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15 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
18 <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
21 <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
39 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
43 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
53 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
54 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
55 &release.branch; development line. This document lists
56 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
57 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
58 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
63 <sect1 xml:id="intro">
64 <title>Introduction</title>
66 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
67 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or
68 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on
69 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
71 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to
72 which these release notes apply represents the latest point
73 along the &release.branch; development branch since
74 &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built,
75 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
77 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
79 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to
80 which these release notes apply represents a point along the
81 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and
82 the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built,
83 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
85 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
87 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
88 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be
89 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
90 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or
91 other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the
93 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
94 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
95 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
96 Handbook</link>.</para>
98 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata
99 before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
100 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
101 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
102 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections
103 to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
104 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
108 <title>What's New</title>
110 <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
111 features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
113 <para>Typical release note items document recent security
114 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
115 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
116 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to
117 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly
118 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
119 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
120 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
123 <sect2 xml:id="security">
124 <title>Security Advisories</title>
130 <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
131 <title>Kernel Changes</title>
133 <para revision="260431">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
134 <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been
135 added, which allows controlling how long the system will wait
136 after &man.panic.9; before rebooting.</para>
138 <para revision="262861">The &man.vt.4; driver has been merged
139 from &os;-CURRENT. To enable &man.vt.4;, enter
140 <literal>set kern.vty=vt</literal> at the &man.loader.8;
141 prompt during boot, or add <literal>kern.vty=vt</literal> to
142 &man.loader.conf.5; and reboot the system.</para>
144 <para revision="263122">Support for &man.hwpmc.4; has been added
145 for &powerpc; 970 class processors.</para>
147 <para revision="263197">Support for ADT7460 and ADT7467 fan
148 controllers found in newer PowerBooks™ and
149 iBooks™ has been added to the &man.iicbus.4;
152 <para revision="263256">A panic triggered by removing
153 a &man.urtwn.4; device has been fixed.</para>
155 <para revision="263799">A potential deadlock in the &man.usb.4;
156 stack triggered by detaching USB devices that create character
157 devices has been fixed.</para>
159 <para revision="263869">Support for &amd; Family 16h sensor
160 devices has been added to &man.amdtemp.4;.</para>
162 <para revision="265610">The &man.uslcom.4; driver has been
163 updated to support 26 new devices.</para>
165 <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper
166 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal>
167 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo
168 Boost™ enabled has been fixed.</para>
170 <para revision="266436">The &man.uart.4; driver has been
171 updated to include support for the &intel; Lynx Point
172 KT <acronym>AMT</acronym> serial port.</para>
174 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal>
175 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2;
176 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit
179 <para revision="266718">A bug that would prevent
180 a &man.jail.8; from setting the correct IPv4 source address
181 with some operations that required
182 <literal>security.jail.allow_raw_sockets</literal> has been
185 <para revision="266911">The &man.hwpmc.4; driver has been
186 updated to support core events from the Atom™
187 Silvermont architecture.</para>
189 <para revision="268046">The &man.oce.4; driver has been updated
190 with vendor-supplied fixes for big endian support, and 20GB/s
191 and 25GB/s link speeds.</para>
193 <para revision="270630">The &os; virtual memory subsystem
194 has been updated to implement <quote>fast path</quote> for
195 the page fault handler.</para>
197 <para revision="271069">The &man.asmc.4; driver has been updated
198 to support the &apple; Mac Mini 3,1.</para>
200 <para revision="271111">The &os;/&arch.powerpc64; default kernel
201 configuration, <filename>GENERIC64</filename>, has been
202 updated to enable the &man.vt.4; console driver for the
203 Sony® Playstation 3™ platform.</para>
205 <para revision="271116" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
206 &os;/&arch.powerpc; <literal>ofwfb</literal> driver, used to
207 provide a graphics console when the &man.vt.4; console driver
208 is used, has been modified to work with the <filename
209 role="package">x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb</filename>
213 <para>If using an <acronym>ATI</acronym> graphics card with
214 the &man.vt.4; driver, the <filename
215 role="package">x11-servers/xorg-server</filename> package
216 must be updated to version 1.12.4_8 or newer.</para>
219 <para revision="271128" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Several
220 performance enchancements to the &man.vt.4; driver have been
221 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para>
223 <para revision="271153">The default stack size
224 (<literal>KSTACK_PAGES</literal>) has been increased from
225 <literal>4</literal> to <literal>8</literal> for the
226 &arch.powerpc64; architecture.</para>
228 <para revision="271205">The &os;/&arch.powerpc; ATI driver
229 has been updated to support enabling and disabling the
230 Radeon 9700 backlight, found in the
231 &apple; PowerBook™ G4.</para>
233 <para revision="271816">Hardware context support has been
234 added to the <literal>drm/i915</literal> driver, adding
235 support for <application>Mesa</application> 9.2 and
238 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
239 <title>Virtualization Support</title>
241 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V
242 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however
243 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
244 configuration.</para>
246 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now
247 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5
250 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been
251 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para>
253 <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized
254 <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;,
255 allowing guest operating systems to use
256 <literal>XSAVE</literal> and
257 <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as
258 <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para>
260 <para revision="268932">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now
261 supports booting from a &man.zfs.8; filesystem.</para>
263 <para revision="268933">A new driver, &man.virtio_random.4;,
264 has been added, which allows &os; virtual machines to
265 harvest entropy from the hypervisor.</para>
267 <para revision="270159">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor has been
268 synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para>
270 <para>A number of enhancements have been added, and several
271 bug fixes, including:</para>
275 <para>Post-mortem debugging has been added when
276 a guest virtual machine exits with an
277 <quote><acronym>EPT</acronym> Misconfiguration</quote>
282 <para>The hypervisor &man.virtio.4; <acronym>API</acronym>
283 has been expanded from 32- to 64-bit.</para>
287 <para>Support for identifying capabilities of the virtual
288 <acronym>CPU</acronym> has been added.</para>
292 <para>Support for emulating legacy x86 task
293 switching has been added.</para>
297 <para>Support to list the VT-x features in base kernel
298 &man.dmesg.8; has been added.</para>
302 <para>Support for extended PCI configuration space
303 has been added.</para>
308 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm">
309 <title>ARM Support</title>
311 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename>
312 kernel configuration file has been added.</para>
314 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by
315 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is
316 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify
317 the boot device, set the
318 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal>
319 u-boot environment variable.</para>
321 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver
322 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device
323 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver
324 in most cases.</para>
326 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and
327 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para>
329 <para>Support for hardware floating point was added to the
330 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files
331 for all platforms that contain the required hardware.</para>
333 <para><application>C++</application> exception handling now
334 works with <application>GCC</application>.</para>
336 <para>Support for <acronym>SMP</acronym> was added to the
337 kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files
338 for all platforms that contain multi-core CPUs.</para>
340 <para>Support was added for:</para>
344 <para>CHROMEBOOK (Samsung Exynos 5250)</para>
348 <para>COLIBRI (Freescale Vybrid)</para>
352 <para>COSMIC (Freescale Vybrid)</para>
356 <para>IMX53-QSB (Freescale i.MX53)</para>
360 <para>QUARTZ (Freescale Vybrid)</para>
364 <para>RADXA (Rockchip rk30xx)</para>
368 <para>WANDBOARD (Freescale i.MX6)</para>
372 <para>An <acronym>I2C</acronym> driver was added for
373 the RaspberryPi.</para>
375 <para>Drivers have been added to support <acronym>TI</acronym>
376 platforms, such as BEAGLEBONE and PANDABOARD:</para>
380 <para>PRUSS (Programmable Realtime Unit Subsystem)</para>
384 <para>MBOX (Mailbox hardware)</para>
388 <para>SDHCI (new faster driver for
389 <acronym>MMC</acronym>/<acronym>SD</acronym>
394 <para>PPS (Pulse Per Second input on a
395 <acronym>GPIO</acronym>/timer pin)</para>
399 <para>PWM (Pulse Width Modulation output)</para>
403 <para>ADC (Analog to Digital converter)</para>
408 <sect3 xml:id="boot">
409 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
411 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added
412 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is
413 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel
414 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in
415 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By
416 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and
417 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para>
419 <para revision="271130" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
420 <filename class="directory">sys/boot/</filename> sources
421 have been rearranged, moving &man.libstand.3; to a directory
422 indicating the library is built as 32-bit.</para>
424 <para revision="271135" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
425 &man.libstand.3; library has been updated to produce
426 a 64-bit shared library for the &os;/&arch.amd64; and
427 &os;/&arch.powerpc64; architectures.</para>
429 <para revision="271135" contrib="sponsor"
430 sponsor="&ff;">Initial support for <acronym>UEFI</acronym>
431 boot has been added.</para>
433 <para revision="271136" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Three
434 new files are installed to <filename
435 class="directory">/boot</filename>, supporting
436 <acronym>UEFI</acronym> boot:</para>
440 <para><filename>boot1.efi</filename>: The
441 <acronym>UEFI</acronym> first stage bootstrap
446 <para><filename>boot1.efifat</filename>:
447 A <acronym>FAT</acronym> filesystem image containing
448 an <acronym>EFI</acronym> system partition.</para>
452 <para><filename>loader.efi</filename>: The third stage
