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12   <info>
13     <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
14
15     <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
16
17     <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
18
19     <copyright>
20       <year>2014</year>
21       <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
22         Project</holder>
23     </copyright>
24
25     <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
26       &tm-attrib.freebsd;
27       &tm-attrib.ibm;
28       &tm-attrib.ieee;
29       &tm-attrib.intel;
30       &tm-attrib.sparc;
31       &tm-attrib.general;
32     </legalnotice>
33
34     <abstract>
35       <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
36         a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
37         &release.branch; development line.  This document lists
38         applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
39         release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
40         userland.  Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
41         presented.</para>
42     </abstract>
43   </info>
44
45   <sect1 xml:id="intro">
46     <title>Introduction</title>
47
48     <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
49       &release.current;.  It describes recently added, changed, or
50       deleted features of &os;.  It also provides some notes on
51       upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
52
53     <para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is
54       a &release.type; distribution.  It can be found at <uri
55         xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or any of its
56       mirrors.  More information on obtaining this (or other)
57       &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the <link
58         xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
59           &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
60         xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
61         Handbook</link>.</para>
62
63     <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata
64       before installing &os;.  The errata document is updated with
65       <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
66       release cycle or after the release.  Typically, it contains
67       information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections
68       to documentation.  An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
69       &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
70   </sect1>
71
72   <sect1 xml:id="new">
73     <title>What's New</title>
74
75     <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
76       features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
77
78     <para>Typical release note items document recent security
79       advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
80       support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
81       contributed software upgrades.  They may also list changes to
82       major ports/packages or release engineering practices.  Clearly
83       the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
84       between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
85       advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
86       improvements.</para>
87
88     <sect2 xml:id="security">
89       <title>Security Advisories</title>
90
91       <para>Problems described in the following security advisories
92         have been fixed.  For more information, consult the individual
93         advisories available from <uri
94           xlink:href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</uri>.</para>
95
96       <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="1">
97         <tgroup cols="3">
98           <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
99           <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
100           <colspec colwidth="3*"/>
101           <thead>
102             <row>
103               <entry>Advisory</entry>
104               <entry>Date</entry>
105               <entry>Topic</entry>
106             </row>
107           </thead>
108
109           <tbody>
110             <row>
111               <entry><link
112                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:01.bsnmpd.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:01.bsnmpd</link></entry>
113               <entry>14&nbsp;January&nbsp;2014</entry>
114               <entry><para>Fix &man.bsnmpd.1; remote denial of service
115                   vulnerability</para></entry>
116             </row>
117
118             <row>
119               <entry><link
120                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd</link></entry>
121               <entry>14&nbsp;January&nbsp;2014</entry>
122               <entry><para>Disable <quote>monitor</quote> feature in
123                   &man.ntpd.8; by default</para></entry>
124             </row>
125
126             <row>
127               <entry><link
128                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:04.bind.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:04.bind</link></entry>
129               <entry>14&nbsp;January&nbsp;2014</entry>
130               <entry><para>Remote denial of service
131                   vulnerability</para></entry>
132             </row>
133
134             <row>
135               <entry><link
136                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:05.nfsserver.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:05.nfsserver</link></entry>
137               <entry>8&nbsp;April&nbsp;2014</entry>
138               <entry><para>Deadlock in the NFS server</para></entry>
