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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="258962">A workaround has been implemented
129         in the &man.bge.4; driver for hung transmission on BCM5719
130         and BCM5720 chipsets.</para>
131
132       <para revision="259002">A kernel panic when listing sysctls
133         on a system with <literal>INVARIANTS</literal> enabled has
134         been fixed.</para>
135
136       <para revision="259466">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
137         <literal>kern.supported_archs</literal> has been added,
138         which will list the <envar>MACHINE_ARCH</envar> values
139         whose binaries can be run on the system.</para>
140
141       <para revision="259519">Several problems that could trigger
142         kernel panic on &man.kldload.8; and &man.kldunload.8; have
143         been fixed.</para>
144
145       <para revision="260082">A kernel panic triggered by some
146         multi-threaded applications has been fixed.</para>
147
148       <para revision="260134">The &man.runfw.4; firmware has been
149         renamed from <literal>runfw</literal> to
150         <literal>run.fw</literal> for consistency with other firmware
151         files.</para>
152
153       <para revision="260433">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
154         <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been
155         added.  This allows tuning the amount of time the system
156         will wait before rebooting after &man.panic.9;.  The
157         <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal> value defaults
158         to the kernel configuration option,
159         <literal>PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME</literal>.</para>
160
161       <para revision="260644">Hardware Random Number Generators have
162         been disabled by default.</para>
163
164       <para revision="261483">Support for GPS ports has been added
165         to the &man.uhso.4; driver.</para>
166
167       <para revision="262116">A memory leak of compressed buffers
168         has been fixed in
169         <literal>l2arc_write_done()</literal>.</para>
170
171       <para revision="262153">The &man.netmap.4; framework has been
172         updated to match the version in <literal>head/</literal>,
173         which includes netmap pipes, kqueue support, and enhanced
174         VALE switch port.</para>
175
176       <para revision="262175">A deadlock triggered by sending
177         a mounted &man.zfs.8; snapshot has been fixed.</para>
178
179       <para revision="262231">Support for SIIG X1 PCI-e has been added
180         to &man.ppc.4;.</para>
181
182       <para revision="262564">Support for the ext4 filesystem
183         has been enabled, supporting read-only mounts.</para>
184
185       <para revision="262594">A kernel panic triggered by inserting
186         a USB ethernet device on VIMAGE-enabled systems has been
187         fixed.</para>
188
189       <para revision="262988">TTM, a memory manager used by video
190         drivers, has been merged.</para>
191
192       <para revision="263103">Support for
193         <literal>/sys/kernel/random/uuid</literal> has been added
194         to &man.linprocfs.5;.</para>
195
196       <para revision="263128">A memory leak in the
197         <literal>zpool_in_use()</literal> function has been
198         fixed.</para>
199
200       <para revision="263391">The
201         <literal>extensible_dataset</literal> &man.zpool.8; feature
202         has been added.  See &man.zpool-features.7; for more
203         information.</para>
204
205       <para revision="263408">A memory leak has been fixed in
206         <literal>libzfs</literal>.</para>
207
208       <sect3 xml:id="boot">
209         <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
210
211         <para>&nbsp;</para>
212
213       </sect3>
214
215       <sect3 xml:id="proc">
216         <title>Hardware Support</title>
217
218         <para revision="261510">Trackpad support for
219           &apple;&nbsp;MacBook products has been added.</para>
220
221         <para revision="261973">The &man.nve.4; driver has been
222           deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used
223           instead.</para>
224
225         <para revision="262968">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been
226           updated to support MegaRAID Fury cards.</para>
227
228         <para revision="263170,263171">The Radeon KMS driver has been
229           added.</para>
230
231         <para revision="263340">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been
232           updated to version 3.2.5.</para>
233
234         <sect4 xml:id="mm">
235           <title>Multimedia Support</title>
236
237           <para>&nbsp;</para>
238
239         </sect4>
240
241         <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
242           <title>Network Interface Support</title>
243
244           <para revision="258898">The &man.qlxgbe.4; driver has been
245             imported from <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
246
247           <para revision="258936">The &man.qlxge.4; driver has been
248             imported from <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
249
250           <para revision="258965">The &man.bge.4; driver has been
251             updated to support the BCM5725 chipset.</para>
252
253           <para revision="258967">The &man.bge.4; driver has been
254             updated to support the BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782,
255             BCM57786 and BCM57787 chipsets.</para>
256
257           <para revision="259457">The &man.run.4; driver has been
258             updated to support MediaTek/Ralink chipsets RT5370 and
259             RT5372.</para>
260
261           <para revision="259460">The &man.usb.4; wireless radiotap
262             headers have been realigned, allowing wireless adapters
263             to work on &arch.arm;, &arch.mips;, and other similar
264             platforms where alignment is important.</para>
265
266           <para revision="260119">The &man.run.4; firmware has been
267             updated to version 0.33.</para>
268
269           <para revision="260252">The &man.bxe.4; driver has been
