394         <envar>.OBJDIR</envar> has been fixed.</para>
 395
 396       <para revision="263031">A new shared library directory,
 397         <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/private</filename>,
 398         has been added for internal-use shared libraries.</para>
 399
 400       <para revision="263031">A default
 401         <filename>libmap32.conf</filename> has been added, for 32-bit
 402         applications.</para>
 403
 404       <para revision="263032">The <literal>libucl</literal> library
 405         a JSON-compatible configuration file parsing library,has been
 406         imported.</para>
 407
 408       <para revision="263038">The &man.pkg.7; package management
 409         utility has been syncronized with <literal>head/</literal>.
 410         This implements binary package signature verification when
 411         bootstrapping the system with <command>pkg
 412           bootstrap</command>.</para>
 413
 414       <para revision="263042">The system timezone data files have
 415         been updated to version tzdata2014a.</para>
 416
 417       <para revision="263212">The NetBSD &man.make.1; utility,
 418         <command>bmake</command> has been imported for compatibility
 419         with the &os;&nbsp;Ports Collection.  It is installed as
 420         <command>bmake</command>, and the <command>make</command>
 421         remains the &os; version.</para>
 422
 423       <para revision="263326">The &man.fetch.3; library now
 424         supports <literal>Last-Modified</literal> timestamps which
 425         return UTC instead of GMT.</para>
 426
 427       <para revision="263404">Aliases for the &man.zfs.8; commands
 428         <literal>list -t snap</literal> and <literal>snap</literal>
 429         have been added to match &oracle;&nbsp;Solaris 11.</para>
 430
 431       <para revision="263406">A new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, has
 432         been added to the &man.zfs.8; <literal>list</literal> command,
 433         providing output in a parseable form.</para>
 434
 435       <para revision="263421"><application>OpenPAM</application> has
 436         been updated to Nummularia (20130907), which incorporates
 437         several bug fixes and documentation improvements.  The
 438         &man.openpam.ttyconv.3; library has been completely
 439         rewritten.</para>
 440
 441       <sect3 xml:id="periodic-scripts">
 442         <title>&man.periodic.8; Scripts</title>
 443
 444         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 445
 446       </sect3>
 447
 448       <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
 449         <title>&man.rc.8; Scripts</title>
 450
 451         <para revision="260432">The &man.rc.8; system will now
 452           re-source &man.rc.conf.5; on receipt of
 453           <literal>SIGALRM</literal>.</para>
 454
 455       </sect3>
 456     </sect2>
 457
 458     <sect2 xml:id="contrib">
 459       <title>Contributed Software</title>
 460
 461       <para revision="261375"><application>Sendmail</application> has
 462         been updated to version 8.14.8.</para>
 463
 464       <para revision="262706"><application>BIND</application> has
 465         been updated to version 9.9.5.</para>
 466
 467       <para revision="263286">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
 468         to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para>
 469
 470     </sect2>
 471
 472     <sect2 xml:id="releng">
 473       <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
 474
 475       <para revision="260891">As part of the release build, the
 476         &man.etcupdate.8; utility will bootstrap the system, allowing
 477         &man.etcupdate.8; to work after the first upgrade of a
 478         system.</para>
 479
 480       <para revision="262879">The <filename>release.sh</filename>
 481         script and release <filename>Makefile</filename> have been
 482         updated to use &man.pkg.7; to populate the dvd installation
 483         medium.</para>
 484
 485       <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has
 486         been updated to support multiple byte orders.  Similar to
 487         &man.cap.mkdb.1;, the <filename>services.db</filename> will
 488         be created with proper endinanness as part of
 489         cross-architecture release builds.</para>
 490
 491     </sect2>
 492   </sect1>
 493
 494   <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
 495     <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
 496
 497     <sect2>
 498       <title>Upgrading using &man.freebsd-update.8; or a source-based
 499         procedure</title>
 500
 501       <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
 502         (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
 503         using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade
 504         procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well
 505         as an unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel,
 506         distributed as a part of an official &os; release.  The
 507         &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being
 508         upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
 509
 510       <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
 511         base system from source code) from previous versions are
 512         supported using to the instructions in
 513         <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
 514
 515       <?ignore
 516       <para>For more specific information about upgrading
 517         instructions, see <uri xlink:href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/installation.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/installation.html</uri>.</para>
 518
 519       ?>
 520       <important>
 521         <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted
 522           after backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and
 523           configuration files.</para>
 524       </important>
 525     </sect2>
 526
 527     <sect2>
 528       <title xml:id="upgrade-pitfalls">User-visible incompatibilities</title>
 529
 530       <para>FreeBSD 9.0 and later have several incompatibilities in
 531         system configuration which you might want to know before
 532         upgrading your system.  <emphasis>Please read this section and
 533         the <link xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#UPGRADE">Upgrading
 534         Section in 9.0-RELEASE Release Notes</link> carefully before
 535         submitting a problem report and/or posting a question to the
 536         FreeBSD mailing lists.</emphasis></para>
 537     </sect2>
 538   </sect1>
 539 </article>