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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]> 11<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> 12 <info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> 13 14 <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author> 15 16 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml 265602 2014-05-07 20:15:36Z gjb $</pubdate> 17 18 <copyright> 19 <year>2014</year> 20 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation 21 Project</holder> 22 </copyright> 23 24 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 25 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 26 &tm-attrib.ibm; 27 &tm-attrib.ieee; 28 &tm-attrib.intel; 29 &tm-attrib.sparc; 30 &tm-attrib.general; 31 </legalnotice> 32 33 <abstract> 34 <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain 35 a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the 36 &release.branch; development line. This document lists 37 applicable security advisories that were issued since the last 38 release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and 39 userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also 40 presented.</para> 41 </abstract> 42</info> 43 44<sect1 xml:id="intro"> 45 <title>Introduction</title> 46 47 <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; 48 &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or 49 deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on 50 upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> 51 52 <para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to which 53 these release notes apply represents the latest point along the 54 &release.branch; development branch since &release.branch; was 55 created. Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type; 56 distributions along this branch can be found at <uri 57 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 58 59 <para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to 60 which these release notes apply represents a point along the 61 &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and the 62 future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, binary 63 &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at 64 <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para> 65 66 <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; 67 &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be 68 found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or 69 any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) 70 &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the <link 71 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining 72 &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link 73 xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</link>.</para> 74 75 <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before 76 installing &os;. The errata document is updated with 77 <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the 78 release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains 79 information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to 80 documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; 81 &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> 82</sect1> 83 84<sect1 xml:id="new"> 85 <title>What's New</title> 86 87 <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed 88 features in &os; since &release.prev;. In general, changes 89 described here are unique to the &release.branch; branch unless 90 specifically marked as &merged; features.</para> 91 92 <para>Typical release note items document recent security advisories 93 issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new 94 commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software 95 upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or 96 release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot 97 list every single change made to &os; between releases; this 98 document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible 99 changes, and major architectural improvements.</para> 100 101 <sect2 xml:id="security"> 102 <title>Security Advisories</title> 103 104 <para>No advisories.</para> 105 106 </sect2> 107 108 <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> 109 <title>Kernel Changes</title> 110 111 <para revision="260888">The <filename>VT</filename> kernel 112 configuration file has been added, which enables the new 113 <literal>vt</literal> console driver.</para> 114 115 <para revision="260903">Support for GPS ports has been added to 116 &man.uhso.4;.</para> 117 118 <para revision="264601" contrib="sponsor" 119 sponsor="&darpa;">The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal> 120 device has been added, providing support for NetFPGA-10G 121 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> 122 123 <note> 124 <para>The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal> driver operates on 125 the FPGA, and is not suited for the PCI host interface.</para> 126 </note> 127 128 <para revision="265132">The &man.full.4; device has been added, 129 and the <literal>lindev(4)</literal> device has been removed. 130 Prior to this change, <literal>lindev(4)</literal> provided only 131 the <filename>/dev/full</filename> character device, returning 132 <literal>ENOSPC</literal> on write attempts. As this device is 133 not specific to &linux;, a native &os; version has been 134 added.</para> 135 136 <para revision="265236" contrib="sponsor" 137 sponsor="&lsi;, &spectralogic;" sponsorurl="">The &man.mpr.4; 138 device has been added, providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 139 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA controllers.</para> 140 141 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> 142 <title>Virtualization support</title> 143 144 <para revision="260410">Support for the <quote>Virtual Interrupt 145 Delivery</quote> feature of &intel; VT-x is enabled if 146 supported by the CPU. This feature can be disabled by running 147 <literal>sysctl hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal>. 148 Additionally, to persist this setting across reboots, add 149 <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal> to 150 <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para> 151 152 <para revision="260532">Support for <quote>Posted Interrupt 153 Processing</quote> is enabled if supported by the CPU. This 154 feature can be disabled by running <literal>sysctl 155 hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal>. Additionally, to 156 persist this setting across reboots, add 157 <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal> to 158 <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para> 159 160 <para revision="260582">Unmapped IO support has been added to 161 &man.virtio_blk.4;.</para> 162 163 <para revision="260583">Unmapped IO support has been added to 164 &man.virtio_scsi.4;.</para> 165 166 <para revision="260847">The &man.virtio_random.4; driver has 167 been added to harvest entropy from the host system.