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16  <info>
17    <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
18
19    <author>
20      <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
21    </author>
22
23    <pubdate>$FreeBSD: releng/10.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 285962 2015-07-28 15:05:19Z gjb $</pubdate>
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27    <copyright>
28      <year>2015</year>
29      <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
30	Project</holder>
31    </copyright>
32
33    <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
34      &tm-attrib.freebsd;
35      &tm-attrib.ibm;
36      &tm-attrib.ieee;
37      &tm-attrib.intel;
38      &tm-attrib.sparc;
39      &tm-attrib.general;
40    </legalnotice>
41
42    <abstract>
43      <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
44	a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
45	&release.branch; development line.  This document lists
46	applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
47	release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
48	userland.  Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
49	presented.</para>
50    </abstract>
51  </info>
52
53  <sect1 xml:id="intro">
54    <title>Introduction</title>
55
56    <para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
57      &release.current;.  It describes recently added, changed, or
58      deleted features of &os;.  It also provides some notes on
59      upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
60
61    <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to
62      which these release notes apply represents the latest point
63      along the &release.branch; development branch since
64      &release.branch; was created.  Information regarding pre-built,
65      binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
66      found at <uri
67	xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
68
69    <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to
70      which these release notes apply represents a point along the
71      &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and
72      the future &release.next;.  Information regarding pre-built,
73      binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
74      found at <uri
75	xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
76
77    <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
78      &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution.  It can be
79      found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
80      any of its mirrors.  More information on obtaining this (or
81      other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the
82      <link
83	xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
84	  &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
85	xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
86	Handbook</link>.</para>
87
88    <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata
89      before installing &os;.  The errata document is updated with
90      <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
91      release cycle or after the release.  Typically, it contains
92      information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections
93      to documentation.  An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
94      &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
95
96    <para>This document describes the most user-visible new or changed
97      features in &os; since &release.prev;.</para>
98
99    <para>Typical release note items document recent security
100      advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
101      support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
102      contributed software upgrades.  They may also list changes to
103      major ports/packages or release engineering practices.  Clearly
104      the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
105      between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
106      advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
107      improvements.</para>
108  </sect1>
109
110  <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
111    <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
112
113    <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
114      (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
115      using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility.  The binary upgrade
116      procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
117      unmodified <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel distributed as
118      a part of an official &os; release.  The &man.freebsd-update.8;
119      utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
120      connectivity.</para>
121
122    <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
123      base system from source code) from previous versions are
124      supported, according to the instructions in
125      <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
126
127    <important>
128      <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after
129	backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
130	files.</para>
131    </important>
132  </sect1>
133
134  <sect1 xml:id="security-errata">
135    <title>Security and Errata</title>
136
137    <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and
138      Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para>
139
140    <sect2 xml:id="security">
141      <title>Security Advisories</title>
142
143      &security;
144    </sect2>
145
146    <sect2 xml:id="errata">
147      <title>Errata Notices</title>
148
149      &errata;
150    </sect2>
151  </sect1>
152
153  <sect1 xml:id="userland">
154    <title>Userland</title>
155
156    <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland
157      applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para>
158
159    <sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
160      <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
161
162      <para revision="276991">The &man.termcap.5; file is installed
163	as-is from sources, instead of reordering, creating
164	<filename>/etc/termcap.db</filename> by default, providing
165	a performance improvements to applications that use the
166	&man.termcap.5; database, such as &man.vi.1; and
167	&man.ncurses.3;.</para>
168    </sect2>
169
170    <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
171      <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
172
173      <para revision="275040">A new utility, &man.dpv.1;, has been
174	added to the base system, providing a &man.dialog.1;-style
175	progress view from one or more input streams.  A corresponding
176	library, &man.dpv.3;, has also been added.</para>
177
178      <para revision="275945">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been
179	updated to support capability mode provided by
180	&man.capsicum.4;.</para>
181
182      <para revision="277434" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
183	&man.fstyp.8; utility has been added, which is used to
184	determine the filesystem on a specified device.</para>
185
186      <para revision="278968" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
187	&man.mkimg.1; utility has been updated to support the
188	<acronym>MBR</acronym> <acronym>EFI</acronym> partition
189	type.</para>
190
191      <para revision="281044">A regression in the &man.libarchive.3;
192	library that would prevent a directory from being included in
193	the archive when <literal>--one-file-system</literal> is used
194	has been fixed.</para>
195
196      <para revision="281161" contrib="sponsor"
197	sponsor="&limelight;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, has
198	been added to the &man.netstat.8; utility, which is used to
199	dump <acronym>RSS</acronym>/flow information.</para>
200
201      <para revision="281936" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
202	&man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set
203	<literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS</literal> and
204	<literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT</literal> to disallow
205	directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to
206	&man.tar.1;.</para>
207
208      <para revision="282278">A race condition in &man.wc.1; that
209	would cause final results to be sent to &man.stderr.4; when
210	receiving the <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal has been
211	fixed.</para>
212
213      <para revision="282870" contrib="sponsor"
214	sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has
215	been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when
216	a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed.</para>
217
218      <para revision="282974" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
219	&man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para>
220
221      <para revision="283875" contrib="sponsor"
222	sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.chflags.1;, &man.chgrp.1;,
223	&man.chmod.1;, and &man.chown.8; utilities now affect symbolic
224	links when the <literal>-R</literal> flag is specified, as
225	documented in &man.symlink.7;.</para>
226
227      <para revision="283258">The &man.date.1; utility has been
228	updated to print the modification time of the file passed as
229	an argument to the <literal>-r</literal> flag, improving
230	compatibility with the <acronym>GNU</acronym> &man.date.1;
231	utility behavior.</para>
232
233      <para revision="284523">A new flag, <literal>-c</literal>, has
234	been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility, which allows
235	specifying the capacity of the target disk image.</para>
236
237      <para revision="285092">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated
238	with a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, that sets the root
239	directory within which the utility will operate.</para>
240    </sect2>
241
242    <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
243      <title>Contributed Software</title>
244
245      <para revision="282746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
246	&man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version
247	3.7.0.</para>
248
249      <para revision="283270">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated
250	to the OpenBSD 5.7 version.</para>
251
252      <para revision="284398">Timezone data files have been updated to
253	version 2015e.</para>
254
255      <para revision="284460">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been
256	updated to version 20150515.</para>
257
258      <para revision="284778">The &man.file.1; utility has been
259	updated to version 5.23.</para>
260
261      <para revision="285206">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
262	updated to version 1.5.3.</para>
263
264      <para revision="285305">The <application>sendmail</application>
265	utility has been updated to version 8.15.2.</para>
266
267      <para revision="285330"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
268	been updated to version 1.0.1p.</para>
269
270      <para revision="285612">The <application>ntp</application>
271	suite has been updated to version 4.2.8p3.</para>
272
273      <para revision="285750" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&dell;">The
274	&man.ssh.1; utility has been updated to re-implement hostname
275	canonicalization before locating the host in
276	<filename>known_hosts</filename>.</para>
277    </sect2>
278
279    <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
280      <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
281
282      <para revision="285769" contrib="sponsor"
283	sponsor="&scaleengine;">Support for detecting and implementing
284	a workaround for various laptops and motherboards that do not
285	boot properly from <acronym>GPT</acronym>-partitioned disks
286	has been added to &man.bsdinstall.8;.  Additionally, the
287	<literal>active</literal> flag will be set on the partition
288	when needed.</para>
289
290      <para revision="285721" contrib="sponsor"
291	sponsor="&scaleengine;">Support for detecting and implementing
292	aligning partitions on 1Mb boundaries has been added to
293	&man.bsdinstall.8;.</para>
294
295      <para revision="285769" contrib="sponsor"
296	sponsor="&scaleengine;">Support for selecting the partitioning
297	scheme when installing on the <acronym>UFS</acronym>
298	filesystem has been added to &man.bsdinstall.8;.</para>
299    </sect2>
300
301    <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
302      <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
303	Scripts</title>
304
305      <para revision="284009">A new &man.rc.8; script,
306	<filename>growfs</filename>, has been added, which will resize
307	the root filesystem on boot if <filename>/firstboot</filename>
308	exists.</para>
309    </sect2>
310
311    <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
312      <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
313	Scripts</title>
314
315      <para revision="277520" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
316	&man.periodic.8; script,
317	<filename>510.status-world-kernel</filename>, has been added,
318	which evaluates the running userland and kernel versions from
319	the &man.uname.1; <literal>-U</literal> and
320	<literal>-K</literal> arguments, and prints an error if the
321	system userland and kernel are not in sync.</para>
322    </sect2>
323
324    <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
325      <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
326
327      <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library,
328	&man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para>
329
330      <para revision="276686" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
331	&man.procctl.2; system call has been updated to include
332	a facility for non-&man.init.8; processes to be declared as
333	the reaper of child processes and their decendants.</para>
334
335      <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been
336	updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on
337	failure.</para>
338    </sect2>
339
340    <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
341      <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
342
343      <para revision="275807">The &linux; compatibility version has
344	been updated to <literal>2.6.18</literal>.  The
345	<literal>compat.linux.osrelease</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is
346	evaluated when building the <filename
347	  role="package">emulators/linux-c6</filename> and related
348	ports.</para>
349    </sect2>
350  </sect1>
351
352  <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
353    <title>Kernel</title>
354
355    <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
356      tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
357      categorized.</para>
358
359    <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
360      <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
361
362      <para revision="276068">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
363	a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gif.4; has
364	been fixed.</para>
365
366      <para revision="284018">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
367	a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gre.4; has
368	been fixed.</para>
369    </sect2>
370
371    <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
372      <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
373
374      <para revision="282065" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
375	<literal>PAE_TABLES</literal> kernel configuration option has
376	been added for &os;/&arch.i386;, which instructs &man.pmap.9;
377	to use <acronym>PAE</acronym> format for page tables while
378	maintaining a 32-bit physical address size elsewhere in the
379	kernel.  The use of this option can enhance application-level
380	security by enabling the creation of <quote>no execute</quote>
381	mappings on modern &arch.i386; processors.  Unlike the
382	<literal>PAE</literal> option, <literal>PAE_TABLES</literal>
383	preserves kernel binary interface (<acronym>KBI</acronym>)
384	compatibility with non-<literal>PAE</literal> kernels,
385	allowing non-<literal>PAE</literal> kernel modules and drivers
386	to work with a <literal>PAE_TABLES</literal>-enabled kernel.
387	Additionally, system limits are tuned for 4GB maximum
388	<acronym>RAM</acronym>, avoiding kernel virtual address space
389	(<acronym>KVA</acronym>) exhaustion.</para>
390
391      <para revision="282826">The <literal>SIFTR</literal> kernel
392	configuration has been added, allowing building &man.siftr.4;
393	statically into the kernel.</para>
394
395      <para revision="283076" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&intelcorp;"
396	arch="amd64,i386">The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are
397	now included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
398	configuration by default.</para>
399
400      <para revision="283505" arch="arm">The &arch.arm; boot loader,
401	<filename>ubldr</filename>, is now relocatable.  In addition,
402	<filename>ubldr.bin</filename> is now created during build
403	time, which is a stripped binary with an entry point of
404	<literal>0</literal>, providing the ability to specify the
405	load address by running <literal>go
406	  &dollar;{loadaddr}</literal> in
407	<literal>u-boot</literal>.</para>
408
409      <para revision="284094" arch="arm">A new module for creating
410	<filename>rpi.dtb</filename> has been added for the Raspberry
411	Pi.</para>
412
413      <para revision="284094" arch="arm">The
414	<filename>rpi.dtb</filename> module is now installed to
415	<filename class="directory">/boot/dtb/</filename> by
416	default for the Raspberry Pi system.</para>
417
418      <para revision="284096" arch="arm">A new module for creating
419	the <filename>dtb</filename> module for AM335x systems has
420	been added.</para>
421
422      <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor"
423	sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option,
424	<literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables
425	multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para>
426
427      <note>
428	<para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not
429	  officially supported by &intel;.</para>
430      </note>
431    </sect2>
432
433    <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
434      <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
435
436      <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
437	and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have
438	been turned off by default.</para>
439
440      <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
441	&man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
442	increased.  The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
443	the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
444
445      <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor"
446	sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
447	been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
448	using seconds precision.  A new &man.sysctl.8;,
449	<literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
450	when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
451	timestamps for these operations.</para>
452
453      <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
454	and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
455	&man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
456
457      <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
458	&man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
459	added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
460	&man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
461	A new kernel configuration option,
462	<literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
463
464      <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
465	<literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
466	<literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
467	default.</para>
468
469      <note>
470	<para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
471	  <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
472	  <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
473	  <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
474	  &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
475      </note>
476    </sect2>
477  </sect1>
478
479  <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
480    <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
481
482    <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
483      device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
484
485    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
486      <title>Device Drivers</title>
487
488      <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
489	been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
490
491      <para revision="281708">The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated
492	to include improved support for newer Synaptics&nbsp;&reg;
493	touchpads and the ClickPad&nbsp;&reg; mouse on newer
494	Lenovo&nbsp;&trade; laptops.</para>
495    </sect2>
496
497    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
498      <title>Storage Drivers</title>
499
500      <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
501	updated to version 1.1.1.</para>
502    </sect2>
503
504    <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
505      <title>Network Drivers</title>
506
507      <para revision="274486">The &man.pf.4; interface default hash
508	has been changed from <literal>Jenkins</literal> to
509	<literal>Murmur3</literal>, providing a 3-percent performance
510	increase in packets-per-second.</para>
511
512      <para revision="279157">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated
513	to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para>
514
515      <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
516	&man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has
517	been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and
518	&man.me.4;.</para>
519
520      <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added,
521	which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in
522	a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network.  The &man.vxlan.4; driver is
523	analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited
524	for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para>
525
526      <para revision="284499">The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated
527	to include support for the RTL8153 chipset.</para>
528
529      <para revision="284555" contrib="sponsor"
530	sponsor="&solarflare;">The &man.sfxge.4; driver has been
531	updated to support Solarflare Flareon Ultra 7000-series
532	chipsets.</para>
533    </sect2>
534  </sect1>
535
536  <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
537    <title>Hardware Support</title>
538
539    <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
540      machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
541      as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
542      other sections of this document.</para>
543
544    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
545      <title>Hardware Support</title>
546
547      <para>&nbsp;</para>
548    </sect2>
549
550    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
551      <title>Virtualization Support</title>
552
553      <para revision="275273">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has
554	been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console
555	devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para>
556
557      <para revision="276403">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
558	updated to support &amd; processors with
559	<acronym>SVM</acronym> and <acronym>AMD-V</acronym> hardware
560	extensions.</para>
561
562      <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
563	updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for
564	virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para>
565
566      <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
567	Hyper-V&trade; drivers have been updated with several
568	enhancements:</para>
569
570      <itemizedlist>
571	<listitem>
572	  <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel
573	    support.</para>
574	</listitem>
575
576	<listitem>
577	  <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather
578	    support, in addition to performance improvements.</para>
579	</listitem>
580
581	<listitem>
582	  <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug
583	    fixes.</para>
584	</listitem>
585      </itemizedlist>
586
587      <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
588	&man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum
589	offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para>
590    </sect2>
591
592    <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
593      <title>ARM Support</title>
594
595      <para revision="278079" arch="arm">Support to turn off the
596	BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8;
597	<literal>-p</literal> flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has
598	been added.</para>
599
600      <para revision="278599" arch="arm">Support for the Exynos 5420
601	Octa system has been added.</para>
602
603      <para revision="278599" arch="arm">The <acronym>SMP</acronym>
604	option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by
605	&os;.</para>
606
607      <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
608	driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
609	frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
610	<acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
611
612      <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Support for the Toradex
613	Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added.</para>
614
615      <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Audio transmission drivers
616	have been added for Digital Audio Multiplexer
617	(<acronym>AUDMUXM</acronym>), Smart Direct Memory Access
618	Controller (<acronym>SDMA</acronym>), and Syncronous Serial
619	Interface (<acronym>SSI</acronym>).</para>
620    </sect2>
621  </sect1>
622
623  <sect1 xml:id="storage">
624    <title>Storage</title>
625
626    <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
627      and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
628
629    <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
630      <title>General Storage</title>
631
632      <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
633	&man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten,
634	replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms
635	with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para>
636
637      <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
638	&man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
639	non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
640
641      <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
642	&man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
643	&man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which
644	allows automatically mounting removable media, such as
645	<acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash
646	drives.</para>
647
648      <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
649	&man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
650	&man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which
651	handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to
652	<literal>noauto</literal>.</para>
653    </sect2>
654
655    <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
656      <title>Networked Storage</title>
657
658      <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
659	&man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for
660	registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on
661	<acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers.  This provides a mechanism
662	which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find
663	targets and portals without requiring active
664	discovery.</para>
665
666      <para revision="275249" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Support
667	for the <literal>timeo</literal>, <literal>actimeo</literal>,
668	<literal>noac</literal>, and <literal>proto</literal> options
669	have been added to &man.mount.nfs.8;.</para>
670    </sect2>
671
672    <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
673      <title>ZFS</title>
674
675      <para revision="275490">A new tunable,
676	<literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added,
677	which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para>
678
679      <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
680	statistics are now visible through the
681	<literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;.  As a result of this
682	change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
683	&man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
684	<literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
685	&man.sysctl.8;.</para>
686    </sect2>
687
688    <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
689      <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
690
691      <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
692	&man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
693	limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
694	and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
695	to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
696
697      <para revision="282861">Support for the
698	<literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>,
699	and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym>
700	partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
701    </sect2>
702  </sect1>
703
704  <sect1 xml:id="boot">
705    <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
706
707    <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
708      boot-related changes.</para>
709
710    <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
711      <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
712
713      <para revision="281323">Support for <literal>bzipfs</literal>
714	has been added to the <acronym>EFI</acronym> loader.</para>
715
716      <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to
717	support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
718	loading the kernel.  To enable this behavior, add
719	<literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
720	&man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
721
722      <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
723	memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms
724	has been disabled by default.</para>
725
726      <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class,
727	<literal>3wire</literal>, has been added.  This is similar to
728	the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined
729	baudrate.</para>
730
731      <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
732	arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been
733	updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>,
734	<filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by
735	default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para>
736    </sect2>
737
738    <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
739      <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
740
741      <para>&nbsp;</para>
742    </sect2>
743  </sect1>
744
745  <sect1 xml:id="network">
746    <title>Networking</title>
747
748    <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
749      &os;.</para>
750
751    <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
752      <title>Network Procols</title>
753
754      <para revision="273838" contrib="sponsor"
755	sponsor="&limelight;">Support for <acronym>PLPMTUD</acronym>
756	blackhole detection (<acronym>RFC</acronym> 4821) has been
757	added to the &man.tcp.4; stack, disabled by default.  New
758	control tunables have been added:</para>
759
760      <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
761	<tgroup cols="2">
762	  <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
763	  <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
764	  <thead>
765	    <row>
766	      <entry>Tunable</entry>
767	      <entry>Description</entry>
768	    </row>
769	  </thead>
770
771	  <tbody>
772	    <row>
773	      <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_detection</literal></entry>
774	      <entry>Enables or disables <acronym>PLPMTUD</acronym>
775		blackhole detection</entry>
776	    </row>
777
778	    <row>
779	      <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_mss</literal></entry>
780	      <entry><acronym>MSS</acronym> to try for IPv4</entry>
781	    </row>
782
783	    <row>
784	      <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.v6pmtud_blackhole_mss</literal></entry>
785	      <entry><acronym>MSS to try for IPv6</acronym></entry>
786	    </row>
787	  </tbody>
788	</tgroup>
789      </informaltable>
790
791      <para>New monitoring &man.sysctl.8;s haven been added:</para>
792
793      <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
794	<tgroup cols="2">
795	  <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
796	  <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
797	  <thead>
798	    <row>
799	      <entry>Tunable</entry>
800	      <entry>Description</entry>
801	    </row>
802	  </thead>
803
804	  <tbody>
805	    <row>
806	      <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_activated</literal></entry>
807	      <entry>Number of times the code was activated to attempt
808		downshifting the <acronym>MSS</acronym></entry>
809	    </row>
810
811	    <row>
812	      <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_min_activated</literal></entry>
813	      <entry>Number of times the blackhole
814		<acronym>MSS</acronym> was used in an attempt to
815		downshift</entry>
816	    </row>
817
818	    <row>
819	      <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_failed</literal></entry>
820	      <entry>Number of times that the blackhole failed to
821		connect after downshifting the
822		<acronym>MSS</acronym></entry>
823	    </row>
824	  </tbody>
825	</tgroup>
826      </informaltable>
827
828    </sect2>
829  </sect1>
830
831  <sect1 xml:id="ports">
832    <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
833
834    <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Ports
835      Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
836      installation tools.</para>
837
838    <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
839      <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
840
841      <para>&nbsp;</para>
842    </sect2>
843
844    <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
845      <title>Packaging Changes</title>
846
847      <para>&nbsp;</para>
848    </sect2>
849  </sect1>
850
851  <sect1 xml:id="doc">
852    <title>Documentation</title>
853
854    <para>This section covers changes to the &os;&nbsp;Documentation
855      Project sources and toolchain.</para>
856
857    <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
858      <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
859
860      <para>&nbsp;</para>
861    </sect2>
862
863    <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
864      <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
865
866      <para>&nbsp;</para>
867    </sect2>
868  </sect1>
869
870  <sect1 xml:id="releng">
871    <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
872
873    <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
874      &os;&nbsp;Release Engineering processes.</para>
875
876    <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
877      <title>Integration Changes</title>
878
879      <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
880	Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support
881	building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for
882	supported boards where a corresponding
883	<literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports
884	Collection.</para>
885
886      <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
887	&os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now
888	created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way
889	the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para>
890    </sect2>
891  </sect1>
892</article>
893