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8   <info>
9     <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
10
11     <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
12
13     <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
14
15     <copyright>
16       <year>2014</year>
17       <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
18         Project</holder>
19     </copyright>
20
21     <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
22       &tm-attrib.freebsd;
23       &tm-attrib.ibm;
24       &tm-attrib.ieee;
25       &tm-attrib.intel;
26       &tm-attrib.sparc;
27       &tm-attrib.general;
28     </legalnotice>
29
30     <abstract>
31       <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
32         a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
33         &release.branch; development line.  This document lists
34         applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
35         release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
36         userland.  Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
37         presented.</para>
38     </abstract>
39   </info>
40
41   <sect1 xml:id="intro">
42     <title>Introduction</title>
43
44     <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
45       &release.current;.  It describes recently added, changed, or
46       deleted features of &os;.  It also provides some notes on
47       upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
48
49     <para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is
50       a &release.type; distribution.  It can be found at <uri
51         xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or any of its
52       mirrors.  More information on obtaining this (or other)
53       &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the <link
54         xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
55           &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
56         xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
57         Handbook</link>.</para>
58
59     <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata
60       before installing &os;.  The errata document is updated with
61       <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
62       release cycle or after the release.  Typically, it contains
63       information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections
64       to documentation.  An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
65       &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
66   </sect1>
67
68   <sect1 xml:id="new">
69     <title>What's New</title>
70
71     <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
72       features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
73
74     <para>Typical release note items document recent security
75       advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
76       support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
77       contributed software upgrades.  They may also list changes to
78       major ports/packages or release engineering practices.  Clearly
79       the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
80       between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
81       advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
82       improvements.</para>
83
84     <sect2 xml:id="security">
85       <title>Security Advisories</title>
86
87       <para>Problems described in the following security advisories
88         have been fixed.  For more information, consult the individual
89         advisories available from <uri
90           xlink:href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</uri>.</para>
91
92       <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="1">
93         <tgroup cols="3">
94           <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
95           <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
96           <colspec colwidth="3*"/>
97           <thead>
98             <row>
99               <entry>Advisory</entry>
100               <entry>Date</entry>
101               <entry>Topic</entry>
102             </row>
103           </thead>
104
105           <tbody>
106             <row>
107               <entry><link
108                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:01.bsnmpd.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:01.bsnmpd</link></entry>
109               <entry>1&nbsp;January&nbsp;2014</entry>
110               <entry><para>Fix &man.bsnmpd.1; remote denial of service
111                   vulnerability</para></entry>
112             </row>
113
114             <row>
115               <entry><link
116                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd</link></entry>
117               <entry>1&nbsp;January&nbsp;2014</entry>
118               <entry><para>Disable <quote>monitor</quote> feature in
119                   &man.ntpd.8; by default</para></entry>
120             </row>
121
122             <row>
123               <entry><link
124                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:04.bind.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:04.bind</link></entry>
125               <entry>1&nbsp;January&nbsp;2014</entry>
126               <entry><para>Remote denial of service
127                   vulnerability</para></entry>
128             </row>
129
130             <row>
131               <entry><link
132                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:05.nfsserver.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:05.nfsserver</link></entry>
133               <entry>8&nbsp;April&nbsp;2014</entry>
134               <entry><para>Deadlock in the NFS server</para></entry>
135             </row>
