From 3152c1918cc4e17fefc1aceba8d104466cffc2c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gjb Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:19:09 +0000 Subject: Prune the 10-STABLE release notes page after 10.2-RELEASE. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml | 438 ++--------------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 417 deletions(-) (limited to 'release/doc') diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml index ab6a1d5..857428f 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -160,116 +160,19 @@ Userland Configuration Changes - The &man.termcap.5; file is installed - as-is from sources, instead of reordering, creating - /etc/termcap.db by default, providing - a performance improvements to applications that use the - &man.termcap.5; database, such as &man.vi.1; and - &man.ncurses.3;. +   Userland Application Changes - 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. - - The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been - updated to support capability mode provided by - &man.capsicum.4;. - - The - &man.fstyp.8; utility has been added, which is used to - determine the filesystem on a specified device. - - The - &man.mkimg.1; utility has been updated to support the - MBR EFI partition - type. - - A regression in the &man.libarchive.3; - library that would prevent a directory from being included in - the archive when --one-file-system is used - has been fixed. - - A new flag, -R, has - been added to the &man.netstat.8; utility, which is used to - dump RSS/flow information. - - The - &man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set - ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS and - ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT to disallow - directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to - &man.tar.1;. - - A race condition in &man.wc.1; that - would cause final results to be sent to &man.stderr.4; when - receiving the SIGINFO signal has been - fixed. - - The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has - been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when - a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed. - - The - &man.uefisign.8; utility has been added. - - The &man.chflags.1;, &man.chgrp.1;, - &man.chmod.1;, and &man.chown.8; utilities now affect symbolic - links when the -R flag is specified, as - documented in &man.symlink.7;. - - The &man.date.1; utility has been - updated to print the modification time of the file passed as - an argument to the -r flag, improving - compatibility with the GNU &man.date.1; - utility behavior. - - A new flag, -c, has - been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility, which allows - specifying the capacity of the target disk image. - - The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated - with a new flag, -R, that sets the root - directory within which the utility will operate. +   Contributed Software - The - &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version - 3.7.0. - - The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated - to the OpenBSD 5.7 version. - - Timezone data files have been updated to - version 2015e. - - The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been - updated to version 20150515. - - The &man.file.1; utility has been - updated to version 5.23. - - The &man.unbound.8; utility has been - updated to version 1.5.3. - - The sendmail - utility has been updated to version 8.15.2. - - OpenSSL has - been updated to version 1.0.1p. - - The ntp - suite has been updated to version 4.2.8p3. +   @@ -282,50 +185,26 @@ <filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts - A new &man.rc.8; script, - growfs, has been added, which will resize - the root filesystem on boot if /firstboot - exists. +   <filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> Scripts - A new - &man.periodic.8; script, - 510.status-world-kernel, has been added, - which evaluates the running userland and kernel versions from - the &man.uname.1; -U and - -K arguments, and prints an error if the - system userland and kernel are not in sync. +   Runtime Libraries and API - A new file configuration library, - &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system. - - 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. - - The &man.setmode.3; function has been - updated to consistently set errno on - failure. +   ABI Compatibility - The &linux; compatibility version has - been updated to 2.6.18. The - compat.linux.osrelease &man.sysctl.8; is - evaluated when building the emulators/linux-c6 and related - ports. +   @@ -339,120 +218,19 @@ Kernel Bug Fixes - A kernel panic triggered when destroying - a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gif.4; has - been fixed. - - A kernel panic triggered when destroying - a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gre.4; has - been fixed. +   Kernel Configuration - The - PAE_TABLES kernel configuration option has - been added for &os;/&arch.i386;, which instructs &man.pmap.9; - to use PAE 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 no execute - mappings on modern &arch.i386; processors. Unlike the - PAE option, PAE_TABLES - preserves kernel binary interface (KBI) - compatibility with non-PAE kernels, - allowing non-PAE kernel modules and drivers - to work with a PAE_TABLES-enabled kernel. - Additionally, system limits are tuned for 4GB maximum - RAM, avoiding kernel virtual address space - (KVA) exhaustion. - - The SIFTR kernel - configuration has been added, allowing building &man.siftr.4; - statically into the kernel. - - The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are - now included in the GENERIC kernel - configuration by default. - - The &arch.arm; boot loader, - ubldr, is now relocatable. In addition, - ubldr.bin is now created during build - time, which is a stripped binary with an entry point of - 0, providing the ability to specify the - load address by running go - ${loadaddr} in - u-boot. - - A new module for creating - rpi.dtb has been added for the Raspberry - Pi. - - The - rpi.dtb module is now installed to - /boot/dtb/ by - default for the Raspberry Pi system. - - A new module for creating - the dtb module for AM335x systems has - been added. - - A new kernel configuration option, - EM_MULTIQUEUE, has been added which enables - multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver. - - - Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not - officially supported by &intel;. - +   System Tuning and Controls - Throttling via ACPI - and P4TCC via &man.device.hints.5; have - been turned off by default. - - 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. - - The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has - been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations - using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;, - vfs.devfs.dotimes has been added, which - when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision - timestamps for these operations. - - The kern.osrelease - and kern.osreldate are now configurable - &man.jail.8; parameters. - - A new - &man.sysctl.8;, kern.racct.enable, has been - added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using - &man.rctl.8; with the GENERIC kernel. - A new kernel configuration option, - RACCT_DISABLED has also been added. - - The - GENERIC kernel configuration now includes - RACCT and RCTL by - default. - - - To enable RACCT and - RCTL on a system using the - GENERIC kernel configuration, add - kern.racct.enable=1 to - &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system. - +   @@ -465,51 +243,19 @@ Device Drivers - The drm code has - been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13. - - The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated - to include improved support for newer Synaptics ® - touchpads and the ClickPad ® mouse on newer - Lenovo ™ laptops. +   Storage Drivers - The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been - updated to version 1.1.1. +   Network Drivers - The &man.pf.4; interface default hash - has been changed from Jenkins to - Murmur3, providing a 3-percent performance - increase in packets-per-second. - - The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated - to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets. - - The - &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has - been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and - &man.me.4;. - - 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. - - The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated - to include support for the RTL8153 chipset. - - The &man.sfxge.4; driver has been - updated to support Solarflare Flareon Ultra 7000-series - chipsets. +   @@ -530,73 +276,13 @@ Virtualization Support - The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has - been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console - devices through a &man.tty.4; device. - - The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been - updated to support &amd; processors with - SVM and AMD-V hardware - extensions. - - The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been - updated to support DSM TRIM commands for - virtual AHCI disks. - - The - Hyper-V™ drivers have been updated with several - enhancements: - - - - The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel - support. - - - - The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather - support, in addition to performance improvements. - - - - The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug - fixes. - - - - The - &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum - offloading and TSO. +   ARM Support - Support to turn off the - BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8; - -p flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has - been added. - - Support for the Exynos 5420 - Octa system has been added. - - The SMP - option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by - &os;. - - The bcm2835_cpufreq - driver has been added, which supports CPU - frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi - SOC. - - Support for the Toradex - Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added. - - Audio transmission drivers - have been added for Digital Audio Multiplexer - (AUDMUXM), Smart Direct Memory Access - Controller (SDMA), and Syncronous Serial - Interface (SSI). +   @@ -609,75 +295,25 @@ General Storage - The - &man.ctl.4; LUN mapping has been rewritten, - replacing iSCSI-specific mapping mechanisms - with a new mechanism that works for any port. - - The - &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling - non-iSCSI &man.ctl.4; ports. - - The - &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new - &man.auto.master.5; map, -media, which - allows automatically mounting removable media, such as - CD drives or USB flash - drives. - - The - &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new - &man.auto.master.5; map, -noauto, which - handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to - noauto. +   Networked Storage - The - &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for - registering iSCSI targets and portals on - iSNS servers. This provides a mechanism - which allows iSCSI initiators to find - targets and portals without requiring active - discovery. - - Support - for the timeo, actimeo, - noac, and proto options - have been added to &man.mount.nfs.8;. +   ZFS - A new tunable, - vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift, has been added, - which controls how much space is reserved by default. - - The arc_meta_limit - statistics are now visible through the - kstat &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this - change, the vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used - &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the - kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used - &man.sysctl.8;. +   &man.geom.4; - The - &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports - limit from 128 to 256, - and LUN limit from 256 - to 1024. - - Support for the - apple-boot, apple-hfs, - and apple-ufs MBR - partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;. +   @@ -690,29 +326,7 @@ Boot Loader Changes - Support for bzipfs - has been added to the EFI loader. - - The boot loader has been updated to - support entering the GELI passphrase before - loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add - geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES" to - &man.loader.conf.5;. - - The - memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms - has been disabled by default. - - A new &man.ttys.5; class, - 3wire, has been added. This is similar to - the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined - baudrate. - - The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been - updated to enable ttyu1, - ttyu2, and ttyu3 by - default, if the callin port is an active console port. +   @@ -783,17 +397,7 @@ Integration Changes - The - Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support - building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for - supported boards where a corresponding - u-boot port exists in the Ports - Collection. - - 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. +   -- cgit v1.1