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17 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
20 <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
23 <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
25 <!-- Last rev: 284814 -->
29 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
33 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
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
53 <sect1 xml:id="intro">
54 <title>Introduction</title>
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>
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
67 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
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
75 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
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
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>
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>
96 <para>This document describes the most user-visible new or changed
97 features in &os; since &release.prev;. In general, changes
98 described here are unique to the &release.branch; branch unless
99 specifically marked as &merged; features.</para>
101 <para>Typical release note items document recent security
102 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
103 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
104 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to
105 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly
106 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
107 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
108 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
112 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
113 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
115 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
116 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
117 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade
118 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
119 unmodified GENERIC kernels distributed as a part of an official
120 &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that
121 the host being upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
123 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
124 base system from source code) from previous versions are
125 supported, according to the instructions in
126 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
129 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after backing up
130 <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration files.</para>
134 <sect1 xml:id="security-errata">
135 <title>Security and Errata</title>
137 <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and
138 Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para>
140 <sect2 xml:id="security">
141 <title>Security Advisories</title>
146 <sect2 xml:id="errata">
147 <title>Errata Notices</title>
153 <sect1 xml:id="userland">
154 <title>Userland</title>
156 <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland
157 applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para>
159 <sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
160 <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
162 <para revision="266463">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now
163 includes files in the
164 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and
165 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename>
166 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para>
168 <para revision="270675">The &man.mailwrapper.8; utility has been
169 updated to use &man.mailer.conf.5; from the
170 <literal>LOCALBASE</literal> environment variable, which
171 defaults to <filename class="directory">/usr/local</filename>
174 <para revision="272350">The <literal>MK_ARM_EABI</literal>
175 &man.src.conf.5; option has been removed.</para>
178 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
179 <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
181 <para revision="258838" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;,
182 &google;" sponsorurl="">The &man.casperd.8; daemon has been
183 added, which provides access to functionality that is not
184 available in the <quote>capability mode</quote>
187 <para revision="260594">When unable to load a kernel module with
188 &man.kldload.8;, a message informing to view output of
189 &man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output
190 <quote>Exec format error.</quote>.</para>
192 <para revision="260910">Allow &man.pciconf.8; to identify PCI
193 devices that are attached to a driver to be identified by
194 their device name instead of just the selector. Additionally,
195 an optional device argument to the <literal>-l</literal> flag
196 to restrict the output to only listing details about a single
199 <para revision="260913">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote>
200 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows
201 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the
202 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent
203 to <literal>off</literal>.</para>
205 <para revision="260926">Support for displaying VPD for PCI
206 devices via &man.pciconf.8; has been added.</para>
208 <para revision="261498">&man.ping.8; protects against malicious
209 network packets using the Capsicum framework to drop
212 <para revision="265229">The &man.ps.1; utility has been
213 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to
214 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names.
215 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to
216 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the
219 <para revision="265249">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated
220 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the
221 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para>
223 <para revision="266209">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been
224 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which
225 ends event collection after the specified number of
228 <para revision="270745">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
229 to include a new keyword, <quote>tracer</quote>, which
230 displays the <acronym>PID</acronym> of the tracing
233 <para revision="271482">Support for adding empty partitions has
234 been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility.</para>
236 <para revision="272166">The &man.primes.6; utility has been
237 updated to correctly enumerate prime numbers between
238 <literal>4295098369</literal> and
239 <literal>3825123056546413050</literal>, which prior to this
240 change, it would be possible for returned values to be
241 incorrectly identified as prime numbers.</para>
243 <para revision="272198">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been
244 updated to include three options used to print information
245 about &man.mkimg.1; itself:</para>
247 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
249 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
250 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
253 <entry>Option</entry>
254 <entry>Output</entry>
260 <entry><literal>--version</literal></entry>
261 <entry>The current version of the &man.mkimg.1;
266 <entry><literal>--formats</literal></entry>
267 <entry>The disk image file formats supported by
268 &man.mkimg.1;</entry>
272 <entry><literal>--schemes</literal></entry>
273 <entry>The partition schemes supported by
274 &man.mkimg.1;</entry>
280 <para revision="272488">Userland &man.ctf.5; support in
281 &man.dtrace.1; has been added. With this change,
282 &man.dtrace.1; is able to resolve type info for function and
283 <acronym>USDT</acronym> probe arguments, and function return
286 <para revision="274960">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been
287 updated to support capability mode provided by
288 &man.capsicum.4;.</para>
290 <para revision="275680" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
291 &man.fstyp.8; utility has been added, which is used to
292 determine the filesystem on a specified device.</para>
294 <para revision="276881">The <literal>libedit</literal> library
295 has been updated to support <acronym>UTF</acronym>-8, which
296 additionally provides unicode support to &man.sh.1;.</para>
298 <para revision="276893" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
299 &man.mkimg.1; utility has been updated to support the
300 <acronym>MBR</acronym> <acronym>EFI</acronym> partition
303 <para revision="277166" arch="powerpc">The &man.ptrace.2; system
304 call has been updated include support for Altivec registers on
305 &os;/&arch.powerpc;.</para>
307 <para revision="278320">A new device control utility,
308 &man.devctl.8; has been added, which allows making
309 administrative changes to individual devices, such as
310 attaching and detaching drivers, and enabling and disabling
311 devices. The &man.devctl.8; utility uses the new
312 &man.devctl.3; library.</para>
314 <para revision="279122" contrib="sponsor"
315 sponsor="&juniper;">The &man.netstat.1; utility has been
316 updated to link against the &man.libxo.3; shared
319 <para revision="279139">A new flag, <literal>-c</literal>, has
320 been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility, which allows
321 specifying the capacity of the target disk image.</para>
323 <para revision="279315" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
324 &man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para>
326 <para revision="279571" contrib="sponsor"
327 sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has
328 been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when
329 a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed.</para>
331 <para revision="280870">A regression in the &man.libarchive.3;
332 library that would prevent a directory from being included in
333 the archive when <literal>--one-file-system</literal> is used
334 has been fixed.</para>
336 <para revision="281311" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
337 &man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set
338 <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS</literal> and
339 <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT</literal> to disallow
340 directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to
343 <para revision="281617">A race condition in &man.wc.1; that
344 would cause final results to be sent to &man.stderr.4; when
345 receiving the <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal has been
348 <para revision="282208" contrib="sponsor"
349 sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.chflags.1;, &man.chgrp.1;,
350 &man.chmod.1;, and &man.chown.8; utilities now affect symbolic
351 links when the <literal>-R</literal> flag is specified, as
352 documented in &man.symlink.7;.</para>
354 <para revision="282608">The &man.date.1; utility has been
355 updated to print the modification time of the file passed as
356 an argument to the <literal>-r</literal> flag, improving
357 compatibility with the <acronym>GNU</acronym> &man.date.1;
358 utility behavior.</para>
360 <para revision="283961">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated
361 with a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, that sets the root
362 directory within which the utility will operate.</para>
364 <para revision="284297" contrib="sponsor"
365 sponsor="&clusterhq;">The &man.lockstat.1; utility has been
366 updated with several improvements:</para>
370 <para>Spin locks are now reported as the amount of time
371 spinning, instead of loop iterations.</para>
375 <para>Reader locks are now recognized as adaptive that can
380 <para>Lock aquisition events for successful reader try-lock
381 events are now reported.</para>
385 <para>Spin and block events are now reported before lock
386 acquisition events.</para>
390 <para revision="284589" contrib="sponsor"
391 sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.fstyp.8; utility has been
392 updated to be able to detect &man.zfs.8; and &man.geli.8;
396 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
397 <title>Contributed Software</title>
399 <para revision="258884" contrib="sponsor"
400 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">&man.lldb.1; has been updated to
401 upstream snapshot version r196259.</para>