453 bootstrap file.</para>
457 <para revision="271880">Serial console and null console
458 support has been added to the <acronym>UEFI</acronym> boot
461 <para revision="272006">Support has been added to cache
462 &man.geli.8; passphrases during system boot. When a system
463 is configured with multiple <literal>GEOM_ELI</literal>
464 providers all using the same passphrase, the passphrase that
465 is cached after the first entry is used for the subsequent
466 <literal>GEOM_ELI</literal> provider. If the passphrase in
467 the cache is incorrect, then a prompt for the passphrase for
468 the next provider is displayed.</para>
471 <sect3 xml:id="proc">
472 <title>Hardware Support</title>
477 <title>Multimedia Support</title>
483 <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
484 <title>Network Interface Support</title>
486 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and
487 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4;
490 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver
491 has been updated to version 0.33.</para>
493 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593
494 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para>
496 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now
497 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used
500 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver
501 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A
502 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports
503 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para>
505 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been
506 imported from OpenBSD.</para>
508 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple
509 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the
510 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para>
513 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have
514 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for
515 multiple queues.</para>
518 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano
519 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4;
522 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has
523 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in
524 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is
525 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options
526 generating corrupt frames.</para>
528 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added
529 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and
530 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para>
532 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer
533 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4;
536 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor"
537 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for
538 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version
541 <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been
542 updated to version 7.4.2.</para>
544 <para revision="269975">The &man.ixgbe.4; tunables have been
545 renamed to match their &man.sysctl.8; counterparts:</para>
547 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
549 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
550 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
553 <entry>Old Name</entry>
554 <entry>New Name</entry>
560 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_aim</literal></entry>
561 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_aim</literal></entry>
565 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry>
566 <entry><literal>hw.ix.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry>
570 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rx_process_limit</literal></entry>
571 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rx_process_limit</literal></entry>
575 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.tx_process_limit</literal></entry>
576 <entry><literal>hw.ix.tx_process_limit</literal></entry>
580 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_msix</literal></entry>
581 <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_msix</literal></entry>
585 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.num_queues</literal></entry>
586 <entry><literal>hw.ix.num_queues</literal></entry>
590 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.txd</literal></entry>
591 <entry><literal>hw.ix.txd</literal></entry>
595 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rxd</literal></entry>
596 <entry><literal>hw.ix.rxd</literal></entry>
600 <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry>
601 <entry><literal>hw.ix.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry>
607 <para>Be sure to update &man.loader.conf.5; if using the
608 old tunables before upgrading to
609 &os; &release.current;.</para>
611 <para revision="270061">The &man.if.nf10bmac.4; driver has
612 been merged from &os;-CURRENT to support the NetFPGA-10G
613 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para>
615 <para revision="270297">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been
616 updated to support &man.netmap.4; for the T5 10G/40G
619 <para revision="270509">The &man.vtnet.4; driver has been
620 updated to support &man.netmap.4;.</para>
622 <para revision="270514">The &man.urtwn.4; driver has been
623 updated to support the ASUS USB-AC51 wireless card.</para>
625 <para revision="270631">The &intel; XL710 ethernet
626 controller driver, <literal>ixlv(4)</literal>, has been
627 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para>
631 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
632 <title>Network Protocols</title>
634 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol
635 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6
638 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow
639 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been
642 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Kernel RPC code, which
643 is a base of NFS server took multiple optimizations, that
644 significantly improved its performance and
645 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scalability.</para>
647 <para revision="269065" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
648 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiator has been updated to
649 support redirection handling when an
650 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> device is configured with multiple
651 <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses across different network
652 interfaces. Previously, clients connecting to
653 such <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> devices could require
654 additional client-side configuration.</para>
656 <para revision="265523" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
658 <literal>kern.iscsi.fail_on_disconnection</literal>, has
