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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: 284813 -->
  26
  27     <copyright>
  28       <year>2015</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;.</para>
  98
  99     <para>Typical release note items document recent security
 100       advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
 101       support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
 102       contributed software upgrades.  They may also list changes to
 103       major ports/packages or release engineering practices.  Clearly
 104       the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
 105       between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
 106       advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
 107       improvements.</para>
 108   </sect1>
 109
 110   <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
 111     <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
 112
 113     <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
 114       (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
 115       using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade
 116       procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
 117       unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as
 118       a part of an official &os; release.  The &man.freebsd-update.8;
 119       utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
 120       connectivity.</para>
 121
 122     <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
 123       base system from source code) from previous versions are
 124       supported, according to the instructions in
 125       <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
 126
 127     <important>
 128       <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after
 129         backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
 130         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 revision="276991">The &man.termcap.5; file is installed
 163         as-is from sources, instead of reordering, creating
 164         <filename>/etc/termcap.db</filename> by default, providing
 165         a performance improvements to applications that use the
 166         &man.termcap.5; database, such as &man.vi.1; and
 167         &man.ncurses.3;.</para>
 168     </sect2>
 169
 170     <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
 171       <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
 172
 173       <para revision="275040">A new utility, &man.dpv.1;, has been
 174         added to the base system, providing a &man.dialog.1;-style
 175         progress view from one or more input streams.  A corresponding
 176         library, &man.dpv.3;, has also been added.</para>
 177
 178       <para revision="275945">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been
 179         updated to support capability mode provided by
 180         &man.capsicum.4;.</para>
 181
 182       <para revision="277434" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 183         &man.fstyp.8; utility has been added, which is used to
 184         determine the filesystem on a specified device.</para>
 185
 186       <para revision="278968" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 187         &man.mkimg.1; utility has been updated to support the
 188         <acronym>MBR</acronym> <acronym>EFI</acronym> partition
 189         type.</para>
 190
 191       <para revision="281044">A regression in the &man.libarchive.3;
 192         library that would prevent a directory from being included in
 193         the archive when <literal>--one-file-system</literal> is used
 194         has been fixed.</para>
 195
 196       <para revision="281161" contrib="sponsor"
 197         sponsor="&limelight;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, has
 198         been added to the &man.netstat.8; utility, which is used to
 199         dump <acronym>RSS</acronym>/flow information.</para>
 200
 201       <para revision="281936" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 202         &man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set
 203         <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS</literal> and
 204         <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT</literal> to disallow
 205         directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to
 206         &man.tar.1;.</para>
 207
 208       <para revision="282278">A race condition in &man.wc.1; that
 209         would cause final results to be sent to &man.stderr.4; when
 210         receiving the <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal has been
 211         fixed.</para>
 212
 213       <para revision="282870" contrib="sponsor"
 214         sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has
 215         been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when
 216         a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed.</para>
 217
 218       <para revision="282974" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 219         &man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para>
 220
 221       <para revision="283875" contrib="sponsor"
 222         sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.chflags.1;, &man.chgrp.1;,
 223         &man.chmod.1;, and &man.chown.8; utilities now affect symbolic
 224         links when the <literal>-R</literal> flag is specified, as
 225         documented in &man.symlink.7;.</para>
 226
 227       <para revision="283258">The &man.date.1; utility has been
 228         updated to print the modification time of the file passed as
 229         an argument to the <literal>-r</literal> flag, improving
 230         compatibility with the <acronym>GNU</acronym> &man.date.1;
 231         utility behavior.</para>
 232
 233       <para revision="284523">A new flag, <literal>-c</literal>, has
 234         been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility, which allows
 235         specifying the capacity of the target disk image.</para>
 236
 237       <para revision="285092">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated
 238         with a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, that sets the root
 239         directory within which the utility will operate.</para>
 240     </sect2>
 241
 242     <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
 243       <title>Contributed Software</title>
 244
 245       <para revision="282746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 246         &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version
 247         3.7.0.</para>
 248
 249       <para revision="283270">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated
 250         to the OpenBSD 5.7 version.</para>
 251
 252       <para revision="284398">Timezone data files have been updated to
 253         version 2015e.</para>
 254
 255       <para revision="284460">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been
 256         updated to version 20150515.</para>
 257
 258       <para revision="284778">The &man.file.1; utility has been
 259         updated to version 5.23.</para>
 260
 261       <para revision="285206">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
 262         updated to version 1.5.3.</para>
 263
 264       <para revision="285305">The <application>sendmail</application>
 265         utility has been updated to version 8.15.2.</para>
 266
 267       <para revision="285330"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
 268         been updated to version 1.0.1p.</para>
 269     </sect2>
 270
 271     <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
 272       <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
 273
 274       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 275     </sect2>
 276
 277     <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
 278       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
 279         Scripts</title>
 280
 281       <para revision="284009">A new &man.rc.8; script,
 282         <filename>growfs</filename>, has been added, which will resize
 283         the root filesystem on boot if <filename>/firstboot</filename>
 284         exists.</para>
 285     </sect2>
 286
 287     <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
 288       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
 289         Scripts</title>
 290
 291       <para revision="277520" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
 292         &man.periodic.8; script,
 293         <filename>510.status-world-kernel</filename>, has been added,
 294         which evaluates the running userland and kernel versions from
 295         the &man.uname.1; <literal>-U</literal> and
 296         <literal>-K</literal> arguments, and prints an error if the
 297         system userland and kernel are not in sync.</para>
 298     </sect2>
 299
 300     <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
 301       <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
 302
 303       <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library,
 304         &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para>
 305
 306       <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been
 307         updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on
 308         failure.</para>
 309     </sect2>
 310
 311     <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
 312       <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
 313
 314       <para revision="275807">The &linux; compatibility version has
 315         been updated to <literal>2.6.18</literal>.  The
 316         <literal>compat.linux.osrelease</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is
 317         evaluated when building the <filename
 318           role="package">emulators/linux-c6</filename> and related
 319         ports.</para>
 320     </sect2>
 321   </sect1>
 322
 323   <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
 324     <title>Kernel</title>
 325
 326     <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
 327       tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
 328       categorized.</para>
 329
 330     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
 331       <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
 332
 333       <para revision="276068">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
 334         a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gif.4; has
 335         been fixed.</para>
 336
 337       <para revision="284018">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
 338         a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gre.4; has
 339         been fixed.</para>
 340     </sect2>
 341
 342     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
 343       <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
 344
 345       <para revision="283076" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&intelcorp;"
 346         arch="amd64,i386">The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are
 347         now included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
 348         configuration by default.</para>
 349
 350       <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor"
 351         sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option,
 352         <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables
 353         multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para>
 354
 355       <note>
 356         <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not
 357           officially supported by &intel;.</para>
 358       </note>
 359     </sect2>
 360
 361     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
 362       <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
 363
 364       <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
 365         and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have
 366         been turned off by default.</para>
 367
 368       <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 369         &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
 370         increased.  The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
 371         the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
 372
 373       <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor"
 374         sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
 375         been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
 376         using seconds precision.  A new &man.sysctl.8;,
 377         <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
 378         when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
 379         timestamps for these operations.</para>
 380
 381       <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
 382         and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
 383         &man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
 384
 385       <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
 386         &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
 387         added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
 388         &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
 389         A new kernel configuration option,
 390         <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
 391
 392       <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 393         <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
 394         <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
 395         default.</para>
 396
 397       <note>
 398         <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
 399           <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
 400           <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
 401           <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
 402           &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
 403       </note>
 404     </sect2>
 405   </sect1>
 406
 407   <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
 408     <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
 409
 410     <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
 411       device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
 412
 413     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
 414       <title>Device Drivers</title>
 415
 416       <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
 417         been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
 418     </sect2>
 419
 420     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
 421       <title>Storage Drivers</title>
 422
 423       <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
 424         updated to version 1.1.1.</para>
 425     </sect2>
 426
 427     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
 428       <title>Network Drivers</title>
 429
 430       <para revision="274486">The &man.pfil.9; interface default hash
 431         has been changed from <literal>Jenkins</literal> to
 432         <literal>Murmur3</literal>, providing a 3-percent performance
 433         increase in packets-per-second.</para>
 434
 435       <para revision="279157">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated
 436         to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para>
 437
 438       <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
 439         &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has
 440         been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and
 441         &man.me.4;.</para>
 442
 443       <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added,
 444         which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in
 445         a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network.  The &man.vxlan.4; driver is
 446         analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited
 447         for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para>
 448     </sect2>
 449   </sect1>
 450
 451   <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
 452     <title>Hardware Support</title>
 453
 454     <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
 455       machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
 456       as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
 457       other sections of this document.</para>
 458
 459     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
 460       <title>Hardware Support</title>
 461
 462       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 463     </sect2>
 464
 465     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
 466       <title>Virtualization Support</title>
 467
 468       <para revision="275273">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has
 469         been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console
 470         devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para>
 471
 472       <para revision="276403">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisior has been
 473         updated to support &amd; processors with
 474         <acronym>SVM</acronym> and <acronym>AMD-V</acronym> hardware
 475         extensions.</para>
 476
 477       <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
 478         updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for
 479         virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para>
 480
 481       <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
 482         Hyper-V&trade; drivers have been updated with several
 483         enhancements:</para>
 484
 485       <itemizedlist>
 486         <listitem>
 487           <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel
 488             support.</para>
 489         </listitem>
 490
 491         <listitem>
 492           <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather
 493             support, in addition to performance improvements.</para>
 494         </listitem>
 495
 496         <listitem>
 497           <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug
 498             fixes.</para>
 499         </listitem>
 500       </itemizedlist>
 501
 502       <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
 503         &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum
 504         offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para>
 505     </sect2>
 506
 507     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
 508       <title>ARM Support</title>
 509
 510       <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
 511         driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
 512         frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
 513         <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
 514     </sect2>
 515   </sect1>
 516
 517   <sect1 xml:id="storage">
 518     <title>Storage</title>
 519
 520     <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
 521       and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
 522
 523     <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
 524       <title>General Storage</title>
 525
 526       <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 527         &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten,
 528         replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms
 529         with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para>
 530
 531       <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 532         &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
 533         non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
 534
 535       <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 536         &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
 537         &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which
 538         allows automatically mounting removable media, such as
 539         <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash
 540         drives.</para>
 541
 542       <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 543         &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
 544         &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which
 545         handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to
 546         <literal>noauto</literal>.</para>
 547     </sect2>
 548
 549     <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
 550       <title>Networked Storage</title>
 551
 552       <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 553         &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for
 554         registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on
 555         <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers.  This provides a mechanism
 556         which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find
 557         targets and portals without requiring active
 558         discovery.</para>
 559     </sect2>
 560
 561     <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
 562       <title>ZFS</title>
 563
 564       <para revision="275490">A new tunable,
 565         <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added,
 566         which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para>
 567
 568       <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
 569         statistics are now visible through the
 570         <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;.  As a result of this
 571         change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
 572         &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
 573         <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
 574         &man.sysctl.8;.</para>
 575     </sect2>
 576
 577     <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
 578       <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
 579
 580       <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
 581         &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
 582         limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
 583         and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
 584         to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
 585
 586       <para revision="282861">Support for the
 587         <literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>,
 588         and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym>
 589         partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
 590     </sect2>
 591   </sect1>
 592
 593   <sect1 xml:id="boot">
 594     <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 595
 596     <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
 597       boot-related changes.</para>
 598
 599     <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
 600       <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
 601
 602       <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to
 603         support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
 604         loading the kernel.  To enable this behavior, add
 605         <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
 606         &man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
 607
 608       <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 609         memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms
 610         has been disabled by default.</para>
 611
 612       <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class,
 613         <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added.  This is similar to
 614         the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined
 615         baudrate.</para>
 616
 617       <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
 618         arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been
 619         updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>,
 620         <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by
 621         default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para>
 622     </sect2>
 623
 624     <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
 625       <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
 626
 627       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 628     </sect2>
 629   </sect1>
 630
 631   <sect1 xml:id="network">
 632     <title>Networking</title>
 633
 634     <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
 635       &os;.</para>
 636
 637     <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
 638       <title>Network Procols</title>
 639
 640       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 641     </sect2>
 642   </sect1>
 643
 644   <sect1 xml:id="ports">
 645     <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
 646
 647     <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Ports
 648       Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
 649       installation tools.</para>
 650
 651     <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
 652       <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
 653
 654       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 655     </sect2>
 656
 657     <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
 658       <title>Packaging Changes</title>
 659
 660       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 661     </sect2>
 662   </sect1>
 663
 664   <sect1 xml:id="doc">
 665     <title>Documentation</title>
 666
 667     <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Documentation
 668       Project sources and toolchain.</para>
 669
 670     <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
 671       <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
 672
 673       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 674     </sect2>
 675
 676     <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
 677       <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
 678
 679       <para>&nbsp;</para>
 680     </sect2>
 681   </sect1>
 682
 683   <sect1 xml:id="releng">
 684     <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
 685
 686     <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
 687       &os;&nbsp;Release Engineering processes.</para>
 688
 689     <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
 690       <title>Integration Changes</title>
 691
 692       <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 693         Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support
 694         building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for
 695         supported boards where a corresponding
 696         <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports
 697         Collection.</para>
 698
 699       <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
 700         &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now
 701         created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way
 702         the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para>
 703     </sect2>
 704   </sect1>
 705 </article>