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17 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
20 <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
23 <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
25 <!-- Last rev: 284813 -->
29 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
33 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
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
53 <sect1 xml:id="intro">
54 <title>Introduction</title>
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>
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
67 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
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
75 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
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
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>
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>
96 <para>This document describes the most user-visible new or changed
97 features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
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
110 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
111 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
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
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>
128 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after
129 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
134 <sect1 xml:id="security-errata">
135 <title>Security and Errata</title>
137 <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and
138 Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para>
140 <sect2 xml:id="security">
141 <title>Security Advisories</title>
146 <sect2 xml:id="errata">
147 <title>Errata Notices</title>
153 <sect1 xml:id="userland">
154 <title>Userland</title>
156 <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland
157 applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para>
159 <sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
160 <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
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>
170 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
171 <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
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>
178 <para revision="275945">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been
179 updated to support capability mode provided by
180 &man.capsicum.4;.</para>
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>
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
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>
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>
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
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
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>
218 <para revision="282974" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
219 &man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para>
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>
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>
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>
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>
242 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
243 <title>Contributed Software</title>
245 <para revision="282746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
246 &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version
249 <para revision="283270">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated
250 to the OpenBSD 5.7 version.</para>
252 <para revision="284398">Timezone data files have been updated to
253 version 2015e.</para>
255 <para revision="284460">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been
256 updated to version 20150515.</para>
258 <para revision="284778">The &man.file.1; utility has been
259 updated to version 5.23.</para>
261 <para revision="285206">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
262 updated to version 1.5.3.</para>
264 <para revision="285305">The <application>sendmail</application>
265 utility has been updated to version 8.15.2.</para>
267 <para revision="285330"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
268 been updated to version 1.0.1p.</para>
271 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
272 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
277 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
278 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
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>
287 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
288 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
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>
300 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
301 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
303 <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library,
304 &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para>
306 <para revision="276686" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
307 &man.procctl.2; system call has been updated to include
308 a facility for non-&man.init.8; processes to be declared as
309 the reaper of child processes and their decendants.</para>
311 <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been
312 updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on
316 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
317 <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
319 <para revision="275807">The &linux; compatibility version has
320 been updated to <literal>2.6.18</literal>. The
321 <literal>compat.linux.osrelease</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is
322 evaluated when building the <filename
323 role="package">emulators/linux-c6</filename> and related
328 <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
329 <title>Kernel</title>
331 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
332 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
335 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
336 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
338 <para revision="276068">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
339 a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gif.4; has
342 <para revision="284018">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
343 a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gre.4; has
347 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
348 <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
350 <para revision="283076" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&intelcorp;"
351 arch="amd64,i386">The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are
352 now included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
353 configuration by default.</para>
355 <para revision="283505">Support for booting relocatable kernels
356 has been extended to non-<acronym>EFI</acronym>
359 <para revision="283505" arch="arm">The &arch.arm; boot loader,
360 <filename>ubldr</filename>, is now relocatable. In addition,
361 the <filename>ubldr.bin</filename> file is now created during
362 build time, which is a stripped binary with an entry point of
363 <literal>0</literal>, providing the ability to specify the
364 load address by running <literal>go
365 ${loadaddr}</literal> in
366 <literal>u-boot</literal>.</para>
367 <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor"
368 sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option,
369 <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables
370 multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para>
373 <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not
374 officially supported by &intel;.</para>
378 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
379 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
381 <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
382 and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have
383 been turned off by default.</para>
385 <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
386 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
387 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
388 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
390 <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor"
391 sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
392 been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
393 using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;,
394 <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
395 when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
396 timestamps for these operations.</para>
398 <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
399 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
400 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
402 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
403 &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
404 added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
405 &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
406 A new kernel configuration option,
407 <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
409 <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
410 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
411 <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
415 <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
416 <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
417 <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
418 <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
419 &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
424 <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
425 <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
427 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
428 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
430 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
431 <title>Device Drivers</title>
433 <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
434 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
436 <para revision="281708">The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated
437 to include improved support for newer Synaptics ®
438 touchpads and the ClickPad ® mouse on newer
439 Lenovo ™ laptops.</para>
442 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
443 <title>Storage Drivers</title>
