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