136
137             <row>
138               <entry><link
139                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:06.openssl.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:06.openssl</link></entry>
140               <entry>8&nbsp;April&nbsp;2014</entry>
141               <entry><para>ECDSA side channel leak</para></entry>
142             </row>
143
144             <row>
145               <entry><link
146                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:08.tcp.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:08.tcp</link></entry>
147               <entry>30&nbsp;April&nbsp;2014</entry>
148               <entry><para>TCP reassembly vulnerability</para></entry>
149             </row>
150
151             <row>
152               <entry><link
153                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:11.sendmail.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:11.sendmail</link></entry>
154               <entry>26&nbsp;May&nbsp;2014</entry>
155               <entry><para><application>Sendmail</application>
156                   improper close-on-exec flag handling</para></entry>
157             </row>
158
159             <row>
160               <entry><link
161                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:12.ktrace.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:12.ktrace</link></entry>
162               <entry>3&nbsp;June&nbsp;2014</entry>
163               <entry><para>&man.ktrace.1; kernel memory
164                   disclosure</para></entry>
165             </row>
166
167             <row>
168               <entry><link
169                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:13.pam.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:13.pam</link></entry>
170               <entry>3&nbsp;June&nbsp;2014</entry>
171               <entry><para>Incorrect error handling in PAM policy
172                   parser</para></entry>
173             </row>
174
175             <row>
176               <entry><link
177                   xlink:href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:14.openssl.asc">FreeBSD-SA-14:14.openssl</link></entry>
178               <entry>5&nbsp;June&nbsp;2014</entry>
179               <entry><para>Multiple vulnerabilities</para></entry>
180             </row>
181           </tbody>
182         </tgroup>
183       </informaltable>
184     </sect2>
185
186     <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
187       <title>Kernel Changes</title>
188
189       <para revision="256033">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver has been
190         updated to version 1.20.00.28.</para>
191
192       <para revision="256437">The &man.isci.4; driver is now loadable
193         via &man.kldload.8;.</para>
194
195       <para revision="256759">System-level &man.sysctl.8; values are
196         now exposed to the system for the &man.ixgbe.4; device.</para>
197
198       <para revision="256924">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been updated
199         to support MegaRAID Invader controllers.</para>
200
201       <para revision="257119">A kernel panic triggered in
202         <literal>zfs_root()</literal> after a failed rollback has
203         been fixed.</para>
204
205       <para revision="257125">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
206         <literal>debug.devfs_iosize_max_clamp</literal> has been added
207         which enables and disables <literal>SSIZE_MAX</literal>-sized
208         I/O requests on &man.devfs.5; files.</para>
209
210       <para revision="257126">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
211         <literal>kern.disallow_high_osrel</literal>, has been added
212         which disables executing the images compiled on a userland
213         with a higher major version number than the major version
214         number of the running kernel.</para>
215
216       <para revision="257253">A kernel panic triggered by unmounting
217         a busy &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been fixed.</para>
218
219       <para revision="257373">A deadlock triggered by powering off
220         a USB device has been fixed.</para>
221
222       <para revision="258214">The &man.ata.4; driver has been updated
223         to support Intel Lynx Point PCH SMBus devices.</para>
224
225       <para revision="258215">The &man.ata.4; driver has been updated
226         to support Coleto Creek devices.</para>
227
228       <para revision="258217">The &man.ahci.4; driver has been updated
229         to support the PCI-express solid state drive in the
230         &apple;&nbsp;MacBook Air (model A1465).</para>
231
232       <para revision="258635">The &man.sysctl.8;
233         <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_limit</literal> can now be changed
234         at runtime.</para>
235
236       <para revision="258870">The &man.mmap.2; system call has been
237         updated to more optimally use superpages and provide support
238         for tweaking the alignment of virtual mappings.</para>
239
240       <para revision="258962">A workaround has been implemented
241         in the &man.bge.4; driver for hung transmission on BCM5719
242         and BCM5720 chipsets.</para>
243
244       <para revision="259002">A kernel panic when listing sysctls
245         on a system with <literal>INVARIANTS</literal> enabled has
246         been fixed.</para>
247
248       <para revision="259466">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
249         <literal>kern.supported_archs</literal> has been added,
250         which will list the <envar>MACHINE_ARCH</envar> values
251         whose binaries can be run on the system.</para>
252
253       <para revision="259519">Several problems that could trigger
254         kernel panic on &man.kldload.8; and &man.kldunload.8; have
255         been fixed.</para>
256
257       <para revision="260082">A kernel panic triggered by some
258         multi-threaded applications has been fixed.</para>
259
260       <para revision="260134">The &man.runfw.4; firmware has been
261         renamed from <literal>runfw</literal> to
262         <literal>run.fw</literal> for consistency with other firmware
263         files.</para>
264
265       <para revision="260433">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
266         <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been
267         added.  This allows tuning the amount of time the system
268         will wait before rebooting after &man.panic.9;.  The
269         <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal> value defaults
270         to the kernel configuration option,
271         <literal>PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME</literal>.</para>
272
273       <para revision="260644">Hardware Random Number Generators have
274         been disabled by default.</para>
275
276       <para revision="261483">Support for GPS ports has been added
277         to the &man.uhso.4; driver.</para>
278
279       <para revision="262116">A memory leak of compressed buffers
280         has been fixed in
281         <literal>l2arc_write_done()</literal>.</para>
282
283       <para revision="262153">The &man.netmap.4; framework has been
284         updated to match the version in <literal>head/</literal>,
285         which includes netmap pipes, kqueue support, and enhanced
286         VALE switch port.</para>
287
288       <para revision="262175">A deadlock triggered by sending
289         a mounted &man.zfs.8; snapshot has been fixed.</para>
290
291       <para revision="262231">Support for SIIG X1 PCI-e has been added
292         to &man.ppc.4;.</para>
293
294       <para revision="262564">Support for the ext4 filesystem
295         has been enabled, supporting read-only mounts.</para>
296
297       <para revision="262594">A kernel panic triggered by inserting
298         a USB ethernet device on VIMAGE-enabled systems has been
299         fixed.</para>
300
301       <para revision="262988">TTM, a memory manager used by video
302         drivers, has been merged.</para>
303
304       <para revision="263103">Support for
305         <literal>/sys/kernel/random/uuid</literal> has been added
306         to &man.linprocfs.5;.</para>
307
308       <para revision="263128">A memory leak in the
309         <literal>zpool_in_use()</literal> function has been
310         fixed.</para>
311
312       <para revision="263391">The
313         <literal>extensible_dataset</literal> &man.zpool.8; feature
314         has been added.  See &man.zpool-features.7; for more
315         information.</para>
316
317       <para revision="263408">A memory leak has been fixed in
318         <literal>libzfs</literal>.</para>
319
320       <para revision="263817,263818">The <literal>vt</literal> driver
321         has been merged from <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
322
323       <para revision="265729">The &man.mpr.4; device has been added,
324         providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA
325         controllers.</para>
326
327       <para revision="266167">A kernel bug that inhibited proper
328         functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal>
329         &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo
330         Boost&nbsp;&trade; enabled has been fixed.</para>
331
332       <para revision="266269">Support for &man.xen.4;
333         hardware-assisted virtualization, <literal>XENHVM</literal>,
334         is now available as a loadable module,
335         <literal>xenhvm.ko</literal>.</para>
336
337       <sect3 xml:id="boot">
338         <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
339
340         <para>&nbsp;</para>
341
342       </sect3>
343
344       <sect3 xml:id="proc">
345         <title>Hardware Support</title>
346
347         <para revision="261510">Trackpad support for
348           &apple;&nbsp;MacBook products has been added.</para>
349
350         <para revision="261973">The &man.nve.4; driver has been
351           deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used
352           instead.</para>
353
354         <para revision="262968">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been
355           updated to support MegaRAID Fury cards.</para>
356
357         <para revision="263170,263171">The Radeon KMS driver has been
358           added.</para>
359
360         <para revision="263340">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been
361           updated to version 3.2.5.</para>
362
363         <sect4 xml:id="mm">
364           <title>Multimedia Support</title>
365
366           <para>&nbsp;</para>
367
368         </sect4>
369
370         <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
371           <title>Network Interface Support</title>
372
373           <para revision="257611">The &man.re.4; driver has been
374             updated to add preliminary support for the RTL8106E
375             chipset.</para>
376
377           <para revision="257614,257616">The &man.re.4; driver has
378             been updated to support the RTL8168G, RTL8168GU and
379             RTL8411B chipsets.</para>
380
381           <para revision="257618">The &man.re.4; driver has been
382             updated to add preliminary support for the RTL8168EP
383             chipset.</para>
384
385           <para revision="258586">The &man.oce.4; driver has been
386             updated to version 10.0.664.0.</para>
387
388           <para revision="258898">The &man.qlxgbe.4; driver has been
