The &os; Project $FreeBSD: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 265602 2014-05-07 20:15:36Z gjb $ 2014 The &os; Documentation Project &tm-attrib.freebsd; &tm-attrib.ibm; &tm-attrib.ieee; &tm-attrib.intel; &tm-attrib.sparc; &tm-attrib.general; The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the &release.branch; development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented. This document contains the release notes for &os; &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of &os;. The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at &release.url;. The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at &release.url;. This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be found at &release.url; or any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the Obtaining &os; appendix to the &os; Handbook. All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with late-breaking information discovered late in the release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site. This section describes the most user-visible new or changed features in &os; since &release.prev;. In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch; branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features. Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements. No advisories. The VT kernel configuration file has been added, which enables the new vt console driver. Support for GPS ports has been added to &man.uhso.4;. The if_nf10bmac(4) device has been added, providing support for NetFPGA-10G Embedded CPU Ethernet Core. The if_nf10bmac(4) driver operates on the FPGA, and is not suited for the PCI host interface. The &man.full.4; device has been added, and the lindev(4) device has been removed. Prior to this change, lindev(4) provided only the /dev/full character device, returning ENOSPC on write attempts. As this device is not specific to &linux;, a native &os; version has been added. The &man.mpr.4; device has been added, providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA controllers. Support for the Virtual Interrupt Delivery feature of &intel; VT-x is enabled if supported by the CPU. This feature can be disabled by running sysctl hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0. Additionally, to persist this setting across reboots, add hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0 to /etc/sysctl.conf. Support for Posted Interrupt Processing is enabled if supported by the CPU. This feature can be disabled by running sysctl hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0. Additionally, to persist this setting across reboots, add hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0 to /etc/sysctl.conf. Unmapped IO support has been added to &man.virtio_blk.4;. Unmapped IO support has been added to &man.virtio_scsi.4;. The &man.virtio_random.4; driver has been added to harvest entropy from the host system. The &man.nand.4; device is enabled for ARM devices by default.     Support for Broadcom chipsets BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787 has been added to &man.bge.4;. Support for the &intel; Centrino™ Wireless-N 135 chipset has been added. Firmware for &intel; Centrino™ Wireless-N 105 devices has been added to the base system. The deprecated nve(4) driver has been removed. Users of NVIDIA nForce MCP network adapters are advised to use the &man.nfe.4; driver instead, which has been the default driver for this hardware since &os; 7.0. The &man.ath.hal.4; driver has been updated to support the Atheros AR1111 chipset. Support for the IPX network transport protocol has been removed, and will not be supported in &os; 11 and later releases.       The &man.casperd.8; daemon has been added, which provides access to functionality that is not available in the capability mode sandbox. When unable to load a kernel module with &man.kldload.8;, a message informing to view output of &man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output Exec format error.. Allow &man.pciconf.8; to identify PCI devices that are attached to a driver to be identified by their device name instead of just the selector. Additionally, an optional device argument to the -l flag to restrict the output to only listing details about a single device. A new flag, onifconsole has been added to /etc/ttys. This allows the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent to off. Support for displaying VPD for PCI devices via &man.pciconf.8; has been added. &man.ping.8; protects against malicious network packets using the Capsicum framework to drop privileges. &os;/&arch.i386; guests can be run under bhyve. The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated to include the -J flag, used to filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. Additionally, argument 0 can be used to -J to only list processes running on the host system. The &man.top.1; utility has been updated to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the &man.ps.1; change in r265229.   &man.lldb.1; has been updated to upstream snapshot version r196259. Timezone data files have been updated to version 2013i. &man.byacc.1; has been updated to version 20140101. OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.1.f. &man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to version 3.5.0. Sendmail has been updated from 8.14.7 to 8.14.8. bmake has been updated to version 20140101. libc++ has been updated to version 3.4. OpenSSH has been updated to 6.5p1. mdocml has been updated to version 1.12.3. LLVM and Clang have been updated to version 3.4.       Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC kernels distributed as a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet connectivity. Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; base system from source code) from previous versions are supported, according to the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING. Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after backing up all data and configuration files.