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17 <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
20 <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
23 <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
25 <!-- Last rev: 278934 -->
29 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
33 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
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
53 <sect1 xml:id="intro">
54 <title>Introduction</title>
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>
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
67 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
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
75 xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
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
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>
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>
96 <para>This document describes the most user-visible new or changed
97 features in &os; since &release.prev;. In general, changes
98 described here are unique to the &release.branch; branch unless
99 specifically marked as &merged; features.</para>
101 <para>Typical release note items document recent security
102 advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
103 support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
104 contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to
105 major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly
106 the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
107 between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
108 advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
112 <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
113 <title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
115 <para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
116 (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
117 using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade
118 procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
119 unmodified GENERIC kernels distributed as a part of an official
120 &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that
121 the host being upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
123 <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
124 base system from source code) from previous versions are
125 supported, according to the instructions in
126 <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
129 <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after backing up
130 <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration files.</para>
134 <sect1 xml:id="security-errata">
135 <title>Security and Errata</title>
137 <para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and
138 Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para>
140 <sect2 xml:id="security">
141 <title>Security Advisories</title>
146 <sect2 xml:id="errata">
147 <title>Errata Notices</title>
153 <sect1 xml:id="userland">
154 <title>Userland</title>
156 <para>This section covers changes and additions to userland
157 applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para>
159 <sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
160 <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
162 <para revision="266463">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now
163 includes files in the
164 <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and
165 <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename>
166 directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para>
168 <para revision="270675">The &man.mailwrapper.8; utility has been
169 updated to use &man.mailer.conf.5; from the
170 <literal>LOCALBASE</literal> environment variable, which
171 defaults to <filename class="directory">/usr/local</filename>
174 <para revision="272350">The <literal>MK_ARM_EABI</literal>
175 &man.src.conf.5; option has been removed.</para>
178 <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
179 <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
181 <para revision="258838" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;,
182 &google;" sponsorurl="">The &man.casperd.8; daemon has been
183 added, which provides access to functionality that is not
184 available in the <quote>capability mode</quote>
187 <para revision="260594">When unable to load a kernel module with
188 &man.kldload.8;, a message informing to view output of
189 &man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output
190 <quote>Exec format error.</quote>.</para>
192 <para revision="260910">Allow &man.pciconf.8; to identify PCI
193 devices that are attached to a driver to be identified by
194 their device name instead of just the selector. Additionally,
195 an optional device argument to the <literal>-l</literal> flag
196 to restrict the output to only listing details about a single
199 <para revision="260913">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote>
200 has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows
201 the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the
202 device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent
203 to <literal>off</literal>.</para>
205 <para revision="260926">Support for displaying VPD for PCI
206 devices via &man.pciconf.8; has been added.</para>
208 <para revision="261498">&man.ping.8; protects against malicious
209 network packets using the Capsicum framework to drop
212 <para revision="265229">The &man.ps.1; utility has been
213 updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to
214 filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names.
