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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-12:01.openssl.asc">SA-12:01.openssl</link></entry>
 102               <entry>3&nbsp;May&nbsp;2012</entry>
 103               <entry><para>OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities</para></entry>
 104             </row>
 105
 106             <row>
 107               <entry><link xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:02.crypt.asc">SA-12:02.crypt</link></entry>
 108               <entry>30&nbsp;May&nbsp;2012</entry>
 109               <entry><para>Incorrect <function>crypt()</function> hashing</para></entry>
 110             </row>
 111
 112             <row>
 113               <entry><link xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:03.bind.asc">SA-12:03.bind</link></entry>
 114               <entry>12&nbsp;June&nbsp;2012</entry>
 115               <entry><para>Incorrect handling of zero-length RDATA fields in &man.named.8;</para></entry>
 116             </row>
 117
 118             <row>
 119               <entry><link xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret.asc">SA-12:04.sysret</link></entry>
 120               <entry>12&nbsp;June&nbsp;2012</entry>
 121               <entry><para>Privilege escalation when returning from kernel</para></entry>
 122             </row>
 123
 124             <row>
 125               <entry><link xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:05.bind.asc">SA-12:05.bind</link></entry>
 126               <entry>6&nbsp;August&nbsp;2012</entry>
 127               <entry><para>&man.named.8; DNSSEC validation Denial of Service</para></entry>
 128             </row>
 129
 130             <row>
 131               <entry><link xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:06.bind.asc">SA-12:06.bind</link></entry>
 132               <entry>22&nbsp;November&nbsp;2012</entry>
 133               <entry><para>Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with &man.named.8;</para></entry>
 134             </row>
 135
 136             <row>
 137               <entry><link xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:07.hostapd.asc">SA-12:07.hostapd</link></entry>
 138               <entry>22&nbsp;November&nbsp;2012</entry>
 139               <entry><para>Insufficient message length validation for EAP-TLS messages</para></entry>
 140             </row>
 141
 142             <row>
 143               <entry><link xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:08.linux.asc">SA-12:08.linux</link></entry>
 144               <entry>22&nbsp;November&nbsp;2012</entry>
 145               <entry><para>Linux compatibility layer input validation error</para></entry>
 146             </row>
 147           </tbody>
 148         </tgroup>
 149       </informaltable>
 150     </sect2>
 151
 152     <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
 153       <title>Kernel Changes</title>
 154
 155       <para revision="262988">TTM, a memory manager used by video
 156         drivers, has been merged.</para>
 157
 158       <para revision="263103">Support for
 159         <literal>/sys/kernel/random/uuid</literal> has been added
 160         to &man.linprocfs.5;.</para>
 161
 162       <para revision="263128">A memory leak in the
 163         <literal>zpool_in_use()</literal> function has been
 164         fixed.</para>
 165
 166       <para revision="263391">The
 167         <literal>extensible_dataset</literal> &man.zpool.8; feature
 168         has been added.  See &man.zpool-features.7; for more
 169         information.</para>
 170
 171       <para revision="263408">A memory leak has been fixed in
 172         <literal>libzfs</literal>.</para>
 173
 174       <sect3 xml:id="boot">
 175         <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 176
 177         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 178
 179       </sect3>
 180
 181       <sect3 xml:id="proc">
 182         <title>Hardware Support</title>
 183
 184         <para revision="262968">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been
 185           updated to support MegaRAID Fury cards.</para>
 186
 187         <para revision="263170,263171">The Radeon KMS driver has been
 188           added.</para>
 189
 190         <para revision="263340">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been
 191           updated to version 3.2.5.</para>
 192
 193         <sect4 xml:id="mm">
 194           <title>Multimedia Support</title>
 195
 196           <para>&nbsp;</para>
 197
 198         </sect4>
 199
 200         <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
 201           <title>Network Interface Support</title>
 202
 203           <para>&nbsp;</para>
 204
 205         </sect4>
 206       </sect3>
 207
 208       <sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
 209         <title>Network Protocols</title>
 210
 211         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 212
 213       </sect3>
 214
 215       <sect3 xml:id="disks">
 216         <title>Disks and Storage</title>
 217
 218         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 219
 220       </sect3>
 221
 222       <sect3 xml:id="fs">
 223         <title>File Systems</title>
 224
 225         <para revision="263410">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
 226           updated to support the <literal>bookmarks</literal>
 227           feature.</para>
 228
 229       </sect3>
 230     </sect2>
 231
 232     <sect2 xml:id="userland">
 233       <title>Userland Changes</title>
 234
 235       <para revision="262706"><application>BIND</application> has
 236         been updated to version 9.9.5.</para>
 237
 238       <para revision="263031">Installation from a read-only
 239         <envar>.OBJDIR</envar> has been fixed.</para>
 240
 241       <para revision="263031">A new shared library directory,
 242         <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/private</filename>,
 243         has been added for internal-use shared libraries.</para>
 244
 245       <para revision="263031">A default
 246         <filename>libmap32.conf</filename> has been added, for 32-bit
 247         applications.</para>
 248
 249       <para revision="263032">The <literal>libucl</literal> library
 250         a JSON-compatible configuration file parsing library,has been
 251         imported.</para>
 252
 253       <para revision="263038">The &man.pkg.7; package management
 254         utility has been syncronized with <literal>head/</literal>.