139             </row>
140
141             <row>
142               <entry><link
143                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:06.openssl.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:06.openssl</link></entry>
144               <entry>8&nbsp;April&nbsp;2014</entry>
145               <entry><para>ECDSA side channel leak</para></entry>
146             </row>
147
148             <row>
149               <entry><link
150                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:08.tcp.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:08.tcp</link></entry>
151               <entry>30&nbsp;April&nbsp;2014</entry>
152               <entry><para>TCP reassembly vulnerability</para></entry>
153             </row>
154
155             <row>
156               <entry><link
157                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:11.sendmail.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:11.sendmail</link></entry>
158               <entry>26&nbsp;May&nbsp;2014</entry>
159               <entry><para><application>Sendmail</application>
160                   improper close-on-exec flag handling</para></entry>
161             </row>
162
163             <row>
164               <entry><link
165                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:12.ktrace.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:12.ktrace</link></entry>
166               <entry>3&nbsp;June&nbsp;2014</entry>
167               <entry><para>&man.ktrace.1; kernel memory
168                   disclosure</para></entry>
169             </row>
170
171             <row>
172               <entry><link
173                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:13.pam.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:13.pam</link></entry>
174               <entry>3&nbsp;June&nbsp;2014</entry>
175               <entry><para>Incorrect error handling in PAM policy
176                   parser</para></entry>
177             </row>
178
179             <row>
180               <entry><link
181                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:14.openssl.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:14.openssl</link></entry>
182               <entry>5&nbsp;June&nbsp;2014</entry>
183               <entry><para>Multiple vulnerabilities</para></entry>
184             </row>
185           </tbody>
186         </tgroup>
187       </informaltable>
188     </sect2>
189
190     <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
191       <title>Kernel Changes</title>
192
193       <para revision="256033">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver has been
194         updated to version 1.20.00.28.</para>
195
196       <para revision="256437" contrib="sponsor"
197           sponsor="&ff;">The &man.isci.4; driver is now loadable
198         via &man.kldload.8;.</para>
199
200       <para revision="256759">System-level &man.sysctl.8; values are
201         now exposed to the system for the &man.ixgbe.4; device.</para>
202
203       <para revision="256924">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been updated
204         to support MegaRAID Invader controllers.</para>
205
206       <para revision="257119">A kernel panic triggered in
207         <literal>zfs_root()</literal> after a failed rollback has
208         been fixed.</para>
209
210       <para revision="257125" contrib="sponsor"
211           sponsor="&ff;">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
212         <literal>debug.devfs_iosize_max_clamp</literal> has been added
213         which enables and disables <literal>SSIZE_MAX</literal>-sized
214         I/O requests on &man.devfs.5; files.</para>
215
216       <para revision="257126" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
217         &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.disallow_high_osrel</literal>,
218         has been added which disables executing the images compiled on
219         a userland with a higher major version number than the major
220         version number of the running kernel.</para>
221
222       <para revision="257253">A kernel panic triggered by unmounting
223         a busy &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been fixed.</para>
224
225       <para revision="257373">A deadlock triggered by powering off
226         a USB device has been fixed.</para>
227
228       <para revision="258214">The &man.ata.4; driver has been updated
229         to support Intel Lynx Point PCH SMBus devices.</para>
230
231       <para revision="258215">The &man.ata.4; driver has been updated
232         to support Coleto Creek devices.</para>
233
234       <para revision="258217">The &man.ahci.4; driver has been updated
235         to support the PCI-express solid state drive in the
236         &apple;&nbsp;MacBook Air (model A1465).</para>
237
238       <para revision="258635">The &man.sysctl.8;
239         <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_limit</literal> can now be changed
240         at runtime.</para>
241
242       <para revision="258870">The &man.mmap.2; system call has been
243         updated to more optimally use superpages and provide support
244         for tweaking the alignment of virtual mappings.</para>
245
246       <para revision="258962">A workaround has been implemented
247         in the &man.bge.4; driver for hung transmission on BCM5719
248         and BCM5720 chipsets.</para>
249
250       <para revision="259002">A kernel panic when listing sysctls
251         on a system with <literal>INVARIANTS</literal> enabled has
252         been fixed.</para>
253
254       <para revision="259466">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
255         <literal>kern.supported_archs</literal> has been added,
256         which will list the <envar>MACHINE_ARCH</envar> values
257         whose binaries can be run on the system.</para>
258
259       <para revision="259519" contrib="sponsor"
260           sponsor="&spectralogic;">Several problems that could trigger
261         kernel panic on &man.kldload.8; and &man.kldunload.8; have
262         been fixed.</para>
263
264       <para revision="260082" contrib="sponsor"
265           sponsor="&ff;">A kernel panic triggered by some
266         multi-threaded applications has been fixed.</para>
267
268       <para revision="260134">The &man.runfw.4; firmware has been
269         renamed from <literal>runfw</literal> to
270         <literal>run.fw</literal> for consistency with other firmware
271         files.</para>
272
273       <para revision="260433">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
274         <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been
275         added.  This allows tuning the amount of time the system
276         will wait before rebooting after &man.panic.9;.  The
277         <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal> value defaults
278         to the kernel configuration option,
279         <literal>PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME</literal>.</para>
280
281       <para revision="260644">Hardware Random Number Generators have
282         been disabled by default.</para>
283
284       <para revision="261485">Support for GPS ports has been added
285         to the &man.uhso.4; driver.</para>
286
287       <para revision="262116">A memory leak of compressed buffers
288         has been fixed in
289         <literal>l2arc_write_done()</literal>.</para>
290
291       <para revision="262153">The &man.netmap.4; framework has been
292         updated to match the version in <literal>head/</literal>,
293         which includes netmap pipes, kqueue support, and enhanced
294         VALE switch port.</para>
295
296       <para revision="262175">A deadlock triggered by sending
297         a mounted &man.zfs.8; snapshot has been fixed.</para>
298
299       <para revision="262231">Support for SIIG X1 PCI-e has been added
300         to &man.ppc.4;.</para>
301
302       <para revision="262564">Support for the ext4 filesystem
303         has been enabled, supporting read-only mounts.</para>
304
305       <para revision="262594">A kernel panic triggered by inserting
306         a USB ethernet device on VIMAGE-enabled systems has been
307         fixed.</para>
308
309       <para revision="262988" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">TTM,
310         a memory manager used by video
311         drivers, has been merged.</para>
312
313       <para revision="263103">Support for
314         <literal>/sys/kernel/random/uuid</literal> has been added
315         to &man.linprocfs.5;.</para>
316
317       <para revision="263128">A memory leak in the
318         <literal>zpool_in_use()</literal> function has been
319         fixed.</para>
320
321       <para revision="263391">The
322         <literal>extensible_dataset</literal> &man.zpool.8; feature
323         has been added.  See &man.zpool-features.7; for more
324         information.</para>
325
326       <para revision="263408">A memory leak has been fixed in
327         <literal>libzfs</literal>.</para>
328
329       <para revision="263817,263818" contrib="sponsor"
330           sponsor="&ff;">The <literal>vt</literal> driver
331         has been merged from <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
332
333       <para revision="265729" contrib="sponsor"
334           sponsor="&lsi;, &spectralogic;">The &man.mpr.4; device has
335         been added, providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb
336         SCSI/SATA controllers.</para>
337
338       <para revision="266167">A kernel bug that inhibited proper
339         functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal>
340         &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo
341         Boost&nbsp;&trade; enabled has been fixed.</para>
342
343       <para revision="266269">Support for &man.xen.4;
344         hardware-assisted virtualization, <literal>XENHVM</literal>,
345         is now available as a loadable module,
346         <literal>xenhvm.ko</literal>.</para>
347
348       <sect3 xml:id="proc">
349         <title>Hardware Support</title>
350
351         <para revision="261510">Trackpad support for
352           &apple;&nbsp;MacBook products has been added.</para>
353
354         <para revision="261973">The &man.nve.4; driver has been
355           deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used
356           instead.</para>
357
358         <para revision="262968">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been
359           updated to support MegaRAID Fury cards.</para>
360
361         <para revision="263170,263171">The Radeon KMS driver has been
362           added.</para>
363
364         <para revision="263340">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been
365           updated to version 3.2.5.</para>
366
367         <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
368           <title>Network Interface Support</title>
369
370           <para revision="257611">The &man.re.4; driver has been
371             updated to add preliminary support for the RTL8106E
372             chipset.</para>
373
374           <para revision="257614,257616">The &man.re.4; driver has
375             been updated to support the RTL8168G, RTL8168GU and
376             RTL8411B chipsets.</para>
377
378           <para revision="257618">The &man.re.4; driver has been
379             updated to add preliminary support for the RTL8168EP
380             chipset.</para>
381
