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15 <articleinfo>
16   <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
17
18   <corpauthor>The &os; Project</corpauthor>
19
20   <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
21
22   <copyright>
23     <year>2000</year>
24     <year>2001</year>
25     <year>2002</year>
26     <year>2003</year>
27     <year>2004</year>
28     <year>2005</year>
29     <year>2006</year>
30     <year>2007</year>
31     <year>2008</year>
32     <year>2009</year>
33     <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
34   </copyright>
35
36   <legalnotice id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
37     &tm-attrib.freebsd;
38     &tm-attrib.ibm;
39     &tm-attrib.ieee;
40     &tm-attrib.intel;
41     &tm-attrib.sparc;
42     &tm-attrib.general;
43   </legalnotice>
44
45   <abstract>
46     <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
47       of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
48       &release.branch; development line.
49       This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
50       the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
51       kernel and userland.
52       Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para>
53
54     <para>NOTE: the full release notes were not available at the time
55       the release builds were started.  See the online version of the
56       release notes for the most up to date information.  The online
57       release notes can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.
58     </para>
59   </abstract>
60 </articleinfo>
61
62 <sect1 id="intro">
63   <title>Introduction</title>
64
65   <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
66     &release.current;.  It
67     describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;.
68     It also provides some notes on upgrading
69     from previous versions of &os;.</para>
70
71 <![ %release.type.current [
72
73   <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
74     apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development
75     branch since &release.branch; was created.  Information regarding pre-built, binary
76     &release.type; distributions along this branch
77     can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
78
79 ]]>
80
81 <![ %release.type.snapshot [
82
83   <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
84     apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development
85     branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;.
86     Information regarding
87     pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch
88     can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
89
90 ]]>
91
92 <![ %release.type.release [
93
94   <para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
95     &release.type; distribution.  It can be found at <ulink
96     url="&release.url;"></ulink> or any of its mirrors.  More
97     information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
98     distributions of &os; can be found in the <ulink
99     url="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
100     &os;</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink
101     url="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
102     Handbook</ulink>.</para>
103
104 ]]>
105
106   <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
107     installing &os;.  The errata document is updated with
108     <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
109     release cycle or after the release.  Typically, it contains
110     information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
111     documentation.  An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
112     &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
113
114 </sect1>
115
116 <sect1 id="new">
117   <title>What's New</title>
118
119   <para>This section describes
120     the most user-visible new or changed features in &os;
121     since &release.prev;.
122     In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch;
123     branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features.
124   </para>
125
126   <para>Typical release note items
127     document recent security advisories issued after
128     &release.prev;,
129     new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options,
130     major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades.  They may also
131     list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering
132     practices.  Clearly the release notes cannot list every single
133     change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses
134     primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major
135     architectural improvements.</para>
136
137   <sect2 id="security">
138     <title>Security Advisories</title>
139
140     <para></para>
141
142   </sect2>
143
144   <sect2 id="kernel">
145     <title>Kernel Changes</title>
146
147     <sect3 id="boot">
148       <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
149
150       <para></para>
151
152     </sect3>
153
154     <sect3 id="proc">
155       <title>Hardware Support</title>
156
157       <sect4 id="mm">
158         <title>Multimedia Support</title>
159
160         <para></para>
161
162       </sect4>
163
164       <sect4 id="net-if">
165         <title>Network Interface Support</title>
166
167         <para></para>
168
169       </sect4>
170     </sect3>
171
172     <sect3 id="net-proto">
173       <title>Network Protocols</title>
174
175       <para></para>
176
177     </sect3>
178
179     <sect3 id="disks">
180       <title>Disks and Storage</title>
181
182       <para></para>
183
184     </sect3>
185
186     <sect3 id="fs">
187       <title>File Systems</title>
188
189       <para></para>
190
191     </sect3>
192   </sect2>
193
194   <sect2 id="userland">
195     <title>Userland Changes</title>
196
197     <sect3 id="rc-scripts">
198       <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
199
200       <para></para>
201
202     </sect3>
203   </sect2>
204
205   <sect2 id="contrib">
206     <title>Contributed Software</title>
207
208       <para></para>
209
210   </sect2>
211
212   <sect2 id="ports">
213     <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
214
215     <para></para>
216
217   </sect2>
218
219   <sect2 id="releng">
220     <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
221
222     <para></para>
223
224   </sect2>
225
226   <sect2 id="doc">
227     <title>Documentation</title>
228
229     <para></para>
230
231   </sect2>
232 </sect1>
233
234 <sect1 id="upgrade">
235   <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
236
237   <para arch="amd64,i386">Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE,
238     binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the
239     various security branches) are supported using the
240     &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade procedure will
241     update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC or
242     SMP kernels distributed as a part of an official &os; release.
243     The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being
244     upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
245
246   <para>An older form of binary upgrade is supported through the
247     <command>Upgrade</command> option from the main &man.sysinstall.8;
248     menu on CDROM distribution media.  This type of binary upgrade
249     may be useful on non-&arch.i386;, non-&arch.amd64; machines
250     or on systems with no Internet connectivity.</para>
251
252   <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
253     base system from source code) from previous versions are
254     supported, according to the instructions in
255     <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
256
257   <important>
258     <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
259       backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
260       files.</para>
261   </important>
262 </sect1>
263 </article>