What's in FreeBSD12

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> As OpenBSD fan, who also uses OpenBSD on EdgerouterLite,
> I would be pleased to hear that FreeBSD-12 would be a release where PF
> is updated to some newer version, possibly having parity with OpenBSD.
> 
> In the meantime it looks like I will need to learn IPFW to do QoS.
> 
> BTW: I was looking at the whatsnew-wiki of FreeBSD and I can not find
> any reliable resources of what FreeBSD-12 will be like. On the FreeBSD
> website it is already noted as incomming, however I have no idea what
> will be included in this release. Do you know of some?

https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD12

has a few bits.

I have this list, from reviews and posts and things I stumbled over:

- netflow netgraph
  ipfw add ngtee
- ipfw setdscp
  Set specified DiffServ codepoint for an IPv4/IPv6 packet.
  analog:
  ipfw dscp
- vimage will be included in the generic kernel 
  https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=324810
  https://people.freebsd.org/~olivier/talks/2017_EuroBSDCon-Tuning_FreeBSD_for_routing_and_firewalling.pdf
- ccp(4): experimental driver for AMD Crypto Co-Processor
  https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=328150
- jedec_dimm: report asset info and temperatures for DDR3 and DDR4 DIMMs
- ps aux | some stuff gets full width output
- TCP blackbox recorder code
  https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/201706/Transport
  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11085
- VMCI (Virtual Machine Communication Interface) driver
  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14289
- sysvipc works in jails (I think this is already in some 11.x)
  https://www.skyforge.at/posts/a-note-in-sysvipc-and-jails-on-freebsd/
  bisher:
  allow.sysvipc = 1
  nun:
  sysvmsg, sysvsem and sysvshm
  sysvshm = ["disable"|"inherit"|"new"];
- ether random
  https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211984
- zpool temporary names
  https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/pull/600
  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14972
- isoboot, see https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14914
- control CPU topology in bhyve
  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9930
- netdump, dump core over the network
  https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2018-April/018927.html
  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15253
- socket-option SO_REUSEPORT_LB
  multiple processes can listen on the same port, for load balancing
  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11003
- D15234: remove support for ixgb
  This driver was for an early and uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a
  single ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel quickly shifted to the long
  lived ixgbe family.
- bhyve debug server for gdb, D15022

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