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The release notes for FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the FreeBSD base system on the 10.3-STABLE development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the FreeBSD kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.
This document contains the release notes for FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE. It describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of FreeBSD. It also provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of FreeBSD.
The snapshot distribution to
which these release notes apply represents a point along the
10.3-STABLE development branch between 10.2-RELEASE and
the future 10.4-RELEASE. Information regarding pre-built,
binary snapshot distributions along this branch can be
found at https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/.
All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before installing FreeBSD. The errata document is updated with “late-breaking” information discovered late in the release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE can be found on the FreeBSD Web site.
This document describes the most user-visible new or changed features in FreeBSD since 10.2-RELEASE.
Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after 10.2-RELEASE, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single change made to FreeBSD between releases; this document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements.
[amd64,i386] Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
(and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
using the freebsd-update(8) utility. The binary upgrade
procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
unmodified GENERIC kernel distributed as
a part of an official FreeBSD release. The freebsd-update(8)
utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
connectivity.
Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the FreeBSD
base system from source code) from previous versions are
supported, according to the instructions in
/usr/src/UPDATING.
Upgrading FreeBSD should only be attempted after backing up all data and configuration files.
This section lists the various Security Advisories and Errata Notices since 10.2-RELEASE.
| Advisory | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD-SA-15:20.expat | 18 August 2015 | Fix multiple integer overflows in libbsdxml(3). |
| FreeBSD-SA-15:22.openssh | 25 August 2015 | Multiple vulnerabilities |
| FreeBSD-SA-15:24.rpcbind | 29 September 2015 | Remote denial of service |
| FreeBSD-SA-15:25.ntp | 26 October 2015 | Multiple vulnerabilities |
| FreeBSD-SA-15:26.openssl | 5 December 2015 | Multiple vulnerabilities |
| FreeBSD-SA-16:01.sctp | 14 January 2016 | ICMPv6 error message vulnerability |
| FreeBSD-SA-16:02.ntp | 14 January 2016 | Panic threshold bypass vulnerability |
| FreeBSD-SA-16:03.linux | 14 January 2016 | Incorrect |
| FreeBSD-SA-16:04.linux | 14 January 2016 | setgroups(2) system call vulnerability |
| FreeBSD-SA-16:05.tcp | 14 January 2016 | MD5 signature denial of service |
| FreeBSD-SA-16:06.bsnmpd | 14 January 2016 | Insecure default configuration file permissions |
| FreeBSD-SA-16:07.openssh | 14 January 2016 | OpenSSH client information leak |
| FreeBSD-SA-16:09.ntp | 27 January 2016 | Multiple vulnerabilities. |
| FreeBSD-SA-16:10.linux | 27 January 2016 | issetugid(2) system call vulnerability. |
| FreeBSD-SA-16:11.openssl | 30 January 2016 | SSLv2 cipher suite downgrade vulnerability. |
| Errata | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD-EN-15:11.toolchain | 18 August 2015 | Fix make(1) syntax errors when upgrading from FreeBSD 9.x and earlier. |
| FreeBSD-EN-15:12.netstat | 18 August 2015 | Fix incorrect netstat(1) data handling on 32-bit systems. |
| FreeBSD-EN-15:13.vidcontrol | 18 August 2015 | Allow size argument to vidcontrol(1) for syscons(4). |
| FreeBSD-EN-15:15.pkg | 25 August 2015 | Insufficient check of supported pkg(7) signature methods. |
| FreeBSD-EN-15:16.pw | 16 September 2015 | Fix pw(8) regression when creating numeric users or groups. |
| FreeBSD-EN-15:17.libc | 16 September 2015 | Fix libc handling of signals for multi-threaded processes. |
| FreeBSD-EN-15:18.pkg | 16 September 2015 | Implement |
| FreeBSD-EN-15:19.kqueue | 4 November 2015 | kqueue(2) write events never fire for files larger than 2GB. |
| FreeBSD-EN-15:20.vm | 4 November 2015 | Applications exiting due to segmentation violation on a correct memory address. |
| FreeBSD-EN-16:01.filemon | 14 January 2016 | bmake and filemon(4) stability issues. |
| FreeBSD-EN-16:02.pf | 14 January 2016 | Invalid TCP checksum issue. |
| FreeBSD-EN-16:03.yplib | 14 January 2016 | YP/NIS library bug. |
This section covers changes and additions to userland applications, contributed software, and system utilities.
