diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml index 2470f30b4b50..39a6a89bb2f6 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ - 2015 2016 The &os; Documentation Project @@ -160,692 +159,51 @@ Userland Configuration Changes - The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now - includes files in the - /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ and - /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ - directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;. - - The &man.mailwrapper.8; utility has been - updated to use &man.mailer.conf.5; from the - LOCALBASE environment variable, which - defaults to /usr/local - if unset. - - The MK_ARM_EABI - &man.src.conf.5; option has been removed. - - The ntp suite - has been updated to version 4.2.8p8. +   Userland Application Changes - 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 - Exec format error.. - - 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 -l flag - to restrict the output to only listing details about a single - device. - - A new flag, onifconsole - has been added to /etc/ttys. This allows - the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the - device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent - to off. - - Support for displaying VPD for PCI - devices via &man.pciconf.8; has been added. - - &man.ping.8; protects against malicious - network packets using the Capsicum framework to drop - privileges. - - The &man.ps.1; utility has been - updated to include the -J flag, used to - filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names. - Additionally, argument 0 can be used to - -J to only list processes running on the - host system. - - The &man.top.1; utility has been updated - to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the - &man.ps.1; change in r265229. - - The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been - updated to include a new flag, -l, which - ends event collection after the specified number of - seconds. - - The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated - to include a new keyword, tracer, which - displays the PID of the tracing - process. - - Support for adding empty partitions has - been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility. - - The &man.primes.6; utility has been - updated to correctly enumerate prime numbers between - 4295098369 and - 3825123056546413050, which prior to this - change, it would be possible for returned values to be - incorrectly identified as prime numbers. - - The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been - updated to include three options used to print information - about &man.mkimg.1; itself: - - - - - - - - Option - Output - - - - - - --version - The current version of the &man.mkimg.1; - utility - - - - --formats - The disk image file formats supported by - &man.mkimg.1; - - - - --schemes - The partition schemes supported by - &man.mkimg.1; - - - - - - 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 - USDT probe arguments, and function return - values. - - 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 libedit library - has been updated to support UTF-8, which - additionally provides unicode support to &man.sh.1;. - - The - &man.mkimg.1; utility has been updated to support the - MBR EFI partition - type. - - The &man.ptrace.2; system - call has been updated include support for Altivec registers on - &os;/&arch.powerpc;. - - 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. - - The &man.netstat.1; utility has been - updated to link against the &man.libxo.3; shared - library. - - 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.uefisign.8; utility has been added. - - The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has - been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when - a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed. - - 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. - - 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.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. - - The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated - with a new flag, -R, that sets the root - directory within which the utility will operate. - - The &man.lockstat.1; utility has been - updated with several improvements: - - - - Spin locks are now reported as the amount of time - spinning, instead of loop iterations. - - - - Reader locks are now recognized as adaptive that can - spin on &os;. - - - - Lock aquisition events for successful reader try-lock - events are now reported. - - - - Spin and block events are now reported before lock - acquisition events. - - - - The &man.fstyp.8; utility has been - updated to be able to detect &man.zfs.8; and &man.geli.8; - filesystems. - - The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been - updated to include support for NTFS - filesystems in both MBR and - GPT partitioning schemes. - - The &man.quota.1; utility has been - updated to include support for IPv6. - - The &man.jexec.8; utility has been - updated to include a new flag, -l, 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. - - The &man.w.1; utility has been updated - to display the full IPv6 remote address of the host from which - a user is connected. - - The &man.jail.8; framework has been - updated to allow mounting &man.linprocfs.5; and - &man.linsysfs.5; within a jail. - - The &man.patch.1; utility has been - updated to include a new option to the -V - flag, none, which disables backup file - creation when applying a patch. - - The - &man.ar.1; utility now enables deterministic mode - (-D) by default. This behavior can be - disabled by specifying the -U flag. - - The &man.xargs.1; utility has been - updated to allow specifying 0 as an - argument to the -P (parallel mode) flag, - which allows creating as many concurrent processes as - possible. - - The &man.patch.1; utility has been - updated to remove the automatic checkout feature. - - A - new utility, &man.sesutil.8;, has been added, which is used - to manage &man.ses.4; devices. - - The &man.pciconf.8; utility has been - updated to use the PCI ID database from the misc/pciids package, if present, - falling back to the PCI ID database in the &os; base - system. - - The &man.ifconfig.8; utility has been - updated to always exit with an error code if an important - &man.ioctl.2; fails. +   Contributed Software - &man.byacc.1; has been updated to - version 20140101. - - OpenSSH has - been updated to 7.2p2. - - mdocml has - been updated to version 1.12.3. - - The binutils - suite of utilities has been updated to include upstream - patches that add new relocations for &arch.powerpc; - support. - - The - ELF Tool Chain has been updated to - upstream revision r3136. - - The texinfo - utility and info pages were removed from - the base system. The print/texinfo port should be - installed on systems where info pages are - needed. - - The ELF - object manipulation tools - addr2line, - elfcopy (strip), - nm, - readelf, - size, and - strings were switched to the - versions from the ELF Tool Chain project. - - The libedit library - has been updated to include UTF-8 support, - adding UTF-8 support to the &man.sh.1; - shell. - - The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated - to support multi-threaded compression. - - The - elftoolchain utilities have been - updated to version 3179. - - The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated - to version 5.2.2. - - The &man.nvi.1; utility has been updated - to version 2.1.3. - - The &man.wpa.supplicant.8; and - &man.hostapd.8; utilities have been updated to version - 2.5. - - The - &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version - 3.7.3. - - less has - been updated to version v481. - - bmake has - been updated to version 20150606. - - sendmail 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 ::. For - example, instead of ::1, it will be - 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. 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 - confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or the cf - option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. - - The &man.tcpdump.1; utility has been - updated to version 4.7.4. - - OpenSSL has - been updated to version 1.0.2h. - - The - &man.ssh.1; utility has been updated to re-implement hostname - canonicalization before locating the host in - known_hosts. - - 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. - - The apr - library used by &man.svnlite.1; has been updated to version - 1.5.2. - - The serf - library used by &man.svnlite.1; has been updated to version - 1.3.8. - - The &man.svnlite.1; utility has been - updated to version 1.8.14. - - The sqlite3 - library used by &man.svnlite.1; and &man.kerberos.8; has been - updated to version 3.12.1. - - Timezone data files have been updated to - version 2015f. - - The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been - updated to version 20150818. - - The &man.unbound.8; utility has been - updated to version 1.5.4. - - &man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to - version 4.0.2. - - The &man.file.1; utility has been - updated to version 5.28. - - The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated - to the OpenBSD 5.8 version. - - Clang has - been updated to version 3.8.0. - - LLVM has - been updated to version 3.8.0. - - LLDB has - been updated to version 3.8.0. - - libc++ has - been updated to version 3.8.0. - - The - compiler_rt utility has been - updated to version 3.8.0. - - ACPICA has been - updated to version 20160527. - - OpenBSM has been - updated to version 1.2 alpha 4. - - 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 blacklist - system provides the blacklistd - daemon, the helper script - blacklistd-helper to make changes - to the running packet filter system and the - blacklistctl control program. - A selection of system daemons, including: - fingerd, - ftpd, - rlogind, and - rshd have been modified to support - sending notifications to the blacklistd - daemon. - - Support for - the &man.ipfw.4; packet filter has been added to the - blacklistd-helper script. - - Support for - the &man.ipfilter.4; packet filter has been added to the - blacklistd-helper script. +   Installation and Configuration Tools - The &man.bsdinstall.8; partition editor - and &man.sade.8; utility have been updated to include native - ZFS support. - - - &man.bsdinstall.8;/zfsboot GPT+BIOS+GELI installs now make use - of GELIBOOT which allows ZFS Boot Environments to be used with - GELI encrypted ZFS pools. - - A module to configure wifi devices has been added - to &man.bsdinstall.8; - - The &os; installation utility, - &man.bsdinstall.8;, has been updated to set the - canmount &man.zfs.8; property to - off for the /var dataset, preventing the - contents of directories within /var from conflicting when - using multiple boot environments, such as that provided by - sysutils/beadm. - - The &man.bsdconfig.8; utility has been - updated to skip the initial &man.tzsetup.8; - UTC versus wall-clock time prompt when run - in a virtual machine, determined when the - kern.vm_guest &man.sysctl.8; is set to - 1. - - The &man.bsdinstall.8; utility has been - updated to use the new &man.dpv.3; library to display progress - when extracting the &os; distributions. - - Support for detecting and implementing - aligning partitions on 1Mb boundaries has been added to - &man.bsdinstall.8;. - - Support for detecting and implementing - a workaround for various laptops and motherboards that do not - boot properly from GPT-partitioned disks - has been added to &man.bsdinstall.8;. Additionally, the - active flag will be set on the partition - when needed. - - Support for selecting the partitioning - scheme when installing on the UFS - filesystem has been added to &man.bsdinstall.8;. +   <filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts - The &man.rc.8; subsystem has been - updated to allow configuring services in ${LOCALBASE}/etc/rc.conf.d/. - If LOCALBASE is unset, it defaults to - /usr/local. - - A new &man.rc.8; script, - growfs, has been added, which will resize - the root filesystem on boot if /firstboot - exists. - - The mrouted - &man.rc.8; script has been removed from the base system. An - equivalent script is available from the net/mrouted port. - - A new &man.rc.8; script, - iovctl, has been added, which allows - automatically starting the &man.iovctl.8; utility at - boot. - - The &man.service.8; utility has been - updated to honor entries within /etc/rc.conf.d/. - +   <filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> Scripts - The daily &man.periodic.8; script - 110.clean-tmps has been updated to avoid - crossing filesystem mount boundaries when cleaning files in - /tmp. - - 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 - The Blowfish &man.crypt.3; default - format has been changed to - $2b$. - - 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. - - The &man.strptime.3; library has been - updated to add support for POSIX-2001 - features %U and - %W. - - The &man.dl.iterate.phdr.3; library has been - changed to always return the path name of the - ELF object in the - dlpi_name structure member. - - The &man.libxo.3; library has been - imported to the base system. - - A - userland library for Chelsio Terminator 5 based iWARP cards - has been added, allowing userland RDMA - applications to work over compatible - NICs. - - The &man.gpio.3; library has been added, - providing a wrapper around the &man.gpio.4; kernel - interface. - - 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 futimens() and - utimensat() system calls have been - added. See &man.utimensat.2; for more information. - - The &man.elf.3; compile-time dependency - has been removed from dtri.o, which - allows adding DTrace probes to - userland applications and libraries without also linking - against &man.elf.3;. - - The &man.setmode.3; function has been - updated to consistently set errno on - failure. - - 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. - - Several standard include headers have - been updated to use of gcc - attributes, such as __result_use_check(), - __alloc_size(), and - __nonnull(). - - Support for file verification in - MAC has been added. - - The - libgomp library is now only built when - building GCC from the base system. An - up-to-date version is available in the Ports Collection as - devel/libiomp5-devel. - - The stdlib.h and - malloc.h headers have been updated to - make use of the gcc - alloc_align() attribute. - - The Blowfish &man.crypt.3; library - has been updated to support $2y$ hashes. - - The &man.execl.3; and &man.execlp.3; - library functions have been updated to use the - __sentinel gcc - attribute. +   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. - - 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. +   @@ -859,246 +217,19 @@ Kernel Bug Fixes - A kernel bug that inhibited proper - functionality of the dev.cpu.0.freq - &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo - Boost ™ enabled has been fixed. - - Support for - &man.dtrace.1; stack tracing has been fixed for - &os;/&arch.powerpc;, using the trapexit() - and asttrapexit() functions instead of - checking within addressed kernel space. - - 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. - - 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. - - The - kernel RPC has been updated to include - several enhancements: - - - - The 45 MiB limit on requests queued for - &man.nfsd.8; threads has been removed. - - - - Avoids unnecessary throttling by not deferring - accounting for completed requests. - - - - Fixes an integer overflow and signedness bugs. - - - - Support for - &man.dtrace.1; has been added for the - Book-E ™. - - The &man.kqueue.2; system call has been - updated to handle write events to files larger than 2 - gigabytes. +   Kernel Configuration - The IMAGACT_BINMISC - kernel configuration option has been enabled by default, - which enables application execution through emulators, such - as Qemu. - - The VT kernel - configuration file has been removed, and the &man.vt.4; - driver is included in the GENERIC kernel. - To enable &man.vt.4;, enter set kern.vty=vt - at the &man.loader.8; prompt during boot, or add - kern.vty=vt to &man.loader.conf.5; and - reboot the system. - - The &man.config.8; utility has been - updated to allow using a non-standard src/ tree, specified as an - argument to the -s flag. - - 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. - - - This change requires an update to &man.loader.8;. - The userland and kernel must be updated before rebooting the - system. - - - 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. - - Kernel support for Vector-Scalar eXtension - (VSX) found on POWER7 and POWER8 hardware - has been added. - - The &man.pmap.9; implementation for 64-bit - &powerpc; processors has been overhaulded to improve - concurrency. - - A new module for creating - the dtb module for AM335x systems has - been added. - - 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 &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. - - The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are - now included in the GENERIC kernel - configuration by default. - - 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;. - - - The GENERIC kernel - configuration has been updated to include the - IPSEC option by default. - - Initial NUMA - affinity and policy configuration has been added. See - &man.numactl.1;, and &man.numa.getaffinity.2;, for usage - details. - - The &man.pms.4; driver has been added - to the GENERIC kernel configuration for - supported architectures. - - The - CUBIEBOARD2 kernel configuration has been - renamed to A20. - - Kernel - debugging symbols are now installed to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/. - To retain the previous behavior, add - KERN_DEBUGDIR="" to - &man.src.conf.5;. - - - NEW_PCIB is enabled by default. - +   System Tuning and Controls - 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 kern.osrelease - and kern.osreldate are now configurable - &man.jail.8; parameters. - - 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. - - 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. - - - A new &man.sysctl.8;, - net.inet.tcp.hostcache.purgenow, has - been added, which when set to 1 during - runtime will flush all - net.inet.tcp.hostcache entries. - - A new &man.sysctl.8;, - hw.model, has been added, which displays - CPU model information. - - 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. +   @@ -1111,211 +242,19 @@ Device Drivers - Support for GPS ports has been added to - &man.uhso.4;. - - The &man.full.4; device has been added, - and the lindev(4) device has been removed. - Prior to this change, lindev(4) provided - only the /dev/full character device, - returning ENOSPC on write attempts. As - this device is not specific to &linux;, a native &os; version - has been added. - - Hardware context support has been - added to the drm/i915 driver, adding - support for Mesa 9.2 and - later. - - The &man.vt.4; driver has been updated, - replacing the bitmapped kern.vt.spclkeys - &man.sysctl.8; with individual - kern.vt.kbd_* variants. - - The &man.hpet.4; driver has been updated - to create a - /dev/hpetN - device, providing access to HPET from - userspace. - - 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. - - Support for the Freescale - PCI Root Complex device has been - added. - - The &man.cyapa.4; driver has been added, - supporting the Cypress APA I2C trackpad. - - The &man.isl.4; driver has been added, - supporting the Intersil I2C ISL29018 digital ambient light - sensor. +   Storage Drivers - The &man.mpr.4; - device has been added, providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT - 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA controllers. - - 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 - hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1 to - /boot/loader.conf, which turns off - &man.mfi.4; device probing. - - - At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os; - version of MegaCLI and - StorCli do not work with - &man.mrsas.4;. - - - The - &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports - limit from 128 to 256, - and LUN limit from 256 - to 1024. - - The asr(4) driver has - been removed, and is no longer supported. - - The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been - updated to version 1.1.1. - - The &man.pms.4; driver has been added, - providing support for the PMC Sierra line of - SAS/SATA host bus - adapters. - - The &man.ioat.4; driver has been added, - providing support for the PSE (Platform - Storage Extension). - - The - CTL High Availability implementation has - been rewritten. - - The &man.ctl.4; driver has been updated - to support CD-ROM and removable devices. - - 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. +   Network Drivers - Support for Broadcom chipsets BCM57764, - BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787 has been added to - &man.bge.4;. - - Support for the &intel; Centrino™ - Wireless-N 135 chipset has been added. - - Firmware for &intel; Centrino™ - Wireless-N 105 devices has been added to the base - system. - - 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. - - The if_nf10bmac(4) - device has been added, providing support for NetFPGA-10G - Embedded CPU Ethernet Core. - - - The if_nf10bmac(4) driver operates on - the FPGA, and is not suited for the PCI host - interface. - - - The &man.ath.hal.4; driver has been - updated to support the Atheros AR1111 chipset. - - Support for the &intel; Centrino™ - Wireless-N 105 chipset has been added. - - Support for the &man.cxgbe.4; Terminator - 5 (T5) 10G/40G cards has been added to &man.netmap.4;. - - The &man.alc.4; driver has been updated - to support AR816x and AR817x ethernet controllers. - - The &man.pf.4; packet filter default - hash has been changed from Jenkins to - Murmur3, providing a 3-percent performance - increase in packets-per-second. - - 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.