403 <para revision="260445">&man.byacc.1; has been updated to
404 version 20140101.</para>
406 <para revision="261071">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to
407 version 3.5.0.</para>
409 <para revision="261283"><application>libc++</application> has
410 been updated to version 3.4.</para>
412 <para revision="261320"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
413 been updated to 6.5p1.</para>
415 <para revision="261344"><application>mdocml</application> has
416 been updated to version 1.12.3.</para>
418 <para revision="261991"><application>LLVM</application> and
419 <application>Clang</application> have been updated to
422 <para revision="275718">The <application>binutils</application>
423 suite of utilities has been updated to include upstream
424 patches that add new relocations for &arch.powerpc;
427 <para revision="276398" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
428 <application>ELF Tool Chain</application> has been updated to
429 upstream revision r3136.</para>
431 <para revision="276551">The <application>texinfo</application>
432 utility and <literal>info</literal> pages were removed from
433 the base system. The <filename
434 role="package">print/texinfo</filename> port should be
435 installed on systems where <literal>info</literal> pages are
438 <para revision="276796" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The ELF
439 object manipulation tools
440 <application>addr2line</application>,
441 <application>elfcopy (strip)</application>,
442 <application>nm</application>,
443 <application>readelf</application>,
444 <application>size</application>, and
445 <application>strings</application> were switched to the
446 versions from the ELF Tool Chain project.</para>
448 <para revision="276881">The <literal>libedit</literal> library
449 has been updated to include <acronym>UTF-8</acronym> support,
450 adding <acronym>UTF-8</acronym> support to the &man.sh.1;
453 <para revision="278433">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
454 to support multi-threaded compression.</para>
456 <para revision="280932" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
457 <application>elftoolchain</application> utilities have been
458 updated to version 3179.</para>
460 <para revision="281316">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
461 to version 5.2.1.</para>
463 <para revision="281373">The &man.nvi.1; utility has been updated
464 to version 2.1.3.</para>
466 <para revision="281806">The &man.wpa.supplicant.8; and
467 &man.hostapd.8; utilities have been updated to version
470 <para revision="282089">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
471 updated to version 1.5.3.</para>
473 <para revision="282434" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
474 &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version
477 <para revision="282613">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated
478 to the OpenBSD 5.7 version.</para>
480 <para revision="283092">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been
481 updated to version 20150515.</para>
483 <para revision="284237">The &man.file.1; utility has been
484 updated to version 5.23.</para>
486 <para revision="284254"><application>bmake</application> has
487 been updated to version 20150606.</para>
489 <para revision="284397">Timezone data files have been updated to
490 version 2015e.</para>
492 <para revision="285229"><application>sendmail</application> has
493 been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with &os; 11.0 and
494 sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by
495 default, i.e., they will not contain <quote>::</quote>. For
496 example, instead of <quote>::1</quote>, it will be
497 <quote>0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1</quote>. This permits a zero subnet to
498 have a more specific match, such as different map entries for
499 IPv6:0:0 versus IPv6:0. This change requires that
500 configuration data (including maps, files, classes, custom
501 ruleset, etc.) must use the same format, so make certain such
502 configuration data is upgrading. As a very simple check
503 search for patterns like 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'.
504 To return to the old behavior, set the m4 option
505 <literal>confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES</literal> or the cf
506 option <literal>UseCompressedIPv6Addresses</literal>.</para>
508 <para revision="285329"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
509 been updated to version 1.0.1p.</para>
512 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
513 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
515 <para revision="271539">The &man.bsdinstall.8; partition editor
516 and &man.sade.8; utility have been updated to include native
517 <acronym>ZFS</acronym> support.</para>
519 <para revision="272274">The &os; installation utility,
520 &man.bsdinstall.8;, has been updated to set the
521 <literal>canmount</literal> &man.zfs.8; property to
522 <literal>off</literal> for the <filename
523 class="directory">/var</filename> dataset, preventing the
524 contents of directories within <filename
525 class="directory">/var</filename> from conflicting when
526 using multiple boot environments, such as that provided by
527 <filename role="package">sysutils/beadm</filename>.</para>
529 <para revision="274394">The &man.bsdconfig.8; utility has been
530 updated to skip the initial &man.tzsetup.8;
531 <acronym>UTC</acronym> versus wall-clock time prompt when run
532 in a virtual machine, determined when the
533 <literal>kern.vm_guest</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is set to
534 <literal>1</literal>.</para>
536 <para revision="275874">The &man.bsdinstall.8; utility has been
537 updated to use the new &man.dpv.3; library to display progress
538 when extracting the &os; distributions.</para>
541 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
542 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
545 <para revision="270676">The &man.rc.8; subsystem has been
546 updated to allow configuring services in <filename
547 class="directory">${LOCALBASE}/etc/rc.conf.d/</filename>.
548 If <literal>LOCALBASE</literal> is unset, it defaults to
549 <filename class="directory">/usr/local</filename>.</para>
551 <para revision="273955">A new &man.rc.8; script,
552 <filename>growfs</filename>, has been added, which will resize
553 the root filesystem on boot if <filename>/firstboot</filename>
556 <para revision="275299">The <filename>mrouted</filename>
557 &man.rc.8; script has been removed from the base system. An
558 equivalent script is available from the <filename
559 role="package">net/mrouted</filename> port.</para>
561 <para revision="279463" contrib="sponsor"
562 sponsor="&sandvine;">A new &man.rc.8; script,
563 <filename>iovctl</filename>, has been added, which allows
564 automatically starting the &man.iovctl.8; utility at
568 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
569 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
572 <para revision="271321">The daily &man.periodic.8; script
573 <filename>110.clean-tmps</filename> has been updated to avoid
574 crossing filesystem mount boundaries when cleaning files in
575 <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename>.</para>
577 <para revision="277216" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
578 &man.periodic.8; script,
579 <filename>510.status-world-kernel</filename>, has been added,
580 which evaluates the running userland and kernel versions from
581 the &man.uname.1; <literal>-U</literal> and
582 <literal>-K</literal> arguments, and prints an error if the
583 system userland and kernel are not in sync.</para>
586 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
587 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
589 <para revision="265995">The Blowfish &man.crypt.3; default
590 format has been changed to
591 <literal>$2b$</literal>.</para>
593 <para revision="268461">The &man.readline.3; library is now
594 statically linked in software within the base system, and the
595 shared library is no longer installed, allowing the Ports
596 Collection to use a modern version of the library.</para>
598 <para revision="272273">The &man.strptime.3; library has been
599 updated to add support for <acronym>POSIX</acronym>-2001
600 features <literal>%U</literal> and
601 <literal>%W</literal>.</para>
603 <para revision="272842,272848" contrib="sponsor"
604 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.dl.iterate.phdr.3; library has been
605 changed to always return the path name of the
606 <acronym>ELF</acronym> object in the
607 <literal>dlpi_name</literal> structure member.</para>
609 <para revision="273562" contrib="sponsor"
610 sponsor="&juniper;">The &man.libxo.3; library has been
611 imported to the base system.</para>
613 <para revision="273806" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&chelsio;">A
614 userland library for Chelsio Terminator 5 based iWARP cards
615 has been added, allowing userland <acronym>RDMA</acronym>
616 applications to work over compatible
617 <acronym>NIC</acronym>s.</para>
619 <para revision="274987">The &man.gpio.3; library has been added,
620 providing a wrapper around the &man.gpio.4; kernel
623 <para revision="277610">The <literal>futimens()</literal> and
624 <literal>utimensat()</literal> system calls have been
625 added. See &man.utimensat.2; for more information.</para>
627 <para revision="278934">The &man.elf.3; compile-time dependency
628 has been removed from <filename>dtri.o</filename>, which
629 allows adding <application>DTrace</application> probes to
630 userland applications and libraries without also linking
631 against &man.elf.3;.</para>
633 <para revision="279186">The &man.setmode.3; function has been
634 updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on
637 <para revision="279663">The &man.qsort.3; functions have been
638 updated to be able to handle 32-bit aligned data on 64-bit
639 platforms, also providing a significant improvement in 32-bit
642 <para revision="281130">Several standard include headers have
643 been updated to use of <application>gcc</application>
644 attributes, such as <literal>__result_use_check()</literal>,
645 <literal>__alloc_size()</literal>, and
646 <literal>__nonnull()</literal>.</para>
648 <para revision="281845">Support for file verification in
649 <acronym>MAC</acronym> has been added.</para>
651 <para revision="282973" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
652 <literal>libgomp</literal> library is now only built when
653 building <acronym>GCC</acronym> from the base system. An
654 up-to-date version is available in the Ports Collection as
656 role="package">devel/libiomp5-devel</filename>.</para>
658 <para revision="282988">The <filename>stdlib.h</filename> and
659 <filename>malloc.h</filename> headers have been updated to
660 make use of the <application>gcc</application>
661 <literal>alloc_align()</literal> attribute.</para>
663 <para revision="284483" contrib="sponsor"
664 sponsor="&scaleengine;">The Blowfish &man.crypt.3; library
665 has been updated to support $2y$ hashes.</para>
668 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
669 <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
671 <para revision="271982">The &linux; compatibility version has
672 been updated to <literal>2.6.18</literal>. The
673 <literal>compat.linux.osrelease</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is
674 evaluated when building the <filename
675 role="package">emulators/linux-c6</filename> and related
680 <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
681 <title>Kernel</title>
683 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
684 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
687 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
688 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
690 <para revision="265876">A kernel bug that inhibited proper
691 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal>
692 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo
693 Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para>
695 <para revision="271697" arch="powerpc">Support for
696 &man.dtrace.1; stack tracing has been fixed for
697 &os;/&arch.powerpc;, using the <literal>trapexit()</literal>
698 and <literal>asttrapexit()</literal> functions instead of
699 checking within addressed kernel space.</para>
701 <para revision="272089">A bug in &man.ipfw.4; that could
702 potentially lead to a kernel panic when using &man.dummynet.4;
703 at layer 2 has been fixed.</para>
705 <para revision="280930" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&mitail;">The
706 kernel <acronym>RPC</acronym> has been updated to include
707 several enhancements:</para>
711 <para>The 45 MiB limit on requests queued for
712 &man.nfsd.8; threads has been removed.</para>
716 <para>Avoids unnecessary throttling by not deferring
717 accounting for completed requests.</para>
721 <para>Fixes an integer overflow and signedness bugs.</para>
725 <para revision="281261" arch="powerpc">Support for
726 &man.dtrace.1; has been added for the
727 Book-E ™.</para>
730 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
731 <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
733 <para revision="266531">The <literal>IMAGACT_BINMISC</literal>
734 kernel configuration option has been enabled by default,
735 which enables application execution through emulators, such
736 as <application>Qemu</application>.</para>
738 <para revision="268045">The <literal>VT</literal> kernel
739 configuration file has been removed, and the &man.vt.4;
740 driver is included in the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
741 To enable &man.vt.4;, enter <literal>set kern.vty=vt</literal>
742 at the &man.loader.8; prompt during boot, or add
743 <literal>kern.vty=vt</literal> to &man.loader.conf.5; and
744 reboot the system.</para>
746 <para revision="277904">The &man.config.8; utility has been
747 updated to allow using a non-standard <filename
748 class="directory">src/</filename> tree, specified as an
749 argument to the <literal>-s</literal> flag.</para>
751 <para revision="277990" arch="powerpc64">The
752 &os;/&arch.powerpc64; kernel now builds as
753 a position-independent executable, allowing the kernel to be
754 loaded into and run from any physical or virtual
758 <para>This change requires an update to &man.loader.8;.
759 The userland and kernel must be updated before rebooting the
763 <para revision="279189" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
764 arch="powerpc">Kernel support for Vector-Scalar eXtension
765 (<acronym>VSX</acronym>) found on POWER7 and POWER8 hardware
766 has been added.</para>
768 <para revision="279252" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
769 arch="powerpc">The &man.pmap.9; implementation for 64-bit
770 &powerpc; processors has been overhaulded to improve
773 <para revision="283959" contrib="sponsor"
774 sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option,
775 <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables
776 multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para>
779 <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not
780 officially supported by &intel;.</para>
784 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
785 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
787 <para revision="275140" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
788 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
789 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
790 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
792 <para revision="279361">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
793 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
794 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
796 <para revision="280308,280949" contrib="sponsor"
797 sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
798 been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
799 using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;,
800 <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
801 when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
802 timestamps for these operations.</para>
804 <para revision="282213" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
805 &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
806 added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
807 &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
808 A new kernel configuration option,
809 <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
811 <para revision="282901" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
812 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
813 <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
817 <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
818 <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
819 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
820 <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
821 &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
824 <para revision="283136" contrib="sponsor"
825 sponsor="&limelight;">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
826 <literal>net.inet.tcp.hostcache.purgenow</literal>, has
827 been added, which when set to <literal>1</literal> during
828 runtime will flush all
829 <literal>net.inet.tcp.hostcache</literal> entries.</para>
833 <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
834 <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
836 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
837 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
839 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
840 <title>Device Drivers</title>
842 <para revision="260903">Support for GPS ports has been added to
845 <para revision="265132">The &man.full.4; device has been added,
846 and the <literal>lindev(4)</literal> device has been removed.
847 Prior to this change, <literal>lindev(4)</literal> provided
848 only the <filename>/dev/full</filename> character device,
849 returning <literal>ENOSPC</literal> on write attempts. As
850 this device is not specific to &linux;, a native &os; version
851 has been added.</para>
853 <para revision="271705">Hardware context support has been
854 added to the <literal>drm/i915</literal> driver, adding
855 support for <application>Mesa</application> 9.2 and
858 <para revision="273178">The &man.vt.4; driver has been updated,
859 replacing the bitmapped <literal>kern.vt.spclkeys</literal>
860 &man.sysctl.8; with individual
861 <literal>kern.vt.kbd_*</literal> variants.</para>
863 <para revision="273598">The &man.hpet.4; driver has been updated
865 <filename>/dev/hpet<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename>
866 device, providing access to <acronym>HPET</acronym> from
869 <para revision="280183">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
870 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
872 <para revision="282783" arch="powerpc">Support for the Freescale
873 <acronym>PCI</acronym> Root Complex device has been
877 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
878 <title>Storage Drivers</title>
880 <para revision="265236" contrib="sponsor"
881 sponsor="&lsi;, &spectralogic;" sponsorurl="">The &man.mpr.4;
882 device has been added, providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT
883 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA controllers.</para>
885 <para revision="265555" contrib="sponsor"
886 sponsor="&lsi;">The &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added,
887 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The
888 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default.
