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15 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
18 <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
21 <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
39 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
43 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
53 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
54 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
55 &release.branch; development line. This document lists
56 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
57 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
58 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
63 <sect1 xml:id="intro">
64 <title>Introduction</title>
66 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
67 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or
68 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on
69 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
71 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to
72 which these release notes apply represents the latest point
73 along the &release.branch; development branch since
74 &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built,
75 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
77 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
79 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to
80 which these release notes apply represents a point along the
81 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and
82 the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built,
83 binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
85 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
87 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
88 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be
89 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
90 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or
91 other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the
93 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
94 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
95 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
96 Handbook</link>.</para>
98 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata
99 before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
100 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
101 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
102 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections
103 to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
104 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
108 <title>What's New</title>
110 <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
111 features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
113 <para>Typical release note items document recent security
114 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
115 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
116 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to
117 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly
118 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
119 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
120 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
123 <sect2 xml:id="security">
124 <title>Security Advisories</title>
130 <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
131 <title>Kernel Changes</title>
133 <para revision="260338">The
134 <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has been
135 re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM, this can
136 easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU usage in
137 half. It was originally disabled due to memory and
138 <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which
139 should be resolved due to several change in the VM
142 <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
143 &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been
144 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para>
146 <para revision="260431">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
147 <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been
148 added, which allows controlling how long the system will wait
149 after &man.panic.9; before rebooting.</para>
151 <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been
152 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para>
154 <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has been
155 updated to support unmapped I/O.</para>
157 <para revision="262861">The &man.vt.4; driver has been merged
158 from &os;-CURRENT. To enable &man.vt.4;, enter
159 <literal>set kern.vty=vt</literal> at the &man.loader.8;
160 prompt during boot, or add <literal>kern.vty=vt</literal> to
161 &man.loader.conf.5; and reboot the system.</para>
163 <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has been
164 added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para>
166 <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been
167 updated to version 3.2.5.</para>
169 <para revision="263122">Support for &man.hwpmc.4; has been added
170 for &powerpc; 970 class processors.</para>
172 <para revision="263197">Support for ADT7460 and ADT7467 fan
173 controllers found in newer PowerBooks™ and
174 iBooks™ has been added to the &man.iicbus.4;
177 <para revision="263256">A panic triggered by removing
178 a &man.urtwn.4; device has been fixed.</para>
180 <para revision="263799">A potential deadlock in the &man.usb.4;
181 stack triggered by detaching USB devices that create character
182 devices has been fixed.</para>
184 <para revision="263869">Support for &amd; Family 16h sensor
185 devices has been added to &man.amdtemp.4;.</para>
187 <para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has
188 been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para>
190 <para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus
191 adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para>
193 <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The
194 &man.mpr.4; device has been added,
195 providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA
198 <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal> option
199 is now able to be built both directly into the kernel or as
200 a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para>
202 <para revision="265610">The &man.uslcom.4; driver has been
203 updated to support 26 new devices.</para>
205 <para revision="265922" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The
206 &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added,
207 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The
208 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default.
209 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add
210 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to
211 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off
212 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para>
215 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and
217 <application>MegaCLI</application> and
218 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with
219 &man.mrsas.4;.</para>
222 <para revision="266165">A kernel bug that inhibited proper
223 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal>
224 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo
225 Boost™ enabled has been fixed.</para>
227 <para revision="266220">The &man.geom.uncompress.4; module is
228 built by default which, similar to &man.geom.uzip.4;,
229 provides support for compressed, read-only disk
232 <para revision="266436">The &man.uart.4; driver has been
233 updated to include support for the &intel; Lynx Point
234 KT <acronym>AMT</acronym> serial port.</para>
236 <para revision="266718">A bug that would prevent
237 a &man.jail.8; from setting the correct IPv4 source address
238 with some operations that required
239 <literal>security.jail.allow_raw_sockets</literal> has been
242 <para revision="266911">The &man.hwpmc.4; driver has been
243 updated to support core events from the Atom™
244 Silvermont architecture.</para>
246 <para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been
247 updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para>
249 <para revision="267457">The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been
250 updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</para>
252 <para revision="268046">The &man.oce.4; driver has been updated
253 with vendor-supplied fixes for big endian support, and 20GB/s
254 and 25GB/s link speeds.</para>
256 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
257 <title>Virtualization Support</title>
259 <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V
260 has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however
261 not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
262 configuration.</para>
264 <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now
265 supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5
268 <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been
269 added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para>
271 <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized
272 <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;,
273 allowing guest operating systems to use
274 <literal>XSAVE</literal> and
275 <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as
276 <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para>
278 <para revision="268932">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now
279 supports booting from a &man.zfs.8; filesystem.</para>
281 <para revision="268933">A new driver, &man.virtio_random.4;,
282 has been added, which allows &os; virtual machines to
283 harvest entropy from the hypervisor.</para>
286 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm">
287 <title>ARM Support</title>
289 <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename>
290 kernel configuration file has been added.</para>
292 <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by
293 setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is
294 not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify
295 the boot device, set the
296 <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal>
297 u-boot environment variable.</para>
299 <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver
300 has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device
301 Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver
302 in most cases.</para>
304 <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and
305 &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para>
307 <para revision="266379">The <literal>ZEDBOARD</literal> kernel
308 configuration file has been updated to include
309 <acronym>SMP</acronym> support.</para>
312 <sect3 xml:id="boot">
313 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
315 <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added
316 to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is
317 enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel
318 selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in
319 &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By
320 default, <literal>kernel</literal> and
321 <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para>
324 <sect3 xml:id="proc">
325 <title>Hardware Support</title>
330 <title>Multimedia Support</title>
336 <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
337 <title>Network Interface Support</title>
339 <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and
340 RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4;
343 <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver
344 has been updated to version 0.33.</para>
346 <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593
347 chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para>
349 <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now
350 deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used
353 <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver
354 has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A
355 and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports
356 USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para>
358 <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been
359 imported from OpenBSD.</para>
361 <para revision="264866">Support for multiple
362 transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the
363 &man.vmx.4; driver.</para>
366 <para>The &os; guest operating system must have
367 <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for
368 multiple queues.</para>
371 <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano
372 wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4;
375 <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has
376 been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in
377 the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is
378 due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options
379 generating corrupt frames.</para>
381 <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added
382 to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and
383 RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para>
385 <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer
386 recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4;
389 <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor"
390 vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for
391 T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version
394 <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been
395 updated to version 7.4.2.</para>
399 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
400 <title>Network Protocols</title>
402 <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol
403 (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6
406 <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow
407 two listening sockets bound to the same port has been
411 <sect3 xml:id="disks">
412 <title>Disks and Storage</title>
414 <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
415 &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of
416 resized partitions. This corrects an issue where
417 <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition,
418 but the label provider in <filename
419 class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be
422 <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8;
423 utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making
424 it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its
425 components have been replaced.</para>
427 <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8;
428 <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to
429 support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the
430 partition size are not saved to disk until
431 <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving,
432 can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para>
434 <para revision="268091">Support for the
435 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been
436 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
438 <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal>
439 driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2;
440 support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit
443 <para revision="269298">The maximum number of
444 <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports in the &man.ctl.4; driver has
445 been increased from 32 to 128.</para>
449 <title>File Systems</title>
451 <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor"
452 vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>,
453 has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used,
454 &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical
455 errors have been detected.</para>
457 <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
458 updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See
459 &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para>
461 <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
462 updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote>
463 value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs).
464 To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating
465 a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives,
466 set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal>
467 &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para>
469 <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread
470 pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from
471 OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows
472 parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8;
473 overall import time in some workloads.</para>
477 <sect2 xml:id="userland">
478 <title>Userland Changes</title>
480 <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor"
481 sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;,
482 <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and
483 their parents.</para>
485 <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been
486 updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead
487 of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented
488 in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para>
490 <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8;
491 configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;.
