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   8   <info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
   9
  10     <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
  11
  12     <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
  13
  14     <copyright>
  15       <year>2014</year>
  16       <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
  17     </copyright>
  18
  19     <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
  20       &tm-attrib.freebsd;
  21       &tm-attrib.ibm;
  22       &tm-attrib.ieee;
  23       &tm-attrib.intel;
  24       &tm-attrib.sparc;
  25       &tm-attrib.general;
  26     </legalnotice>
  27
  28     <abstract>
  29       <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
  30         of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
  31         &release.branch; development line.
  32         This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
  33         the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
  34         kernel and userland.
  35         Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para>
  36     </abstract>
  37   </info>
  38
  39   <sect1 xml:id="intro">
  40     <title>Introduction</title>
  41
  42     <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
  43       &release.current;.  It describes recently added, changed, or
  44       deleted features of &os;.  It also provides some notes on
  45       upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
  46
  47     <para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
  48       &release.type; distribution.  It can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or any of its mirrors.  More
  49       information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
  50       distributions of &os; can be found in the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
  51       &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</link>.</para>
  52
  53     <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
  54       installing &os;.  The errata document is updated with
  55       <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
  56       release cycle or after the release.  Typically, it contains
  57       information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
  58       documentation.  An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
  59       &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
  60   </sect1>
  61
  62   <sect1 xml:id="new">
  63     <title>What's New</title>
  64
  65     <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
  66       features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
  67
  68     <para>Typical release note items document recent security
  69       advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
  70       support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
  71       contributed software upgrades.  They may also list changes to
  72       major ports/packages or release engineering practices.  Clearly
  73       the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
  74       between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
  75       advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
  76       improvements.</para>
  77
  78     <sect2 xml:id="security">
  79       <title>Security Advisories</title>
  80
  81       <para>Problems described in the following security advisories have
  82         been fixed.  For more information, consult the individual
  83         advisories available from
  84         <uri xlink:href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</uri>.</para>
  85
  86       <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="1">
  87         <tgroup cols="3">
  88           <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
  89           <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
  90           <colspec colwidth="3*"/>
  91           <thead>
  92             <row>
  93               <entry>Advisory</entry>
  94               <entry>Date</entry>
  95               <entry>Topic</entry>
  96             </row>
  97           </thead>
  98
  99           <tbody>
 100             <row>
 101               <entry><link xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:01.bsnmpd.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:01.bsnmpd</link></entry>
 102               <entry>1&nbsp;January&nbsp;2014</entry>
 103               <entry><para>Fix &man.bsnmpd.1; remote denial of service
 104                   vulnerability</para></entry>
 105             </row>
 106
 107             <row>
 108               <entry><link xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd</link></entry>
 109               <entry>1&nbsp;January&nbsp;2014</entry>
 110               <entry><para>Disable <quote>monitor</quote> feature in
 111                   &man.ntpd.8; by default</para></entry>
 112             </row>
 113
 114             <row>
 115               <entry><link xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:04.bind.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:04.bind</link></entry>
 116               <entry>1&nbsp;January&nbsp;2014</entry>
 117               <entry><para>Remote denial of service
 118                   vulnerability</para></entry>
 119             </row>
 120           </tbody>
 121         </tgroup>
 122       </informaltable>
 123     </sect2>
 124
 125     <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
 126       <title>Kernel Changes</title>
 127
 128       <para revision="259466">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
 129         <literal>kern.supported_archs</literal> has been added,
 130         which will list the <envar>MACHINE_ARCH</envar> values
 131         whose binaries can be run on the system.</para>
 132
 133       <para revision="259519">Several problems that could trigger
 134         kernel panic on &man.kldload.8; and &man.kldunload.8; have
 135         been fixed.</para>
 136
 137       <para revision="260082">A kernel panic triggered by some
 138         multi-threaded applications has been fixed.</para>
 139
 140       <para revision="260134">The &man.runfw.4; firmware has been
 141         renamed from <literal>runfw</literal> to
 142         <literal>run.fw</literal> for consistency with other firmware
 143         files.</para>
 144