389             imported from <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
390
391           <para revision="258936">The &man.qlxge.4; driver has been
392             imported from <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
393
394           <para revision="258965">The &man.bge.4; driver has been
395             updated to support the BCM5725 chipset.</para>
396
397           <para revision="258967">The &man.bge.4; driver has been
398             updated to support the BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782,
399             BCM57786 and BCM57787 chipsets.</para>
400
401           <para revision="259457">The &man.run.4; driver has been
402             updated to support MediaTek/Ralink chipsets RT5370 and
403             RT5372.</para>
404
405           <para revision="259460">The &man.usb.4; wireless radiotap
406             headers have been realigned, allowing wireless adapters
407             to work on &arch.arm;, &arch.mips;, and other similar
408             platforms where alignment is important.</para>
409
410           <para revision="260119">The &man.run.4; firmware has been
411             updated to version 0.33.</para>
412
413           <para revision="260252">The &man.bxe.4; driver has been
414             merged from <literal>head/</literal>, providing support
415             for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb PCIe adapters.</para>
416
417           <para revision="261865">The &man.run.4; driver has been
418             updated to include support for the MediaTek/Ralink RT3593
419             chipset.</para>
420
421           <para revision="261933">The &man.run.4; driver has been
422             updated to include support for the DLINK DWA-127 wireless
423             adapter.</para>
424
425           <para revision="262153">The &man.axge.4; driver has been
426             added.</para>
427
428           <para revision="262362">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been
429             imported from OpenBSD.</para>
430
431           <para revision="263582">The &man.bxe.4; driver has been
432             updated to version 1.78.78.</para>
433
434         </sect4>
435       </sect3>
436
437       <sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
438         <title>Network Protocols</title>
439
440         <para>&nbsp;</para>
441
442       </sect3>
443
444       <sect3 xml:id="disks">
445         <title>Disks and Storage</title>
446
447         <para>&nbsp;</para>
448
449       </sect3>
450
451       <sect3 xml:id="fs">
452         <title>File Systems</title>
453
454         <para revision="263410">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
455           updated to support the <literal>bookmarks</literal>
456           feature.</para>
457
458       </sect3>
459     </sect2>
460
461     <sect2 xml:id="userland">
462       <title>Userland Changes</title>
463
464       <para revision="256054">A new flag <literal>-c</literal>, has
465         been added to &man.pgrep.1; and &man.pkill.1;, which restricts
466         the process lookup to the specified login class.</para>
467
468       <para revision="257496">The &man.ddb.8; utility has been updated
469         to add <command>show ioapic</command> and <command>show all
470           ioapics</command>.</para>
471
472       <para revision="258183">Setting <literal>nmbcluster</literal>
473         values to their current value will now be ignored, instead of
474         failing with an error.</para>
475
476       <para revision="258763">The <filename
477           class="directory">/var/cache</filename> directory is now
478         created with mode <literal>0755</literal> instead of mode
479         <literal>0750</literal>, since this directory is used by
480         many third-party applications, which makes dropping group
481         privileges impossible.</para>
482
483       <para revision="258818">The &man.uname.1; utility has been
484         updated to include the <literal>-U</literal> and
485         <literal>-K</literal> flags, which print the
486         <envar>__FreeBSD_version</envar> for the running userland
487         and kernel, respectively.</para>
488
489       <para revision="258844">The &man.fetch.3; library has been
490         updated to support SNI (Server Name Identification), allowing
491         to use virtual hosts on HTTPS.</para>
492
493       <para revision="259243">A segmentation fault and internal
494         compiler error bug in &man.gcc.1; triggered by throwing
495         a warning before parsing any tokens has been fixed.</para>
496
497       <para revision="259269,259406">Several updates to &man.gcc.1;
498         have been imported from Google.</para>
499
500       <para revision="259448">A byte-order bug in the Heimdal
501         <literal>gss_pseudo_random()</literal> function which would
502         prevent interoperability with other
503         <application>Kerberos</application> implementations has been
504         fixed.  In particular, this would prevent interoperability
505         with the MIT implementation.</para>
506
507       <para revision="260007">The &man.hastctl.8; utility has been
508         updated to output the current queue sizes.</para>
509
510       <para revision="260197">The &man.ps.1; utility will no longer
511         truncate the <literal>command</literal> output column.</para>
512
513       <para revision="260208">The &man.protect.1; command has been
514         added, which allows exempting processes from being killed
515         when swap is exhausted.</para>
516
517       <para revision="260507">The &man.gmirror.8; utility now prevents
518         deactivating the last component of a mirror.</para>
519
520       <para revision="260507">A new &man.gmirror.8; command,
