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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /><title>FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE Release Notes</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook.css" /><link rev="made" href="doc@FreeBSD.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /><meta name="description" content="The release notes for FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the FreeBSD base system on the 9.3-STABLE development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the FreeBSD kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented." /></head><body><div class="article"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="idp61451040"></a>FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE Release Notes</h1></div><div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="orgname">The FreeBSD Project</span></h3></div></div><div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="copyright">Copyright © 2014 The FreeBSD Documentation
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<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="quote">“<span class="quote">®</span>”</span> symbol. </p></div></div><div>Last modified on 2014-07-08 by gjb.</div><div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="abstract"><div class="abstract-title">Abstract</div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The release notes for FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE contain
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a summary of the changes made to the FreeBSD base system on the
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9.3-STABLE development line. This document lists
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applicable security advisories that were issued since the last
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release, as well as significant changes to the FreeBSD kernel and
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userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also
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presented. </p></div></div></div><hr /></div><div class="toc"><div class="toc-title">Table of Contents</div><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#intro">1. Introduction</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#new">2. What's New</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#upgrade">3. Upgrading from Previous Releases of FreeBSD</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="intro"></a>1. Introduction</h2></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">This document contains the release notes for FreeBSD
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9.3-RELEASE. It describes recently added, changed, or
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deleted features of FreeBSD. It also provides some notes on
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upgrading from previous versions of FreeBSD. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">This distribution of FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE is
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a release distribution. It can be found at <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="uri"><a class="uri" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/" target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/</a></code> or any of its
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mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other)
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release distributions of FreeBSD can be found in the <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="link" href="../../../../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html" target="_top"><span class="quote">“<span class="quote">Obtaining
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FreeBSD</span>”</span> appendix</a> to the <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="link" href="../../../../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/" target="_top">FreeBSD
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Handbook</a>. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">All users are encouraged to consult the release errata
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<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="quote">“<span class="quote">late-breaking</span>”</span> information discovered late in the
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information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections
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to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for FreeBSD
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9.3-RELEASE can be found on the FreeBSD Web site. </p></div><div class="sect1"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="new"></a>2. What's New</h2></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">This section describes the most user-visible new or changed
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features in FreeBSD since 9.2-RELEASE. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Typical release note items document recent security
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advisories issued after 9.2-RELEASE, new drivers or hardware
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support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or
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contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to
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major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly
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the release notes cannot list every single change made to FreeBSD
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between releases; this document focuses primarily on security
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advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural
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improvements. </p><div class="sect2"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="security"></a>2.1. Security Advisories</h3></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Problems described in the following security advisories
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have been fixed. For more information, consult the individual
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advisories available from <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="uri"><a class="uri" href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</a></code>. </p><div class="informaltable"><table width="100%" border="0"><colgroup><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Advisory</th><th>Date</th><th>Topic</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a class="link" href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:01.bsnmpd.asc" target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-14:01.bsnmpd</a></td><td>14 January 2014</td><td><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Fix <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsnmpd&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">bsnmpd</span>(1)</span></a> remote denial of service
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vulnerability </p></td></tr><tr><td><a class="link" href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd.asc" target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd</a></td><td>14 January 2014</td><td><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Disable <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="quote">“<span class="quote">monitor</span>”</span> feature in
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<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ntpd&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ntpd</span>(8)</span></a> by default </p></td></tr><tr><td><a class="link" href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:04.bind.asc" target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-14:04.bind</a></td><td>14 January 2014</td><td><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Remote denial of service
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vulnerability </p></td></tr><tr><td><a class="link" href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:05.nfsserver.asc" target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-14:05.nfsserver</a></td><td>8 April 2014</td><td><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Deadlock in the NFS server </p></td></tr><tr><td><a class="link" href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:06.openssl.asc" target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-14:06.openssl</a></td><td>8 April 2014</td><td><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">ECDSA side channel leak </p></td></tr><tr><td><a class="link" href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:08.tcp.asc" target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-14:08.tcp</a></td><td>30 April 2014</td><td><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">TCP reassembly vulnerability </p></td></tr><tr><td><a class="link" href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:11.sendmail.asc" target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-14:11.sendmail</a></td><td>26 May 2014</td><td><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">Sendmail</span>
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improper close-on-exec flag handling </p></td></tr><tr><td><a class="link" href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:12.ktrace.asc" target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-14:12.ktrace</a></td><td>3 June 2014</td><td><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional"><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ktrace&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ktrace</span>(1)</span></a> kernel memory
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disclosure </p></td></tr><tr><td><a class="link" href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:13.pam.asc" target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-14:13.pam</a></td><td>3 June 2014</td><td><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Incorrect error handling in PAM policy
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parser </p></td></tr><tr><td><a class="link" href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:14.openssl.asc" target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-14:14.openssl</a></td><td>5 June 2014</td><td><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Multiple vulnerabilities </p></td></tr><tr><td><a class="link" href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:16.file.asc" target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-14:16.file</a></td><td>24 June 2014</td><td><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Multiple vulnerabilities </p></td></tr><tr><td><a class="link" href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:17.kmem.asc" target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-14:17.kmem</a></td><td>8 July 2014</td><td><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Kernel memory disclosure in control
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messages and SCTP notifications </p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="sect2"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="kernel"></a>2.2. Kernel Changes</h3></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=arcmsr&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">arcmsr</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
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updated to version 1.20.00.28. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=256033">[r256033]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=isci&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">isci</span>(4)</span></a> driver is now loadable
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via <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kldload&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">kldload</span>(8)</span></a>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=256437">[r256437]</a><span class="contrib">
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now exposed to the system for the <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ixgbe&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ixgbe</span>(4)</span></a> device. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=256759">[r256759]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mfi&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mfi</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been updated
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to support MegaRAID Invader controllers. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=256924">[r256924]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A kernel panic triggered in
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<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">zfs_root()</code> after a failed rollback has
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been fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=257119">[r257119]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A new <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sysctl</span>(8)</span></a>,
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<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">debug.devfs_iosize_max_clamp</code> has been added
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which enables and disables <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">SSIZE_MAX</code>-sized
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I/O requests on <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=devfs&sektion=5"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">devfs</span>(5)</span></a> files. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=257125">[r257125]</a><span class="contrib">
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has been added which disables executing the images compiled on
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a userland with a higher major version number than the major
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version number of the running kernel. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=257126">[r257126]</a><span class="contrib">
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a busy <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">zfs</span>(8)</span></a> filesystem has been fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=257253">[r257253]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A deadlock triggered by powering off
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a USB device has been fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=257373">[r257373]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ichsmb&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ichsmb</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
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updated to support Intel Lynx Point PCH SMBus devices. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258214">[r258214]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ata</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been updated
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to support Coleto Creek devices. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258215">[r258215]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ahci&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ahci</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been updated
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to support the PCI-express solid state drive in the
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<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="trademark">Apple</span>® MacBook Air (model A1465). <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258217">[r258217]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sysctl</span>(8)</span></a>
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<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">vfs.zfs.arc_meta_limit</code> can now be changed
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at runtime. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258635">[r258635]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mmap&sektion=2"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mmap</span>(2)</span></a> system call has been
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updated to more optimally use superpages and provide support
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for tweaking the alignment of virtual mappings. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258870">[r258870]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A workaround has been implemented
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in the <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bge&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">bge</span>(4)</span></a> driver for hung transmission on BCM5719
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and BCM5720 chipsets. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258962">[r258962]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A kernel panic when listing sysctls
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on a system with <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">INVARIANTS</code> enabled has
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been fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=259002">[r259002]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A new <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sysctl</span>(8)</span></a>,