 145       <para revision="260433">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
 146         <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been
 147         added.  This allows tuning the amount of time the system
 148         will wait before rebooting after &man.panic.9;.  The
 149         <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal> value defaults
 150         to the kernel configuration option,
 151         <literal>PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME</literal>.</para>
 152
 153       <para revision="260644">Hardware Random Number Generators have
 154         been disabled by default.</para>
 155
 156       <para revision="261483">Support for GPS ports has been added
 157         to the &man.uhso.4; driver.</para>
 158
 159       <para revision="262116">A memory leak of compressed buffers
 160         has been fixed in
 161         <literal>l2arc_write_done()</literal>.</para>
 162
 163       <para revision="262153">The &man.netmap.4; framework has been
 164         updated to match the version in <literal>head/</literal>,
 165         which includes netmap pipes, kqueue support, and enhanced
 166         VALE switch port.</para>
 167
 168       <para revision="262175">A deadlock triggered by sending
 169         a mounted &man.zfs.8; snapshot has been fixed.</para>
 170
 171       <para revision="262231">Support for SIIG X1 PCI-e has been added
 172         to &man.ppc.4;.</para>
 173
 174       <para revision="262564">Support for the ext4 filesystem
 175         has been enabled, supporting read-only mounts.</para>
 176
 177       <para revision="262594">A kernel panic triggered by inserting
 178         a USB ethernet device on VIMAGE-enabled systems has been
 179         fixed.</para>
 180
 181       <para revision="262988">TTM, a memory manager used by video
 182         drivers, has been merged.</para>
 183
 184       <para revision="263103">Support for
 185         <literal>/sys/kernel/random/uuid</literal> has been added
 186         to &man.linprocfs.5;.</para>
 187
 188       <para revision="263128">A memory leak in the
 189         <literal>zpool_in_use()</literal> function has been
 190         fixed.</para>
 191
 192       <para revision="263391">The
 193         <literal>extensible_dataset</literal> &man.zpool.8; feature
 194         has been added.  See &man.zpool-features.7; for more
 195         information.</para>
 196
 197       <para revision="263408">A memory leak has been fixed in
 198         <literal>libzfs</literal>.</para>
 199
 200       <sect3 xml:id="boot">
 201         <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 202
 203         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 204
 205       </sect3>
 206
 207       <sect3 xml:id="proc">
 208         <title>Hardware Support</title>
 209
 210         <para revision="261510">Trackpad support for
 211           &apple;&nbsp;MacBook products has been added.</para>
 212
 213         <para revision="261973">The &man.nve.4; driver has been
 214           deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used
 215           instead.</para>
 216
 217         <para revision="262968">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been
 218           updated to support MegaRAID Fury cards.</para>
 219
 220         <para revision="263170,263171">The Radeon KMS driver has been
 221           added.</para>
 222
 223         <para revision="263340">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been
 224           updated to version 3.2.5.</para>
 225
 226         <sect4 xml:id="mm">
 227           <title>Multimedia Support</title>
 228
 229           <para>&nbsp;</para>
 230
 231         </sect4>
 232
 233         <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
 234           <title>Network Interface Support</title>
 235
 236           <para revision="259457">The &man.run.4; driver has been
 237             updated to support MediaTek/Ralink chipsets RT5370 and
 238             RT5372.</para>
 239
 240           <para revision="259460">The &man.usb.4; wireless radiotap
 241             headers have been realigned, allowing wireless adapters
 242             to work on &arch.arm;, &arch.mips;, and other similar
 243             platforms where alignment is important.</para>
 244
 245           <para revision="260119">The &man.run.4; firmware has been
 246             updated to version 0.33.</para>
 247
 248           <para revision="260252">The &man.bxe.4; driver has been
 249             merged from <literal>head/</literal>, providing support
 250             for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb PCIe adapters.</para>
 251
 252           <para revision="261865">The &man.run.4; driver has been
 253             updated to include support for the MediaTek/Ralink RT3593
 254             chipset.</para>
 255
 256           <para revision="261933">The &man.run.4; driver has been
 257             updated to include support for the DLINK DWA-127 wireless
 258             adapter.</para>
 259
 260           <para revision="262153">The &man.axge.4; driver has been
 261             added.</para>
 262
 263           <para revision="262362">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been
 264             imported from OpenBSD.</para>
 265
 266         </sect4>
 267       </sect3>
 268
 269       <sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
 270         <title>Network Protocols</title>
 271
 272         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 273
 274       </sect3>
 275
 276       <sect3 xml:id="disks">
 277         <title>Disks and Storage</title>
 278
 279         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 280
 281       </sect3>
 282
 283       <sect3 xml:id="fs">
 284         <title>File Systems</title>
 285
 286         <para revision="263410">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
 287           updated to support the <literal>bookmarks</literal>
 288           feature.</para>
 289
 290       </sect3>
 291     </sect2>
 292
 293     <sect2 xml:id="userland">
 294       <title>Userland Changes</title>
 295
 296       <para revision="259448">A byte-order bug in the Heimdal
 297         <literal>gss_pseudo_random()</literal> function which would
 298         prevent interoperability with other
 299         <application>Kerberos</application> implementations.
 300         In particular, this would prevent interoperability with the
 301         MIT implementation.</para>
 302
 303       <para revision="260007">The &man.hastctl.8; utility has been
 304         updated to output the current queue sizes.</para>
 305
 306       <para revision="260197">The &man.ps.1; utility will no longer
 307         truncate the <literal>command</literal> output column.</para>
 308
 309       <para revision="260208">The &man.protect.1; command has been
 310         added, which allows exempting processes from being killed
 311         when swap is exhausted.</para>
 312
 313       <para revision="260507">The &man.gmirror.8; utility now prevents
 314         deactivating the last component of a mirror.</para>
 315
 316       <para revision="260507">A new &man.gmirror.8; command,
 317         <command>gmirror destroy</command>, has been added, which will
 318         destroy the &man.geom.8; and erase the &man.gmirror.8;
 319         metadata.</para>
 320
 321       <para revision="260650">The &man.etcupdate.8; utility, a tool
 322         for managing updates to files in <filename
 323           class="directory">/etc</filename>, has been merged from
 324         <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
 325
 326       <para revision="260651">The &man.find.1; utility has been
 327         updated to fix incorrect behavior with the
 328         <literal>-lname</literal> and <literal>-ilname</literal>
 329         flags.</para>
 330
 331       <para revision="260868,260869">The
 332         <literal>hw.uart.console</literal> is now always updated when
 333         the comconsole setup changes.</para>
 334
 335       <para revision="260909">The &man.kldload.8; utility has been
 336         updated to display a message directing to &man.dmesg.8;,
 337         instead of the cryptic message <quote>Exec format
 338           error</quote>.</para>
 339
 340       <para revision="261674">A bug that could trigger an infinite
 341         loop in KDE and X has been fixed.</para>
 342
 343       <para revision="262076">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been
 344         changed to use the size of the file, instead of the blocks the
 345         file takes on the disk to matche the behavior documented in
 346         &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para>
 347
 348       <para revision="262105">A bug in &man.zdb.8; which would cause
 349         numeric parameters to a flag as being treated as additional
 350         flags has been fixed.</para>
 351
 352       <para revision="262124">The default number of &man.nfsd.8;
 353         threads has been increased from <literal>4</literal> to
 354         <literal>(8 * N)</literal>, where <literal>N</literal> is
 355         the number of CPUs as reported by
 356         <command>sysctl -n hw.ncpu</command>.</para>
 357
 358       <para revision="262134">The &man.pciconf.8; utility now has
 359         a <literal>-V</literal> flag, which lists information such
 360         as serial numbers for each device.</para>
 361
 362       <para revision="262158">A bug that would allow creating
 363         a &man.zfs.8; snapshot of an inconsistent dataset has been
 364         fixed.</para>
 365
 366       <para revision="262160">Receiving a &man.zfs.8; dataset with
 367         <command>zfs recv -F</command> now properly destroys any
 368         snapshots that were created since the incremental source
 369         snapshot.</para>
 370
 371       <para revision="263031">Installation from a read-only
 372         <envar>.OBJDIR</envar> has been fixed.</para>
 373
 374       <para revision="263031">A new shared library directory,
 375         <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/private</filename>,
 376         has been added for internal-use shared libraries.</para>
 377
 378       <para revision="263031">A default
 379         <filename>libmap32.conf</filename> has been added, for 32-bit
 380         applications.</para>
 381
 382       <para revision="263032">The <literal>libucl</literal> library
 383         a JSON-compatible configuration file parsing library,has been
 384         imported.</para>
 385
 386       <para revision="263038">The &man.pkg.7; package management
 387         utility has been syncronized with <literal>head/</literal>.
