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16   <info>
17     <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
18
19     <author>
20       <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
21     </author>
22
23     <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
24
25     <!-- Last rev: 288943 -->
26
27     <copyright>
28       <year>2017</year>
29       <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
30         Project</holder>
31     </copyright>
32
33     <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
34       &tm-attrib.freebsd;
35       &tm-attrib.ibm;
36       &tm-attrib.ieee;
37       &tm-attrib.intel;
38       &tm-attrib.sparc;
39       &tm-attrib.general;
40     </legalnotice>
41
42     <abstract>
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
49         presented.</para>
50     </abstract>
51   </info>
52
53   <sect1 xml:id="intro">
54     <title>Introduction</title>
55
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>
60
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
66       found at <uri
67         xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
68
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
74       found at <uri
75         xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
76
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
82       <link
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>
87
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>
95
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>
100
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
109       improvements.</para>
110   </sect1>
111
112   <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
113     <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
114
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>
122
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>
127
128     <important>
129       <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after backing up
130         <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration files.</para>
131     </important>
132   </sect1>
133
134   <sect1 xml:id="security-errata">
135     <title>Security and Errata</title>
136
137     <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and
138       Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para>
139
140     <sect2 xml:id="security">
141       <title>Security Advisories</title>
142
143       &security;
144     </sect2>
145
146     <sect2 xml:id="errata">
147       <title>Errata Notices</title>
148
149       &errata;
150     </sect2>
151   </sect1>
152
153   <sect1 xml:id="userland">
154     <title>Userland</title>
155
156     <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland
157       applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para>
158
159     <sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
160       <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
161
162       <para revision="313203">The &man.inetd.8; utility can now be
163         built without <literal>libwrap</literal> support when
164         <literal>WITHOUT_TCP_WRAPPERS</literal> is set in
165         &man.src.conf.5;.</para>
166
167       <para revision="316045">The &man.libthr.3; library and related
168         files are now evaluated and removed by the
169         <literal>delete-old-libs</literal> target when upgrading the
170         system if <literal>WITHOUT_LIBTHR</literal> is
171         set in &man.src.conf.5;.</para>
172
173       <para revision="316423" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
174         <literal>WITH_LLD_AS_LD</literal> build knob has been added,
175         which installs <application>LLD</application> as
176         <filename>/usr/bin/ld</filename> if set.</para>
177     </sect2>
178
179     <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
180       <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
181
182       <para revision="308720" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&gandi;">The
183         &man.cron.8; utility has been updated to add support for
184         including files within <filename
185           class="directory">/etc/cron.d</filename> and <filename
186           class="directory">/usr/local/etc/cron.d</filename> by
187         default.</para>
188
189       <para revision="308721" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&gandi;">The
190         &man.syslogd.8; utility has been updated to add the
191         <literal>include</literal> keyword which allows specifying
192         a directory containing configuration files to be included in
193         addition to &man.syslogd.8;.  The default &man.syslogd.8; has
194         been updated to include <filename
195           class="directory">/etc/syslog.d</filename> and <filename
196           class="directory">/usr/local/etc/syslog.d</filename> by
197         default.</para>
198
199       <para revision="315514" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
200         &man.setkey.8; utility has been modified to show the runtime
201         <acronym>NAT-T</acronym> configuration.  The
202         <literal>-g</literal> and <literal>-t</literal> flags have
203         been added, which list only global and virtual policies,
204         respectively when used with the <literal>-D</literal> and
205         <literal>-P</literal> flags.</para>
206
207       <para revision="316098" contrib="sponsor"
208         sponsor="&dellemc;">The &man.getaddrinfo.1; utility has been
209         added, ported from NetBSD.</para>
210
211       <para revision="316944" contrib="sponsor"
212         sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.jail.8; utility has been
