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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
 186             <row>
 187               <entry><link xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:16.file.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:16.file</link></entry>
 188               <entry>24&nbsp;June&nbsp;2014</entry>
 189               <entry><para>Multiple vulnerabilities</para></entry>
 190             </row>
 191           </tbody>
 192         </tgroup>
 193       </informaltable>
 194     </sect2>
 195
 196     <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
 197       <title>Kernel Changes</title>
 198
 199       <para revision="256033">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver has been
 200         updated to version 1.20.00.28.</para>
 201
 202       <para revision="256437" contrib="sponsor"
 203           sponsor="&ff;">The &man.isci.4; driver is now loadable
 204         via &man.kldload.8;.</para>
 205
 206       <para revision="256759">System-level &man.sysctl.8; values are
 207         now exposed to the system for the &man.ixgbe.4; device.</para>
 208
 209       <para revision="256924">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been updated
 210         to support MegaRAID Invader controllers.</para>
 211
 212       <para revision="257119">A kernel panic triggered in
 213         <literal>zfs_root()</literal> after a failed rollback has
 214         been fixed.</para>
 215
 216       <para revision="257125" contrib="sponsor"
 217           sponsor="&ff;">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
 218         <literal>debug.devfs_iosize_max_clamp</literal> has been added
 219         which enables and disables <literal>SSIZE_MAX</literal>-sized
 220         I/O requests on &man.devfs.5; files.</para>
 221
 222       <para revision="257126" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
 223         &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.disallow_high_osrel</literal>,
 224         has been added which disables executing the images compiled on
 225         a userland with a higher major version number than the major
 226         version number of the running kernel.</para>
 227
 228       <para revision="257253">A kernel panic triggered by unmounting
 229         a busy &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been fixed.</para>
 230
 231       <para revision="257373">A deadlock triggered by powering off
 232         a USB device has been fixed.</para>
 233
 234       <para revision="258214">The &man.ichsmb.4; driver has been
 235         updated to support Intel Lynx Point PCH SMBus devices.</para>
 236
 237       <para revision="258215">The &man.ata.4; driver has been updated
 238         to support Coleto Creek devices.</para>
 239
 240       <para revision="258217">The &man.ahci.4; driver has been updated
 241         to support the PCI-express solid state drive in the
 242         &apple;&nbsp;MacBook Air (model A1465).</para>
 243
 244       <para revision="258635">The &man.sysctl.8;
 245         <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_limit</literal> can now be changed
 246         at runtime.</para>
 247
 248       <para revision="258870">The &man.mmap.2; system call has been
 249         updated to more optimally use superpages and provide support
 250         for tweaking the alignment of virtual mappings.</para>
 251
 252       <para revision="258962">A workaround has been implemented
 253         in the &man.bge.4; driver for hung transmission on BCM5719
 254         and BCM5720 chipsets.</para>
 255
 256       <para revision="259002">A kernel panic when listing sysctls
 257         on a system with <literal>INVARIANTS</literal> enabled has
 258         been fixed.</para>
 259
 260       <para revision="259466">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
 261         <literal>kern.supported_archs</literal> has been added,
 262         which will list the <envar>MACHINE_ARCH</envar> values
 263         whose binaries can be run on the system.</para>
 264
 265       <para revision="259519" contrib="sponsor"
 266           sponsor="&spectralogic;">Several problems that could trigger
 267         kernel panic on &man.kldload.8; and &man.kldunload.8; have
 268         been fixed.</para>
 269
 270       <para revision="260082" contrib="sponsor"
 271           sponsor="&ff;">A kernel panic triggered by some
 272         multi-threaded applications has been fixed.</para>
 273
 274       <para revision="260134">The &man.runfw.4; firmware has been
 275         renamed from <literal>runfw</literal> to
 276         <literal>run.fw</literal> for consistency with other firmware
 277         files.</para>
 278
 279       <para revision="260433">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
 280         <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been
 281         added.  This allows tuning the amount of time the system
 282         will wait before rebooting after &man.panic.9;.  The
 283         <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal> value defaults
 284         to the kernel configuration option,
 285         <literal>PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME</literal>.</para>
 286
 287       <para revision="260644">Hardware Random Number Generators have
 288         been disabled by default.</para>
 289
