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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<!ENTITY % sponsor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Sponsor Specification//EN" "sponsor.ent"> 7 %sponsor; 8<!ENTITY % vendor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Vendor Specification//EN" "vendor.ent"> 9 %vendor; 10<!ENTITY security SYSTEM "../../share/xml/security.xml"> 11<!ENTITY errata SYSTEM "../../share/xml/errata.xml"> 12]> 13<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" 14 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 15 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> 24 25 <!-- Last rev: 284813 --> 26 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 ${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 ® 493 touchpads and the ClickPad ® mouse on newer 494 Lenovo ™ 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> </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™ 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> </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; 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> </para> 842 </sect2> 843 844 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages "> 845 <title>Packaging Changes</title> 846 847 <para> </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; Documentation 855 Project sources and toolchain.</para> 856 857 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources"> 858 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title> 859 860 <para> </para> 861 </sect2> 862 863 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain"> 864 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title> 865 866 <para> </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; 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