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<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">kern.supported_archs</code> has been added,
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which will list the <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="envar">MACHINE_ARCH</code> values
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whose binaries can be run on the system. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=259466">[r259466]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Several problems that could trigger
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kernel panic on <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kldload&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">kldload</span>(8)</span></a> and <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kldunload&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">kldunload</span>(8)</span></a> have
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been fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=259519">[r259519]</a><span class="contrib">
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(Sponsored by
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multi-threaded applications has been fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260082">[r260082]</a><span class="contrib">
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(Sponsored by
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The FreeBSD Foundation)</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=runfw&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">runfw</span>(4)</span></a> firmware has been
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renamed from <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">runfw</code> to
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<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">run.fw</code> for consistency with other firmware
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files. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260134">[r260134]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A new <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sysctl</span>(8)</span></a>,
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<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</code>, has been
|
||
added. This allows tuning the amount of time the system
|
||
will wait before rebooting after <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=panic&sektion=9"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">panic</span>(9)</span></a>. The
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">kern.panic_reboot_wait_time</code> value defaults
|
||
to the kernel configuration option,
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME</code>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260433">[r260433]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Hardware Random Number Generators have
|
||
been disabled by default. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260644">[r260644]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Support for GPS ports has been added
|
||
to the <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uhso&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">uhso</span>(4)</span></a> driver. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=261485">[r261485]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A memory leak of compressed buffers
|
||
has been fixed in
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">l2arc_write_done()</code>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262116">[r262116]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netmap&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">netmap</span>(4)</span></a> framework has been
|
||
updated to match the version in <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">head/</code>,
|
||
which includes netmap pipes, kqueue support, and enhanced
|
||
VALE switch port. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262153">[r262153]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A deadlock triggered by sending
|
||
a mounted <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">zfs</span>(8)</span></a> snapshot has been fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262175">[r262175]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Support for SIIG X1 PCI-e has been added
|
||
to <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppc&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ppc</span>(4)</span></a>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262231">[r262231]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Support for the ext4 filesystem
|
||
has been enabled, supporting read-only mounts. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262564">[r262564]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A kernel panic triggered by inserting
|
||
a USB ethernet device on VIMAGE-enabled systems has been
|
||
fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262594">[r262594]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">TTM,
|
||
a memory manager used by video
|
||
drivers, has been merged. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262988">[r262988]</a><span class="contrib">
|
||
(Sponsored by
|
||
The FreeBSD Foundation)</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Support for
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">/sys/kernel/random/uuid</code> has been added
|
||
to <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=linprocfs&sektion=5"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">linprocfs</span>(5)</span></a>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263103">[r263103]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A memory leak in the
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">zpool_in_use()</code> function has been
|
||
fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263128">[r263128]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">extensible_dataset</code> <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zpool&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">zpool</span>(8)</span></a> feature
|
||
has been added. See <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zpool-features&sektion=7"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">zpool-features</span>(7)</span></a> for more
|
||
information. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263391">[r263391]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A memory leak has been fixed in
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">libzfs</code>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263408">[r263408]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vt&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">vt</span>(4)</span></a> driver
|
||
has been merged from <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">head/</code>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263817,263818">[r263817,263818]</a><span class="contrib">
|
||
(Sponsored by
|
||
The FreeBSD Foundation)</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mpr&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mpr</span>(4)</span></a> device has
|
||
been added, providing support for LSI Fusion-MPT 3 12Gb
|
||
SCSI/SATA controllers. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=265729">[r265729]</a><span class="contrib">
|
||
(Sponsored by
|
||
LSI, Spectra Logic)</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A kernel bug that inhibited proper
|
||
functionality of the <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">dev.cpu.0.freq</code>
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sysctl</span>(8)</span></a> on <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="trademark">Intel</span>® processors with Turbo
|
||
Boost ™ enabled has been fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=266167">[r266167]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Support for <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xen&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">xen</span>(4)</span></a>
|
||
hardware-assisted virtualization, <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">XENHVM</code>,
|
||
is now available as a loadable module,
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">xenhvm.ko</code>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=266269">[r266269]</a></p><div class="sect3"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="proc"></a>2.2.1. Hardware Support</h4></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Trackpad support for
|
||