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has - been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and - &man.me.4;. - - The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated - to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets. - - The &man.sfxge.4; driver has been - updated to support Solarflare Flareon Ultra 7000-series - chipsets. - - The &man.em.4; driver has been updated - with improved transmission queue hang detection. - - The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated - to include support for the RTL8153 chipset. - - The &man.iwm.4; driver has been imported - from OpenBSD, providing support for &intel; 3160/7260/7265 - wireless chipsets. - - The &man.em.4; driver has been updated - to allow disabling CRC stripping. - - The &man.pf.4; implementation has been - updated to remove support for the scrub fragment - crop|drop-ovl filtering rule. Systems with this - rule in &man.pf.conf.5; will implicitly be converted to the - scrub fragment reassemble filtering rule, - without necessary intervention. - - The &man.lagg.4; driver has been updated - to remove support for the fec - protocol. - - netmap - support from the ncxgbe/ncxl interfaces has been merged into the - vcxgbe/vcxl interfaces for the &man.cxgbe.4; driver. - +   @@ -1330,216 +269,19 @@ Hardware Support - The &man.asmc.4; driver has been - updated to support the &apple; MacMini 3,1. - - Support for &os;/ia64 has been dropped - as of &os; 11. - - An issue that could cause a system to - hang when entering ACPI - S3 state (suspend to - RAM) has been corrected in the &man.acpi.4; - and &man.pci.4; drivers. - - The power management unit - subsystem has been updated to support power button events on - certain &arch.powerpc; hardware, such as aluminum - PowerBook ®. - - The &man.hwpmc.4; - driver has been updated to correct performance counter - sampling on G4 (MPC74xxx) and G5 class processors. - - The - OpenCrypto framework has been - updated to include AES-ICM and - AES-GCM modes, both of which have also been - added to the &man.aesni.4; driver. - - The &man.hwpmc.4; - driver has been updated to support the Freescale e500 - core. - - The &man.ig4.4; driver has been added, - providing support for the fourth generation &intel; - I2C SMBus. - - The &man.uart.4; driver has been updated to support - AMT devices on newer systems. - - Initial SMP support has been - added to the &os;/&arch.arm64; port. +   Virtualization Support - Support for the Virtual Interrupt - Delivery feature of &intel; VT-x is enabled if - supported by the CPU. This feature can be disabled by running - sysctl hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0. - Additionally, to persist this setting across reboots, add - hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0 to - /etc/sysctl.conf. - - Support for Posted Interrupt - Processing is enabled if supported by the CPU. This - feature can be disabled by running sysctl - hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0. Additionally, to - persist this setting across reboots, add - hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0 to - /etc/sysctl.conf. - - Unmapped IO support has been added to - &man.virtio_blk.4;. - - Unmapped IO support has been added to - &man.virtio_scsi.4;. - - The &man.virtio_random.4; driver has - been added to harvest entropy from the host system. - - &os;/&arch.i386; guests can be run under - bhyve. - - Support for running a &os;/&arch.amd64; - Xen guest instance as - PVH guest has been added. - PVH mode, short for Para-Virtualized - Hardware, uses para-virtualized drivers for boot and - I/O, and uses hardware virtualization extensions for all other - tasks, without the need for emulation. - - The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been - updated to support &amd; processors with - SVM and AMD-V hardware - extensions. - - 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 DSM TRIM commands for - virtual AHCI disks. - - Native graphics support has been added to - the &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor. - - Support for the - QEMU virt system - has been added. - - 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. - - - - Support for &man.xen.4; para-virtualized - domU kernels has been removed. - - The - &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum - offloading and TSO. - - The &man.xen.4; driver has been updated - to include support for blkif indirect - segment I/O. +   ARM Support - The &man.nand.4; device is enabled for - ARM devices by default. - - Support for the Exynos 5420 - Octa system has been added. - - The SMP - option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by - &os;. - - Support for the Toradex - Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added. - - An issue that could cause - instability when detecting SD cards on the - Raspberry Pi SOC has been fixed. - - The bcm2835_cpufreq - driver has been added, which supports CPU - frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi - SOC. - - Support to turn off the - BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8; - -p flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; 