492 To use a non-default location, set
493 <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the
494 location of the file.</para>
496 <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test
497 suite has been updated to version 0.20.</para>
499 <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library
500 (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from
503 <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility
504 has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para>
506 <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has
507 been updated to include aliases for
508 <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs
509 list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs
510 snap</command>.</para>
512 <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has
513 been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs
514 list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified,
515 prints the output in a parsable format.</para>
517 <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format
518 implementation updated. Support for $2b$ has
519 been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256
520 characters long.</para>
522 <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been
523 updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para>
525 <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been
526 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which
527 prints the date and time output as specified in RFC
530 <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated
531 to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para>
533 <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor"
534 vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been
535 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which
536 when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled
539 <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8;
540 utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent
541 to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f
542 inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal>
543 and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para>
545 <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults
546 to SHA512 for password hashing.</para>
548 <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been
549 updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the
550 <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would
551 prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating
552 a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para>
554 <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes
555 precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In
556 particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>,
557 <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from
558 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the
559 <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and
560 <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from
561 <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para>
563 <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility
564 and related image activator features have been merged from
567 <para revision="266279">The &man.ps.1; utility has been
568 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to
569 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names.
570 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to
571 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the
574 <para revision="266280">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated
575 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the
576 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para>
578 <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been
579 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When
580 set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations
581 such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para>
583 <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been
584 updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates
585 in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename>
587 class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para>
589 <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been
590 updated to version 3.4.1.</para>
592 <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format
593 has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para>
595 <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for
596 &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors
597 and larger amounts of available memory.</para>
599 <para revision="266890">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been
600 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which
601 ends event collection after the specified number of
604 <para revision="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has
605 been updated to avoid printing
606 <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename>
607 disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para>
609 <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;,
610 has been updated to include optional
611 &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap
612 devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem.
613 Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured
614 with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para>
616 <para revision="267113">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now
617 includes files in the
618 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and
619 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename>
620 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para>
622 <para revision="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been
623 updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths
624 components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are
625 not directories, such as <filename
626 class="directory">/dev/null/.</filename> or <filename
627 class="directory">/dev/null/..</filename>.</para>
629 <para revision="267236">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote>
630 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows
631 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the
632 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent
633 to <literal>off</literal>.</para>
635 <para revision="267341">Support for legacy
636 <acronym>PCI</acronym> devices has been removed from
637 &man.bhyve.8;.</para>
639 <para revision="267450">The &man.bhyve.8; userland utility
640 has been updated to include SMBIOS support. A new flag has
641 been added, <literal>-U</literal>, which allows specifying the
642 UUID of the guest in the System Information structure.</para>
644 <para revision="267734">The &os; Project has migrated
645 from the <application>GNATS</application> bug tracking system
646 to <application>Bugzilla</application>. The &man.send-pr.1;
647 utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced
648 with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla
649 web interface.</para>
651 <para revision="267747">The &man.patch.1; utility has been
652 updated to include a <literal>--dry-run</literal> flag, which
653 is equivalent to <literal>--check</literal> and
654 <literal>-C</literal>.</para>
656 <para revision="267878">A bug in &man.bsdgrep.1; that would
657 prevent patterns from being matched under certain conditions
658 has been fixed.</para>
660 <para revision="267979">The &man.procstat.1; utility has been
661 updated to include two new flags, <literal>-r</literal> and
662 <literal>-H</literal>. When <literal>-r</literal> is
663 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print current resource usage
664 about the process(es). When <literal>-H</literal> is
665 specified, &man.procstat.1; will print information about
666 threads rather than the process(es).</para>
669 <para>The <literal>-H</literal> flag is currently only used
670 with <literal>-r</literal> to display resource usage for
671 individual threads, rather than the entire process.</para>
674 <para revision="268019">The &man.sed.1; utility has been
675 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-u</literal>, which
676 enables unbuffered output when specified.</para>
678 <para revision="268161">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been
679 merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para>
681 <para revision="268700">The &man.camcontrol.8; has been updated
682 to include a new <literal>persist</literal> command, which
683 allows issuing <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE IN</command>
684 and <command>SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT</command>.</para>
686 <para revision="268791">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been
687 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, which
688 displays only physical providers when specified.</para>
690 <para revision="268903">The &man.kldstat.8; utility has been
691 updated to allow <literal>-q</literal> to be specified when
692 also specifying <literal>-n
693 <replaceable>module.ko</replaceable></literal>.</para>
695 <para revision="269177">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been
696 updated to include support for both fixed- and
697 dynamically-allocated images for the <acronym>VHD</acronym>
698 and <acronym>VMDK</acronym> formats.</para>
700 <para revision="269220">The &man.random.4; entropy collection
701 script, <filename>/usr/libexec/save-entropy</filename>, no
702 longer runs within &man.jail.8; environments.</para>
704 <para revision="269397">The &man.bhyve.8; wrapper script,
705 <filename>/usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh</filename>,
706 has been synced with &os;-CURRENT.</para>
708 <para>This update includes:</para>
712 <para>A new flag, <literal>-e</literal>, has been added,
713 which is used to set &man.loader.8; environment
718 <para>A new flag, <literal>-C</literal>, has been added,
719 which is used to specify the guest console device.</para>
723 <para>A new flag, <literal>-H</literal>, has been added,
724 which is used to pass the host path to
725 &man.bhyveload.8;.</para>
729 <para>Support for multiple disk and &man.tap.4; devices
730 has been added.</para>
734 <para>The <literal>-I</literal> flag has been
739 <para revision="269398">The &man.nfsd.8; server update to 4.1
740 has merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para>
742 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
743 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
745 <para revision="264438">The <filename>network.subr</filename>
746 &man.rc.8; script has been updated to loosen the requirement
747 of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously,
749 <literal>_alias<replaceable>2</replaceable></literal>
750 would not be created if
751 <literal>_alias<replaceable>1</replaceable></literal> was
754 <para revision="268098">The &man.service.8; utility has been
755 updated to check that the &man.rc.d.8; directory exists
756 before traversing the directory.</para>
760 <sect2 xml:id="contrib">
761 <title>Contributed Software</title>
763 <para revision="263285">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
764 to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para>
766 <para revision="264377"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
767 been updated to version 6.6p1.</para>
769 <para revision="264911">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated
770 to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.</para>
772 <para revision="266692"><application>Sendmail</application>
773 has been updated to 8.14.9.</para>
775 <para revision="267258"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
776 been updated to version 1.0.1h.</para>
778 <para revision="267477">The timezone database has been updated
779 to version tzdata2014e.</para>
781 <para revision="268515">The &man.file.1; utility and
782 &man.libmagic.3; library have been updated to 5.19.</para>
784 <para revision="268899">The &man.byacc.1; parser has been
785 updated to version 20140422.</para>
787 <para revision="269024" contrib="sponsor"
788 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The &man.lldb.1; debugging library has
789 been updated to the r202189 snapshot.</para>
791 <para revision="269257">The &man.unbound.8; caching resolver and
792 <literal>ldns</literal> have been updated to version
796 <sect2 xml:id="ports">
797 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
803 <sect2 xml:id="releng">
804 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
806 <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has
807 been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the
808 <filename>services.db</filename> database to be created as
809 part of the release build, regardless of native- or
810 cross-built releases.</para>
814 <title>Documentation</title>
821 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
822 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
824 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
825 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
826 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade
827 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
828 unmodified GENERIC or SMP kernels distributed as a part of an
829 official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility
830 requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
833 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
834 base system from source code) from previous versions are
835 supported, according to the instructions in
836 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
839 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after
840 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration