FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE Release Notes

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FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE Release Notes

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FreeBSD is a registered trademark of the FreeBSD Foundation.

IBM, AIX, OS/2, PowerPC, PS/2, S/390, and ThinkPad are @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this document, and the FreeBSD Project was aware of the trademark claim, the designations have been followed by the “™” or the - “®” symbol.

Last modified on 2016-09-19 17:17:29Z by gjb.

Abstract

The release notes for FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE contain + “®” symbol.

Last modified on 2016-09-20 16:39:41Z by gjb.

Abstract

The release notes for FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the FreeBSD base system on the 11.0-STABLE development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ FCC on wireless interfaces. As a result, newly created wireless interfaces with default settings will have less chances to violate country-specific - regulations. [r287842]

4.3. Contributed Software

The binutils + regulations. [r300738]

4.3. Contributed Software

The binutils suite of utilities has been updated to include upstream patches that add new relocations for powerpc support. [r275718]

The @@ -375,7 +375,9 @@ scheme when installing on the UFS filesystem has been added to bsdinstall(8). [r285679] (Sponsored by - ScaleEngine, Inc.)

4.5. `/etc/rc.d` + ScaleEngine, Inc.)
The bsdinstall(8) utility has been + updated to include various system hardening options during + installation. [r303447]

4.5. `/etc/rc.d` Scripts

The rc(8) subsystem has been updated to allow configuring services in ${LOCALBASE}/etc/rc.conf.d/. If LOCALBASE is unset, it defaults to @@ -582,7 +584,12 @@ numactl(1), and numa_getaffinity(2), for usage details. [r285387] (Sponsored by - Norse Corporation, Dell, Inc.)

The pms(4) driver has been added + Norse Corporation, Dell, Inc.)

Support for running CloudABI executables + on amd64 and arm64 has been added. CloudABI is a runtime + environment that uses capability-based security exclusively, + similar to capsicum(4) always being enabled. It allows + designing, implementing and testing strongly sandboxed + applications more easily. [r285307]

The pms(4) driver has been added to the GENERIC kernel configuration for supported architectures. [r286231]

[arm] The CUBIEBOARD2 kernel configuration has been @@ -926,7 +933,25 @@ for parsing libucl-based configuration files has been added to ctld(8). [r295212] (Sponsored by - iXsystems)

The + iXsystems)

The ahci(4) driver has been updated + to add NCQ TRIM support + for drives that support it. [r298002] + (Sponsored by + Netflix)

Note:

Drives that advertise this feature but do not properly + support it have been blacklisted. Systems experiencing + traffic problems with NCQ + TRIM enabled can set the + kern.cam.ada.%d.quirks tunable to + 2 for 512k sectors or + 3 for 4096k sectors, replacing + %d with the drive number.

The cam(4) driver has been updated to + allow I/O scheduling tuning to fit workload and drive + characteristics. This option is off by default, and can be + enabled by adding option + CAM_IOSCHED_ADAPTIVE option to the kernel + configuration and recompiling the kernel. [r298002] + (Sponsored by + Netflix)

The camcontrol(8) command can manually force updating capacity data after a disk gets resized using the reprobe subcommand. [r299371]

FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE Release Notes

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FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE Release Notes

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4.3. Contributed Software

4.3. Contributed Software

4.5. /etc/rc.d + ScaleEngine, Inc.)The bsdinstall(8) utility has been + updated to include various system hardening options during + installation. [r303447]

4.5. /etc/rc.d Scripts

Note:

4.5. `/etc/rc.d` + ScaleEngine, Inc.)
The bsdinstall(8) utility has been + updated to include various system hardening options during + installation. [r303447]

4.5. `/etc/rc.d` Scripts