270             merged from <literal>head/</literal>, providing support
271             for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb PCIe adapters.</para>
272
273           <para revision="261865">The &man.run.4; driver has been
274             updated to include support for the MediaTek/Ralink RT3593
275             chipset.</para>
276
277           <para revision="261933">The &man.run.4; driver has been
278             updated to include support for the DLINK DWA-127 wireless
279             adapter.</para>
280
281           <para revision="262153">The &man.axge.4; driver has been
282             added.</para>
283
284           <para revision="262362">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been
285             imported from OpenBSD.</para>
286
287         </sect4>
288       </sect3>
289
290       <sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
291         <title>Network Protocols</title>
292
293         <para>&nbsp;</para>
294
295       </sect3>
296
297       <sect3 xml:id="disks">
298         <title>Disks and Storage</title>
299
300         <para>&nbsp;</para>
301
302       </sect3>
303
304       <sect3 xml:id="fs">
305         <title>File Systems</title>
306
307         <para revision="263410">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
308           updated to support the <literal>bookmarks</literal>
309           feature.</para>
310
311       </sect3>
312     </sect2>
313
314     <sect2 xml:id="userland">
315       <title>Userland Changes</title>
316
317       <para revision="259243">A segmentation fault and internal
318         compiler error bug in &man.gcc.1; triggered by throwing
319         a warning before parsing any tokens has been fixed.</para>
320
321       <para revision="259269,259406">Several updates to &man.gcc.1;
322         have been imported from Google.</para>
323
324       <para revision="259448">A byte-order bug in the Heimdal
325         <literal>gss_pseudo_random()</literal> function which would
326         prevent interoperability with other
327         <application>Kerberos</application> implementations has been
328         fixed.  In particular, this would prevent interoperability
329         with the MIT implementation.</para>
330
331       <para revision="260007">The &man.hastctl.8; utility has been
332         updated to output the current queue sizes.</para>
333
334       <para revision="260197">The &man.ps.1; utility will no longer
335         truncate the <literal>command</literal> output column.</para>
336
337       <para revision="260208">The &man.protect.1; command has been
338         added, which allows exempting processes from being killed
339         when swap is exhausted.</para>
340
341       <para revision="260507">The &man.gmirror.8; utility now prevents
342         deactivating the last component of a mirror.</para>
343
344       <para revision="260507">A new &man.gmirror.8; command,
345         <command>gmirror destroy</command>, has been added, which will
346         destroy the &man.geom.8; and erase the &man.gmirror.8;
347         metadata.</para>
348
349       <para revision="260650">The &man.etcupdate.8; utility, a tool
350         for managing updates to files in <filename
351           class="directory">/etc</filename>, has been merged from
352         <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
353
354       <para revision="260651">The &man.find.1; utility has been
355         updated to fix incorrect behavior with the
356         <literal>-lname</literal> and <literal>-ilname</literal>
357         flags.</para>
358
359       <para revision="260868,260869">The
360         <literal>hw.uart.console</literal> is now always updated when
361         the comconsole setup changes.</para>
362
363       <para revision="260909">The &man.kldload.8; utility has been
364         updated to display a message directing to &man.dmesg.8;,
365         instead of the cryptic message <quote>Exec format
366           error</quote>.</para>
367
368       <para revision="261674">A bug that could trigger an infinite
369         loop in KDE and X has been fixed.</para>
370
371       <para revision="262076">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been
372         changed to use the size of the file, instead of the blocks the
373         file takes on the disk to matche the behavior documented in
374         &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para>
375
376       <para revision="262105">A bug in &man.zdb.8; which would cause
377         numeric parameters to a flag as being treated as additional
378         flags has been fixed.</para>
379
380       <para revision="262124">The default number of &man.nfsd.8;
381         threads has been increased from <literal>4</literal> to
382         <literal>(8 * N)</literal>, where <literal>N</literal> is
383         the number of CPUs as reported by
384         <command>sysctl -n hw.ncpu</command>.</para>
385
386       <para revision="262134">The &man.pciconf.8; utility now has
387         a <literal>-V</literal> flag, which lists information such
388         as serial numbers for each device.</para>
389
390       <para revision="262158">A bug that would allow creating
391         a &man.zfs.8; snapshot of an inconsistent dataset has been
392         fixed.</para>
393
394       <para revision="262160">Receiving a &man.zfs.8; dataset with
395         <command>zfs recv -F</command> now properly destroys any
396         snapshots that were created since the incremental source
397         snapshot.</para>
398
399       <para revision="263031">Installation from a read-only
400         <envar>.OBJDIR</envar> has been fixed.</para>
401
402       <para revision="263031">A new shared library directory,
403         <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/private</filename>,
404         has been added for internal-use shared libraries.</para>
405
406       <para revision="263031">A default
407         <filename>libmap32.conf</filename> has been added, for 32-bit
408         applications.</para>
409
410       <para revision="263032">The <literal>libucl</literal> library
411         a JSON-compatible configuration file parsing library,has been
412         imported.</para>
413
414       <para revision="263038">The &man.pkg.7; package management
415         utility has been syncronized with <literal>head/</literal>.
416         This implements binary package signature verification when
417         bootstrapping the system with <command>pkg
418           bootstrap</command>.</para>
419
420       <para revision="263042">The system timezone data files have
421         been updated to version tzdata2014a.</para>
422
423       <para revision="263212">The NetBSD &man.make.1; utility,
424         <command>bmake</command> has been imported for compatibility
425         with the &os;&nbsp;Ports Collection.  It is installed as
426         <command>bmake</command>, and the <command>make</command>
427         remains the &os; version.</para>
428
429       <para revision="263326">The &man.fetch.3; library now
430         supports <literal>Last-Modified</literal> timestamps which
431         return UTC instead of GMT.</para>
432
433       <para revision="263404">Aliases for the &man.zfs.8; commands
434         <literal>list -t snap</literal> and <literal>snap</literal>
435         have been added to match &oracle;&nbsp;Solaris 11.</para>
436
437       <para revision="263406">A new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, has
438         been added to the &man.zfs.8; <literal>list</literal> command,
439         providing output in a parseable form.</para>
440
441       <para revision="263421"><application>OpenPAM</application> has
442         been updated to Nummularia (20130907), which incorporates
443         several bug fixes and documentation improvements.  The
444         &man.openpam.ttyconv.3; library has been completely
445         rewritten.</para>
446
447       <sect3 xml:id="periodic-scripts">
448         <title>&man.periodic.8; Scripts</title>
449
450         <para>&nbsp;</para>
451
452       </sect3>
453
454       <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
455         <title>&man.rc.8; Scripts</title>
456
457         <para revision="260432">The &man.rc.8; system will now
458           re-source &man.rc.conf.5; on receipt of
459           <literal>SIGALRM</literal>.</para>
460
461       </sect3>
462     </sect2>
463
464     <sect2 xml:id="contrib">
465       <title>Contributed Software</title>
466
467       <para revision="261375"><application>Sendmail</application> has
468         been updated to version 8.14.8.</para>
469
470       <para revision="262706"><application>BIND</application> has
471         been updated to version 9.9.5.</para>
472
473       <para revision="263286">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
474         to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para>
475
476     </sect2>
477
478     <sect2 xml:id="releng">
479       <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
480
481       <para revision="260891">As part of the release build, the
482         &man.etcupdate.8; utility will bootstrap the system, allowing
483         &man.etcupdate.8; to work after the first upgrade of a
484         system.</para>
485
486       <para revision="262879">The <filename>release.sh</filename>
487         script and release <filename>Makefile</filename> have been
488         updated to use &man.pkg.7; to populate the dvd installation
489         medium.</para>
490
491       <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has
492         been updated to support multiple byte orders.  Similar to
493         &man.cap.mkdb.1;, the <filename>services.db</filename> will
494         be created with proper endinanness as part of
495         cross-architecture release builds.</para>
496
497     </sect2>
498   </sect1>
499
500   <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
501     <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
502
503     <sect2>
504       <title>Upgrading using &man.freebsd-update.8; or a source-based
505         procedure</title>
506
507       <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
508         (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
509         using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade
510         procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well
511         as an unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel,
512         distributed as a part of an official &os; release.  The
513         &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being
514         upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
515
516       <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
517         base system from source code) from previous versions are
518         supported using to the instructions in
519         <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
520
521       <?ignore
522       <para>For more specific information about upgrading
523         instructions, see <uri xlink:href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/installation.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/installation.html</uri>.</para>
524
525       ?>
526       <important>
527         <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted
528           after backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and
529           configuration files.</para>
530       </important>
531     </sect2>
532
533     <sect2>
534       <title xml:id="upgrade-pitfalls">User-visible incompatibilities</title>
535
536       <para>FreeBSD 9.0 and later have several incompatibilities in
537         system configuration which you might want to know before
538         upgrading your system.  <emphasis>Please read this section and
539         the <link xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#UPGRADE">Upgrading
540         Section in 9.0-RELEASE Release Notes</link> carefully before
541         submitting a problem report and/or posting a question to the
542         FreeBSD mailing lists.</emphasis></para>
543     </sect2>
544   </sect1>
545 </article>