</para> 168 </sect3> 169 170 <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> 171 <title>ARM support</title> 172 173 <para revision="260921">The &man.nand.4; device is enabled for 174 ARM devices by default.</para> 175 </sect3> 176 177 <sect3 xml:id="boot"> 178 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> 179 180 <para> </para> 181 </sect3> 182 183 <sect3 xml:id="proc"> 184 <title>Hardware Support</title> 185 186 <sect4 xml:id="mm"> 187 <title>Multimedia Support</title> 188 189 <para> </para> 190 </sect4> 191 192 <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> 193 <title>Network Interface Support</title> 194 195 <para revision="258830">Support for Broadcom chipsets 196 BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787 has 197 been added to &man.bge.4;.</para> 198 199 <para revision="260448">Support for the &intel; 200 Centrino™ Wireless-N 135 chipset has been 201 added.</para> 202 203 <para revision="260552">Firmware for &intel; 204 Centrino™ Wireless-N 105 devices has been added 205 to the base system.</para> 206 207 <para revision="261975">The deprecated nve(4) driver has been 208 removed. Users of NVIDIA nForce MCP network adapters are 209 advised to use the &man.nfe.4; driver instead, which has been 210 the default driver for this hardware since &os; 7.0.</para> 211 212 <para revision="265348" contrib="sponsor" 213 sponsor="&netgate;">The &man.ath.hal.4; driver has been 214 updated to support the Atheros AR1111 chipset.</para> 215 </sect4> 216 </sect3> 217 218 <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> 219 <title>Network Protocols</title> 220 221 <para revision="263140">Support for the IPX network transport 222 protocol has been removed, and will not be supported in 223 &os; 11 and later releases.</para> 224 </sect3> 225 226 <sect3 xml:id="disks"> 227 <title>Disks and Storage</title> 228 229 <para> </para> 230 </sect3> 231 232 <sect3 xml:id="fs"> 233 <title>File Systems</title> 234 235 <para> </para> 236 237 <sect4 xml:id="fs-zfs"> 238 <title>ZFS</title> 239 240 <para> </para> 241 </sect4> 242 </sect3> 243 </sect2> 244 245 <sect2 xml:id="userland"> 246 <title>Userland Changes</title> 247 248 <para revision="258838" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" 249 sponsorurl="&ff.url;">The &man.casperd.8; daemon has been added, 250 which provides access to functionality that is not available in 251 the <quote>capability mode</quote> sandbox.</para> 252 253 <para revision="260594">When unable to load a kernel module with 254 &man.kldload.8;, a message informing to view output of 255 &man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output 256 <quote>Exec format error.</quote>.</para> 257 258 <para revision="260910">Allow &man.pciconf.8; to identify PCI 259 devices that are attached to a driver to be identified by their 260 device name instead of just the selector. Additionally, an 261 optional device argument to the <literal>-l</literal> flag 262 to restrict the output to only listing details about a single 263 device.</para> 264 265 <para revision="260913">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has 266 been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the 267 system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the 268 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent 269 to <literal>off</literal>.</para> 270 271 <para revision="260926">Support for displaying VPD for PCI devices 272 via &man.pciconf.8; has been added.</para> 273 274 <para revision="261498">&man.ping.8; protects against malicious 275 network packets using the Capsicum framework to drop 276 privileges.</para> 277 278 <para revision="261504">&os;/&arch.i386; guests can be run under 279 bhyve.</para> 280 281 <para revision="265229">The &man.ps.1; utility has been 282 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to 283 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. 284 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to 285 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the 286 host system.</para> 287 288 <para revision="265249">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated 289 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the 290 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para> 291 292 <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> 293 <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> 294 295 <para> </para> 296 </sect3> 297 </sect2> 298 299 <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> 300 <title>Contributed Software</title> 301 302 <para revision="258884" contrib="sponsor" 303 sponsor="&darpa;">&man.lldb.1; has been updated to upstream 304 snapshot version r196259.</para> 305 306 <para revision="259626">Timezone data files have been updated to 307 version 2013i.</para> 308 309 <para revision="260445">&man.byacc.1; has been updated to version 310 20140101.</para> 311 312 <para revision="261037"><application>OpenSSL</application> has 313 been updated to version 1.0.1.f.</para> 314 315 <para revision="261071">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to 316 version 3.5.0.</para> 317 318 <para revision="261197" role="merged"><application>Sendmail</application> 319 has been updated from 8.14.7 to 8.14.8.</para> 320 321 <para revision="261212"><application>bmake</application> has been 322 updated to version 20140101.</para> 323 324 <para revision="261283"><application>libc++</application> has been 325 updated to version 3.4.</para> 326 327 <para revision="261320"><application>OpenSSH</application> has 328 been updated to 6.5p1.</para> 329 330 <para revision="261344"><application>mdocml</application> has been 331 updated to version 1.12.3.</para> 332 333 <para revision="261991"><application>LLVM</application> and 334 <application>Clang</application> have been updated to 335 version 3.4.</para> 336 </sect2> 337 338 <sect2 xml:id="ports"> 339 <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> 340 341 <para> </para> 342 </sect2> 343 344 <sect2 xml:id="releng"> 345 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> 346 347 <para> </para> 348 </sect2> 349 350 <sect2 xml:id="doc"> 351 <title>Documentation</title> 352 353 <para> </para> 354 </sect2> 355</sect1> 356 357<sect1 xml:id="upgrade"> 358 <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title> 359 360 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions 361 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported 362 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade 363 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as 364 unmodified GENERIC kernels distributed as a part of an official 365 &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that 366 the host being upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para> 367 368 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; 369 base system from source code) from previous versions are 370 supported, according to the instructions in 371 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> 372 373 <important> 374 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after backing up 375 <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration files.</para> 376 </important> 377</sect1> 378</article> 379