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authorgjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org>2015-08-14 00:19:09 +0000
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Prune the 10-STABLE release notes page after 10.2-RELEASE.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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<sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
<title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
- <para revision="276991">The &man.termcap.5; file is installed
- as-is from sources, instead of reordering, creating
- <filename>/etc/termcap.db</filename> by default, providing
- a performance improvements to applications that use the
- &man.termcap.5; database, such as &man.vi.1; and
- &man.ncurses.3;.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
<title>Userland Application Changes</title>
- <para revision="275040">A new utility, &man.dpv.1;, has been
- added to the base system, providing a &man.dialog.1;-style
- progress view from one or more input streams. A corresponding
- library, &man.dpv.3;, has also been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="275945">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been
- updated to support capability mode provided by
- &man.capsicum.4;.</para>
-
- <para revision="277434" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- &man.fstyp.8; utility has been added, which is used to
- determine the filesystem on a specified device.</para>
-
- <para revision="278968" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- &man.mkimg.1; utility has been updated to support the
- <acronym>MBR</acronym> <acronym>EFI</acronym> partition
- type.</para>
-
- <para revision="281044">A regression in the &man.libarchive.3;
- library that would prevent a directory from being included in
- the archive when <literal>--one-file-system</literal> is used
- has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="281161" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&limelight;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, has
- been added to the &man.netstat.8; utility, which is used to
- dump <acronym>RSS</acronym>/flow information.</para>
-
- <para revision="281936" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- &man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set
- <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS</literal> and
- <literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT</literal> to disallow
- directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to
- &man.tar.1;.</para>
-
- <para revision="282278">A race condition in &man.wc.1; that
- would cause final results to be sent to &man.stderr.4; when
- receiving the <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal has been
- fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="282870" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has
- been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when
- a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed.</para>
-
- <para revision="282974" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- &man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="283875" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.chflags.1;, &man.chgrp.1;,
- &man.chmod.1;, and &man.chown.8; utilities now affect symbolic
- links when the <literal>-R</literal> flag is specified, as
- documented in &man.symlink.7;.</para>
-
- <para revision="283258">The &man.date.1; utility has been
- updated to print the modification time of the file passed as
- an argument to the <literal>-r</literal> flag, improving
- compatibility with the <acronym>GNU</acronym> &man.date.1;
- utility behavior.</para>
-
- <para revision="284523">A new flag, <literal>-c</literal>, has
- been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility, which allows
- specifying the capacity of the target disk image.</para>
-
- <para revision="285092">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated
- with a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, that sets the root
- directory within which the utility will operate.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
<title>Contributed Software</title>
- <para revision="282746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version
- 3.7.0.</para>
-
- <para revision="283270">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated
- to the OpenBSD 5.7 version.</para>
-
- <para revision="284398">Timezone data files have been updated to
- version 2015e.</para>
-
- <para revision="284460">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been
- updated to version 20150515.</para>
-
- <para revision="284778">The &man.file.1; utility has been
- updated to version 5.23.</para>
-
- <para revision="285206">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
- updated to version 1.5.3.</para>
-
- <para revision="285305">The <application>sendmail</application>
- utility has been updated to version 8.15.2.</para>
-
- <para revision="285330"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
- been updated to version 1.0.1p.</para>
-
- <para revision="285612">The <application>ntp</application>
- suite has been updated to version 4.2.8p3.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
@@ -282,50 +185,26 @@
<title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
Scripts</title>
- <para revision="284009">A new &man.rc.8; script,
- <filename>growfs</filename>, has been added, which will resize
- the root filesystem on boot if <filename>/firstboot</filename>
- exists.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
<title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
Scripts</title>
- <para revision="277520" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
- &man.periodic.8; script,
- <filename>510.status-world-kernel</filename>, has been added,
- which evaluates the running userland and kernel versions from
- the &man.uname.1; <literal>-U</literal> and
- <literal>-K</literal> arguments, and prints an error if the
- system userland and kernel are not in sync.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
<title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
- <para revision="275040">A new file configuration library,
- &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system.</para>
-
- <para revision="276686" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- &man.procctl.2; system call has been updated to include
- a facility for non-&man.init.8; processes to be declared as
- the reaper of child processes and their decendants.</para>
-
- <para revision="280392">The &man.setmode.3; function has been
- updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on
- failure.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
<title>ABI Compatibility</title>
- <para revision="275807">The &linux; compatibility version has
- been updated to <literal>2.6.18</literal>. The
- <literal>compat.linux.osrelease</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is
- evaluated when building the <filename
- role="package">emulators/linux-c6</filename> and related
- ports.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -339,120 +218,19 @@
<sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
<title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
- <para revision="276068">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
- a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gif.4; has
- been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="284018">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
- a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gre.4; has
- been fixed.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
<title>Kernel Configuration</title>
- <para revision="282065" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- <literal>PAE_TABLES</literal> kernel configuration option has
- been added for &os;/&arch.i386;, which instructs &man.pmap.9;
- to use <acronym>PAE</acronym> format for page tables while
- maintaining a 32-bit physical address size elsewhere in the
- kernel. The use of this option can enhance application-level
- security by enabling the creation of <quote>no execute</quote>
- mappings on modern &arch.i386; processors. Unlike the
- <literal>PAE</literal> option, <literal>PAE_TABLES</literal>
- preserves kernel binary interface (<acronym>KBI</acronym>)
- compatibility with non-<literal>PAE</literal> kernels,
- allowing non-<literal>PAE</literal> kernel modules and drivers
- to work with a <literal>PAE_TABLES</literal>-enabled kernel.
- Additionally, system limits are tuned for 4GB maximum
- <acronym>RAM</acronym>, avoiding kernel virtual address space
- (<acronym>KVA</acronym>) exhaustion.</para>
-
- <para revision="282826">The <literal>SIFTR</literal> kernel
- configuration has been added, allowing building &man.siftr.4;
- statically into the kernel.</para>
-
- <para revision="283076" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&intelcorp;"
- arch="amd64,i386">The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are
- now included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
- configuration by default.</para>
-
- <para revision="283505" arch="arm">The &arch.arm; boot loader,
- <filename>ubldr</filename>, is now relocatable. In addition,
- <filename>ubldr.bin</filename> is now created during build
- time, which is a stripped binary with an entry point of
- <literal>0</literal>, providing the ability to specify the
- load address by running <literal>go
- &dollar;{loadaddr}</literal> in
- <literal>u-boot</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="284094" arch="arm">A new module for creating
- <filename>rpi.dtb</filename> has been added for the Raspberry
- Pi.</para>
-
- <para revision="284094" arch="arm">The
- <filename>rpi.dtb</filename> module is now installed to
- <filename class="directory">/boot/dtb/</filename> by
- default for the Raspberry Pi system.</para>
-
- <para revision="284096" arch="arm">A new module for creating
- the <filename>dtb</filename> module for AM335x systems has
- been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="284522" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option,
- <literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables
- multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not
- officially supported by &intel;.</para>
- </note>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
<title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
- <para revision="276986">Throttling via <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
- and <acronym>P4TCC</acronym> via &man.device.hints.5; have
- been turned off by default.</para>
-
- <para revision="278982" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
- increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
- the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
-
- <para revision="281255" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
- been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
- using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;,
- <literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
- when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
- timestamps for these operations.</para>
-
- <para revision="280632">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
- and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
- &man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
-
- <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
- &man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
- added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
- &man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
- A new kernel configuration option,
- <literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="284665" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
- <literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
- default.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
- <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
- <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
- <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
- &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
- </note>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -465,51 +243,19 @@
<sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
<title>Device Drivers</title>
- <para revision="282199">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
- been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
-
- <para revision="281708">The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated
- to include improved support for newer Synaptics&nbsp;&reg;
- touchpads and the ClickPad&nbsp;&reg; mouse on newer
- Lenovo&nbsp;&trade; laptops.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
<title>Storage Drivers</title>
- <para revision="281957">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
- updated to version 1.1.1.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="drivers-network">
<title>Network Drivers</title>
- <para revision="274486">The &man.pf.4; interface default hash
- has been changed from <literal>Jenkins</literal> to
- <literal>Murmur3</literal>, providing a 3-percent performance
- increase in packets-per-second.</para>
-
- <para revision="279157">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated
- to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para>
-
- <para revision="284066" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&yandex;">The
- &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has
- been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and
- &man.me.4;.</para>
-
- <para revision="284365">The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added,
- which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in
- a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network. The &man.vxlan.4; driver is
- analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited
- for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments.</para>
-
- <para revision="284499">The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated
- to include support for the RTL8153 chipset.</para>
-
- <para revision="284555" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&solarflare;">The &man.sfxge.4; driver has been
- updated to support Solarflare Flareon Ultra 7000-series
- chipsets.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -530,73 +276,13 @@
<sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization">
<title>Virtualization Support</title>
- <para revision="275273">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has
- been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console
- devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para>
-
- <para revision="276403">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
- updated to support &amd; processors with
- <acronym>SVM</acronym> and <acronym>AMD-V</acronym> hardware
- extensions.</para>
-
- <para revision="280370">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been
- updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for
- virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para>
-
- <para revision="283280" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
- Hyper-V&trade; drivers have been updated with several
- enhancements:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel
- support.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather
- support, in addition to performance improvements.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug
- fixes.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para revision="285236" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The
- &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum
- offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm">
<title>ARM Support</title>
- <para revision="278079" arch="arm">Support to turn off the
- BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8;
- <literal>-p</literal> flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has
- been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="278599" arch="arm">Support for the Exynos 5420
- Octa system has been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="278599" arch="arm">The <acronym>SMP</acronym>
- option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by
- &os;.</para>
-
- <para revision="278608">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
- driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
- frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
- <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
-
- <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Support for the Toradex
- Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="283500" arch="arm">Audio transmission drivers
- have been added for Digital Audio Multiplexer
- (<acronym>AUDMUXM</acronym>), Smart Direct Memory Access
- Controller (<acronym>SDMA</acronym>), and Syncronous Serial
- Interface (<acronym>SSI</acronym>).</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -609,75 +295,25 @@
<sect2 xml:id="storage-general">
<title>General Storage</title>
- <para revision="279002" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
- &man.ctl.4; <acronym>LUN</acronym> mapping has been rewritten,
- replacing <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>-specific mapping mechanisms
- with a new mechanism that works for any port.</para>
-
- <para revision="279055" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
- &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling
- non-<acronym>iSCSI</acronym> &man.ctl.4; ports.</para>
-
- <para revision="283223" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
- &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-media</literal>, which
- allows automatically mounting removable media, such as
- <acronym>CD</acronym> drives or <acronym>USB</acronym> flash
- drives.</para>
-
- <para revision="283242" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new
- &man.auto.master.5; map, <literal>-noauto</literal>, which
- handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to
- <literal>noauto</literal>.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
<title>Networked Storage</title>
- <para revision="274939" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
- &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for
- registering <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> targets and portals on
- <acronym>iSNS</acronym> servers. This provides a mechanism
- which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiators to find
- targets and portals without requiring active
- discovery.</para>
-
- <para revision="275249" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Support
- for the <literal>timeo</literal>, <literal>actimeo</literal>,
- <literal>noac</literal>, and <literal>proto</literal> options
- have been added to &man.mount.nfs.8;.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
<title>ZFS</title>
- <para revision="275490">A new tunable,
- <literal>vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift</literal>, has been added,
- which controls how much space is reserved by default.</para>
-
- <para revision="277583">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
- statistics are now visible through the
- <literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this
- change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
- &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
- <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
- &man.sysctl.8;.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
<title>&man.geom.4;</title>
- <para revision="275891" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
- &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
- limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
- and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
- to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="282861">Support for the
- <literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>,
- and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym>
- partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -690,29 +326,7 @@
<sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
- <para revision="281323">Support for <literal>bzipfs</literal>
- has been added to the <acronym>EFI</acronym> loader.</para>
-
- <para revision="281843">The boot loader has been updated to
- support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
- loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add
- <literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
- &man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
-
- <para revision="283262" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms
- has been disabled by default.</para>
-
- <para revision="283972">A new &man.ttys.5; class,
- <literal>3wire</literal>, has been added. This is similar to
- the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined
- baudrate.</para>
-
- <para revision="284775" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
- arch="arm">The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been
- updated to enable <filename>ttyu1</filename>,
- <filename>ttyu2</filename>, and <filename>ttyu3</filename> by
- default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
@@ -783,17 +397,7 @@
<sect2 xml:id="releng-changes">
<title>Integration Changes</title>
- <para revision="283161" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support
- building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for
- supported boards where a corresponding
- <literal>u-boot</literal> port exists in the Ports
- Collection.</para>
-
- <para revision="283548" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now
- created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way
- the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created.</para>
+ <para>&nbsp;</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
</article>
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