 388         This implements binary package signature verification when
 389         bootstrapping the system with <command>pkg
 390           bootstrap</command>.</para>
 391
 392       <para revision="263042">The system timezone data files have
 393         been updated to version tzdata2014a.</para>
 394
 395       <para revision="263212">The NetBSD &man.make.1; utility,
 396         <command>bmake</command> has been imported for compatibility
 397         with the &os;&nbsp;Ports Collection.  It is installed as
 398         <command>bmake</command>, and the <command>make</command>
 399         remains the &os; version.</para>
 400
 401       <para revision="263326">The &man.fetch.3; library now
 402         supports <literal>Last-Modified</literal> timestamps which
 403         return UTC instead of GMT.</para>
 404
 405       <para revision="263404">Aliases for the &man.zfs.8; commands
 406         <literal>list -t snap</literal> and <literal>snap</literal>
 407         have been added to match &oracle;&nbsp;Solaris 11.</para>
 408
 409       <para revision="263406">A new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, has
 410         been added to the &man.zfs.8; <literal>list</literal> command,
 411         providing output in a parseable form.</para>
 412
 413       <para revision="263421"><application>OpenPAM</application> has
 414         been updated to Nummularia (20130907), which incorporates
 415         several bug fixes and documentation improvements.  The
 416         &man.openpam.ttyconv.3; library has been completely
 417         rewritten.</para>
 418
 419       <sect3 xml:id="periodic-scripts">
 420         <title>&man.periodic.8; Scripts</title>
 421
 422         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 423
 424       </sect3>
 425
 426       <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
 427         <title>&man.rc.8; Scripts</title>
 428
 429         <para revision="260432">The &man.rc.8; system will now
 430           re-source &man.rc.conf.5; on receipt of
 431           <literal>SIGALRM</literal>.</para>
 432
 433       </sect3>
 434     </sect2>
 435
 436     <sect2 xml:id="contrib">
 437       <title>Contributed Software</title>
 438
 439       <para revision="261375"><application>Sendmail</application> has
 440         been updated to version 8.14.8.</para>
 441
 442       <para revision="262706"><application>BIND</application> has
 443         been updated to version 9.9.5.</para>
 444
 445       <para revision="263286">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
 446         to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para>
 447
 448     </sect2>
 449
 450     <sect2 xml:id="releng">
 451       <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
 452
 453       <para revision="260891">As part of the release build, the
 454         &man.etcupdate.8; utility will bootstrap the system, allowing
 455         &man.etcupdate.8; to work after the first upgrade of a
 456         system.</para>
 457
 458       <para revision="262879">The <filename>release.sh</filename>
 459         script and release <filename>Makefile</filename> have been
 460         updated to use &man.pkg.7; to populate the dvd installation
 461         medium.</para>
 462
 463       <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has
 464         been updated to support multiple byte orders.  Similar to
 465         &man.cap.mkdb.1;, the <filename>services.db</filename> will
 466         be created with proper endinanness as part of
 467         cross-architecture release builds.</para>
 468
 469     </sect2>
 470   </sect1>
 471
 472   <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
 473     <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
 474
 475     <sect2>
 476       <title>Upgrading using &man.freebsd-update.8; or a source-based
 477         procedure</title>
 478
 479       <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
 480         (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
 481         using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade
 482         procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well
 483         as an unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel,
 484         distributed as a part of an official &os; release.  The
 485         &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being
 486         upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
 487
 488       <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
 489         base system from source code) from previous versions are
 490         supported using to the instructions in
 491         <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
 492
 493       <para>For more specific information about upgrading
 494         instructions, see <uri xlink:href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.1R/installation.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.1R/installation.html</uri>.</para>
 495
 496       <important>
 497         <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted
 498           after backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and
 499           configuration files.</para>
 500       </important>
 501     </sect2>
 502
 503     <sect2>
 504       <title xml:id="upgrade-pitfalls">User-visible incompatibilities</title>
 505
 506       <para>FreeBSD 9.0 and later have several incompatibilities in
 507         system configuration which you might want to know before
 508         upgrading your system.  <emphasis>Please read this section and
 509         the <link xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#UPGRADE">Upgrading
 510         Section in 9.0-RELEASE Release Notes</link> carefully before
 511         submitting a problem report and/or posting a question to the
 512         FreeBSD mailing lists.</emphasis></para>
 513     </sect2>
 514   </sect1>
 515 </article>