The &os; Project $FreeBSD$ 2014 The &os; Documentation Project &tm-attrib.freebsd; &tm-attrib.ibm; &tm-attrib.ieee; &tm-attrib.intel; &tm-attrib.sparc; &tm-attrib.general; The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the &release.branch; development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented. This document contains the release notes for &os; &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of &os;. This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be found at &release.url; or any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the Obtaining &os; appendix to the &os; Handbook. All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with late-breaking information discovered late in the release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site. This section describes the most user-visible new or changed features in &os; since &release.prev;. Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements. Problems described in the following security advisories have been fixed. For more information, consult the individual advisories available from http://security.FreeBSD.org/. Advisory Date Topic SA-12:01.openssl 3 May 2012 OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities SA-12:02.crypt 30 May 2012 Incorrect crypt() hashing SA-12:03.bind 12 June 2012 Incorrect handling of zero-length RDATA fields in &man.named.8; SA-12:04.sysret 12 June 2012 Privilege escalation when returning from kernel SA-12:05.bind 6 August 2012 &man.named.8; DNSSEC validation Denial of Service SA-12:06.bind 22 November 2012 Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with &man.named.8; SA-12:07.hostapd 22 November 2012 Insufficient message length validation for EAP-TLS messages SA-12:08.linux 22 November 2012 Linux compatibility layer input validation error Support for /sys/kernel/random/uuid has been added to &man.linprocfs.5;. A memory leak in the zpool_in_use() function has been fixed. The Radeon KMS driver has been added. The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been updated to version 3.2.5. The extensible_dataset &man.zpool.8; feature has been added. See &man.zpool-features.7; for more information. A memory leak has been fixed in libzfs.             The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been updated to support the bookmarks feature. The system timezone data files have been updated to version tzdata2014a. The NetBSD &man.make.1; utility, bmake has been imported for compatibility with the &os; Ports Collection. It is installed as bmake, and the make remains the &os; version. The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated to a post-5.0.5 snapshot. The &man.fetch.3; library now supports Last-Modified timestamps which return UTC instead of GMT. Aliases for the &man.zfs.8; commands list -t snap and snap have been added to match &oracle; Solaris 11. A new flag, -p, has been added to the &man.zfs.8; list command, providing output in a parseable form. OpenPAM has been updated to Nummularia (20130907), which incorporates several bug fixes and documentation improvements. The &man.openpam.ttyconv.3; library has been completely rewritten.         Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as an unmodified GENERIC kernel, distributed as a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet connectivity. Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; base system from source code) from previous versions are supported using to the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING. For more specific information about upgrading instructions, see http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.1R/installation.html. Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after backing up all data and configuration files. FreeBSD 9.0 and later have several incompatibilities in system configuration which you might want to know before upgrading your system. Please read this section and the Upgrading Section in 9.0-RELEASE Release Notes carefully before submitting a problem report and/or posting a question to the FreeBSD mailing lists.