445 <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
446 updated to version 1.1.1.</para>
449 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
450 <title>Network Drivers</title>
452 <para revision="274486">The &man.pfil.9; interface default hash
453 has been changed from <literal>Jenkins</literal> to
454 <literal>Murmur3</literal>, providing a 3-percent performance
455 increase in packets-per-second.</para>
457 <para revision="279157">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated
458 to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para>
460 <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
461 &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has
462 been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and
465 <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added,
466 which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in
467 a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network. The &man.vxlan.4; driver is
468 analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited
469 for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para>
471 <para revision="284499">The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated
472 to include support for the RTL8153 chipset.</para>
476 <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
477 <title>Hardware Support</title>
479 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
480 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
481 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
482 other sections of this document.</para>
484 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
485 <title>Hardware Support</title>
490 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
491 <title>Virtualization Support</title>
493 <para revision="275273">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has
494 been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console
495 devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para>
497 <para revision="276403">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
498 updated to support &amd; processors with
499 <acronym>SVM</acronym> and <acronym>AMD-V</acronym> hardware
502 <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
503 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for
504 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para>
506 <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
507 Hyper-V™ drivers have been updated with several
512 <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel
517 <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather
518 support, in addition to performance improvements.</para>
522 <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug
527 <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
528 &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum
529 offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para>
532 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
533 <title>ARM Support</title>
535 <para revision="278079" arch="arm">Support to turn off the
536 BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8;
537 <literal>-p</literal> flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has
540 <para revision="278599" arch="arm">Support for the Exynos 5420
541 Octa system has been added.</para>
543 <para revision="278599" arch="arm">The <acronym>SMP</acronym>
544 option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by
547 <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
548 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
549 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
550 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
552 <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Support for the Toradex
553 Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added.</para>
555 <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Audio transmission drivers
556 have been added for Digital Audio Multiplexer
557 (<acronym>AUDMUXM</acronym>), Smart Direct Memory Access
558 Controller (<acronym>SDMA</acronym>), and Syncronous Serial
559 Interface (<acronym>SSI</acronym>).</para>
563 <sect1 xml:id="storage">
564 <title>Storage</title>
566 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
567 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
569 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
570 <title>General Storage</title>
572 <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
573 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten,
574 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms
575 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para>
577 <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
578 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
579 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
581 <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
582 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
583 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which
584 allows automatically mounting removable media, such as
585 <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash
588 <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
589 &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
590 &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which
591 handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to
592 <literal>noauto</literal>.</para>
595 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
596 <title>Networked Storage</title>
598 <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
599 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for
600 registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on
601 <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism
602 which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find
603 targets and portals without requiring active
607 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
610 <para revision="275490">A new tunable,
611 <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added,
612 which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para>
614 <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
615 statistics are now visible through the
616 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this
617 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
618 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
619 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
620 &man.sysctl.8;.</para>
623 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
624 <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
626 <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
627 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
628 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
629 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
630 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
632 <para revision="282861">Support for the
633 <literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>,
634 and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym>
635 partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
639 <sect1 xml:id="boot">
640 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
642 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
643 boot-related changes.</para>
645 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
646 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
648 <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to
649 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
650 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add
651 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
652 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
654 <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
655 memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms
656 has been disabled by default.</para>
658 <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class,
659 <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added. This is similar to
660 the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined
663 <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
664 arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been
665 updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>,
666 <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by
667 default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para>
670 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
671 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
677 <sect1 xml:id="network">
678 <title>Networking</title>
680 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
683 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
684 <title>Network Procols</title>
690 <sect1 xml:id="ports">
691 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
693 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports
694 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
695 installation tools.</para>
697 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
698 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
703 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
704 <title>Packaging Changes</title>
711 <title>Documentation</title>
713 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation
714 Project sources and toolchain.</para>
716 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
717 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
722 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
723 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
729 <sect1 xml:id="releng">
730 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
732 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
733 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para>
735 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
736 <title>Integration Changes</title>
738 <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
739 Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support
740 building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for
741 supported boards where a corresponding
742 <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports
745 <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
746 &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now
747 created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way
748 the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para>