svn commit: r276585 - stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Glen Barber
gjb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 2 22:25:28 UTC 2015
Author: gjb
Date: Fri Jan 2 22:25:27 2015
New Revision: 276585
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/276585
Log:
Prune stable/10 release notes page after 10.1-RELEASE.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Modified:
stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
Modified: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
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--- stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Fri Jan 2 21:52:01 2015 (r276584)
+++ stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Fri Jan 2 22:25:27 2015 (r276585)
@@ -130,342 +130,24 @@
<sect2 xml:id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
- <para revision="260431">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
- <literal>kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</literal>, has been
- added, which allows controlling how long the system will wait
- after &man.panic.9; before rebooting.</para>
-
- <para revision="262861">The &man.vt.4; driver has been merged
- from &os;-CURRENT. 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="263122">Support for &man.hwpmc.4; has been added
- for &powerpc; 970 class processors.</para>
-
- <para revision="263197">Support for ADT7460 and ADT7467 fan
- controllers found in newer PowerBooks™ and
- iBooks™ has been added to the &man.iicbus.4;
- driver.</para>
-
- <para revision="263256">A panic triggered by removing
- a &man.urtwn.4; device has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="263799">A potential deadlock in the &man.usb.4;
- stack triggered by detaching USB devices that create character
- devices has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="263869">Support for &amd; Family 16h sensor
- devices has been added to &man.amdtemp.4;.</para>
-
- <para revision="265610">The &man.uslcom.4; driver has been
- updated to support 26 new devices.</para>
-
- <para revision="266165">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="266436">The &man.uart.4; driver has been
- updated to include support for the &intel; Lynx Point
- KT <acronym>AMT</acronym> serial port.</para>
-
- <para revision="266594">The <literal>radeonkms(4)</literal>
- driver has been updated to include 32-bit &man.ioctl.2;
- support, allowing 32-bit applications to run on a 64-bit
- system.</para>
-
- <para revision="266718">A bug that would prevent
- a &man.jail.8; from setting the correct IPv4 source address
- with some operations that required
- <literal>security.jail.allow_raw_sockets</literal> has been
- fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="266911">The &man.hwpmc.4; driver has been
- updated to support core events from the Atom™
- Silvermont architecture.</para>
-
- <para revision="268046">The &man.oce.4; driver has been updated
- with vendor-supplied fixes for big endian support, and 20GB/s
- and 25GB/s link speeds.</para>
-
- <para revision="270630">The &os; virtual memory subsystem
- has been updated to implement <quote>fast path</quote> for
- the page fault handler.</para>
-
- <para revision="271069">The &man.asmc.4; driver has been updated
- to support the &apple; Mac Mini 3,1.</para>
-
- <para revision="271111">The &os;/&arch.powerpc64; default kernel
- configuration, <filename>GENERIC64</filename>, has been
- updated to enable the &man.vt.4; console driver for the
- Sony® Playstation 3™ platform.</para>
-
- <para revision="271116" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- &os;/&arch.powerpc; <literal>ofwfb</literal> driver, used to
- provide a graphics console when the &man.vt.4; console driver
- is used, has been modified to work with the <filename
- role="package">x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb</filename>
- port.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>If using an <acronym>ATI</acronym> graphics card with
- the &man.vt.4; driver, the <filename
- role="package">x11-servers/xorg-server</filename> package
- must be updated to version 1.12.4_8 or newer.</para>
- </note>
-
- <para revision="271128" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Several
- performance enchancements to the &man.vt.4; driver have been
- merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para>
-
- <para revision="271153">The default stack size
- (<literal>KSTACK_PAGES</literal>) has been increased from
- <literal>4</literal> to <literal>8</literal> for the
- &arch.powerpc64; architecture.</para>
-
- <para revision="271205">The &os;/&arch.powerpc; ATI driver
- has been updated to support enabling and disabling the
- Radeon 9700 backlight, found in the
- &apple; PowerBook™ G4.</para>
-
- <para revision="271816">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> </para>
<sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
<title>Virtualization Support</title>
- <para revision="259450">Support for µsoft; Hyper-V
- has been added to &os;/i386 as loadable modules, however
- not available in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
- configuration.</para>
-
- <para revision="261090">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now
- supports soft power-off functionality via the ACPI S5
- state.</para>
-
- <para revision="267399">Support for &os;/i386 guests has been
- added to &man.bhyve.4;.</para>
-
- <para revision="267427">Support for virtualized
- <literal>XSAVE</literal> has been added to &man.bhyve.4;,
- allowing guest operating systems to use
- <literal>XSAVE</literal> and
- <literal>XSAVE</literal>-enabled features, such as
- <acronym>AVX</acronym>.</para>
-
- <para revision="268932">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor now
- supports booting from a &man.zfs.8; filesystem.</para>
-
- <para revision="268933">A new driver, &man.virtio_random.4;,
- has been added, which allows &os; virtual machines to
- harvest entropy from the hypervisor.</para>
-
- <para revision="270159">The &man.bhyve.4; hypervisor has been
- synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para>
-
- <para>A number of enhancements have been added, and several
- bug fixes, including:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Post-mortem debugging has been added when
- a guest virtual machine exits with an
- <quote><acronym>EPT</acronym> Misconfiguration</quote>
- error.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>The hypervisor &man.virtio.4; <acronym>API</acronym>
- has been expanded from 32- to 64-bit.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Support for identifying capabilities of the virtual
- <acronym>CPU</acronym> has been added.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Support for emulating legacy x86 task
- switching has been added.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Support to list the VT-x features in base kernel
- &man.dmesg.8; has been added.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Support for extended PCI configuration space
- has been added.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ <para> </para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm">
<title>ARM Support</title>
- <para revision="259355">The <filename>WANDBOARD</filename>
- kernel configuration file has been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="265067">Boot devices may now be specified by
- setting a u-boot environment variable. If a boot device is
- not specified, the probe mechanism will be used. To specify
- the boot device, set the
- <literal>loaderdev=<replaceable>device</replaceable></literal>
- u-boot environment variable.</para>
-
- <para revision="266000">The <literal>nexus(4)</literal> driver
- has been updated to include <quote>Flattened Device
- Tree</quote> support, replacing the &man.fdtbus.4; driver
- in most cases.</para>
-
- <para revision="266105">The &man.gpioiic.4; and
- &man.gpioled.4; have been merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para>
-
- <para>Support for hardware floating point was added to the
- kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files
- for all platforms that contain the required hardware.</para>
-
- <para><application>C++</application> exception handling now
- works with <application>GCC</application>.</para>
-
- <para>Support for <acronym>SMP</acronym> was added to the
- kernel, and enabled by default in the configuration files
- for all platforms that contain multi-core CPUs.</para>
-
- <para>Support was added for:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>CHROMEBOOK (Samsung Exynos 5250)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>COLIBRI (Freescale Vybrid)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>COSMIC (Freescale Vybrid)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>IMX53-QSB (Freescale i.MX53)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>QUARTZ (Freescale Vybrid)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>RADXA (Rockchip rk30xx)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>WANDBOARD (Freescale i.MX6)</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>An <acronym>I2C</acronym> driver was added for
- the RaspberryPi.</para>
-
- <para>Drivers have been added to support <acronym>TI</acronym>
- platforms, such as BEAGLEBONE and PANDABOARD:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>PRUSS (Programmable Realtime Unit Subsystem)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>MBOX (Mailbox hardware)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>SDHCI (new faster driver for
- <acronym>MMC</acronym>/<acronym>SD</acronym>
- storage)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>PPS (Pulse Per Second input on a
- <acronym>GPIO</acronym>/timer pin)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>PWM (Pulse Width Modulation output)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>ADC (Analog to Digital converter)</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ <para> </para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
- <para revision="262701">A kernel selection menu has been added
- to &man.loader.8;. If the <quote>beastie menu</quote> is
- enabled, the kernel to boot may be selected from the kernel
- selection menu. Additional kernels may be listed in
- &man.loader.conf.5; as a comma- or space-separated list. By
- default, <literal>kernel</literal> and
- <literal>kernel.old</literal> are listed.</para>
-
- <para revision="271130" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- <filename class="directory">sys/boot/</filename> sources
- have been rearranged, moving &man.libstand.3; to a directory
- indicating the library is built as 32-bit.</para>
-
- <para revision="271135" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- &man.libstand.3; library has been updated to produce
- a 64-bit shared library for the &os;/&arch.amd64; and
- &os;/&arch.powerpc64; architectures.</para>
-
- <para revision="271135" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&ff;">Initial support for <acronym>UEFI</acronym>
- boot has been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="271136" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Three
- new files are installed to <filename
- class="directory">/boot</filename>, supporting
