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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: 284813 -->
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;.</para>
99 <para>Typical release note items document recent security
100 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
101 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
102 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to
103 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly
104 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
105 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
106 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
110 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
111 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
113 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
114 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
115 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade
116 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
117 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as
118 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8;
119 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
122 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
123 base system from source code) from previous versions are
124 supported, according to the instructions in
125 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
128 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after
129 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
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="276991">The &man.termcap.5; file is installed
163 as-is from sources, instead of reordering, creating
164 <filename>/etc/termcap.db</filename> by default, providing
165 a performance improvements to applications that use the
166 &man.termcap.5; database, such as &man.vi.1; and
167 &man.ncurses.3;.</para>
170 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
171 <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
173 <para revision="275040">A new utility, &man.dpv.1;, has been
174 added to the base system, providing a &man.dialog.1;-style
175 progress view from one or more input streams. A corresponding
176 library, &man.dpv.3;, has also been added.</para>
178 <para revision="275945">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been
179 updated to support capability mode provided by
180 &man.capsicum.4;.</para>
182 <para revision="277434" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
183 &man.fstyp.8; utility has been added, which is used to
184 determine the filesystem on a specified device.</para>
186 <para revision="281044">A regression in the &man.libarchive.3;
187 library that would prevent a directory from being included in
188 the archive when <literal>--one-file-system</literal> is used
189 has been fixed.</para>
191 <para revision="281161" contrib="sponsor"
192 sponsor="&limelight;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, has
193 been added to the &man.netstat.8; utility, which is used to
194 dump <acronym>RSS</acronym>/flow information.</para>
196 <para revision="281936" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
197 &man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set
198 <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS</literal> and
199 <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT</literal> to disallow
200 directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to
203 <para revision="282278">A race condition in &man.wc.1; that
204 would cause final results to be sent to &man.stderr.4; when
205 receiving the <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal has been
208 <para revision="282870" contrib="sponsor"
209 sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has
210 been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when
211 a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed.</para>
213 <para revision="282974" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
214 &man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para>
216 <para revision="283875" contrib="sponsor"
217 sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.chflags.1;, &man.chgrp.1;,
218 &man.chmod.1;, and &man.chown.8; utilities now affect symbolic
219 links when the <literal>-R</literal> flag is specified, as
220 documented in &man.symlink.7;.</para>
223 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
224 <title>Contributed Software</title>
226 <para revision="277592"><application>file</application> has been
227 updated to version 5.22.</para>
229 <para revision="282746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
230 &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version
233 <para revision="284330"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
234 been updated to version 1.0.1o.</para>
236 <para revision="284460">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been
237 updated to version 20150515.</para>
239 <para revision="284778">The &man.file.1; utility has been
240 updated to version 5.23.</para>
243 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
244 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
249 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
250 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
256 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
257 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
263 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
264 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
266 <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library,
267 &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para>
269 <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been
270 updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on
274 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
275 <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
281 <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
282 <title>Kernel</title>
284 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
285 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
288 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
289 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
294 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
295 <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
297 <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor"
298 sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option,
299 <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables
300 multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para>
303 <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not
304 officially supported by &intel;.</para>
308 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
309 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
311 <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
312 and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have
313 been turned off by default.</para>
315 <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
316 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
317 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
318 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
320 <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor"
321 sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
322 been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
323 using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;,
324 <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
325 when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
326 timestamps for these operations.</para>
328 <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
329 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
330 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
332 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
333 &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
334 added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
335 &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
336 A new kernel configuration option,
337 <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
339 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
340 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
341 <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
345 <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
346 <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
347 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
348 <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
349 &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
354 <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
355 <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
357 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
358 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
360 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
361 <title>Device Drivers</title>
363 <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
364 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
367 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
368 <title>Storage Drivers</title>
370 <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
371 updated to version 1.1.1.</para>
374 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
375 <title>Network Drivers</title>
381 <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
382 <title>Hardware Support</title>
384 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
385 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
386 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
387 other sections of this document.</para>
389 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
390 <title>Hardware Support</title>
395 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
396 <title>Virtualization Support</title>
398 <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
399 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for
400 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para>
402 <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
403 Hyper-V™ drivers have been updated with several
408 <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel
413 <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather
414 support, in addition to performance improvements.</para>
418 <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug
424 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
425 <title>ARM Support</title>
427 <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
428 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
429 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
430 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
434 <sect1 xml:id="storage">
435 <title>Storage</title>
437 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
438 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
440 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
441 <title>General Storage</title>
443 <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
444 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten,
445 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms
446 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para>
448 <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
449 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
450 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
452 <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
453 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
454 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which
455 allows automatically mounting removable media, such as
456 <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash
459 <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
460 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
461 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which
462 handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to
463 <literal>noauto</literal>.</para>
466 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
467 <title>Networked Storage</title>
469 <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
470 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for
471 registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on
472 <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism
473 which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find
474 targets and portals without requiring active
478 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
481 <para revision="275490">A new tunable,
482 <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added,
483 which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para>
485 <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
486 statistics are now visible through the
487 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this
488 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
489 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
490 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
491 &man.sysctl.8;.</para>
494 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
495 <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
497 <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
498 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
499 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
500 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
501 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
505 <sect1 xml:id="boot">
506 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
508 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
509 boot-related changes.</para>
511 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
512 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
514 <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to
515 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
516 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add
517 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
518 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
520 <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
521 memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms
522 has been disabled by default.</para>
525 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
526 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
532 <sect1 xml:id="network">
533 <title>Networking</title>
535 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
538 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
539 <title>Network Procols</title>
545 <sect1 xml:id="ports">
546 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
548 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports
549 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
550 installation tools.</para>
552 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
553 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
558 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
559 <title>Packaging Changes</title>
566 <title>Documentation</title>
568 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation
569 Project sources and toolchain.</para>
571 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
572 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
577 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
578 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
584 <sect1 xml:id="releng">
585 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
587 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
588 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para>
590 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
591 <title>Integration Changes</title>