<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="trademark">Apple</span>® MacBook products has been added. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=261510">[r261510]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nve&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nve</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
deprecated, and the <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nfe&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nfe</span>(4)</span></a> driver should be used
|
||
instead. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=261973">[r261973]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mfi&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mfi</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
updated to support MegaRAID Fury cards. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262968">[r262968]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The Radeon KMS driver has been
|
||
added. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263170,263171">[r263170,263171]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=aacraid&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">aacraid</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
updated to version 3.2.5. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263340">[r263340]</a></p><div class="sect4"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="net-if"></a>2.2.1.1. Network Interface Support</h5></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">re</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
updated to add preliminary support for the RTL8106E
|
||
chipset. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=257611">[r257611]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">re</span>(4)</span></a> driver has
|
||
been updated to support the RTL8168G, RTL8168GU and
|
||
RTL8411B chipsets. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=257614,257616">[r257614,257616]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">re</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
updated to add preliminary support for the RTL8168EP
|
||
chipset. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=257618">[r257618]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=oce&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">oce</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
updated to version 10.0.664.0. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258586">[r258586]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=qlxgbe&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">qlxgbe</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
imported from <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">head/</code>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258898">[r258898]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=qlxge&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">qlxge</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
imported from <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">head/</code>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258936">[r258936]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bge&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">bge</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
updated to support the BCM5725 chipset. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258965">[r258965]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bge&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">bge</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
updated to support the BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782,
|
||
BCM57786 and BCM57787 chipsets. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258967">[r258967]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=run&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">run</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
updated to support MediaTek/Ralink chipsets RT5370 and
|
||
RT5372. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=259457">[r259457]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=usb&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">usb</span>(4)</span></a> wireless radiotap
|
||
headers have been realigned, allowing wireless adapters
|
||
to work on arm, mips, and other similar
|
||
platforms where alignment is important. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=259460">[r259460]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=run&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">run</span>(4)</span></a> firmware has been
|
||
updated to version 0.33. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260119">[r260119]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bxe&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">bxe</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
merged from <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">head/</code>, providing support
|
||
for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb PCIe adapters. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260252">[r260252]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=run&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">run</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
updated to include support for the MediaTek/Ralink RT3593
|
||
chipset. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=261865">[r261865]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=run&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">run</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
updated to include support for the DLINK DWA-127 wireless
|
||
adapter. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=261933">[r261933]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=axge&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">axge</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
added. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262153">[r262153]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=urndis&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">urndis</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
imported from OpenBSD. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262362">[r262362]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bxe&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">bxe</span>(4)</span></a> driver has been
|
||
updated to version 1.78.78. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263582">[r263582]</a></p></div></div><div class="sect3"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="fs"></a>2.2.2. File Systems</h4></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">zfs</span>(8)</span></a> filesystem has been
|
||
updated to support the <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">bookmarks</code>
|
||
feature. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263410">[r263410]</a></p></div></div><div class="sect2"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="userland"></a>2.3. Userland Changes</h3></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A new flag <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">-c</code>, has
|
||
been added to <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pgrep&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pgrep</span>(1)</span></a> and <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkill&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pkill</span>(1)</span></a>, which restricts
|
||
the process lookup to the specified login class. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=256054">[r256054]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ddb&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ddb</span>(8)</span></a> utility has been updated
|
||
to add <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="command">show ioapic</code> and <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="command">show all
|
||
ioapics</code>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=257496">[r257496]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Setting <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">nmbcluster</code>
|
||
values to their current value will now be ignored, instead of
|
||
failing with an error. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258183">[r258183]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="filename">/var/cache</code> directory is now
|
||
created with mode <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">0755</code> instead of mode
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">0750</code>, since this directory is used by
|
||
many third-party applications, which makes dropping group
|
||
privileges impossible. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258763">[r258763]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uname&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">uname</span>(1)</span></a> utility has been
|
||
updated to include the <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">-U</code> and