659 been added, which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> clients to
660 remove the attached disk device when the connection to the
661 target is dropped, where previously I/O would stop until the
662 connection is restored.</para>
664 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
665 <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> transmit code has been optimized
666 to coalesce <acronym>PDUs</acronym> and avoid lock
669 <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor"
670 sponsor="&ix;">Several performance optimizations have been
671 made to the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> subsystem, including
672 deferring wakeup until enough data has been received to
673 read or write a file, reducing <acronym>CPU</acronym> usage
674 and throughput performance with large I/O workloads.</para>
676 <para revision="263720" contrib="sponsor"
677 sponsor="&ff;">Support for hostname- and IP-based access
678 restriction has been added to the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>
679 &man.ctld.8; daemon.</para>
681 <para revision="263725" contrib="sponsor"
682 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.ctld.8; daemon has been updated
683 to allow overriding the <quote>default</quote>
684 <literal>portal-group</literal> configuration.</para>
686 <para revision="263726" contrib="sponsor"
687 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.ctld.8; daemon now includes a new
688 <literal>auth-group</literal>, <quote>default</quote>,
689 defaulting to <literal>deny</literal>, which is possible
693 <sect3 xml:id="disks">
694 <title>Disks and Storage</title>
696 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
697 &man.geom.4; subsystem has been updated to support I/O
698 direct dispatch. When safety requirements are met, it
699 enables avoiding passing I/O requests to GEOM
700 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> thread,
701 executing them directly in the caller context, avoiding
703 <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> threads,
704 plus avoid several context switches per I/O.</para>
706 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
707 &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been
708 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para>
710 <para revision="260387" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
711 &man.cam.4; subsystem has been updated to support
712 finer-grained locking, direct dispatch and multi-queue,
713 which combined with &man.geom.4; direct dispatch, reduces
714 lock congestion and improves <acronym>SMP</acronym>
715 scalability of the SCSI/ATA stack.</para>
717 <para revision="260478">The &man.geom.8;
718 <literal>GEOM_MULTIPATH</literal> class has been updated to
719 support automatic live partition resizing.</para>
721 <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been
722 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para>
724 <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has
725 been updated to support unmapped I/O.</para>
727 <para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has
728 been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para>
730 <para revision="264732">Support for
731 <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal> has been added to &man.zfs.8;
732 <literal>zvol</literal> volumes.</para>
734 <para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus
735 adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para>
737 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The
738 &man.mpr.4; device has been added,
739 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA
742 <para revision="265678">A new <literal>zvol</literal> property
743 <literal>volmode</literal> and &man.sysctl.8;
744 <literal>vfs.zfs.vol.mode</literal> has been added to allow
745 switching <literal>zvol</literal> between three different
746 ways of exposing it to a user: <literal>geom</literal>,
747 <literal>dev</literal> and <literal>none</literal>.</para>
749 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The
750 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, providing support for
751 LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The &man.mfi.4; driver will
752 attach to the controller, by default. To enable
753 &man.mrsas.4; add <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal>
754 to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off
755 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para>
758 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os;
759 version of <application>MegaCLI</application> and
760 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with
761 &man.mrsas.4;.</para>
764 <para revision="266608">Fixed accounting of
765 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal> operation in &man.geom.8;
766 <literal>GEOM_DISK</literal> class</para>
768 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility now has an
769 <literal>-o</literal> option, to display
770 <quote>other</quote> operations, such as
771 <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para>
773 <para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been
774 updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para>
776 <para revision="267457">The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been
777 updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</para>
779 <para revision="270130" contrib="sponsor"
780 sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for unmapped I/O has been
781 added to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal>
784 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
785 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of
786 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where
787 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition,
788 but the label provider in <filename
789 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be
792 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8;
793 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making
794 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its
795 components have been replaced.</para>
797 <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has
798 been added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para>
800 <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been
801 updated to version 3.2.5.</para>
803 <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal>
804 option is now able to be built both directly into the kernel
805 or as a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para>
807 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8;
808 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to
809 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the
810 partition size are not saved to disk until
811 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving,
