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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-14:04.bind.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:04.bind</link></entry>
 102               <entry>1&nbsp;January&nbsp;2014</entry>
 103               <entry><para>Remote denial of service
 104                   vulnerability</para></entry>
 105             </row>
 106           </tbody>
 107         </tgroup>
 108       </informaltable>
 109     </sect2>
 110
 111     <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
 112       <title>Kernel Changes</title>
 113
 114       <para revision="260644">Hardware Random Number Generators have
 115         been disabled by default.</para>
 116
 117       <para revision="261483">Support for GPS ports has been added
 118         to the &man.uhso.4; driver.</para>
 119
 120       <para revision="262116">A memory leak of compressed buffers
 121         has been fixed in
 122         <literal>l2arc_write_done()</literal>.</para>
 123
 124       <para revision="262153">The &man.netmap.4; framework has been
 125         updated to match the version in <literal>head/</literal>,
 126         which includes netmap pipes, kqueue support, and enhanced
 127         VALE switch port.</para>
 128
 129       <para revision="262175">A deadlock triggered by sending
 130         a mounted &man.zfs.8; snapshot has been fixed.</para>
 131
 132       <para revision="262231">Support for SIIG X1 PCI-e has been added
 133         to &man.ppc.4;.</para>
 134
 135       <para revision="262564">Support for the ext4 filesystem
 136         has been enabled, supporting read-only mounts.</para>
 137
 138       <para revision="262594">A kernel panic triggered by inserting
 139         a USB ethernet device on VIMAGE-enabled systems has been
 140         fixed.</para>
 141
 142       <para revision="262988">TTM, a memory manager used by video
 143         drivers, has been merged.</para>
 144
 145       <para revision="263103">Support for
 146         <literal>/sys/kernel/random/uuid</literal> has been added
 147         to &man.linprocfs.5;.</para>
 148
 149       <para revision="263128">A memory leak in the
 150         <literal>zpool_in_use()</literal> function has been
 151         fixed.</para>
 152
 153       <para revision="263391">The
 154         <literal>extensible_dataset</literal> &man.zpool.8; feature
 155         has been added.  See &man.zpool-features.7; for more
 156         information.</para>
 157
 158       <para revision="263408">A memory leak has been fixed in
 159         <literal>libzfs</literal>.</para>
 160
 161       <sect3 xml:id="boot">
 162         <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 163
 164         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 165
 166       </sect3>
 167
 168       <sect3 xml:id="proc">
 169         <title>Hardware Support</title>
 170
 171         <para revision="261510">Trackpad support for
 172           &apple;&nbsp;MacBook products has been added.</para>
 173
 174         <para revision="261973">The &man.nve.4; driver has been
 175           deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used
 176           instead.</para>
 177
 178         <para revision="262968">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been
 179           updated to support MegaRAID Fury cards.</para>
 180
 181         <para revision="263170,263171">The Radeon KMS driver has been
 182           added.</para>
 183
 184         <para revision="263340">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been
 185           updated to version 3.2.5.</para>
 186
 187         <sect4 xml:id="mm">
 188           <title>Multimedia Support</title>
 189
 190           <para>&nbsp;</para>
 191
 192         </sect4>
 193
 194         <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
 195           <title>Network Interface Support</title>
 196
 197           <para revision="261865">The &man.run.4; driver has been
 198             updated to include support for the MediaTek/Ralink RT3593
 199             chipset.</para>
 200
 201           <para revision="261933">The &man.run.4; driver has been
 202             updated to include support for the DLINK DWA-127 wireless
 203             adapter.</para>
 204
 205           <para revision="262153">The &man.axge.4; driver has been
 206             added.</para>
 207
 208           <para revision="262362">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been
 209             imported from OpenBSD.</para>
 210
 211         </sect4>
 212       </sect3>
 213
 214       <sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
 215         <title>Network Protocols</title>
 216
 217         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 218
 219       </sect3>
 220
 221       <sect3 xml:id="disks">
 222         <title>Disks and Storage</title>
 223
 224         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 225
 226       </sect3>
 227
 228       <sect3 xml:id="fs">
 229         <title>File Systems</title>
 230
 231         <para revision="263410">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
 232           updated to support the <literal>bookmarks</literal>
 233           feature.</para>
 234
 235       </sect3>
 236     </sect2>
 237
 238     <sect2 xml:id="userland">
 239       <title>Userland Changes</title>
 240
 241       <para revision="260650">The &man.etcupdate.8; utility, a tool
 242         for managing updates to files in <filename
 243           class="directory">/etc</filename>, has been merged from
 244         <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
 245
 246       <para revision="260651">The &man.find.1; utility has been
 247         updated to fix incorrect behavior with the
 248         <literal>-lname</literal> and <literal>-ilname</literal>
 249         flags.</para>
 250
 251       <para revision="260868,260869">The
 252         <literal>hw.uart.console</literal> is now always updated when
 253         the comconsole setup changes.</para>
 254
 255       <para revision="260909">The &man.kldload.8; utility has been
 256         updated to display a message directing to &man.dmesg.8;,
 257         instead of the cryptic message <quote>Exec format
 258           error</quote>.</para>
 259
 260       <para revision="261674">A bug that could trigger an infinite
 261         loop in KDE and X has been fixed.</para>
 262
 263       <para revision="262076">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been
 264         changed to use the size of the file, instead of the blocks the
 265         file takes on the disk to matche the behavior documented in
 266         &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para>
 267
 268       <para revision="262105">A bug in &man.zdb.8; which would cause
 269         numeric parameters to a flag as being treated as additional
 270         flags has been fixed.</para>
 271
 272       <para revision="262124">The default number of &man.nfsd.8;
 273         threads has been increased from <literal>4</literal> to
 274         <literal>(8 * N)</literal>, where <literal>N</literal> is
 275         the number of CPUs as reported by
 276         <command>sysctl -n hw.ncpu</command>.</para>
 277
 278       <para revision="262134">The &man.pciconf.8; utility now has
 279         a <literal>-V</literal> flag, which lists information such
 280         as serial numbers for each device.</para>
 281
 282       <para revision="262158">A bug that would allow creating
 283         a &man.zfs.8; snapshot of an inconsistent dataset has been
 284         fixed.</para>
 285
 286       <para revision="262160">Receiving a &man.zfs.8; dataset with
 287         <command>zfs recv -F</command> now properly destroys any
 288         snapshots that were created since the incremental source
 289         snapshot.</para>
 290
 291       <para revision="263031">Installation from a read-only
 292         <envar>.OBJDIR</envar> has been fixed.</para>
 293
 294       <para revision="263031">A new shared library directory,
 295         <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/private</filename>,
 296         has been added for internal-use shared libraries.</para>
 297
 298       <para revision="263031">A default
 299         <filename>libmap32.conf</filename> has been added, for 32-bit
 300         applications.</para>
 301
 302       <para revision="263032">The <literal>libucl</literal> library
 303         a JSON-compatible configuration file parsing library,has been
 304         imported.</para>
 305
 306       <para revision="263038">The &man.pkg.7; package management
 307         utility has been syncronized with <literal>head/</literal>.
