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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml index 98901eb..ce53c04 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -25,8 +25,7 @@ <!-- Last rev: 288943 --> <copyright> - <year>2015</year> - <year>2016</year> + <year>2017</year> <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder> </copyright> @@ -160,672 +159,51 @@ <sect2 xml:id="userland-config"> <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title> - <para revision="266463">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now - includes files in the - <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and - <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> - directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para> - - <para revision="270675">The &man.mailwrapper.8; utility has been - updated to use &man.mailer.conf.5; from the - <literal>LOCALBASE</literal> environment variable, which - defaults to <filename class="directory">/usr/local</filename> - if unset.</para> - - <para revision="272350">The <literal>MK_ARM_EABI</literal> - &man.src.conf.5; option has been removed.</para> - - <para revision="302177">The <literal>WITH_SYSTEM_COMPILER</literal> - &man.src.conf.5; option is enabled by default.</para> - - <para revision="301247">The <application>ntp</application> suite - has been updated to version 4.2.8p8.</para> - - <para revision="301247">The - <filename>/etc/ntp/leap-seconds</filename> - has been updated to version 3676752000.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs"> <title>Userland Application Changes</title> - <para revision="260594">When unable to load a kernel module with - &man.kldload.8;, a message informing to view output of - &man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output - <quote>Exec format error.</quote>.</para> - - <para revision="260910">Allow &man.pciconf.8; to identify PCI - devices that are attached to a driver to be identified by - their device name instead of just the selector. Additionally, - an optional device argument to the <literal>-l</literal> flag - to restrict the output to only listing details about a single - device.</para> - - <para revision="260926">Support for displaying VPD for PCI - devices via &man.pciconf.8; has been added.</para> - - <para revision="270745">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated - to include a new keyword, <quote>tracer</quote>, which - displays the <acronym>PID</acronym> of the tracing - process.</para> - - <para revision="271482">Support for adding empty partitions has - been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility.</para> - - <para revision="272166">The &man.primes.6; utility has been - updated to correctly enumerate prime numbers between - <literal>4295098369</literal> and - <literal>3825123056546413050</literal>, which prior to this - change, it would be possible for returned values to be - incorrectly identified as prime numbers.</para> - - <para revision="272198">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been - updated to include three options used to print information - about &man.mkimg.1; itself:</para> - - <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> - <tgroup cols="2"> - <colspec colwidth="1*"/> - <colspec colwidth="1*"/> - <thead> - <row> - <entry>Option</entry> - <entry>Output</entry> - </row> - </thead> - - <tbody> - <row> - <entry><literal>--version</literal></entry> - <entry>The current version of the &man.mkimg.1; - utility</entry> - </row> - - <row> - <entry><literal>--formats</literal></entry> - <entry>The disk image file formats supported by - &man.mkimg.1;</entry> - </row> - - <row> - <entry><literal>--schemes</literal></entry> - <entry>The partition schemes supported by - &man.mkimg.1;</entry> - </row> - </tbody> - </tgroup> - </informaltable> - - <para revision="272488">Userland &man.ctf.5; support in - &man.dtrace.1; has been added. With this change, - &man.dtrace.1; is able to resolve type info for function and - <acronym>USDT</acronym> probe arguments, and function return - values.</para> - - <para revision="274960">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been - updated to support capability mode provided by - &man.capsicum.4;.</para> - - <para revision="275680" 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="276881">The <literal>libedit</literal> library - has been updated to support <acronym>UTF</acronym>-8, which - additionally provides unicode support to &man.sh.1;.</para> - - <para revision="276893" 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="277166" arch="powerpc">The &man.ptrace.2; system - call has been updated include support for Altivec registers on - &os;/&arch.powerpc;.</para> - - <para revision="278320">A new device control utility, - &man.devctl.8; has been added, which allows making - administrative changes to individual devices, such as - attaching and detaching drivers, and enabling and disabling - devices. The &man.devctl.8; utility uses the new - &man.devctl.3; library.</para> - - <para revision="279122" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&juniper;">The &man.netstat.1; utility has been - updated to link against the &man.libxo.3; shared - library.</para> - - <para revision="279139">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="279315" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The - &man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para> - - <para revision="279571" 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="280870">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="281311" 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="281617">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="282208" 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="282608">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="283961">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 revision="284297" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&clusterhq;">The &man.lockstat.1; utility has been - updated with several improvements:</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>Spin locks are now reported as the amount of time - spinning, instead of loop iterations.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Reader locks are now recognized as adaptive that can - spin on &os;.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Lock aquisition events for successful reader try-lock - events are now reported.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Spin and block events are now reported before lock - acquisition events.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para revision="284589" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.fstyp.8; utility has been - updated to be able to detect &man.zfs.8; and &man.geli.8; - filesystems.</para> - - <para revision="284883">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been - updated to include support for <literal>NTFS</literal> - filesystems in both <acronym>MBR</acronym> and - <acronym>GPT</acronym> partitioning schemes.</para> - - <para revision="285253">The &man.quota.1; utility has been - updated to include support for <acronym>IPv6</acronym>.</para> - - <para revision="285420">The &man.jexec.8; utility has been - updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which - ensures a clean environment in the target jail when used. - Additionally, &man.jexec.8; will run a shell within the target - jail when run no commands are specified.</para> - - <para revision="285550">The &man.w.1; utility has been updated - to display the full IPv6 remote address of the host from which - a user is connected.</para> - - <para revision="285685">The &man.jail.8; framework has been - updated to allow mounting &man.linprocfs.5; and - &man.linsysfs.5; within a jail.</para> - - <para revision="285772" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&emcisilon;">The &man.patch.1; utility has been - updated to include a new option to the <literal>-V</literal> - flag, <literal>none</literal>, which disables backup file - creation when applying a patch.</para> - - <para revision="286010" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The - &man.ar.1; utility now enables deterministic mode - (<literal>-D</literal>) by default. This behavior can be - disabled by specifying the <literal>-U</literal> flag.</para> - - <para revision="286289" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.xargs.1; utility has been - updated to allow specifying <literal>0</literal> as an - argument to the <literal>-P</literal> (parallel mode) flag, - which allows creating as many concurrent processes as - possible.</para> - - <para revision="286795">The &man.patch.1; utility has been - updated to remove the automatic checkout feature.</para> - - <para revision="287473" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&gandi;">A - new utility, &man.sesutil.8;, has been added, which is used - to manage &man.ses.4; devices.</para> - - <para revision="287522">The &man.pciconf.8; utility has been - updated to use the PCI ID database from the <filename - role="package">misc/pciids</filename> package, if present, - falling back to the PCI ID database in the &os; base - system.</para> - - <para revision="287842">By default the &man.ifconfig.8; utility - will set the default regulatory domain to <literal>FCC</literal> - on wireless interfaces. As a result, newly created wireless - interfaces with default settings will have less chances to - violate country-specific regulations.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib"> <title>Contributed Software</title> - <para revision="260445">&man.byacc.1; has been updated to - version 20140101.</para> - - <para revision="296633"><application>OpenSSH</application> has - been updated to 7.2p2.</para> - - <para revision="303716">SSHv1 support has been removed from - <application>OpenSSH</application>.</para> - - <para revision="303719">Support for DSA is disabled by default in - <application>OpenSSH</application>.</para> - - <para revision="261344"><application>mdocml</application> has - been updated to version 1.12.3.</para> - - <para revision="275718">The <application>binutils</application> - suite of utilities has been updated to include upstream - patches that add new relocations for &arch.powerpc; - support.</para> - - <para revision="292120" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The - <application>ELF Tool Chain</application> has been updated to - upstream revision r3272.</para> - - <para revision="276551">The <application>texinfo</application> - utility and <literal>info</literal> pages were removed from - the base system. The <filename - role="package">print/texinfo</filename> port should be - installed on systems where <literal>info</literal> pages are - needed.</para> - - <para revision="276796" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The ELF - object manipulation tools - <application>addr2line</application>, - <application>elfcopy (strip)</application>, - <application>nm</application>, - <application>readelf</application>, - <application>size</application>, and - <application>strings</application> were switched to the - versions from the ELF Tool Chain project.</para> - - <para revision="276881">The <literal>libedit</literal> library - has been updated to include <acronym>UTF-8</acronym> support, - adding <acronym>UTF-8</acronym> support to the &man.sh.1; - shell.</para> - - <para revision="278433">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated - to support multi-threaded compression.</para> - - <para revision="280932" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The - <application>elftoolchain</application> utilities have been - updated to version 3179.</para> - - <para revision="291125">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated - to version 5.2.2.</para> - - <para revision="281373">The &man.nvi.1; utility has been updated - to version 2.1.3.</para> - - <para revision="281806">The &man.wpa.supplicant.8; and - &man.hostapd.8; utilities have been updated to version - 2.4.</para> - - <para revision="296190" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The - &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version - 3.7.3.</para> - - <para revision="284254"><application>bmake</application> has - been updated to version 20150606.</para> - - <para revision="285229"><application>sendmail</application> has - been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with &os; 11.0 and - sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by - default, i.e., they will not contain <quote>::</quote>. For - example, instead of <quote>::1</quote>, it will be - <quote>0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1</quote>. This permits a zero subnet to - have a more specific match, such as different map entries for - IPv6:0:0 versus IPv6:0. This change requires that - configuration data (including maps, files, classes, custom - ruleset, etc.) must use the same format, so make certain such - configuration data is upgrading. As a very simple check - search for patterns like 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. - To return to the old behavior, set the m4 option - <literal>confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES</literal> or the cf - option <literal>UseCompressedIPv6Addresses</literal>.</para> - - <para revision="285275">The &man.tcpdump.1; utility has been - updated to version 4.7.4.</para> - - <para revision="298998"><application>OpenSSL</application> has - been updated to version 1.0.2h.</para> - - <para revision="285642" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&dell;">The - &man.ssh.1; utility has been updated to re-implement hostname - canonicalization before locating the host in - <filename>known_hosts</filename>.</para> - - <para revision="285972">The &man.libarchive.3; library has been - updated to properly skip a sparse file entry in a &man.tar.1; - file, which would previously produce errors.</para> - - <para revision="286503">The <application>apr</application> - library used by &man.svnlite.1; has been updated to version - 1.5.2.</para> - - <para revision="286505">The <application>serf</application> - library used by &man.svnlite.1; has been updated to version - 1.3.8.</para> - - <para revision="286505">The &man.svnlite.1; utility has been - updated to version 1.8.14.</para> - - <para revision="298161">The <application>sqlite3</application> - library used by &man.svnlite.1; and &man.kerberos.8; has been - updated to version 3.12.1.</para> - - <para revision="286750">Timezone data files have been updated to - version 2015f.</para> - - <para revision="287168">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been - updated to version 20150818.</para> - - <para revision="287917">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been - updated to version 1.5.4.