svn commit: r255888 - releng/9.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Glen Barber
gjb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 26 15:46:33 UTC 2013
Author: gjb
Date: Thu Sep 26 15:46:32 2013
New Revision: 255888
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/255888
Log:
Trim the release notes article to the basics, purely for inclusion
in the release build. The release notes will be updated on the
website as normal.
Discussed with: hrs
Approved by: re (implicit)
Modified:
releng/9.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
Modified: releng/9.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
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--- releng/9.2/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Thu Sep 26 15:36:20 2013 (r255887)
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@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@
advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
improvements.</para>
+ <para>The latest, up-to-date version of the release notes are
+ available online <ulink
+ url="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/relnotes-detailed.html">here</ulink>.</para>
+
<sect2 id="security">
<title>Security Advisories</title>
@@ -111,1059 +115,6 @@
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="kernel">
- <title>Kernel Changes</title>
-
- <para revision="232728">The &os; Jail subsystem now supports
- mounting &man.devfs.5;, &man.nullfs.5;, and ZFS filesystem
- inside a jail. New &man.jail.8; parameters
- <varname>allow.mount.devfs</varname>,
- <varname>allow.mount.nullfs</varname>, and
- <varname>allow.mount.zfs</varname> to control the per-jail
- capabilities have been added. All of them are disabled by
- default.</para>
-
- <para revision="234167">A new &man.loader.8; tunable
- <varname>kern.eventtimer.activetick</varname> has been added.
- This tunable specifies whether each hardclock tick should
- be run on every active CPU or only one. By setting it to
- <literal>0</literal>, the total number of interrupts can be reduced
- on SMP machines. The default value is
- <literal>1</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="229723">The &man.posix.fadvise.2; system call
- has been implemented. This is a function similar to
- &man.madvise.2; except that it operates on a file descriptor
- instead of a memory region.</para>
-
- <para revision="237795">The &man.filemon.4; pseudo-device has
- been added. This allows a process to collect file operations
- data of its children.</para>
-
- <para revision="235413">The &man.sysctl.8; variable
- <varname>kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic</varname> is now set to
- <literal>1</literal> by default.</para>
-
- <para revision="231907" arch="powerpc">&os;/powerpc64 now
- supports kernel profiling by using &man.kgmon.8;.</para>
-
- <para revision="231145">The &os; Linux ABI compatibility layer
- now supports the <function>linux_fadvise64()</function> and
- <function>linux_fadvise64_64()</function> system calls.</para>
-
- <para revision="230266">The default value of the &man.loader.8;
- tunable <varname>hw.memtest.tests</varname> is now
- automatically set to <literal>0</literal> when &os; is running
- on a virtual machine.</para>
-
- <para revision="234075">A new &man.loader.8; tunable
- <varname>kern.msgbuf_show_timestamp</varname> has been added.
- When it is enabled, a timestamp is added to each line of the
- system message buffer. The default value is
- <literal>0</literal> (disabled).</para>
-
- <para revision="230320">The &man.null.4; and &man.zero.4; pseudo
- device driver now supports non-blocking mode via the &man.fcntl.2;
- system call.</para>
-
- <para revision="233599">The &os; &man.sched.ule.4; scheduler has
- been improved for CPU load balancing on SMT (Simultaneous
- MultiThreading) CPUs. It gives a 10-15% performance improvement
- when the number of threads is lesser than the number of
- logical CPUs.</para>
-
- <para revision="235992"
- arch="sparc64">The <literal>PREEMPTION</literal> kernel option is
- now enabled in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
-
- <para revision="230039">A new &man.sysctl.8; variable
- <varname>security.bsd.unprivileged_idprio</varname> has been
- added. This variable controls whether non-root users can set
- an idle priority or not. This is disabled by default.</para>
-
- <para revision="228445">The &man.splash.4; screen interface now
- supports ASCII art in <application>TheDraw</application>
- format.</para>
-
- <sect3 id="boot">
- <title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
-
- <para revision="230065">The &man.boot0cfg.8; utility now
- supports configuration of PXE boot via the
- <filename>boot0</filename> boot block temporarily on the
- next boot. The slice number <literal>6</literal> or a
- keyword <literal>PXE</literal> can be specified to enable
- PXE boot using the <option>-s</option> option.</para>
-
- <para revision="231287">The &os; &man.boot.8; block now
- supports <filename>/boot/config</filename> in addition to
- <filename>/boot.config</filename> as the boot block
- parameter file. When both of them exist, the former will be
- used.</para>
-
- <para revision="234693">The <filename>gptboot</filename> boot
- block now reads the backup GPT header from the last LBA only
- when the primary GPT header and tables are invalid. This
- mitigates interoperability issues with some &man.geom.4;
- providers like <literal>MIRROR</literal> which use the last
- LBA for the metadata.</para>
-
- <para revision="237766">The <filename>zfsboot</filename> boot
- block and <filename>zfsloader</filename> support
- filesystems within a ZFS storage pool. In
- <filename>zfsloader</filename>, the ZFS device name format is now
- <literal>zfs:<replaceable>pool</replaceable>/<replaceable>fs</replaceable></literal>
- and the fully qualified file path format is
- <literal>zfs:<replaceable>pool</replaceable>/<replaceable>fs</replaceable>:/<replaceable>path/to/file</replaceable></literal>.