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">-K</code> flags, which print the
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="envar">__FreeBSD_version</code> for the running userland
|
||
and kernel, respectively. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258818">[r258818]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fetch&sektion=3"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">fetch</span>(3)</span></a> library has been
|
||
updated to support SNI (Server Name Identification), allowing
|
||
to use virtual hosts on HTTPS. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=258844">[r258844]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A segmentation fault and internal
|
||
compiler error bug in <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gcc&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gcc</span>(1)</span></a> triggered by throwing
|
||
a warning before parsing any tokens has been fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=259243">[r259243]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Several updates to <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gcc&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gcc</span>(1)</span></a>
|
||
have been imported from Google. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=259269,259406">[r259269,259406]</a><span class="contrib">
|
||
(Contributed / provided by
|
||
Google)</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A byte-order bug in the Heimdal
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">gss_pseudo_random()</code> function which would
|
||
prevent interoperability with other
|
||
<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">Kerberos</span> implementations has been
|
||
fixed. In particular, this would prevent interoperability
|
||
with the MIT implementation. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=259448">[r259448]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hastctl&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">hastctl</span>(8)</span></a> utility has been
|
||
updated to output the current queue sizes. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260007">[r260007]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ps&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ps</span>(1)</span></a> utility will no longer
|
||
truncate the <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">command</code> output column. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260197">[r260197]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=protect&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">protect</span>(1)</span></a> command has been
|
||
added, which allows exempting processes from being killed
|
||
when swap is exhausted. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260208">[r260208]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gmirror&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gmirror</span>(8)</span></a> utility now prevents
|
||
deactivating the last component of a mirror. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260507">[r260507]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A new <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gmirror&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gmirror</span>(8)</span></a> command,
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="command">gmirror destroy</code>, has been added, which will
|
||
destroy the <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">geom</span>(8)</span></a> and erase the <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gmirror&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">gmirror</span>(8)</span></a>
|
||
metadata. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260507">[r260507]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=etcupdate&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">etcupdate</span>(8)</span></a> utility, a tool
|
||
for managing updates to files in <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="filename">/etc</code>, has been merged from
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">head/</code>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260650">[r260650]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=find&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">find</span>(1)</span></a> utility has been
|
||
updated to fix incorrect behavior with the
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">-lname</code> and <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">-ilname</code>
|
||
flags. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260651">[r260651]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">hw.uart.console</code> is now always updated when
|
||
the comconsole setup changes. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260868,260869">[r260868,260869]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kldload&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">kldload</span>(8)</span></a> utility has been
|
||
updated to display a message directing to <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dmesg&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">dmesg</span>(8)</span></a>,
|
||
instead of the cryptic message <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="quote">“<span class="quote">Exec format
|
||
error</span>”</span>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260909">[r260909]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A bug that could trigger an infinite
|
||
loop in KDE and X has been fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=261674">[r261674]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=newsyslog&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">newsyslog</span>(8)</span></a> utility has been
|
||
changed to use the size of the file, instead of the blocks the
|
||
file takes on the disk to match the behavior documented in
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=newsyslog.conf&sektion=5"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">newsyslog.conf</span>(5)</span></a>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262076">[r262076]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A bug in <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zdb&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">zdb</span>(8)</span></a> which would cause
|
||
numeric parameters to a flag as being treated as additional
|
||
flags has been fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262105">[r262105]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pciconf&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pciconf</span>(8)</span></a> utility now has
|
||
a <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">-V</code> flag, which lists information such
|
||
as serial numbers for each device. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262134">[r262134]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A bug that would allow creating
|
||
a <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">zfs</span>(8)</span></a> snapshot of an inconsistent dataset has been
|
||
fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262158">[r262158]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Receiving a <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">zfs</span>(8)</span></a> dataset with
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="command">zfs recv -F</code> now properly destroys any
|
||
snapshots that were created since the incremental source
|
||
snapshot. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262160">[r262160]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Installation from a read-only
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="envar">.OBJDIR</code> has been fixed. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263031">[r263031]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A new shared library directory,
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="filename">/usr/lib/private</code>,
|
||
has been added for internal-use shared libraries. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263031">[r263031]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A default
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="filename">libmap32.conf</code> has been added, for 32-bit
|
||
applications. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263031">[r263031]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">libucl</code> library,
|
||
a JSON-compatible configuration file parsing library, has been
|
||
imported. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263032">[r263032]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=7"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pkg</span>(7)</span></a> package management
|
||
utility has been syncronized with <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">head/</code>.