812 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para>
814 <para revision="266220">The &man.geom.uncompress.4; module is
815 built by default which, similar to &man.geom.uzip.4;,
816 provides support for compressed, read-only disk
819 <para revision="268091">Support for the
820 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been
821 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
823 <para revision="270552">A new &man.sysctl.8; and
824 &man.loader.8; tunable,
825 <literal>kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs</literal> has been
826 added to the &man.geom.8; <literal>MBR</literal> partition
827 class. When set to a non-zero value,
828 <literal>GEOM_PART_MBR</literal> will automatically
829 recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment
830 with the disk geometry.</para>
832 <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Many improvements to
833 the CAM Target Layer (CTL):</para>
836 <para>Support for <literal>UNMAP</literal>, <literal>WRITE
837 SAME</literal>, <literal>COMPARE AND WRITE</literal>,
838 <literal>XCOPY</literal> and some other SCSI commands
839 was added to support VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX
840 storage acceleration.</para>
843 <para revision="265642">The
844 <literal>READ</literal>/<literal>WRITE</literal> size
845 limitations were removed by supporting multiple
846 data moves per command.</para>
849 <para revision="268556">Finer-grained per-LUN locking and
850 multiple worker threads for better
851 <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para>
854 <para revision="269297">Memory consumption reduced by
855 several times by disabling some never used
856 functionality.</para>
859 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of
860 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports increased from 32 to
864 <para revision="269429">Improved <literal>zvol</literal>
865 integration for better performance.</para>
869 <para revision="270810" contrib="vendor"
870 vendor="&highpoint;">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
871 updated to version 1.0.1.</para>
873 <para revision="271234">The &man.mrsas.4; driver has been
874 added to the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
875 configuration on &arch.amd64; and &arch.i386;
876 architectures.</para>
880 <title>File Systems</title>
882 <para revision="260338">The
883 <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has
884 been re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM,
885 this can easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU
886 usage in half. It was originally disabled due to memory and
887 <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which
888 should be resolved due to several changes in the VM
891 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor"
892 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>,
893 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used,
894 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical
895 errors have been detected.</para>
897 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
898 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See
899 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para>
901 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
902 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote>
903 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs).
904 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating
905 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives,
906 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal>
907 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para>
909 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread
910 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from
911 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows
912 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8;
913 overall import time in some workloads.</para>
915 <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been
916 updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring
917 a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to
918 a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored
919 files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para>
921 <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added
922 to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para>
927 <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The
928 percentage of the metaslab group size that should be
929 considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab
930 groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this
936 <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The
937 maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to
938 keep their active state</para>
942 <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8;
943 <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased,
944 and a new &man.loader.8; tunable,
945 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been
946 added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which
947 would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for
949 <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable
950 allows overriding the default block size. The previous
951 default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8;
952 tunable is 8192.</para>
954 <para revision="270157">The Fast File System
955 (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support
956 multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were
957 handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have
958 one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para>
960 <para revision="270892" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
961 new filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been
962 merged from &os;-CURRENT. The new &man.autofs.5; facility
963 is similar to that found in other &unix;-like operating
964 systems, such as OS X™ and Solaris™. The
965 &man.autofs.5; facility uses a &sun;-compatible
966 &man.auto.master.5; configuration file, and is administered
967 with the &man.automount.8; userland utility, and the
968 &man.automountd.8; and &man.autounmountd.8; daemons.</para>
972 <sect2 xml:id="userland">
973 <title>Userland Changes</title>
975 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor"
976 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;,
977 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and
978 their parents.</para>
980 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been
981 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead
982 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented
983 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para>
985 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8;
986 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;.
