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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 2<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN" 3 "../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [ 4<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" "release.ent"> 5 %release; 6 7<!-- local entities not available in doc/release/10.0.0 tag --> 8<!ENTITY man.drill.1 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>drill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 9<!ENTITY man.freebsd-version.1 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>freebsd-version</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 10<!ENTITY man.jemalloc.3 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>jemalloc</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 11<!ENTITY man.bhyve.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>bhyve</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 12<!ENTITY man.if_cxgbe.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>if_cxgbe</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 13<!ENTITY man.nvme.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>nvme</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 14<!ENTITY man.virtio.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>virtio</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 15<!ENTITY man.virtio_balloon.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>virtio_balloon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 16<!ENTITY man.virtio_blk.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>virtio_blk</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 17<!ENTITY man.virtio_scsi.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>virtio_scsi</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 18<!ENTITY man.vmx.4 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>vmx</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 19<!ENTITY man.pkg.7 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>pkg</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 20<!ENTITY man.bhyve.8 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>bhyve</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 21<!ENTITY man.bsdconfig.8 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>bsdconfig</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 22<!ENTITY man.unbound.8 "<citerefentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'><refentrytitle>unbound</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>"> 23]> 24<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 25<info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 26 27 28 <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author> 29 30 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: releng/10.0/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 260613 2014-01-13 23:34:43Z gjb $</pubdate> 31 32 <copyright> 33 <year>2000</year> 34 <year>2001</year> 35 <year>2002</year> 36 <year>2003</year> 37 <year>2004</year> 38 <year>2005</year> 39 <year>2006</year> 40 <year>2007</year> 41 <year>2008</year> 42 <year>2009</year> 43 <year>2010</year> 44 <year>2011</year> 45 <year>2012</year> 46 <year>2013</year> 47 <year>2014</year> 48 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder> 49 </copyright> 50 51 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 52 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 53 &tm-attrib.ibm; 54 &tm-attrib.ieee; 55 &tm-attrib.intel; 56 &tm-attrib.sparc; 57 &tm-attrib.general; 58 </legalnotice> 59 60 <abstract> 61 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary 62 of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 63 &release.branch; development line. 64 This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since 65 the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os; 66 kernel and userland. 67 Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para> 68 </abstract> 69</info> 70 71<sect1 xml:id="intro"> 72 <title>Introduction</title> 73 74 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 75 &release.current;. It 76 describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;. 77 It also provides some notes on upgrading 78 from previous versions of &os;.</para> 79 80 <para>The latest, up-to-date version of the release notes are 81 available online at <uri 82 xlink:href="&release.url;10.0R/relnotes.html">&release.url;10.0R/relnotes.html</uri>.</para> 83 84 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes 85 apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development 86 branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary 87 &release.type; distributions along this branch 88 can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 89 90 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes 91 apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development 92 branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;. 93 Information regarding 94 pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch 95 can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 96 97 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a 98 &release.type; distribution. It can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or any of its mirrors. More 99 information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type; 100 distributions of &os; can be found in the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 101 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; 102 Handbook</link>.</para> 103 104 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before 105 installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 106 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 107 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 108 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to 109 documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 110 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 111 112</sect1> 113 114<sect1 xml:id="new"> 115 <title>What's New</title> 116 117 <para>This section describes 118 the most user-visible new or changed features in &os; 119 since &release.prev;. 120 In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch; 121 branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features. 122 </para> 123 124 <para>Typical release note items 125 document recent security advisories issued after 126 &release.prev;, 127 new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, 128 major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also 129 list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering 130 practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single 131 change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses 132 primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major 133 architectural improvements.</para> 134 135 <sect2 xml:id="security"> 136 <title>Security Advisories</title> 137 138 <para>No security advisories.</para> 139 140 </sect2> 141 142 <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> 143 <title>Kernel Changes</title> 144 145 <para revision="248508">The use of unmapped VMIO buffers eliminates the need to perform 146 TLB shootdown for mapping on buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the 147 amount of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30% 148 of the system time on i/o intensive workloads.</para> 149 150 <para arch="amd64" revision="254466">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel 151 can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para> 152 153 <para>A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added 154 for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and 155 assignment. The &man.cpuset.1; userland utility has been added 156 to allow manipulation of processor sets.</para> 157 158 <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an output capture 159 facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured 160 to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or 161 a textdump. The new <command>capture</command> command controls 162 this feature.</para> 163 164 <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting 165 facility, which supports a set of named scripts consisting of a 166 set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can be managed from 167 within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new &man.ddb.8; 168 utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual 169 page.</para> 170 171 <para role="merged">The kernel now supports a new textdump format of kernel 172 dumps. A textdump provides higher-level information via 173 mechanically generated/extracted debugging output, rather than a 174 simple memory dump. This facility can be used to generate brief 175 kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging information, but 176 are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely 177 synchronized source code. More information can be found in the 178 &man.textdump.4; manual page.</para> 179 180 <para>Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While 181 the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful 182 in bringing threading to FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the 183 KSE library was never developed to its full potential. 184 Backwards compatibility for applications using KSE threading 185 will be provided via &man.libmap.conf.5; for dynamically linked 186 binaries. The &os; Project greatly appreciates the work of 187 &a.julian;, &a.deischen;, and &a.davidxu; on KSE support.</para> 188 189 <para>The &os; kernel now exports information about certain kernel 190 features via the <varname>kern.features</varname> sysctl tree. 191 The &man.feature.present.3; library call provides a convenient 192 interface for user applications to test the presence of 193 features.</para> 194 195 <para arch="amd64">The &os; kernel now has support for large 196 memory page mappings (<quote>superpages</quote>).</para> 197 198 <para arch="amd64,i386,ia64,powerpc" role="merged">The ULE 199 scheduler is now the default process scheduler 200 in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</para> 201 202 <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="240135">Support was added for 203 the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number 204 generator, found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs, 205 accessible with RDRAND instruction.</para> 206 207 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 208 <title>Virtualization support</title> 209 <para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included 210 with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT) 211 support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond 212 (e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para> 213 214 <para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added. &man.virtio.4; is the 215 name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but 216 since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen). 