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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN"
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"../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" "release.ent">
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%release;
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<!ENTITY % sponsor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Sponsor Specification//EN" "sponsor.ent">
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%sponsor;
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<!ENTITY % vendor PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Vendor Specification//EN" "vendor.ent">
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%vendor;
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<!ENTITY security SYSTEM "../../share/xml/security.xml">
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<!ENTITY errata SYSTEM "../../share/xml/errata.xml">
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]>
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<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
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<info>
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<title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
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<author>
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<orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
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</author>
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<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
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<!-- Last rev: 284814 -->
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<copyright>
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<year>2015</year>
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<holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
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Project</holder>
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</copyright>
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<legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
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&tm-attrib.freebsd;
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&tm-attrib.ibm;
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&tm-attrib.ieee;
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&tm-attrib.intel;
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&tm-attrib.sparc;
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&tm-attrib.general;
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</legalnotice>
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<abstract>
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<para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
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a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
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&release.branch; development line. This document lists
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applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
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release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
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userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
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presented.</para>
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</abstract>
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</info>
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<sect1 xml:id="intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
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&release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or
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deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on
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upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
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<para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to
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which these release notes apply represents the latest point
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along the &release.branch; development branch since
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&release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built,
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binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
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found at <uri
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xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
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<para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to
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which these release notes apply represents a point along the
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&release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and
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the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built,
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binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be
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found at <uri
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xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
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<para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
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&release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be
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found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
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any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or
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other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the
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<link
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xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
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&os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
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xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
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Handbook</link>.</para>
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<para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata
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before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
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<quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
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release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
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information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections
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to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
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&release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
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<para>This document describes the most user-visible new or changed
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features in &os; since &release.prev;. In general, changes
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described here are unique to the &release.branch; branch unless
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specifically marked as &merged; features.</para>
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<para>Typical release note items document recent security
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advisories issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware
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support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
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contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to
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major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly
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the release notes cannot list every single change made to &os;
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between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
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advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
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improvements.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
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<title>Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os;</title>
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<para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
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(and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
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using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade
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procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
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unmodified GENERIC kernels distributed as a part of an official
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&os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that
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the host being upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
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<para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
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base system from source code) from previous versions are
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supported, according to the instructions in
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<filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
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<important>
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<para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after backing up
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<emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration files.</para>
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</important>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 xml:id="security-errata">
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<title>Security and Errata</title>
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<para>This section lists the various Security Advisories and
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Errata Notices since &release.prev;.</para>
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<sect2 xml:id="security">
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<title>Security Advisories</title>
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&security;
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</sect2>
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<sect2 xml:id="errata">
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<title>Errata Notices</title>
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&errata;
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 xml:id="userland">
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<title>Userland</title>
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<para>This section covers changes and additions to userland
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applications, contributed software, and system utilities.</para>
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<sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
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<title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
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<para revision="266463">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now
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includes files in the
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<filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and
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<filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename>
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directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para>
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<para revision="270675">The &man.mailwrapper.8; utility has been
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updated to use &man.mailer.conf.5; from the
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<literal>LOCALBASE</literal> environment variable, which
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defaults to <filename class="directory">/usr/local</filename>
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if unset.</para>
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<para revision="272350">The <literal>MK_ARM_EABI</literal>
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&man.src.conf.5; option has been removed.</para>
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<para revision="285169">The <application>ntp</application> suite
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has been updated to version 4.2.8p3.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
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<title>Userland Application Changes</title>
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<para revision="258838" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;,
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&google;" sponsorurl="">The &man.casperd.8; daemon has been
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added, which provides access to functionality that is not
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available in the <quote>capability mode</quote>
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sandbox.</para>
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<para revision="260594">When unable to load a kernel module with
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&man.kldload.8;, a message informing to view output of
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&man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output
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<quote>Exec format error.</quote>.</para>
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<para revision="260910">Allow &man.pciconf.8; to identify PCI
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devices that are attached to a driver to be identified by
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their device name instead of just the selector. Additionally,
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an optional device argument to the <literal>-l</literal> flag
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to restrict the output to only listing details about a single
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device.</para>
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<para revision="260913">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote>
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has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows
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the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the
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device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent
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to <literal>off</literal>.</para>
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<para revision="260926">Support for displaying VPD for PCI
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devices via &man.pciconf.8; has been added.</para>
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<para revision="261498">&man.ping.8; protects against malicious
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network packets using the Capsicum framework to drop
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privileges.</para>
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<para revision="265229">The &man.ps.1; utility has been
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updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to
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filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names.
