@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ The {{< manpage "diskinfo" "8" >}} utility now reports the physical device name
The {{< manpage "freebsd-update" "8" >}} utility now displays progress for the "Fetching files..." stage. gitref:d6e1e31a0e6[repository=src]
The {{< manpage "freebsd-update" "8" >}} utility now supports the -p flag, which ensures password db changes are included in [.filename]#/etc/passwd# via {{< manpage "pwd_mkdb" "8">}}. gitref:9b6591109e8[repository=src] {{< sponsored "The FreeBSD Foundation" >}}
The {{< manpage "freebsd-update" "8" >}} utility now supports the `-p` flag, which ensures password db changes are included in [.filename]#/etc/passwd# via {{< manpage "pwd_mkdb" "8">}}. gitref:9b6591109e8[repository=src] {{< sponsored "The FreeBSD Foundation" >}}
The {{< manpage "freebsd-update" "8" >}} utility now supports the `updatesready` and `showconfig` arguments to check for updates and check the configuration respectively. gitref:8cfda118cbd[repository=src]
@ -130,22 +130,22 @@ This had to be changed when the traditional C pre-processor was removed from Fre
The calendar program in FreeBSD-13 restores the condition and comment processing to the level provided by the C pre-processor and offers the following features:
- Support #undef to cancel a prior #define
- #ifdef, #ifndef, #else, and #endif are supported and can be nested
- #include is now processed using the calendar owner's home directory (not the invoking user's home directory, fixes "calendar -a")
- Support `#undef` to cancel a prior `#define`
- `#ifdef`, `#ifndef`, `#else`, and `#endif` are supported and can be nested
- `#include` is now processed using the calendar owner's home directory (not the invoking user's home directory, fixes `calendar -a`)
- Support for C and C++ style comments
Dates are now always displayed according to the locale of the invoking user, not the (optional) locales specified in the calendar files.
This prevents printing mixed date formats depending on the locales specified in each of the data files.
The calendar data files that used to be distributed with earlier version of FreeBSD have been moved to the deskutils/calendar-data port respectively the calendar-data package, with the exception of the FreeBSD committer data file, which has been kept.
The calendar data files that used to be distributed with earlier version of FreeBSD have been moved to the package:deskutils/calendar-data[] port respectively the calendar-data package, with the exception of the FreeBSD committer data file, which has been kept.
[[userland-contrib]]
=== Contributed Software
==== contrib/bc: New implementation of the bc and dc programs
This implementation of the bc and dc programs offers a number of advantages over the previous versions in the FreeBSD base system:
This implementation of the `bc` and `dc` programs offers a number of advantages over the previous versions in the FreeBSD base system:
- They do not depend on external large number functions (i.e. no dependency on OpenSSL or any other large number library).
- They implements all features found in GNU bc/dc (with the exception of the forking of sub-processes, which the author of this version considers as a security issue).
@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ This implementation of the bc and dc programs offers a number of advantages over
- They support POSIX message catalogs and come with localized messages in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Portugueze, and Russian.
- They offer very detailed manual pages that provide far more information than the current ones.
The previous implementation is still available in FreeBSD-13 and can be selected instead of the new one by the build option WITHOUT_GH_BC.
The previous implementation is still available in FreeBSD-13 and can be selected instead of the new one by the build option `WITHOUT_GH_BC`.
[[userland-deprecated-programs]]
=== Deprecated Applications
@ -167,10 +167,10 @@ The previous implementation is still available in FreeBSD-13 and can be selected
A function has been added to libutil to provide applications with a standard way to determine the path prefix for files installed by ports and packages.
This function will return the value of the environment variable LOCALBASE if it has been defined.
Else the value of the sysctl variable "user.localbase" is returned, which has a default value of __PATH_LOCALBASE ("/usr/local", unless changed in paths.h).
This function will return the value of the environment variable `LOCALBASE` if it has been defined.
Else the value of the {{< manpage "sysctl" "8" >}} variable `user.localbase` is returned, which has a default value of `__PATH_LOCALBASE` ([.filename]#/usr/local#, unless changed in [.filename]#paths.h#).
Shell scripts can directly use the environment variable LOCALBASE or "sysctl user.localbase" for this purpose.
Shell scripts can directly use the environment variable `LOCALBASE` or `sysctl user.localbase` for this purpose.
[[kernel]]
== Kernel
@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ This section covers changes and additions to file systems and other storage subs
For {{< manpage "iscsi" "4" >}} and {{< manpage "ctld" "8" >}}, support for specifying network QoS in the form of DiffServ Codepoints (DSCP) and Ethernet Priority Code Point (PCP) was added. gitref:ddf1072aac49[repository=src] {{< sponsored "NetApp" >}}
The {{< manpage "ctld" "8" >}} utility now supports the -f flag, which tests the configuration file validity. gitref:7fcbecd004f[repository=src]
The {{< manpage "ctld" "8" >}} utility now supports the `-f` flag, which tests the configuration file validity. gitref:7fcbecd004f[repository=src]
[[storage-general]]
=== General Storage
@ -208,11 +208,11 @@ The {{< manpage "ctld" "8" >}} utility now supports the -f flag, which tests the
This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other boot-related changes.
The {{< manpage "efibootmgr" "8" >}} utility now supports the -b flag, which lets users specify by bootnum as an index. gitref:a2581e80212[repository=src] {{< sponsored "Netflix" >}}
The {{< manpage "efibootmgr" "8" >}} utility now supports the `-b` flag, which lets users specify by bootnum as an index. gitref:a2581e80212[repository=src] {{< sponsored "Netflix" >}}
The {{< manpage "efibootmgr" "8" >}} utility now supports the -E flag, which lets users query which EFI System Partition was used to boot the system. gitref:1cdb8eb8fe1[repository=src]
The {{< manpage "efibootmgr" "8" >}} utility now supports the `-E` flag, which lets users query which EFI System Partition was used to boot the system. gitref:1cdb8eb8fe1[repository=src]
The {{< manpage "efibootmgr" "8" >}} utility now supports the -f and -F flags, which lets users tell the system to boot to the UEFI user interface or not. gitref:83c4237258d[repository=src] {{< sponsored "Ampere Computing, Inc." >}}
The {{< manpage "efibootmgr" "8" >}} utility now supports the `-f` and `-F` flags, which lets users tell the system to boot to the UEFI user interface or not. gitref:83c4237258d[repository=src] {{< sponsored "Ampere Computing, Inc." >}}
Marc Fonvieille
3 years ago