svn commit: r277015 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Glen Barber
gjb at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jan 11 19:01:29 UTC 2015
Author: gjb
Date: Sun Jan 11 19:01:28 2015
New Revision: 277015
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/277015
Log:
Fix the release notes article.xml file to confirm with
FDP style, specifically reindenting the entire file for
tag alignment, rewrapping lines where necessary.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Modified:
head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
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--- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Sun Jan 11 19:01:25 2015 (r277014)
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-<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
- <info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
+<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+ xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
- <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
+ <info>
+ <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
- <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
+ <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
- <!-- Last rev: 276551 -->
+ <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
+
+ <!-- Last rev: 276551 -->
+
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2015</year>
+ <holder role="mailto:doc at FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
+ Project</holder>
+ </copyright>
+
+ <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
+ &tm-attrib.freebsd;
+ &tm-attrib.ibm;
+ &tm-attrib.ieee;
+ &tm-attrib.intel;
+ &tm-attrib.sparc;
+ &tm-attrib.general;
+ </legalnotice>
+
+ <abstract>
+ <para>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.</para>
+ </abstract>
+ </info>
+
+ <sect1 xml:id="intro">
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+
+ <para>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;.</para>
+
+ <para releasetype="current">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 <uri
+ xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
+
+ <para releasetype="snapshot">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 <uri
+ xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
+
+ <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
+ &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be
+ found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
+ any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or
+ other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the
+ <link
+ xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
+ &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
+ xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
+ Handbook</link>.</para>
+
+ <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata
+ before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
+ <quote>late-breaking</quote> 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.</para>
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1 xml:id="new">
+ <title>What's New</title>
+
+ <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
+ features in &os; since &release.prev;. In general, changes
+ described here are unique to the &release.branch; branch unless
+ specifically marked as &merged; features.</para>
+
+ <para>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.</para>
+
+ <sect2 xml:id="security">
+ <title>Security Advisories</title>
+
+ <para>No advisories.</para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
+ <title>Kernel Changes</title>
+
+ <para revision="260903">Support for GPS ports has been added to
+ &man.uhso.4;.</para>
+
+ <para revision="264601" contrib="sponsor"
+ sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal>
+ device has been added, providing support for NetFPGA-10G
+ Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal> driver operates on
+ the FPGA, and is not suited for the PCI host
+ interface.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ <para revision="265132">The &man.full.4; device has been added,
+ and the <literal>lindev(4)</literal> device has been removed.
+ Prior to this change, <literal>lindev(4)</literal> provided
+ only the <filename>/dev/full</filename> character device,
+ returning <literal>ENOSPC</literal> on write attempts. As
+ this device is not specific to &linux;, a native &os; version
+ has been added.</para>
+
+ <para revision="265236" contrib="sponsor"
+ sponsor="&lsi;, &spectralogic;" sponsorurl="">The &man.mpr.4;
+ device has been added, providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT
+ 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA controllers.</para>
+
+ <para revision="265555" contrib="sponsor"
+ sponsor="&lsi;">The &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added,
+ providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The
+ &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default.