215 Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to
216 <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the
219 <para revision="265249">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated
220 to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the
221 &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para>
223 <para revision="265995">The Blowfish &man.crypt.3; default
224 format has been changed to
225 <literal>$2b$</literal>.</para>
227 <para revision="266209">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been
228 updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which
229 ends event collection after the specified number of
232 <para revision="270745">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
233 to include a new keyword, <quote>tracer</quote>, which
234 displays the <acronym>PID</acronym> of the tracing
237 <para revision="271482">Support for adding empty partitions has
238 been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility.</para>
240 <para revision="272166">The &man.primes.6; utility has been
241 updated to correctly enumerate prime numbers between
242 <literal>4295098369</literal> and
243 <literal>3825123056546413050</literal>, which prior to this
244 change, it would be possible for returned values to be
245 incorrectly identified as prime numbers.</para>
247 <para revision="272198">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been
248 updated to include three options used to print information
249 about &man.mkimg.1; itself:</para>
251 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
253 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
254 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
257 <entry>Option</entry>
258 <entry>Output</entry>
264 <entry><literal>--version</literal></entry>
265 <entry>The current version of the &man.mkimg.1;
270 <entry><literal>--formats</literal></entry>
271 <entry>The disk image file formats supported by
272 &man.mkimg.1;</entry>
276 <entry><literal>--schemes</literal></entry>
277 <entry>The partition schemes supported by
278 &man.mkimg.1;</entry>
284 <para revision="272488">Userland &man.ctf.5; support in
285 &man.dtrace.1; has been added. With this change,
286 &man.dtrace.1; is able to resolve type info for function and
287 <acronym>USDT</acronym> probe arguments, and function return
290 <para revision="274960">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been
291 updated to support capability mode provided by
292 &man.capsicum.4;.</para>
294 <para revision="275680" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
295 &man.fstyp.8; utility has been added, which is used to
296 determine the filesystem on a specified device.</para>
298 <para revision="276881">The <literal>libedit</literal> library
299 has been updated to support <acronym>UTF</acronym>-8, which
300 additionally provides unicode support to &man.sh.1;.</para>
302 <para revision="277166" arch="powerpc">The &man.ptrace.2; system
303 call has been updated include support for Altivec registers on
304 &os;/&arch.powerpc;.</para>
306 <para revision="278320">A new device control utility,
307 &man.devctl.8; has been added, which allows making
308 administrative changes to individual devices, such as
309 attaching and detaching drivers, and enabling and disabling
310 devices. The &man.devctl.8; utility uses the new
311 &man.devctl.3; library.</para>
313 <para revision="279315" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
314 &man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para>
316 <para revision="279571" contrib="sponsor"
317 sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has
318 been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when
319 a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed.</para>
321 <para revision="279122" contrib="sponsor"
322 sponsor="&juniper;">The &man.netstat.1; utility has been
323 updated to link against the &man.libxo.3; shared
326 <para revision="281311" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
327 &man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set
328 <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS</literal> and
329 <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT</literal> to disallow
330 directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to
334 <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
335 <title>Contributed Software</title>
337 <para revision="258884" contrib="sponsor"
338 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">&man.lldb.1; has been updated to
339 upstream snapshot version r196259.</para>
341 <para revision="259626">Timezone data files have been updated to
342 version 2013i.</para>
344 <para revision="260445">&man.byacc.1; has been updated to
345 version 20140101.</para>
347 <para revision="261071">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to
348 version 3.5.0.</para>
350 <para revision="261283"><application>libc++</application> has
351 been updated to version 3.4.</para>
353 <para revision="261320"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
354 been updated to 6.5p1.</para>
356 <para revision="261344"><application>mdocml</application> has
357 been updated to version 1.12.3.</para>
359 <para revision="261991"><application>LLVM</application> and
360 <application>Clang</application> have been updated to
363 <para revision="266527"
364 role="merged"><application>Sendmail</application> has been
365 updated from 8.14.7 to 8.14.9.</para>
367 <para revision="276577"><application>file</application> has been
368 updated to version 5.22.</para>
370 <para revision="275718">The <application>binutils</application>
371 suite of utilities has been updated to include upstream
372 patches that add new relocations for &arch.powerpc;
375 <para revision="276398" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
376 <application>ELF Tool Chain</application> has been updated to
377 upstream revision r3136.</para>
379 <para revision="276551">The <application>texinfo</application>
380 utility and <literal>info</literal> pages were removed from