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Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to
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<literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the
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host system.</para>
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<para revision="265249">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated
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to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the
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&man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para>
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<para revision="266209">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been
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updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which
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ends event collection after the specified number of
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seconds.</para>
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<para revision="270745">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
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to include a new keyword, <quote>tracer</quote>, which
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displays the <acronym>PID</acronym> of the tracing
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process.</para>
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<para revision="271482">Support for adding empty partitions has
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been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility.</para>
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<para revision="272166">The &man.primes.6; utility has been
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updated to correctly enumerate prime numbers between
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<literal>4295098369</literal> and
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<literal>3825123056546413050</literal>, which prior to this
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change, it would be possible for returned values to be
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incorrectly identified as prime numbers.</para>
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<para revision="272198">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been
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updated to include three options used to print information
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about &man.mkimg.1; itself:</para>
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<informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
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<tgroup cols="2">
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<colspec colwidth="1*"/>
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<colspec colwidth="1*"/>
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<thead>
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<row>
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<entry>Option</entry>
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<entry>Output</entry>
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</row>
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</thead>
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<tbody>
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<row>
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<entry><literal>--version</literal></entry>
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<entry>The current version of the &man.mkimg.1;
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utility</entry>
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</row>
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<row>
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<entry><literal>--formats</literal></entry>
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<entry>The disk image file formats supported by
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&man.mkimg.1;</entry>
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</row>
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<row>
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<entry><literal>--schemes</literal></entry>
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<entry>The partition schemes supported by
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&man.mkimg.1;</entry>
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</row>
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</tbody>
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</tgroup>
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</informaltable>
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<para revision="272488">Userland &man.ctf.5; support in
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&man.dtrace.1; has been added. With this change,
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&man.dtrace.1; is able to resolve type info for function and
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<acronym>USDT</acronym> probe arguments, and function return
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values.</para>
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<para revision="274960">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been
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updated to support capability mode provided by
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&man.capsicum.4;.</para>
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<para revision="275680" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
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&man.fstyp.8; utility has been added, which is used to
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determine the filesystem on a specified device.</para>
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<para revision="276881">The <literal>libedit</literal> library
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has been updated to support <acronym>UTF</acronym>-8, which
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additionally provides unicode support to &man.sh.1;.</para>
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<para revision="276893" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
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&man.mkimg.1; utility has been updated to support the
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<acronym>MBR</acronym> <acronym>EFI</acronym> partition
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type.</para>
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<para revision="277166" arch="powerpc">The &man.ptrace.2; system
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call has been updated include support for Altivec registers on
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&os;/&arch.powerpc;.</para>
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<para revision="278320">A new device control utility,
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&man.devctl.8; has been added, which allows making
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administrative changes to individual devices, such as
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attaching and detaching drivers, and enabling and disabling
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devices. The &man.devctl.8; utility uses the new
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&man.devctl.3; library.</para>
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<para revision="279122" contrib="sponsor"
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sponsor="&juniper;">The &man.netstat.1; utility has been
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updated to link against the &man.libxo.3; shared
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library.</para>
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<para revision="279139">A new flag, <literal>-c</literal>, has
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been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility, which allows
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specifying the capacity of the target disk image.</para>
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<para revision="279315" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
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&man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para>
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<para revision="279571" contrib="sponsor"
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sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has
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been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when
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a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed.</para>
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<para revision="280870">A regression in the &man.libarchive.3;
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library that would prevent a directory from being included in
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the archive when <literal>--one-file-system</literal> is used
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has been fixed.</para>
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<para revision="281311" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
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&man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set
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<literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS</literal> and
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<literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT</literal> to disallow
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directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to
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&man.tar.1;.</para>
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<para revision="281617">A race condition in &man.wc.1; that
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would cause final results to be sent to &man.stderr.4; when
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receiving the <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal has been
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fixed.</para>
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<para revision="282208" contrib="sponsor"
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sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.chflags.1;, &man.chgrp.1;,
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&man.chmod.1;, and &man.chown.8; utilities now affect symbolic
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links when the <literal>-R</literal> flag is specified, as
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documented in &man.symlink.7;.</para>
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<para revision="282608">The &man.date.1; utility has been
