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22 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
25 <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
28 <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
32 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
36 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
46 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
47 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
48 &release.branch; development line. This document lists
49 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
50 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
51 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
56 <sect1 xml:id="intro">
57 <title>Introduction</title>
59 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
60 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or
61 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on
62 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
64 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to
65 which these release notes apply represents the latest point
66 along the &release.branch; development branch since
67 &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built,
68 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
70 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
72 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to
73 which these release notes apply represents a point along the
74 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and
75 the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built,
76 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
78 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
80 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
81 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be
82 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
83 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or
84 other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the
86 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
87 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
88 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
89 Handbook</link>.</para>
91 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata
92 before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
93 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
94 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
95 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections
96 to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
97 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
99 <para>This document 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
113 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
114 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
116 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
117 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
118 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade
119 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
120 unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as
121 a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8;
122 utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
125 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
126 base system from source code) from previous versions are
127 supported, according to the instructions in
128 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
131 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after
132 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
137 <sect1 xml:id="security-errata">
138 <title>Security and Errata</title>
140 <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and
141 Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para>
143 <sect2 xml:id="security">
144 <title>Security Advisories</title>
149 <sect2 xml:id="errata">
150 <title>Errata Notices</title>
156 <sect1 xml:id="userland">
157 <title>Userland</title>
159 <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland
160 applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para>
162 <sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
163 <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
168 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
169 <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
174 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
175 <title>Contributed Software</title>
177 <para revision="309512"><application>Subversion</application>
178 has been updated to version 1.9.5.</para>
180 <para revision="309848">&man.file.1; has been updated to version
183 <para revision="310490">The &man.amd.8; utility has been updated
184 to version 6.2.</para>
186 <para revision="312516">&man.xz.1; has been updated to version
189 <para revision="313796">&man.zlib.3; has been updated to version
192 <para revision="315433">&man.libarchive.3; has been updated to
193 version 3.3.1.</para>
195 <para revision="316069">&man.ntpd.8; has been updated to version
198 <para revision="316350">Timezone data files have been updated to
199 version 2017b.</para>
201 <para revision="316958">&man.tcsh.1; has been updated to version
205 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
206 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
211 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
212 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
218 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
219 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
225 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
226 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
231 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
232 <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
238 <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
239 <title>Kernel</title>
241 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
242 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
245 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
246 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
251 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
252 <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
257 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
258 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
264 <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
265 <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
267 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
268 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
270 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
271 <title>Device Drivers</title>
276 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
277 <title>Storage Drivers</title>
282 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
283 <title>Network Drivers</title>
289 <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
290 <title>Hardware Support</title>
292 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
293 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
294 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
295 other sections of this document.</para>
297 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
298 <title>Hardware Support</title>
303 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
304 <title>Virtualization Support</title>
309 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
310 <title>ARM Support</title>
316 <sect1 xml:id="storage">
317 <title>Storage</title>
319 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
320 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
322 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
323 <title>General Storage</title>
328 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
329 <title>Networked Storage</title>
334 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
340 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
341 <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
347 <sect1 xml:id="boot">
348 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
350 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
351 boot-related changes.</para>
353 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
354 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
359 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
360 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
366 <sect1 xml:id="network">
367 <title>Networking</title>
369 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
372 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
373 <title>Network Protocols</title>
379 <sect1 xml:id="ports">
380 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
382 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports
383 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
384 installation tools.</para>
386 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
387 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
392 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
393 <title>Packaging Changes</title>
400 <title>Documentation</title>
402 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation
403 Project sources and toolchain.</para>
405 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
406 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
411 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
412 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
418 <sect1 xml:id="releng">
419 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
421 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
422 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para>
424 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
425 <title>Integration Changes</title>