521         <command>gmirror destroy</command>, has been added, which will
522         destroy the &man.geom.8; and erase the &man.gmirror.8;
523         metadata.</para>
524
525       <para revision="260650">The &man.etcupdate.8; utility, a tool
526         for managing updates to files in <filename
527           class="directory">/etc</filename>, has been merged from
528         <literal>head/</literal>.</para>
529
530       <para revision="260651">The &man.find.1; utility has been
531         updated to fix incorrect behavior with the
532         <literal>-lname</literal> and <literal>-ilname</literal>
533         flags.</para>
534
535       <para revision="260868,260869">The
536         <literal>hw.uart.console</literal> is now always updated when
537         the comconsole setup changes.</para>
538
539       <para revision="260909">The &man.kldload.8; utility has been
540         updated to display a message directing to &man.dmesg.8;,
541         instead of the cryptic message <quote>Exec format
542           error</quote>.</para>
543
544       <para revision="261674">A bug that could trigger an infinite
545         loop in KDE and X has been fixed.</para>
546
547       <para revision="262076">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been
548         changed to use the size of the file, instead of the blocks the
549         file takes on the disk to match the behavior documented in
550         &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para>
551
552       <para revision="262105">A bug in &man.zdb.8; which would cause
553         numeric parameters to a flag as being treated as additional
554         flags has been fixed.</para>
555
556       <para revision="262124">The default number of &man.nfsd.8;
557         threads has been increased from <literal>4</literal> to
558         <literal>(8 * N)</literal>, where <literal>N</literal> is
559         the number of CPUs as reported by
560         <command>sysctl -n hw.ncpu</command>.</para>
561
562       <para revision="262134">The &man.pciconf.8; utility now has
563         a <literal>-V</literal> flag, which lists information such
564         as serial numbers for each device.</para>
565
566       <para revision="262158">A bug that would allow creating
567         a &man.zfs.8; snapshot of an inconsistent dataset has been
568         fixed.</para>
569
570       <para revision="262160">Receiving a &man.zfs.8; dataset with
571         <command>zfs recv -F</command> now properly destroys any
572         snapshots that were created since the incremental source
573         snapshot.</para>
574
575       <para revision="263031">Installation from a read-only
576         <envar>.OBJDIR</envar> has been fixed.</para>
577
578       <para revision="263031">A new shared library directory,
579         <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/private</filename>,
580         has been added for internal-use shared libraries.</para>
581
582       <para revision="263031">A default
583         <filename>libmap32.conf</filename> has been added, for 32-bit
584         applications.</para>
585
586       <para revision="263032">The <literal>libucl</literal> library,
587         a JSON-compatible configuration file parsing library, has been
588         imported.</para>
589
590       <para revision="263038">The &man.pkg.7; package management
591         utility has been syncronized with <literal>head/</literal>.
592         This implements binary package signature verification when
593         bootstrapping the system with <command>pkg
594           bootstrap</command>.</para>
595
596       <para revision="263042">The system timezone data files have
597         been updated to version tzdata2014a.</para>
598
599       <para revision="263212">The NetBSD &man.make.1; utility,
600         <command>bmake</command> has been imported for compatibility
601         with the &os;&nbsp;Ports Collection.  It is installed as
602         <command>bmake</command>, and the <command>make</command>
603         remains the &os; version.</para>
604
605       <para revision="263326">The &man.fetch.3; library now
606         supports <literal>Last-Modified</literal> timestamps which
607         return UTC instead of GMT.</para>
608
609       <para revision="263404">Aliases for the &man.zfs.8; commands
610         <literal>list -t snap</literal> and <literal>snap</literal>
611         have been added to match &oracle;&nbsp;Solaris 11.</para>
612
613       <para revision="263406">A new flag, <literal>-p</literal>, has
614         been added to the &man.zfs.8; <literal>list</literal> command,
615         providing output in a parseable form.</para>
616
617       <para revision="263421"><application>OpenPAM</application> has
618         been updated to Nummularia (20130907), which incorporates
619         several bug fixes and documentation improvements.  The
620         &man.openpam.ttyconv.3; library has been completely
621         rewritten.</para>
622
623       <para revision="264423">The &man.sh.1; command interpreter has
624         been updated to expand assignments after
625         <literal>export</literal>, <literal>local</literal>, and
626         <literal>readonly</literal> differently.  As result of this
627         change, variable assignment such as <literal>local
628           v=&dollar;1</literal> will assign the first positional
629         parameter to <literal>v</literal>, even if
630         <literal>&dollar;1</literal> contains spaces, and
631         <literal>local w=<replaceable>~/myfile</replaceable></literal>
632         will expand the tilde (<literal>~</literal>).</para>
633
634       <para revision="264699">The &man.find.1; utility has been
635         updated to implement <literal>-ignore_readdir_race</literal>.
636         Prior to this change, <literal>-ignore_readdir_race</literal>
637         existed as an option for GNU &man.find.1; compatibility, and
638         was ignored if specified.  A counter primary,
639         <literal>-noignore_readdir_race</literal> now also exists, and
640         is the default behavior.</para>
641
642       <para revision="266286">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
643         to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to filter
644         output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names.  Additionally,
645         argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to
646         <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the
647         host system.</para>
648
649       <para revision="266287">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated
650         to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the
651         &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para>
652
653       <para revision="266818">The Blowfish &man.crypt.3; default
654         format has been changed to
655         <literal>&dollar;2b&dollar;</literal>.</para>
656
657       <para revision="267114">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now
658         includes files in the
659         <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and
660         <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename>
661         directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para>
662
663       <para revision="267243">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote>
664         has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>.  This allows
665         the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the
666         device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent
667         to <literal>off</literal>.</para>
668
669       <para revision="267379">The &man.arc4random.3; library has been
670         updated to match that of &os;-CURRENT.</para>
671
672       <sect3 xml:id="periodic-scripts">
673         <title>&man.periodic.8; Scripts</title>
674
675         <para>&nbsp;</para>
676
677       </sect3>
678
679       <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
680         <title>&man.rc.8; Scripts</title>
681
682         <para revision="256917">Support for <quote>first boot</quote>
683           scripts has been added to &man.rc.8;.  See &man.rc.8; and
684           &man.rc.conf.5; for implementation details.</para>
685
686         <para revision="260432">The &man.rc.8; system will now
687           re-source &man.rc.conf.5; on receipt of
688           <literal>SIGALRM</literal>.</para>
689
690       </sect3>
691     </sect2>
692
693     <sect2 xml:id="contrib">
694       <title>Contributed Software</title>
695
696       <para revision="255934">The &man.readline.3; library has been
697         updated to version 1.104.</para>
698
699       <para revision="266711"><application>Sendmail</application> has
700         been updated to version 8.14.9.</para>
701
702       <para revision="262706"><application>BIND</application> has
703         been updated to version 9.9.5.</para>
704
705       <para revision="263286">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
706         to a post-5.0.5 snapshot.</para>
707
708       <para revision="263970"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
709         been updated to version 6.6p1.</para>
710
711       <para revision="267285"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
712         been updated to version 0.9.8za.</para>
713
714     </sect2>
715
716     <sect2 xml:id="releng">
717       <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
718
719       <para revision="260891">As part of the release build, the
720         &man.etcupdate.8; utility will bootstrap the system, allowing
721         &man.etcupdate.8; to work after the first upgrade of a
722         system.</para>
723
724       <para revision="262879">The <filename>release.sh</filename>
725         script and release <filename>Makefile</filename> have been
726         updated to use &man.pkg.7; to populate the dvd installation
727         medium.</para>
728
729       <para revision="263028">The &man.services.mkdb.8; utility has
730         been updated to support multiple byte orders.  Similar to
731         &man.cap.mkdb.1;, the <filename>services.db</filename> will
732         be created with proper endinanness as part of
733         cross-architecture release builds.</para>
734
735     </sect2>
736   </sect1>
737
738   <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
739     <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
740
741     <sect2>
742       <title>Upgrading Using &man.freebsd-update.8; or a Source-Based
743         Procedure</title>
744
745       <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
746         (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
747         using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade
748         procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well
749         as an unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel,
750         distributed as a part of an official &os; release.  The
751         &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being
752         upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
753
754       <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
755         base system from source code) from previous versions are
756         supported using to the instructions in
757         <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
758
759       <?ignore
760       <para>For more specific information about upgrading
761         instructions, see <uri
762           xlink:href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/installation.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/installation.html</uri>.</para>
763
764       ?>
765       <important>
766         <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted
767           after backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and
768           configuration files.</para>
769       </important>
770     </sect2>
771
772     <sect2>
773       <title xml:id="upgrade-pitfalls">User-Visible
774         Incompatibilities</title>
775
776       <para>&os;&nbsp;9.0 and later have several incompatibilities in
777         system configuration which you might want to know before
778         upgrading your system.  <emphasis>Please read this section and
779           the <link
780             xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#UPGRADE">Upgrading
781             Section in 9.0-RELEASE Release Notes</link> carefully
782           before submitting a problem report and/or posting a question
783           to the &os; mailing lists.</emphasis></para>
784     </sect2>
785   </sect1>
786 </article>