381 the base system. The <filename
382 role="package">print/texinfo</filename> port should be
383 installed on systems where <literal>info</literal> pages are
386 <para revision="276796" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The ELF
387 object manipulation tools
388 <application>addr2line</application>,
389 <application>elfcopy (strip)</application>,
390 <application>nm</application>,
391 <application>readelf</application>,
392 <application>size</application>, and
393 <application>strings</application> were switched to the
394 versions from the ELF Tool Chain project.</para>
396 <para revision="276881">The <literal>libedit</literal> library
397 has been updated to include <acronym>UTF-8</acronym> support,
398 adding <acronym>UTF-8</acronym> support to the &man.sh.1;
401 <para revision="277270"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
402 been updated to version 1.0.1l.</para>
404 <para revision="278433">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
405 to support multi-threaded compression.</para>
407 <para revision="278970">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been
408 updated to version 20150204.</para>
410 <para revision="280932" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
411 <application>elftoolchain</application> utilities have been
412 updated to version 3179.</para>
414 <para revision="281316">The &man.xz.1; utility has been udpated
415 to version 5.2.1.</para>
417 <para revision="281373">The &man.nvi.1; utility has been updated
418 to version 2.1.3.</para>
420 <para revision="281806">The &man.wpa.supplicant.8; and
421 &man.hostapd.8; utilties have been updated to version
424 <para revision="281812"><application>bmake</application> has
425 been updated to version 20150418.</para>
427 <para revision="282089">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
428 updated to version 1.5.3.</para>
431 <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
432 <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
434 <para revision="271539">The &man.bsdinstall.8; partition editor
435 and &man.sade.8; utility have been updated to include native
436 <acronym>ZFS</acronym> support.</para>
438 <para revision="272274">The &os; installation utility,
439 &man.bsdinstall.8;, has been updated to set the
440 <literal>canmount</literal> &man.zfs.8; property to
441 <literal>off</literal> for the <filename
442 class="directory">/var</filename> dataset, preventing the
443 contents of directories within <filename
444 class="directory">/var</filename> from conflicting when
445 using multiple boot environments, such as that provided by
446 <filename role="package">sysutils/beadm</filename>.</para>
448 <para revision="274394">The &man.bsdconfig.8; utility has been
449 updated to skip the initial &man.tzsetup.8;
450 <acronym>UTC</acronym> versus wall-clock time prompt when run
451 in a virtual machine, determined when the
452 <literal>kern.vm_guest</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is set to
453 <literal>1</literal>.</para>
455 <para revision="275874">The &man.bsdinstall.8; utility has been
456 updated to use the new &man.dpv.3; library to display progress
457 when extracting the &os; distributions.</para>
460 <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
461 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
464 <para revision="270676">The &man.rc.8; subsystem has been
465 updated to allow configuring services in <filename
466 class="directory">${LOCALBASE}/etc/rc.conf.d/</filename>.
467 If <literal>LOCALBASE</literal> is unset, it defaults to
468 <filename class="directory">/usr/local</filename>.</para>
470 <para revision="275299">The <filename>mrouted</filename>
471 &man.rc.8; script has been removed from the base system. An
472 equivalent script is available from the <filename
473 role="package">net/mrouted</filename> port.</para>
475 <para revision="279463" contrib="sponsor"
476 sponsor="&sandvine;">A new &man.rc.8; script,
477 <filename>iovctl</filename>, has been added, which allows
478 automatically starting the &man.iovctl.8; utility at
482 <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
483 <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
486 <para revision="271321">The daily &man.periodic.8; script
487 <filename>110.clean-tmps</filename> has been updated to avoid
488 crossing filesystem mount boundaries when cleaning files in
489 <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename>.</para>
492 <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
493 <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
495 <para revision="268461">The &man.readline.3; library is now
496 statically linked in software within the base system, and the
497 shared library is no longer installed, allowing the Ports
498 Collection to use a modern version of the library.</para>
500 <para revision="272273">The &man.strptime.3; library has been
501 updated to add support for <acronym>POSIX</acronym>-2001
502 features <literal>%U</literal> and
503 <literal>%W</literal>.</para>
505 <para revision="272842,272848" contrib="sponsor"
506 sponsor="&ff;">The &man.dl.iterate.phdr.3; library has been
507 changed to always return the path name of the
508 <acronym>ELF</acronym> object in the
509 <literal>dlpi_name</literal> structure member.</para>
511 <para revision="273562" contrib="sponsor"
512 sponsor="&juniper;">The &man.libxo.3; library has been
513 imported to the base system.</para>
515 <para revision="273806" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&chelsio;">A
516 userland library for Chelsio Terminator 5 based iWARP cards
517 has been added, allowing userland <acronym>RDMA</acronym>
518 applications to work over compatible
519 <acronym>NIC</acronym>s.</para>
521 <para revision="274987">The &man.gpio.3; library has been added,
522 providing a wrapper around the &man.gpio.4; kernel
525 <para revision="277610">The <literal>futimens()</literal> and
526 <literal>utimensat()</literal> system calls have been
527 added. See &man.utimensat.2; for more information.</para>
529 <para revision="278934">The &man.elf.3; compile-time dependency