213         updated to allow explicitly-assigned <acronym>IPv4</acronym>
214         and <acronym>IPv6</acronym> addresses to be used within
215         a jail.</para>
216
217       <para revision="317855">The &man.daemon.8; utility has been
218         updated to allow redirecting &man.stdout.4; and &man.stderr.4;
219         output to &man.syslog.3; and to a file.</para>
220     </sect2>
221
222     <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
223       <title>Contributed Software</title>
224
225       <para revision="307729">&man.unbound.8; has been updated to
226         version 1.5.10.</para>
227
228       <para revision="309511"><application>Subversion</application>
229         has been updated to version 1.9.5.</para>
230
231       <para revision="309847">&man.file.1; has been updated to version
232         5.29.</para>
233
234       <para revision="310490">The &man.amd.8; utility has been updated
235         to version 6.2.</para>
236
237       <para revision="312336">The <acronym>CLDR</acronym> locales have
238         been updated to version 30.0.3.  The unicode locales have been
239         updated to version 9.0.0.</para>
240
241       <para revision="312517">&man.xz.1; has been updated to version
242         5.2.3.</para>
243
244       <para revision="313537">&man.tcpdump.1; has been updated to
245         version 4.9.0.</para>
246
247       <para revision="313795">&man.zlib.3; has been updated to version
248         1.2.11.</para>
249
250       <para revision="313980"><application>openresolv</application>
251         has been updated to version 3.9.0.</para>
252
253       <para revision="313680">The NetBSD test suite has been updated
254         to the 01.11.2017_23.20 snapshot.</para>
255
256       <para revision="314278"><literal>libucl</literal> has been
257         updated to version 20170219.</para>
258
259       <para revision="315432">&man.libarchive.3; has been updated to
260         version 3.3.1.</para>
261
262       <para revision="315995">&man.dma.8; has been updated to the
263         2017-02-10 snapshot.</para>
264
265       <para revision="316068">&man.ntpd.8; has been updated to version
266         4.2.8p10.</para>
267
268       <para revision="316303"><application>ACPICA</application> has
269         been updated to version 20170303.</para>
270
271       <para revision="316349">Timezone data files have been updated to
272         version 2017b.</para>
273
274       <para revision="316420">&man.mandoc.1; has been updated to
275         version 1.14.</para>
276
277       <para revision="316423"><application>Clang</application> has
278         been updated to version 4.0.0.</para>
279
280       <para revision="316423"><application>LLVM</application> has
281         been updated to version 4.0.0.</para>
282
283       <para revision="316423"><application>LLD</application> has
284         been updated to version 4.0.0.</para>
285
286       <para revision="316423"><application>LLDB</application> has
287         been updated to version 4.0.0.</para>
288
289       <para revision="316423"><application>compiler-rt</application>
290         has been updated to version 4.0.0.</para>
291
292       <para revision="316423"><application>libc++</application> has
293         been updated to version 4.0.0.</para>
294
295       <para revision="316957">&man.tcsh.1; has been updated to version
296         6.20.00.</para>
297     </sect2>
298
299     <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
300       <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
301
302       <para>&nbsp;</para>
303     </sect2>
304
305     <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
306       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
307         Scripts</title>
308
309       <para>&nbsp;</para>
310     </sect2>
311
312     <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
313       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
314         Scripts</title>
315
316       <para revision="317857">The <filename>410.status-mfi</filename>
317         &man.periodic.8; script has been added to monitor the status
318         of &man.mfi.4; volumes.</para>
319     </sect2>
320
321     <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
322       <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
323
324       <para revision="317618" contrib="sponsor"
325         sponsor="&dellemc;">The <function>clock_nanosleep()</function>
326         system call has been added.  The
327         <function>nanosleep()</function> system call is now a wrapper
328         around <function>clock_nanosleep()</function>.</para>
329     </sect2>
330
331     <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
332       <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
333
334       <para revision="315274" contrib="sponsor"
335         sponsor="&dellemc;">The
336         <function>sem_clockwait_np()</function> library function has
337         been added, which allows the caller to specify the reference
338         clock and choose between absolute and relative mode.</para>
339
340       <para revision="315282">The <application>clang</application>
341         <literal>nullability</literal> attribute has been added to the
342         <literal>C</literal> library headers.</para>
343     </sect2>
344   </sect1>
345
346   <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
347     <title>Kernel</title>
348
349     <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
350       tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
351       categorized.</para>
352
353     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
354       <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
355
356       <para revision="316039">The &man.kvm.close.3; function has been
357         updated to return the accumulated error from previous
358         &man.close.2; calls.</para>
359
360       <para revision="317434">The &man.ipf.4; packet filter has been
361         updated to prevent &quot;keep state&quot; from incorrectly
362         implying &quot;keep frags&quot;, matching the behavior
363         documented in &man.ipf.5;.</para>
364     </sect2>
365
366     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
367       <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
368
369       <para revision="315514" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
370         <literal>IPSEC_NAT_T</literal> kernel configuration option has
371         been removed.  Support for <acronym>NAT-T</acronym> is now
372         enabled by default.</para>
373
374       <para revision="315514" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
375         <literal>IPSEC_FILTERTUNNEL</literal> kernel option has been
376         removed, which was deprecated by the
377         <literal>net.inet.ipsec.filtertunnel</literal> sysctl.</para>
378     </sect2>
379
380     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-modules">
381       <title>Kernel Modules</title>
382
383       <para revision="315514" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
384         <literal>ipsec</literal> and <literal>tcpmd5</literal> kernel
385         modules have been added.</para>
386
387       <para revision="316274" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
388         &man.ipfw.4; packet filter has been updated to add support for
389         named dynamic states.</para>
390
391       <para revision="316444" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
392         <literal>ipfw_nptv6</literal> kernel module has been added,
393         implementing Network Prefix Translation for
394         <acronym>IPv6</acronym> as defined in <acronym>RFC</acronym>
395         6296.</para>
396
397       <para revision="316446" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
398         <literal>ipfw_nat64</literal> kernel module has been added,
399         implementing stateless and stateful
400         <acronym>NAT64</acronym>.</para>
401
402       <para revision="316660" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
403         &man.cfumass.4; device has been added, providing a storage
404         frontend to <acronym>USB</acronym>
405         <acronym>OTG</acronym>-capable hardware.</para>
406
407       <para revision="317045" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
408         <literal>ipfw_pmod</literal> kernel module has been added,
409         designed for modifying packets of any protocol.</para>
410
411       <note>
412         <para>At present, only <acronym>TCP</acronym>
413           <acronym>MSS</acronym> modification is implemented.</para>
414       </note>
415     </sect2>
416
417     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
418       <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
419
420       <para revision="315539">The
421         <literal>vfs.root_mount_always_wait</literal> tunable has been
422         added, which forces the kernel to wait for root mount holds
423         even if the root device is already present.</para>
424
425       <para revision="316120" contrib="sponsor"
426         sponsor="&dellemc;">When the system real time clock
427         (<acronym>RTC</acronym>) is adjusted, such as by
428         <function>clock_settime()</function>, sleeping threads are now
429         awakened and absolute sleep times are reevaluated based on the
430         new value of the RTC.</para>
431     </sect2>
432   </sect1>
433
434   <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
435     <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
436
437     <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
438       device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
439
440     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
441       <title>Device Drivers</title>
442
443       <para revision="308104">The &man.chromebook.platform.4; driver
444         has been added, providing support for various Chromebook
445         models.</para>
446     </sect2>
447
448     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
449       <title>Storage Drivers</title>
450
451       <para>&nbsp;</para>
452     </sect2>
453
454     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
455       <title>Network Drivers</title>
456
457       <para revision="309377" contrib="sponsor"
458         sponsor="&broadcom;">The &man.bnxt.4; driver has been added,
459         providing support for Broadcom&reg; NetXtreme-C&trade; and
460         NetXtreme-E&trade; devices.</para>
461
462       <para revision="317116">The &man.qlnxe.4; driver has been added,
463         providing support for Cavium&reg; Qlogic&trade; 45000 Series
464         adapters.</para>
465
466       <para revision="317182">The &man.qlxgbe.4; firmware has been
467         updated to version 5.4.64.</para>
468     </sect2>
469   </sect1>
470
471   <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
472     <title>Hardware Support</title>
473
474     <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
475       machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
476       as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
477       other sections of this document.</para>
478
479     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
480       <title>Hardware Support</title>
481
482       <para>&nbsp;</para>