382           <para revision="258586">The &man.oce.4; driver has been
383             updated to version 10.0.664.0.</para>
384
385           <para revision="258898">The &man.qlxgbe.4; driver has been
386             imported from <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
387
388           <para revision="258936">The &man.qlxge.4; driver has been
389             imported from <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
390
391           <para revision="258965">The &man.bge.4; driver has been
392             updated to support the BCM5725 chipset.</para>
393
394           <para revision="258967">The &man.bge.4; driver has been
395             updated to support the BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782,
396             BCM57786 and BCM57787 chipsets.</para>
397
398           <para revision="259457">The &man.run.4; driver has been
399             updated to support MediaTek/Ralink chipsets RT5370 and
400             RT5372.</para>
401
402           <para revision="259460">The &man.usb.4; wireless radiotap
403             headers have been realigned, allowing wireless adapters
404             to work on &arch.arm;, &arch.mips;, and other similar
405             platforms where alignment is important.</para>
406
407           <para revision="260119">The &man.run.4; firmware has been
408             updated to version 0.33.</para>
409
410           <para revision="260252">The &man.bxe.4; driver has been
411             merged from <literal>head/</literal>, providing support
412             for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb PCIe adapters.</para>
413
414           <para revision="261865">The &man.run.4; driver has been
415             updated to include support for the MediaTek/Ralink RT3593
416             chipset.</para>
417
418           <para revision="261933">The &man.run.4; driver has been
419             updated to include support for the DLINK DWA-127 wireless
420             adapter.</para>
421
422           <para revision="262153">The &man.axge.4; driver has been
423             added.</para>
424
425           <para revision="262362">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been
426             imported from OpenBSD.</para>
427
428           <para revision="263582">The &man.bxe.4; driver has been
429             updated to version 1.78.78.</para>
430         </sect4>
431       </sect3>
432
433       <sect3 xml:id="fs">
434         <title>File Systems</title>
435
436         <para revision="263410">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
437           updated to support the <literal>bookmarks</literal>
438           feature.</para>
439       </sect3>
440     </sect2>
441
442     <sect2 xml:id="userland">
443       <title>Userland Changes</title>
444
445       <para revision="256054">A new flag <literal>-c</literal>, has
446         been added to &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1;, which restricts
447         the process lookup to the specified login class.</para>
448
449       <para revision="257496">The &man.ddb.8; utility has been updated
450         to add <command>show ioapic</command> and <command>show all
451           ioapics</command>.</para>
452
453       <para revision="258183">Setting <literal>nmbcluster</literal>
454         values to their current value will now be ignored, instead of
455         failing with an error.</para>
456
457       <para revision="258763">The <filename
458           class="directory">/var/cache</filename> directory is now
459         created with mode <literal>0755</literal> instead of mode
460         <literal>0750</literal>, since this directory is used by
461         many third-party applications, which makes dropping group
462         privileges impossible.</para>
463
464       <para revision="258818">The &man.uname.1; utility has been
465         updated to include the <literal>-U</literal> and
466         <literal>-K</literal> flags, which print the
467         <envar>__FreeBSD_version</envar> for the running userland
468         and kernel, respectively.</para>
469
470       <para revision="258844">The &man.fetch.3; library has been
471         updated to support SNI (Server Name Identification), allowing
472         to use virtual hosts on HTTPS.</para>
473
474       <para revision="259243">A segmentation fault and internal
475         compiler error bug in &man.gcc.1; triggered by throwing
476         a warning before parsing any tokens has been fixed.</para>
477
478       <para revision="259269,259406" contrib="vendor"
479           vendor="&google;">Several updates to &man.gcc.1;
480         have been imported from Google.</para>
481
482       <para revision="259448">A byte-order bug in the Heimdal
483         <literal>gss_pseudo_random()</literal> function which would
484         prevent interoperability with other
485         <application>Kerberos</application> implementations has been
486         fixed.  In particular, this would prevent interoperability
487         with the MIT implementation.</para>
488
489       <para revision="260007">The &man.hastctl.8; utility has been
490         updated to output the current queue sizes.</para>
491
492       <para revision="260197">The &man.ps.1; utility will no longer
493         truncate the <literal>command</literal> output column.</para>
494
495       <para revision="260208">The &man.protect.1; command has been
496         added, which allows exempting processes from being killed
497         when swap is exhausted.</para>
498
499       <para revision="260507">The &man.gmirror.8; utility now prevents
500         deactivating the last component of a mirror.</para>
501
502       <para revision="260507">A new &man.gmirror.8; command,
503         <command>gmirror destroy</command>, has been added, which will