- <acronym>UEFI</acronym> boot:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><filename>boot1.efi</filename>: The
- <acronym>UEFI</acronym> first stage bootstrap
- file.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><filename>boot1.efifat</filename>:
- A <acronym>FAT</acronym> filesystem image containing
- an <acronym>EFI</acronym> system partition.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><filename>loader.efi</filename>: The third stage
- bootstrap file.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para revision="271880">Serial console and null console
- support has been added to the <acronym>UEFI</acronym> boot
- loader.</para>
-
- <para revision="272006">Support has been added to cache
- &man.geli.8; passphrases during system boot. When a system
- is configured with multiple <literal>GEOM_ELI</literal>
- providers all using the same passphrase, the passphrase that
- is cached after the first entry is used for the subsequent
- <literal>GEOM_ELI</literal> provider. If the passphrase in
- the cache is incorrect, then a prompt for the passphrase for
- the next provider is displayed.</para>
+ <para> </para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="proc">
@@ -477,998 +159,68 @@
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
<para> </para>
-
</sect4>
<sect4 xml:id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
- <para revision="259453">Support for Ralink RT5370 and
- RT5372 chipsets has been added to the &man.run.4;
- driver.</para>
-
- <para revision="260120">Firmware for the &man.run.4; driver
- has been updated to version 0.33.</para>
-
- <para revision="261868">Support for the Ralink RT3593
- chipset has been added to the &man.run.4; driver.</para>
-
- <para revision="261972">The &man.nve.4; driver is now
- deprecated, and the &man.nfe.4; driver should be used
- instead.</para>
-
- <para revision="262137">Support for the &man.axge.4; driver
- has been added. This driver supports the ASIX AX88178A
- and AX88179 USB ethernet adapters. The AX88178A supports
- USB 2.0, and the AX88179 supports USB 2.0 and 3.0.</para>
-
- <para revision="262363">The &man.urndis.4; driver has been
- imported from OpenBSD.</para>
-
- <para revision="264866">Support for multiple
- transmitter/receiver queues has been added to the
- &man.vmx.4; driver.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>The &os; guest operating system must have
- <acronym>MSIX</acronym> enabled as a prerequisite for
- multiple queues.</para>
- </note>
-
- <para revision="265345">Support for the ASUS USB-N10 Nano
- wireless card has been added to the &man.urtwn.4;
- driver.</para>
-
- <para revision="266212">Transmission checksum offloading has
- been disabled for the RTL8168C and RTL8168CP chipsets in
- the &man.re.4; driver for TCP and UDP frames. This is
- due to a report of UDP datagrams with IP options
- generating corrupt frames.</para>
-
- <para revision="266578">Preliminary support has been added
- to the &man.urtwn.4; driver for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and
- RTL8188ETV chipsets.</para>
-
- <para revision="267694">A bug in the fast receiver buffer
- recycle path has been fixed in the &man.cxgbe.4;
- driver.</para>
-
- <para revision="267849" contrib="vendor"
- vendor="&chelsio;">The bundled &man.cxgbe.4; firmware for
- T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version
- 1.11.27.0.</para>
-
- <para revision="269196">The &man.em.4; driver has been
- updated to version 7.4.2.</para>
-
- <para revision="269975">The &man.ixgbe.4; tunables have been
- renamed to match their &man.sysctl.8; counterparts:</para>
-
- <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
- <tgroup cols="2">
- <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
- <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
- <thead>
- <row>
- <entry>Old Name</entry>
- <entry>New Name</entry>
- </row>
- </thead>
-
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_aim</literal></entry>
- <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_aim</literal></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry>
- <entry><literal>hw.ix.max_interrupt_rate</literal></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rx_process_limit</literal></entry>
- <entry><literal>hw.ix.rx_process_limit</literal></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.tx_process_limit</literal></entry>
- <entry><literal>hw.ix.tx_process_limit</literal></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.enable_msix</literal></entry>
- <entry><literal>hw.ix.enable_msix</literal></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.num_queues</literal></entry>
- <entry><literal>hw.ix.num_queues</literal></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.txd</literal></entry>
- <entry><literal>hw.ix.txd</literal></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.rxd</literal></entry>
- <entry><literal>hw.ix.rxd</literal></entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry><literal>hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry>
- <entry><literal>hw.ix.unsupported_sfp</literal></entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </informaltable>
-
- <para>Be sure to update &man.loader.conf.5; if using the
- old tunables before upgrading to
- &os; &release.current;.</para>
-
- <para revision="270061">The &man.if.nf10bmac.4; driver has
- been merged from &os;-CURRENT to support the NetFPGA-10G
- Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.</para>
-
- <para revision="270297">The &man.cxgbe.4; driver has been
- updated to support &man.netmap.4; for the T5 10G/40G
- cards.</para>
-