 290       <para revision="261485">Support for GPS ports has been added
 291         to the &man.uhso.4; driver.</para>
 292
 293       <para revision="262116">A memory leak of compressed buffers
 294         has been fixed in
 295         <literal>l2arc_write_done()</literal>.</para>
 296
 297       <para revision="262153">The &man.netmap.4; framework has been
 298         updated to match the version in <literal>head/</literal>,
 299         which includes netmap pipes, kqueue support, and enhanced
 300         VALE switch port.</para>
 301
 302       <para revision="262175">A deadlock triggered by sending
 303         a mounted &man.zfs.8; snapshot has been fixed.</para>
 304
 305       <para revision="262231">Support for SIIG X1 PCI-e has been added
 306         to &man.ppc.4;.</para>
 307
 308       <para revision="262564">Support for the ext4 filesystem
 309         has been enabled, supporting read-only mounts.</para>
 310
 311       <para revision="262594">A kernel panic triggered by inserting
 312         a USB ethernet device on VIMAGE-enabled systems has been
 313         fixed.</para>
 314
 315       <para revision="262988" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">TTM,
 316         a memory manager used by video
 317         drivers, has been merged.</para>
 318
 319       <para revision="263103">Support for
 320         <literal>/sys/kernel/random/uuid</literal> has been added
 321         to &man.linprocfs.5;.</para>
 322
 323       <para revision="263128">A memory leak in the
 324         <literal>zpool_in_use()</literal> function has been
 325         fixed.</para>
 326
 327       <para revision="263391">The
 328         <literal>extensible_dataset</literal> &man.zpool.8; feature
 329         has been added.  See &man.zpool-features.7; for more
 330         information.</para>
 331
 332       <para revision="263408">A memory leak has been fixed in
 333         <literal>libzfs</literal>.</para>
 334
 335       <para revision="263817,263818" contrib="sponsor"
 336           sponsor="&ff;">The &man.vt.4; driver
 337         has been merged from <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
 338
 339       <para revision="265729" contrib="sponsor"
 340           sponsor="&lsi;, &spectralogic;">The &man.mpr.4; device has
 341         been added, providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb
 342         SCSI/SATA controllers.</para>
 343
 344       <para revision="266167">A kernel bug that inhibited proper
 345         functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal>
 346         &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo
 347         Boost&nbsp;&trade; enabled has been fixed.</para>
 348
 349       <para revision="266269">Support for &man.xen.4;
 350         hardware-assisted virtualization, <literal>XENHVM</literal>,
 351         is now available as a loadable module,
 352         <literal>xenhvm.ko</literal>.</para>
 353
 354       <sect3 xml:id="proc">
 355         <title>Hardware Support</title>
 356
 357         <para revision="261510">Trackpad support for
 358           &apple;&nbsp;MacBook products has been added.</para>
 359
 360         <para revision="261973">The &man.nve.4; driver has been
 361           deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used
 362           instead.</para>
 363
 364         <para revision="262968">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been
 365           updated to support MegaRAID Fury cards.</para>
 366
 367         <para revision="263170,263171">The Radeon KMS driver has been
 368           added.</para>
 369
 370         <para revision="263340">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been
 371           updated to version 3.2.5.</para>
 372
 373         <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
 374           <title>Network Interface Support</title>
 375
 376           <para revision="257611">The &man.re.4; driver has been
 377             updated to add preliminary support for the RTL8106E
 378             chipset.</para>
 379
 380           <para revision="257614,257616">The &man.re.4; driver has
 381             been updated to support the RTL8168G, RTL8168GU and
 382             RTL8411B chipsets.</para>
 383
 384           <para revision="257618">The &man.re.4; driver has been
 385             updated to add preliminary support for the RTL8168EP
 386             chipset.</para>
 387
 388           <para revision="258586">The &man.oce.4; driver has been
 389             updated to version 10.0.664.0.</para>
 390
 391           <para revision="258898">The &man.qlxgbe.4; driver has been
 392             imported from <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
 393
 394           <para revision="258936">The &man.qlxge.4; driver has been
 395             imported from <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
 396
 397           <para revision="258965">The &man.bge.4; driver has been
 398             updated to support the BCM5725 chipset.</para>
 399
 400           <para revision="258967">The &man.bge.4; driver has been
 401             updated to support the BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782,
 402             BCM57786 and BCM57787 chipsets.</para>
 403
 404           <para revision="259457">The &man.run.4; driver has been
 405             updated to support MediaTek/Ralink chipsets RT5370 and
 406             RT5372.</para>
 407
 408           <para revision="259460">The &man.usb.4; wireless radiotap
 409             headers have been realigned, allowing wireless adapters
 410             to work on &arch.arm;, &arch.mips;, and other similar
 411             platforms where alignment is important.</para>
 412
 413           <para revision="260119">The &man.run.4; firmware has been
 414             updated to version 0.33.</para>
 415
 416           <para revision="260252">The &man.bxe.4; driver has been
 417             merged from <literal>head/</literal>, providing support
 418             for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb PCIe adapters.</para>
 419
 420           <para revision="261865">The &man.run.4; driver has been
 421             updated to include support for the MediaTek/Ralink RT3593
 422             chipset.</para>
 423
 424           <para revision="261933">The &man.run.4; driver has been
 425             updated to include support for the DLINK DWA-127 wireless
 426             adapter.</para>
 427
 428           <para revision="262153">The &man.axge.4; driver has been
 429             added.</para>
 430
 431           <para revision="262362">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been
 432             imported from OpenBSD.</para>
 433
 434           <para revision="263582">The &man.bxe.4; driver has been
 435             updated to version 1.78.78.</para>
 436         </sect4>
 437       </sect3>
 438
 439       <sect3 xml:id="fs">
 440         <title>File Systems</title>
 441
 442         <para revision="263410">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
 443           updated to support the <literal>bookmarks</literal>
 444           feature.</para>
 445       </sect3>
 446     </sect2>
 447
 448     <sect2 xml:id="userland">
 449       <title>Userland Changes</title>
 450
 451       <para revision="256054">A new flag <literal>-c</literal>, has
 452         been added to &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1;, which restricts
 453         the process lookup to the specified login class.</para>
 454
 455       <para revision="257496">The &man.ddb.8; utility has been updated
 456         to add <command>show ioapic</command> and <command>show all
 457           ioapics</command>.</para>
 458
 459       <para revision="258183">Setting <literal>nmbcluster</literal>
 460         values to their current value will now be ignored, instead of
 461         failing with an error.</para>
 462
 463       <para revision="258763">The <filename
 464           class="directory">/var/cache</filename> directory is now
 465         created with mode <literal>0755</literal> instead of mode
 466         <literal>0750</literal>, since this directory is used by
 467         many third-party applications, which makes dropping group
 468         privileges impossible.</para>
 469
 470       <para revision="258818">The &man.uname.1; utility has been
 471         updated to include the <literal>-U</literal> and
 472         <literal>-K</literal> flags, which print the
 473         <envar>__FreeBSD_version</envar> for the running userland
 474         and kernel, respectively.</para>
 475
 476       <para revision="258844">The &man.fetch.3; library has been
 477         updated to support SNI (Server Name Identification), allowing
 478         to use virtual hosts on HTTPS.</para>
 479
 480       <para revision="259243">A segmentation fault and internal
 481         compiler error bug in &man.gcc.1; triggered by throwing
 482         a warning before parsing any tokens has been fixed.</para>
 483
 484       <para revision="259269,259406" contrib="vendor"
 485           vendor="&google;">Several updates to &man.gcc.1;
 486         have been imported from Google.</para>
 487
 488       <para revision="259448">A byte-order bug in the Heimdal
 489         <literal>gss_pseudo_random()</literal> function which would
 490         prevent interoperability with other
 491         <application>Kerberos</application> implementations has been
 492         fixed.  In particular, this would prevent interoperability
 493         with the MIT implementation.</para>
 494
 495       <para revision="260007">The &man.hastctl.8; utility has been
 496         updated to output the current queue sizes.</para>
 497
 498       <para revision="260197">The &man.ps.1; utility will no longer
 499         truncate the <literal>command</literal> output column.</para>
 500
 501       <para revision="260208">The &man.protect.1; command has been
 502         added, which allows exempting processes from being killed
 503         when swap is exhausted.</para>
 504
 505       <para revision="260507">The &man.gmirror.8; utility now prevents
 506         deactivating the last component of a mirror.</para>
 507
 508       <para revision="260507">A new &man.gmirror.8; command,
 509         <command>gmirror destroy</command>, has been added, which will
 510         destroy the &man.geom.8; and erase the &man.gmirror.8;
 511         metadata.</para>
 512
 513       <para revision="260650">The &man.etcupdate.8; utility, a tool
 514         for managing updates to files in <filename
 515           class="directory">/etc</filename>, has been merged from
 516         <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
 517
 518       <para revision="260651">The &man.find.1; utility has been