504         destroy the &man.geom.8; and erase the &man.gmirror.8;
505         metadata.</para>
506
507       <para revision="260650">The &man.etcupdate.8; utility, a tool
508         for managing updates to files in <filename
509           class="directory">/etc</filename>, has been merged from
510         <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
511
512       <para revision="260651">The &man.find.1; utility has been
513         updated to fix incorrect behavior with the
514         <literal>-lname</literal> and <literal>-ilname</literal>
515         flags.</para>
516
517       <para revision="260868,260869">The
518         <literal>hw.uart.console</literal> is now always updated when
519         the comconsole setup changes.</para>
520
521       <para revision="260909">The &man.kldload.8; utility has been
522         updated to display a message directing to &man.dmesg.8;,
523         instead of the cryptic message <quote>Exec format
524           error</quote>.</para>
525
526       <para revision="261674">A bug that could trigger an infinite
527         loop in KDE and X has been fixed.</para>
528
529       <para revision="262076">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been
530         changed to use the size of the file, instead of the blocks the
531         file takes on the disk to match the behavior documented in
532         &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para>
533
534       <para revision="262105">A bug in &man.zdb.8; which would cause
535         numeric parameters to a flag as being treated as additional
536         flags has been fixed.</para>
537
538       <para revision="262124">The default number of &man.nfsd.8;
539         threads has been increased from <literal>4</literal> to
540         <literal>(8 * N)</literal>, where <literal>N</literal> is
541         the number of CPUs as reported by
542         <command>sysctl -n hw.ncpu</command>.</para>
543
544       <para revision="262134">The &man.pciconf.8; utility now has
545         a <literal>-V</literal> flag, which lists information such
546         as serial numbers for each device.</para>
547
548       <para revision="262158">A bug that would allow creating
549         a &man.zfs.8; snapshot of an inconsistent dataset has been
550         fixed.</para>
551
552       <para revision="262160">Receiving a &man.zfs.8; dataset with
553         <command>zfs recv -F</command> now properly destroys any
554         snapshots that were created since the incremental source
555         snapshot.</para>
556
557       <para revision="263031">Installation from a read-only
558         <envar>.OBJDIR</envar> has been fixed.</para>
559
560       <para revision="263031">A new shared library directory,
561         <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/private</filename>,
562         has been added for internal-use shared libraries.</para>
563
564       <para revision="263031">A default
565         <filename>libmap32.conf</filename> has been added, for 32-bit
566         applications.</para>
567
568       <para revision="263032">The <literal>libucl</literal> library,
569         a JSON-compatible configuration file parsing library, has been
570         imported.</para>
571
572       <para revision="263038">The &man.pkg.7; package management
573         utility has been syncronized with <literal>head/</literal>.
574         This implements binary package signature verification when
575         bootstrapping the system with <command>pkg
576           bootstrap</command>.</para>
577
578       <para revision="263042">The system timezone data files have
579         been updated to version tzdata2014a.</para>
580
581       <para revision="263212">The NetBSD &man.make.1; utility,
582         <command>bmake</command> has been imported for compatibility
583         with the &os;&nbsp;Ports Collection.  It is installed as
584         <command>bmake</command>, and the <command>make</command>
585         remains the &os; version.</para>
586
587       <para revision="263326">The &man.fetch.3; library now
588         supports <literal>Last-Modified</literal> timestamps which
589         return UTC instead of GMT.</para>
590
591       <para revision="263404">Aliases for the &man.zfs.8; commands
592         <literal>list -t snap</literal> and <literal>snap</literal>
593         have been added to match &oracle;&nbsp;Solaris 11.</para>
594
595       <para revision="263406">A new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, has
596         been added to the &man.zfs.8; <literal>list</literal> command,
597         providing output in a parseable form.</para>
598
599       <para revision="263421"><application>OpenPAM</application> has
600         been updated to Nummularia (20130907), which incorporates
601         several bug fixes and documentation improvements.  The
602         &man.openpam.ttyconv.3; library has been completely
603         rewritten.</para>
604
605       <para revision="264423">The &man.sh.1; command interpreter has
606         been updated to expand assignments after
607         <literal>export</literal>, <literal>local</literal>, and
608         <literal>readonly</literal> differently.  As result of this
609         change, variable assignment such as <literal>local
610           v=&dollar;1</literal> will assign the first positional
611         parameter to <literal>v</literal>, even if
612         <literal>&dollar;1</literal> contains spaces, and
613         <literal>local w=<replaceable>~/myfile</replaceable></literal>
614         will expand the tilde (<literal>~</literal>).</para>
615
616       <para revision="264699">The &man.find.1; utility has been
617         updated to implement <literal>-ignore_readdir_race</literal>.