 255         This implements binary package signature verification when
 256         bootstrapping the system with <command>pkg
 257           bootstrap</command>.</para>
 258
 259       <para revision="263042">The system timezone data files have
 260         been updated to version tzdata2014a.</para>
 261
 262       <para revision="263212">The NetBSD &man.make.1; utility,
 263         <command>bmake</command> has been imported for compatibility
 264         with the &os;&nbsp;Ports Collection.  It is installed as
 265         <command>bmake</command>, and the <command>make</command>
 266         remains the &os; version.</para>
 267
 268       <para revision="263286">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
 269         to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para>
 270
 271       <para revision="263326">The &man.fetch.3; library now
 272         supports <literal>Last-Modified</literal> timestamps which
 273         return UTC instead of GMT.</para>
 274
 275       <para revision="263404">Aliases for the &man.zfs.8; commands
 276         <literal>list -t snap</literal> and <literal>snap</literal>
 277         have been added to match &oracle;&nbsp;Solaris 11.</para>
 278
 279       <para revision="263406">A new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, has
 280         been added to the &man.zfs.8; <literal>list</literal> command,
 281         providing output in a parseable form.</para>
 282
 283       <para revision="263421"><application>OpenPAM</application> has
 284         been updated to Nummularia (20130907), which incorporates
 285         several bug fixes and documentation improvements.  The
 286         &man.openpam.ttyconv.3; library has been completely
 287         rewritten.</para>
 288
 289       <sect3 xml:id="periodic-scripts">
 290         <title>&man.periodic.8; Scripts</title>
 291
 292         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 293
 294       </sect3>
 295
 296       <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
 297         <title>&man.rc.8; Scripts</title>
 298
 299         <para>&nbsp;</para>
 300
 301       </sect3>
 302     </sect2>
 303
 304     <sect2 xml:id="contrib">
 305       <title>Contributed Software</title>
 306
 307       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 308
 309     </sect2>
 310
 311     <sect2 xml:id="releng">
 312       <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
 313
 314       <para revision="262879">The <filename>release.sh</filename>
 315         script and release <filename>Makefile</filename> have been
 316         updated to use &man.pkg.7; to populate the dvd installation
 317         medium.</para>
 318
 319       <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has
 320         been updated to support multiple byte orders.  Similar to
 321         &man.cap.mkdb.1;, the <filename>services.db</filename> will
 322         be created with proper endinanness as part of
 323         cross-architecture release builds.</para>
 324
 325     </sect2>
 326   </sect1>
 327
 328   <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
 329     <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
 330
 331     <sect2>
 332       <title>Upgrading using &man.freebsd-update.8; or a source-based
 333         procedure</title>
 334
 335       <para arch="amd64,i386">Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, binary
 336         upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the
 337         various security branches) are supported using the
 338         &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade procedure
 339         will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as an
 340         unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel, distributed as
 341         a part of an official &os; release.  The
 342         &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being
 343         upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
 344
 345       <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
 346         base system from source code) from previous versions are
 347         supported using to the instructions in
 348         <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
 349
 350       <para>For more specific information about upgrading
 351         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>
 352
 353       <important>
 354         <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted
 355           after backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and
 356           configuration files.</para>
 357       </important>
 358     </sect2>
 359
 360     <sect2>
 361       <title xml:id="upgrade-pitfalls">User-visible incompatibilities</title>
 362
 363       <para>FreeBSD 9.0 and later have several incompatibilities in
 364         system configuration which you might want to know before
 365         upgrading your system.  <emphasis>Please read this section and
 366         the <link xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#UPGRADE">Upgrading
 367         Section in 9.0-RELEASE Release Notes</link> carefully before
 368         submitting a problem report and/or posting a question to the
 369         FreeBSD mailing lists.</emphasis></para>
 370     </sect2>
 371   </sect1>
 372 </article>