+ To enable &man.mrsas.4; add
+ <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to
+ <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off
+ &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and the &os;
+ version of <application>MegaCLI</application> and
+ <application>StorCli</application> do not work with
+ &man.mrsas.4;.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ <para revision="265876">A kernel bug that inhibited proper
+ functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal>
+ &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo
+ Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="266531">The <literal>IMAGACT_BINMISC</literal>
+ kernel configuration option has been enabled by default,
+ which enables application execution through emulators, such
+ as <application>Qemu</application>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="266757" contrib="sponsor"
+ sponsor="&chelsio;">Support for the &man.cxgbe.4; Terminator
+ 5 (T5) 10G/40G cards has been added to &man.netmap.4;.</para>
+
+ <para revision="268045">The <literal>VT</literal> kernel
+ configuration file has been removed, and the &man.vt.4;
+ driver is included in the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
+ To enable &man.vt.4;, enter <literal>set kern.vty=vt</literal>
+ at the &man.loader.8; prompt during boot, or add
+ <literal>kern.vty=vt</literal> to &man.loader.conf.5; and
+ reboot the system.</para>
+
+ <para revision="271697" arch="powerpc">Support for
+ &man.dtrace.1; stack tracing has been fixed for
+ &os;/&arch.powerpc;, using the <literal>trapexit()</literal>
+ and <literal>asttrapexit()</literal> functions instead of
+ checking within addressed kernel space.</para>
+
+ <para revision="271705">Hardware context support has been
+ added to the <literal>drm/i915</literal> driver, adding
+ support for <application>Mesa</application> 9.2 and
+ later.</para>
+
+ <para revision="273178">The &man.vt.4; driver has been updated,
+ replacing the bitmapped <literal>kern.vt.spclkeys</literal>
+ &man.sysctl.8; with individual
+ <literal>kern.vt.kbd_*</literal> variants.</para>
+
+ <para revision="273598">The &man.hpet.4; driver has been updated
+ to create a
+ <filename>/dev/hpet<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename>
+ device, providing access to <acronym>HPET</acronym> from
+ userspace.</para>
+
+ <para revision="274085">The &man.vt.4; driver has been made the
+ default system console driver. The &man.syscons.4; driver is
+ still available, and can be enabled by adding
+ <literal>kern.vty=sc</literal> in &man.loader.conf.5;.
+ Alternatively, &man.syscons.4; can be enabled at boot time by
+ entering <literal>set kern.vty=sc</literal> at the
+ &man.loader.8; prompt.</para>
+
+ <para revision="274386">An issue that could cause a system to
+ hang when entering <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
+ <literal>S3</literal> state (suspend to
+ <acronym>RAM</acronym>) has been corrected in the &man.acpi.4;
+ and &man.pci.4; drivers.</para>
+
+ <para revision="274733" arch="powerpc">The power management unit
+ subsystem has been updated to support power button events on
+ certain &arch.powerpc; hardware, such as aluminum
+ PowerBook ®.</para>
+
+ <para revision="275171,275190" arch="powerpc">The &man.hwpmc.4;
+ driver has been updated to correct performance counter
+ sampling on G4 (MPC74xxx) and G5 class processors.</para>
+
+ <para revision="275732" contrib="sponsor"
+ sponsor="&ff;,&netgate;">The
+ <application>OpenCrypto</application> framework has been
+ updated to include <literal>AES-ICM</literal> and
+ <literal>AES-GCM</literal> modes, both of which have also been
+ added to the &man.aesni.4; driver.</para>
+
+ <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
+ <title>Virtualization Support</title>
+
+ <para revision="260410">Support for the <quote>Virtual
+ Interrupt Delivery</quote> feature of &intel; VT-x is
+ enabled if supported by the CPU. This feature can be
+ disabled by running <literal>sysctl
+ hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal>. Additionally, to
+ persist this setting across reboots, add
+ <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal> to
+ <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="260532">Support for <quote>Posted Interrupt
+ Processing</quote> is enabled if supported by the CPU.
+ This feature can be disabled by running <literal>sysctl
+ hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal>. Additionally, to
+ persist this setting across reboots, add
+ <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal> to
+ <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="260582">Unmapped IO support has been added to
+ &man.virtio_blk.4;.</para>
+
+ <para revision="260583">Unmapped IO support has been added to
+ &man.virtio_scsi.4;.</para>
+
+ <para revision="260847">The &man.virtio_random.4; driver has
+ been added to harvest entropy from the host system.</para>
+
+ <para revision="267536" contrib="sponsor"
+ sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for running
+ a &os;/&arch.amd64; <application>Xen</application> guest
+ instance as <acronym>PVH</acronym> guest has been added.
+ <acronym>PVH</acronym> mode, short for
+ <quote>Para-Virtualized Hardware</quote>, uses
+ para-virtualized drivers for boot and I/O, and uses hardware
+ virtualization extensions for all other tasks, without the
+ need for emulation.</para>
+
+ <para revision="273515">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has
+ been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console
+ devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm">
+ <title>ARM Support</title>
+
+ <para revision="260921">The &man.nand.4; device is enabled for
+ ARM devices by default.</para>
+
+ <para revision="273264" arch="armv6">An issue that could cause
+ instability when detecting <acronym>SD</acronym> cards on
+ the Raspberry Pi <acronym>SOC</acronym> has been
+ fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="275963">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
+ driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
+ frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
+ <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
+ </sect3>
- <copyright>
- <year>2015</year>
- <holder role="mailto:doc at FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
- Project</holder>
- </copyright>
-
- <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
- &tm-attrib.freebsd;
- &tm-attrib.ibm;
- &tm-attrib.ieee;
- &tm-attrib.intel;
- &tm-attrib.sparc;
- &tm-attrib.general;
- </legalnotice>
-
- <abstract>
- <para>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.</para>
- </abstract>
-</info>
-
-<sect1 xml:id="intro">
- <title>Introduction</title>
-
- <para>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;.</para>
-
- <para releasetype="current">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 <uri
- xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
-
- <para releasetype="snapshot">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
- <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
-
- <para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
- &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be
- found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
- any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other)
- &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the <link
- xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
- &os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
- xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</link>.</para>
-
- <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
- installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
- <quote>late-breaking</quote> 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.</para>
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 xml:id="new">
- <title>What's New</title>
-
- <para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
- features in &os; since &release.prev;. In general, changes
- described here are unique to the &release.branch; branch unless
- specifically marked as &merged; features.</para>
-
- <para>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.</para>
-
- <sect2 xml:id="security">
- <title>Security Advisories</title>
-
- <para>No advisories.</para>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 xml:id="kernel">
- <title>Kernel Changes</title>
-
- <para revision="260903">Support for GPS ports has been added to
- &man.uhso.4;.</para>
-
- <para revision="264601" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&darpa_afrl;">The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal>
- device has been added, providing support for NetFPGA-10G
- Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>The <literal>if_nf10bmac(4)</literal> driver operates on
- the FPGA, and is not suited for the PCI host interface.</para>
- </note>
-
- <para revision="265132">The &man.full.4; device has been added,
- and the <literal>lindev(4)</literal> device has been removed.
- Prior to this change, <literal>lindev(4)</literal> provided only
- the <filename>/dev/full</filename> character device, returning
- <literal>ENOSPC</literal> on write attempts. As this device is
- not specific to &linux;, a native &os; version has been
- added.</para>
-
- <para revision="265236" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&lsi;, &spectralogic;" sponsorurl="">The &man.mpr.4;
- device has been added, providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT
- 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA controllers.</para>
-
- <para revision="265555" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&lsi;">The &man.mrsas.4; driver has been added,
- providing support for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers. The
- &man.mfi.4; driver will attach to the controller, by default.
- To enable &man.mrsas.4; add
- <literal>hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1</literal> to
- <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, which turns off
- &man.mfi.4; device probing.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>At this time, the &man.mfiutil.8; utility and
- the &os; version of
- <application>MegaCLI</application> and
- <application>StorCli</application> do not work with
- &man.mrsas.4;.</para>
- </note>
-
- <para revision="265876">A kernel bug that inhibited proper
- functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal>
- &man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo
- Boost ™ enabled has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="266531">The <literal>IMAGACT_BINMISC</literal>
- kernel configuration option has been enabled by default,
- which enables application execution through emulators, such
- as <application>Qemu</application>.</para>
-
- <para revision="266757" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&chelsio;">Support for the &man.cxgbe.4; Terminator 5
- (T5) 10G/40G cards has been added to &man.netmap.4;.</para>
-
- <para revision="268045">The <literal>VT</literal> kernel
- configuration file has been removed, and the &man.vt.4;
- driver is included in the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
- To enable &man.vt.4;, enter <literal>set kern.vty=vt</literal>
- at the &man.loader.8; prompt during boot, or add
- <literal>kern.vty=vt</literal> to &man.loader.conf.5; and
- reboot the system.</para>
-
- <para revision="271697" arch="powerpc">Support for &man.dtrace.1;
- stack tracing has been fixed for &os;/&arch.powerpc;, using the
- <literal>trapexit()</literal> and
- <literal>asttrapexit()</literal> functions instead of checking
- within addressed kernel space.</para>
-
- <para revision="271705">Hardware context support has been
- added to the <literal>drm/i915</literal> driver, adding
- support for <application>Mesa</application> 9.2 and
- later.</para>
-
- <para revision="273178">The &man.vt.4; driver has been updated,
- replacing the bitmapped <literal>kern.vt.spclkeys</literal>
- &man.sysctl.8; with individual <literal>kern.vt.kbd_*</literal>
- variants.</para>
-
- <para revision="273598">The &man.hpet.4; driver has been updated
- to create a
- <filename>/dev/hpet<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename>
- device, providing access to <acronym>HPET</acronym> from
- userspace.</para>
-
- <para revision="274085">The &man.vt.4; driver has been made the
- default system console driver. The &man.syscons.4; driver is
- still available, and can be enabled by adding
- <literal>kern.vty=sc</literal> in &man.loader.conf.5;.
- Alternatively, &man.syscons.4; can be enabled at boot time by
- entering <literal>set kern.vty=sc</literal> at the
- &man.loader.8; prompt.</para>
-
- <para revision="274386">An issue that could cause a system to
- hang when entering <acronym>ACPI</acronym> <literal>S3</literal>
- state (suspend to <acronym>RAM</acronym>) has been corrected
- in the &man.acpi.4; and &man.pci.4; drivers.</para>
-
- <para revision="274733" arch="powerpc">The power management unit
- subsystem has been updated to support power button events on
- certain &arch.powerpc; hardware, such as aluminum
- PowerBook ®.</para>
-
- <para revision="275171,275190" arch="powerpc">The &man.hwpmc.4;
- driver has been updated to correct performance counter sampling
- on G4 (MPC74xxx) and G5 class processors.</para>
-
- <para revision="275732" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&ff;,&netgate;">The
- <application>OpenCrypto</application> framework has been updated
- to include <literal>AES-ICM</literal> and
- <literal>AES-GCM</literal> modes, both of which have also been
- added to the &man.aesni.4; driver.</para>
-
- <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
- <title>Virtualization Support</title>
-
- <para revision="260410">Support for the <quote>Virtual Interrupt
- Delivery</quote> feature of &intel; VT-x is enabled if
- supported by the CPU. This feature can be disabled by running
- <literal>sysctl hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal>.
- Additionally, to persist this setting across reboots, add
- <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid=0</literal> to
- <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para>
-
- <para revision="260532">Support for <quote>Posted Interrupt
- Processing</quote> is enabled if supported by the CPU. This
- feature can be disabled by running <literal>sysctl
- hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal>. Additionally, to
- persist this setting across reboots, add
- <literal>hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_pir=0</literal> to
- <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>.</para>
-
- <para revision="260582">Unmapped IO support has been added to
- &man.virtio_blk.4;.</para>
-
- <para revision="260583">Unmapped IO support has been added to
- &man.virtio_scsi.4;.</para>
-
- <para revision="260847">The &man.virtio_random.4; driver has
- been added to harvest entropy from the host system.</para>
-
- <para revision="267536" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for running a &os;/&arch.amd64;
- <application>Xen</application> guest instance as
- <acronym>PVH</acronym> guest has been added.
- <acronym>PVH</acronym> mode, short for <quote>Para-Virtualized
- Hardware</quote>, uses para-virtualized drivers for boot
- and I/O, and uses hardware virtualization extensions for all
- other tasks, without the need for emulation.</para>
-
- <para revision="273515">The &man.virtio.console.4; driver has
- been added, which provides an interface to VirtIO console
- devices through a &man.tty.4; device.</para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm">
- <title>ARM Support</title>
-
- <para revision="260921">The &man.nand.4; device is enabled for
- ARM devices by default.</para>
-
- <para revision="273264" arch="armv6">An issue that could cause
- instability when detecting <acronym>SD</acronym> cards on the
- Raspberry Pi <acronym>SOC</acronym> has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="275963">The <literal>bcm2835_cpufreq</literal>
- driver has been added, which supports <acronym>CPU</acronym>
- frequency and voltage control on the Raspberry Pi
- <acronym>SOC</acronym>.</para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 xml:id="boot">
- <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
-
- <para> </para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 xml:id="proc">
- <title>Hardware Support</title>
-
- <para revision="268303">The &man.asmc.4; driver has been updated
- to support the &apple; MacMini 3,1.</para>
-
- <para revision="268351">Support for &os;/ia64 has been dropped
- as of &os; 11.</para>
-
- <sect4 xml:id="mm">
- <title>Multimedia Support</title>
+ <sect3 xml:id="boot">
+ <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
<para> </para>
- </sect4>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 xml:id="proc">
+ <title>Hardware Support</title>
- <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
- <title>Network Interface Support</title>
+ <para revision="268303">The &man.asmc.4; driver has been
+ updated to support the &apple; MacMini 3,1.</para>
- <para revision="258830">Support for Broadcom chipsets
- BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787 has
- been added to &man.bge.4;.</para>
-
- <para revision="260448">Support for the &intel;
- Centrino™ Wireless-N 135 chipset has been
- added.</para>
-
- <para revision="260552">Firmware for &intel;
- Centrino™ Wireless-N 105 devices has been added
- to the base system.</para>
-
- <para revision="261975">The deprecated nve(4) driver has been
- removed. Users of NVIDIA nForce MCP network adapters are
- advised to use the &man.nfe.4; driver instead, which has been
- the default driver for this hardware since &os; 7.0.</para>
-
- <para revision="265348" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&netgate;">The &man.ath.hal.4; driver has been
- updated to support the Atheros AR1111 chipset.</para>
-
- <para revision="266770">Support for the &intel;
- Centrino™ Wireless-N 105 chipset has been
- added.</para>
-
- <para revision="272089">A bug in &man.ipfw.4; that could
- potentially lead to a kernel panic when using
- &man.dummynet.4; at layer 2 has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="272730">The &man.alc.4; driver has been
- updated to support AR816x and AR817x ethernet
- controllers.</para>
-
- <para revision="273331">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.</para>
-
- <para revision="274246" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&yandex;">The &man.gre.4; driver has been
- significantly overhauled, and has been split into two
- separate modules, &man.gre.4; and &man.me.4;.</para>
- </sect4>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
- <title>Network Protocols</title>
-
- <para revision="263140">Support for the IPX network transport
- protocol has been removed, and will not be supported in
- &os; 11 and later releases.</para>
-
- <para revision="272720" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&limelight;">Support for <acronym>PLPMTUD</acronym>
- blackhole detection (<acronym>RFC</acronym> 4821) has been
- added to the &man.tcp.4; stack, disabled by default. New
- control tunables have been added:</para>
+ <para revision="268351">Support for &os;/ia64 has been dropped
+ as of &os; 11.</para>
+
+ <sect4 xml:id="mm">
+ <title>Multimedia Support</title>
+
+ <para> </para>
+ </sect4>
+
+ <sect4 xml:id="net-if">
+ <title>Network Interface Support</title>
+
+ <para revision="258830">Support for Broadcom chipsets
+ BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787 has
+ been added to &man.bge.4;.</para>
+
+ <para revision="260448">Support for the &intel;
+ Centrino™ Wireless-N 135 chipset has been
+ added.</para>
+
+ <para revision="260552">Firmware for &intel; Centrino™
+ Wireless-N 105 devices has been added to the base
+ system.</para>
+
+ <para revision="261975">The deprecated nve(4) driver has
+ been removed. Users of NVIDIA nForce MCP network adapters
+ are advised to use the &man.nfe.4; driver instead, which
+ has been the default driver for this hardware since
+ &os; 7.0.</para>
+
+ <para revision="265348" contrib="sponsor"
+ sponsor="&netgate;">The &man.ath.hal.4; driver has been
+ updated to support the Atheros AR1111 chipset.</para>
+
+ <para revision="266770">Support for the &intel;
+ Centrino™ Wireless-N 105 chipset has been
+ added.</para>
+
+ <para revision="272089">A bug in &man.ipfw.4; that could
+ potentially lead to a kernel panic when using
+ &man.dummynet.4; at layer 2 has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="272730">The &man.alc.4; driver has been
+ updated to support AR816x and AR817x ethernet
+ controllers.</para>
+
+ <para revision="273331">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.</para>
+
+ <para revision="274246" contrib="sponsor"
+ sponsor="&yandex;">The &man.gre.4; driver has been
+ significantly overhauled, and has been split into two
+ separate modules, &man.gre.4; and &man.me.4;.</para>