618         Prior to this change, <literal>-ignore_readdir_race</literal>
619         existed as an option for GNU &man.find.1; compatibility, and
620         was ignored if specified.  A counter primary,
621         <literal>-noignore_readdir_race</literal> now also exists, and
622         is the default behavior.</para>
623
624       <para revision="266286">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
625         to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to filter
626         output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names.  Additionally,
627         argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to
628         <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the
629         host system.</para>
630
631       <para revision="266287">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated
632         to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the
633         &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para>
634
635       <para revision="266818">The Blowfish &man.crypt.3; default
636         format has been changed to
637         <literal>&dollar;2b&dollar;</literal>.</para>
638
639       <para revision="267114">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now
640         includes files in the
641         <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and
642         <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename>
643         directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para>
644
645       <para revision="267243">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote>
646         has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>.  This allows
647         the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the
648         device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent
649         to <literal>off</literal>.</para>
650
651       <para revision="267379">The &man.arc4random.3; library has been
652         updated to match that of &os;-CURRENT.</para>
653
654       <para revision="267411">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been
655         updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which
656         ends event collection after the specified number of
657         seconds.</para>
658
659       <sect3 xml:id="periodic-scripts">
660         <title>&man.periodic.8; Scripts</title>
661
662         <para revision="263662">The
663           <filename>/etc/periodic/security/800.loginfail</filename>
664           &man.periodic.8; script has been refined to catch more
665           authentication failures and reduce false positives.</para>
666       </sect3>
667
668       <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
669         <title>&man.rc.8; Scripts</title>
670
671         <para revision="256917">Support for <quote>first boot</quote>
672           scripts has been added to &man.rc.8;.  See &man.rc.8; and
673           &man.rc.conf.5; for implementation details.</para>
674
675         <para revision="260432">The &man.rc.8; system will now
676           re-source &man.rc.conf.5; on receipt of
677           <literal>SIGALRM</literal>.</para>
678       </sect3>
679     </sect2>
680
681     <sect2 xml:id="contrib">
682       <title>Contributed Software</title>
683
684       <para revision="255934">The &man.readline.3; library has been
685         updated to version 1.104.</para>
686
687       <para revision="266711"><application>Sendmail</application> has
688         been updated to version 8.14.9.</para>
689
690       <para revision="262706" contrib="sponsor"
691           sponsor="&dkhostmaster;"><application>BIND</application> has
692         been updated to version 9.9.5.</para>
693
694       <para revision="263286">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
695         to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para>
696
697       <para revision="263970"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
698         been updated to version 6.6p1.</para>
699
700       <para revision="267285"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
701         been updated to version 0.9.8za.</para>
702     </sect2>
703
704     <sect2 xml:id="releng">
705       <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
706
707       <para revision="260891">As part of the release build, the
708         &man.etcupdate.8; utility will bootstrap the system, allowing
709         &man.etcupdate.8; to work after the first upgrade of a
710         system.</para>
711
712       <para revision="262879" contrib="sponsor"
713           sponsor="&ff;">The <filename>release.sh</filename>
714         script and release <filename>Makefile</filename> have been
715         updated to use &man.pkg.7; to populate the dvd installation
716         medium.</para>
717
718       <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has
719         been updated to support multiple byte orders.  Similar to
720         &man.cap.mkdb.1;, the <filename>services.db</filename> will
721         be created with proper endinanness as part of
722         cross-architecture release builds.</para>
723     </sect2>
724   </sect1>
725
726   <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
727     <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
728
729     <sect2>
730       <title>Upgrading Using &man.freebsd-update.8; or a Source-Based
731         Procedure</title>
732
733       <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
734         (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
735         using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade
736         procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well
737         as an unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel,
738         distributed as a part of an official &os; release.  The
739         &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being
740         upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
741
742       <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
743         base system from source code) from previous versions are
744         supported using to the instructions in
745         <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
746
747       <para>For more specific information about upgrading
748         instructions, see <uri
749           xlink:href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/installation.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/installation.html</uri>.</para>
750
751       <important>
752         <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted
753           after backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and
754           configuration files.</para>
755       </important>
756     </sect2>
757
758     <sect2>
759       <title xml:id="upgrade-pitfalls">User-Visible
760         Incompatibilities</title>
761
762       <para>&os;&nbsp;9.0 and later have several incompatibilities in
763         system configuration which you might want to know before
764         upgrading your system.  <emphasis>Please read this section and
765           the <link
766             xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#UPGRADE">Upgrading
767             Section in 9.0-RELEASE Release Notes</link> carefully
768           before submitting a problem report and/or posting a question
769           to the &os; mailing lists.</emphasis></para>
770     </sect2>
771   </sect1>
772 </article>