14.4/relnotes: add entires to relnotes.adoc

[vladlen]

Summary

Information entries added to the relnotes.adoc.
git log releng/14.3..releng/14.4 was used for search (with additional options to filter commits)

1. all commit with field 'Relnotes'
2. commit with 'depricate' word in message checked and filtered
3. commit with words 'vendor, merged from, MFV' and similar checked and filtered
4. remaining commit messages - search by keyword and manual check.

New created relnotes.adoc did not have 'Wireless' section, it is added.
Section "General Notes Regarding Future FreeBSD Releases" has been copied from 14.3R relnotes.adoc.

Command names were checked and man link added where it was possible.
Some entries could go into 2 alternative section, one of them is chosen.

All 'Sposored by' references are included, if a commit message contains it.
A commit hash trucated to 12 hexdigits.

[vladlen]

I continue to look for keywords to locate documentation commits ('Man Pages' section) . Previous relnotes have much more man entries, comparing to this version.

[vladlen]

Here is the report sorted by authors of the commit (if someone desires to check descripton and section attribution)

Author                          Section               Commit        Subject
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[e-mail]                 Man Pages             0c91fa982437  dtrace_fbt.4: Document the DTrace fbt provider
[e-mail]              General Kernel Chang  666599639cf6  powerpc: put the isync inside the TD_LOCK() checking loop
[e-mail]                Userland Application  6c912470030b  nuageinit: implement chpasswd
[e-mail]                Contributed Software  c508393e49fc  lyaml: vendor import lua bindings for libyaml
[e-mail]                Contributed Software  d565a5e904ed  usb_vendors: update to 2025-09-15
[e-mail]                Contributed Software  e52f11f4bbc8  libyaml: import libyaml vendor version 0.2.5
[e-mail]                Contributed Software  f21385688f52  pci_vendors: update to version 2025-12-12
[e-mail]                Contributed Software  0a8d8b0c878f  MFV: libucl: Update to 0.9.2
[e-mail]                  Device Drivers        c4496f82680c  iwlwifi: compile in ACPI support
[e-mail]                  Wireless Networking   ccdd6285df5d  net80211: fix VHT160 and VHT80P80 selection and enable in LinuxKPI 802.11
[e-mail]            Userland Application  00988d12bc37  sndctl(8): Initial revision
[e-mail]            Deprecated and Remov  ab9c9443eec5  sound: Deprecate the MIDI sequencer
[e-mail]               Virtualization Suppo  321a15380668  bhyve: Report SVM as disabled on AMD
[e-mail]            Userland Application  e26928669f39  freebsd-update: Library ordering
[e-mail]                  Contributed Software  eeb41dca070f  unbound: Vendor import 1.24.1
[e-mail]                  Contributed Software  ef55f6b86626  sqlite3: Update to 3.50.4
[e-mail]             Contributed Software  054ae5e7b465  MFV: less v685.
[e-mail]             Contributed Software  07700b0107dc  MFV 762f11d98d5cd57ebbe85c36e9e86a557a91fe4e: xz 5.8.2.
[e-mail]             Contributed Software  a85cfcb61efd  MFC: MFV: expat 2.7.3.
[e-mail]                 Contributed Software  0fe58344e829  netcat: Allow service names to be used.
[e-mail]                 General Storage       35c612fbabd8  tarfs: Fix support for large files
[e-mail]                 Runtime Libraries an  65808459e21b  libpam: Additional module directory.
[e-mail]                 Userland Application  929ef0d36c6c  newfs: Add an option to disable soft updates
[e-mail]                 General Storage       615fba7c6b39  Add an implementation of the 9P filesystem
[e-mail]              Userland Application  220584471931  bsdinstall: Remove support for ZFS + MBR disk layouts
[e-mail]              General Network       57865e505aef  ipfw: Retire obsolete compat code
[e-mail]              Contributed Software  7ca599aa6139  OpenSSH: Update to 10.0p2
[e-mail]              Contributed Software  cd40a23fb249  Mitigate YXDOMAIN and nodata non-referral answer poisoning.
[e-mail]            Contributed Software  e3df9a78da6b  MFC: Merge commit '1fdae2e33fdc751bc2ec74c81fcde14323e4e965'
[e-mail]    Device Drivers        af51f41346ad  qat: enable qat driver for 402xx device
[e-mail]                Boot Loader Changes   79cbdb370305  contrib/initramfs: use LVM autoactivation for activating VGs (#17125)
