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The release notes for FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the FreeBSD base system on the 11.4-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 11.4-RELEASE. It describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of FreeBSD. It also provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of FreeBSD.
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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 11.4-RELEASE can be found on the FreeBSD Web site.
This document describes the most user-visible new or changed features in FreeBSD since 11.3-RELEASE. In general, changes described here are unique to the 11.4-STABLE branch unless specifically marked as MERGED features.
Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after 11.3-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 kernels 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 11.3-RELEASE.
| Advisory | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD-SA-19:12.telnet | 24 July 2019 | Multiple vulnerabilities |
| FreeBSD-SA-19:13.pts | 24 July 2019 | Write-after-free vulnerability |
| FreeBSD-SA-19:14.freebsd32 | 24 July 2019 | Kernel memory disclosure |
| FreeBSD-SA-19:15.mqueuefs | 24 July 2019 | Reference count overflow |
| FreeBSD-SA-19:16.bhyve | 24 July 2019 | xhci(4) out-of-bounds read |
| FreeBSD-SA-19:17.fd | 24 July 2019 | Reference count leak |
| FreeBSD-SA-19:18.bzip2 | 6 August 2019 | Multiple vulnerabilities |
| FreeBSD-SA-19:19.mldv2 | 6 August 2019 | Out-of-bounds memory access |
| FreeBSD-SA-19:20.bsnmp | 6 August 2019 | Insufficient message length validation |
| FreeBSD-SA-19:21.bhyve | 6 August 2019 | Insufficient validation of guest-supplied data |
| FreeBSD-SA-19:22.mbuf | 20 August 2019 | IPv6 remove denial-of-service |
| FreeBSD-SA-19:23.midi | 20 August 2019 | Kernel memory disclosure |
| FreeBSD-SA-19:24.mqueuefs | 20 August 2019 | Reference count overflow |
| FreeBSD-SA-19:25.mcepce | 12 November 2019 | Machine Check Exception on Page Size Change |
| FreeBSD-SA-19:26.mcu | 12 November 2019 | Intel CPU Microcode Update |
| FreeBSD-SA-20:01.libfetch | 28 January 2020 | fetch(3) buffer overflow |
| FreeBSD-SA-20:03.thrmisc | 28 January 2020 | Kernel stack data disclosure |
| FreeBSD-SA-20:04.tcp | 18 March 2020 | TCP IPv6 SYN cache kernel information disclosure |
| FreeBSD-SA-20:05.if_oce_ioctl | 18 March 2020 | Insufficient ioctl(2) privilege checking |
| FreeBSD-SA-20:07.epair | 18 March 2020 | Incorrect user-controlled pointer use |
| FreeBSD-SA-20:08.jail | 18 March 2020 | Kernel memory disclosure with nested jails |
| FreeBSD-SA-20:09.ntp | 18 March 2020 | Multiple denial of service |
| FreeBSD-SA-20:10.ipfw | 21 April 2020 | Invalid mbuf(9) handling |
| FreeBSD-SA-20:12.libalias | 12 May 2020 | Insufficient packet length - validation |
| FreeBSD-SA-20:13.libalias | 12 May 2020 | Memory disclosure vulnerability |
| Errata | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD-EN-19:13.mds | 24 July 2019 | System crash from Intel CPU vulnerability + validation |
| FreeBSD-SA-20:13.libalias | 12 May 2020 | Memory disclosure vulnerability |
| FreeBSD-SA-20:17.usb | 9 June 2020 | HID descriptor parsing + error |
| Errata | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD-EN-19:13.mds | 24 July 2019 | System crash from Intel CPU vulnerability mitigation |
| FreeBSD-EN-19:15.libunwind | 6 August 2019 | Incorrect exception handling |
| FreeBSD-EN-19:16.bhyve | 20 August 2019 | Instruction emulation improvements |
| FreeBSD-EN-19:17.ipfw | 20 August 2019 | "jail" keyword fix |
| FreeBSD-EN-19:18.tzdata | 23 October 2019 | Timezone database information update |
| FreeBSD-EN-20:01.ssp | 28 January 2020 | Imprecise orderring of canary initialization |
| FreeBSD-EN-20:02.nmount | 28 January 2020 | Invalid pointer dereference |
| FreeBSD-EN-20:04.pfctl | 18 March 2020 | Missing pfctl(8) tunable |
| FreeBSD-EN-20:06.ipv6 | 18 March 2020 | Incorrect checksum calculations |
| FreeBSD-EN-20:07.quotad | 21 April 2020 | Regression with certain NFS servers |
This section covers changes and additions to userland - applications, contributed software, and system utilities.