530 has been removed from <filename>dtri.o</filename>, which
531 allows adding <application>DTrace</application> probes to
532 userland applications and libraries without also linking
533 against &man.elf.3;.</para>
535 <para revision="279186">The &man.setmode.3; function has been
536 updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on
539 <para revision="279663">The &man.qsort.3; functions have been
540 updated to be able to handle 32-bit aligned data on 64-bit
541 platforms, also providing a significant improvement in 32-bit
544 <para revision="281130">Several standard include headers have
545 been updated to use of <application>gcc</application>
546 attributes, such as <literal>__result_use_check()</literal>,
547 <literal>__alloc_size()</literal>, and
548 <literal>__nonnull()</literal>.</para>
551 <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
552 <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
554 <para revision="271982">The &linux; compatibility version has
555 been updated to <literal>2.6.18</literal>. The
556 <literal>compat.linux.osrelease</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is
557 evaluated when building the <filename
558 role="package">emulators/linux-c6</filename> and related
563 <sect1 xml:id="kernel">
564 <title>Kernel</title>
566 <para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
567 tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
570 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
571 <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
573 <para revision="265876">A kernel bug that inhibited proper
574 functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal>
575 &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo
576 Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para>
578 <para revision="271697" arch="powerpc">Support for
579 &man.dtrace.1; stack tracing has been fixed for
580 &os;/&arch.powerpc;, using the <literal>trapexit()</literal>
581 and <literal>asttrapexit()</literal> functions instead of
582 checking within addressed kernel space.</para>
584 <para revision="272089">A bug in &man.ipfw.4; that could
585 potentially lead to a kernel panic when using &man.dummynet.4;
586 at layer 2 has been fixed.</para>
588 <para revision="280930" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&mitail;">The
589 kernel <acronym>RPC</acronym> has been updated to include
590 several enhancements:</para>
594 <para>The 45 MiB limit on requests queued for
595 &man.nfsd.8; threads has been removed.</para>
599 <para>Avoids unnecessary throttling by not deferring
600 accounting for completed requests.</para>
604 <para>Fixes an integer overflow and signedness bugs.</para>
608 <para revision="281261" arch="powerpc">Support for
609 &man.dtrace.1; has been added for the
610 Book-E ™.</para>
613 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
614 <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
616 <para revision="266531">The <literal>IMAGACT_BINMISC</literal>
617 kernel configuration option has been enabled by default,
618 which enables application execution through emulators, such
619 as <application>Qemu</application>.</para>
621 <para revision="268045">The <literal>VT</literal> kernel
622 configuration file has been removed, and the &man.vt.4;
623 driver is included in the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
624 To enable &man.vt.4;, enter <literal>set kern.vty=vt</literal>
625 at the &man.loader.8; prompt during boot, or add
626 <literal>kern.vty=vt</literal> to &man.loader.conf.5; and
627 reboot the system.</para>
629 <para revision="277904">The &man.config.8; utility has been
630 updated to allow using a non-standard <filename
631 class="directory">src/</filename> tree, specified as an
632 argument to the <literal>-s</literal> flag.</para>
634 <para revision="277990" arch="powerpc64">The
635 &os;/&arch.powerpc64; kernel now builds as
636 a position-independent executable, allowing the kernel to be
637 loaded into and run from any physical or virtual
641 <para>This change requires an update to &man.loader.8;.
642 The userland and kernel must be updated before rebooting the
646 <para revision="279189" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
647 arch="powerpc">Kernel support for Vector-Scalar eXtension
648 (<acronym>VSX</acronym>) found on POWER7 and POWER8 hardware
649 has been added.</para>
651 <para revision="279252" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
652 arch="powerpc">The &man.pmap.9; implementation for 64-bit
653 &powerpc; processors has been overhaulded to improve
657 <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
658 <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
660 <para revision="275140" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
661 &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
662 increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
663 the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
665 <para revision="279361">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
666 and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
667 &man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
669 <para revision="280308" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
670 &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has been changed to disable
671 updating timestamps for read/write operations. A new
672 &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been
673 added, which when set to a non-zero value, enables updating
674 timestamps for these operations.</para>
678 <sect1 xml:id="drivers">
679 <title>Devices and Drivers</title>
681 <para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
682 device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
684 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
685 <title>Device Drivers</title>
687 <para revision="260903">Support for GPS ports has been added to
690 <para revision="265132">The &man.full.4; device has been added,
691 and the <literal>lindev(4)</literal> device has been removed.
