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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<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 8 <info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 9 10 <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author> 11 12 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 260959 2014-01-20 23:59:32Z gjb $</pubdate> 13 14 <copyright> 15 <year>2014</year> 16 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation 17 Project</holder> 18 </copyright> 19 20 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 21 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 22 &tm-attrib.ibm; 23 &tm-attrib.ieee; 24 &tm-attrib.intel; 25 &tm-attrib.sparc; 26 &tm-attrib.general; 27 </legalnotice> 28 29 <abstract> 30 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 31 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 32 &release.branch; development line. This document lists 33 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 34 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 35 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 36 presented.</para> 37 </abstract> 38</info> 39 40<sect1 xml:id="intro"> 41 <title>Introduction</title> 42 43 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 44 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 45 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 46 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> 47 48 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to which 49 these release notes apply represents the latest point along the 50 &release.branch; development branch since &release.branch; was 51 created. Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type; 52 distributions along this branch can be found at <uri 53 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 54 55 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to 56 which these release notes apply represents a point along the 57 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and the 58 future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, binary 59 &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at 60 <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 61 62 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; 63 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be 64 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or 65 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) 66 &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the <link 67 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 68 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link 69 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</link>.</para> 70 71 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before 72 installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 73 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 74 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 75 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to 76 documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 77 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 78</sect1> 79 80<sect1 xml:id="new"> 81 <title>What's New</title> 82 83 <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed 84 features in &os; since &release.prev;. In general, changes 85 described here are unique to the &release.branch; branch unless 86 specifically marked as &merged; features.</para> 87 88 <para>Typical release note items document recent security advisories 89 issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new 90 commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software 91 upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or 92 release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot 93 list every single change made to &os; between releases; this 94 document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible 95 changes, and major architectural improvements.</para> 96 97 <sect2 xml:id="security"> 98 <title>Security Advisories</title> 99 100 <para>No advisories.</para> 101 102 </sect2> 103 104 <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> 105 <title>Kernel Changes</title> 106 107 <para revision="260903">Support for GPS ports has been added to 108 &man.uhso.4;.</para> 109 110 <para revision="260888">The <filename>VT</filename> kernel 111 configuration file has been added, which enables the new 112 <literal>vt</literal> console driver.</para> 113 114 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 115 <title>Virtualization support</title> 116 117 <para revision="260847">The &man.virtio_random.4; driver has 118 been added to harvest entropy from the host system.</para> 119 120 <para revision="260583">Unmapped IO support has been added to 121 &man.virtio_scsi.4;.</para> 122 123 <para revision="260582">Unmapped IO support has been added to 124 &man.virtio_blk.4;.</para> 125 126 <para revision="260532">Support for <quote>Posted Interrupt 127 Processing</quote> is enabled if supported by the CPU. This 128 feature can be disabled by running <literal>sysctl 129 hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal>. Additionally, to 130 persist this setting across reboots, add 131 <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal> to 132 <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para> 133 134 <para revision="260410">Support for the <quote>Virtual Interrupt 135 Delivery</quote> feature of &intel; VT-x is enabled if 136 supported by the CPU. This feature can be disabled by running 137 <literal>sysctl hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal>. 138 Additionally, to persist this setting across reboots, add 139 <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal> to 140 <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para> 141 </sect3> 142 143 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 144 <title>ARM support</title> 145 146 <para revision="260921">The &man.nand.4; device is enabled for 147 ARM devices by default.</para> 148 </sect3> 149 150 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 151 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 152 153 <para> </para> 154 </sect3> 155 156 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 157 <title>Hardware Support</title> 158 159 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 160 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 161 162 <para> </para> 163 </sect4> 164 165 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 166 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 167 168 <para revision="260552">Firmware for &intel; 169 Centrino™ Wireless-N 105 devices has been added 170 to the base system.</para> 171 172 <para revision="260448">Support for the &intel; 173 Centrino™ Wireless-N 135 chipset has been 174 added.</para> 175 </sect4> 176 </sect3> 177 178 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 179 <title>Network Protocols</title> 180 181 <para> </para> 182 </sect3> 183 184 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 185 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 186 187 <para> </para> 188 </sect3> 189 190 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 191 <title>File Systems</title> 192 193 <para> </para> 194 195 <sect4 xml:id="fs-zfs"> 196 <title>ZFS</title> 197 198 <para> </para> 199 </sect4> 200 </sect3> 201 </sect2> 202 203 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 204 <title>Userland Changes</title> 205 206 <para revision="260926">Support for displaying VPD for PCI devices 207 via &man.pciconf.8; has been added.</para> 208 209 <para revision="260913">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 210 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 211 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 212 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 213 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 214 215 <para revision="260910">Allow &man.pciconf.8; to identify PCI 216 devices that are attached to a driver to be identified by their 217 device name instead of just the selector. Additionally, an 218 optional device argument to the <literal>-l</literal> flag 219 to restrict the output to only listing details about a single 220 device.</para> 221 222 <para revision="260594">When unable to load a kernel module with 223 &man.kldload.8;, a message informing to view output of 224 &man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output 225 <quote>Exec format error.</quote>.</para> 226 227 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 228 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 229 230 <para> </para> 231 </sect3> 232 </sect2> 233 234 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 235 <title>Contributed Software</title> 236 237 <para> </para> 238 </sect2> 239 240 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 241 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 242 243 <para> </para> 244 </sect2> 245 246 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 247 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 248 249 <para> </para> 250 </sect2> 251 252 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 253 <title>Documentation</title> 254 255 <para> </para> 256 </sect2> 257</sect1> 258 259<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 260 <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title> 261 262 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 263 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 264 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 265 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 266 unmodified GENERIC kernels distributed as a part of an official 267 &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that 268 the host being upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para> 269 270 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 271 base system from source code) from previous versions are 272 supported, according to the instructions in 273 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 274 275 <important> 276 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after backing up 277 <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration files.</para> 278 </important> 279</sect1> 280</article> 281