889 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add
890 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to
891 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off
892 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para>
895 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os;
896 version of <application>MegaCLI</application> and
897 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with
898 &man.mrsas.4;.</para>
901 <para revision="275461" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
902 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
903 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
904 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
905 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
907 <para revision="276526">The <literal>asr(4)</literal> driver has
908 been removed, and is no longer supported.</para>
910 <para revision="281387">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
911 updated to version 1.1.1.</para>
914 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
915 <title>Network Drivers</title>
917 <para revision="258830">Support for Broadcom chipsets BCM57764,
918 BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787 has been added to
921 <para revision="260448">Support for the &intel; Centrino™
922 Wireless-N 135 chipset has been added.</para>
924 <para revision="260552">Firmware for &intel; Centrino™
925 Wireless-N 105 devices has been added to the base
928 <para revision="261975">The deprecated nve(4) driver has been
929 removed. Users of NVIDIA nForce MCP network adapters are
930 advised to use the &man.nfe.4; driver instead, which has been
931 the default driver for this hardware since
932 &os; 7.0.</para>
934 <para revision="264601" contrib="sponsor"
935 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal>
936 device has been added, providing support for NetFPGA-10G
937 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para>
940 <para>The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal> driver operates on
941 the FPGA, and is not suited for the PCI host
945 <para revision="265348" contrib="sponsor"
946 sponsor="&netgate;">The &man.ath.hal.4; driver has been
947 updated to support the Atheros AR1111 chipset.</para>
949 <para revision="266770">Support for the &intel; Centrino™
950 Wireless-N 105 chipset has been added.</para>
952 <para revision="266757" contrib="sponsor"
953 sponsor="&chelsio;">Support for the &man.cxgbe.4; Terminator
954 5 (T5) 10G/40G cards has been added to &man.netmap.4;.</para>
956 <para revision="272730">The &man.alc.4; driver has been updated
957 to support AR816x and AR817x ethernet controllers.</para>
959 <para revision="273331">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added,
960 which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in
961 a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network. The &man.vxlan.4; driver is
962 analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited
963 for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para>
965 <para revision="274246" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
966 &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has
967 been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and
970 <para revision="283766" contrib="sponsor"
971 sponsor="&limelight;">The &man.em.4; driver has been updated
972 with improved transmission queue hang detection.</para>
976 <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
977 <title>Hardware Support</title>
979 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
980 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
981 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
982 other sections of this document.</para>
984 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
985 <title>Hardware Support</title>
987 <para revision="268303">The &man.asmc.4; driver has been
988 updated to support the &apple; MacMini 3,1.</para>
990 <para revision="268351">Support for &os;/ia64 has been dropped
991 as of &os; 11.</para>
993 <para revision="274386">An issue that could cause a system to
994 hang when entering <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
995 <literal>S3</literal> state (suspend to
996 <acronym>RAM</acronym>) has been corrected in the &man.acpi.4;
997 and &man.pci.4; drivers.</para>
999 <para revision="274733" arch="powerpc">The power management unit
1000 subsystem has been updated to support power button events on
1001 certain &arch.powerpc; hardware, such as aluminum
1002 PowerBook ®.</para>
1004 <para revision="275171,275190" arch="powerpc">The &man.hwpmc.4;
1005 driver has been updated to correct performance counter
1006 sampling on G4 (MPC74xxx) and G5 class processors.</para>
1008 <para revision="275732" contrib="sponsor"
1009 sponsor="&ff;,&netgate;">The
1010 <application>OpenCrypto</application> framework has been
1011 updated to include <literal>AES-ICM</literal> and
1012 <literal>AES-GCM</literal> modes, both of which have also been
1013 added to the &man.aesni.4; driver.</para>
1015 <para revision="281713" arch="powerpc">The &man.hwpmc.4;
1016 driver has been updated to support the Freescale e500
1019 <para revision="283766">The &man.ig4.4; driver has been added,
1020 providing support for the fourth generation &intel;
1021 <acronym>I2C</acronym> SMBus.</para>
1023 <para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been updated to support
1024 <acronym>AMT</acronym> devices on newer systems.</para>
1027 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
1028 <title>Virtualization Support</title>
1030 <para revision="260410">Support for the <quote>Virtual Interrupt
1031 Delivery</quote> feature of &intel; VT-x is enabled if
1032 supported by the CPU. This feature can be disabled by running
1033 <literal>sysctl hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal>.
