FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE Release Notes

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FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE Release Notes

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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.

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The release notes for FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE contain + “®” symbol.

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Abstract

The release notes for FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the FreeBSD base system on the 10.1-STABLE development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ is cached after the first entry is used for the subsequent GEOM_ELI provider. If the passphrase in the cache is incorrect, then a prompt for the passphrase for - the next provider is displayed. [r272006]

2.2.4. Hardware Support

2.2.4.1. Multimedia Support

2.2.4.2. Network Interface Support

Support for Ralink RT5370 and + the next provider is displayed. [r272006]

2.2.4. Hardware Support

2.2.4.1. Network Interface Support

Support for Ralink RT5370 and RT5372 chipsets has been added to the run(4) driver. [r259453]

Firmware for the run(4) driver has been updated to version 0.33. [r260120]

Support for the Ralink RT3593 @@ -481,9 +481,9 @@ been updated to include a new flag to zfs list, -p, which when specified, prints the output in a parsable format. [r263405]

The Blowfish password format - implementation has been updated. Support for $2b$ has - been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256 - characters long. [r263783]

The iconv(3) library has been + implementation has been updated. Support for + $2b$ has been added, allowing use of passwords + greater than 256 characters long. [r263783]

The iconv(3) library has been updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes. [r264497]

The date(1) utility has been updated to include a new flag, -R, which prints the date and time output as specified in RFC @@ -648,7 +648,13 @@ FreeNAS)

Several libc improvements have been merged from illumos™ and Apple®, providing better internationalization support and POSIX® compliance.

Support for adding empty partitions has - been added to the mkimg(1) utility. [r271967]

2.3.1. `/etc/rc.d` Scripts

The network.subr + been added to the mkimg(1) utility. [r271967]

Support for QCOW and QCOW2 disk image + formats has been added to the mkimg(1) utility. [r272819]

The mkimg(1) utility has been + updated to include three options used to print information + about mkimg(1) itself: [r273098]

Option	Output
`--version`	The current version of the mkimg(1) + utility
`--formats`	The disk image file formats supported by + mkimg(1)
`--schemes`	The partition schemes supported by + mkimg(1)

2.3.1. `/etc/rc.d` Scripts

The network.subr rc(8) script has been updated to loosen the requirement of listing network aliases in numeric order. Previously, a network alias of @@ -672,7 +678,14 @@ has been added the rc.d(8). This allows creating separate configuration files for services such as netif, for example, where each network - interface can have a separate configuration file. [r271260]

2.4. Contributed Software

The xz(1) utility has been updated + interface can have a separate configuration file. [r271260]

The default rc.conf(5), + /etc/defaults/rc.conf, has been updated + to include /usr/lib32/compat in the + default ld-elf32.so.1 search + path. [r272078]

2.3.2. `/etc/periodic` Scripts

The daily periodic(8) script + 110.clean-tmps has been updated to + avoid crossing filesystem mount boundaries when cleaning + files in /tmp. [r272430]

2.4. Contributed Software

The xz(1) utility has been updated to a post-5.0.5 snapshot. [r263285]

OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.6p1. [r264377]

The nc(1) utility has been updated to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5. [r264911]

Sendmail @@ -697,7 +710,8 @@ FTP server has been removed from the FreeBSD base system. [r270415]

The timezone database has been updated to version tzdata2014f. [r270817]

OpenPAM has - been updated to Ourouparia (20140912). [r271947]

2.5. Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure

2.6. Release Engineering and Integration

The services.mkdb(8) utility has + been updated to Ourouparia (20140912). [r271947]

2.5. Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure

The pkg(8) package management utility has been + updated to version 1.3.8.

2.6. Release Engineering and Integration

The services.mkdb(8) utility has been updated to include endianness awareness, allowing the services.db database to be created as part of the release build, regardless of native- or @@ -713,13 +727,30 @@ pkg(8) in the packages/ structure on the DVD installer. This allows the pkg(7) bootstrap utility to properly locate the Latest/pkg.txz - file on the DVD when REPOS_DIR is set to + package on the DVD when REPOS_DIR is set to /dist/packages/repos, eliminating the need for a network connection or explicitly providing the path to the version included on the DVD installation medium. [r271943] (Sponsored by - The FreeBSD Foundation)

2.7. Documentation

3. Upgrading from Previous Releases of FreeBSD

[amd64,i386] Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions + The FreeBSD Foundation)

The + FreeBSD Release Engineering build tools have been updated to + provide support for building virtual machine disk images as + part of the release build process using mkimg(1). The + disk image formats currently supported include QCOW2, VHD, + VMDK, and raw formats. See release(7) for additional + information. [r273101] + (Sponsored by + The FreeBSD Foundation)

The + FreeBSD Release Engineering build tools have been updated to + provide support for building FreeBSD virtual machine disk images + for the Microsoft® Azure cloud hosting platform. This + functionality is not connected directly to the default + release make(1) target, however can be + invoked by specifying the vm-azure target + directly. [r273199] + (Sponsored by + The FreeBSD Foundation)

3. Upgrading from Previous Releases of FreeBSD

[amd64,i386] Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the freebsd-update(8) utility. The binary upgrade procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as

FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE Release Notes

The FreeBSD Project

FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE Release Notes

The FreeBSD Project

2.2.4. Hardware Support

2.2.4.1. Multimedia Support

2.2.4.2. Network Interface Support

2.2.4. Hardware Support

2.2.4.1. Network Interface Support

2.3.1. /etc/rc.d Scripts

2.3.1. /etc/rc.d Scripts

2.4. Contributed Software

2.3.2. /etc/periodic Scripts

2.4. Contributed Software

2.5. Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure

2.6. Release Engineering and Integration

2.5. Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure

2.6. Release Engineering and Integration

2.7. Documentation

3. Upgrading from Previous Releases of FreeBSD

3. Upgrading from Previous Releases of FreeBSD

2.3.1. `/etc/rc.d` Scripts

2.3.1. `/etc/rc.d` Scripts

2.3.2. `/etc/periodic` Scripts