692 Prior to this change, <literal>lindev(4)</literal> provided
693 only the <filename>/dev/full</filename> character device,
694 returning <literal>ENOSPC</literal> on write attempts. As
695 this device is not specific to &linux;, a native &os; version
696 has been added.</para>
698 <para revision="271705">Hardware context support has been
699 added to the <literal>drm/i915</literal> driver, adding
700 support for <application>Mesa</application> 9.2 and
703 <para revision="273178">The &man.vt.4; driver has been updated,
704 replacing the bitmapped <literal>kern.vt.spclkeys</literal>
705 &man.sysctl.8; with individual
706 <literal>kern.vt.kbd_*</literal> variants.</para>
708 <para revision="273598">The &man.hpet.4; driver has been updated
710 <filename>/dev/hpet<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename>
711 device, providing access to <acronym>HPET</acronym> from
714 <para revision="280183">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
715 been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
718 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
719 <title>Storage Drivers</title>
721 <para revision="265236" contrib="sponsor"
722 sponsor="&lsi;, &spectralogic;" sponsorurl="">The &man.mpr.4;
723 device has been added, providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT
724 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA controllers.</para>
726 <para revision="265555" contrib="sponsor"
727 sponsor="&lsi;">The &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added,
728 providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The
729 &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default.
730 To enable &man.mrsas.4; add
731 <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to
732 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off
733 &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para>
736 <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os;
737 version of <application>MegaCLI</application> and
738 <application>StorCli</application> do not work with
739 &man.mrsas.4;.</para>
742 <para revision="275461" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
743 &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
744 limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
745 and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
746 to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
748 <para revision="276526">The <literal>asr(4)</literal> driver has
749 been removed, and is no longer supported.</para>
752 <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
753 <title>Network Drivers</title>
755 <para revision="258830">Support for Broadcom chipsets BCM57764,
756 BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787 has been added to
759 <para revision="260448">Support for the &intel; Centrino™
760 Wireless-N 135 chipset has been added.</para>
762 <para revision="260552">Firmware for &intel; Centrino™
763 Wireless-N 105 devices has been added to the base
766 <para revision="261975">The deprecated nve(4) driver has been
767 removed. Users of NVIDIA nForce MCP network adapters are
768 advised to use the &man.nfe.4; driver instead, which has been
769 the default driver for this hardware since
770 &os; 7.0.</para>
772 <para revision="264601" contrib="sponsor"
773 sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal>
774 device has been added, providing support for NetFPGA-10G
775 Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para>
778 <para>The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal> driver operates on
779 the FPGA, and is not suited for the PCI host
783 <para revision="265348" contrib="sponsor"
784 sponsor="&netgate;">The &man.ath.hal.4; driver has been
785 updated to support the Atheros AR1111 chipset.</para>
787 <para revision="266770">Support for the &intel; Centrino™
788 Wireless-N 105 chipset has been added.</para>
790 <para revision="266757" contrib="sponsor"
791 sponsor="&chelsio;">Support for the &man.cxgbe.4; Terminator
792 5 (T5) 10G/40G cards has been added to &man.netmap.4;.</para>
794 <para revision="272730">The &man.alc.4; driver has been updated
795 to support AR816x and AR817x ethernet controllers.</para>
797 <para revision="273331">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added,
798 which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in
799 a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network. The &man.vxlan.4; driver is
800 analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited
801 for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para>
803 <para revision="274246" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
804 &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has
805 been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and
810 <sect1 xml:id="hardware">
811 <title>Hardware Support</title>
813 <para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
814 machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
815 as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
816 other sections of this document.</para>
818 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
819 <title>Hardware Support</title>
821 <para revision="268303">The &man.asmc.4; driver has been
822 updated to support the &apple; MacMini 3,1.</para>
824 <para revision="268351">Support for &os;/ia64 has been dropped
825 as of &os; 11.</para>
827 <para revision="274386">An issue that could cause a system to
828 hang when entering <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
829 <literal>S3</literal> state (suspend to
830 <acronym>RAM</acronym>) has been corrected in the &man.acpi.4;
831 and &man.pci.4; drivers.</para>
833 <para revision="274733" arch="powerpc">The power management unit
834 subsystem has been updated to support power button events on
835 certain &arch.powerpc; hardware, such as aluminum
836 PowerBook ®.</para>
838 <para revision="275171,275190" arch="powerpc">The &man.hwpmc.4;
839 driver has been updated to correct performance counter
840 sampling on G4 (MPC74xxx) and G5 class processors.</para>
842 <para revision="275732" contrib="sponsor"
843 sponsor="&ff;,&netgate;">The
844 <application>OpenCrypto</application> framework has been
845 updated to include <literal>AES-ICM</literal> and
846 <literal>AES-GCM</literal> modes, both of which have also been
847 added to the &man.aesni.4; driver.</para>
850 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
851 <title>Virtualization Support</title>
853 <para revision="260410">Support for the <quote>Virtual Interrupt
854 Delivery</quote> feature of &intel; VT-x is enabled if
855 supported by the CPU. This feature can be disabled by running
856 <literal>sysctl hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal>.
857 Additionally, to persist this setting across reboots, add
858 <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal> to
859 <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para>
861 <para revision="260532">Support for <quote>Posted Interrupt
862 Processing</quote> is enabled if supported by the CPU. This
863 feature can be disabled by running <literal>sysctl
864 hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal>. Additionally, to
865 persist this setting across reboots, add
866 <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal> to
867 <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para>
869 <para revision="260582">Unmapped IO support has been added to
870 &man.virtio_blk.4;.</para>
872 <para revision="260583">Unmapped IO support has been added to
873 &man.virtio_scsi.4;.</para>
875 <para revision="260847">The &man.virtio_random.4; driver has
876 been added to harvest entropy from the host system.</para>
878 <para revision="261504">&os;/&arch.i386; guests can be run under
881 <para revision="267536" contrib="sponsor"
882 sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for running a &os;/&arch.amd64;
883 <application>Xen</application> guest instance as
884 <acronym>PVH</acronym> guest has been added.
885 <acronym>PVH</acronym> mode, short for <quote>Para-Virtualized
886 Hardware</quote>, uses para-virtualized drivers for boot and
887 I/O, and uses hardware virtualization extensions for all other
888 tasks, without the need for emulation.</para>
890 <para revision="273515">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has
891 been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console
892 devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para>
894 <para revision="279957">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
895 updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for
896 virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para>
899 <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
900 <title>ARM Support</title>
902 <para revision="260921">The &man.nand.4; device is enabled for
903 ARM devices by default.</para>
905 <para revision="273264" arch="armv6">An issue that could cause
906 instability when detecting <acronym>SD</acronym> cards on the
907 Raspberry Pi <acronym>SOC</acronym> has been fixed.</para>
909 <para revision="275963">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
910 driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
911 frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
912 <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
914 <para revision="280259" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Initial
915 support for the ARM AArch64 architecture has been
920 <sect1 xml:id="storage">
921 <title>Storage</title>
923 <para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
924 and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
926 <sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
927 <title>General Storage</title>
929 <para revision="278037" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
930 &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten,
931 replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms
932 with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para>
934 <para revision="278354" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
935 &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
936 non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
939 <sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
940 <title>Networked Storage</title>
942 <para revision="270096" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The new
943 filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been added.