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updated to print the modification time of the file passed as
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an argument to the <literal>-r</literal> flag, improving
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compatibility with the <acronym>GNU</acronym> &man.date.1;
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utility behavior.</para>
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<para revision="283961">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated
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with a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, that sets the root
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directory within which the utility will operate.</para>
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<para revision="284297" contrib="sponsor"
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sponsor="&clusterhq;">The &man.lockstat.1; utility has been
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updated with several improvements:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Spin locks are now reported as the amount of time
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spinning, instead of loop iterations.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Reader locks are now recognized as adaptive that can
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spin on &os;.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Lock aquisition events for successful reader try-lock
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events are now reported.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Spin and block events are now reported before lock
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acquisition events.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para revision="284589" contrib="sponsor"
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sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.fstyp.8; utility has been
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updated to be able to detect &man.zfs.8; and &man.geli.8;
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filesystems.</para>
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<para revision="284883">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been
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updated to include support for <literal>NTFS</literal>
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filesystems in both <acronym>MBR</acronym> and
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<acronym>GPT</acronym> partitioning schemes.</para>
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<para revision="285253">The &man.quota.1; utility has been
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updated to include support for <acronym>IPv6</acronym>.</para>
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<para revision="285420">The &man.jail.8; utility has been
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updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which
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ensures a clean environment in the target jail when used.
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Additionally, &man.jail.8; will run a shell within the target
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jail when run no commands are specified.</para>
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<para revision="285550">The &man.w.1; utility has been updated
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to display the full IPv6 remote address of the host from which
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a user is connected.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
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<title>Contributed Software</title>
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<para revision="258884" contrib="sponsor"
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sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">&man.lldb.1; has been updated to
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upstream snapshot version r196259.</para>
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<para revision="260445">&man.byacc.1; has been updated to
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version 20140101.</para>
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<para revision="261071">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to
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version 3.5.0.</para>
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<para revision="261283"><application>libc++</application> has
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been updated to version 3.4.</para>
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<para revision="261320"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
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been updated to 6.5p1.</para>
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<para revision="261344"><application>mdocml</application> has
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been updated to version 1.12.3.</para>
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<para revision="261991"><application>LLVM</application> and
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<application>Clang</application> have been updated to
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version 3.4.</para>
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<para revision="275718">The <application>binutils</application>
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suite of utilities has been updated to include upstream
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patches that add new relocations for &arch.powerpc;
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support.</para>
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<para revision="276398" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
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<application>ELF Tool Chain</application> has been updated to
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upstream revision r3136.</para>
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<para revision="276551">The <application>texinfo</application>
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utility and <literal>info</literal> pages were removed from
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the base system. The <filename
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role="package">print/texinfo</filename> port should be
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installed on systems where <literal>info</literal> pages are
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needed.</para>
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<para revision="276796" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The ELF
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object manipulation tools
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<application>addr2line</application>,
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<application>elfcopy (strip)</application>,
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<application>nm</application>,
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<application>readelf</application>,
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<application>size</application>, and
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<application>strings</application> were switched to the
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versions from the ELF Tool Chain project.</para>
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<para revision="276881">The <literal>libedit</literal> library
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has been updated to include <acronym>UTF-8</acronym> support,
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adding <acronym>UTF-8</acronym> support to the &man.sh.1;
|
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shell.</para>
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<para revision="278433">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
|
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to support multi-threaded compression.</para>
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<para revision="280932" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
|
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<application>elftoolchain</application> utilities have been
|
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updated to version 3179.</para>
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<para revision="281316">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
|
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to version 5.2.1.</para>
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|
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<para revision="281373">The &man.nvi.1; utility has been updated
|
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to version 2.1.3.</para>
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<para revision="281806">The &man.wpa.supplicant.8; and
|
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&man.hostapd.8; utilities have been updated to version
|
|
2.4.</para>
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|
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<para revision="282089">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
|
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updated to version 1.5.3.</para>
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<para revision="282434" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
|
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&man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version
|
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3.7.0.</para>
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|
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<para revision="282613">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated
|
|
to the OpenBSD 5.7 version.</para>
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<para revision="283092">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been
|
|
updated to version 20150515.</para>
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<para revision="284237">The &man.file.1; utility has been
|
|
updated to version 5.23.</para>
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<para revision="284254"><application>bmake</application> has
|
|
been updated to version 20150606.</para>
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<para revision="284397">Timezone data files have been updated to
|
|
version 2015e.</para>
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<para revision="285229"><application>sendmail</application> has
|
|
been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with &os; 11.0 and
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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
|
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<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
|
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search for patterns like 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'.
