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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>&nbsp;</para>
 163     </sect2>
 164
 165     <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
 166       <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
 167
 168       <para revision="321092">The &man.ln.1; utility has been updated
 169         to correct the behavior of the <literal>-F</literal> flag by
 170         unlinking an existing directory before creating a symbolic
 171         link.</para>
 172
 173       <para revision="321241">The &man.crontab.1; utility has been
 174         updated to include a new flag, <literal>-f</literal>, which
 175         forces &man.crontab.5; removal when <literal>-r</literal> is
 176         used non-interactively.</para>
 177
 178       <para revision="321262">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been
 179         updated to support <acronym>RFC</acronym>5424-compliant
 180         messages when rotating system logs.</para>
 181
 182       <para revision="321287" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&gandi;">The
 183         &man.sesutil.8; utility has been updated to include
 184         &man.libxo.3; support in output.</para>
 185
 186       <para revision="321927">The &man.diskinfo.8; utility has been
 187         updated to include two new flags, <literal>-s</literal> which
 188         displays the disk identity (usually the serial number), and
 189         <literal>-p</literal> which displays the physical path to the
 190         disk in a storage controller.  The <literal>-s</literal> and
 191         <literal>-p</literal> flags are mutually exclusive, and cannot
 192         be used with any other flags.</para>
 193
 194       <para revision="321929">The &man.diskinfo.8; utility has also
 195         been updated to include device model when the
 196         <literal>-s</literal> flag is used.</para>
 197
 198       <para revision="322919">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated
 199         to properly handle empty secondary group lists as an argument
 200         to the <literal>-G</literal> flag when using the
 201         <literal>usermod</literal> subcommand.</para>
 202
 203       <para revision="324270">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
 204         to reflect realtime and idle priorities in state flags.</para>
 205
 206       <para revision="324271">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
 207         to display if a process is running with &man.capsicum.4;
 208         capability mode, indicated by <literal>C</literal>.</para>
 209
 210       <para revision="324380">The &man.cpucontrol.8; utility has been
 211         updated to include a new flag, <literal>-n</literal>, that
 212         disables the default microcode update search path when
 213         used.</para>
 214
 215       <para revision="325003" contrib="sponsor"
 216         sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.diskinfo.8; utility has been
 217         updated to display disk rotation rate and if
 218         <acronym>TRIM</acronym>/<acronym>UNMAP</acronym> is supported
 219         by the disk.</para>
 220
 221       <para revision="326848">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated
 222         to correct handling of account expiration periods.</para>
 223
 224       <para revision="327871">The &man.cpucontrol.8; utility has been
 225         updated to include a new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, which is
 226         used to re-evaluate reported <acronym>CPU</acronym> features
 227         after applying firmware updates.</para>
 228
 229       <note>
 230         <para>The &man.cpucontrol.8; <literal>-e</literal> flag should
 231           only be used after microcode update have been applied to all
 232           <acronym>CPU</acronym>s in the system, otherwise system
 233           instability may be experienced if processor features are not
 234           identical across the system.</para>
 235       </note>
 236
 237       <para revision="328140">The &man.df.1; utility has been updated
 238         to include the <literal>--si</literal> long option, which is
 239         an alias to <literal>-H</literal>.</para>
 240
 241       <para revision="330694" contrib="sponsor"
 242         sponsor="&dellemc;">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated to
 243         allow the <literal>@</literal> and <literal>!</literal>
 244         characters in the <acronym>GECOS</acronym> field.</para>
 245
 246       <para revision="331471">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
 247         to include a <literal>jail</literal>, which when used will
 248         list the name of a &man.jail.8; instead of the numeric
 249         ID.</para>
 250
 251       <para revision="331586" contrib="sponsor"
 252         sponsor="&mellanox;">The &man.mlx5tool.8; utility has been
 253         added, which is used to manage Connect-X&nbsp;4 and
 254         Connect-X&nbsp;5 devices supported by &man.mlx5io.4;.</para>
 255
 256       <para revision="332126" contrib="sponsor"
 257         sponsor="&netflix;">The &man.efibootmgr.8; utility has been
 258         added, which is used to manipulate the <acronym>EFI</acronym>
 259         boot manager.</para>
 260     </sect2>
 261
 262     <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
 263       <title>Contributed Software</title>
 264
 265       <para revision="321303">The &man.libarchive.3; library has been
 266         updated to version 3.3.2.</para>
 267
 268       <para revision="322172">The &man.libxo.3; library has been
 269         updated to version 0.8.4.</para>
 270
 271       <para revision="322442"><application>Subversion</application>
 272         has been updated to version 1.9.7.</para>
 273
 274       <para revision="328874">The &man.file.1; utility has been
 275         updated to version 5.32.</para>
 276
 277       <para revision="323136"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
 278         been updated to version 7.5p1.</para>
 279
 280       <para revision="324581">The &man.mandoc.1; utility has been
 281         updated to version 1.14.3.</para>
 282
 283       <para revision="327234">The &man.tcpdump.1; utility has been
 284         updated to version 4.9.2.</para>
 285
 286       <para revision="330106">The <acronym>NTP</acronym> utilities
 287         have been updated to version 4.2.8p11.</para>
 288
 289       <para revision="330570">The &man.less.1; utility has been
 290         updated to upstream version v530.</para>
 291
 292       <para revision="331246">The <application>bmake</application>
 293         utility has been updated to upstream version 20180222.</para>
 294
 295       <para revision="331638"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
 296         been updated to version 1.0.2o.</para>
 297
 298       <para revision="331662">Timezone data files have been updated to
 299         version 2018d.</para>
 300
 301       <para revision="331838">The <application>clang</application>,
 302         <application>llvm</application>,
 303         <application>lld</application>,
 304         <application>lldb</application>, and
 305         <application>complier-rt</application> utilities as well as
 306         <literal>libc++</literal> have been updated to upstream
 307         version 6.0.0.</para>
 308     </sect2>
 309
 310     <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
 311       <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
 312
 313       <para revision="322254" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
 314         arch="&arch.arm64;">The &man.bsdinstall.8; installer has been
 315         updated to default to <acronym>UEFI</acronym>-only
 316         boot.</para>
 317     </sect2>
 318
 319     <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
 320       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
 321         Scripts</title>
 322
 323       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 324     </sect2>
 325
 326     <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
 327       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
 328         Scripts</title>
 329
 330       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 331     </sect2>
 332
 333     <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
 334       <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
 335
 336       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 337     </sect2>
 338
 339     <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
 340       <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
 341
 342       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 343     </sect2>
 344
 345     <sect2 xml:id="userland-debug">
 346       <title>Userland Debugging</title>
 347
 348       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 349     </sect2>
 350   </sect1>
 351
 352   <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
 353     <title>Kernel</title>
 354
 355     <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
 356       tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
 357       categorized.</para>
 358
 359     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-general">
 360       <title>General Kernel Changes</title>
 361
 362       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 363     </sect2>
 364
 365     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
 366       <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
 367
 368       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 369     </sect2>
 370
 371     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
 372       <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
 373
 374       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 375     </sect2>
 376
 377     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-modules">
 378       <title>Kernel Modules</title>
 379
 380       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 381     </sect2>
 382
 383     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
 384       <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
 385
 386       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 387     </sect2>
 388   </sect1>
 389
 390   <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
 391     <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
 392
 393     <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
 394       device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
 395
 396     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
 397       <title>Device Drivers</title>
 398
 399       <para revision="331586" contrib="sponsor"
 400         sponsor="&mellanox;">The &man.mlx5io.4; driver has been added,
 401         providing an interface to manage supported Connect-X&nbsp;4
 402         and Connect-X&nbsp;5 network adapters.</para>
 403     </sect2>
 404
 405     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
 406       <title>Storage Drivers</title>
 407
 408       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 409     </sect2>
 410
 411     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
 412       <title>Network Drivers</title>
 413
 414       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 415     </sect2>
 416   </sect1>
 417
 418   <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
 419     <title>Hardware Support</title>
 420
 421     <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
 422       machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
 423       as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
 424       other sections of this document.</para>
 425
 426     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
 427       <title>Hardware Support</title>
 428
 429       <para revision="331500">Support for the TAIO
 430         <acronym>USB</acronym> multi-protocol adapter
 431         (<acronym>TUMPA</acronym>) has been added.</para>
 432     </sect2>
 433
 434     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
 435       <title>Virtualization Support</title>
 436
 437       <para revision="321413">Support for &man.virtio.console.4; has
 438         been added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para>
 439     </sect2>
 440
 441     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
 442       <title>ARM Support</title>
 443
 444       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 445     </sect2>
 446   </sect1>
 447
 448   <sect1 xml:id="storage">
 449     <title>Storage</title>
 450
 451     <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
 452       and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
 453
 454     <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
 455       <title>General Storage</title>
 456
 457       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 458     </sect2>
 459
 460     <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
 461       <title>Networked Storage</title>
 462
 463       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 464     </sect2>
 465
 466     <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
 467       <title>ZFS</title>
 468
 469       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 470     </sect2>
 471
 472     <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
 473       <title><literal>geom(4)</literal></title>
 474
 475       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 476     </sect2>
 477   </sect1>
 478
 479   <sect1 xml:id="boot">
 480     <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 481
 482     <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
 483       boot-related changes.</para>
 484
 485     <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
 486       <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 487
 488       <para revision="329114">The length of <acronym>GELI</acronym>
 489         passphrases entered when booting a system with encrypted disks
 490         is now hidden by default.  See the configuration options in
 491         &man.geli.8; to restore the previous behavior.</para>
 492     </sect2>
 493
 494     <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
 495       <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
 496
 497       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 498     </sect2>
 499   </sect1>
 500
 501   <sect1 xml:id="network">
 502     <title>Networking</title>
 503
 504     <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
 505       &os;.</para>
 506
 507     <sect2 xml:id="network-general">
 508       <title>General Network Changes</title>
 509
 510       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 511     </sect2>
 512
 513     <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
 514       <title>Network Protocols</title>
 515
 516       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 517     </sect2>
 518   </sect1>
 519
 520   <sect1 xml:id="ports">
 521     <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
 522
 523     <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Ports
 524       Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
 525       installation tools.</para>
 526
 527     <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
 528       <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
 529
 530       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 531     </sect2>
 532
 533     <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
 534       <title>Packaging Changes</title>
 535
 536       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 537     </sect2>
 538   </sect1>
 539
 540   <sect1 xml:id="doc">
 541     <title>Documentation</title>
 542
 543     <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Documentation
 544       Project sources and toolchain.</para>
 545
 546     <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
 547       <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
 548
 549       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 550     </sect2>
 551
 552     <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
 553       <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
 554
 555       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 556     </sect2>
 557   </sect1>
 558
 559   <sect1 xml:id="releng">
 560     <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
 561
 562     <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
 563       &os;&nbsp;Release Engineering processes.</para>
 564
 565     <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
 566       <title>Integration Changes</title>
 567
 568       <para revision="326892">Amazon&reg; EC2&trade; instances now
 569         keep their clocks synchronized using the Amazon Time Sync
 570         Service, the <acronym>NTP</acronym> service internal to the
 571         EC2&trade; infrastructure.</para>
 572     </sect2>
 573   </sect1>
 574 </article>