 308         This implements binary package signature verification when
 309         bootstrapping the system with <command>pkg
 310           bootstrap</command>.</para>
 311
 312       <para revision="263042">The system timezone data files have
 313         been updated to version tzdata2014a.</para>
 314
 315       <para revision="263212">The NetBSD &man.make.1; utility,
 316         <command>bmake</command> has been imported for compatibility
 317         with the &os;&nbsp;Ports Collection.  It is installed as
 318         <command>bmake</command>, and the <command>make</command>
 319         remains the &os; version.</para>
 320
 321       <para revision="263326">The &man.fetch.3; library now
 322         supports <literal>Last-Modified</literal> timestamps which
 323         return UTC instead of GMT.</para>
 324
 325       <para revision="263404">Aliases for the &man.zfs.8; commands
 326         <literal>list -t snap</literal> and <literal>snap</literal>
 327         have been added to match &oracle;&nbsp;Solaris 11.</para>
 328
 329       <para revision="263406">A new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, has
 330         been added to the &man.zfs.8; <literal>list</literal> command,
 331         providing output in a parseable form.</para>
 332
 333       <para revision="263421"><application>OpenPAM</application> has
 334         been updated to Nummularia (20130907), which incorporates
 335         several bug fixes and documentation improvements.  The
 336         &man.openpam.ttyconv.3; library has been completely
 337         rewritten.</para>
 338
 339       <sect3 xml:id="periodic-scripts">
 340         <title>&man.periodic.8; Scripts</title>
 341
 342         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 343
 344       </sect3>
 345
 346       <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
 347         <title>&man.rc.8; Scripts</title>
 348
 349         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 350
 351       </sect3>
 352     </sect2>
 353
 354     <sect2 xml:id="contrib">
 355       <title>Contributed Software</title>
 356
 357       <para revision="261375"><application>Sendmail</application> has
 358         been updated to version 8.14.8.</para>
 359
 360       <para revision="262706"><application>BIND</application> has
 361         been updated to version 9.9.5.</para>
 362
 363       <para revision="263286">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
 364         to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para>
 365
 366     </sect2>
 367
 368     <sect2 xml:id="releng">
 369       <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
 370
 371       <para revision="260891">As part of the release build, the
 372         &man.etcupdate.8; utility will bootstrap the system, allowing
 373         &man.etcupdate.8; to work after the first upgrade of a
 374         system.</para>
 375
 376       <para revision="262879">The <filename>release.sh</filename>
 377         script and release <filename>Makefile</filename> have been
 378         updated to use &man.pkg.7; to populate the dvd installation
 379         medium.</para>
 380
 381       <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has
 382         been updated to support multiple byte orders.  Similar to
 383         &man.cap.mkdb.1;, the <filename>services.db</filename> will
 384         be created with proper endinanness as part of
 385         cross-architecture release builds.</para>
 386
 387     </sect2>
 388   </sect1>
 389
 390   <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
 391     <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
 392
 393     <sect2>
 394       <title>Upgrading using &man.freebsd-update.8; or a source-based
 395         procedure</title>
 396
 397       <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
 398         (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
 399         using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade
 400         procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well
 401         as an unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel,
 402         distributed as a part of an official &os; release.  The
 403         &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being
 404         upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
 405
 406       <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
 407         base system from source code) from previous versions are
 408         supported using to the instructions in
 409         <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
 410
 411       <para>For more specific information about upgrading
 412         instructions, see <uri xlink:href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.1R/installation.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.1R/installation.html</uri>.</para>
 413
 414       <important>
 415         <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted
 416           after backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and
 417           configuration files.</para>
 418       </important>
 419     </sect2>
 420
 421     <sect2>
 422       <title xml:id="upgrade-pitfalls">User-visible incompatibilities</title>
 423
 424       <para>FreeBSD 9.0 and later have several incompatibilities in
 425         system configuration which you might want to know before
 426         upgrading your system.  <emphasis>Please read this section and
 427         the <link xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#UPGRADE">Upgrading
 428         Section in 9.0-RELEASE Release Notes</link> carefully before
 429         submitting a problem report and/or posting a question to the
 430         FreeBSD mailing lists.</emphasis></para>
 431     </sect2>
 432   </sect1>
 433 </article>