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). - - Initial - support for the ARM AArch64 architecture has been - added. - - Kernel support for Thumb-2 - userland has been added. - - Support for the hardware power button - on the BeagleBone Black system has been added. - - Initial - ACPI support has been added for - &os;/&arch.arm64;. - - 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. - - Support for the HiSilicon HI6220 SoC has been - added. - - The second CPU core on - Allwinner A20 SoC have been enabled. - - Support for the Allwinner H3 SoC - has been added. - - Support for X-Powers AXP813 and - AXP818 power management integrated circuits have been added. - - Support for GPIO, Sensors and - interrupts on AXP209 power management integrated circuits have been - added. - +   @@ -1552,107 +294,25 @@ 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. - - The GELI class has - been updated to support the BIO_DELETE - &man.g.bio.9; bio_cmd field, providing - TRIM/UNMAP support on - GELI-backed SSD storage - providers. - - - Leading spaces are now stripped off SCSI disk serial - numbers when populating the CAM serial number. This affects the output of - &man.diskinfo.8; and the names of /dev/diskid/DISK-* - device nodes, among other things. - - - Support for managing Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drives - has been added. - +   Networked Storage - 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. - - Support - for the timeo, actimeo, - noac, and proto options - have been added to &man.mount.nfs.8;. +   ZFS - 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;. - - The &man.zfs.8; l2arc - code has been updated to take ashift into - account when gathering buffers to be written to the - l2arc device. - - The zfsd daemon has been added, - which manages hotspares and replements in drive slots that publish - physical paths. +   &man.geom.4; - Support for the - disklabel64 partitioning scheme has been - added to &man.gpart.8;. - - Support for the - apple-boot, apple-hfs, - and apple-ufs MBR - partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;. - - The &man.gpart.8; utility has been - updated to include a new attribute for GPT - partitions, lenovofix, which when set, - which works around BIOS compatibility - issues reported on several Lenovo ™ laptops. +   @@ -1665,37 +325,7 @@ Boot Loader Changes - 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.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 - kern.vty=sc in &man.loader.conf.5;. - Alternatively, &man.syscons.4; can be enabled at boot time by - entering set kern.vty=sc at the - &man.loader.8; prompt. - - 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 &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. +   @@ -1714,141 +344,7 @@ Network Protocols - Support for the IPX network transport - protocol has been removed, and will not be supported in - &os; 11 and later releases. - - Support for PLPMTUD - blackhole detection (RFC 4821) has been - added to the &man.tcp.4; stack, disabled by default. New - control tunables have been added: - - - - - - - - Tunable - Description - - - - - - net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_detection - Enables or disables PLPMTUD - blackhole detection - - - - net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_mss - MSS to try for IPv4 - - - - net.inet.tcp.v6pmtud_blackhole_mss - MSS to try for IPv6 - - - - - - New monitoring &man.sysctl.8;s haven been added: - - - - - - - - Tunable - Description - - - - - - net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_activated - Number of times the code was activated to attempt - downshifting the MSS - - - - net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_min_activated - Number of times the blackhole - MSS was used in an attempt to - downshift - - - - net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_failed - Number of times that the blackhole failed to - connect after downshifting the - MSS - - - - - - Support for IP - identification for atomic datagrams (RFC - 6864) has been added. Support for this feature can be toggled - with the net.inet.ip.rfc6864 - &man.sysctl.8;, which is enabled by default. - - The IPSEC has been - updated to include support for AES modes on - both software-only and hardware-backed (&man.aesni.4;) - systems. - - The - network stack has been updated to fix handling of - IPv6 On-Link redirects. - - The net.inet.tcp.ecn.enable sysctl mib has been - changed from a binary off/on control to a three way setting. - - - - - - - - Value - Description - - - - - - 0 - Totally disable ECN. - - - - 1 - Enable ECN if incoming connections request it. Outgoing - connections will request ECN. - - - - 2 - Enable ECN if incoming connections request it. Outgoing - conections will not request ECN. - - - - - - - Dummynet AQM, an independent implementation of - CoDel and FQ-CoDel for ipfw/dummynet has been imported to the base - system. - +   @@ -1900,32 +396,7 @@ Integration Changes - The - Release Engineering build tools have been updated to include - support for producing virtual machine disk images for various - cloud hosting providers. - - 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. - - The - Release Engineering build tools have been updated to include - support for building &os;/&arch.arm64; virtual machine and - memory stick installation images. - - 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. +