</para> - - <para revision="288090">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to - version 4.0.2.</para> - - <para revision="302221">The &man.file.1; utility has been - updated to version 5.28.</para> - - <para revision="288303">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated - to the OpenBSD 5.8 version.</para> - - <para revision="296417"><application>Clang</application> has - been updated to version 3.8.0.</para> - - <para revision="296417"><application>LLVM</application> has - been updated to version 3.8.0.</para> - - <para revision="296417"><application>LLDB</application> has - been updated to version 3.8.0.</para> - - <para revision="296417"><application>libc++</application> has - been updated to version 3.8.0.</para> - - <para revision="296417">The - <application>compiler_rt</application> utility has been - updated to version 3.8.0.</para> - - <para revision="300879"><application>ACPICA</application> has been - updated to version 20160527.</para> - - <para revision="292432"><application>OpenBSM</application> has been - updated to version 1.2 alpha 4.</para> - - <para revision="298166"><application>libucl</application> has - been updated to version 0.8.0.</para> - - <para revision="301169" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The NetBSD - Project's &man.libblacklist.3; library and applications - have been ported and integrated into the system. Packet - filtering support for the &man.pf.4; packet filtering systems - has been implemented. The <application>blacklist</application> - system provides the <application>blacklistd</application> - daemon, the helper script - <application>blacklistd-helper</application> to make changes - to the running packet filter system and the - <application>blacklistctl</application> control program. - A selection of system daemons, including: - <application>fingerd</application>, - <application>ftpd</application>, - <application>rlogind</application>, and - <application>rshd</application> have been modified to support - sending notifications to the <application>blacklistd</application> - daemon.</para> - - <para revision="301736" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Support for - the &man.ipfw.4; packet filter has been added to the - <application>blacklistd-helper</application> script.</para> - - <para revision="301843" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Support for - the &man.ipfilter.4; packet filter has been added to the - <application>blacklistd-helper</application> script.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer"> <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title> - <para revision="271539">The &man.bsdinstall.8; partition editor - and &man.sade.8; utility have been updated to include native - <acronym>ZFS</acronym> support.</para> - - <para revision="272274">The &os; installation utility, - &man.bsdinstall.8;, has been updated to set the - <literal>canmount</literal> &man.zfs.8; property to - <literal>off</literal> for the <filename - class="directory">/var</filename> dataset, preventing the - contents of directories within <filename - class="directory">/var</filename> from conflicting when - using multiple boot environments, such as that provided by - <filename role="package">sysutils/beadm</filename>.</para> - - <para revision="274394">The &man.bsdconfig.8; utility has been - updated to skip the initial &man.tzsetup.8; - <acronym>UTC</acronym> versus wall-clock time prompt when run - in a virtual machine, determined when the - <literal>kern.vm_guest</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is set to - <literal>1</literal>.</para> - - <para revision="275874">The &man.bsdinstall.8; utility has been - updated to use the new &man.dpv.3; library to display progress - when extracting the &os; distributions.</para> - - <para revision="285557" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&scaleengine;">Support for detecting and implementing - aligning partitions on 1Mb boundaries has been added to - &man.bsdinstall.8;.</para> - - <para revision="285679" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&scaleengine;">Support for detecting and implementing - a workaround for various laptops and motherboards that do not - boot properly from <acronym>GPT</acronym>-partitioned disks - has been added to &man.bsdinstall.8;. Additionally, the - <literal>active</literal> flag will be set on the partition - when needed.</para> - - <para revision="285679" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&scaleengine;">Support for selecting the partitioning - scheme when installing on the <acronym>UFS</acronym> - filesystem has been added to &man.bsdinstall.8;.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc"> <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> - <para revision="270676">The &man.rc.8; subsystem has been - updated to allow configuring services in <filename - class="directory">${LOCALBASE}/etc/rc.conf.d/</filename>. - If <literal>LOCALBASE</literal> is unset, it defaults to - <filename class="directory">/usr/local</filename>.</para> - - <para revision="273955">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 revision="275299">The <filename>mrouted</filename> - &man.rc.8; script has been removed from the base system. An - equivalent script is available from the <filename - role="package">net/mrouted</filename> port.</para> - - <para revision="279463" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&sandvine;">A new &man.rc.8; script, - <filename>iovctl</filename>, has been added, which allows - automatically starting the &man.iovctl.8; utility at - boot.</para> - - <para revision="287576" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.service.8; utility has been - updated to honor entries within <filename - class="directory">/etc/rc.conf.d/</filename>.</para> - + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic"> <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> Scripts</title> - <para revision="271321">The daily &man.periodic.8; script - <filename>110.clean-tmps</filename> has been updated to avoid - crossing filesystem mount boundaries when cleaning files in - <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename>.</para> - - <para revision="277216" 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> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries"> <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title> - <para revision="265995">The Blowfish &man.crypt.3; default - format has been changed to - <literal>$2b$</literal>.</para> - - <para revision="268461">The &man.readline.3; library is now - statically linked in software within the base system, and the - shared library is no longer installed, allowing the Ports - Collection to use a modern version of the library.</para> - - <para revision="272273">The &man.strptime.3; library has been - updated to add support for <acronym>POSIX</acronym>-2001 - features <literal>%U</literal> and - <literal>%W</literal>.</para> - - <para revision="272842,272848" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&ff;">The &man.dl.iterate.phdr.3; library has been - changed to always return the path name of the - <acronym>ELF</acronym> object in the - <literal>dlpi_name</literal> structure member.</para> - - <para revision="273562" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&juniper;">The &man.libxo.3; library has been - imported to the base system.</para> - - <para revision="273806" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&chelsio;">A - userland library for Chelsio Terminator 5 based iWARP cards - has been added, allowing userland <acronym>RDMA</acronym> - applications to work over compatible - <acronym>NIC</acronym>s.</para> - - <para revision="274987">The &man.gpio.3; library has been added, - providing a wrapper around the &man.gpio.4; kernel - interface.</para> - - <para revision="275800" 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="277610">The <literal>futimens()</literal> and - <literal>utimensat()</literal> system calls have been - added. See &man.utimensat.2; for more information.</para> - - <para revision="278934">The &man.elf.3; compile-time dependency - has been removed from <filename>dtri.o</filename>, which - allows adding <application>DTrace</application> probes to - userland applications and libraries without also linking - against &man.elf.3;.</para> - - <para revision="279186">The &man.setmode.3; function has been - updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on - failure.</para> - - <para revision="279663">The &man.qsort.3; functions have been - updated to be able to handle 32-bit aligned data on 64-bit - platforms, also providing a significant improvement in 32-bit - workloads.</para> - - <para revision="281130">Several standard include headers have - been updated to use of <application>gcc</application> - attributes, such as <literal>__result_use_check()</literal>, - <literal>__alloc_size()</literal>, and - <literal>__nonnull()</literal>.</para> - - <para revision="281845">Support for file verification in - <acronym>MAC</acronym> has been added.</para> - - <para revision="282973" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The - <literal>libgomp</literal> library is now only built when - building <acronym>GCC</acronym> from the base system. An - up-to-date version is available in the Ports Collection as - <filename - role="package">devel/libiomp5-devel</filename>.</para> - - <para revision="282988">The <filename>stdlib.h</filename> and - <filename>malloc.h</filename> headers have been updated to - make use of the <application>gcc</application> - <literal>alloc_align()</literal> attribute.</para> - - <para revision="284483" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&scaleengine;">The Blowfish &man.crypt.3; library - has been updated to support $2y$ hashes.</para> - - <para revision="285277">The &man.execl.3; and &man.execlp.3; - library functions have been updated to use the - <literal>__sentinel</literal> <application>gcc</application> - attribute.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi"> <title>ABI Compatibility</title> - <para revision="271982">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 revision="288669">The stack protector has been upgraded to - the "strong" level, elevating the protection against buffer - overflows. While this significantly improves the security of - the system, extensive testing was done to ensure there are no - measurable side effects in performance or - functionality.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> </sect1> @@ -839,246 +217,19 @@ <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix"> <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title> - <para revision="265876">A kernel bug that inhibited proper - functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal> - &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo - Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para> - - <para revision="271697" arch="powerpc">Support for - &man.dtrace.1; stack tracing has been fixed for - &os;/&arch.powerpc;, using the <literal>trapexit()</literal> - and <literal>asttrapexit()</literal> functions instead of - checking within addressed kernel space.</para> - - <para revision="271917">A kernel panic triggered when destroying - a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gif.4; has - been fixed.</para> - - <para revision="271918">A kernel panic triggered when destroying - a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gre.4; has - been fixed.</para> - - <para revision="272089">A bug in &man.ipfw.4; that could - potentially lead to a kernel panic when using &man.dummynet.4; - at layer 2 has been fixed.</para> - - <para revision="280930" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&mitail;">The - kernel <acronym>RPC</acronym> has been updated to include - several enhancements:</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>The 45 MiB limit on requests queued for - &man.nfsd.8; threads has been removed.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Avoids unnecessary throttling by not deferring - accounting for completed requests.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Fixes an integer overflow and signedness bugs.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para revision="281261" arch="powerpc">Support for - &man.dtrace.1; has been added for the - Book-E ™.</para> - - <para revision="287886" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.kqueue.2; system call has been - updated to handle write events to files larger than 2 - gigabytes.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config"> <title>Kernel Configuration</title> - <para revision="266531">The <literal>IMAGACT_BINMISC</literal> - kernel configuration option has been enabled by default, - which enables application execution through emulators, such - as <application>Qemu</application>.</para> - - <para revision="268045">The <literal>VT</literal> kernel - configuration file has been removed, and the &man.vt.4; - driver is included in the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel. - To enable &man.vt.4;, enter <literal>set kern.vty=vt</literal> - at the &man.loader.8; prompt during boot, or add - <literal>kern.vty=vt</literal> to &man.loader.conf.5; and - reboot the system.</para> - - <para revision="277904">The &man.config.8; utility has been - updated to allow using a non-standard <filename - class="directory">src/</filename> tree, specified as an - argument to the <literal>-s</literal> flag.</para> - - <para revision="277990" arch="powerpc64">The - &os;/&arch.powerpc64; kernel now builds as - a position-independent executable, allowing the kernel to be - loaded into and run from any physical or virtual - address.</para> - - <important> - <para>This change requires an update to &man.loader.8;. - The userland and kernel must be updated before rebooting the - system.</para> - </important> - - <para revision="278338" arch="arm">A new module for creating - <filename>rpi.dtb</filename> has been added for the Raspberry - Pi.</para> - - <para revision="278340" 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="279189" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" - arch="powerpc">Kernel support for Vector-Scalar eXtension - (<acronym>VSX</acronym>) found on POWER7 and POWER8 hardware - has been added.</para> - - <para revision="279252" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" - arch="powerpc">The &man.pmap.9; implementation for 64-bit - &powerpc; processors has been overhaulded to improve - concurrency.</para> - - <para revision="279824" arch="arm">A new module for creating - the <filename>dtb</filename> module for AM335x systems has - been added.</para> - - <para revision="281495" 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="282215">The <literal>SIFTR</literal> kernel - configuration has been added, allowing building &man.siftr.4; - statically into the kernel.</para> - - <para revision="282731" 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 - ${loadaddr}</literal> in - <literal>u-boot</literal>.</para> - - <para revision="282921" 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="283959" 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 revision="285142" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&netgate;">The <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel - configuration has been updated to include the - <literal>IPSEC</literal> option by default.</para> - - <para revision="285387" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&norse;, &dell;">Initial <acronym>NUMA</acronym> - affinity and policy configuration has been added. See - &man.numactl.1;, and &man.numa.getaffinity.2;, for usage - details.</para> - - <para revision="286231">The &man.pms.4; driver has been added - to the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel configuration for - supported architectures.</para> - - <para revision="287306" arch="arm">The - <filename>CUBIEBOARD2</filename> kernel configuration has been - renamed to <filename>A20</filename>.</para> - - <para revision="288176" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Kernel - debugging symbols are now installed to <filename - class="directory">/usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/</filename>. - To retain the previous behavior, add - <literal>KERN_DEBUGDIR=""</literal> to - &man.src.conf.5;.</para> - - <para revision="301565" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" - arch="arm64">&arch.arm64; has been switched over to using - <literal>INTRNG</literal> by default.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl"> <title>System Tuning and Controls</title> - <para revision="275140" 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="279361">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal> - and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable - &man.jail.8; parameters.</para> - - <para revision="280308,280949" 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="282213" 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="282901" 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 revision="283136" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&limelight;">A new &man.sysctl.8;, - <literal>net.inet.tcp.hostcache.purgenow</literal>, has - been added, which when set to <literal>1</literal> during - runtime will flush all - <literal>net.inet.tcp.hostcache</literal> entries.</para> - - <para revision="285524">A new &man.sysctl.8;, - <literal>hw.model</literal>, has been added, which displays - <acronym>CPU</acronym> model information.</para> - - <para revision="286591">The &man.uart.4; driver has been - updated to allow tuning pulses per second captured in the - CTS line during runtime, whereas previously only the DCD line - could be used without rebuilding the kernel.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> </sect1> @@ -1091,206 +242,19 @@ <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device"> <title>Device Drivers</title> - <para revision="260903">Support for GPS ports has been added to - &man.uhso.4;.</para> - - <para revision="265132">The &man.full.4; device has been added, - and the <literal>lindev(4)</literal> device has been removed. - Prior to this change, <literal>lindev(4)</literal> provided - only the <filename>/dev/full</filename> character device, - returning <literal>ENOSPC</literal> on write attempts. As - this device is not specific to &linux;, a native &os; version - has been added.</para> - - <para revision="271705">Hardware context support has been - added to the <literal>drm/i915</literal> driver, adding - support for <application>Mesa</application> 9.2 and - later.</para> - - <para revision="273178">The &man.vt.4; driver has been updated, - replacing the bitmapped <literal>kern.vt.spclkeys</literal> - &man.sysctl.8; with individual - <literal>kern.vt.kbd_*</literal> variants.</para> - - <para revision="273598">The &man.hpet.4; driver has been updated - to create a - <filename>/dev/hpet<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename> - device, providing access to <acronym>HPET</acronym> from - userspace.</para> - - <para revision="280183">The <literal>drm</literal> code has - been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para> - - <para revision="281440">The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated - to include improved support for newer Synaptics ® - touchpads and the ClickPad ® mouse on newer - Lenovo ™ laptops.</para> - - <para revision="282783" arch="powerpc">Support for the Freescale - <acronym>PCI</acronym> Root Complex device has been - added.</para> - - <para revision="285876">The &man.cyapa.4; driver has been added, - supporting the Cypress APA I2C trackpad.</para> - - <para revision="285883">The &man.isl.4; driver has been added, - supporting the Intersil I2C ISL29018 digital ambient light - sensor.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage"> <title>Storage Drivers</title> - <para revision="265236" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&lsi;, &spectralogic;" sponsorurl="">The &man.mpr.4; - device has been added, providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT - 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA controllers.</para> - - <para revision="265555" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&lsi;">The &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added, - providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The - &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default. - To enable &man.mrsas.4; add - <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to - <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off - &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para> - - <note> - <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os; - version of <application>MegaCLI</application> and - <application>StorCli</application> do not work with - &man.mrsas.4;.</para> - </note> - - <para revision="275461" 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="276526">The <literal>asr(4)</literal> driver has - been removed, and is no longer supported.</para> - - <para revision="281387">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been - updated to version 1.1.1.</para> - - <para revision="285662">The &man.pms.4; driver has been added, - providing support for the PMC Sierra line of - <acronym>SAS</acronym>/<acronym>SATA</acronym> host bus - adapters.</para> - - <para revision="287117" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&emcisilon;">The &man.ioat.4; driver has been added, - providing support for the <acronym>PSE</acronym> (Platform - Storage Extension).</para> - - <para revision="287621" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The - <acronym>CTL</acronym> High Availability implementation has - been rewritten.</para> - - <para revision="288310">The &man.ctl.4; driver has been updated - to support CD-ROM and removable devices.</para> - - <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The &man.isp.4; driver has - been updated and improved: added support for 16Gbps FC cards, - improved target mode support, completed Multi-ID (NPIV) - functionality.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="drivers-network"> <title>Network Drivers</title> - <para revision="258830">Support for Broadcom chipsets BCM57764, - BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787 has been added to - &man.bge.4;.</para> - - <para revision="260448">Support for the &intel; Centrino™ - Wireless-N 135 chipset has been added.</para> - - <para revision="260552">Firmware for &intel; Centrino™ - Wireless-N 105 devices has been added to the base - system.</para> - - <para revision="261975">The deprecated nve(4) driver has been - removed. Users of NVIDIA nForce MCP network adapters are - advised to use the &man.nfe.4; driver instead, which has been - the default driver for this hardware since - &os; 7.0.</para> - - <para revision="264601" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal> - device has been added, providing support for NetFPGA-10G - Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para> - - <note> - <para>The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal> driver operates on - the FPGA, and is not suited for the PCI host - interface.</para> - </note> - - <para revision="265348" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&netgate;">The &man.ath.hal.4; driver has been - updated to support the Atheros AR1111 chipset.</para> - - <para revision="266770">Support for the &intel; Centrino™ - Wireless-N 105 chipset has been added.</para> - - <para revision="266757" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&chelsio;">Support for the &man.cxgbe.4; Terminator - 5 (T5) 10G/40G cards has been added to &man.netmap.4;.</para> - - <para revision="272730">The &man.alc.4; driver has been updated - to support AR816x and AR817x ethernet controllers.</para> - - <para revision="272906">The &man.pf.4; packet filter 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="273331">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="274246" 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="278551">The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated - to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets.</para> - - <para revision="283514" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&solarflare;">The &man.sfxge.4; driver has been - updated to support Solarflare Flareon Ultra 7000-series - chipsets.</para> - - <para revision="283766" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&limelight;">The &man.em.4; driver has been updated - with improved transmission queue hang detection.</para> - - <para revision="284125">The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated - to include support for the RTL8153 chipset.</para> - - <para revision="286441">The &man.iwm.4; driver has been imported - from OpenBSD, providing support for &intel; 3160/7260/7265 - wireless chipsets.</para> - - <para revision="286829" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&limelight;">The &man.em.4; driver has been updated - to allow disabling <acronym>CRC</acronym> stripping.</para> - - <para revision="287222">The &man.pf.4; implementation has been - updated to remove support for the <literal>scrub fragment - crop|drop-ovl</literal> filtering rule. Systems with this - rule in &man.pf.conf.5; will implicitly be converted to the - <literal>scrub fragment reassemble</literal> filtering rule, - without necessary intervention.</para> - - <para revision="288654">The &man.lagg.4; driver has been updated - to remove support for the <literal>fec</literal> - protocol.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> </sect1> @@ -1305,231 +269,19 @@ <sect2 xml:id="hardware-support"> <title>Hardware Support</title> - <para revision="299142">Native PCI-express HotPlug - support is enabled by default on &arch.amd64;, &arch.arm64; and - &arch.powerpc;</para> - - <para revision="304246">PCI-express HotPlug support has been - enabled for slots with power controllers</para> - - <para revision="268303">The &man.asmc.4; driver has been - updated to support the &apple; MacMini 3,1.</para> - - <para revision="268351">Support for &os;/ia64 has been dropped - as of &os; 11.</para> - - <para revision="274386">An issue that could cause a system to - hang when entering <acronym>ACPI</acronym> - <literal>S3</literal> state (suspend to - <acronym>RAM</acronym>) has been corrected in the &man.acpi.4; - and &man.pci.4; drivers.</para> - - <para revision="274733" arch="powerpc">The power management unit - subsystem has been updated to support power button events on - certain &arch.powerpc; hardware, such as aluminum - PowerBook ®.</para> - - <para revision="275171,275190" arch="powerpc">The &man.hwpmc.4; - driver has been updated to correct performance counter - sampling on G4 (MPC74xxx) and G5 class processors.</para> - - <para revision="275732" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&ff;,&netgate;">The - <application>OpenCrypto</application> framework has been - updated to include <literal>AES-ICM</literal> and - <literal>AES-GCM</literal> modes, both of which have also been - added to the &man.aesni.4; driver.</para> - - <para revision="281713" arch="powerpc">The &man.hwpmc.4; - driver has been updated to support the Freescale e500 - core.</para> - - <para revision="283766">The &man.ig4.4; driver has been added, - providing support for the fourth generation &intel; - <acronym>I2C</acronym> SMBus.</para> - - <para>The &man.uart.4; driver has been updated to support - <acronym>AMT</acronym> devices on newer systems.</para> - - <para revision="285316" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;" - arch="arm64">Initial <acronym>SMP</acronym> support has been - added to the &os;/&arch.arm64; port.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="hardware-virtualization"> <title>Virtualization Support</title> - <para revision="260410">Support for the <quote>Virtual Interrupt - Delivery</quote> feature of &intel; VT-x is enabled if - supported by the CPU. This feature can be disabled by running - <literal>sysctl hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal>. - Additionally, to persist this setting across reboots, add - <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal> to - <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para> - - <para revision="260532">Support for <quote>Posted Interrupt - Processing</quote> is enabled if supported by the CPU. This - feature can be disabled by running <literal>sysctl - hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal>. Additionally, to - persist this setting across reboots, add - <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal> to - <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para> - - <para revision="260582">Unmapped IO support has been added to - &man.virtio.blk.4;.</para> - - <para revision="260583">Unmapped IO support has been added to - &man.virtio.scsi.4;.</para> - - <para revision="260847">The &man.virtio.random.4; driver has - been added to harvest entropy from the host system.</para> - - <para revision="261504">&os;/&arch.i386; guests can be run under - bhyve.</para> - - <para revision="267536" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for running a &os;/&arch.amd64; - <application>Xen</application> guest instance as - <acronym>PVH</acronym> guest has been added. - <acronym>PVH</acronym> mode, short for <quote>Para-Virtualized - Hardware</quote>, uses para-virtualized drivers for boot and - I/O, and uses hardware virtualization extensions for all other - tasks, without the need for emulation.</para> - - <para revision="273375">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="273515">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="279957">The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been - updated to support <literal>DSM TRIM</literal> commands for - virtual <acronym>AHCI</acronym> disks.</para> - - <para revision="302332">Native graphics support has been added to - the &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor.</para> - - <para revision="281439" arch="arm">Support for the - <application>QEMU</application> <literal>virt</literal> system - has been added.</para> - - <para revision="282212" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The - Hyper-V™ 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="282274">Support for &man.xen.4; para-virtualized - <literal>domU</literal> kernels has been removed.</para> - - <para revision="284746" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&msostc;">The - &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum - offloading and <acronym>TSO</acronym>.</para> - - <para revision="286062">The &man.xen.4; driver has been updated - to include support for <literal>blkif</literal> indirect - segment I/O.</para> - - <para revision="302288">Indirect segment I/O is enabled by default - in the Xen blkfront driver when running on AWS EC2.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="hardware-arm"> <title>ARM Support</title> - <para revision="260921">The &man.nand.4; device is enabled for - ARM devices by default.</para> - - <para revision="266943" arch="arm">Support for the Exynos 5420 - Octa system has been added.</para> - - <para revision="267390" arch="arm">The <acronym>SMP</acronym> - option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by - &os;.</para> - - <para revision="268838" arch="arm">Support for the Toradex - Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added.</para> - - <para revision="273264" arch="armv6">An issue that could cause - instability when detecting <acronym>SD</acronym> cards on the - Raspberry Pi <acronym>SOC</acronym> has been fixed.</para> - - <para revision="275963">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="277042" 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="277644" 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 revision="280259" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Initial - support for the ARM AArch64 architecture has been - added.</para> - - <para revision="282779" arch="arm">Kernel support for Thumb-2 - userland has been added.</para> - - <para revision="282827">Support for the hardware power button - on the BeagleBone Black system has been added.</para> - - <para revision="284273" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&ff;">Initial - <acronym>ACPI</acronym> support has been added for - &os;/&arch.arm64;.</para> - - <para revision="287225">Support for 1-Wire devices has been - added, providing support for 1-Wire hardware through - &man.gpio.4;. See &man.ow.4;, &man.owc.4;, and - &man.ow.temp.4; for more information.</para> - - <para revision="287371" arch="arm64" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&abt;">Support for the HiSilicon HI6220 SoC has been - added.</para> - - <para revision="263698" arch="arm">The second CPU core on - Allwinner A20 SoC have been enabled.</para> - - <para revision="299688" arch="arm">Support for the Allwinner H3 SoC - has been added.</para> - - <para revision="299786" arch="arm">Support for X-Powers AXP813 and - AXP818 power management integrated circuits have been added.</para> - - <para revision="300777" arch="arm">Support for GPIO, Sensors and - interrupts on AXP209 power management integrated circuits have been - added.</para> - - <para revision="299781" arch="arm">Support for the Allwinner - Reduced Serial Bus (RSB) has been added.</para> - - <para revision="296064" arch="arm">Support for Allwinner A20 HDMI - has been added.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> </sect1> @@ -1542,129 +294,25 @@ <sect2 xml:id="storage-general"> <title>General Storage</title> - <para revision="278037" 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="278354" 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="295212" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Support - for parsing libucl-based configuration files has been added to - &man.ctld.8;.</para> - - <para revision="275681" 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="279955" 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 revision="286444">The <acronym>GELI</acronym> class has - been updated to support the <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal> - &man.g.bio.9; <literal>bio_cmd</literal> field, providing - <acronym>TRIM</acronym>/<acronym>UNMAP</acronym> support on - <acronym>GELI</acronym>-backed <acronym>SSD</acronym> storage - providers.</para> - - <para revision="300880" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&spectralogic;"> - Leading spaces are now stripped off <acronym>SCSI</acronym> disk serial - numbers when populating the CAM serial number. This affects the output of - &man.diskinfo.8; and the names of <filename>/dev/diskid/DISK-*</filename> - device nodes, among other things.</para> - - <para revision="300207" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&spectralogic;"> - Support for managing Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drives - has been added.</para> - - <para revision="299371" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The - &man.camcontrol.8; command can manually force updating capacity - data after a disk gets resized using the reprobe subcommand.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="storage-net"> <title>Networked Storage</title> - <para revision="270096" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The new - filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been added. - The new &man.autofs.5; facility is similar to that found in - other &unix;-like operating systems, such as OS X™ - and Solaris™. The &man.autofs.5; facility uses - a &sun;-compatible &man.auto.master.5; configuration file, and - is administered with the &man.automount.8; userland utility, - and the &man.automountd.8; and &man.autounmountd.8; - daemons.</para> - - <para revision="273849" 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 revision="300723">The Mellanox implementation of iSER (iSCSI - Extensions for RDMA) has been imported.</para> - - <para revision="301033">The ability to discover iSCSI targets without - having to attach to a target has been added to the - &man.iscsictl.8; command.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs"> <title>ZFS</title> - <para revision="275748">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 revision="287099" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&clusterhq;">The &man.zfs.8; <literal>l2arc</literal> - code has been updated to take <literal>ashift</literal> into - account when gathering buffers to be written to the - <literal>l2arc</literal> device.</para> - - <para revision="300906" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&ix;, &spectralogic;">The zfsd daemon has been added, - which manages hotspares and replements in drive slots that publish - physical paths.</para> - - <para revision="302265" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&multiplay;">The - minimum and maximum values for the ZFS adaptive replacement - cache can be modified at runtime.</para> - - <para revision="297633" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Four new - resources have been added to &man.rctl.8; to allow - throttles to be set on filesystem IO.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="storage-geom"> <title>&man.geom.4;</title> - <para revision="267359">Support for the - <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been - added to &man.gpart.8;.</para> - - <para revision="282465">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 revision="285594" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.gpart.8; utility has been - updated to include a new attribute for <acronym>GPT</acronym> - partitions, <literal>lenovofix</literal>, which when set, - which works around <acronym>BIOS</acronym> compatibility - issues reported on several Lenovo ™ laptops.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> </sect1> @@ -1677,40 +325,7 @@ <sect2 xml:id="boot-loader"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> - <para revision="258431" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The - memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms - has been disabled by default.</para> - - <para revision="262955">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="274085">The &man.vt.4; driver has been made the - default system console driver. The &man.syscons.4; driver is - still available, and can be enabled by adding - <literal>kern.vty=sc</literal> in &man.loader.conf.5;. - Alternatively, &man.syscons.4; can be enabled at boot time by - entering <literal>set kern.vty=sc</literal> at the - &man.loader.8; prompt.</para> - - <para revision="279950">Support for <literal>bzipfs</literal> - has been added to the <acronym>EFI</acronym> loader.</para> - - <para revision="281616">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="284683" 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 revision="299393">The default installation directory for modules - has been changed to <filename>/boot/modules</filename>.</para> + <para> </para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="boot-menu"> @@ -1726,150 +341,10 @@ <para>This section describes changes that affect networking in &os;.</para> - <para revision="301875">The unused <literal>SIOCSIFALIFETIME_IN6</literal> - ioctl has been removed.</para> - - <para revision="299848" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Support to - be able to reroot into a NFSv4 volume has been added.</para> - <sect2 xml:id="network-protocols"> <title>Network Protocols</title> - <para revision="263140">Support for the IPX network transport - protocol has been removed, and will not be supported in - &os; 11 and later releases.</para> - - <para revision="272720" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&limelight;">Support for <acronym>PLPMTUD</acronym> - blackhole detection (<acronym>RFC</acronym> 4821) has been - added to the &man.tcp.4; stack, disabled by default. New - control tunables have been added:</para> - - <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> - <tgroup cols="2"> - <colspec colwidth="1*"/> - <colspec colwidth="1*"/> - <thead> - <row> - <entry>Tunable</entry> - <entry>Description</entry> - </row> - </thead> - - <tbody> - <row> - <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_detection</literal></entry> - <entry>Enables or disables <acronym>PLPMTUD</acronym> - blackhole detection</entry> - </row> - - <row> - <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_mss</literal></entry> - <entry><acronym>MSS</acronym> to try for IPv4</entry> - </row> - - <row> - <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.v6pmtud_blackhole_mss</literal></entry> - <entry><acronym>MSS to try for IPv6</acronym></entry> - </row> - </tbody> - </tgroup> - </informaltable> - - <para>New monitoring &man.sysctl.8;s haven been added:</para> - - <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> - <tgroup cols="2"> - <colspec colwidth="1*"/> - <colspec colwidth="1*"/> - <thead> - <row> - <entry>Tunable</entry> - <entry>Description</entry> - </row> - </thead> - - <tbody> - <row> - <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_activated</literal></entry> - <entry>Number of times the code was activated to attempt - downshifting the <acronym>MSS</acronym></entry> - </row> - - <row> - <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_min_activated</literal></entry> - <entry>Number of times the blackhole - <acronym>MSS</acronym> was used in an attempt to - downshift</entry> - </row> - - <row> - <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_failed</literal></entry> - <entry>Number of times that the blackhole failed to - connect after downshifting the - <acronym>MSS</acronym></entry> - </row> - </tbody> - </tgroup> - </informaltable> - - <para revision="280971" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&netflix;, &nginx;">Support for <acronym>IP</acronym> - identification for atomic datagrams (<acronym>RFC</acronym> - 6864) has been added. Support for this feature can be toggled - with the <literal>net.inet.ip.rfc6864</literal> - &man.sysctl.8;, which is enabled by default.</para> - - <para revision="285336" contrib="sponsor" - sponsor="&netgate;">The <acronym>IPSEC</acronym> has been - updated to include support for <acronym>AES</acronym> modes on - both software-only and hardware-backed (&man.aesni.4;) - systems.</para> - - <para revision="287798" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&dell;">The - network stack has been updated to fix handling of - <acronym>IPv6</acronym> On-Link redirects.</para> - - <para revision="300240">The net.inet.tcp.ecn.enable sysctl mib has been - changed from a binary off/on control to a three way setting.</para> - - <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> - <tgroup cols="2"> - <colspec colwidth="1*"/> - <colspec colwidth="1*"/> - <thead> - <row> - <entry>Value</entry> - <entry>Description</entry> - </row> - </thead> - - <tbody> - <row> - <entry><literal>0</literal></entry> - <entry>Totally disable ECN.</entry> - </row> - - <row> - <entry><literal>1</literal></entry> - <entry>Enable ECN if incoming connections request it. Outgoing - connections will request ECN.</entry> - </row> - - <row> - <entry><literal>2</literal></entry> - <entry>Enable ECN if incoming connections request it. Outgoing - conections will not request ECN.</entry> - </row> - - </tbody> - </tgroup> - </informaltable> - - <para revision="300779">Dummynet AQM, an independent implementation of - CoDel and FQ-CoDel for ipfw/dummynet has been imported to the base - system.</para> - + <para> </para> </sect2> </sect1> @@ -1921,32 +396,7 @@ <sect2 xml:id="releng-changes"> <title>Integration Changes</title> - <para revision="277458" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The - Release Engineering build tools have been updated to include - support for producing virtual machine disk images for various - cloud hosting providers.</para> - - <para revision="278926">The Release Engineering build tools have - been updated to use multi-threaded &man.xz.1;. By default, - the number of &man.xz.1; threads is set to the number of cores - available.</para> - - <para revision="281802" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The - Release Engineering build tools have been updated to include - support for building &os;/&arch.arm64; virtual machine and - memory stick installation images.</para> - - <para revision="282693" 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="283307" 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> </para> </sect2> </sect1> </article> |