- The <filename>zfsboot</filename> boot block accepts the
- kernel/loader name in the format
- <literal><replaceable>pool</replaceable>:<replaceable>fs</replaceable>:<replaceable>path/to/file</replaceable></literal>
- or, as before,
- <literal><replaceable>pool</replaceable>:<replaceable>path/to/file</replaceable></literal>.
- In the latter case a default filesystem is used (the pool
- root or a filesystem with the <literal>bootfs</literal> property). The
- <filename>zfsboot</filename> boot block passes
- the GUIDs of the selected
- storage pool and dataset to <filename>zfsloader</filename>
- to be used as its defaults.</para>
-
- <para revision="236076" arch="sparc64">&os;/sparc64 now
- supports booting from ZFS via the <filename>zfsboot</filename> boot block and
- <filename>zfsloader</filename>. For example, the following commands create a
- mirrored storage pool <literal>rpool</literal> consisting of
- <literal>da0a</literal> and <literal>da0b</literal> and
- configure the storage pool as the root filesystem:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.root; gpart create -s vtoc8 da0
-&prompt.root; gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -s 10g da0
-&prompt.root; gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 10g da0
-&prompt.root; gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -s 10g da0
-&prompt.root; zpool create rpool mirror da0a da0b
-&prompt.root; zpool set bootfs=rpool rpool
-&prompt.root; zpool export rpool
-&prompt.root; gpart bootcode -p /boot/zfsboot da0
-&prompt.root; sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10
-&prompt.root; dd if=/boot/zfsloader of=/dev/da0a bs=512 oseek=1024 conv=notrunc
-&prompt.root; dd if=/boot/zfsloader of=/dev/da0b bs=512 oseek=1024 conv=notrunc
-&prompt.root; zpool import rpool
-&prompt.root; cp -p /boot/zfs/zpool.cache /rpool/boot/zfs/zpool.cache
-&prompt.root; zfs set mountpoint=/ rpool</screen>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="proc">
- <title>Hardware Support</title>
-
- <para revision="230751" arch="powerpc">The &man.abtn.4;
- driver, which supports ADB keyboards found on Apple laptops,
- has been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="233798" arch="amd64">A workaround for Erratum
- 721 for AMD Processor Family 10h and 12h has been
- implemented. Under a highly specific and detailed set of
- internal timing conditions, the processor may incorrectly
- update the stack pointer after a long series of push and/or
- near-call instructions, or a long series of pop and/or
- near-return instructions.</para>
-
- <para revision="232677" arch="powerpc">The atibl(4) driver,
- which supports backlight control of ATI graphics chips on
- PowerBooks and iBooks, has been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="229858">The &man.acpi.wmi.4; driver now
- supports attaching multiple instances.</para>
-
- <para revision="230290" arch="powerpc">The adm1030(4) driver
- for G4 MDD fans now shows its PWM parameter in the device's
- &man.sysctl.8; variable.</para>
-
- <para revision="234559" arch="arm">The cesa(4) driver for the
- Marvell crypto engine and security accelerator has been
- added.</para>
-
- <para revision="230305" arch="powerpc">The &man.hwpmc.4;
- driver now supports PowerPC G4+ (MPC745x/MPC744x).</para>
-
- <para revision="234046" arch="amd64,i386">The &man.hwpmc.4;
- driver now supports the Intel Sandy Bridge
- microarchitecture.</para>
-
- <para revision="236238">The &man.hwpmc.4; driver now supports
- software events. Simultaneous usage of software PMC and
- hardware PMC is allowed.</para>
-
- <para revision="236078">The pcf8563(4) driver for the NXP
- (Philips) PCF8563 RTC has been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="233471" arch="powerpc">&os;/powerpc now
- supports the PWM-controlled fans found on the PowerMac SMU (System
- Management Unit).</para>
-
- <para revision="236081" arch="arm">&os;/arm now supports the Atmel
- SAM9XE family of microcontrollers.</para>
-
- <para revision="230754,233950">The following &man.sysctl.8;
- variables have been added: <varname>kern.proc.env</varname>
- for environment strings, <varname>kern.proc.auxv</varname>
- for ELF auxiliary vectors from a process's stack,
- <varname>kern.proc.groups</varname> for process groups,
- <varname>kern.proc.rlimit</varname> for process resource
- limits, <varname>kern.proc.ps_strings</varname> for the
- ps_strings location, and <varname>kern.proc.osrel</varname> for
- the osreldate of the process's binary.</para>
-
- <para revision="229100,229369">The &man.usb.4; driver now
- handles suspend and resume correctly with no need to reload
- the kernel module.</para>
-
- <para revision="230302">A bug in the &man.xhci.4; (USB 3.0)
- driver has been fixed. It did not work with USB 3.0
- hubs.</para>
-
- <para revision="229927">The &man.viawd.4; driver, which
- supports the watchdog timer found in VIA south bridges (VT8251,
- CX700, VX800, VX855, VX900), has been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="235926">The &man.wbwd.4; driver, which
- supports the watchdog timer found in Winbond Super I/O chips,
- has been added.</para>
-
- <sect4 id="mm">
- <title>Multimedia Support</title>
-
- <para revision="236926,236927,239965">The drm2(4) Intel GPU driver,
- which supports GEM and KMS and works with new generations of
- GPUs such as IronLake, SandyBridge, and IvyBridge, has been
- added. The &man.agp.4; driver now supports SandyBridge
- and IvyBridge CPU northbridges.</para>
-
- <para revision="232798">The &man.snd.hda.4; driver has been
- updated. It now supports and provides HDMI, new volume control,
- automatic recording source selection, runtime
- reconfiguration, more then 4 PCM devices on a controller,
- multichannel recording, additional playback/record
- streams, higher bandwidth, and more informative device
- names.</para>
-
- <para revision="233165">The &man.snd.hdspe.4; driver has
- been added. This supports RME HDSPe AIO and RayDAT sound
- cards.</para>
-
- <para revision="230964,230985,231047,235769">GPL-licensed
- headers in the &man.snd.emu10kx.4;, &man.snd.maestro3.4;,
- and &man.snd.csa.4; drivers have been replaced with
- BSD-licensed one. These drivers are now fully
- BSD-licensed and included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename>
- kernel on &os;/amd64 and &os;/i386.</para>
- </sect4>
-
- <sect4 id="net-if">
- <title>Network Interface Support</title>
-
- <para revision="229520">A bug in the &man.ae.4; driver which could
- prevent it from working under certain conditions has been
- fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="229106">The &man.axe.4; driver now supports
- TX/RX checksum offloading support for the ASIX AX88772B
- controller.</para>
-
- <para>The &man.bce.4; driver has been improved:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para revision="229864">Unnecessary link up/down has
- been eliminated.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para revision="236216">A bug has been fixed which could
- prevent IPMI from working when the interface was
- marked as down.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para revision="235818">It now supports remote PHYs,
- which allow the controller to perform MDIO type accesses
- to a remote transceiver by using message pages defined
- through MRBE (MultiRate Backplane Ethernet). This is
- found on machines such as the Dell PowerEdge M610
- Blade.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>The &man.bge.4; and brgphy(4) drivers have been
- improved:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para revision="229350">A bug which could prevent
- DMA functionality from working correctly has been
- fixed.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para revision="233495">It now works with a PCI-X BCM 5704
- controller that is connected to AMD-8131 PCI-X bridge.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para revision="229357,229867,232134">It now supports
- the BCM 5720 and BCM 5720C PHY, and the BCM 57780 1000BASE-T
- media interface.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para revision="231734">It now supports a &man.loader.8;
- tunable
- <varname>dev.bge.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.msi</varname>
- to control the use of MSI. The default value is
- <literal>1</literal> (enabled).</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para revision="231093,237925">The &man.cxgbe.4; and
- &man.cxgb.4; drivers have been updated to firmware version
- 1.5.2.0. They now support device configuration via a
- plain text configuration file, IPv6 hardware checksumming,
- IPv6 TSO and LRO, a <literal>loadfw</literal> command in the
- cxgbetool(8) utility which allows installing a firmware to
- the card, and &man.sysctl.8; variables under
- <varname>dev.t4nex.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.misc</varname>
- for various information.</para>
-
- <para revision="229334">The &man.dc.4; driver now supports
- NVIDIA (ULi) M5261/M5263 PCI FastEthernet controllers, which
- are found on the ULi M1563 South Bridge and M1689 Bridge.</para>
-
- <para revision="229711,229717,229720">The &man.et.4; driver
- now works on all platforms. A bug which could prevent
- &man.altq.4; support from working has been fixed. A new
- &man.sysctl.8; variable under
- <varname>dev.et.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.stats</varname>
- has been added for hardware MAC statistics.</para>
-
- <para revision="238262">The &man.igb.4; driver has been
- updated to version 2.3.4. It now supports newer i210/i211
- devices.</para>
-
- <para revision="233838,235843">The &man.iwn.4; driver now
- supports Intel Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 and
- Wireless-N 100/130 series.</para>
-
- <para revision="230709">The &man.miibus.4; bus driver now
- supports device hints
- <varname>hint.miibus.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.phymask</varname>
- for PHY addresses being probed. This is useful to manually
- probe PHYs which do not implement basic the register set of
- IEEE 802.3. Also, the &man.miibus.4; driver has been
- changed to a hinted bus, allowing to add child devices via
- hints and to set their attach arguments in addition to
- automatically-probed PHYs.</para>
-
- <para revision="229524">The &man.msk.4; driver now uses 64-bit
- DMA addressing on 64-bit platforms.</para>
-
- <para revision="236413">The &man.mxge.4; driver has been
- updated to firmware version 1.4.55 from Myricom.</para>
-
- <para revision="232137">The nsphyter(4) driver now supports
- National DP83849.</para>
-
- <para revision="231663">The &man.oce.4; driver, which
- supports Emulex OneConnect 10Gbit Ethernet cards, has been
- added.</para>
-
- <para revision="236004">The &man.ral.4; driver now supports
- Ralink RT2800 and RT3000 chipsets.</para>
-
- <para revision="229529,231731">The &man.re.4; driver now
- supports the RTL8411 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controller. A bug
- which could prevent WoL (Wake-on-LAN) from working on
- RTL8168E has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="234028">The &man.runfw.4; firmware has been
- updated to version 0.236.</para>
-
- <para revision="228100">The &man.sfxge.4; driver, which
- supports 10Gb Ethernet adapters based on Solarflare SFC9000
- family controllers, has been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="233485">The smcphy(4) driver now supports the
- Seeq Technology 80220 PHY. This is found on Adaptec
- AIC-6915 Starfire Ethernet controllers supported by the
- &man.sf.4; driver.</para>
-
- <para revision="229417,229438">The &man.ti.4; driver now
- supports the &man.altq.4; framework, reporting link-state
- changes, and &man.sysctl.8; variables under
- <varname>dev.ti.<replaceable>N</replaceable></varname> for
- interrupt moderation parameters.</para>
-
- <para revision="229441">A bug in the &man.ti.4; driver which could
- prevent it from working correctly with the <literal>PAE</literal>
- kernel option has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="229540">The &man.vge.4; driver has been
- updated to improve its link establishment and link-state
- detection.</para>
-
- <para revision="229641">The &man.vr.4; driver now enables
- flow control capability in the PHY drivers.</para>
-
- <para revision="231697">The &man.xnb.4; Xen Paravirtualized
- Backend Ethernet Driver (netback) has been updated. This is
- attached via the newbus framework and works properly in both
- HVM and PVM mode.</para>
- </sect4>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="net-proto">
- <title>Network Protocols</title>
-
- <para revision="236051">The &man.if.bridge.4; pseudo-interface
- now supports reporting link-state changes depending on the status
- of the member interfaces.</para>
-
- <para revision="234597">The <literal>table</literal> argument
- in the &man.ipfw.4; packet filter rule syntax now supports
- IP address, interface name, port number, and jail ID. The
- following syntax is valid:</para>
-
- <programlisting>skipto tablearg ip from any to any via table(42) in</programlisting>
-
- <para>The &os; &man.ip6.4; protocol stack has been improved in terms
- of its performance. Benchmarking can be found at <ulink
- url="http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/bench/"></ulink>.</para>
-
- <para revision="232292">The &os; &man.ip6.4; protocol stack now
- supports multiple FIBs.</para>
-
- <para revision="230604">An IPv6 default route configured via
- Router Advertisement messages is now reinstalled correctly
- when the default route is manually removed and then another
- RA message is received for the same route.</para>
-
- <para revision="227885">A bug which could return an incorrect
- value for the <literal>IPV6_MULTICASE_HOPS</literal> socket option
- has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="231768">A new &man.sysctl.3; name
- <literal>NET_RT_IFLISTL</literal> has been added. This
- queries the address list and works on extended and
- extensible structures <varname>if_msghdrl</varname> and
- <varname>ifa_msghdrl</varname> without breaking the
- ABI.</para>
-
- <para revision="231650,235527">The &man.netmap.4; fast packet
- I/O framework has been added. The &man.em.4;, lem(4),
- &man.igb.4;, and &man.re.4; drivers now support this
- framework. The technical details can be found at <ulink
- url="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/"></ulink>.</para>
-
- <para revision="231045">The &os; &man.sctp.4; protocol stack now
- supports a new &man.sysctl.8; variable
- <varname>net.inet.sctp.blackhole</varname>. If this is set
- to <literal>1</literal>, no <literal>ABORT</literal> is sent
- back in response to an incoming <literal>INIT</literal>. If
- this is set to <literal>2</literal>, no
- <literal>ABORT</literal> is sent back in response to an
- out-of-the-blue packet. If set to <literal>0</literal>
- (the default), <literal>ABORT</literal>s are sent.</para>
-
- <para revision="231049">A bug which could cause a system panic
- when <literal>SCTP_RECVINFO</literal> or
- <literal>SCTP_NXTINFO</literal> is specified to the
- &man.getsockopt.2; system call has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="231070,231140">The &os; &man.sctp.4; protocol stack now
- supports the <literal>SCTP_REMOTE_UDP_ENCAPS_PORT</literal>
- socket option.</para>
-
- <para revision="232805">The <literal>SO_PROTOCOL</literal> and
- <literal>SO_PROTOTYPE</literal> socket options have been
- added. These return the socket protocol number.</para>
-
- <para revision="232945">The <literal>TCP_KEEPINIT</literal>,
- <literal>TCP_KEEPIDLE</literal>,
- <literal>TCP_KEEPINTVL</literal>, and
- <literal>TCP_KEEPCNT</literal> socket options have been
- added. These allow controlling initial timeout, idle time,
- idle resend interval, and idle send count on a per-socket
- basis.</para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="disks">
- <title>Disks and Storage</title>
-
- <para revision="240758">The &man.arcmsr.4; driver has been
- updated to version 1.20.00.25.</para>
-
- <para revision="229291">The &man.ahci.4; driver now supports a
- new &man.loader.8; tunable <varname>hw.ahci.force</varname>.
- This controls whether it attempts to attach an AHCI-capable
- device even if it is configured to use legacy emulation.
- This is enabled by default.</para>
-
- <para revision="231251">The new &man.cam.4;-based &man.ata.4;
- driver now supports old &man.loader.8; tunables
- <varname>hw.ata.ata_dma</varname> and
- <varname>hw.ata.atapi_dma</varname>, for backward
- compatibility.</para>
-
- <para revision="236778">The &man.cam.4; driver now supports
- SEMB (SATA Enclosure Management Bridge) devices, which are
- equivalent to the SCSI SES/SAF-TE devices.</para>
-
- <para revision="236765">A new &man.sysctl.8; variable
- <varname>kern.cam.pmp.hide_special</varname> has been added.
- This controls whether special PMP ports such as PMP (Port
- MultiPlier) configuration or SEMB (SATA Enclosure Management
- Bridge) will be exposed or hidden. The default value is
- <literal>1</literal> (hidden).</para>
-
- <para revision="231772">The ctl(4) driver, which supports
- &man.cam.4; Target Layer and &man.ctladm.8;, a userland
- control utility, have been added. ctl(4) is a disk and
- processor device emulation subsystem supporting tagged
- queuing, SCSI task attribute, SCSI implicit command
- ordering, full task management, multiple ports, multiple
- simultaneous initiators, multiple simultaneous backing
- stores, mode sense/select, and error injection
- support.</para>
-
- <para revision="230014">The &man.cd.4; driver now supports
- Audio CDs in the same way as &man.acd.4; did. It will
- report a 2352-byte sector size to the &man.geom.4; subsystem and use
- the <literal>READ CD</literal> command for reading the data.
- This fixes an interoperability issue with <filename
- role="package">multimedia/vlc</filename>.</para>
-
- <para revision="236677">The &man.da.4; driver now supports
- <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal>. To select the method, a new
- &man.sysctl.8; variable
- <varname>kern.cam.da.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.delete_method</varname>
- has been added for each device instance. The following
- values are supported:</para>
-
- <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="1">
- <tgroup cols="2">
- <thead>
- <row>
- <entry>Value</entry>
- <entry>Method</entry>
- </row>
- </thead>
-
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>NONE</entry>
- <entry>no provisioning support reported by the device</entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry>DISABLE</entry>
- <entry>provisioning support was disabled because of errors</entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry>ZERO</entry>
- <entry>WRITE SAME (10) command to write zeroes</entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry>WS10</entry>
- <entry>WRITE SAME (10) command with UNMAP bit set</entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry>WS16</entry>
- <entry>use WRITE SAME (16) command with UNMAP bit set</entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry>UNMAP</entry>
- <entry>use UNMAP command (equivalent of the ATA DSM TRIM command)</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </informaltable>
-
- <para>When it was <literal>NONE</literal>, the device did not
- report logical block provisioning support via respective
- VPD pages. One can set a specific method for testing and it
- will be disabled automatically when not supported on the
- device.</para>
-
- <para revision="238500">The <application>MIRROR</application>
- &man.geom.4; class now supports
- <literal>BIO_DELETE</literal>. This means the
- <literal>TRIM</literal> command will be issued on
- supported devices when deleting data.</para>
-
- <para revision="229303,234916">The
- <application>MULTIPATH</application> &man.geom.4; class has
- been updated. It now supports Active/Active mode,
- Active/Read mode as hybrid of Active/Active and
- Active/Passive, keeping a failed path without removing the
- geom provider, manual configuration without on-disk
- metadata, and <command>add</command>,
- <command>remove</command>, <command>fail</command>,
- <command>restore</command>, <command>configure</command>
- subcommands in the &man.gmultipath.8; utility to manage the
- configured paths.</para>
-
- <para revision="234406">The
- <application>PART_LDM</application> &man.geom.4; class has
- been added. This partition scheme has support for Logical Disk
- Manager, which is also known as dynamic volumes in Microsoft
- Windows NT. Note that JBOD, RAID0, and RAID5 volumes are
- not supported yet.</para>
-
- <para revision="230763">The <application>PART_MBR</application>
- &man.geom.4; class now allows a primary or extended Linux
- swap partition to be used as the system dump device.</para>
-
- <para revision="235877" arch="amd64,i386">The
- <application>RAID</application> &man.geom.4; class is now
- included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel.</para>
-
- <para revision="230244">The <application>RAID</application>
- &man.geom.4; class now supports disks with over 2TB capacity
- for the Intel metadata format.</para>
-
- <para revision="235874">The <application>RAID</application>
- &man.geom.4; class now supports the DDF metadata format, which
- is defined in the SNIA Common RAID Disk Data Format
- Specification v2.0.</para>
-
- <para revision="235483">The
- <application>UNCOMPRESS</application> &man.geom.4; class and
- the &man.mkulzma.8; utility have been added. This class
- supports lzma compressed images like the
- <application>UZIP</application> &man.geom.4; class and the
- &man.mkuzip.8; utility.</para>
-
- <para revision="229975" arch="amd64,i386">The &man.hpt27xx.4;
- driver has been added. This supports HighPoint RocketRAID
- 27xx-based SAS 6Gb/s HBA.</para>
-
- <para revision="231689" arch="amd64,i386">The &man.isci.4;
- driver, which supports the integrated SAS controller in the
- Intel C600 (Patsburg) chipset, has been added.</para>
-
- <para revision="230019">Bugs in &man.isp.4; target mode have
- been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="230775">The &man.ixgbe.4; driver now supports
- the Intel X540 adapter.</para>
-
- <para revision="227533">A bug in the &man.mfi.4; driver has been
- fixed. It could cause some inconsistencies due to missed
- interrupt acknowledgements and output the following log
- message:</para>
-
- <screen>mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffXXXXXXXXXX TIMEOUT AFTER XX SECONDS</screen>
-
- <para revision="229611,234429">The &man.mfi.4; driver now
- supports single-message MSI, and Drake Skinny and
- Thunderbolt cards. The &man.loader.8; tunable
- <varname>hw.mfi.msi</varname> has been added and it is
- enabled by default.</para>
-
- <para revision="230920,231679,237876">The &man.mps.4; driver
- has been updated to version 14.00.00.01-fbsd. This now
- supports Integrated RAID, WarpDrive controllers, WRITE12 and
- READ12 for direct I/O, SCSI protection information (EEDP),
- Transport Level Retries (TLR) for tape drives, and LSI's
- userland utility.</para>
-
- <para revision="232562">A bug in the &man.mpt.4; driver has
- been fixed. It could attempt to attach MegaRAID cards which
- should be handled by the &man.mfi.4; driver.</para>
-
- <para revision="229107">The &man.usb.4; storage device driver
- now enables power save mode by default.</para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="fs">
- <title>File Systems</title>
-
- <para>The &os; NFS filesystem has been improved:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para revision="233326">It now supports a timeout on
- positive name cache entries on the client side. A new
- mount option <varname>nametimeo</varname> has been added
- and set to <literal>60</literal> (in seconds) by
- default.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para revision="234740">A memory leak when a ZFS volume is
- exported via the &os; NFS server has been fixed.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para revision="233730">A bug has been fixed. When a
- process writes to an mmap-backed file on an NFS
- filesystem, flushing changes to the data could fail
- under some circumstances such as errors due to
- permission mismatch, and this failure could not be detected
- as an error. A new &man.sysctl.8; variable
- <varname>vfs.nfs.nfs_keep_dirty_on_error</varname> has
- been added to control the behavior on the client side
- related to this issue. When this is set to
- <literal>1</literal>, the pages where a write operation
- failed are kept dirty. The default value is set to
- <literal>0</literal>.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para revision="229799">The &man.nfsv4.4; filesystem now
- supports a &man.sysctl.8; variable
- <varname>vfs.nfsd.disable_checkutf8</varname>. This
- disables the check for UTF-8 compliance in
- filenames. This is disabled by default. Note that
- enabling this may help wht some interoperability issues but
- results in an NFSv4 server that is not RFC 3530
- compliant.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para revision="234511">The &man.tmpfs.5; filesystem is not an
- experimental implementation anymore.</para>
-
- <para revision="234849">The &man.tmpfs.5; filesystem now
- supports a &man.sysctl.8; variable
- <varname>vfs.tmpfs.memory_reserved</varname> to set the amount
- of required free pages when &man.tmpfs.5; attempts to
- allocate a new node.</para>
-
- <para revision="229578,232328">&os;'s ZFS filesystem has been
- updated by merging improvements from the illumos project. The
- following changes are made:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>New properties, <literal>clones</literal> and
- <literal>written</literal>, have been added.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>The &man.zfs.8; <command>send</command> command
- now reports an estimated size of the stream.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>The &man.zfs.8; <command>destroy</command> command
- now reports an estimate of the space which would be reclaimed,
- when <option>-n</option> is specified.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>The &man.zfs.8; <command>get</command> command now
- supports the <option>-t <replaceable>type</replaceable></option>
- flag to specify the data type.</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para revision="227705">A simple script
- <filename>zfsboottest.sh</filename> has been added to the
- source tree. This checks if the system is configured
- correctly when using ZFS as the root filesystem. The script
- is located at
- <filename>/usr/src/tools/tools/zfsboottest.sh</filename> and
- it uses the <filename>zfsboottest</filename> binary program in the
- same directory.</para>
-
- <para>The binary program can be built and installed by the
- following command:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.root; cd /usr/src/tools/tools/zfsboottest
-&prompt.root; make
-&prompt.root; make install</screen>
-
- <para>After that, the following command can be used to check the
- system. <replaceable>poolname</replaceable> is the ZFS
- storage pool name to boot:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.root; sh /usr/src/tools/tools/zfsboottest/zfsboottest.sh <replaceable>poolname</replaceable></screen>
-
- <para>The &man.sysctl.8; variable
- <varname>vfs.zfs.txg.timeout</varname> has been changed from
- read-only to writable.</para>
- </sect3>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="userland">
- <title>Userland Changes</title>
-
- <para revision="238481">&man.auth.conf.5; has been removed
- because it was deprecated years ago.</para>
-
- <para revision="237740">The &man.camcontrol.8; utility now
- supports a <command>fwdownload</command> subcommand for firmware
- update on SCSI devices from Hitachi, HP, IBM, Plextor,
- Quantum, and Seagate. This subcommand will reprogram the
- firmware on devices connected over an ATA/SATA transport.</para>
-
- <para revision="230597">The &man.dhclient.8; utility now
- supports <literal>domain-search</literal> (option number 119,
- described in RFC 3397). This allows a DHCP server to publish
- a list of implicit domain suffixes used during name lookup.
- If this option is specified, a <literal>search</literal>
- keyword will be added to
- <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>.</para>
-
- <para revision="230047">The &man.dump.8; utility now uses 53
- characters for the device names in
- <filename>/etc/dumpdates</filename>. This was previously limited to 32
- characters.</para>
-
- <para revision="235253">The &man.fetch.1; utility now correctly
- supports a percent-encoded user and password part in a
- URL.</para>
-
- <para revision="230410">The &man.fdlopen.3; function has been
- implemented. This is an interface for &man.rtld.1; to load a
- shared object by file descriptor.</para>
-
- <para revision="229845">The &man.fopen.3; function now supports
- the <option>x</option> (an exclusive create-and-open mode) option
- in the ISO/IEC 9899:2011 and C11 standards.</para>
-
- <para revision="234023">A bug in the &man.gcc.1; compiler has
- been fixed. It could lead to incorrect calculations when
- <option>-ffast-math</option> is specified.</para>
-
- <para revision="229509">The &man.hastd.8; daemon now supports
- specifying the filename of its process ID file in
- &man.hast.conf.5;.</para>
-
- <para revision="231221">The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now
- supports a <literal>vlanhwcsum</literal> parameter to set or
- reset checksum offloading capability on VLANs.</para>
-
- <para revision="238872">A bug in the &man.ifconfig.8; utility
- which could display an error message in a jail with no IPv6
- support has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="232486">The &man.ifconfig.8; utility now
- supports a <literal>carp state <replaceable>state</replaceable></literal>
- parameter to set
- the state to <literal>backup</literal> or
- <literal>master</literal> forcibly.</para>
-
- <para revision="235839">The &man.jail.8; utility now supports a
- configuration file (&man.jail.conf.5;) for complex
- configurations.</para>
-
- <para revision="237789">The &man.kdump.1; utility now supports a
- <option>-p <replaceable>pid</replaceable></option> option to
- accept either a process ID or a thread ID.</para>
-
- <para revision="236118">The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports a
- <option>-v</option> flag to display an entry in
- <literal>name=value</literal> format, and a <option>-N</option>
- flag to display only the name.</para>
-
- <para revision="233560">The &man.kldload.8; utility now supports a
- <option>-n</option> flag to ignore the error status when the
- specified module is already loaded.</para>
-
- <para revision="237738"><application>libedit</application> has
- been updated to a NetBSD snapshot as of 28 December,
- 2009.</para>
-
- <para revision="236523">&man.libmap.conf.5; now supports
- <literal>include</literal> and <literal>includedir</literal>
- directives. They allow to include specified files for the
- configuration.</para>
-
- <para revision="234372">Lock handling performance in the
- <application>libthr</application> pthread library has been
- improved. It now works 10 times faster especially under the
- condition that a mutex is heavily contested.</para>
-
- <para revision="235798">A new C++ stack has been imported. This
- consists of <application>libcxxrt</application>, originally
- developed by a &os; developer under contract by PathScale and
- open sourced by the &os; and NetBSD foundations, and
- <application>libc++</application> from the LLVM project.
- <application>libcxxrt</application> is a drop-in replacement
- for GNU <application>libsupc++</application>, which implements
- the C++ runtime support for features such as run-time type
- information, dynamic casting, thread-safe static initializer,
- and exceptions. <application>libc++</application> implements
- the C++11 standard library, and will replace GNU
- <application>libstdc++</application> in a future release. In
- 9.1-RELEASE, <application>libstdc++</application> is still
- installed as standard and now dynamically links against
- <application>libsupc++</application>. This allows libraries
- linking <application>libstdc++</application> and
- <application>libc++</application> to both be used in the same
- program, to aid migration.</para>
-
- <para revision="230919">The &man.limits.1; utility now supports
- a <option>-P <replaceable>pid</replaceable></option> option to
- control limits for the specified process.</para>
-
- <para revision="237731">The &man.pciconf.8; utility now supports a
- <option>-e</option> flag to display PCI error details in
- listing mode. When this is specified, the status of any error
- bits in the PCI status register and PCI-express device status
- register will be displayed. It also lists any errors
- indicated by version 1 of PCI-express Advanced Error Reporting
- (AER).</para>
-
- <para revision="229710">The &man.procstat.1; utility now shows the
- superpage mapping flag when displaying process virtual memory
- mappings.</para>
-
- <para revision="230917,230918">The &man.procstat.1; utility now
- supports an <option>-e</option> flag to display process
- environment variables, an <option>-x</option> flag to display
- ELF auxiliary vectors, and an <option>-l</option> flag to
- display resource limits.</para>
-
- <para revision="234535">A bug in the &man.remquo.3; functions
- where the quotient did not always have the correct sign when
- the remainder was <literal>0</literal>, and another bug that
- the remainder and quotient were both off by a bit in certain
- cases involving subnormal remainders, have been fixed. Note
- that these bugs affected all platforms except amd64 and
- i386.</para>
-
- <para revision="231579">The &man.rtld.1; run-time linker now
- supports GCC's RELRO (RElocation Read-Only). This prevents the
- GOT (Global Offset Table) from being overwritten.</para>
-
- <para revision="235396">The &man.rtld.1; run-time linker now
- supports a GNU hash section (<literal>DT_GNU_HASH</literal>),
- which is a replacement of optional ELF hash section.</para>
-
- <para revision="235139">The &man.setbuf.1; utility and
- <application>libstdbuf</application> library have been added.
- This controls the default buffering behavior of standard
- stdio streams.</para>
-
- <para revision="227702">The &man.top.1; utility now correctly
- supports per-thread I/O statistics of ZFS in the <option>-m
- io</option> option.</para>
-
- <para revision="234330">The &man.unzip.1; utility now supports a
- <option>-Z</option> option for zipinfo.</para>
-
- <para revision="235785">The &man.xlocale.3; API has been
- implemented. This consists of <literal>_l</literal>-suffixed
- versions of various standard library functions that use the
- global locale, making them take an explicit locale parameter
- and allowing thread-safe extended locale support. Most of
- these APIs are required for IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (POSIX.1-2008
- or ISO/IEC 9945:2009) compatibility, and are required by
- <application>libc++</application> and recent versions of
- <application>GNOME</application>. This implementation also
- supports several extensions for compatibility with Apple
- <application>Darwin</application>.</para>
-
- <sect3 id="periodic-scripts">
- <title>&man.periodic.8; Scripts</title>
-
- <para revision="231721">A new variable
- <varname>daily_status_zfs_zpool_list_enable</varname> has
- been added. It controls whether or not to list all of the ZFS
- pools in <filename>periodic/daily/404.status-zfs</filename>.
- The default value is <literal>YES</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="229381">The default value of
- <varname>daily_scrub_zfs_default_threshold</varname> used in
- <filename>periodic/daily/800.scrub-zfs</filename> is now set
- to 35 days.</para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="rc-scripts">
- <title>&man.rc.8; Scripts</title>
-
- <para revision="227607">The <filename>rc.d/nfsd</filename> script
- now sets the <varname>vfs.nfsd.server_max_nfsvers</varname>
- &man.sysctl.8; variable to <literal>4</literal> when
- <varname>nfsv4_server_enable</varname> is set to
- <literal>YES</literal>.</para>
-
- <para revision="242189">A backwards compatibility issue when
- both <literal>ipv6_enable=YES</literal> and
- <literal>ipv6_gateway_enable=YES</literal> are defined at
- the same time has been fixed.</para>
- </sect3>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="contrib">
- <title>Contributed Software</title>
-
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