|
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To return to the old behavior, set the m4 option
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<literal>confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES</literal> or the cf
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option <literal>UseCompressedIPv6Addresses</literal>.</para>
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<para revision="285275">The &man.tcpdump.1; utility has been
|
|
updated to version 4.7.4.</para>
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|
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<para revision="285329"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
|
|
been updated to version 1.0.1p.</para>
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<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>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
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<title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
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<para revision="271539">The &man.bsdinstall.8; partition editor
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and &man.sade.8; utility have been updated to include native
|
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<acronym>ZFS</acronym> support.</para>
|
|
|
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<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>
|
|
|
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<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
|
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<literal>kern.vm_guest</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is set to
|
|
<literal>1</literal>.</para>
|
|
|
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<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"
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|
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"
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|
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>
|
|
</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>
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|
|
|
<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>
|
|
</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>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
|
|
<title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
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|
|
|
<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>
|
|
</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>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 xml:id="kernel">
|
|
<title>Kernel</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system
|
|
tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise
|
|
categorized.</para>
|
|
|
|
<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>
|
|
</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>
|
|
</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
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the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
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<para revision="279361">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
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and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
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&man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
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<para revision="280308,280949" contrib="sponsor"
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sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
|
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been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
|
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using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;,
|
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<literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
|
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when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
|
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timestamps for these operations.</para>
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<para revision="282213" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
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&man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
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added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
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&man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
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A new kernel configuration option,
|
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<literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
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<para revision="282901" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
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<literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
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<literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
|
|
default.</para>
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<note>
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<para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
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<literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
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<literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
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<literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
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&man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
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</note>
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<para revision="283136" contrib="sponsor"
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sponsor="&limelight;">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
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|
<literal>net.inet.tcp.hostcache.purgenow</literal>, has
|
|
been added, which when set to <literal>1</literal> during
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|
runtime will flush all
|
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<literal>net.inet.tcp.hostcache</literal> entries.</para>
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<para revision="285524">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
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|
<literal>hw.model</literal>, has been added, which displays
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<acronym>CPU</acronym> model information.</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 xml:id="drivers">
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<title>Devices and Drivers</title>
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<para>This section covers changes and additions to devices and
|
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device drivers since &release.prev;.</para>
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<sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
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<title>Device Drivers</title>
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<para revision="260903">Support for GPS ports has been added to
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&man.uhso.4;.</para>
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|
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<para revision="265132">The &man.full.4; device has been added,
|
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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>
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|
|
<para revision="271705">Hardware context support has been
|
|
added to the <literal>drm/i915</literal> driver, adding
|
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support for <application>Mesa</application> 9.2 and
|
|
later.</para>
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<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>
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|
|
|
<para revision="273598">The &man.hpet.4; driver has been updated
|
|
to create a
|
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<filename>/dev/hpet<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename>
|
|
device, providing access to <acronym>HPET</acronym> from
|
|
userspace.</para>
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|
|
|
<para revision="280183">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
|
|
been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
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|
|
|
<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>
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|
|
|
<para revision="282783" arch="powerpc">Support for the Freescale
|
|
<acronym>PCI</acronym> Root Complex device has been
|
|
added.</para>
|
|
</sect2>
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|
|
|
<sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
|
|
<title>Storage Drivers</title>
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|
|
|
<para revision="265236" contrib="sponsor"
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|
sponsor="&lsi;, &spectralogic;" sponsorurl="">The &man.mpr.4;
|
|
device has been added, providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT
|
|
3 12Gb SCSI/SATA controllers.</para>
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|
|
|
<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>
|
|
</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>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 xml:id="hardware">
|
|
<title>Hardware Support</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>This section covers general hardware support for physical
|
|
machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well
|
|
as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in
|
|
other sections of this document.</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 xml:id="hardware-support">
|
|
<title>Hardware Support</title>
|
|
|
|
<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>
|
|
</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="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>
|
|
</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>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 xml:id="storage">
|
|
<title>Storage</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>This section covers changes and additions to file systems
|
|
and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.</para>
|
|
|
|
<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="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>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 xml:id="storage-net">
|
|
<title>Networked Storage</title>
|
|
|
|
<para revision="270096" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The new
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filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been added.