The + applications, contributed software, and system utilities.
The netatalk protocol has been removed + from services(5). [r358903]
The camcontrol(8) utility has been updated to include support for Accessible Max Address Configuration (AMA). [r350801] (Sponsored by iXsystems)
The camcontrol(8) utility has been
updated to support block descriptors with the
- modepage subcommand. [r351582]
The usbconfig(8) utility has been
+ modepage subcommand. [r351582]
The yp(8) subsystem has been updated
+ to increase the value of YPMAXRECORD from
+ 1M to 16M for compatibility with Linux®. [r351694]
+ (Sponsored by
+ Mellanox Technologies)
The usbconfig(8) utility has been
updated to include the detach_kernel_driver
command. [r351843]
The jot(1) utility has been updated to allow an endless stream of random data within the specified bounds. [r351873]
The freebsd-update(8) utility has
been updated to include two new commands,
updatesready and
showconfig. [r352758]
The cron(8) utility has been
updated to support two new flags in crontab(5),
-n and -q, which
suppress mail on successful runs and suppress logging of
command execution, respectively. [r353134]
The zfs(8) utility has been updated to support renaming bookmarks. [r353759]
The usbconfig(8) utility has been
updated to include the dump_stats
command. [r356401]
The fsck_ffs(8) and newfs(8) utilities has been updated to fix recovery information with sector sizes up to 64k. [r356905]
The certctl(8) utility has been added. [r357082]
The env(1) utility has been updated
to include the -L and -U
options, which are used to set the environment of the
specified user from login.conf and
~/.login_conf, respectively. [r357791]
The syslogd(8) utility has been updated to add property-based filters. [r359740]
The bzip2(1) utility has been updated to version 1.0.8. [r351007]
The WPA utilities have been updated to version 2.9. [r351611]
The tcsh(1) utility has been updated to version 6.21.0. [r354195]
The less(1) utility has been updated to version 551. [r355504]
The libbsdxml(3) library has been updated to version 2.2.9. [r355604]
OpenSSL has been update to version 1.0.2u. [r356290]
The pcap(3) library has been updated to version 1.9.1. [r356341]
The tcpdump(1) utility has been updated to version 4.9.3. [r356341]
The unbound(8) utility has been updated to version 1.9.6. [r356345]
The mtree(8) utility has been updated to include several bug fixes. [r356533]
The archive(3) library has been updated to version 3.4.2. [r358088]
The ntpd(8) utilities have been updated to version 4.2.8p14. [r358659]
The timezone database files have been updated to version 2020a. [r360362]
The file(1) utility has been updated to version 5.38. [r360521]
The xz(1) utility has been updated to version 5.2.5. [r360523]
The clang, llvm, lld, lldb, libunwind, openmp, compiler-rt utilities and libc++ have been updated to version - 10.0.0. [r360822]
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 11.3-RELEASE.
This section covers general hardware support for physical + device drivers since 11.3-RELEASE.
The Kerberos + GSS API has been updated + to emit deprecation warnings for algorithms marked as + "SHOULD NOT" be used in RFCs 6649 and 8429. [r351243]
The crypto(4) driver has been + updated to emit deprecation warnings when the ARC4, Blowfish, + CAST128, DES, 3DES, MD5-HMAC, and Skipjack algorithms are + used. [r351246]
The ubsec(4) driver has been marked + as deprecated, and will be removed in FreeBSD 13.0. [r361049]
The aacraid(4) driver has been + updated to version 3.2.10. [r354965]
Support for JMicron® JMB582 and + JMB585 AHCI controllers has been + added. [r359971]
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.
This section covers changes and additions to file systems + other sections of this document.
Support for Intel® Cannon Lake PCH has + been added to snd_hda(4). [r359114]
This section covers changes and additions to file systems and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.
The ZFS ZIL (ZFS intent log) maximum block size is now tunable. [r359554]
This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other boot-related changes.
This section describes changes that affect networking in FreeBSD.
The libalias(3) library and ipfw(4) packet filter have been updated to add support for RFC 6598/Carrier Grade NAT subnets. [r359695]
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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