svn commit: r259768 - stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Craig Rodrigues
rodrigc at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 23 11:48:23 UTC 2013
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
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--- 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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