483     </sect2>
484
485     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
486       <title>Virtualization Support</title>
487
488       <para>&nbsp;</para>
489     </sect2>
490
491     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
492       <title>ARM Support</title>
493
494       <para revision="305436">Support for the Allwinner A13 board has
495         been added.</para>
496     </sect2>
497   </sect1>
498
499   <sect1 xml:id="storage">
500     <title>Storage</title>
501
502     <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
503       and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
504
505     <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
506       <title>General Storage</title>
507
508       <para>&nbsp;</para>
509     </sect2>
510
511     <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
512       <title>Networked Storage</title>
513
514       <para>&nbsp;</para>
515     </sect2>
516
517     <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
518       <title>ZFS</title>
519
520       <para>&nbsp;</para>
521     </sect2>
522
523     <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
524       <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
525
526       <para>&nbsp;</para>
527     </sect2>
528   </sect1>
529
530   <sect1 xml:id="boot">
531     <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
532
533     <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
534       boot-related changes.</para>
535
536     <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
537       <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
538
539       <para revision="307632" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&gandi;">The
540         <acronym>EFI</acronym> loader has been updated to support
541         <acronym>TFTPFS</acronym>, providing netboot support without
542         requiring an <acronym>NFS</acronym> server.</para>
543     </sect2>
544
545     <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
546       <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
547
548       <para>&nbsp;</para>
549     </sect2>
550   </sect1>
551
552   <sect1 xml:id="network">
553     <title>Networking</title>
554
555     <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
556       &os;.</para>
557
558     <sect2 xml:id="network-general">
559       <title>General Network Changes</title>
560
561       <para revision="311681" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
562         network stack has been updated to include
563         <function>ip6_tryforward()</function>, providing performance
564         benefits as result of a reduced number of checks.</para>
565
566       <para revision="313523" contrib="sponsor"
567         sponsor="&dellemc;">The network stack has been modified to fix
568         incorrect or invalid <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses if
569         multiple threads emit a <acronym>UDP</acronym>
570         <literal>log_in_vein</literal> message concurrently.</para>
571
572       <para revision="317386" contrib="sponsor"
573         sponsor="&multiplay;">The <acronym>TCP</acronym> stack has
574         been changed to use the estimated <acronym>RTT</acronym>
575         instead of timestamps for receive buffer auto resizing.</para>
576     </sect2>
577
578     <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
579       <title>Network Protocols</title>
580
581       <para revision="309337" contrib="sponsor"
582         sponsor="&dellemc;">Support for <acronym>GARP</acronym>
583         retransmit has been added.  A new &man.sysctl.8;,
584         <literal>net.link.ether.inet.garp_rexmit_count</literal>, has
585         been added, which sets the maximum number of retransmissions
586         when set to a non-zero value.</para>
587
588       <para revision="315514" contrib="sponsor"
589         sponsor="&yandex;">Support for the
590         <literal>UDP_ENCAP_ESPINUDP_NON_IKE</literal> encapsulation
591         type has been removed.</para>
592     </sect2>
593   </sect1>
594
595   <sect1 xml:id="ports">
596     <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
597
598     <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Ports
599       Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
600       installation tools.</para>
601
602     <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
603       <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
604
605       <para>&nbsp;</para>
606     </sect2>
607
608     <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
609       <title>Packaging Changes</title>
610
611       <para>&nbsp;</para>
612     </sect2>
613   </sect1>
614
615   <sect1 xml:id="doc">
616     <title>Documentation</title>
617
618     <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Documentation
619       Project sources and toolchain.</para>
620
621     <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
622       <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
623
624       <para>&nbsp;</para>
625     </sect2>
626
627     <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
628       <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
629
630       <para>&nbsp;</para>
631     </sect2>
632   </sect1>
633
634   <sect1 xml:id="releng">
635     <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
636
637     <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
638       &os;&nbsp;Release Engineering processes.</para>
639
640     <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
641       <title>Integration Changes</title>
642
643       <para>&nbsp;</para>
644     </sect2>
645   </sect1>
646 </article>