[e-mail]   Userland Application  62947e508161  pkg: clarify argument parsing
[e-mail]               Userland Application  527027da391d  jail: Add meta and env parameters
[e-mail]                 Boot Loader Changes   d8e73f45fc5f  bsdinstall: Add loader.efi to all ESPs we create
[e-mail]                 Runtime Libraries an  b4871be3490d  libc: Import OpenBSD's inet_net_{ntop,pton}
[e-mail]                 Man Pages             d149be3a0cbe  UPDATING: Document a pkgbase change
[e-mail]                 Deprecated Applicati  d350c18f98fd  deprecate RIP
[e-mail]               Userland Application  04911babef1b  netgraph: teach ngctl to attach and run itself in a jail
[e-mail]             Man Pages             f957857c4835  Import latest mtree from NetBSD
[e-mail]             Contributed Software  f9d671f726ac  Import latest mtree from NetBSD
[e-mail]              Device Drivers        ec98cb56861f  smartpqi: update to version 4660.0.2002
[e-mail]                 Boot Loader Changes   2ee0f3c954e7  release: Install wireless firmware to bootonly media
[e-mail]          Device Drivers        dca645cd3112  nvme: Add handling for bar5
[e-mail]              General Kernel Chang  5c6949e12ee6  kern: disallow user scheduling/debugging/signalling of jailed procs
[e-mail]               General Storage       3feafab4a34c  namei: Make stackable filesystems check harder for jail roots
[e-mail]            Device Drivers        3690911c355a  mfi(4): Add subvendor and subdevice for Fujitsu RAID Controller SAS 6Gbit/s 1GB (D3116)
[e-mail]            Device Drivers        653099bcc191  mrsas.4: Add Fujitsu RAID Controller SAS 6Gbit/s 1GB (D3116)
[e-mail]                  Contributed Software  39fd1181e5b2  libarchive: merge from vendor branch
[e-mail]                  Contributed Software  709465f2c4f1  zfs: merge openzfs/zfs@079ba86d7 (zfs-2.2-release) into stable/14
[e-mail]                Contributed Software  aed5a47b3a8a  OpenSSL: update build artifacts to match 3.0.16 release
[e-mail]    Device Drivers        a728b96686e6  ix/ixv: Add support for new Intel Ethernet E610 family devices
[e-mail]                Userland Application  58f55afb301b  mdo(1): Add support and shortcuts for fully specifying users and groups
[e-mail]              Contributed Software  68e2f4cc5e4e  contrib/tzdata: import tzdata 2025c
[e-mail]            Contributed Software  a93e1b731ae4  heimdal-kadmin: Add support for the -f dump option
[e-mail]              Device Drivers        02f70f6633fd  590493c1: if_epair(4): use ether_gen_addr(9) for stable MAC address
[e-mail]              Userland Application  9d80d681ee9d  swapon: parse md.eli device for encrypted swapfile from fstab
[e-mail]               Boot Loader Changes   fce5d401a803  release/RPI: Add RPI Zero 2W device tree blob dtb
[e-mail]            Contributed Software  8d2d6647d65a  Supercharge the most beautiful console font ever with +4300 glyphs.
[e-mail]                  Contributed Software  ab36487a79cd  contrib/bc: MFC upgrade from version 7.02 to 7.1.0
[e-mail]                 Contributed Software  c95f96dea30a  Update to bmake-20251111
[e-mail]              Userland Application  23cda744e4da  sockstat: add support for UDP-Lite endpoints
[e-mail]            Boot Loader Changes   6741fb1bd4f4  loader.efi: only use firmware provided Blt on GOP
[e-mail]               Contributed Software  7fa4ccb8e4e7  mandoc: Vendor import of upstream at 2025-09-26
[e-mail]               Contributed Software  8039d22f6afd  mandoc: Vendor import of upstream at 2025-07-27
[e-mail]               Contributed Software  c44ec96b471e  contrib/spleen: Update to 2.2.O

[ziaee]

This looks good, in my humble non-authorative opinion I would say, lets get it in the tree and iterate from there.

website/content/en/releases/14.4R/relnotes.adoc

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(or something... I'm not really familiar) cc @glebius, @emaste, @cperciva ...

When we have "if you're using foo, you must do bar before upgrading or you will be bazled", should we put that in Upgrading from Previous Releases of FreeBSD?

[ziaee]

Oops forgot to press Accept

[cperciva]

I agree with @ziaee, let's get this into the tree and keep working from there. During the release cycle I advertise the release notes as being a work in progress so there's no harm in having something which isn't fully polished yet.