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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: 284813 -->
  26
  27     <copyright>
  28       <year>2015</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;.</para>
  98
  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
 107       improvements.</para>
 108   </sect1>
 109
 110   <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
 111     <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
 112
 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
 120       connectivity.</para>
 121
 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>
 126
 127     <important>
 128       <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after
 129         backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
 130         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="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>
 168     </sect2>
 169
 170     <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
 171       <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
 172
 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>
 177
 178       <para revision="275945">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been
 179         updated to support capability mode provided by
 180         &man.capsicum.4;.</para>
 181
 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>
 185
 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>
 190
 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>
 195
 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
 201         &man.tar.1;.</para>
 202
 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
 206         fixed.</para>
 207
 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>
 212
 213       <para revision="282974" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 214         &man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para>
 215
 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>
 221
 222       <para revision="285092">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated
 223         with a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, that sets the root
 224         directory within which the utility will operate.</para>
 225
 226       <para revision="283258">The &man.date.1; utility has been
 227         updated to print the modification time of the file passed as
 228         an argument to the <literal>-r</literal> flag, improving
 229         compatibility with the <acronym>GNU</acronym> &man.date.1;
 230         utility behavior.</para>
 231     </sect2>
 232
 233     <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
 234       <title>Contributed Software</title>
 235
 236       <para revision="282746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 237         &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version
 238         3.7.0.</para>
 239
 240       <para revision="283270">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated
 241         to the OpenBSD 5.7 version.</para>
 242
 243       <para revision="284398">Timezone data files have been updated to
 244         version 2015e.</para>
 245
 246       <para revision="284460">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been
 247         updated to version 20150515.</para>
 248
 249       <para revision="284778">The &man.file.1; utility has been
 250         updated to version 5.23.</para>
 251
 252       <para revision="285206">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
 253         updated to version 1.5.3.</para>
 254
 255       <para revision="285305">The <application>sendmail</application>
 256         utility has been updated to version 8.15.2.</para>
 257
 258       <para revision="285330"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
 259         been updated to version 1.0.1p.</para>
 260     </sect2>
 261
 262     <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
 263       <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
 264
 265       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 266     </sect2>
 267
 268     <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
 269       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
 270         Scripts</title>
 271
 272       <para revision="284009">A new &man.rc.8; script,
 273         <filename>growfs</filename>, has been added, which will resize
 274         the root filesystem on boot if <filename>/firstboot</filename>
 275         exists.</para>
 276     </sect2>
 277
 278     <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
 279       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
 280         Scripts</title>
 281
 282       <para revision="277520" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
 283         &man.periodic.8; script,
 284         <filename>510.status-world-kernel</filename>, has been added,
 285         which evaluates the running userland and kernel versions from
 286         the &man.uname.1; <literal>-U</literal> and
 287         <literal>-K</literal> arguments, and prints an error if the
 288         system userland and kernel are not in sync.</para>
 289     </sect2>
 290
 291     <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
 292       <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
 293
 294       <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library,
 295         &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para>
 296
 297       <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been
 298         updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on
 299         failure.</para>
 300     </sect2>
 301
 302     <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
 303       <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
 304
 305       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 306     </sect2>
 307   </sect1>
 308
 309   <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
 310     <title>Kernel</title>
 311
 312     <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
 313       tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
 314       categorized.</para>
 315
 316     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
 317       <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
 318
 319       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 320     </sect2>
 321
 322     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
 323       <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
 324
 325       <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor"
 326         sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option,
 327         <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables
 328         multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para>
 329
 330       <note>
 331         <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not
 332           officially supported by &intel;.</para>
 333       </note>
 334     </sect2>
 335
 336     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
 337       <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
 338
 339       <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
 340         and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have
 341         been turned off by default.</para>
 342
 343       <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 344         &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
 345         increased.  The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
 346         the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
 347
 348       <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor"
 349         sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
 350         been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
 351         using seconds precision.  A new &man.sysctl.8;,
 352         <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
 353         when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
 354         timestamps for these operations.</para>
 355
 356       <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
 357         and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
 358         &man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
 359
 360       <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
 361         &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
 362         added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
 363         &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
 364         A new kernel configuration option,
 365         <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
 366
 367       <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 368         <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
 369         <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
 370         default.</para>
 371
 372       <note>
 373         <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
 374           <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
 375           <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
 376           <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
 377           &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
 378       </note>
 379     </sect2>
 380   </sect1>
 381
 382   <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
 383     <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
 384
 385     <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
 386       device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
 387
 388     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
 389       <title>Device Drivers</title>
 390
 391       <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
 392         been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
 393     </sect2>
 394
 395     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
 396       <title>Storage Drivers</title>
 397
 398       <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
 399         updated to version 1.1.1.</para>
 400     </sect2>
 401
 402     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
 403       <title>Network Drivers</title>
 404
 405       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 406     </sect2>
 407   </sect1>