1034 Additionally, to persist this setting across reboots, add
1035 <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal> to
1036 <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para>
1038 <para revision="260532">Support for <quote>Posted Interrupt
1039 Processing</quote> is enabled if supported by the CPU. This
1040 feature can be disabled by running <literal>sysctl
1041 hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal>. Additionally, to
1042 persist this setting across reboots, add
1043 <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal> to
1044 <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para>
1046 <para revision="260582">Unmapped IO support has been added to
1047 &man.virtio_blk.4;.</para>
1049 <para revision="260583">Unmapped IO support has been added to
1050 &man.virtio_scsi.4;.</para>
1052 <para revision="260847">The &man.virtio_random.4; driver has
1053 been added to harvest entropy from the host system.</para>
1055 <para revision="261504">&os;/&arch.i386; guests can be run under
1058 <para revision="267536" contrib="sponsor"
1059 sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for running a &os;/&arch.amd64;
1060 <application>Xen</application> guest instance as
1061 <acronym>PVH</acronym> guest has been added.
1062 <acronym>PVH</acronym> mode, short for <quote>Para-Virtualized
1063 Hardware</quote>, uses para-virtualized drivers for boot and
1064 I/O, and uses hardware virtualization extensions for all other
1065 tasks, without the need for emulation.</para>
1067 <para revision="273515">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has
1068 been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console
1069 devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para>
1071 <para revision="279957">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
1072 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for
1073 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para>
1075 <para revision="281439" arch="arm">Support for the
1076 <application>QEMU</application> <literal>virt</literal> system
1077 has been added.</para>
1079 <para revision="282212" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
1080 Hyper-V™ drivers have been updated with several
1081 enhancements:</para>
1085 <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel
1090 <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather
1091 support, in addition to performance improvements.</para>
1095 <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug
1100 <para revision="282274">Support for &man.xen.4; para-virtualized
1101 <literal>domU</literal> kernels has been removed.</para>
1103 <para revision="284746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
1104 &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum
1105 offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para>
1108 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
1109 <title>ARM Support</title>
1111 <para revision="260921">The &man.nand.4; device is enabled for
1112 ARM devices by default.</para>
1114 <para revision="273264" arch="armv6">An issue that could cause
1115 instability when detecting <acronym>SD</acronym> cards on the
1116 Raspberry Pi <acronym>SOC</acronym> has been fixed.</para>
1118 <para revision="275963">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
1119 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
1120 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
1121 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
1123 <para revision="280259" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Initial
1124 support for the ARM AArch64 architecture has been
1127 <para revision="282779" arch="arm">Kernel support for Thumb-2
1128 userland has been added.</para>
1130 <para revision="282827">Support for the hardware power button
1131 on the BeagleBone Black system has been added.</para>
1133 <para revision="284273" contrib="sponsor"
1134 sponsor="&ff;">Initial
1135 <acronym>ACPI</acronym> support has been added for
1136 &os;/&arch.arm64;.</para>
1140 <sect1 xml:id="storage">
1141 <title>Storage</title>
1143 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
1144 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
1146 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
1147 <title>General Storage</title>
1149 <para revision="278037" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
1150 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten,
1151 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms
1152 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para>
1154 <para revision="278354" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
1155 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
1156 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
1158 <para revision="275681" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
1159 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
1160 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which
1161 allows automatically mounting removable media, such as
1162 <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash
1165 <para revision="279955" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
1166 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
1167 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which
1168 handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to
1169 <literal>noauto</literal>.</para>
1172 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
1173 <title>Networked Storage</title>
1175 <para revision="270096" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The new
1176 filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been added.
1177 The new &man.autofs.5; facility is similar to that found in
1178 other &unix;-like operating systems, such as OS X™
1179 and Solaris™. The &man.autofs.5; facility uses
1180 a &sun;-compatible &man.auto.master.5; configuration file, and
1181 is administered with the &man.automount.8; userland utility,
1182 and the &man.automountd.8; and &man.autounmountd.8;
1186 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
1189 <para revision="275748">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
1190 statistics are now visible through the
1191 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this
1192 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
1193 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
1194 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
1195 &man.sysctl.8;.</para>
1198 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
1199 <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
1201 <para revision="267359">Support for the
1202 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been
1203 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
1205 <para revision="282465">Support for the
1206 <literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>,
1207 and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym>
1208 partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
1212 <sect1 xml:id="boot">
1213 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
1215 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
1216 boot-related changes.</para>
1218 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
1219 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
1221 <para revision="258431" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
1222 memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms
1223 has been disabled by default.</para>
1225 <para revision="262955">A new &man.ttys.5; class,
1226 <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added. This is similar to
1227 the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined
1230 <para revision="274085">The &man.vt.4; driver has been made the
1231 default system console driver. The &man.syscons.4; driver is
1232 still available, and can be enabled by adding
1233 <literal>kern.vty=sc</literal> in &man.loader.conf.5;.
