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&os; &release.current; Release Notes The &os; Project $FreeBSD$ 2015 The &os; Documentation Project &tm-attrib.freebsd; &tm-attrib.ibm; &tm-attrib.ieee; &tm-attrib.intel; &tm-attrib.sparc; &tm-attrib.general; The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the &release.branch; development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented. Introduction This document contains the release notes for &os; &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of &os;. The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes apply represents the latest point along the &release.branch; development branch since &release.branch; was created. Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at &release.url;. The &release.type; distribution to which these release notes apply represents a point along the &release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and the future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at &release.url;. This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be found at &release.url; or any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the Obtaining &os; appendix to the &os; Handbook. All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before installing &os;. 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 &os; &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site. This document describes the most user-visible new or changed features in &os; since &release.prev;. Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after &release.prev;, 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 &os; between releases; this document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements. Upgrading from Previous Releases of &os; Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the &man.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 &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet connectivity. Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; base system from source code) from previous versions are supported, according to the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING. Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after backing up all data and configuration files. Security and Errata This section lists the various Security Advisories and Errata Notices since &release.prev;. Security Advisories &security; Errata Notices &errata; Userland This section covers changes and additions to userland applications, contributed software, and system utilities. Userland Configuration Changes The &man.termcap.5; file is installed as-is from sources, instead of reordering, creating /etc/termcap.db by default, providing a performance improvements to applications that use the &man.termcap.5; database, such as &man.vi.1; and &man.ncurses.3;. Userland Application Changes A new utility, &man.dpv.1;, has been added to the base system, providing a &man.dialog.1;-style progress view from one or more input streams. A corresponding library, &man.dpv.3;, has also been added. The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been updated to support capability mode provided by &man.capsicum.4;. The &man.fstyp.8; utility has been added, which is used to determine the filesystem on a specified device. The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been updated to support the MBR EFI partition type. A regression in the &man.libarchive.3; library that would prevent a directory from being included in the archive when --one-file-system is used has been fixed. A new flag, -R, has - been added to the &man.netstat.8; utility, which is used to - dump RSS/flow information. + sponsor="&limelight;">The &man.netstat.8; utility has been + updated to include a new flag, -R, which is + used to dump RSS/flow information. The &man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS and ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT to disallow directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to &man.tar.1;. A race condition in &man.wc.1; that would cause final results to be sent to &man.stderr.4; when receiving the SIGINFO signal has been fixed. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed. The &man.uefisign.8; utility has been added. The &man.chflags.1;, &man.chgrp.1;, &man.chmod.1;, and &man.chown.8; utilities now affect symbolic links when the -R flag is specified, as documented in &man.symlink.7;. The &man.date.1; utility has been updated to print the modification time of the file passed as an argument to the -r flag, improving compatibility with the GNU &man.date.1; utility behavior. - A new flag, -c, has - been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility, which allows - specifying the capacity of the target disk image. + The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been + updated to include a new flag, -c, which + allows specifying the capacity of the target disk + image. The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated with a new flag, -R, that sets the root directory within which the utility will operate. Contributed Software The &man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version 3.7.0. The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated to the OpenBSD 5.7 version. Timezone data files have been updated to version 2015e. The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been updated to version 20150515. The &man.file.1; utility has been updated to version 5.23. The &man.unbound.8; utility has been updated to version 1.5.3. The sendmail utility has been updated to version 8.15.2. OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.1p. The ntp suite has been updated to version 4.2.8p3. The &man.ssh.1; utility has been updated to re-implement hostname canonicalization before locating the host in known_hosts. The &man.tar.1; utility has been updated to fix an issue that would prevent compressing sparse files. Installation and Configuration Tools Support for detecting and implementing a workaround for various laptops and motherboards that do not boot properly from GPT-partitioned disks has been added to &man.bsdinstall.8;. Additionally, the active flag will be set on the partition when needed. Support for detecting and implementing aligning partitions on 1Mb boundaries has been added to &man.bsdinstall.8;. Support for selecting the partitioning scheme when installing on the UFS filesystem has been added to &man.bsdinstall.8;. <filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts A new &man.rc.8; script, growfs, has been added, which will resize the root filesystem on boot if /firstboot exists. <filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename> Scripts A new &man.periodic.8; script, 510.status-world-kernel, has been added, which evaluates the running userland and kernel versions from the &man.uname.1; -U and -K arguments, and prints an error if the system userland and kernel are not in sync. Runtime Libraries and API A new file configuration library, &man.figpar.3;, has been added to the base system. The &man.procctl.2; system call has been updated to include a facility for non-&man.init.8; processes to be declared as the reaper of child processes and their decendants. The &man.setmode.3; function has been updated to consistently set errno on failure. ABI Compatibility The &linux; compatibility version has been updated to 2.6.18. The compat.linux.osrelease &man.sysctl.8; is evaluated when building the emulators/linux-c6 and related ports. Kernel This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise categorized. Kernel Bug Fixes A kernel panic triggered when destroying a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gif.4; has been fixed. A kernel panic triggered when destroying a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gre.4; has been fixed. Kernel Configuration The PAE_TABLES kernel configuration option has been added for &os;/&arch.i386;, which instructs &man.pmap.9; to use PAE format for page tables while maintaining a 32-bit physical address size elsewhere in the kernel. The use of this option can enhance application-level security by enabling the creation of no execute mappings on modern &arch.i386; processors. Unlike the PAE option, PAE_TABLES preserves kernel binary interface (KBI) compatibility with non-PAE kernels, allowing non-PAE kernel modules and drivers to work with a PAE_TABLES-enabled kernel. Additionally, system limits are tuned for 4GB maximum RAM, avoiding kernel virtual address space (KVA) exhaustion. The SIFTR kernel configuration has been added, allowing building &man.siftr.4; statically into the kernel. The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are now included in the GENERIC kernel configuration by default. The &arch.arm; boot loader, ubldr, is now relocatable. In addition, ubldr.bin is now created during build time, which is a stripped binary with an entry point of 0, providing the ability to specify the load address by running go ${loadaddr} in u-boot. A new module for creating rpi.dtb has been added for the Raspberry Pi. The rpi.dtb module is now installed to /boot/dtb/ by default for the Raspberry Pi system. A new module for creating the dtb module for AM335x systems has been added. A new kernel configuration option, EM_MULTIQUEUE, has been added which enables multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver. Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not officially supported by &intel;. System Tuning and Controls Throttling via ACPI and P4TCC via &man.device.hints.5; have been turned off by default. The &man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and the maximum increased from 32 to 128. The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations using seconds precision. A new &man.sysctl.8;, vfs.devfs.dotimes has been added, which when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision timestamps for these operations. The kern.osrelease and kern.osreldate are now configurable &man.jail.8; parameters. A new &man.sysctl.8;, kern.racct.enable, has been added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using &man.rctl.8; with the GENERIC kernel. A new kernel configuration option, RACCT_DISABLED has also been added. The GENERIC kernel configuration now includes RACCT and RCTL by default. To enable RACCT and RCTL on a system using the GENERIC kernel configuration, add kern.racct.enable=1 to &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system. Devices and Drivers This section covers changes and additions to devices and device drivers since &release.prev;. Device Drivers The drm code has been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13. The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated to include improved support for newer Synaptics ® touchpads and the ClickPad ® mouse on newer Lenovo ™ laptops. Storage Drivers The &man.mpr.4; driver has been updated to version 9.255.01.00-fbsd. The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2.7. The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.1.4. Network Drivers The &man.pf.4; interface default hash has been changed from Jenkins to Murmur3, providing a 3-percent performance increase in packets-per-second. The &man.ral.4; driver has been updated to support the RT5390 and RT5392 chipsets. The &man.gre.4; driver has been significantly overhauled, and has been split into two separate modules, &man.gre.4; and &man.me.4;. The &man.vxlan.4; driver has been added, which creates a virtual Layer 2 (Ethernet) network overlaid in a Layer 3 (IP/UDP) network. The &man.vxlan.4; driver is analogous to &man.vlan.4;, but is designed to be better suited for large, multiple-tenant datacenter environments. The &man.cdce.4; driver has been updated to include support for the RTL8153 chipset. The &man.sfxge.4; driver has been updated to support Solarflare Flareon Ultra 7000-series chipsets. Hardware Support 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. Hardware Support The &man.uart.4; driver has been updated to include support for the AMT serial interface found on the Lenovo® ThinkPad™ T61. The &man.uart.4; driver has been updated to include support for the AMT serial interface found on the Lenovo® ThinkPad™ T400. The &man.snd.hda.4; driver has been updated to support the Lenovo® ThinkPad™ X1 20BS model. Virtualization Support The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console devices through a &man.tty.4; device. The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been updated to support &amd; processors with SVM and AMD-V hardware extensions. The &man.bhyve.8; hypervisor has been updated to support DSM TRIM commands for virtual AHCI disks. The Hyper-V™ drivers have been updated with several enhancements: The &man.hv.vmbus.4; driver now has multi-channel support. The &man.hv.storvsc.4; driver now has scatter/gather support, in addition to performance improvements. The &man.hv.kvp.4; driver has received several bug fixes. The &man.hv.netvsc.4; driver