987 To use a non-default location, set
988 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the
989 location of the file.</para>
991 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test
992 suite has been updated to version 0.20. The test suite is
993 disabled by default in &os; 10.1, and can be enabled by
994 adding <literal>WITH_TESTS=yes</literal> to
995 &man.src.conf.5;.</para>
997 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library
998 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from
1001 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility
1002 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para>
1004 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has
1005 been updated to include aliases for
1006 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs
1007 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs
1008 snap</command>.</para>
1010 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has
1011 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs
1012 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified,
1013 prints the output in a parsable format.</para>
1015 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format
1016 implementation has been updated. Support for $2b$ has
1017 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256
1018 characters long.</para>
1020 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been
1021 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para>
1023 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been
1024 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which
1025 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC
1028 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated
1029 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para>
1031 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor"
1032 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been
1033 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which
1034 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled
1037 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8;
1038 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent
1039 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f
1040 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal>
1041 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para>
1043 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults
1044 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para>
1046 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been
1047 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the
1048 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would
1049 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating
1050 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para>
1052 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes
1053 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In
1054 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>,
1055 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from
1056 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the
1057 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and
1058 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from
1059 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para>
1061 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility
1062 and related image activator features have been merged from
1063 &os;-CURRENT.</para>
1065 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been
1066 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to
1067 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names.
1068 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to
1069 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the
1072 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated
1073 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the
1074 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para>
1076 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been
1077 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When
1078 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations
1079 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para>
1081 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been
1082 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates
1083 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename>
1085 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para>
1087 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been
1088 updated to version 3.4.1.</para>
1090 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format
1091 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para>
1093 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for
1094 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors
1095 and larger amounts of available memory.</para>
1097 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been
1098 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which
1099 ends event collection after the specified number of
1102 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has
1103 been updated to avoid printing
1104 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename>
1105 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para>
1107 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;,
1108 has been updated to include optional
1109 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap
1110 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem.
1111 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured
1112 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para>
1114 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now
1115 includes files in the
1116 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and
1117 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename>
1118 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para>
1120 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been
1121 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths
1122 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are
1123 not directories, such as <filename
1124 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename
1125 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para>
1127 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote>
1128 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows
1129 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the
1130 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent
1131 to <literal>off</literal>.</para>
1133 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy
1134 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from
1135 &man.bhyve.8;.</para>
1137 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility
1138 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has
1139 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the
1140 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para>
1142 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated
1143 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system
1144 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1;
1145 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced
1146 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla
1147 web interface.</para>
1149 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been
1150 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which
1151 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and
1152 <literal>-C</literal>.</para>
1154 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would
1155 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions
1156 has been fixed.</para>
1158 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been