1234 Alternatively, &man.syscons.4; can be enabled at boot time by
1235 entering <literal>set kern.vty=sc</literal> at the
1236 &man.loader.8; prompt.</para>
1238 <para revision="281616">The boot loader has been updated to
1239 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
1240 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add
1241 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
1242 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
1244 <para revision="284683" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
1245 arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been
1246 updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>,
1247 <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by
1248 default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para>
1251 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
1252 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
1258 <sect1 xml:id="network">
1259 <title>Networking</title>
1261 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
1264 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
1265 <title>Network Procols</title>
1267 <para revision="263140">Support for the IPX network transport
1268 protocol has been removed, and will not be supported in
1269 &os; 11 and later releases.</para>
1271 <para revision="272720" contrib="sponsor"
1272 sponsor="&limelight;">Support for <acronym>PLPMTUD</acronym>
1273 blackhole detection (<acronym>RFC</acronym> 4821) has been
1274 added to the &man.tcp.4; stack, disabled by default. New
1275 control tunables have been added:</para>
1277 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
1279 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
1280 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
1283 <entry>Tunable</entry>
1284 <entry>Description</entry>
1290 <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_detection</literal></entry>
1291 <entry>Enables or disables <acronym>PLPMTUD</acronym>
1292 blackhole detection</entry>
1296 <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_mss</literal></entry>
1297 <entry><acronym>MSS</acronym> to try for IPv4</entry>
1301 <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.v6pmtud_blackhole_mss</literal></entry>
1302 <entry><acronym>MSS to try for IPv6</acronym></entry>
1308 <para>New monitoring &man.sysctl.8;s haven been added:</para>
1310 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
1312 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
1313 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
1316 <entry>Tunable</entry>
1317 <entry>Description</entry>
1323 <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_activated</literal></entry>
1324 <entry>Number of times the code was activated to attempt
1325 downshifting the <acronym>MSS</acronym></entry>
1329 <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_min_activated</literal></entry>
1330 <entry>Number of times the blackhole
1331 <acronym>MSS</acronym> was used in an attempt to
1336 <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_failed</literal></entry>
1337 <entry>Number of times that the blackhole failed to
1338 connect after downshifting the
1339 <acronym>MSS</acronym></entry>
1345 <para revision="280971" contrib="sponsor"
1346 sponsor="&netflix;, &nginx;">Support for <acronym>IP</acronym>
1347 identification for atomic datagrams (<acronym>RFC</acronym>
1348 6864) has been added. Support for this feature can be toggled
1349 with the <literal>net.inet.ip.rfc6864</literal>
1350 &man.sysctl.8;, which is enabled by default.</para>
1354 <sect1 xml:id="ports">
1355 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
1357 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports
1358 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
1359 installation tools.</para>
1361 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
1362 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
1367 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
1368 <title>Packaging Changes</title>
1374 <sect1 xml:id="doc">
1375 <title>Documentation</title>
1377 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation
1378 Project sources and toolchain.</para>
1380 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
1381 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
1386 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
1387 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
1393 <sect1 xml:id="releng">
1394 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
1396 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
1397 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para>
1399 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
1400 <title>Integration Changes</title>
1402 <para revision="277458" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
1403 Release Engineering build tools have been updated to include
1404 support for producing virtual machine disk images for various
1405 cloud hosting providers.</para>
1407 <para revision="278926">The Release Engineering build tools have
1408 been updated to use multi-threaded &man.xz.1;. By default,
1409 the number of &man.xz.1; threads is set to the number of cores
1412 <para revision="281802" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
1413 Release Engineering build tools have been updated to include
1414 support for building &os;/&arch.arm64; virtual machine and
1415 memory stick installation images.</para>
1417 <para revision="282693" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
1418 Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support
1419 building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for
1420 supported boards where a corresponding
1421 <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports
1424 <para revision="283307" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
1425 &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now
1426 created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way
1427 the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para>