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<info><title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title>
<author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2014</year>
<holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
Project</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
&tm-attrib.freebsd;
&tm-attrib.ibm;
&tm-attrib.ieee;
&tm-attrib.intel;
&tm-attrib.sparc;
&tm-attrib.general;
</legalnotice>
<abstract>
<para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain
a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the
&release.branch; development line. This document lists
applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and
userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
presented.</para>
</abstract>
</info>
<sect1 xml:id="intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>This document contains the release notes for &os;
&release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or
deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on
upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para>
<para releasetype="current">The &release.type; distribution to which
these release notes apply represents the latest point along the
&release.branch; development branch since &release.branch; was
created. Information regarding pre-built, binary &release.type;
distributions along this branch can be found at <uri
xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
<para releasetype="snapshot">The &release.type; distribution to
which these release notes apply represents a point along the
&release.branch; development branch between &release.prev; and the
future &release.next;. Information regarding pre-built, binary
&release.type; distributions along this branch can be found at
<uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri>.</para>
<para releasetype="release">This distribution of &os;
&release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be
found at <uri xlink:href="&release.url;">&release.url;</uri> or
any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other)
&release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the <link
xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
&os;</quote> appendix</link> to the <link
xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</link>.</para>
<para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before
installing &os;. The errata document is updated with
<quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the
release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains
information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to
documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os;
&release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="new">
<title>What's New</title>
<para>This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
features in &os; since &release.prev;. In general, changes
described here are unique to the &release.branch; branch unless
specifically marked as &merged; features.</para>
<para>Typical release note items document recent security advisories
issued after &release.prev;, new drivers or hardware support, new
commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software
upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or
release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot
list every single change made to &os; between releases; this
document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible
changes, and major architectural improvements.</para>
<sect2 xml:id="security">
<title>Security Advisories</title>
<para>No advisories.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="kernel">
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
<para revision="260888">The <filename>VT</filename> kernel
configuration file has been added, which enables the new
<literal>vt</literal> console driver.</para>
<sect3 xml:id="kernel-virtualization">
<title>Virtualization support</title>
<para revision="260847">The &man.virtio_random.4; driver has
been added to harvest entropy from the host system.</para>
<para revision="260583">Unmapped IO support has been added to
&man.virtio_scsi.4;.</para>
<para revision="260582">Unmapped IO support has been added to
&man.virtio_blk.4;.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="kernel-arm">
<title>ARM support</title>
<para revision="260921">The &man.nand.4; device is enabled for
ARM devices by default.</para>
<para revision="260903">Support for GPS ports has been added to
&man.uhso.4;.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="boot">
<title>Boot Loader Changes</title>
<para> </para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="proc">
<title>Hardware Support</title>
<sect4 xml:id="mm">
<title>Multimedia Support</title>
<para> </para>
</sect4>
<sect4 xml:id="net-if">
<title>Network Interface Support</title>
<para revision="260552">Firmware for &intel;
Centrino™ Wireless-N 105 devices has been added
to the base system.</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
<para> </para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="disks">
<title>Disks and Storage</title>
<para> </para>
</sect3>
<sect3 xml:id="fs">
<title>File Systems</title>
<para> </para>
<sect4 xml:id="fs-zfs">
<title>ZFS</title>
<para> </para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
<para revision="260926">Support for displaying VPD for PCI devices
via &man.pciconf.8; has been added.</para>
<para revision="260913">A new flag, <quote>onifconsole</quote> has
been added to <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>. This allows the
system to provide a login prompt via serial console if the
device is an active kernel console, otherwise it is equivalent
to <literal>off</literal>.</para>
<para revision="260910">Allow &man.pciconf.8; to identify PCI
devices that are attached to a driver to be identified by their
device name instead of just the selector. Additionally, an
optional device argument to the <literal>-l</literal> flag
to restrict the output to only listing details about a single
device.</para>
<para revision="260594">When unable to load a kernel module with
&man.kldload.8;, a message informing to view output of
&man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output
<quote>Exec format error.</quote>.</para>
<sect3 xml:id="rc-scripts">
<title><filename>/etc/rc.d</filename> Scripts</title>
<para> </para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="contrib">
<title>Contributed Software</title>
<para> </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="ports">
<title>Ports/Packages Collection Infrastructure</title>
<para> </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="releng">
<title>Release Engineering and Integration</title>
<para> </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="doc">
<title>Documentation</title>
<para> </para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
<title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title>
<para arch="amd64,i386">Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
(and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade
procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
unmodified GENERIC kernels distributed as a part of an official
&os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that
the host being upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para>
<para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
base system from source code) from previous versions are
supported, according to the instructions in
<filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
<important>
<para>Upgrading &os; should only be attempted after backing up
<emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration files.</para>
</important>
</sect1>
</article>
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