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23 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
26 <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
29 <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
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36 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
40 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
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
60 <sect1 xml:id="intro">
61 <title>Introduction</title>
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>
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
74 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
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
82 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
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
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>
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>
103 <para>This document describes the most user-visible new or changed
104 features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
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
117 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
118 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
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
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>
135 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after
136 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
141 <sect1 xml:id="security-errata">
142 <title>Security and Errata</title>
144 <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and
145 Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para>
147 <sect2 xml:id="security">
148 <title>Security Advisories</title>
153 <sect2 xml:id="errata">
154 <title>Errata Notices</title>
160 <sect1 xml:id="userland">
161 <title>Userland</title>
163 <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland
164 applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para>
166 <sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
167 <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
172 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
173 <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
256 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
257 <title>Contributed Software</title>
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>
264 <para revision="286751">Time zone database has been updated to
265 version <literal>2015f</literal>.</para>
267 <para revision="290152">The &man.file.1; utility has been
268 updated to version 5.25.</para>
270 <para revision="292588">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
271 to version 5.2.2, which provides support for multi-threaded
274 <para revision="293650">The &man.ntpd.8; utility has been
275 updated to version 4.2.8p5.</para>
277 <para revision="294190">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
278 updated to version 1.5.7.</para>
280 <para revision="294286">The &man.less.1; utility has been
281 updated to version v481.</para>
283 <para revision="295690">The
284 <literal>unbound-control-setup</literal> script has been
285 removed from the base system.</para>
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>
292 <para revision="296317">The <application>OpenSSL</application>
293 suite has been updated to version 1.0.1s.</para>
295 <para revision="296853">The <application>OpenSSH</application>
296 suite has been updated to version 7.2p2.</para>
299 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
300 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
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>
308 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
309 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
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>
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
323 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
324 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
330 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
331 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
336 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
337 <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
343 <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
344 <title>Kernel</title>
346 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
347 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
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>
356 <para revision="286843">A <function>thread_create()</function>
357 function has been added as an API to create userspace thread in
360 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
361 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
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
369 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
370 <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
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>
378 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
379 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
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>
388 <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
389 <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
391 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
392 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
394 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
395 <title>Device Drivers</title>
397 <para revision="287079" arch="arm">The <literal>imxwdt</literal>
398 driver, which supports Freescale i.MX watchdog, has been
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>
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>
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>
422 read/write serial EEPROM attached to the controller chip.</para>
425 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
426 <title>Storage Drivers</title>
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
434 <para revision="288732" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
435 <acronym>CTL</acronym> High Availability implementation has
436 been rewritten.</para>
438 <para revision="288810">The &man.ctl.4; driver has been updated
439 to support CD-ROM and removable devices.</para>
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>
447 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
448 <title>Network Drivers</title>
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>
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>
460 <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
461 <title>Hardware Support</title>
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>
468 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
469 <title>Hardware Support</title>
471 <para revision="293675">The &man.ismt.4; driver has been added,
472 providing support for recent &intel; SMBus 2.0
476 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
477 <title>Virtualization Support</title>
479 <para revision="287802">The &man.xen.4; driver has been updated
480 to include support for <literal>blkif</literal> indirect
484 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
485 <title>ARM Support</title>
491 <sect1 xml:id="storage">
492 <title>Storage</title>
494 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
495 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
497 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
498 <title>General Storage</title>
503 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
504 <title>Networked Storage</title>
509 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
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>
519 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
520 <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
526 <sect1 xml:id="boot">
527 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
529 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
530 boot-related changes.</para>
532 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
533 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
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>
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>
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>
551 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
552 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
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>
560 <sect1 xml:id="network">
561 <title>Networking</title>
563 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
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>
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
576 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
577 <title>Network Protocols</title>
583 <sect1 xml:id="ports">
584 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
586 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports
587 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
588 installation tools.</para>
590 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
591 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
596 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
597 <title>Packaging Changes</title>
604 <title>Documentation</title>
606 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation
607 Project sources and toolchain.</para>
609 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
610 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
615 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
616 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
622 <sect1 xml:id="releng">
623 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
625 <para>This section covers changes that are specific to the
626 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para>
628 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
629 <title>Integration Changes</title>