1159 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and
1160 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is
1161 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage
1162 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is
1163 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about
1164 threads rather than the process(es).</para>
1167 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used
1168 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for
1169 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para>
1172 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been
1173 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which
1174 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para>
1176 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been
1177 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para>
1179 <para revision="268700" contrib="sponsor"
1180 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been
1181 updated to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command,
1182 which allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE
1183 IN</command> and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE
1184 OUT</command>.</para>
1186 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been
1187 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which
1188 displays only physical providers when specified.</para>
1190 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been
1191 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when
1192 also specifying <literal>-n
1193 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para>
1195 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been
1196 updated to include support for both fixed- and
1197 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym>
1198 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para>
1200 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection
1201 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no
1202 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para>
1204 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script,
1205 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>,
1206 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para>
1208 <para>This update includes:</para>
1212 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added,
1213 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment
1218 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added,
1219 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para>
1223 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added,
1224 which is used to pass the host path to
1225 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para>
1229 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices
1230 has been added.</para>
1234 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been
1239 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1,
1240 adding support for RFC5661, has merged from
1241 &os;-CURRENT.</para>
1243 <para revision="269432" arch="ia64">The serial terminals
1244 <filename>ttyu0</filename> and <filename>ttyu1</filename> have
1245 been updated to <literal>onifconsole</literal> by default in
1246 &man.ttys.5;, which either can be the serial console,
1247 depending on the platform.</para>
1249 <para revision="269800">The &man.ping6.8; utility has been
1250 updated to reset <literal>itimer</literal> when the maximum
1251 number of packets to send have been reached. This prevents
1252 &man.ping6.8; from exiting when the interval in set to a small
1253 value and a low number of packets to send has been
1256 <para revision="269805">The &man.jail.8; utility has been
1257 updated to support extra &man.ifconfig.8; arguments for the
1258 <literal>ip4.addr</literal> and <literal>ip6.addr</literal>
1259 parameters. This change allows &man.carp.4; interfaces to
1260 be used within the &man.jail.8;.</para>
1262 <para revision="269946">Support for generating and compiling
1263 <acronym>USDT</acronym> <application>DTrace</application>
1264 probes has been improved. <application>DTrace</application>
1265 <acronym>USDT</acronym> files are now handled similar to
1266 &man.lex.1; and &man.yacc.1; files, meaning support for
1267 handling <application>D</application> files as part of the
1268 build process is built into the <literal>SRCS</literal>
1269 &man.make.1; environment variable.</para>
1271 <para revision="269968">The &man.iscsictl.8; utility has been
1272 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-M</literal>, which
1273 allows modifying the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> session
1274 parameters without requiring the session to be removed and
1277 <para revision="270043">The &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been
1278 updated to support specifying the NFS version as
1279 a <literal>key=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pair
1280 argument to the <literal>-o</literal> flag. For example, to
1281 specify NFS version 4, the syntax to use is
1282 <literal>-o vers=4</literal>.</para>
1284 <para revision="270242" contrib="sponsor"
1285 sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.devd.8; client socket type
1286 has been changed to <literal>SOCK_SEQPACKET</literal>,
1287 providing sequential packet support.</para>
1289 <para revision="270401">Support for the <quote>account</quote>
1290 facility has been added to the &man.pam.group.8;
1293 <para revision="270890">The &man.pathchk.1; utility has been
1294 updated to ensure bytes greater than or equal to 128 are
1295 considered non-portable.</para>
1297 <para revision="270997" contrib="vendor" vendor="&freenas;">The
1298 &man.zdb.8; utility is now included in the set of applications
1299 installed in the <filename
1300 class="directory">/rescue</filename> environment, making it
1301 possible to examine &man.zfs.8; filesystems when <filename
1302 class="directory">/usr</filename> is unavailable.</para>
1304 <para>Several <literal>libc</literal> improvements have been
1305 merged from illumos™ and &apple;, providing better
1306 internationalization support and &posix; compliance.</para>
1308 <para revision="271967">Support for adding empty partitions has
1309 been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility.</para>
1311 <para revision="272819">Support for QCOW and QCOW2 disk image
1312 formats has been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility.</para>
1314 <para revision="273098">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been
1315 updated to include three options used to print information
1316 about &man.mkimg.1; itself:</para>
1318 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
1320 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
1321 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
1324 <entry>Option</entry>
1325 <entry>Output</entry>
1331 <entry><literal>--version</literal></entry>
1332 <entry>The current version of the &man.mkimg.1;
1337 <entry><literal>--formats</literal></entry>
1338 <entry>The disk image file formats supported by
1339 &man.mkimg.1;</entry>
1343 <entry><literal>--schemes</literal></entry>
1344 <entry>The partition schemes supported by
1345 &man.mkimg.1;</entry>
1351 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
1352 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
1354 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename>
1355 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement
1356 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously,
1358 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal>
1359 would not be created if
1360 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was
1363 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been
1364 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists
1365 before traversing the directory.</para>
1367 <para revision="259141">A regression introduced in
1368 &os; 10.0-RELEASE that would prevent proper IPv6
1369 allocation via the &man.jail.8; &man.rc.8; startup script
1370 has been fixed.</para>
1372 <para revision="264438">The &man.rc.8; restriction requiring
1373 &man.mdconfig.8; devices defined in &man.rc.conf.5; to be
1374 listed sequentially has been removed.</para>
1376 <para revision="262566">The &man.sshd.8; &man.rc.d.8; startup
1377 script now generates <literal>ED25519</literal> &man.sshd.8;
1378 host keys if keys do not already exist when
1379 <literal>ssh_keygen_alg()</literal> is invoked.</para>
1381 <para revision="271095">Support for &man.vt.4; keyboard maps
1382 has been added to the <filename>syscons</filename>
1383 &man.rc.d.8; startup script.</para>
1385 <para revision="271260">Support for subdirectories within
1387 class="directory">/etc/rc.conf.d/<replaceable>service</replaceable>/</filename>
1388 has been added the &man.rc.d.8;. This allows creating
1389 separate configuration files for services such as
1390 <filename>netif</filename>, for example, where each network
1391 interface can have a separate configuration file.</para>
1393 <para revision="272078">The default &man.rc.conf.5;,
1394 <filename>/etc/defaults/rc.conf</filename>, has been updated
1395 to include <filename
1396 class="directory">/usr/lib32/compat</filename> in the
1397 default <filename>ld-elf32.so.1</filename> search
1401 <sect3 xml:id="periodic-scripts">
1402 <title><filename>/etc/periodic</filename> Scripts</title>
1404 <para revision="272430">The daily &man.periodic.8; script
1405 <filename>110.clean-tmps</filename> has been updated to
1406 avoid crossing filesystem mount boundaries when cleaning
1407 files in <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename>.</para>
1411 <sect2 xml:id="contrib">
1412 <title>Contributed Software</title>
1414 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
1415 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para>
1417 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
1418 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para>
1420 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated
1421 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para>
1423 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application>
1424 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para>
1426 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and
1427 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para>
1429 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been
1430 updated to version 20140422.</para>
1432 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor"
1433 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has
1434 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para>
1436 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and
1437 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version
1440 <para revision="269686"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
1441 been updated to version 1.0.1i.</para>
1443 <para revision="269847">The <quote>lite</quote> version of
1444 <application>Subversion</application> included in the
1445 &os; base system and its dependencies have been
1450 <para><application>apr</application> has been
1451 updated to version 1.5.1.</para>
1455 <para><application>apr-util</application> has been
1456 updated to version 1.5.3.</para>
1460 <para><application>serf</application> has been
1461 updated to version 1.3.7.</para>
1465 <para><application>svnlite</application> has been
1466 updated to version 1.8.10.</para>
1470 <para revision="270026">The &man.nvi.1; editor has been
1471 update to version 2.1.2-c80f493b038.</para>
1473 <para revision="270031">The &man.fparseln.3; library has
1474 been updated to version 1.7.</para>
1476 <para revision="270415">The <application>lukemftpd</application>
1477 <acronym>FTP</acronym> server has been removed from the
1478 &os; base system.</para>
1480 <para revision="270817">The timezone database has been updated
1481 to version tzdata2014f.</para>
1483 <para revision="271947"><application>OpenPAM</application> has
1484 been updated to Ourouparia (20140912).</para>
1487 <sect2 xml:id="ports">
1488 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
1494 <sect2 xml:id="releng">
1495 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
1497 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has
1498 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the
1499 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as
1500 part of the release build, regardless of native- or
1501 cross-built releases.</para>
1503 <para revision="271470" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
1504 <filename class="directory">release/</filename> scripts have
1505 been updated to produce <acronym>UEFI</acronym>-capable and
1506 <acronym>BIOS</acronym>-capable CD-ROM ISOs as well as memory
1507 stick images for the &os;/&arch.amd64; architecture.</para>
1509 <para revision="271943" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
1510 <filename>release/scripts/pkg-stage.sh</filename> script has
1511 been updated to include a symlink to the on-disc version of
1512 &man.pkg.8; in the <filename
1513 class="directory">packages/</filename> structure on the
1514 DVD installer. This allows the &man.pkg.7; bootstrap utility
1515 to properly locate the <filename>Latest/pkg.txz</filename>
1516 file on the DVD when <literal>REPOS_DIR</literal> is set to
1517 <filename class="directory">/dist/packages/repos</filename>,
1518 eliminating the need for a network connection or explicitly
1519 providing the path to the version included on the DVD
1520 installation medium.</para>
1522 <para revision="273101" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
1523 &os; Release Engineering build tools have been updated to
1524 provide support for building virtual machine disk images as
1525 part of the release build process using &man.mkimg.1;. The
1526 disk image formats currently supported include QCOW2, VHD,
1527 VMDK, and raw formats. See &man.release.7; for additional
1530 <para revision="273199" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
1531 &os; Release Engineering build tools have been updated to
1532 provide support for building &os; virtual machine disk images
1533 for the µsoft; Azure cloud hosting platform. This
1534 functionality is not connected directly to the default
1535 <literal>release</literal> &man.make.1; target, however can be
1536 invoked by specifying the <literal>vm-azure</literal> target
1540 <sect2 xml:id="doc">
1541 <title>Documentation</title>
1548 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
1549 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
1551 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
1552 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
1553 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade
1554 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
1555 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as
1556 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8;
1557 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
1558 connectivity.</para>
1560 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
1561 base system from source code) from previous versions are
1562 supported, according to the instructions in
1563 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
1566 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after
1567 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration