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11 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
13 <corpauthor>The &os; Project</corpauthor>
15 <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
19 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
22 <legalnotice id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
32 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
33 of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
34 &release.branch; development line.
35 This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
36 the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
38 Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para>
43 <title>Introduction</title>
45 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
47 describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;.
48 It also provides some notes on upgrading
49 from previous versions of &os;.</para>
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53 <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
54 apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development
55 branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary
56 &release.type; distributions along this branch
57 can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
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63 <para>The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
64 apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development
65 branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;.
67 pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch
68 can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
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74 <para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
75 &release.type; distribution. It can be found at <ulink
76 url="&release.url;"></ulink> or any of its mirrors. More
77 information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
78 distributions of &os; can be found in the <ulink
79 url="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
80 &os;</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink
81 url="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
82 Handbook</ulink>.</para>
86 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
87 installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
88 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
89 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
90 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
91 documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
92 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
97 <title>What's New</title>
99 <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
100 features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
102 <para>Typical release note items document recent security
103 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
104 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
105 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to
106 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly
107 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
108 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
109 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
112 <sect2 id="security">
113 <title>Security Advisories</title>
115 <para>Problems described in the following security advisories have
116 been fixed. For more information, consult the individual
117 advisories available from
118 <ulink url="http://security.FreeBSD.org/"></ulink>.</para>
120 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
122 <colspec colwidth="1*">
123 <colspec colwidth="1*">
124 <colspec colwidth="3*">
127 <entry>Advisory</entry>
135 <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc"
136 >SA-10:08.bzip2</ulink></entry>
137 <entry>20 September 2010</entry>
138 <entry><para>Integer overflow in bzip2 decompression</para></entry>
140 <!-- XXX: not for 8.2
142 <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:09.pseudofs.asc"
143 >SA-10:09.pseudofs</ulink></entry>
144 <entry>10 October 2010</entry>
145 <entry><para>Spurious mutex unlock</para></entry>
149 <entry><ulink url="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:10.openssl.asc"
150 >SA-10:10.openssl</ulink></entry>
151 <entry>29 November 2010</entry>
152 <entry><para>OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities</para></entry>
160 <title>Kernel Changes</title>
165 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
171 <title>Hardware Support</title>
176 <title>Multimedia Support</title>
182 <title>Network Interface Support</title>
188 <sect3 id="net-proto">
189 <title>Network Protocols</title>
195 <title>Disks and Storage</title>
201 <title>File Systems</title>
207 <sect2 id="userland">
208 <title>Userland Changes</title>
212 <sect3 id="rc-scripts">
213 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
220 <title>Contributed Software</title>
224 <para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> has been updated to
227 <para>The <application>awk</application> has been updated from
228 the 23 October 2007 release to the 26 November 2009 release.</para>
230 <para><application>ISC BIND</application> has been updated to
231 version 9.6.2-P2.</para>
233 <para><application>netcat</application> has been updated to
236 <para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
237 version 5.1p1 to version 5.4p1.</para>
239 <para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been updated to
240 version 0.9.8n.</para>
242 <para><application>sendmail</application> has been updated to
243 version 8.14.4.</para>
245 <para>The timezone database has been updated to the
246 <application>tzdata2010j</application> release.</para>
251 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
253 <para>The supported version of
254 the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment
255 (<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>) has been
256 updated to 2.32.1.</para>
258 <para>The supported version of
259 the <application>KDE</application> desktop environment
260 (<filename role="package">x11/kde4</filename>) has been
261 updated to 4.5.5.</para>
266 <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
268 <para arch="amd64,i386">Upgrades between RELEASE versions (and
269 snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using
270 the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade
271 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
272 unmodified GENERIC kernel distributed as a part of an
273 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility
274 requires that the host being upgraded has Internet
277 <para>An older form of binary upgrade is supported through the
278 <command>Upgrade</command> option from the main
279 &man.sysinstall.8; menu on CDROM distribution media. This type
280 of binary upgrade may be useful on non-&arch.i386;,
281 non-&arch.amd64; machines or on systems with no Internet
284 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
285 base system from source code) from previous versions are
286 supported, according to the instructions in
287 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
290 <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
291 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration