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<info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
<author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
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<abstract>
<para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary
of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
&release.branch; development line.
This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since
the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os;
kernel and userland.
Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para>
</abstract>
</info>
<sect1 xml:id="intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
&release.current;. It
describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;.
It also provides some notes on upgrading
from previous versions of &os;.</para>
<para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development
branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary
&release.type; distributions along this branch
can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
<para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes
apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development
branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;.
Information regarding
pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch
can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
<para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a
&release.type; distribution. It can be found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or any of its mirrors. More
information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type;
distributions of &os; can be found in the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
&os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
Handbook</link>.</para>
<para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
<quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
&release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="new">
<title>What's New</title>
<para>This section describes
the most user-visible new or changed features in &os;
since &release.prev;.
In general, changes described here are unique to the &release.branch;
branch unless specifically marked as &merged; features.
</para>
<para>Typical release note items
document recent security advisories issued after
&release.prev;,
new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options,
major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also
list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering
practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single
change made to &os; between releases; this document focuses
primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major
architectural improvements.</para>
<sect2 xml:id="security">
<title>Security Advisories</title>
<para/>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
<para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included
with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT)
support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond
(e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para>
<para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added. &man.virtio.4; is the
name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but
since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen).
This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers
for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;),
memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI.
Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel
can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para>
<para>A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added
for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and
assignment. The &man.cpuset.1; userland utility has been added
to allow manipulation of processor sets.</para>
<para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an output capture
facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured
to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or
a textdump. The new <command>capture</command> command controls
this feature.</para>
<para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting
facility, which supports a set of named scripts consisting of a
set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can be managed from
within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new &man.ddb.8;
utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual
page.</para>
<para role="merged">The kernel now supports a new textdump format of kernel
dumps. A textdump provides higher-level information via
mechanically generated/extracted debugging output, rather than a
simple memory dump. This facility can be used to generate brief
kernel bug reports that are rich in debugging information, but
are not dependent on kernel symbol tables or precisely
synchronized source code. More information can be found in the
&man.textdump.4; manual page.</para>
<para>Kernel support for M:N threading has been removed. While
the KSE (Kernel Scheduled Entities) project was quite successful
in bringing threading to FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the
KSE library was never developed to its full potential.
Backwards compatibility for applications using KSE threading
will be provided via &man.libmap.conf.5; for dynamically linked
binaries. The &os; Project greatly appreciates the work of
&a.julian;, &a.deischen;, and &a.davidxu; on KSE support.</para>
<para>The &os; kernel now exports information about certain kernel
features via the <varname>kern.features</varname> sysctl tree.
The &man.feature.present.3; library call provides a convenient
interface for user applications to test the presence of
features.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The &os; kernel now has support for large
memory page mappings (<quote>superpages</quote>).</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386,ia64,powerpc" role="merged">The ULE
scheduler is now the default process scheduler
in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</para>
<sect3 xml:id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
<para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The BTX kernel used by the boot
loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real
mode. This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB
devices.</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">A new gptboot boot loader has
been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. A
new <command>boot</command> command has been added to
&man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the
required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot
partition if required.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
<para role="merged">The &man.cmx.4; driver, a driver for Omnikey CardMan 4040
PCMCIA smartcard readers, has been added.</para>
<para>The &man.syscons.4; driver now supports Colemak keyboard layout.</para>
<para role="merged">The &man.uslcom.4; driver, a driver for Silicon
Laboratories CP2101/CP2102-based USB serial adapters, has been
imported from OpenBSD.</para>
<sect4 xml:id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
<para revision="240609">Support for version 2.0 of the USB Audio reference design
has been added. New devices should support higher bandwidth,
increased sampling frequency and wider dynamic range.</para>
</sect4>
<sect4 xml:id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
<para>The &man.ale.4; driver has been added to provide support
for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet controllers.</para>
<para>The &man.em.4; driver has been split into two drivers
with some common parts. The &man.em.4; driver will continue
to support adapters up to the 82575, as well as new
client/desktop adapters. A new &man.igb.4; driver
will support new server adapters.</para>
<para>The &man.jme.4; driver has been added to provide support
for PCIe network adapters based on JMicron JMC250 Gigabit
Ethernet and JMC260 Fast Ethernet controllers.</para>
<para>The &man.malo.4; driver has been added to provide
support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network
adapters.</para>
<para>The firmware for the &man.mxge.4; driver has been
updated from 1.4.25 to 1.4.29.</para>
<para>The &man.sf.4; driver has been overhauled to improve its
performance and to add support for checksum offloading. It
should also work on all architectures.</para>
<para>The &man.re.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a
number of issues. This driver now has Wake On LAN (WOL)
support.</para>
<para>The &man.vr.4; driver has been overhauled to fix a
number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all
architectures.</para>
<para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver has
been updated to include a number of stability fixes.</para>
<para revision="254738">The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added.
&man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from
OpenBSD.</para>
<para revision="248925">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated to support
40G/10G Ethernet NICs based on Chelsio's Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC.</para>
<para revision="256694">The iw_cxgbe driver has been added. This is an
experimental iWARP/RDMA driver
(kernel verbs only) for Chelsio's T4 and T5 based cards.</para>
<para revision="255932">The Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) and
OFED Infiniband core has been
updated to the same version as supplied by Linux version 3.7</para>
<para revision="255932">The Mellanox Infiniband driver has been updated to firmware
version 2.30.3200 for ConnectX3 NICs. Support has been added for ConnectX3 VPI NICs, where
each port can be used as Infiniband 56 GB/s or Ethernet 40 GB/s. Support has been added
for dynamically loading kernel modules for Infiniband core (ibcore) and
IP over Infiniband (ipoib).</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
<para revision="228571">&man.carp.4; has been rewritten to make addresses
more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such as
quagga/zebra. It also brings support for a single redundant
address on the subnet (carpdev), switching state with
&man.ifconfig.8;, better locking and using modern kernel
interfaces to allocate multicast memberships.
Configuration of the CARP protocol via &man.ifconfig.8; has changed, as well as format
of CARP events submitted to &man.devd.8; has changed. See &man.carp.4;
for more information. The arpbalance feature of &man.carp.4; is currently
not supported anymore.</para>
<para revision="240233">The &man.pf.4; firewall now supports fine-grain locking
and better utilization on multi-cpu machines resulting in
significant improvements in performance.</para>
<para revision="250700">Support for up to 65536 routing tables has been
introduced.</para>
<para revision="248552">Support for setting/matching differentiated services
codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has been added to
&man.ipfw.8;.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
<para role="merged">The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than
2TB in size.</para>
<para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for
disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests
have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down
until the next request. The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now
supports a <command>spindown</command> command to configure
this feature.</para>
<para role="merged">The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2
from Highpoint.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
<para revision="255570">A new kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator has been
added</para>
<para revision="243246">UFS filesystems can now be enlarged with &man.growfs.8; while
mounted read-write. This is especially useful for virtual
machines, allowing the addition of more harddrive space without
interruption of service.</para>
<para revision="241519">A state of the art FUSE implementation is now part of the
base system. It allows the use of nearly all fusefs file
systems</para>
<sect4 xml:id="fs-zfs">
<title>ZFS</title>
<para revision="240868">TRIM support has been added for
ZFS.</para>
<para revision="246586">Support for the high performance LZ4 compression algorithm
has been added to ZFS. LZ4 is usually faster and can achieve a
higher compression ratio than LZJB, the default compression
algorithm</para>
<para revision="252140">Support for L2ARC compression has been added to ZFS.</para>
<para revision="243524">The zio nop-write improvement from Illumos
was imported into &os;. To reduce I/O, nop-write skips overwriting
data if the checksum (cryptographically secure) of new data
matches the checksum of existing data. It also saves space if
snapshots are in use. This improvement only works only on
datasets with enabled compression, disabled deduplication and
sha256 checksums.</para>
<para>ZFS will now compare the checksums of incoming writes to
the checksum of the existing on-disk data and avoid issuing any
write I/O for data that has not changed. This will reduce I/O
as well as space usage because if the old block is referenced
by a snapshot, both copies of the block are kept even though
both contain the same data.</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
<para revision="255321">On platforms where &man.clang.1; is the default
system compiler, (such as i386, amd64, arm) GCC and GNU libstdc++ are no
longer built by default. &man.clang.1; and libc++ from LLVM are used on
these platforms by instead. GCC 4.2.1 and libstdc++ are still built
and used by default on pc98 and all other platforms where &man.clang.1;
is not the default system compiler.
</para>
<para revision="251662">&man.clang.1; and llvm have been updated to
version 3.3 release. Please refer to
<link xlink:href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">
Clang 3.3 Release Notes.</link></para>
<para role="merged" revision="255949">BIND has been replaced by &man.unbound.8; for
local dns resolution in the base system. With this change, nslookup
and dig are no longer a part of the base system. Users should
instead use &man.host.1; and &man.drill.1; Alternatively,
nslookup and dig can be obtained by installing the
dns/bind-tools port.</para>
<para role="merged">The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports
a <option>-M</option> option to set the mode of a new user's
home directory.</para>
<para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.ar.1; and &man.ranlib.1;,
based on <filename>libarchive</filename>, have replaced the GNU
Binutils versions of these utilities.</para>
<para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.bc.1; and &man.dc.1; have
replaced their GNU counterparts.</para>
<para role="merged">&man.chflags.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag for
verbose output and a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors
with the same semantics as (for example)
&man.chmod.1;.</para>
<para>For compatibility with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now
supports a <option>-a</option> flag, which is equivalent to
specifying the <option>-RrP</option> flags.</para>
<para>BSD-licensed version of &man.cpio.1; based on
<filename>libarchive</filename>, has replaced the GNU cpio.
Note that the GNU cpio is still installed as
<filename>gcpio</filename>.</para>
<para>The &man.env.1; program now supports <option>-u
<replaceable>name</replaceable></option>
which will completely unset the given variable
<replaceable>name</replaceable> by removing it from the environment,
instead of just setting it to a null value.</para>
<para>The &man.fdopendir.3; library function has been added.</para>
<para role="merged">The &man.fetch.3; library now support HTTP 1.1
If-Modified-Since behavior. The &man.fetch.1; program now
supports <option>-i <replaceable>filename</replaceable></option>
which will only download the specified HTTP URL if the content
is newer than <replaceable>filename</replaceable>.</para>
<para>&man.find.1; has been enhanced by the addition of a number
of primaries that were present in GNU find but not &os;
&man.find.1;.</para>
<para>&man.kgdb.1; now supports a new <command>add-kld</command>
command to make it easier to debug crash dumps with kernel
modules.</para>
<para>The &man.ls.1; program now supports a <option>-D</option>
option to specify a date format string to be used with the long
format (<option>-l</option>) output.</para>
<para>&man.nc.1; now supports a <option>-O</option> switch to
disable the use of TCP options.</para>
<para>&man.nc.1;'s <option>-o</option> switch has been deprecated.
It will be removed in a future release.</para>
<para>The &man.ping6.8; utility now returns <literal>2</literal>
when the packet transmission was successful but no responses
were received (this is the same behavior as &man.ping.8;).
It returned a non-zero value before this change.</para>
<para>The &man.procstat.1; utility has been added to display
detailed information about processes.</para>
<para role="merged">The &man.realpath.1; utility now supports
a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress warnings; it now also
accepts multiple paths on its command line.</para>
<para>&man.sh.1; has many bug fixes, some new features, and will now
refuse to parse some invalid scripts. Additionally, it now
has filename completion and defaults to the "emacs" editing
mode.</para>
<para>The &man.split.1; utility now supports a <option>-n</option>
flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks.</para>
<para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-Z</option>
flag to enable &man.compress.1;-style
compression/decompression.</para>
<para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a
<option>--numeric-owner</option> flag to ignore user/group names
on create and extract.</para>
<para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports an
<option>-S</option> flag to sparsify files on extraction.</para>
<para>The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a <option>-s</option>
flag to substitute filenames based on the specified regular
expression.</para>
<para>The &man.tcgetsid.3; library function has been added to
return the process group ID for the session leader for the
controlling terminal. It is defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
(POSIX).</para>
<para>&man.top.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> flag to
provide per-CPU usage statistics.</para>
<para>&man.zdump.8; is now working properly on 64 bit architectures.
</para>
<para>&man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS
number for each hop with the new <option>-a</option> switch; a
new <option>-A</option> option allows selecting a particular
WHOIS server.</para>
<para>&man.traceroute6.8; now supports a <option>-U</option> flag
to send probe packets with no upper-layer protocol, rather than
the usual UDP probe packets.</para>
<sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
<para/>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="contrib">
<title>Contributed Software</title>
<para role="merged"><application>AMD</application> has been updated from 6.0.10
to 6.1.5.</para>
<para role="merged"><application>awk</application> has been updated from 1 May
2007 release to the 23 October 2007 release.</para>
<para role="merged"><application>bzip2</application> has been updated from 1.0.4
to 1.0.5.</para>
<para><application>CVS</application> has been removed from the
base system, but is still available from ports</para>
<para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.23
to 5.03.</para>
<para><application>hostapd</application> has been
updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para>
<para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated from
4.1.23 to 4.1.28.</para>
<para><application>less</application> has been updated from
v408 to v429.</para>
<para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from
5.6-20061217 to 5.6-20080503.</para>
<para role="merged"><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated
from 4.5p1 to 5.1p1.</para>
<para role="merged"><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the
Figwort release to the Hydrangea release.</para>
<para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from
8.14.1 to 8.14.7.</para>
<para role="merged">The timezone database has been updated from
the <application>tzdata2008h</application> release to
the <application>tzdata2009m</application> release.</para>
<para>The stdtime part of libc, &man.zdump.8; and &man.zic.8;
have been updated from the <application>tzcode2004a</application>
release to the <application>tzcode2009h</application> release.
If you have upgraded from source or via the &man.freebsd-update.8;,
then please run &man.tzsetup.8; to install a new /etc/localtime.
</para>
<para><application>WPA Supplicant</application> has been
updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para>
<para role="merged"><application>xz</application> has been updated
from snapshot as of 12 April 2010 to 5.0.0.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="ports">
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
<para revision="257444">The pkg_add, pkg_create, pkg_delete, pkg_info,
pkg_updating, and pkg_version utilities have been removed.
&man.pkg.7; must now be used to install binary packages. &man.pkg.7;
is the next generation &os; package manager, also referred to as "pkgng".</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="releng">
<title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
<para role="merged">The supported version of
the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment
(<package>x11/gnome2</package>) has been
updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="doc">
<title>Documentation</title>
<para/>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
<title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
<para arch="amd64,i386">Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE,
binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the
various security branches) are supported using the
&man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure will
update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC or
SMP kernels distributed as a part of an official &os; release.
The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being
upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
<para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
base system from source code) from previous versions are
supported, according to the instructions in
<filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
<important>
<para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after
backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration
files.</para>
</important>
</sect1>
</article>
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