 519         updated to fix incorrect behavior with the
 520         <literal>-lname</literal> and <literal>-ilname</literal>
 521         flags.</para>
 522
 523       <para revision="260868,260869">The
 524         <literal>hw.uart.console</literal> is now always updated when
 525         the comconsole setup changes.</para>
 526
 527       <para revision="260909">The &man.kldload.8; utility has been
 528         updated to display a message directing to &man.dmesg.8;,
 529         instead of the cryptic message <quote>Exec format
 530           error</quote>.</para>
 531
 532       <para revision="261674">A bug that could trigger an infinite
 533         loop in KDE and X has been fixed.</para>
 534
 535       <para revision="262076">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been
 536         changed to use the size of the file, instead of the blocks the
 537         file takes on the disk to match the behavior documented in
 538         &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para>
 539
 540       <para revision="262105">A bug in &man.zdb.8; which would cause
 541         numeric parameters to a flag as being treated as additional
 542         flags has been fixed.</para>
 543
 544       <para revision="262124">The default number of &man.nfsd.8;
 545         threads has been increased from <literal>4</literal> to
 546         <literal>(8 * N)</literal>, where <literal>N</literal> is
 547         the number of CPUs as reported by
 548         <command>sysctl -n hw.ncpu</command>.</para>
 549
 550       <para revision="262134">The &man.pciconf.8; utility now has
 551         a <literal>-V</literal> flag, which lists information such
 552         as serial numbers for each device.</para>
 553
 554       <para revision="262158">A bug that would allow creating
 555         a &man.zfs.8; snapshot of an inconsistent dataset has been
 556         fixed.</para>
 557
 558       <para revision="262160">Receiving a &man.zfs.8; dataset with
 559         <command>zfs recv -F</command> now properly destroys any
 560         snapshots that were created since the incremental source
 561         snapshot.</para>
 562
 563       <para revision="263031">Installation from a read-only
 564         <envar>.OBJDIR</envar> has been fixed.</para>
 565
 566       <para revision="263031">A new shared library directory,
 567         <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/private</filename>,
 568         has been added for internal-use shared libraries.</para>
 569
 570       <para revision="263031">A default
 571         <filename>libmap32.conf</filename> has been added, for 32-bit
 572         applications.</para>
 573
 574       <para revision="263032">The <literal>libucl</literal> library,
 575         a JSON-compatible configuration file parsing library, has been
 576         imported.</para>
 577
 578       <para revision="263038">The &man.pkg.7; package management
 579         utility has been syncronized with <literal>head/</literal>.
 580         This implements binary package signature verification when
 581         bootstrapping the system with <command>pkg
 582           bootstrap</command>.</para>
 583
 584       <para revision="263042">The system timezone data files have
 585         been updated to version tzdata2014a.</para>
 586
 587       <para revision="263212">The NetBSD &man.make.1; utility,
 588         <command>bmake</command> has been imported for compatibility
 589         with the &os;&nbsp;Ports Collection.  It is installed as
 590         <command>bmake</command>, and the <command>make</command>
 591         remains the &os; version.</para>
 592
 593       <para revision="263326">The &man.fetch.3; library now
 594         supports <literal>Last-Modified</literal> timestamps which
 595         return UTC instead of GMT.</para>
 596
 597       <para revision="263404">Aliases for the &man.zfs.8; commands
 598         <literal>list -t snap</literal> and <literal>snap</literal>
 599         have been added to match &oracle;&nbsp;Solaris 11.</para>
 600
 601       <para revision="263406">A new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, has
 602         been added to the &man.zfs.8; <literal>list</literal> command,
 603         providing output in a parseable form.</para>
 604
 605       <para revision="263421"><application>OpenPAM</application> has
 606         been updated to Nummularia (20130907), which incorporates
 607         several bug fixes and documentation improvements.  The
 608         &man.openpam.ttyconv.3; library has been completely
 609         rewritten.</para>
 610
 611       <para revision="264423">The &man.sh.1; command interpreter has
 612         been updated to expand assignments after
 613         <literal>export</literal>, <literal>local</literal>, and
 614         <literal>readonly</literal> differently.  As result of this
 615         change, variable assignment such as <literal>local
 616           v=&dollar;1</literal> will assign the first positional
 617         parameter to <literal>v</literal>, even if
 618         <literal>&dollar;1</literal> contains spaces, and
 619         <literal>local w=<replaceable>~/myfile</replaceable></literal>
 620         will expand the tilde (<literal>~</literal>).</para>
 621
 622       <para revision="264699">The &man.find.1; utility has been
 623         updated to implement <literal>-ignore_readdir_race</literal>.
 624         Prior to this change, <literal>-ignore_readdir_race</literal>
 625         existed as an option for GNU &man.find.1; compatibility, and
 626         was ignored if specified.  A counter primary,
 627         <literal>-noignore_readdir_race</literal> now also exists, and
 628         is the default behavior.</para>
 629
 630       <para revision="266286">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
 631         to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to filter
 632         output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names.  Additionally,
 633         argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to
 634         <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the
 635         host system.</para>
 636
 637       <para revision="266287">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated
 638         to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the
 639         &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para>
 640
 641       <para revision="266818">The Blowfish &man.crypt.3; default
 642         format has been changed to
 643         <literal>&dollar;2b&dollar;</literal>.</para>
 644
 645       <para revision="267114">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now
 646         includes files in the
 647         <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and
 648         <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename>
 649         directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para>
 650
 651       <para revision="267243">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote>
 652         has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>.  This allows
 653         the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the
 654         device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent
 655         to <literal>off</literal>.</para>
 656
 657       <para revision="267379">The &man.arc4random.3; library has been
 658         updated to match that of &os;-CURRENT.</para>
 659
 660       <para revision="267411">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been
 661         updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which
 662         ends event collection after the specified number of
 663         seconds.</para>
 664
 665       <para revision="267911">The &os;&nbsp;Project has migrated
 666         from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system
 667         to <application>Bugzilla</application>.  The &man.send-pr.1;
 668         utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced
 669         with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla
 670         web interface.</para>
 671
 672       <sect3 xml:id="periodic-scripts">
 673         <title>&man.periodic.8; Scripts</title>
 674
 675         <para revision="263662">The
 676           <filename>/etc/periodic/security/800.loginfail</filename>
 677           &man.periodic.8; script has been refined to catch more
 678           authentication failures and reduce false positives.</para>
 679       </sect3>
 680
 681       <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
 682         <title>&man.rc.8; Scripts</title>
 683
 684         <para revision="256917">Support for <quote>first boot</quote>
 685           scripts has been added to &man.rc.8;.  See &man.rc.8; and
 686           &man.rc.conf.5; for implementation details.</para>
 687
 688         <para revision="260432">The &man.rc.8; system will now
 689           re-source &man.rc.conf.5; on receipt of
 690           <literal>SIGALRM</literal>.</para>
 691       </sect3>
 692     </sect2>
 693
 694     <sect2 xml:id="contrib">
 695       <title>Contributed Software</title>
 696
 697       <para revision="255934">The &man.readline.3; library has been
 698         updated to version 1.104.</para>
 699
 700       <para revision="266711"><application>Sendmail</application> has
 701         been updated to version 8.14.9.</para>
 702
 703       <para revision="262706" contrib="sponsor"
 704           sponsor="&dkhostmaster;"><application>BIND</application> has
 705         been updated to version 9.9.5.</para>
 706
 707       <para revision="263286">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
 708         to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para>
 709
 710       <para revision="263970"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
 711         been updated to version 6.6p1.</para>
 712
 713       <para revision="267285"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
 714         been updated to version 0.9.8za.</para>
 715     </sect2>
 716
 717     <sect2 xml:id="ports">
 718       <title>Ports and Packages</title>
 719
 720       <important>
 721         <para>Note to &os; desktop users: please read this section
 722           carefully, especially before upgrading ports that
 723           depend on <application>Xorg</application>.</para>
 724       </important>
 725
 726       <para>In April 2014, the &os; Ports collection switched to a
 727         newer version of <application>Xorg</application> that supports
 728         <acronym>KMS</acronym> (Kernel Mode Setting).</para>
 729
 730       <para>Users upgrading from earlier versions of &os;&nbsp;9.x or
 731         &os;&nbsp;8.x should be aware of several things regarding
 732         <application>Xorg</application>:</para>
 733
 734       <para>
 735         <itemizedlist>
 736           <listitem>
 737             <para>When applications are built from the &os; Ports
 738               Collection or installed from the <literal><link
 739                   xlink:href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-July/001570.html">new_xorg</link></literal>
 740               &man.pkg.8; repository, the newer, KMS-aware version of
 741               <application>Xorg</application> is used.</para>
 742           </listitem>
 743
 744           <listitem>
 745             <para>The <acronym>KMS</acronym> version of
 746               <application>Xorg</application> does not switch back to
 747               text mode after leaving the X desktop environment, and
 748               the system console will not be visible.  The new
 749               &man.vt.4; console driver supports graphic consoles and
 750               keeps the console visible after X has exited.  The
 751               &man.vt.4; driver must be compiled into the kernel.
