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