Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:48:22 +0000 (UTC) From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-10@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r259768 - stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <201312231148.rBNBmMuB041063@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: rodrigc Date: Mon Dec 23 11:48:22 2013 New Revision: 259768 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/259768 Log: MFC: Merge release note updates. Modified: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Directory Properties: stable/10/ (props changed) Modified: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml ============================================================================== --- stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Mon Dec 23 11:03:37 2013 (r259767) +++ stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Mon Dec 23 11:48:22 2013 (r259768) @@ -120,7 +120,12 @@ <sect2 xml:id="kernel"> <title>Kernel Changes</title> - <para arch="amd64">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel + <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>A new &man.cpuset.2; API has been added @@ -172,6 +177,73 @@ scheduler is now the default process scheduler in <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernels.</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> + + <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" +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.</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> + + <para revision="255744" arch="amd64,i386">Xen PVHVM virtualization is now + part of the GENERIC kernel.</para> + + </sect3> + + <sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm"> + <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> + + </sect3> + <sect3 xml:id="boot"> <title>Boot Loader Changes</title> @@ -204,7 +276,7 @@ <sect4 xml:id="mm"> <title>Multimedia Support</title> - <para>Support for version 2.0 of the USB Audio reference design + <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> @@ -265,27 +337,38 @@ 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>&man.carp.4; has been rewritten to make addresses + <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 - ifconfig, better locking and using modern kernel - interfaces to allocate multicast memberships.</para> + &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>The &man.pf.4; firewall now supports fine-grain locking + <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>Support for up to 65536 routing tables has been + <para revision="250700">Support for up to 65536 routing tables has been introduced.</para> - <para>Support for setting/matching differentiated services + <para revision="248552">Support for setting/matching differentiated services codepoints (DSCP) in IP header has been added to &man.ipfw.8;.</para> @@ -307,36 +390,64 @@ <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>A new kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator has been + <para revision="255570">A new kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator has been added</para> - <para>UFS filesystems can now be enlarged with &man.growfs.8; while + <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>A state of the art FUSE implementation is now part of the + <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>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>Support for L2ARC compression has been added to ZFS.</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 xml:id="fs-zfs"> + <title>ZFS</title> + + <para revision="">&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> @@ -345,13 +456,51 @@ <sect2 xml:id="userland"> <title>Userland Changes</title> - <para role="merged">BIND has been replaced by &man.unbound.8; for + <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> + + <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 + "Portable" BSD make tool (bmake) from NetBSD.</para> + <para role="merged">The &man.adduser.8; utility now supports a <option>-M</option> option to set the mode of a new user's home directory.</para> @@ -484,29 +633,32 @@ <para role="merged"><application>bzip2</application> has been updated from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5.</para> - <para><application>CVS</application> has been removed from the + <para revision="251794"><application>CVS</application> has been removed from the base system, but is still available from ports</para> - <para><application>FILE</application> has been updated from 4.23 - to 5.03.</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><application>hostapd</application> has been + <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 from - 4.1.23 to 4.1.28.</para> + <para><application>IPFilter</application> has been updated to 5.1.2.</para> - <para><application>less</application> has been updated from - v408 to v429.</para> + <para revision="250592"><application>less</application> has been updated to + v458.</para> <para><application>ncurses</application> has been updated from - 5.6-20061217 to 5.6-20080503.</para> + to 5.7-20081102.</para> <para role="merged"><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated - from 4.5p1 to 5.1p1.</para> + to 6.4.</para> - <para role="merged"><application>OpenPAM</application> has been updated from the - Figwort release to the Hydrangea 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> @@ -522,29 +674,25 @@ then please run &man.tzsetup.8; to install a new /etc/localtime. </para> - <para><application>WPA Supplicant</application> has been - updated from 0.5.8 to 0.5.10.</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> + </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="ports"> <title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title> - <para>The &man.pkg.create.1; utility now supports - <option>-n</option>. When this option is specified and a - package tarball exists, it will not be overwritten. This is - useful when multiple packages are saved with several consecutive - runs of &man.pkg.create.1; with the <option>-Rb</option> - options.</para> - - <para>The pkg_sign and pkg_check utilities for cryptographically - signing &os; packages have been removed. They were only useful - for packages compressed using &man.gzip.1;; however - &man.bzip2.1; compression has been the norm for some time - now.</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>
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