- <para revision="270509">The &man.vtnet.4; driver has been
- updated to support &man.netmap.4;.</para>
-
- <para revision="270514">The &man.urtwn.4; driver has been
- updated to support the ASUS USB-AC51 wireless card.</para>
-
- <para revision="270631">The &intel; XL710 ethernet
- controller driver, <literal>ixlv(4)</literal>, has been
- merged from &os;-CURRENT.</para>
+ <para> </para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
- <para revision="265946">Support for the UDP-Lite protocol
- (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6
- stacks.</para>
-
- <para revision="267771">A bug in &man.sctp.4; that would allow
- two listening sockets bound to the same port has been
- fixed.</para>
-
- <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Kernel RPC code, which
- is a base of NFS server took multiple optimizations, that
- significantly improved its performance and
- <acronym>SMP</acronym> scalability.</para>
-
- <para revision="269065" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> initiator has been updated to
- support redirection handling when an
- <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> device is configured with multiple
- <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses across different network
- interfaces. Previously, clients connecting to
- such <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> devices could require
- additional client-side configuration.</para>
-
- <para revision="265523" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
- &man.sysctl.8;,
- <literal>kern.iscsi.fail_on_disconnection</literal>, has
- been added, which allows <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> clients to
- remove the attached disk device when the connection to the
- target is dropped, where previously I/O would stop until the
- connection is restored.</para>
-
- <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> transmit code has been optimized
- to coalesce <acronym>PDUs</acronym> and avoid lock
- contention.</para>
-
- <para revision="265524" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&ix;">Several performance optimizations have been
- made to the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym> subsystem, including
- deferring wakeup until enough data has been received to
- read or write a file, reducing <acronym>CPU</acronym> usage
- and throughput performance with large I/O workloads.</para>
-
- <para revision="263720" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&ff;">Support for hostname- and IP-based access
- restriction has been added to the <acronym>iSCSI</acronym>
- &man.ctld.8; daemon.</para>
-
- <para revision="263725" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&ff;">The &man.ctld.8; daemon has been updated
- to allow overriding the <quote>default</quote>
- <literal>portal-group</literal> configuration.</para>
-
- <para revision="263726" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&ff;">The &man.ctld.8; daemon now includes a new
- <literal>auth-group</literal>, <quote>default</quote>,
- defaulting to <literal>deny</literal>, which is possible
- to override.</para>
+ <para> </para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
- <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
- &man.geom.4; subsystem has been updated to support I/O
- direct dispatch. When safety requirements are met, it
- enables avoiding passing I/O requests to GEOM
- <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> thread,
- executing them directly in the caller context, avoiding
- CPU bottlenecks in
- <literal>g_up</literal>/<literal>g_down</literal> threads,
- plus avoid several context switches per I/O.</para>
-
- <para revision="260385" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
- &man.geom.4; RAID driver has been
- updated to support unmapped I/O.</para>
-
- <para revision="260387" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">The
- &man.cam.4; subsystem has been updated to support
- finer-grained locking, direct dispatch and multi-queue,
- which combined with &man.geom.4; direct dispatch, reduces
- lock congestion and improves <acronym>SMP</acronym>
- scalability of the SCSI/ATA stack.</para>
-
- <para revision="260478">The &man.geom.8;
- <literal>GEOM_MULTIPATH</literal> class has been updated to
- support automatic live partition resizing.</para>
-
- <para revision="260857">The &man.virtio_blk.4; driver has been
- updated to support unmapped I/O.</para>
-
- <para revision="260858">The &man.virtio_scsi.4; driver has
- been updated to support unmapped I/O.</para>
-
- <para revision="264522">Support for LUN-based CD changers has
- been removed from the &man.cd.4; driver.</para>
-
- <para revision="264732">Support for
- <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal> has been added to &man.zfs.8;
- <literal>zvol</literal> volumes.</para>
-
- <para revision="264734">Support for 9th generation HP host bus
- adapter cards has been added to &man.ciss.4;.</para>
-
- <para revision="265388" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&lsi;">The
- &man.mpr.4; device has been added,
- providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb SCSI/SATA
- controllers.</para>
-
- <para revision="265678">A new <literal>zvol</literal> property
- <literal>volmode</literal> and &man.sysctl.8;
- <literal>vfs.zfs.vol.mode</literal> has been added to allow
- switching <literal>zvol</literal> between three different
- ways of exposing it to a user: <literal>geom</literal>,
- <literal>dev</literal> and <literal>none</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="265922" 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="266608">Fixed accounting of
- <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal> operation in &man.geom.8;
- <literal>GEOM_DISK</literal> class</para>
-
- <para revision="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility now has an
- <literal>-o</literal> option, to display
- <quote>other</quote> operations, such as
- <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="267084">The &man.mfi.4; driver has been
- updated to include support for unmapped I/O.</para>
-
- <para revision="267457">The &man.hpt27xx.4; driver has been
- updated with various vendor-supplied bug fixes.</para>
-
- <para revision="270130" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&citrix.rd;">Support for unmapped I/O has been
- added to the &man.xen.4; <literal>blkfront</literal>
- driver.</para>
-
- <para revision="259328" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- &man.geom.8; <literal>label</literal> class is now aware of
- resized partitions. This corrects an issue where
- <command>geom resize</command> would resize the partition,
- but the label provider in <filename
- class="directory">/dev/gptid/</filename> would not be
- resized.</para>
-
- <para revision="260502">The &man.gmirror.8;
- utility now has a <literal>resize</literal> command, making
- it easier to resize the size of a mirror when all of its
- components have been replaced.</para>
-
- <para revision="262967">Support for MegaRAID Fury cards has
- been added to the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para>
-
- <para revision="263024">The &man.aacraid.4; driver has been
- updated to version 3.2.5.</para>
-
- <para revision="265536">The <literal>GEOM_VINUM</literal>
- option is now able to be built both directly into the kernel
- or as a &man.kldload.8; loadable module.</para>
-
- <para revision="265912">The &man.geom.8;
- <literal>GEOM_PART</literal> class has been updated to
- support automatic partition resizing. Changes to the
- partition size are not saved to disk until
- <command>gpart commit</command> is run, and prior to saving,
- can be reverted with <command>gpart undo</command>.</para>
-
- <para revision="266220">The &man.geom.uncompress.4; module is
- built by default which, similar to &man.geom.uzip.4;,
- provides support for compressed, read-only disk
- images.</para>
-
- <para revision="268091">Support for the
- <literal>disklabel64</literal> partitioning scheme has been
- added to &man.gpart.8;.</para>
-
- <para revision="270552">A new &man.sysctl.8; and
- &man.loader.8; tunable,
- <literal>kern.geom.part.mbr.enforce_chs</literal> has been
- added to the &man.geom.8; <literal>MBR</literal> partition
- class. When set to a non-zero value,
- <literal>GEOM_PART_MBR</literal> will automatically
- recalculate the user-specified offset and size for alignment
- with the disk geometry.</para>
-
- <para contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Many improvements to
- the CAM Target Layer (CTL):</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Support for <literal>UNMAP</literal>, <literal>WRITE
- SAME</literal>, <literal>COMPARE AND WRITE</literal>,
- <literal>XCOPY</literal> and some other SCSI commands
- was added to support VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX
- storage acceleration.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para revision="265642">The
- <literal>READ</literal>/<literal>WRITE</literal> size
- limitations were removed by supporting multiple
- data moves per command.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para revision="268556">Finer-grained per-LUN locking and
- multiple worker threads for better
- <acronym>SMP</acronym> scapability.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para revision="269297">Memory consumption reduced by
- several times by disabling some never used
- functionality.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para revision="269298">The maximum number of
- <acronym>SCSI</acronym> ports increased from 32 to
- 128.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para revision="269429">Improved <literal>zvol</literal>
- integration for better performance.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para revision="270810" contrib="vendor"
- vendor="&highpoint;">The &man.hptnr.4; driver has been
- updated to version 1.0.1.</para>
-
- <para revision="271234">The &man.mrsas.4; driver has been
- added to the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
- configuration on &arch.amd64; and &arch.i386;
- architectures.</para>
+ <para> </para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
- <para revision="260338">The
- <literal>vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma</literal> &man.sysctl.8; has
- been re-enabled. On multi-CPU machines with enough RAM,
- this can easily double &man.zfs.8; performance or reduce CPU
- usage in half. It was originally disabled due to memory and
- <acronym>KVA</acronym> exhaustion problem reports, which
- should be resolved due to several changes in the VM
- subsystem.</para>
-
- <para revision="260178" contrib="vendor"
- vendor="&netflix;">A new flag, <literal>-R</literal>,
- has been added to the &man.fsck.ffs.8; utility. When used,
- &man.fsck.ffs.8; will restart itself when too many critical
- errors have been detected.</para>
-
- <para revision="263407">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
- updated to implement <quote>bookmarks</quote>. See
- &man.zfs.8; for further details.</para>
-
- <para revision="266122">The &man.zfs.8; filesystem has been
- updated to allow tuning the minimum <quote>ashift</quote>
- value when creating new top-level virtual devices (vdevs).
- To set the minimum ashift value, for example when creating
- a &man.zpool.8; on <quote>Advanced Format</quote> drives,
- set the <literal>vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift</literal>
- &man.sysctl.8; accordingly.</para>
-
- <para revision="266612">The <literal>libzfs</literal> thread
- pool <acronym>API</acronym> has been imported from
- OpenSolaris, and adapted for &os;. This change allows
- parallel disk scanning, which can reduce &man.zpool.8;
- overall import time in some workloads.</para>
-
- <para revision="269651">The &man.restore.8; utility has been
- updated to prevent assertion failures when restoring
- a <acronym>UFS</acronym> filesystem dump to
- a <acronym>ZFS</acronym> filesystem by writing restored
- files in block sizes that are a multiple of 1024.</para>
-
- <para revision="269774">Two &man.sysctl.8;s have been added
- to the &man.zfs.8; filesystem:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <literal>vfs.zfs.mg_fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The
- percentage of the metaslab group size that should be
- considered eligible for allocation, unless all metaslab
- groups within the metaslab class have also crossed this
- threshold.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <literal>vfs.zfs.metaslab.fragmentation_threshold</literal>: The
- maximum percentage of metaslab fragmentation level to
- keep their active state</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para revision="269846">The default &man.zfs.8;
- <acronym>ARC</acronym> hash table size has been increased,
- and a new &man.loader.8; tunable,
- <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal>, has been
- added. Previously, the hash table could be too small, which
- would lead to long hash chains and limit performance for
- cached reads. The
- <literal>vfs.zfs.arc_average_blocksize</literal> tunable
- allows overriding the default block size. The previous
- default was 65536, and default of the new &man.loader.8;
- tunable is 8192.</para>
-
- <para revision="270157">The Fast File System
- (<acronym>FFS</acronym>) has been updated to support
- multi-threaded soft updates. Previously, soft updates were
- handled by a single thread, and as of this change, now have
- one thread per <acronym>FFS</acronym> mountpoint.</para>
-
- <para revision="270892" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
- new filesystem automount facility, &man.autofs.5;, has been
- merged from &os;-CURRENT. 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>
+ <para> </para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
- <para revision="260177" contrib="sponsor"
- sponsor="&netflix;">A new flag is added to &man.camcontrol.8;,
- <literal>-b</literal>, which outputs the existing buses and
- their parents.</para>
-
- <para revision="262075">The &man.newsyslog.8; utility has been
- updated to rotate files based on the actual file size instead
- of the blocks on disk. This matches the behavior documented
- in &man.newsyslog.conf.5;.</para>
-
- <para revision="262384">The location of the &man.rctl.8;
- configuration file can now be overridden in &man.rc.conf.5;.
- To use a non-default location, set
- <literal>rctl_rules</literal> in &man.rc.conf.5; to the
- location of the file.</para>
-
- <para revision="262855">The <application>ATF</application> test
- suite has been updated to version 0.20. The test suite is
- disabled by default in &os; 10.1, and can be enabled by
- adding <literal>WITH_TESTS=yes</literal> to
- &man.src.conf.5;.</para>
-
- <para revision="263019">The <literal>libucl</literal> library
- (Unified Configuration Library) has been merged from
- &os;-CURRENT.</para>
-
- <para revision="263020">The &man.pkg.7; bootstrapping utility
- has been synced with the version in &os;-CURRENT.</para>
-
- <para revision="263403">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has
- been updated to include aliases for
- <command>snapshot</command>, which allows use of <command>zfs
- list -t snap</command> and <command>zfs
- snap</command>.</para>
-
- <para revision="263405">The &man.zfs.8; userland utility has
- been updated to include a new flag to <command>zfs
- list</command>, <literal>-p</literal>, which when specified,
- prints the output in a parsable format.</para>
-
- <para revision="263783">The Blowfish password format
- implementation has been updated. Support for $2b$ has
- been added, allowing use of passwords greater than 256
- characters long.</para>
-
- <para revision="264497">The &man.iconv.3; library has been
- updated to match NetBSD, providing several bug fixes.</para>
-
- <para revision="265265">The &man.date.1; utility has been
- updated to include a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, which
- prints the date and time output as specified in RFC
- 2822.</para>
-
- <para revision="265533">The &man.bc.1; utility has been updated
- to version 1.1, in sync with the version in OpenBSD.</para>
-
- <para revision="265604" contrib="vendor"
- vendor="&netflix;">The &man.pmcstat.8; utility has been
- updated to include a new flag, <literal>-a</literal>, which
- when specified, produces a full stack track on the sampled
- points.</para>
-
- <para revision="265701">The &man.netstat.8; and &man.route.8;
- utilities have been updated to include a shorthand equivalent
- to the <literal>-f inet</literal> and <literal>-f
- inet6</literal> address specifiers, <literal>-4</literal>
- and <literal>-6</literal>, respectively.</para>
-
- <para revision="265879">The &man.crypt.3; library now defaults
- to SHA512 for password hashing.</para>
-
- <para revision="266014">The &man.gvinum.8; utility has been
- updated to allow forceful configuration reset with the
- <literal>-f</literal> flag. Additionally, a bug that would
- prevent <literal>-f</literal> from properly creating
- a &man.gvinum.8; configuration has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="266029">The &man.login.conf.5; file now takes
- precedence over the shell-specific environment files. In
- particular, the <literal>PATH</literal>,
- <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal> variables are commented from
- <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.profile</filename>, and the
- <literal>path</literal>, <literal>BLOCKSIZE</literal>, and
- <literal>umask</literal> variables have been commented from
- <filename>/usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc</filename>.</para>
-
- <para revision="266272">The &man.binmiscctl.8; userland utility
- and related image activator features have been merged from
- &os;-CURRENT.</para>
-
- <para revision="266279">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="266280">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="266610">The &man.gstat.8; utility has been
- updated to include a new flag, <literal>-o</literal>. When
- set, &man.gstat.8; will display statistics for operations
- such as <literal>BIO_FLUSH</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="266632">The &man.fetch.3; library has been
- updated to look for root <acronym>SSL</acronym> certificates
- in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/ssl/</filename>
- before <filename
- class="directory">/etc/ssl/</filename>.</para>
-
- <para revision="266715">The &man.clang.1;/llvm suite has been
- updated to version 3.4.1.</para>
-
- <para revision="266816">The Blowfish password format
- has been changed to $2b$ by default.</para>
-
- <para revision="266888">The amount of data collected for
- &man.hwpmc.4; has been updated to work with modern processors
- and larger amounts of available memory.</para>
-
- <para revision="266890">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="266953">The &man.mergemaster.8; utility has
- been updated to avoid printing
- <quote><filename>/var/tmp/temproot</filename>
- disappeared</quote> if there is nothing to compare.</para>
-
- <para revision="267056">The &os; installer, &man.bsdinstall.8;,
- has been updated to include optional
- &man.geli.8;-encrypted or &man.gmirror.8;-mirrored swap
- devices when installing onto a full &man.zfs.8; filesystem.
- Additionally, the parent &man.zfs.8; dataset is now configured
- with <literal>lz4</literal> compression enabled.</para>
-
- <para revision="267113">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="267161">The &man.realpath.1; utility has been
- updated to return <literal>ENOTDIR</literal> on paths
- components <quote>.</quote> and <quote>..</quote> that are
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