217 This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers 218 for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;), 219 memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI. 220 Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;.</para> 221 222 <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="255524">Paravirtualized drivers which 223 support Microsoft Hyper-V have been imported and made 224 part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel. For i386, these drivers are not part of 225 GENERIC, so the following lines must be added to 226 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to load these drivers: 227 <programlisting>hv_ata_pci_disengage_load="YES" 228hv_netsvc_load="YES" 229hv_utils_load="YES" 230hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be added to the i386 231 kernel by adding <literal>device hyperv</literal> to the kernel config, and then 232 recompiling the kernel. Please refer to: 233 <link xlink:href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV">FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V support</link> 234 for full instructions on how to set up Hyper-V support under FreeBSD.</para> 235 236 <para revision="254738">The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added. 237 &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from 238 OpenBSD.</para> 239 240 <para revision="255744" arch="amd64,i386">Xen PVHVM virtualization is now 241 part of the GENERIC kernel.</para> 242 243 </sect3> 244 245 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 246 <title>ARM support</title> 247 248 <para revision="239922">Raspberry PI support has been added. 249 Refer to these <link xlink:href="http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164">setup instructions</link> 250 and <link xlink:href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide">quick start 251 guide</link>.</para> 252 253 <para revision="253396">The default ABI on ARM is now the ARM EABI. This brings a number of 254 improvements and allows future support for VFP and Thumb-2.</para> 255 256 <para revision="239268">ARM support has been greatly improved, including support 257 for ARMv6 and ARMv7, SMP and thread-local storage (TLS). 258 Additionally support for some newer SoC like the MV78x60 and OMAP4 was added. 259 See <link xlink:href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-August/003757.html">this announcement</link> 260 for further details.</para> 261 262 <para revision="254918">Superpages support on ARM has been added. Superpages support 263 provides improved performance and scalability by allowing TLB 264 translations to dynamically cover large physical memory regions. 265 All ARMv6 and ARMv7-based platforms can take advantage of this feature. 266 See <link xlink:href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMSuperpages">this page</link> 267 for further details.</para> 268 269 </sect3> 270 271 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 272 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 273 274 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The BTX kernel used by the boot 275 loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real 276 mode. This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB 277 devices.</para> 278 279 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">A new gptboot boot loader has 280 been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. A 281 new <command>boot</command> command has been added to 282 &man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the 283 required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot 284 partition if required.</para> 285 286 </sect3> 287 288 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 289 <title>Hardware Support</title> 290 291 <para role="merged">The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040 292 PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para> 293 294 <para>The &man.syscons.4; driver now supports Colemak keyboard layout.</para> 295 296 <para role="merged">The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon 297 Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been 298 imported from OpenBSD.</para> 299 300 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 301 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 302 303 <para revision="240609">Support for version 2.0 of the USB Audio reference design 304 has been added. New devices should support higher bandwidth, 305 increased sampling frequency and wider dynamic range.</para> 306 307 </sect4> 308 309 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 310 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 311 312 <para>The &man.ale.4; driver has been added to provide support 313 for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet controllers.</para> 314 315 <para>The &man.em.4; driver has been split into two drivers 316 with some common parts. The &man.em.4; driver will continue 317 to support adapters up to the 82575, as well as new 318 client/desktop adapters. A new &man.igb.4; driver 319 will support new server adapters.</para> 320 321 <para>The &man.jme.4; driver has been added to provide support 322 for PCIe network adapters based on JMicron JMC250 Gigabit 323 Ethernet and JMC260 Fast Ethernet controllers.</para> 324 325 <para>The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to provide 326 support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network 327 adapters.</para> 328 329 <para>The firmware for the &man.mxge.4; driver has been 330 updated from 1.4.25 to 1.4.29.</para> 331 332 <para>The &man.sf.4; driver has been overhauled to improve its 333 performance and to add support for checksum offloading. It 334 should also work on all architectures.</para> 335 336 <para>The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a 337 number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL) 338 support.</para> 339 340 <para>The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a 341 number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all 342 architectures.</para> 343 344 <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver has 345 been updated to include a number of stability fixes.</para> 346 347 <para revision="248925">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated to support 348 40G/10G Ethernet NICs based on Chelsio's Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC.</para> 349 350 <para revision="256694">The &man.if_cxgbe.4; driver has been added. This is an 351 experimental iWARP/RDMA driver 352 (kernel verbs only) for Chelsio's T4 and T5 based cards.</para> 353 354 <para revision="255932">The Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) and 355 OFED Infiniband core has been 356 updated to the same version as supplied by Linux version 3.7</para> 357 358 <para revision="255932">The Mellanox Infiniband driver has been updated to firmware 359 version 2.30.3200 for ConnectX3 NICs. Support has been added for ConnectX3 VPI NICs, where 360 each port can be used as Infiniband 56 GB/s or Ethernet 40 GB/s. Support has been added 361 for dynamically loading kernel modules for Infiniband core (ibcore) and 362 IP over Infiniband (ipoib).</para> 363 364 <para revision="227614">&man.netmap.4; has been added. &man.netmap.4; is a framework for 365 high-performance direct-to-hardware packet IO, offering low latency and high PPS 366 rates to userland applications while bypassing any kernel-side packet processing. 367 With &man.netmap.4; it is trivially possible to fully saturate a 10 Gbps network interface with 368 minimal packet sizes. For more information, see: 369 <link xlink:href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/">Netmap Project</link>.</para> 370 371 </sect4> 372 </sect3> 373 374 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 375 <title>Network Protocols</title> 376 377 <para revision="228571">&man.carp.4; has been rewritten to make addresses 378 more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such as 379 quagga/zebra. It also brings support for a single redundant 380 address on the subnet (carpdev), switching state with 381 &man.ifconfig.8;, better locking and using modern kernel 382 interfaces to allocate multicast memberships. 383 Configuration of the CARP protocol via &man.ifconfig.8; has changed, as well as format 384 of CARP events submitted to &man.devd.8; has changed. See &man.carp.4; 385 for more information. The arpbalance feature of &man.carp.4; is currently 386 not supported anymore.</para> 387 388 <para revision="240233">The &man.pf.4; firewall now supports fine-grain locking 389 and better utilization on multi-cpu machines resulting in 390 significant improvements in performance.</para> 391 392 <para revision="250700">Support for up to 65536 routing tables has been 393 introduced.</para> 394 395 <para revision="248552">Support for setting/matching differentiated services 396 codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has been added to 397 &man.ipfw.8;.</para> 398 399 </sect3> 400 401 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 402 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 403 404 <para role="merged">The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than 405 2TB in size.</para> 406 407 <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for 408 disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests 409 have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down 410 until the next request. The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now 411 supports a <command>spindown</command> command to configure 412 this feature.</para> 413 414 <para role="merged">The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2 415 from Highpoint.</para> 416 417 <para revision="240616">&man.nvme.4; has been added and provides NVM Express support. 418 NVM Express is an optimized register interface, command set and feature set of 419 PCI Express (PCIe)-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs). For more information, 420 see <link xlink:href="http://http://www.nvmexpress.org/">nvmexpress.org</link>.</para> 421 422 </sect3> 423 424 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 425 <title>File Systems</title> 426 427 <para revision="255570">A new kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator has been 428 added</para> 429 430 <para revision="243246">UFS filesystems can now be enlarged with &man.growfs.8; while 431 mounted read-write. This is especially useful for virtual 432 machines, allowing the addition of more harddrive space without 433 interruption of service.</para> 434 435 <para revision="241519">A state of the art FUSE implementation is now part of the 436 base system. It allows the use of nearly all fusefs file 437 systems</para> 438 439 <sect4 xml:id="fs-zfs"> 440 <title>ZFS</title> 441 442 <para revision="">&man.bsdinstall.8; now supports installing 443 ZFS on the root file system. It includes a single configuration menu 444 that allows you to select all of the required details, including 445 which drives to use, what ZFS RAID level to use (taking into consideration 446 the selected number of drives), GPT or MBR, GELI encryption, forcing 4K sectors, 447 pool name, etc.</para> 448 449 <para revision="240868">TRIM support has been added for 450 ZFS.</para> 451 452 <para revision="246586">Support for the high performance LZ4 compression algorithm 453 has been added to ZFS. LZ4 is usually faster and can achieve a 454 higher compression ratio than LZJB, the default compression 455 algorithm</para> 456 457 <para revision="252140">Support for L2ARC compression has been added to ZFS.</para> 458 459 <para revision="243524">The zio nop-write improvement from Illumos 460 was imported into &os;. To reduce I/O, nop-write skips overwriting 461 data if the checksum (cryptographically secure) of new data 462 matches the checksum of existing data. It also saves space if 463 snapshots are in use. This improvement only works only on 464 datasets with enabled compression, disabled deduplication and 465 sha256 checksums.</para> 466 467 <para>ZFS will now compare the checksums of incoming writes to 468 the checksum of the existing on-disk data and avoid issuing any 469 write I/O for data that has not changed. This will reduce I/O 470 as well as space usage because if the old block is referenced 471 by a snapshot, both copies of the block are kept even though 472 both contain the same data.</para> 473 474 </sect4> 475 476 </sect3> 477 478 </sect2> 479 480 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 481 <title>Userland Changes</title> 482 483 <para revision="255321">On platforms where &man.clang.1; is the default 484 system compiler, (such as i386, amd64, arm) GCC and GNU libstdc++ are no 485 longer built by default. &man.clang.1; and libc++ from LLVM are used on 486 these platforms by instead. GCC 4.2.1 and libstdc++ are still built 487 and used by default on pc98 and all other platforms where &man.clang.1; 488 is not the default system compiler. 489 </para> 490 491 <para revision="251662">&man.clang.1; and llvm have been updated to 492 version 3.3 release. Please refer to 493 <link xlink:href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html"> 494 Clang 3.3 Release Notes.</link></para> 495 496 <para role="merged" revision="255949">BIND has been replaced by &man.unbound.8; for 497 local dns resolution in the base system. With this change, nslookup 498 and dig are no longer a part of the base system. Users should 499 instead use &man.host.1; and &man.drill.1; Alternatively, 500 nslookup and dig can be obtained by installing the 501 dns/bind-tools port.</para> 502 503 <para revision="225937">sysinstall has been removed from the base system. 504 Auxiliary libraries and tools used by sysinstall such as libdisk, libftpio, 505 and sade have also been removed. sysinstall has been replaced by 506 &man.bsdinstall.8; and &man.bsdconfig.8;.</para> 507 508 <para revision="256106">&man.freebsd-version.1; has been added. This tool 509 makes a best effort to determine the version and patch level of 510 the installed kernel and userland.</para> 511 512 <para revision="255191">GNU patch has been removed from the base system, and replaced 513 by a BSD-licensed &man.patch.1; program.</para> 514 515 <para revision="241511">GNU sort has been removed from the base system, and replaced 516 by a BSD-licensed &man.sort.1; program.</para> 517 518 <para revision="235723">Berkely yacc (byacc) has been imported 519 from <link xlink:href="http://invisible-island.net/byacc/">invisible island</link>. 520 This brings bison compatibilities to &man.yacc.1; while preserving full 521 backwards compatibility with previous version of &man.yacc.1;.</para> 522 523 <para revision="250881">&man.lex.1; has been replaced by flex 2.5.37</para> 524 525 <para revision="250699">&man.make.1; has been replaced with the 526 "Portable" BSD make tool (bmake) from NetBSD.</para> 527 528 <para role="merged">The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports 529 a <option>-M</option> option to set the mode of a new user's 530 home directory.</para> 531 532 <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.ar.1; and &man.ranlib.1;, 533 based on <filename>libarchive</filename>, have replaced the GNU 534 Binutils versions of these utilities.</para> 535 536 <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.bc.1; and &man.dc.1; have 537 replaced their GNU counterparts.</para> 538 539 <para role="merged">&man.chflags.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag for 540 verbose output and a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors 541 with the same semantics as (for example) 542 &man.chmod.1;.</para> 543 544 <para>For compatibility with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now 545 supports a <option>-a</option> flag, which is equivalent to 546 specifying the <option>-RrP</option> flags.</para> 547 548 <para>BSD-licensed version of &man.cpio.1; based on 549 <filename>libarchive</filename>, has replaced the GNU cpio. 550 Note that the GNU cpio is still installed as 551 <filename>gcpio</filename>.</para> 552 553 <para>The &man.env.1; program now supports <option>-u 554 <replaceable>name</replaceable></option> 555 which will completely unset the given variable 556 <replaceable>name</replaceable> by removing it from the environment, 557 instead of just setting it to a null value.</para> 558 559 <para>The &man.fdopendir.3; library function has been added.</para> 560 561 <para role="merged">The &man.fetch.3; library now support HTTP 1.1 562 If-Modified-Since behavior. The &man.fetch.1; program now 563 supports <option>-i <replaceable>filename</replaceable></option> 564 which will only download the specified HTTP URL if the content 565 is newer than <replaceable>filename</replaceable>.</para> 566 567 <para>&man.find.1; has been enhanced by the addition of a number 568 of primaries that were present in GNU find but not &os; 569 &man.find.1;.</para> 570 571 <para>&man.kgdb.1; now supports a new <command>add-kld</command> 572 command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel 573 modules.</para> 574 575 <para>The &man.ls.1; program now supports a <option>-D</option> 576 option to specify a date format string to be used with the long 577 format (<option>-l</option>) output.</para> 578 579 <para>&man.nc.1; now supports a <option>-O</option> switch to 580 disable the use of TCP options.</para> 581 582 <para>&man.nc.1;'s <option>-o</option> switch has been deprecated. 583 It will be removed in a future release.</para> 584 585 <para>The &man.ping6.8; utility now returns <literal>2</literal> 586 when the packet transmission was successful but no responses 587 were received (this is the same behavior as &man.ping.8;). 588 It returned a non-zero value before this change.</para> 589 590 <para>The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display 591 detailed information about processes.</para> 592 593 <para role="merged">The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports 594 a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress warnings; it now also 595 accepts multiple paths on its command line.</para> 596 597 <para>&man.sh.1; has many bug fixes, some new features, and will now 598 refuse to parse some invalid scripts. Additionally, it now 599 has filename completion and defaults to the "emacs" editing 600 mode.</para> 601 602 <para>The &man.split.1; utility now supports a <option>-n</option> 603 flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks.</para> 604 605 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-Z</option> 606 flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style 607 compression/decompression.</para> 608 609 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a 610 <option>--numeric-owner</option> flag to ignore user/group names 611 on create and extract.</para> 612 613 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports an 614 <option>-S</option> flag to sparsify files on extraction.</para> 615 616 <para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-s</option> 617 flag to substitute filenames based on the specified regular 618 expression.</para> 619 620 <para>The &man.tcgetsid.3; library function has been added to 621 return the process group ID for the session leader for the 622 controlling terminal. It is defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 623 (POSIX).</para> 624 625 <para>&man.top.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> flag to 626 provide per-CPU usage statistics.</para> 627 628 <para>&man.zdump.8; is now working properly on 64 bit architectures. 629 </para> 630 631 <para>&man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS 632 number for each hop with the new <option>-a</option> switch; a 633 new <option>-A</option> option allows selecting a particular 634 WHOIS server.</para> 635 636 <para>&man.traceroute6.8; now supports a <option>-U</option> flag 637 to send probe packets with no upper-layer protocol, rather than 638 the usual UDP probe packets.</para> 639 640 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 641 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 642 643 <para>The followoing &man.rc.8; scripts have been added:</para> 644 645 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 646 <tgroup cols="2"> 647 <colspec colwidth="1*" /> 648 <colspec colwidth="1*" /> 649 <thead> 650 <row> 651 <entry>&man.rc.8; Script</entry> 652 <entry>Function</entry> 653 </row> 654 </thead> 655 656 <tbody> 657 <row> 658 <entry><filename>ctld</filename></entry> 659 <entry><para>iSCSI target daemon startup 660 script</para></entry> 661 </row> 662 <row> 663 <entry><filename>iscsictl</filename></entry> 664 <entry><para>iSCSI initiator management utility 665 startup script</para></entry> 666 </row> 667 <row> 668 <entry><filename>iscsid</filename></entry> 669 <entry><para>iSCSI initiatior daemon startup 670 script</para></entry> 671 </row> 672 <row> 673 <entry><filename>kfd</filename></entry> 674 <entry><para>Kerberos ticket forwarding daemon 675 startup script</para></entry> 676 </row> 677 <row> 678 <entry><filename>local_unbound</filename></entry> 679 <entry><para>Unbound startup script for the local 680 caching resolver</para></entry> 681 </row> 682 <row> 683 <entry><filename>postrandom</filename></entry> 684 <entry><para>Generates a new entropy file at system 685 boot</para></entry> 686 </row> 687 <row> 688 <entry><filename>swap</filename></entry> 689 <entry><para>Replaces <filename>swap1</filename>; 690 enable swap at system boot</para></entry> 691 </row> 692 <row> 693 <entry><filename>swaplate</filename></entry> 694 <entry><para>Enables swap with <quote>late</quote> 695 set at system boot</para></entry> 696 </row> 697 <row> 698 <entry><filename>utx</filename></entry> 699 <entry><para>User accounting database startup and 700 shutdown script</para></entry> 701 </row> 702 </tbody> 703 </tgroup> 704 </informaltable> 705 706 <para>The following &man.rc.8; scripts have been removed:</para> 707 708 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 709 <tgroup cols="2"> 710 <colspec colwidth="1*" /> 711 <thead> 712 <row> 713 <entry>&man.rc.8; Script</entry> 714 <entry><para>Reason</para></entry> 715 </row> 716 </thead> 717 718 <tbody> 719 <row> 720 <entry><filename>encswap</filename></entry> 721 <entry><para>Replaced by <filename>swap</filename> and 722 <filename>swaplate</filename></para></entry> 723 </row> 724 <row> 725 <entry><filename>named</filename></entry> 726 <entry><para>Removed with 727 <application>BIND</application></para></entry> 728 </row> 729 <row> 730 <entry><filename>swap1</filename></entry> 731 <entry><para>Replaced by <filename>swap</filename> and 732 <filename>swaplate</filename></para></entry> 733 </row> 734 </tbody> 735 </tgroup> 736 </informaltable> 737 </sect3> 738 </sect2> 739 740 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 741 <title>Contributed Software</title> 742 743 <para revision="251300">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to 3.4.0. 744 See <link xlink:href="http://www.facebook.com/jemalloc/">this link</link>. 745 for more details.</para> 746 747 <para role="merged"><application>AMD</application> has been updated from 6.0.10 748 to 6.1.5.</para> 749 750 <para role="merged"><application>awk</application> has been updated from 1 May 751 2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release.</para> 752 753 <para role="merged"><application>bzip2</application> has been updated from 1.0.4 754 to 1.0.5.</para> 755 756 <para revision="251794"><application>CVS</application> has been removed from the 757 base system, but is still available from ports</para> 758 759 <para revision="251886">Subversion has been imported into the base system and 760 is installed as <application>svnlite</application>. <application>svnlite</application> 761 should only be used for checking out &os; source and committing, and does not 762 replace the full Subversion port.</para> 763 764 <para revision="234449"><application>file</application> has been updated to 5.11.</para> 765 766 <para revision="252726"><application>hostapd</application> has been 767 updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para> 768 769 <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to 5.1.2.</para> 770 771 <para revision="250592"><application>less</application> has been updated to 772 v458.</para> 773 774 <para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from 775 to 5.7-20081102.</para> 776 777 <para role="merged"><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated 778 to 6.4.</para> 779 780 <para revision="236109"><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated to 781 the Micrampelis release.</para> 782 783 <para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from 784 8.14.1 to 8.14.7.</para> 785 786 <para role="merged">The timezone database has been updated from 787 the <application>tzdata2008h</application> release to 788 the <application>tzdata2009m</application> release.</para> 789 790 <para>The stdtime part of libc, &man.zdump.8; and &man.zic.8; 791 have been updated from the <application>tzcode2004a</application> 792 release to the <application>tzcode2009h</application> release. 793 If you have upgraded from source or via the &man.freebsd-update.8;, 794 then please run &man.tzsetup.8; to install a new /etc/localtime. 795 </para> 796 797 <para revision="252726"><application>WPA Supplicant</application> has been 798 updated to 2.0.</para> 799 800 <para role="merged"><application>xz</application> has been updated 801 from snapshot as of 12 April 2010 to 5.0.0.</para> 802 803 <para revision="258231" role="merged">&man.nvi.1; has been updated to 2.1.2.</para> 804 805 <para revision="254225">&man.nvi.1; supports wide character locales.</para> 806 807 </sect2> 808 809 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 810 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 811 812 <para revision="257444">The pkg_add, pkg_create, pkg_delete, pkg_info, 813 pkg_updating, and pkg_version utilities have been removed. 814 &man.pkg.7; must now be used to install binary packages. &man.pkg.7; 815 is the next generation &os; package manager, also referred to as "pkgng".</para> 816 817 </sect2> 818 819 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 820 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 821 822 <para role="merged">The supported version of 823 the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment 824 (<package>x11/gnome2</package>) has been 825 updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22.</para> 826 827 </sect2> 828 829 <!-- 830 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 831 <title>Documentation</title> 832 833 <para/> 834 835 </sect2> 836 --> 837</sect1> 838 839<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 840 <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title> 841 842 <para arch="amd64,i386">Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, 843 binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the 844 various security branches) are supported using the 845 &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure will 846 update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC or 847 SMP kernels distributed as a part of an official &os; release. 848 The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being 849 upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para> 850 851 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 852 base system from source code) from previous versions are 853 supported, according to the instructions in 854 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 855 856 <important> 857 <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after 858 backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration 859 files.</para> 860 </important> 861</sect1> 862</article> 863