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22   <info>
23     <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
24
25     <author>
26       <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
27     </author>
28
29     <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
30
31     <!-- First rev: 285831 -->
32     <!-- Last rev: 284813 -->
33
34     <copyright>
35       <year>2016</year>
36       <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
37         Project</holder>
38     </copyright>
39
40     <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
41       &tm-attrib.freebsd;
42       &tm-attrib.ibm;
43       &tm-attrib.ieee;
44       &tm-attrib.intel;
45       &tm-attrib.sparc;
46       &tm-attrib.general;
47     </legalnotice>
48
49     <abstract>
50       <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
51         a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
52         &release.branch; development line.  This document lists
53         applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
54         release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
55         userland.  Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
56         presented.</para>
57     </abstract>
58   </info>
59
60   <sect1 xml:id="intro">
61     <title>Introduction</title>
62
63     <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
64       &release.current;.  It describes recently added, changed, or
65       deleted features of &os;.  It also provides some notes on
66       upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
67
68     <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to
69       which these release notes apply represents the latest point
70       along the &release.branch; development branch since
71       &release.branch; was created.  Information regarding pre-built,
72       binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
73       found at <uri
74         xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
75
76     <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to
77       which these release notes apply represents a point along the
78       &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and
79       the future &release.next;.  Information regarding pre-built,
80       binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
81       found at <uri
82         xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
83
84     <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
85       &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution.  It can be
86       found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
87       any of its mirrors.  More information on obtaining this (or
88       other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the
89       <link
90         xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
91           &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
92         xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
93         Handbook</link>.</para>
94
95     <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata
96       before installing &os;.  The errata document is updated with
97       <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
98       release cycle or after the release.  Typically, it contains
99       information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections
100       to documentation.  An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
101       &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
102
103     <para>This document describes the most user-visible new or changed
104       features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
105
106     <para>Typical release note items document recent security
107       advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
108       support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
109       contributed software upgrades.  They may also list changes to
110       major ports/packages or release engineering practices.  Clearly
111       the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
112       between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
113       advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
114       improvements.</para>
115   </sect1>
116
117   <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
118     <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
119
120     <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
121       (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
122       using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade
123       procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
124       unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as
125       a part of an official &os; release.  The &man.freebsd-update.8;
126       utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
127       connectivity.</para>
128
129     <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
130       base system from source code) from previous versions are
131       supported, according to the instructions in
132       <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
133
134     <important>
135       <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after
136         backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
137         files.</para>
138     </important>
139   </sect1>
140
141   <sect1 xml:id="security-errata">
142     <title>Security and Errata</title>
143
144     <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and
145       Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para>
146
147     <sect2 xml:id="security">
148       <title>Security Advisories</title>
149
150       &security;
151     </sect2>
152
153     <sect2 xml:id="errata">
154       <title>Errata Notices</title>
155
156       &errata;
157     </sect2>
158   </sect1>
159
160   <sect1 xml:id="userland">
161     <title>Userland</title>
162
163     <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland
164       applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para>
165
166     <sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
167       <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
168
169       <para>&nbsp;</para>
170     </sect2>
171
172     <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
173       <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
174
175       <para revision="288202" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
176         &man.ar.1; utility now enables deterministic mode
177         (<literal>-D</literal>) by default.  This behavior can be
178         disabled by specifying the <literal>-U</literal> flag.</para>
179
180       <para revision="291774">The &man.cp.1; utility has been updated
181         to include a new flag, <literal>-s</literal>, which creates
182         a symbolic link to the specified source.</para>
183
184       <para revision="285929">A bug in &man.ctladm.8; utility which could
185         return a non-zero value even if it succeeds has been fixed.</para>
186
187       <para revision="286810" contrib="sponsor"
188         sponsor="&yandex;">The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now reports
189         SFP/SFP+ data when a <option>-v</option> flag is specified and
190         the NIC driver provides them.</para>
191
192       <para revision="286064">The &man.jail.8; utility has been
193         updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which
194         ensures a clean environment in the target jail when used.
