Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:28:04 +0000 (UTC) From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r260923 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <201401202028.s0KKS45o057369@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: gjb Date: Mon Jan 20 20:28:04 2014 New Revision: 260923 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/260923 Log: Fix formatting, indentation, line length in preparation of upcoming changes to this file. 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 ============================================================================== --- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Mon Jan 20 20:06:13 2014 (r260922) +++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Mon Jan 20 20:28:04 2014 (r260923) @@ -1,12 +1,11 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN" - "../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [ + "../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" "release.ent"> %release; ]> <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> - + <info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author> @@ -28,7 +27,8 @@ <year>2012</year> <year>2013</year> <year>2014</year> - <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder> + <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation + Project</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> @@ -41,13 +41,13 @@ </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> + <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> @@ -55,30 +55,32 @@ <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> + &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 @@ -87,101 +89,109 @@ 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> + <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/> + <para>No advisories.</para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para revision="248508">The use of unmapped VMIO buffers eliminates the need to perform - TLB shootdown for mapping on buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the - amount of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30% + <para revision="248508">The use of unmapped VMIO buffers + eliminates the need to perform TLB shootdown for mapping on + buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the amount of IPIs + for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30% of the system time on i/o intensive workloads.</para> - <para arch="amd64" revision="254466">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel - can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para> - - <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an output capture - facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can now be captured - to a memory buffer for later inspection using &man.sysctl.8; or - a textdump. The new <command>capture</command> command controls - this feature.</para> - - <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple scripting - facility, which supports a set of named scripts consisting of a - set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can be managed from - within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new &man.ddb.8; - utility. More details can be found in the &man.ddb.4; manual - page.</para> + <para arch="amd64" revision="254466">The maximum amount of memory + the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to + 4TB.</para> + + <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; kernel debugger now has an + output capture facility. Input and output from &man.ddb.4; can + now be captured to a memory buffer for later inspection using + &man.sysctl.8; or a textdump. The new + <command>capture</command> command controls this feature.</para> + + <para role="merged">The &man.ddb.4; debugger now supports a simple + scripting facility, which supports a set of named scripts + consisting of a set of &man.ddb.4; commands. These commands can + be managed from within &man.ddb.4; or with the use of the new + &man.ddb.8; utility. More details can be found in the + &man.ddb.4; manual page.</para> <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="240135">Support was added for - the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number - generator, found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs, - accessible with RDRAND instruction.</para> + the new Intel on-CPU Bull Mountain random number generator, + found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs, accessible with + RDRAND instruction.</para> <sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization"> <title>Virtualization support</title> - <para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, &man.bhyve.8; is included - with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT) - support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond - (e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para> - - <para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added. &man.virtio.4; is the - name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but - since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen). - This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers - for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;), - memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI. - Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;.</para> - - <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="255524">Paravirtualized drivers which - support Microsoft Hyper-V have been imported and made - part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel. For i386, these drivers are not part of - GENERIC, so the following lines must be added to - <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to load these drivers: - <programlisting>hv_ata_pci_disengage_load="YES" + + <para arch="amd64" revision="245652">The BSD Hypervisor, + &man.bhyve.8; is included with &os;. &man.bhyve.8; requires + Intel CPUs with VT-x and Extended Page Table (EPT) support. + These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond (e.g. + Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para> + + <para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added. + &man.virtio.4; is the name for the paravirtualization + interface developed for the Linux KVM, but since adopted to + other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception + of Xen). This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room + implementation of the virtio kernel drivers for disk IO + (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO + (&man.vtnet.4;), memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), + and PCI. Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and + &man.bhyve.4;.</para> + + <para arch="amd64,i386" revision="255524">Paravirtualized + drivers which support Microsoft Hyper-V have been imported and + made part of the amd64 GENERIC kernel. For i386, these + drivers are not part of GENERIC, so the following lines must + be added to <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> to load + these drivers:</para> + + <programlisting>hv_ata_pci_disengage_load="YES" hv_netsvc_load="YES" hv_utils_load="YES" -hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be added to the i386 - kernel by adding <literal>device hyperv</literal> to the kernel config, and then - recompiling the kernel. Please refer to: - <link xlink:href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV">FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V support</link> - for full instructions on how to set up Hyper-V support under FreeBSD.</para> +hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> + + <para>Alternatively, the Hyper-V drivers can be added to the + i386 kernel by adding <literal>device hyperv</literal> to the + kernel config, and then recompiling the kernel. Please refer + to: <link xlink:href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV">FreeBSD + and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V support</link> for full + instructions on how to set up Hyper-V support under + FreeBSD.</para> <para revision="254738">The &man.vmx.4; driver has been added. - &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from - OpenBSD.</para> + &man.vmx.4; is a VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver ported from + OpenBSD.</para> - <para revision="255744" arch="amd64,i386">Xen PVHVM virtualization is now - part of the GENERIC kernel.</para> + <para revision="255744" arch="amd64,i386">Xen PVHVM + virtualization is now part of the GENERIC kernel.</para> </sect3> @@ -189,25 +199,30 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al <title>ARM support</title> <para revision="239922">Raspberry PI support has been added. - Refer to these <link xlink:href="http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164">setup instructions</link> - and <link xlink:href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide">quick start - guide</link>.</para> - - <para revision="253396">The default ABI on ARM is now the ARM EABI. This brings a number of - improvements and allows future support for VFP and Thumb-2.</para> - - <para revision="239268">ARM support has been greatly improved, including support - for ARMv6 and ARMv7, SMP and thread-local storage (TLS). - Additionally support for some newer SoC like the MV78x60 and OMAP4 was added. - See <link xlink:href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-August/003757.html">this announcement</link> - for further details.</para> - - <para revision="254918">Superpages support on ARM has been added. Superpages support - provides improved performance and scalability by allowing TLB - translations to dynamically cover large physical memory regions. - All ARMv6 and ARMv7-based platforms can take advantage of this feature. - See <link xlink:href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMSuperpages">this page</link> - for further details.</para> + Refer to these <link + xlink:href="http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164">setup + instructions</link> and <link + xlink:href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide">quick + start guide</link>.</para> + + <para revision="253396">The default ABI on ARM is now the ARM + EABI. This brings a number of improvements and allows future + support for VFP and Thumb-2.</para> + + <para revision="239268">ARM support has been greatly improved, + including support for ARMv6 and ARMv7, SMP and thread-local + storage (TLS). Additionally support for some newer SoC like + the MV78x60 and OMAP4 was added. See <link + xlink:href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-August/003757.html">this + announcement</link> for further details.</para> + + <para revision="254918">Superpages support on ARM has been + added. Superpages support provides improved performance and + scalability by allowing TLB translations to dynamically cover + large physical memory regions. All ARMv6 and ARMv7-based + platforms can take advantage of this feature. See <link + xlink:href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMSuperpages">this + page</link> for further details.</para> </sect3> @@ -215,17 +230,17 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al <sect3 xml:id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> - <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The BTX kernel used by the boot - loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real + <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The BTX kernel used by the + boot loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real mode. This change makes it possible to boot &os; from USB devices.</para> - <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">A new gptboot boot loader has - been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. A - new <command>boot</command> command has been added to - &man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the - required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot - partition if required.</para> + <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">A new gptboot boot loader + has been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. + A new <command>boot</command> command has been added to + &man.gpt.8;, which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the + required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot + partition if required.</para> </sect3> --> @@ -236,10 +251,10 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al <sect4 xml:id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> - <para revision="240609">Support for version 2.0 of the USB Audio reference design - has been added. New devices should support higher bandwidth, - increased sampling frequency and wider dynamic range.</para> - + <para revision="240609">Support for version 2.0 of the USB + Audio reference design has been added. New devices should + support higher bandwidth, increased sampling frequency and + wider dynamic range.</para> </sect4> <sect4 xml:id="net-if"> @@ -256,188 +271,204 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al number of outstanding issues. It also now works on all architectures.</para> - <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver has - been updated to include a number of stability fixes.</para> - - <para revision="248925">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been updated to support - 40G/10G Ethernet NICs based on Chelsio's Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC.</para> - - <para revision="256694">The iw_cxgbe driver has been added. This is an - experimental iWARP/RDMA driver - (kernel verbs only) for Chelsio's T4 and T5 based cards.</para> - - <para revision="255932">The Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) and - OFED Infiniband core has been - updated to the same version as supplied by Linux version 3.7</para> - - <para revision="255932">The Mellanox Infiniband driver has been updated to firmware - version 2.30.3200 for ConnectX3 NICs. Support has been added for ConnectX3 VPI NICs, where - each port can be used as Infiniband 56 GB/s or Ethernet 40 GB/s. Support has been added - for dynamically loading kernel modules for Infiniband core (ibcore) and - IP over Infiniband (ipoib).</para> - - <para revision="227614">&man.netmap.4; has been added. &man.netmap.4; is a framework for - high-performance direct-to-hardware packet IO, offering low latency and high PPS - rates to userland applications while bypassing any kernel-side packet processing. - With &man.netmap.4; it is trivially possible to fully saturate a 10 Gbps network interface with - minimal packet sizes. For more information, see: - <link xlink:href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/">Netmap Project</link>.</para> - + <para arch="amd64,i386" role="merged">The &man.wpi.4; driver + has been updated to include a number of stability + fixes.</para> + + <para revision="248925">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been + updated to support 40G/10G Ethernet NICs based on Chelsio's + Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC.</para> + + <para revision="256694">The iw_cxgbe driver has been added. + This is an experimental iWARP/RDMA driver (kernel verbs + only) for Chelsio's T4 and T5 based cards.</para> + + <para revision="255932">The Open Fabrics Enterprise + Distribution (OFED) and OFED Infiniband core has been + updated to the same version as supplied by Linux version + 3.7</para> + + <para revision="255932">The Mellanox Infiniband driver has + been updated to firmware version 2.30.3200 for ConnectX3 + NICs. Support has been added for ConnectX3 VPI NICs, where + each port can be used as Infiniband 56 GB/s or Ethernet 40 + GB/s. Support has been added for dynamically loading kernel + modules for Infiniband core (ibcore) and IP over Infiniband + (ipoib).</para> + + <para revision="227614">&man.netmap.4; has been added. + &man.netmap.4; is a framework for high-performance + direct-to-hardware packet IO, offering low latency and high + PPS rates to userland applications while bypassing any + kernel-side packet processing. With &man.netmap.4; it is + trivially possible to fully saturate a 10 Gbps network + interface with minimal packet sizes. For more information, + see: <link + xlink:href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/">Netmap + Project</link>.</para> </sect4> </sect3> <sect3 xml:id="net-proto"> <title>Network Protocols</title> - <para revision="228571">&man.carp.4; has been rewritten to make addresses - more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such as - quagga/zebra. It also brings support for a single redundant - address on the subnet (carpdev), switching state with - &man.ifconfig.8;, better locking and using modern kernel - interfaces to allocate multicast memberships. - Configuration of the CARP protocol via &man.ifconfig.8; has changed, as well as format - of CARP events submitted to &man.devd.8; has changed. See &man.carp.4; - for more information. The arpbalance feature of &man.carp.4; is currently - not supported anymore.</para> - - <para revision="240233">The &man.pf.4; firewall now supports fine-grain locking - and better utilization on multi-cpu machines resulting in - significant improvements in performance.</para> - - <para revision="250700">Support for up to 65536 routing tables has been - introduced.</para> - - <para revision="248552">Support for setting/matching differentiated services - codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has been added to - &man.ipfw.8;.</para> - + <para revision="228571">&man.carp.4; has been rewritten to make + addresses more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such + as quagga/zebra. It also brings support for a single redundant + address on the subnet (carpdev), switching state with + &man.ifconfig.8;, better locking and using modern kernel + interfaces to allocate multicast memberships. Configuration + of the CARP protocol via &man.ifconfig.8; has changed, as well + as format of CARP events submitted to &man.devd.8; has + changed. See &man.carp.4; for more information. The arpbalance + feature of &man.carp.4; is currently not supported + anymore.</para> + + <para revision="240233">The &man.pf.4; firewall now supports + fine-grain locking and better utilization on multi-cpu + machines resulting in significant improvements in + performance.</para> + + <para revision="250700">Support for up to 65536 routing tables + has been introduced.</para> + + <para revision="248552">Support for setting/matching + differentiated services codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has + been added to &man.ipfw.8;.</para> </sect3> <sect3 xml:id="disks"> <title>Disks and Storage</title> - <para role="merged">The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes larger than - 2TB in size.</para> + <para role="merged">The &man.aac.4; driver now supports volumes + larger than 2TB in size.</para> <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now supports a spindown command for - disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests - have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down - until the next request. The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now - supports a <command>spindown</command> command to configure - this feature.</para> - - <para role="merged">The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to version 1.2 - from Highpoint.</para> - - <para revision="240616">&man.nvme.4; has been added and provides NVM Express support. - NVM Express is an optimized register interface, command set and feature set of - PCI Express (PCIe)-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs). For more information, - see <link xlink:href="http://http://www.nvmexpress.org/">nvmexpress.org</link>.</para>; - + disks; after a configurable amount of time, if no requests + have been received for a disk, the disk will be spun down + until the next request. The &man.atacontrol.8; utility now + supports a <command>spindown</command> command to configure + this feature.</para> + + <para role="merged">The &man.hptrr.4; driver has been updated to + version 1.2 from Highpoint.</para> + + <para revision="240616">&man.nvme.4; has been added and provides + NVM Express support. NVM Express is an optimized register + interface, command set and feature set of PCI Express + (PCIe)-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs). For more information, + see <link + xlink:href="http://http://www.nvmexpress.org/">nvmexpress.org</link>.</para>; </sect3> <sect3 xml:id="fs"> <title>File Systems</title> - <para revision="255570">A new kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator has been - added</para> + <para revision="255570">A new kernel-based iSCSI target and + initiator has been added</para> - <para revision="243246">UFS filesystems can now be enlarged with &man.growfs.8; while - mounted read-write. This is especially useful for virtual - machines, allowing the addition of more harddrive space without - interruption of service.</para> - - <para revision="241519">A state of the art FUSE implementation is now part of the - base system. It allows the use of nearly all fusefs file - systems</para> + <para revision="243246">UFS filesystems can now be enlarged with + &man.growfs.8; while mounted read-write. This is especially + useful for virtual machines, allowing the addition of more + harddrive space without interruption of service.</para> + + <para revision="241519">A state of the art FUSE implementation + is now part of the base system. It allows the use of nearly + all fusefs file systems</para> <sect4 xml:id="fs-zfs"> <title>ZFS</title> - <para revision="256361">&man.bsdinstall.8; now supports installing - ZFS on the root file system. It includes a single configuration menu - that allows you to select all of the required details, including - which drives to use, what ZFS RAID level to use (taking into consideration - the selected number of drives), GPT or MBR, GELI encryption, forcing 4K sectors, - pool name, etc.</para> - - <para revision="240868">TRIM support has been added for - ZFS.</para> - - <para revision="246586">Support for the high performance LZ4 compression algorithm - has been added to ZFS. LZ4 is usually faster and can achieve a - higher compression ratio than LZJB, the default compression - algorithm</para> - - <para revision="252140">Support for L2ARC compression has been added to ZFS.</para> - - <para revision="243524">The zio nop-write improvement from Illumos - was imported into &os;. To reduce I/O, nop-write skips overwriting - data if the checksum (cryptographically secure) of new data - matches the checksum of existing data. It also saves space if - snapshots are in use. This improvement only works only on - datasets with enabled compression, disabled deduplication and - sha256 checksums.</para> - - <para>ZFS will now compare the checksums of incoming writes to - the checksum of the existing on-disk data and avoid issuing any - write I/O for data that has not changed. This will reduce I/O - as well as space usage because if the old block is referenced - by a snapshot, both copies of the block are kept even though - both contain the same data.</para> - + <para revision="256361">&man.bsdinstall.8; now supports + installing ZFS on the root file system. It includes + a single configuration menu that allows you to select all of + the required details, including which drives to use, what + ZFS RAID level to use (taking into consideration the + selected number of drives), GPT or MBR, GELI encryption, + forcing 4K sectors, pool name, etc.</para> + + <para revision="240868">TRIM support has been added for + ZFS.</para> + + <para revision="246586">Support for the high performance LZ4 + compression algorithm has been added to ZFS. LZ4 is usually + faster and can achieve a higher compression ratio than LZJB, + the default compression algorithm</para> + + <para revision="252140">Support for L2ARC compression has been + added to ZFS.</para> + + <para revision="243524">The zio nop-write improvement from + Illumos was imported into &os;. To reduce I/O, nop-write + skips overwriting data if the checksum (cryptographically + secure) of new data matches the checksum of existing data. + It also saves space if snapshots are in use. This + improvement only works only on datasets with enabled + compression, disabled deduplication and sha256 + checksums.</para> + + <para>ZFS will now compare the checksums of incoming writes to + the checksum of the existing on-disk data and avoid issuing + any write I/O for data that has not changed. This will + reduce I/O as well as space usage because if the old block + is referenced by a snapshot, both copies of the block are + kept even though both contain the same data.</para> </sect4> - </sect3> - </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> - <para revision="255321">On platforms where &man.clang.1; is the default - system compiler, (such as i386, amd64, arm) GCC and GNU libstdc++ are no - longer built by default. &man.clang.1; and libc++ from LLVM are used on - these platforms by instead. GCC 4.2.1 and libstdc++ are still built - and used by default on pc98 and all other platforms where &man.clang.1; - is not the default system compiler. - </para> - - <para revision="251662">&man.clang.1; and llvm have been updated to - version 3.3 release. Please refer to - <link xlink:href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">; - Clang 3.3 Release Notes.</link></para> - - <para role="merged" revision="255949">BIND has been replaced by &man.unbound.8; for - local dns resolution in the base system. With this change, nslookup - and dig are no longer a part of the base system. Users should - instead use &man.host.1; and &man.drill.1; Alternatively, - nslookup and dig can be obtained by installing the - dns/bind-tools port.</para> - - <para revision="225937">sysinstall has been removed from the base system. - Auxiliary libraries and tools used by sysinstall such as libdisk, libftpio, - and sade have also been removed. sysinstall has been replaced by - &man.bsdinstall.8; and &man.bsdconfig.8;.</para> - - <para revision="256106">&man.freebsd-version.1; has been added. This tool - makes a best effort to determine the version and patch level of - the installed kernel and userland.</para> - - <para revision="255191">GNU patch has been removed from the base system, and replaced - by a BSD-licensed &man.patch.1; program.</para> - - <para revision="241511">GNU sort has been removed from the base system, and replaced - by a BSD-licensed &man.sort.1; program.</para> + <para revision="255321">On platforms where &man.clang.1; is the + default system compiler, (such as i386, amd64, arm) GCC and GNU + libstdc++ are no longer built by default. &man.clang.1; and + libc++ from LLVM are used on these platforms by instead. GCC + 4.2.1 and libstdc++ are still built and used by default on pc98 + and all other platforms where &man.clang.1; is not the default + system compiler.</para> + + <para revision="251662">&man.clang.1; and llvm have been updated + to version 3.3 release. Please refer to <link + xlink:href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">; + Clang 3.3 Release Notes.</link></para> + + <para role="merged" revision="255949">BIND has been replaced by + &man.unbound.8; for local dns resolution in the base system. + With this change, nslookup and dig are no longer a part of the + base system. Users should instead use &man.host.1; and + &man.drill.1; Alternatively, nslookup and dig can be obtained by + installing the dns/bind-tools port.</para> + + <para revision="225937">sysinstall has been removed from the base + system. Auxiliary libraries and tools used by sysinstall such + as libdisk, libftpio, and sade have also been removed. + sysinstall has been replaced by &man.bsdinstall.8; and + &man.bsdconfig.8;.</para> + + <para revision="256106">&man.freebsd-version.1; has been added. + This tool makes a best effort to determine the version and patch + level of the installed kernel and userland.</para> + + <para revision="255191">GNU patch has been removed from the base + system, and replaced by a BSD-licensed &man.patch.1; + program.</para> + + <para revision="241511">GNU sort has been removed from the base + system, and replaced by a BSD-licensed &man.sort.1; + program.</para> <para revision="235723">Berkely yacc (byacc) has been imported - from <link xlink:href="http://invisible-island.net/byacc/">invisible island</link>. - This brings bison compatibilities to &man.yacc.1; while preserving full - backwards compatibility with previous version of &man.yacc.1;.</para> + from <link + xlink:href="http://invisible-island.net/byacc/">invisible + island</link>. This brings bison compatibilities to + &man.yacc.1; while preserving full backwards compatibility with + previous version of &man.yacc.1;.</para> - <para revision="250881">&man.lex.1; has been replaced by flex 2.5.37</para> + <para revision="250881">&man.lex.1; has been replaced by flex + 2.5.37</para> - <para revision="250699">&man.make.1; has been replaced with the + <para revision="250699">&man.make.1; has been replaced with the "Portable" BSD make tool (bmake) from NetBSD.</para> <para revision="243023">Support for usernames up to 32 @@ -454,10 +485,10 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al <para>BSD-licensed versions of &man.bc.1; and &man.dc.1; have replaced their GNU counterparts.</para> - <para role="merged">&man.chflags.1; now supports a <option>-v</option> flag for - verbose output and a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors - with the same semantics as (for example) - &man.chmod.1;.</para> + <para role="merged">&man.chflags.1; now supports + a <option>-v</option> flag for verbose output and + a <option>-f</option> flag to ignore errors with the same + semantics as (for example) &man.chmod.1;.</para> <para>For compatibility with other implementations, &man.cp.1; now supports a <option>-a</option> flag, which is equivalent to @@ -469,12 +500,13 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al <filename>gcpio</filename>.</para> <para>The &man.env.1; program now supports <option>-u - <replaceable>name</replaceable></option> - which will completely unset the given variable - <replaceable>name</replaceable> by removing it from the environment, - instead of just setting it to a null value.</para> + <replaceable>name</replaceable></option> which will completely + unset the given variable <replaceable>name</replaceable> by + removing it from the environment, instead of just setting it to + a null value.</para> - <para>The &man.fdopendir.3; library function has been added.</para> + <para>The &man.fdopendir.3; library function has been + added.</para> <para role="merged">The &man.fetch.3; library now support HTTP 1.1 If-Modified-Since behavior. The &man.fetch.1; program now @@ -509,10 +541,10 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al a <option>-q</option> flag to suppress warnings; it now also accepts multiple paths on its command line.</para> - <para>&man.sh.1; has many bug fixes, some new features, and will now - refuse to parse some invalid scripts. Additionally, it now - has filename completion and defaults to the "emacs" editing - mode.</para> + <para>&man.sh.1; has many bug fixes, some new features, and will + now refuse to parse some invalid scripts. Additionally, it now + has filename completion and defaults to the "emacs" + editing mode.</para> <para>The &man.split.1; utility now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to split a file into a certain number of chunks.</para> @@ -540,8 +572,8 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al <para>&man.top.1; now supports a <option>-P</option> flag to provide per-CPU usage statistics.</para> - <para>&man.zdump.8; is now working properly on 64 bit architectures. - </para> + <para>&man.zdump.8; is now working properly on 64 bit + architectures.</para> <para>&man.traceroute.8; now has the ability to print the AS number for each hop with the new <option>-a</option> switch; a @@ -555,102 +587,106 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al <sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts"> <title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title> - <para/> - + <para> </para> </sect3> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="contrib"> <title>Contributed Software</title> - <para revision="251300">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to 3.4.0. - See <link xlink:href="http://www.facebook.com/jemalloc/">this link</link>. - for more details.</para> + <para revision="251300">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to + 3.4.0. See <link + xlink:href="http://www.facebook.com/jemalloc/">this + link</link> for more details.</para> - <para role="merged"><application>AMD</application> has been updated from 6.0.10 - to 6.1.5.</para> + <para role="merged"><application>AMD</application> has been + updated from 6.0.10 to 6.1.5.</para> - <para role="merged"><application>awk</application> has been updated from 1 May + <para role="merged"><application>awk</application> has been + updated from 1 May 2007 release to the 20121220 release.</para> - <para revision="251794"><application>CVS</application> has been removed from the - base system, but is still available from ports</para> + <para revision="251794"><application>CVS</application> has been + removed from the base system, but is still available from + ports</para> - <para revision="251886">Subversion has been imported into the base system and - is installed as <application>svnlite</application>. <application>svnlite</application> - should only be used for checking out &os; source and committing, and does not - replace the full Subversion port.</para> + <para revision="251886">Subversion has been imported into the base + system and is installed as <application>svnlite</application>. + <application>svnlite</application> should only be used for + checking out &os; source and committing, and does not replace + the full Subversion port.</para> - <para revision="234449"><application>file</application> has been updated to 5.11.</para> + <para revision="234449"><application>file</application> has been + updated to 5.11.</para> - <para revision="252726"><application>hostapd</application> has been - updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para> + <para revision="252726"><application>hostapd</application> has + been updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</para> - <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to 5.1.2.</para> + <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to + 5.1.2.</para> - <para revision="250592"><application>less</application> has been updated to - v458.</para> + <para revision="250592"><application>less</application> has been + updated to v458.</para> - <para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from - to 5.7-20081102.</para> + <para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from to + 5.7-20081102.</para> - <para role="merged"><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated - to 6.4.</para> + <para role="merged"><application>OpenSSH</application> has been + updated to 6.4.</para> - <para revision="236109"><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated to - the Micrampelis release.</para> + <para revision="236109"><application>OpenPAM</application> has + been updated to the Micrampelis release.</para> - <para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been updated from - 8.14.1 to 8.14.7.</para> + <para role="merged"><application>sendmail</application> has been + updated from 8.14.1 to 8.14.7.</para> <para role="merged">The timezone database has been updated from the <application>tzdata2008h</application> release to the <application>tzdata2009m</application> release.</para> - <para>The stdtime part of libc, &man.zdump.8; and &man.zic.8; - have been updated from the <application>tzcode2004a</application> + <para>The stdtime part of libc, &man.zdump.8; and &man.zic.8; have + been updated from the <application>tzcode2004a</application> release to the <application>tzcode2009h</application> release. - If you have upgraded from source or via the &man.freebsd-update.8;, - then please run &man.tzsetup.8; to install a new /etc/localtime. - </para> + If you have upgraded from source or via the + &man.freebsd-update.8;, then please run &man.tzsetup.8; to + install a new /etc/localtime.</para> - <para revision="252726"><application>WPA Supplicant</application> has been - updated to 2.0.</para> + <para revision="252726"><application>WPA Supplicant</application> + has been updated to 2.0.</para> <para role="merged"><application>xz</application> has been updated from snapshot as of 12 April 2010 to 5.0.0.</para> - <para revision="258231" role="merged">&man.nvi.1; has been updated to 2.1.2.</para> - - <para revision="254225">&man.nvi.1; supports wide character locales.</para> + <para revision="258231" role="merged">&man.nvi.1; has been updated + to 2.1.2.</para> + <para revision="254225">&man.nvi.1; supports wide character + locales.</para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="ports"> <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> - <para revision="257444">The pkg_add, pkg_create, pkg_delete, pkg_info, - pkg_updating, and pkg_version utilities have been removed. - &man.pkg.7; must now be used to install binary packages. &man.pkg.7; - is the next generation &os; package manager, also referred to as "pkgng".</para> - + <para revision="257444">The pkg_add, pkg_create, pkg_delete, + pkg_info, pkg_updating, and pkg_version utilities have been + removed. &man.pkg.7; must now be used to install binary + packages. &man.pkg.7; is the next generation &os; package + manager, also referred to as "pkgng".</para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="releng"> <title>Release Engineering and Integration</title> - <para role="merged">The supported version of - the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment - (<package>x11/gnome2</package>) has been - updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22.</para> - + <para role="merged">The supported version of the + <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment + (<package>x11/gnome2</package>) has been updated from 2.20.1 + to 2.22.</para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="doc"> <title>Documentation</title> - <para/> - + <para> </para> </sect2> </sect1> @@ -671,9 +707,8 @@ hv_vmbus_load="YES"</programlisting> Al <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> <important> - <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after - backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration - files.</para> + <para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after backing up + <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration files.</para> </important> </sect1> </article>
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