944 The new &man.autofs.5; facility is similar to that found in
945 other &unix;-like operating systems, such as OS X™
946 and Solaris™. The &man.autofs.5; facility uses
947 a &sun;-compatible &man.auto.master.5; configuration file, and
948 is administered with the &man.automount.8; userland utility,
949 and the &man.automountd.8; and &man.autounmountd.8;
953 <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
956 <para revision="275748">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
957 statistics are now visible through the
958 <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this
959 change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
960 &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
961 <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
962 &man.sysctl.8;.</para>
965 <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
966 <title>&man.geom.4;</title>
968 <para revision="267359">Support for the
969 <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been
970 added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
974 <sect1 xml:id="boot">
975 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
977 <para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
978 boot-related changes.</para>
980 <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
981 <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
983 <para revision="274085">The &man.vt.4; driver has been made the
984 default system console driver. The &man.syscons.4; driver is
985 still available, and can be enabled by adding
986 <literal>kern.vty=sc</literal> in &man.loader.conf.5;.
987 Alternatively, &man.syscons.4; can be enabled at boot time by
988 entering <literal>set kern.vty=sc</literal> at the
989 &man.loader.8; prompt.</para>
991 <para revision="281616">The boot loader has been updated to
992 support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
993 loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add
994 <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
995 &man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
998 <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
999 <title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
1005 <sect1 xml:id="network">
1006 <title>Networking</title>
1008 <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
1011 <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols">
1012 <title>Network Procols</title>
1014 <para revision="263140">Support for the IPX network transport
1015 protocol has been removed, and will not be supported in
1016 &os; 11 and later releases.</para>
1018 <para revision="272720" contrib="sponsor"
1019 sponsor="&limelight;">Support for <acronym>PLPMTUD</acronym>
1020 blackhole detection (<acronym>RFC</acronym> 4821) has been
1021 added to the &man.tcp.4; stack, disabled by default. New
1022 control tunables have been added:</para>
1024 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
1026 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
1027 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
1030 <entry>Tunable</entry>
1031 <entry>Description</entry>
1037 <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_detection</literal></entry>
1038 <entry>Enables or disables <acronym>PLPMTUD</acronym>
1039 blackhole detection</entry>
1043 <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_mss</literal></entry>
1044 <entry><acronym>MSS</acronym> to try for IPv4</entry>
1048 <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.v6pmtud_blackhole_mss</literal></entry>
1049 <entry><acronym>MSS to try for IPv6</acronym></entry>
1055 <para>New monitoring &man.sysctl.8;s haven been added:</para>
1057 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
1059 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
1060 <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
1063 <entry>Tunable</entry>
1064 <entry>Description</entry>
1070 <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_activated</literal></entry>
1071 <entry>Number of times the code was activated to attempt
1072 downshifting the <acronym>MSS</acronym></entry>
1076 <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_min_activated</literal></entry>
1077 <entry>Number of times the blackhole
1078 <acronym>MSS</acronym> was used in an attempt to
1083 <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_failed</literal></entry>
1084 <entry>Number of times that the blackhole failed to
1085 connect after downshifting the
1086 <acronym>MSS</acronym></entry>
1092 <para revision="280971" contrib="sponsor"
1093 sponsor="&netflix;, &nginx;">Support for <acronym>IP</acronym>
1094 identification for atomic datagrams (<acronym>RFC</acronym>
1095 6864) has been added. Support for this feature can be toggled
1096 with the <literal>net.inet.ip.rfc6864</literal>
1097 &man.sysctl.8;, which is enabled by default.</para>
1101 <sect1 xml:id="ports">
1102 <title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
1104 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports
1105 Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
1106 installation tools.</para>
1108 <sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
1109 <title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
1114 <sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
1115 <title>Packaging Changes</title>
1121 <sect1 xml:id="doc">
1122 <title>Documentation</title>
1124 <para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation
1125 Project sources and toolchain.</para>
1127 <sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
1128 <title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
1133 <sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
1134 <title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
1140 <sect1 xml:id="releng">
1141 <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
1143 <para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
1144 &os; Release Engineering processes.</para>
1146 <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
1147 <title>Integration Changes</title>
1149 <para revision="277458" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
1150 Release Engineering build tools have been updated to include
1151 support for producing virtual machine disk images for various
1152 cloud hosting providers.</para>
1154 <para revision="278926">The Release Engineering build tools have
1155 been updated to use multi-threaded &man.xz.1;. By default,
1156 the number of &man.xz.1; threads is set to the number of cores