195         Additionally, &man.jail.8; will run a shell within the target
196         jail when run no commands are specified.</para>
197
198       <para revision="286952">The &man.last.1; utility now supports
199         <literal>reboot</literal> as a pseudo-user name which prints
200         all system reboot entries (<literal>SHUTDOWN_TIME</literal>
201         and <literal>BOOT_TIME</literal> records).  This was
202         accidentally removed as of &os; 9.0.</para>
203
204       <para revision="287027">The &man.mv.1; utility now returns
205         <literal>1</literal> instead of <literal>64</literal>
206         when more than two arguments are specified and
207         the target is not a valid directory.</para>
208
209       <para revision="287122">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been
210         updated to include support for <literal>NTFS</literal>
211         filesystems in both <acronym>MBR</acronym> and
212         <acronym>GPT</acronym> partitioning schemes.</para>
213
214       <para revision="287122">A bug in the &man.mkimg.1; utility
215         which prevented dynamic VHD format from working with QEMU
216         has been fixed.</para>
217
218       <para revision="287746">The &man.pciconf.8; utility has been
219         updated to use the PCI ID database from the <filename
220           role="package">misc/pciids</filename> package, if present,
221         falling back to the PCI ID database in the &os; base
222         system.</para>
223
224       <para revision="288710" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&gandi;">A
225         new utility, &man.sesutil.8;, has been added, which is used
226         to manage &man.ses.4; devices.</para>
227
228       <para revision="292231">Support for a
229         <option>-manage-gids</option> flag has been added to
230         &man.nfsuserd.8;.  This option can be enabled at boot time by
231         setting an &man.rc.conf.5; variable
232         <varname>nfs_server_managegids</varname> to
233         <literal>YES</literal>.</para>
234
235       <para revision="287084"><command>userdel</command> and
236         <command>usermod</command> subcommand of the &man.pw.8; utility
237         now supports a <option>-y</option> flag.</para>
238
239       <para revision="292462" contrib="sponsor"
240         sponsor="&dellinc;">The resolver library has been updated to
241         reload <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename> if the
242         modification time has changed.</para>
243
244       <para revision="293744" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
245         initial implementation of <quote>reroot</quote> support has
246         been added to the &man.reboot.8; utility, allowing the root
247         filesystem to be mounted from a temporary source filesystem
248         without requiring a full system reboot.</para>
249
250       <para revision="287080">The &man.watchdogd.8; daemon now supports
251         a <option>-x <replaceable>exit_timeout</replaceable></option>
252         option to specify the timeout period in seconds to
253         leave in effect when the program exits.</para>
254     </sect2>
255
256     <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
257       <title>Contributed Software</title>
258
259       <para revision="286082">A bug in &man.libarchive.3; library which
260         could report an error when handling a sparse file entry
261         in a tar file has been fixed
262         by importing changeset <literal>bf4f6ec64e</literal>.</para>
263
264       <para revision="286751">Time zone database has been updated to
265         version <literal>2015f</literal>.</para>
266
267       <para revision="290152">The &man.file.1; utility has been
268         updated to version 5.25.</para>
269
270       <para revision="292588">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
271         to version 5.2.2, which provides support for multi-threaded
272         compression.</para>
273
274       <para revision="293650">The &man.ntpd.8; utility has been
275         updated to version 4.2.8p5.</para>
276
277       <para revision="294190">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
278         updated to version 1.5.7.</para>
279
280       <para revision="294286">The &man.less.1; utility has been
281         updated to version v481.</para>
282
283       <para revision="295690">The
284         <literal>unbound-control-setup</literal> script has been
285         removed from the base system.</para>
286
287       <para revision="295691">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
288         updated to enable the <literal>insecure-lan-zones</literal>
289         option in preference of listing each <acronym>AS112</acronym>
290         zone individually.</para>
291
292       <para revision="296317">The <application>OpenSSL</application>
293         suite has been updated to version 1.0.1s.</para>
294
295       <para revision="296853">The <application>OpenSSH</application>
296         suite has been updated to version 7.2p2.</para>
297     </sect2>
298
299     <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
300       <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
301
302       <para revision="295264" contrib="sponsor"
303         sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.bsdinstall.8; utility has
304         been updated to support <acronym>ZFS</acronym> installation
305         on <acronym>EFI</acronym>-based systems.</para>
306     </sect2>
307
308     <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
309       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
310         Scripts</title>
311
312       <para revision="294680">The <literal>netwait</literal>
313         &man.rc.8; script has been updated to wait for network
314         interfaces that attach late in the boot process, such as some
315         <acronym>USB</acronym> network cards.</para>
316
317       <para revision="287091">Firewall rules set by
318         <literal>firewall_type="SIMPLE"</literal> now uses
319         &man.ipfw.4; <command>tables</command> for addresses to be
320         blocked.</para>
321     </sect2>
322
323     <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
324       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
325         Scripts</title>
326
327       <para>&nbsp;</para>
328     </sect2>
329
330     <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
331       <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
332
333       <para>&nbsp;</para>
334     </sect2>
335
336     <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
337       <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
338
339       <para>&nbsp;</para>
340     </sect2>
341   </sect1>
342
343   <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
344     <title>Kernel</title>
345
346     <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
347       tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
348       categorized.</para>
349
350     <para revision="286742">The &man.vt.4; terminal console driver now
351       supports <option>ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER</option> and
352       <varname>debug.kdb.alt_break_to_debugger</varname> sysctl
353       variable when kernel debugger support (<option>options
354       KDB</option>) is enabled.</para>
355
356     <para revision="286843">A <function>thread_create()</function>
357       function has been added as an API to create userspace thread in
358       kernel space.</para>
359
360     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
361       <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
362
363       <para revision="288167" contrib="sponsor"
364         sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.kqueue.2; system call has been
365         updated to handle write events to files larger than 2
366         gigabytes.</para>
367     </sect2>
368
369     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
370       <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
371
372       <para revision="286132" contrib="sponsor"
373         sponsor="&ff;" arch="amd64,i386">The &man.pms.4; driver
374         has been removed from
375         <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
376     </sect2>
377
378     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
379       <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
380
381       <para revision="286322" contrib="sponsor"
382         sponsor="&ff;">A bug which could prevent a loader
383         tunable <varname>kern.racct.enable</varname> from working
384         has been fixed.</para>
385     </sect2>
386   </sect1>
387
388   <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
389     <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
390
391     <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
392       device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
393
394     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
395       <title>Device Drivers</title>
396
397       <para revision="287079" arch="arm">The <literal>imxwdt</literal>
398         driver, which supports Freescale i.MX watchdog, has been
399         fixed.</para>
400
401       <para revision="287037">A bug in the &man.uart.4; driver which
402         could cause a polarity reversal of PPS (Pulse Per Second)
403         capture events has been fixed.  The trailing edge of a
404         positive PPS pulse and the leading edge of the next pulse were
405         used as "assert" and "clear" event respectively.</para>
406
407       <para revision="287037">The &man.uart.4; driver now supports
408         runtime configuration of PPS signal source captured by the
409         driver via <varname>dev.uart.pps_mode</varname> and
410         <varname>dev.uart.<replaceable>0</replaceable>.pps_mode</varname>
411         sysctl variables.  The values <literal>0</literal>,
412         <literal>1</literal>, and <literal>2</literal> correspond to
413         disabled, capturing pulses on the CTS line,
414         and capturing pulses on the DCD line, respectively.
415         The default value is <literal>2</literal>.</para>
416
417       <para revision="287035">The &man.uftdi.4; driver now supports
418         <varname>UFTDIIOC_READ_EEPROM</varname>,
419         <varname>UFTDIIOC_WRITE_EEPROM</varname>,
420         and <varname>UFTDIIOC_ERASE_EEPROM</varname>
421         &man.ioctl.2; to
422         read/write serial EEPROM attached to the controller chip.</para>
423     </sect2>
424
425     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
426       <title>Storage Drivers</title>
427
428       <para revision="280451">Legacy &man.ata.4; drivers such as
429         <literal>ataahci</literal>, <literal>ataadaptec</literal>,
430         and <literal>mv_sata</literal> have been removed in favor of
431         the new drivers such as &man.ahci.4;, &man.siis.4;, and
432         &man.mvs.4;.</para>
433
434       <para revision="288732" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
435         <acronym>CTL</acronym> High Availability implementation has
436         been rewritten.</para>
437
438       <para revision="288810">The &man.ctl.4; driver has been updated
439         to support CD-ROM and removable devices.</para>
440
441       <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The &man.isp.4; driver has
442         been updated and improved: added support for 16Gbps FC cards,
443         improved target mode support, completed Multi-ID (NPIV)
444         functionality.</para>
445     </sect2>
446
447     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
448       <title>Network Drivers</title>
449
450       <para revision="295524" contrib="sponsor"
451         sponsor="&limelight;, &intelcorp;">The &man.ixgbe.4; driver
452         has been updated to version 3.1.13-k.</para>
453
454       <para revision="286895">Firmwares for model T4 and T5 bundled
455         with the &man.cxgbe.4; driver have been updated to
456         version 1.14.4.0.</para>
457     </sect2>
458   </sect1>
459
460   <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
461     <title>Hardware Support</title>
462
463     <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
464       machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
465       as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
466       other sections of this document.</para>
467
468     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
469       <title>Hardware Support</title>
470
471       <para revision="293675">The &man.ismt.4; driver has been added,
472         providing support for recent &intel; SMBus 2.0
473         controllers.</para>
474     </sect2>
475
476     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
477       <title>Virtualization Support</title>
478
479       <para revision="287802">The &man.xen.4; driver has been updated
480         to include support for <literal>blkif</literal> indirect
481         segment I/O.</para>
482     </sect2>
483
484     <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
485       <title>ARM Support</title>
486
487       <para>&nbsp;</para>
488     </sect2>
489   </sect1>
490
491   <sect1 xml:id="storage">
492     <title>Storage</title>
493
494     <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
495       and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
496
497     <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
498       <title>General Storage</title>
499
500       <para>&nbsp;</para>
501     </sect2>
502
503     <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
504       <title>Networked Storage</title>
505
506       <para>&nbsp;</para>
507     </sect2>
508
509     <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
510       <title>ZFS</title>
511
512       <para revision="287665" contrib="sponsor"
513         sponsor="&clusterhq;">The &man.zfs.8; <literal>l2arc</literal>
514         code has been updated to take <literal>ashift</literal> into
515         account when gathering buffers to be written to the
516         <literal>l2arc</literal> device.</para>
517     </sect2>
518
519     <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
520       <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
521
522       <para>&nbsp;</para>
523     </sect2>
524   </sect1>
525
526   <sect1 xml:id="boot">
527     <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
528
529     <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
530       boot-related changes.</para>
531
532     <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
533       <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
534
535       <para revision="294445">Initial terminal emulation support has
536         been added to <filename>loader.efi</filename> for
537         <acronym>UEFI</acronym>-based systems.</para>
538
539       <para revision="294999" contrib="sponsor"
540         sponsor="&multiplay;">Initial <acronym>ZFS</acronym> boot
541         support has been added to the <acronym>EFI</acronym>
542         implementation.</para>
543
544       <para revision="295475" contrib="sponsor"
545         sponsor="&scaleengine;">The <acronym>UEFI</acronym> loader has
546         been updated to support multiple <acronym>ZFS</acronym> boot
547         environments, such as those provided by <filename
548           role="package">sysutils/beadm</filename>.</para>
549     </sect2>
550
551     <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
552       <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
553
554       <para revision="294446">The <acronym>UEFI</acronym> boot menu
555         has been updated to enable the <quote>Beastie</quote> menu,
556         similiar to the traditional &man.sc.4; boot menu.</para>
557     </sect2>
558   </sect1>
559
560   <sect1 xml:id="network">
561     <title>Networking</title>
562
563     <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
564       &os;.</para>
565
566     <para revision="286125" contrib="sponsor"
567       sponsor="&netgate;">A bug in &man.pf.4; packet filter which
568       could cause a rule with no <literal>log</literal> parameter to
569       log the matched packet has been fixed.</para>
570
571     <para revision="286316">A bug in &os; IPv6 stack which did not
572       invoke an <literal>LLENTRY_DELETED</literal> event when an L2
573       address was deleted from the link-level address table for
574       IPv6.</para>
575
576     <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
577       <title>Network Protocols</title>
578
579       <para>&nbsp;</para>
580     </sect2>
581   </sect1>
582
583   <sect1 xml:id="ports">
584     <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
585
586     <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Ports
587       Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
588       installation tools.</para>
589
590     <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
591       <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
592
593       <para>&nbsp;</para>
594     </sect2>
595
596     <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
597       <title>Packaging Changes</title>
598
599       <para>&nbsp;</para>
600     </sect2>
601   </sect1>
602
603   <sect1 xml:id="doc">
604     <title>Documentation</title>
605
606     <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Documentation
607       Project sources and toolchain.</para>
608
609     <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
610       <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
611
612       <para>&nbsp;</para>
613     </sect2>
614
615     <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
616       <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
617
618       <para>&nbsp;</para>
619     </sect2>
620   </sect1>
621
622   <sect1 xml:id="releng">
623     <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
624
625     <para>This section covers changes that are specific to the
626       &os;&nbsp;Release Engineering processes.</para>
627
628     <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
629       <title>Integration Changes</title>
630
631       <para>&nbsp;</para>
632     </sect2>
633   </sect1>
634 </article>