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The new &man.autofs.5; facility is similar to that found in
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other &unix;-like operating systems, such as OS X™
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and Solaris™. The &man.autofs.5; facility uses
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a &sun;-compatible &man.auto.master.5; configuration file, and
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is administered with the &man.automount.8; userland utility,
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and the &man.automountd.8; and &man.autounmountd.8;
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daemons.</para>
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<para revision="273849" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Support
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for the <literal>timeo</literal>, <literal>actimeo</literal>,
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<literal>noac</literal>, and <literal>proto</literal> options
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have been added to &man.mount.nfs.8;.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 xml:id="storage-zfs">
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<title>ZFS</title>
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<para revision="275748">The <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal>
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statistics are now visible through the
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<literal>kstat</literal> &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this
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change, the <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal>
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&man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the
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<literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
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&man.sysctl.8;.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 xml:id="storage-geom">
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<title>&man.geom.4;</title>
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<para revision="267359">Support for the
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<literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been
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added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
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<para revision="282465">Support for the
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<literal>apple-boot</literal>, <literal>apple-hfs</literal>,
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and <literal>apple-ufs</literal> <acronym>MBR</acronym>
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partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 xml:id="boot">
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<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
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<para>This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other
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boot-related changes.</para>
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<sect2 xml:id="boot-loader">
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<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
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<para revision="258431" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
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memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms
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has been disabled by default.</para>
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<para revision="262955">A new &man.ttys.5; class,
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<literal>3wire</literal>, has been added. This is similar to
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the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined
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baudrate.</para>
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<para revision="274085">The &man.vt.4; driver has been made the
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|
default system console driver. The &man.syscons.4; driver is
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|
still available, and can be enabled by adding
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<literal>kern.vty=sc</literal> in &man.loader.conf.5;.
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Alternatively, &man.syscons.4; can be enabled at boot time by
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entering <literal>set kern.vty=sc</literal> at the
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|
&man.loader.8; prompt.</para>
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|
|
<para revision="279950">Support for <literal>bzipfs</literal>
|
|
has been added to the <acronym>EFI</acronym> loader.</para>
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|
|
|
<para revision="281616">The boot loader has been updated to
|
|
support entering the <acronym>GELI</acronym> passphrase before
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|
loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add
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|
<literal>geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"</literal> to
|
|
&man.loader.conf.5;.</para>
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|
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|
<para revision="284683" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
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|
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
|
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default, if the callin port is an active console port.</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
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|
|
<sect2 xml:id="boot-menu">
|
|
<title>Boot Menu Changes</title>
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|
<para> </para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 xml:id="network">
|
|
<title>Networking</title>
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|
|
|
<para>This section describes changes that affect networking in
|
|
&os;.</para>
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|
|
|
<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>
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|
|
|
<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>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 xml:id="ports">
|
|
<title>Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>This section covers changes to the &os; Ports
|
|
Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and
|
|
installation tools.</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 xml:id="ports-infrastructure">
|
|
<title>Infrastructure Changes</title>
|
|
|
|
<para> </para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 xml:id="ports-packages ">
|
|
<title>Packaging Changes</title>
|
|
|
|
<para> </para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 xml:id="doc">
|
|
<title>Documentation</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>This section covers changes to the &os; Documentation
|
|
Project sources and toolchain.</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 xml:id="doc-sources">
|
|
<title>Documentation Source Changes</title>
|
|
|
|
<para> </para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 xml:id="doc-toolchain">
|
|
<title>Documentation Toolchain Changes</title>
|
|
|
|
<para> </para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 xml:id="releng">
|
|
<title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>This section convers changes that are specific to the
|
|
&os; Release Engineering processes.</para>
|
|
|
|
<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>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
</article>
|