 408
 409   <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
 410     <title>Hardware Support</title>
 411
 412     <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
 413       machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
 414       as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
 415       other sections of this document.</para>
 416
 417     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
 418       <title>Hardware Support</title>
 419
 420       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 421     </sect2>
 422
 423     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
 424       <title>Virtualization Support</title>
 425
 426       <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
 427         updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for
 428         virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para>
 429
 430       <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
 431         Hyper-V&trade; drivers have been updated with several
 432         enhancements:</para>
 433
 434       <itemizedlist>
 435         <listitem>
 436           <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel
 437             support.</para>
 438         </listitem>
 439
 440         <listitem>
 441           <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather
 442             support, in addition to performance improvements.</para>
 443         </listitem>
 444
 445         <listitem>
 446           <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug
 447             fixes.</para>
 448         </listitem>
 449       </itemizedlist>
 450
 451       <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
 452         &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum
 453         offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para>
 454     </sect2>
 455
 456     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
 457       <title>ARM Support</title>
 458
 459       <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
 460         driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
 461         frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
 462         <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
 463     </sect2>
 464   </sect1>
 465
 466   <sect1 xml:id="storage">
 467     <title>Storage</title>
 468
 469     <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
 470       and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
 471
 472     <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
 473       <title>General Storage</title>
 474
 475       <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 476         &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten,
 477         replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms
 478         with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para>
 479
 480       <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 481         &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
 482         non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
 483
 484       <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 485         &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
 486         &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which
 487         allows automatically mounting removable media, such as
 488         <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash
 489         drives.</para>
 490
 491       <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 492         &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
 493         &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which
 494         handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to
 495         <literal>noauto</literal>.</para>
 496     </sect2>
 497
 498     <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
 499       <title>Networked Storage</title>
 500
 501       <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 502         &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for
 503         registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on
 504         <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers.  This provides a mechanism
 505         which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find
 506         targets and portals without requiring active
 507         discovery.</para>
 508     </sect2>
 509
 510     <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
 511       <title>ZFS</title>
 512
 513       <para revision="275490">A new tunable,
 514         <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added,
 515         which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para>
 516
 517       <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
 518         statistics are now visible through the
 519         <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;.  As a result of this
 520         change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
 521         &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
 522         <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
 523         &man.sysctl.8;.</para>
 524     </sect2>
 525
 526     <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
 527       <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
 528
 529       <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 530         &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
 531         limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
 532         and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
 533         to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
 534     </sect2>
 535   </sect1>
 536
 537   <sect1 xml:id="boot">
 538     <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 539
 540     <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
 541       boot-related changes.</para>
 542
 543     <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
 544       <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 545
 546       <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to
 547         support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
 548         loading the kernel.  To enable this behavior, add
 549         <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
 550         &man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
 551
 552       <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 553         memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms
 554         has been disabled by default.</para>
 555
 556       <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class,
 557         <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added.  This is similar to
 558         the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined
 559         baudrate.</para>
 560
 561       <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
 562         arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been
 563         updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>,
 564         <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by
 565         default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para>
 566     </sect2>
 567
 568     <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
 569       <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
 570
 571       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 572     </sect2>
 573   </sect1>
 574
 575   <sect1 xml:id="network">
 576     <title>Networking</title>
 577
 578     <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
 579       &os;.</para>
 580
 581     <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
 582       <title>Network Procols</title>
 583
 584       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 585     </sect2>
 586   </sect1>
 587
 588   <sect1 xml:id="ports">
 589     <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
 590
 591     <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Ports
 592       Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
 593       installation tools.</para>
 594
 595     <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
 596       <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
 597
 598       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 599     </sect2>
 600
 601     <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
 602       <title>Packaging Changes</title>
 603
 604       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 605     </sect2>
 606   </sect1>
 607
 608   <sect1 xml:id="doc">
 609     <title>Documentation</title>
 610
 611     <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Documentation
 612       Project sources and toolchain.</para>
 613
 614     <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
 615       <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
 616
 617       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 618     </sect2>
 619
 620     <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
 621       <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
 622
 623       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 624     </sect2>
 625   </sect1>
 626
 627   <sect1 xml:id="releng">
 628     <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
 629
 630     <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
 631       &os;&nbsp;Release Engineering processes.</para>
 632
 633     <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
 634       <title>Integration Changes</title>
 635
 636       <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 637         Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support
 638         building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for
 639         supported boards where a corresponding
 640         <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports
 641         Collection.</para>
 642
 643       <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 644         &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now
 645         created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way
 646         the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para>
 647     </sect2>
 648   </sect1>
 649 </article>