+ </sect4>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
+ <title>Network Protocols</title>
+
+ <para revision="263140">Support for the IPX network transport
+ protocol has been removed, and will not be supported in
+ &os; 11 and later releases.</para>
+
+ <para revision="272720" contrib="sponsor"
+ sponsor="&limelight;">Support for <acronym>PLPMTUD</acronym>
+ blackhole detection (<acronym>RFC</acronym> 4821) has been
+ added to the &man.tcp.4; stack, disabled by default. New
+ control tunables have been added:</para>
+
+ <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2">
+ <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
+ <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry>Tunable</entry>
+ <entry>Description</entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_detection</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Enables or disables <acronym>PLPMTUD</acronym>
+ blackhole detection</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_mss</literal></entry>
+ <entry><acronym>MSS</acronym> to try for IPv4</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.v6pmtud_blackhole_mss</literal></entry>
+ <entry><acronym>MSS to try for IPv6</acronym></entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+
+ <para>New monitoring &man.sysctl.8;s haven been added:</para>
+
+ <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2">
+ <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
+ <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry>Tunable</entry>
+ <entry>Description</entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_activated</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Number of times the code was activated to
+ attempt downshifting the
+ <acronym>MSS</acronym></entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_min_activated</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Number of times the blackhole
+ <acronym>MSS</acronym> was used in an attempt to
+ downshift</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_failed</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Number of times that the blackhole failed to
+ connect after downshifting the
+ <acronym>MSS</acronym></entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 xml:id="disks">
+ <title>Disks and Storage</title>
+
+ <para revision="267359">Support for the
+ <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been
+ added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
+
+ <para revision="276526">The <literal>asr(4)</literal> driver
+ has been removed, and is no longer supported.</para>
+
+ <para revision="275461" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
+ &man.ctl.4; subsystem has been updated, increasing the ports
+ limit from <literal>128</literal> to <literal>256</literal>,
+ and <acronym>LUN</acronym> limit from <literal>256</literal>
+ to <literal>1024</literal>.</para>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 xml:id="fs">
+ <title>File Systems</title>
+
+ <para revision="270096" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
+ new filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been
+ added. The new &man.autofs.5; facility is similar to that
+ found in other &unix;-like operating systems, such as
+ OS X™ and Solaris™. The &man.autofs.5;
+ facility uses a &sun;-compatible &man.auto.master.5;
+ configuration file, and is administered with the
+ &man.automount.8; userland utility, and the
+ &man.automountd.8; and &man.autounmountd.8; daemons.</para>
+
+ <sect4 xml:id="fs-zfs">
+ <title>ZFS</title>
+
+ <para revision="275748">The
+ <literal>arc_meta_limit</literal> statistics are now
+ visible through the <literal>kstat</literal>
+ &man.sysctl.8;. As a result of this change, the
+ <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used</literal> &man.sysctl.8;
+ has been removed, and replaced with the
+ <literal>kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used</literal>
+ &man.sysctl.8;.</para>
+ </sect4>
+ </sect3>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 xml:id="userland">
+ <title>Userland Changes</title>
+
+ <para revision="258838" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;,
+ &google;" sponsorurl="">The &man.casperd.8; daemon has been
+ added, which provides access to functionality that is not
+ available in the <quote>capability mode</quote>
+ sandbox.</para>
+
+ <para revision="260594">When unable to load a kernel module with
+ &man.kldload.8;, a message informing to view output of
+ &man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output
+ <quote>Exec format error.</quote>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="260910">Allow &man.pciconf.8; to identify PCI
+ devices that are attached to a driver to be identified by
+ their device name instead of just the selector. Additionally,
+ an optional device argument to the <literal>-l</literal> flag
+ to restrict the output to only listing details about a single
+ device.</para>
+
+ <para revision="260913">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote>
+ has been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows
+ the system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the
+ device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent
+ to <literal>off</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="260926">Support for displaying VPD for PCI
+ devices via &man.pciconf.8; has been added.</para>
+
+ <para revision="261498">&man.ping.8; protects against malicious
+ network packets using the Capsicum framework to drop
+ privileges.</para>
+
+ <para revision="261504">&os;/&arch.i386; guests can be run under
+ bhyve.</para>
+
+ <para revision="265229">The &man.ps.1; utility has been
+ updated to include the <literal>-J</literal> flag, used to
+ filter output by matching &man.jail.8; IDs and names.
+ Additionally, argument <literal>0</literal> can be used to
+ <literal>-J</literal> to only list processes running on the
+ host system.</para>
+
+ <para revision="265249">The &man.top.1; utility has been updated
+ to filter by &man.jail.8; ID or name, in followup to the
+ &man.ps.1; change in <literal>r265229</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="265995">The Blowfish &man.crypt.3; default
+ format has been changed to
+ <literal>$2b$</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="266209">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been
+ updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which
+ ends event collection after the specified number of
+ seconds.</para>
+
+ <para revision="266463">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now
+ includes files in the
+ <filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and
+ <filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename>
+ directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para>
+
+ <para revision="268461">The &man.readline.3; library is now
+ statically linked in software within the base system, and the
+ shared library is no longer installed, allowing the Ports
+ Collection to use a modern version of the library.</para>
+
+ <para revision="270675">The &man.mailwrapper.8; utility has been
+ updated to use &man.mailer.conf.5; from the
+ <literal>LOCALBASE</literal> environment variable, which
+ defaults to <filename class="directory">/usr/local</filename>
+ if unset.</para>
+
+ <para revision="270745">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
+ to include a new keyword, <quote>tracer</quote>, which
+ displays the <acronym>PID</acronym> of the tracing
+ process.</para>
+
+ <para revision="271482">Support for adding empty partitions has
+ been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility.</para>
+
+ <para revision="272166">The &man.primes.6; utility has been
+ updated to correctly enumerate prime numbers between
+ <literal>4295098369</literal> and
+ <literal>3825123056546413050</literal>, which prior to this
+ change, it would be possible for returned values to be
+ incorrectly identified as prime numbers.</para>
+
+ <para revision="272198">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been
+ updated to include three options used to print information
+ about &man.mkimg.1; itself:</para>
<informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
<tgroup cols="2">
@@ -374,426 +595,224 @@
<colspec colwidth="1*"/>
<thead>
<row>
- <entry>Tunable</entry>
- <entry>Description</entry>
+ <entry>Option</entry>
+ <entry>Output</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
- <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_detection</literal></entry>
- <entry>Enables or disables <acronym>PLPMTUD</acronym>
- blackhole detection</entry>
+ <entry><literal>--version</literal></entry>
+ <entry>The current version of the &man.mkimg.1;
+ utility</entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.pmtud_blackhole_mss</literal></entry>
- <entry><acronym>MSS</acronym> to try for IPv4</entry>
+ <entry><literal>--formats</literal></entry>
+ <entry>The disk image file formats supported by
+ &man.mkimg.1;</entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry><literal>net.inet.tcp.v6pmtud_blackhole_mss</literal></entry>
- <entry><acronym>MSS to try for IPv6</acronym></entry>
+ <entry><literal>--schemes</literal></entry>
+ <entry>The partition schemes supported by
+ &man.mkimg.1;</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
- <para>New monitoring &man.sysctl.8;s haven been added:</para>
+ <para revision="272273">The &man.strptime.3; library has been
+ updated to add support for <acronym>POSIX</acronym>-2001
+ features <literal>%U</literal> and
+ <literal>%W</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="272274">The &os; installation utility,
+ &man.bsdinstall.8;, has been updated to set the
+ <literal>canmount</literal> &man.zfs.8; property to
+ <literal>off</literal> for the <filename
+ class="directory">/var</filename> dataset, preventing the
+ contents of directories within <filename
+ class="directory">/var</filename> from conflicting when
+ using multiple boot environments, such as that provided by
+ <filename role="package">sysutils/beadm</filename>.</para>
+
+ <para revision="272350">The <literal>MK_ARM_EABI</literal>
+ &man.src.conf.5; option has been removed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="272488">Userland &man.ctf.5; support in
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