The jail(8) utility has been
updated to include a new flag, -l, which
ensures a clean environment in the target jail when used.
Additionally, jail(8) will run a shell within the target
jail when run no commands are specified. [r286064]
The mkimg(1) utility has been
updated to include support for NTFS
filesystems in both MBR and
GPT partitioning schemes. [r287122]
The
ar(1) utility now enables deterministic mode
(-D) by default. This behavior can be
disabled by specifying the -U flag. [r288202]
(Sponsored by
The FreeBSD Foundation)
The pciconf(8) utility has been
updated to use the PCI ID database from the misc/pciids package, if present,
falling back to the PCI ID database in the FreeBSD base
system. [r287746]
A new utility, sesutil(8), has been added, which is used to manage ses(4) devices. [r288710] (Sponsored by Gandi.net)
The cp(1) utility has been updated
to include a new flag, -s, which creates
a symbolic link to the specified source. [r291774]
Support for the
-manage-gids has been added to
nfsd(8). This option can be enabled at boot time by
adding nfs_server_managegids="YES" to
rc.conf(5). [r292231]
The resolver library has been updated to
reload /etc/resolv.conf if the
modification time has changed. [r292462]
(Sponsored by
Dell, Inc.)
The initial implementation of “reroot” support has - been added to the shutdown(8) utility, allowing the root + been added to the reboot(8) utility, allowing the root filesystem to be mounted from a temporary source filesystem without requiring a full system reboot. [r293744] (Sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation)
The libarchive(3) library has been updated to properly skip a sparse file entry in a tar(1) file, which would previously produce errors. [r286082]
Timezone data files have been updated to version 2015f. [r286751]
The file(1) utility has been updated to version 5.25. [r290152]
The xz(1) utility has been updated to version 5.2.2, which provides support for multi-threaded compression. [r292588]
The ntpd(8) utility has been updated to version 4.2.8p5. [r293650]
The unbound(8) utility has been updated to version 1.5.7. [r294190]
The less(1) utility has been updated to version v481. [r294286]
The
unbound-control-setup script has been
removed from the base system. [r295690]
The unbound(8) utility has been
updated to enable the insecure-lan-zones
option in preference of listing each AS112
zone individually. [r295691]
The OpenSSL suite has been updated to version 1.0.1s. [r296317]
The OpenSSH suite has been updated to version 7.2p2. [r296853]
The bsdinstall(8) utility has been updated to support ZFS installation on EFI-based systems. [r295264] (Sponsored by ScaleEngine, Inc.)
This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise categorized.
This section covers changes and additions to devices and device drivers since 10.2-RELEASE.
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.
The ismt(4) driver has been added, providing support for recent Intel® SMBus 2.0 controllers. [r293675]
This section covers changes and additions to file systems and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.
The zfs(8) l2arc
code has been updated to take ashift into
account when gathering buffers to be written to the
l2arc device. [r287665]
(Sponsored by
ClusterHQ)
This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other boot-related changes.
Initial terminal emulation support has
been added to loader.efi for
UEFI-based systems. [r294445]
Initial ZFS boot support has been added to the EFI implementation. [r294999] (Sponsored by Multiplay)
The UEFI loader has
been updated to support multiple ZFS boot
environments, such as those provided by sysutils/beadm. [r295475]
(Sponsored by
ScaleEngine, Inc.)
This section describes changes that affect networking in FreeBSD.
This section covers changes to the FreeBSD Ports Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and installation tools.
This section covers changes to the FreeBSD Documentation Project sources and toolchain.
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