 752               A <filename>VT</filename> kernel configuration example
 753               file is included in &release.current;, but is not
 754               compiled or enabled by default.  See &man.vt.4; and the
 755               <link
 756                 xlink:href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/VT">vt(4) wiki
 757                 page</link> for additional information.</para>
 758           </listitem>
 759
 760           <listitem>
 761             <para>The older <application>Xorg</application> that does
 762               not support <acronym>KMS</acronym> can still be
 763               installed from the <literal>latest</literal> upstream
 764               &man.pkg.8; repository and the packages included on the
 765               &release.current; DVD.</para>
 766
 767             <para>However, it is important to note that some newer
 768               applications require the newer
 769               <application>Xorg</application>, and will not work with
 770               the old version.  The newer
 771               <application>Xorg</application> is recommended, and
 772               should be used unless not compatible with legacy
 773               graphics cards.</para>
 774
 775             <para>To continue using the old version of
 776               <application>Xorg</application> when building from the
 777               &os;&nbsp;Ports Collection, set
 778               <literal>WITHOUT_NEW_XORG=yes</literal> in
 779               &man.make.conf.5;.</para>
 780
 781             <para>Packages for <application>KDE4</application> are not
 782               available in the default (<literal>latest</literal>)
 783               &man.pkg.8; repository, however are available in the
 784               <literal>new_xorg</literal> repository.  See the <link
 785                 xlink:href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-July/001570.html">announcement
 786                 email</link> for details on how to use the
 787               <literal>new_xorg</literal> repository.</para>
 788           </listitem>
 789         </itemizedlist>
 790       </para>
 791     </sect2>
 792
 793     <sect2 xml:id="releng">
 794       <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
 795
 796       <para revision="260891">As part of the release build, the
 797         &man.etcupdate.8; utility will bootstrap the system, allowing
 798         &man.etcupdate.8; to work after the first upgrade of a
 799         system.</para>
 800
 801       <para revision="262879" contrib="sponsor"
 802           sponsor="&ff;">The <filename>release.sh</filename>
 803         script and release <filename>Makefile</filename> have been
 804         updated to use &man.pkg.7; to populate the dvd installation
 805         medium.</para>
 806
 807       <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has
 808         been updated to support multiple byte orders.  Similar to
 809         &man.cap.mkdb.1;, the <filename>services.db</filename> will
 810         be created with proper endinanness as part of
 811         cross-architecture release builds.</para>
 812     </sect2>
 813   </sect1>
 814
 815   <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
 816     <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
 817
 818     <sect2>
 819       <title>Upgrading Using &man.freebsd-update.8; or a Source-Based
 820         Procedure</title>
 821
 822       <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
 823         (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
 824         using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade
 825         procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well
 826         as an unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel,
 827         distributed as a part of an official &os; release.  The
 828         &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being
 829         upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
 830
 831       <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
 832         base system from source code) from previous versions are
 833         supported using to the instructions in
 834         <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
 835
 836       <para>For more specific information about upgrading
 837         instructions, see <uri
 838           xlink:href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/installation.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/installation.html</uri>.</para>
 839
 840       <important>
 841         <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted
 842           after backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and
 843           configuration files.</para>
 844       </important>
 845     </sect2>
 846
 847     <sect2>
 848       <title xml:id="upgrade-pitfalls">User-Visible
 849         Incompatibilities</title>
 850
 851       <para>&os;&nbsp;9.0 and later versions have several
 852         configuration incompatibilities with earlier versions of &os;.
 853         These differences are best understood before upgrading.
 854         <emphasis>Please read this section and the <link
 855             xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#UPGRADE">Upgrading
 856             Section in 9.0-RELEASE Release Notes</link> carefully
 857           before submitting a problem report and/or posting a question
 858           to the &os; mailing lists.</emphasis></para>
 859     </sect2>
 860   </sect1>
 861 </article>