has been updated to support checksum offloading and TSO. ARM Support - Support to turn off the - BeagleBone Black system with the &man.shutdown.8; - -p flag or by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has - been added. + Support to turn off the BeagleBone Black + system with the &man.shutdown.8; -p flag or + by invoking &man.poweroff.8; has been added. - Support for the Exynos 5420 - Octa system has been added. + Support for the Exynos 5420 Octa system + has been added. - The SMP - option has been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by + The SMP option has + been enabled for all Exynos 5 systems supported by &os;. The bcm2835_cpufreq driver has been added, which supports CPU frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi SOC. - Support for the Toradex - Apalis i.MX6 development board has been added. + Support for the Toradex Apalis i.MX6 + development board has been added. - Audio transmission drivers - have been added for Digital Audio Multiplexer + Audio transmission drivers have been + added for Digital Audio Multiplexer (AUDMUXM), Smart Direct Memory Access Controller (SDMA), and Syncronous Serial Interface (SSI). Storage This section covers changes and additions to file systems and other storage subsystems, both local and networked. General Storage The &man.ctl.4; LUN mapping has been rewritten, replacing iSCSI-specific mapping mechanisms with a new mechanism that works for any port. The &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to allow controlling non-iSCSI &man.ctl.4; ports. The &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new &man.auto.master.5; map, -media, which allows automatically mounting removable media, such as CD drives or USB flash drives. The &man.autofs.5; subsystem has been updated to include a new &man.auto.master.5; map, -noauto, which handles &man.fstab.5; entries set to noauto. Networked Storage The &man.ctld.8; utility has been updated to include support for registering iSCSI targets and portals on iSNS servers. This provides a mechanism which allows iSCSI initiators to find targets and portals without requiring active discovery. - Support + The + &man.mount.nfs.8; utility has been updated to include support for the timeo, actimeo, - noac, and proto options - have been added to &man.mount.nfs.8;. + noac, and proto + options. ZFS A new tunable, vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift, has been added, which controls how much space is reserved by default. The arc_meta_limit statistics are now visible through the kstat &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this change, the vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used &man.sysctl.8; has been removed, and replaced with the kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used &man.sysctl.8;. - &man.geom.4; + GEOM The &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports limit from 128 to 256, and LUN limit from 256 to 1024. - Support for the + The &man.gpart.8; utility has been + updated to include support for the apple-boot, apple-hfs, and apple-ufs MBR - partitioning schemes have been added to &man.gpart.8;. + partitioning schemes. Boot Loader Changes This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other boot-related changes. Boot Loader Changes Support for bzipfs has been added to the EFI loader. The boot loader has been updated to support entering the GELI passphrase before loading the kernel. To enable this behavior, add geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES" to &man.loader.conf.5;. The memory test run at boot time on &os;/&arch.amd64; platforms has been disabled by default. A new &man.ttys.5; class, 3wire, has been added. This is similar to the existing terminal classes, but does not have a defined baudrate. The &man.ttys.5; file for &os;/&arch.arm; has been updated to enable ttyu1, ttyu2, and ttyu3 by default, if the callin port is an active console port. Networking This section describes changes that affect networking in &os;. Network Procols Support for PLPMTUD blackhole detection (RFC 4821) has been added to the &man.tcp.4; stack, disabled by default. New control tunables have been added: Tunable Description net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_detection Enables or disables PLPMTUD blackhole detection net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_mss MSS to try for IPv4 net.inet.tcp.v6pmtud_blackhole_mss MSS to try for IPv6 New monitoring &man.sysctl.8;s haven been added: Tunable Description net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_activated Number of times the code was activated to attempt downshifting the MSS net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_min_activated Number of times the blackhole MSS was used in an attempt to downshift net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_failed Number of times that the blackhole failed to connect after downshifting the MSS Ports Collection and Package Infrastructure This section covers changes to the &os; Ports Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and installation tools. Ports and Package Versions The ports-mgmt/pkg package has been updated to version 1.5.4 in the quarterly branch, and version 1.5.5 in the head branch. The x11-servers/xorg-server package for &os; &release.current; has been updated to version 1.14.7_5. The x11/xorg package for &os; &release.current; has been updated to version 7.7_2. The x11/gnome3 package for &os; &release.current; has been updated to version 3.14.2. The x11/kde4 package for &os; &release.current; has been updated to version 4.14.3. Release Engineering and Integration This section convers changes that are specific to the &os; Release Engineering processes. Integration Changes The Release Engineering build tools have been updated to support building &os;/&arch.arm; images without external utilities for supported boards where a corresponding u-boot port exists in the Ports Collection. The &os;/&arch.i386; memory stick installation images are now created using the &man.mkimg.1; utility, matching the way the &os;/&arch.amd64; images are created. The default &man.pkg.8; repository set in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf now defaults to the quarterly package set. To use the latest branch (as was the previous default), the comment at the top of /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf explains how to disable the default repository and specify an alternative repository.