|
||
This implements binary package signature verification when
|
||
bootstrapping the system with <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="command">pkg
|
||
bootstrap</code>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263038">[r263038]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The system timezone data files have
|
||
been updated to version tzdata2014a. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263042">[r263042]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The NetBSD <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">make</span>(1)</span></a> utility,
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="command">bmake</code> has been imported for compatibility
|
||
with the FreeBSD Ports Collection. It is installed as
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="command">bmake</code>, and the <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="command">make</code>
|
||
remains the FreeBSD version. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263212">[r263212]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fetch&sektion=3"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">fetch</span>(3)</span></a> library now
|
||
supports <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">Last-Modified</code> timestamps which
|
||
return UTC instead of GMT. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263326">[r263326]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Aliases for the <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">zfs</span>(8)</span></a> commands
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">list -t snap</code> and <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">snap</code>
|
||
have been added to match <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="trademark">Oracle</span>® Solaris 11. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263404">[r263404]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A new flag, <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">-p</code>, has
|
||
been added to the <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">zfs</span>(8)</span></a> <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">list</code> command,
|
||
providing output in a parseable form. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263406">[r263406]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">OpenPAM</span> has
|
||
been updated to Nummularia (20130907), which incorporates
|
||
several bug fixes and documentation improvements. The
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=openpam_ttyconv&sektion=3"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">openpam_ttyconv</span>(3)</span></a> library has been completely
|
||
rewritten. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263421">[r263421]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sh&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sh</span>(1)</span></a> command interpreter has
|
||
been updated to expand assignments after
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">export</code>, <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">local</code>, and
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">readonly</code> differently. As result of this
|
||
change, variable assignment such as <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">local
|
||
v=$1</code> will assign the first positional
|
||
parameter to <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">v</code>, even if
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">$1</code> contains spaces, and
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">local w=<em class="replaceable"><code>~/myfile</code></em></code>
|
||
will expand the tilde (<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">~</code>). <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=264423">[r264423]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=find&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">find</span>(1)</span></a> utility has been
|
||
updated to implement <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">-ignore_readdir_race</code>.
|
||
Prior to this change, <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">-ignore_readdir_race</code>
|
||
existed as an option for GNU <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=find&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">find</span>(1)</span></a> compatibility, and
|
||
was ignored if specified. A counter primary,
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">-noignore_readdir_race</code> now also exists, and
|
||
is the default behavior. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=264699">[r264699]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ps&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ps</span>(1)</span></a> utility has been updated
|
||
to include the <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">-J</code> flag, used to filter
|
||
output by matching <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">jail</span>(8)</span></a> IDs and names. Additionally,
|
||
argument <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">0</code> can be used to
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">-J</code> to only list processes running on the
|
||
host system. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=266286">[r266286]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">top</span>(1)</span></a> utility has been updated
|
||
to filter by <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">jail</span>(8)</span></a> ID or name, in followup to the
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ps&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ps</span>(1)</span></a> change in <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">r265229</code>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=266287">[r266287]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The Blowfish <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crypt&sektion=3"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">crypt</span>(3)</span></a> default
|
||
format has been changed to
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">$2b$</code>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=266818">[r266818]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The default <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=newsyslog.conf&sektion=5"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">newsyslog.conf</span>(5)</span></a> now
|
||
includes files in the
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="filename">/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</code> and
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="filename">/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</code>
|
||
directories by default for <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=newsyslog&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">newsyslog</span>(8)</span></a>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=267114">[r267114]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">A new flag, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="quote">“<span class="quote">onifconsole</span>”</span>
|
||
has been added to <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="filename">/etc/ttys</code>. 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 <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">off</code>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=267243">[r267243]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=arc4random&sektion=3"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">arc4random</span>(3)</span></a> library has been
|
||
updated to match that of FreeBSD-CURRENT. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=267379">[r267379]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pmcstat&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pmcstat</span>(8)</span></a> utility has been
|
||
updated to include a new flag, <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">-l</code>, which
|
||
ends event collection after the specified number of
|
||
seconds. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=267411">[r267411]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The FreeBSD Project has migrated
|
||
from the <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">GNATS</span> bug tracking system
|
||
to <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">Bugzilla</span>. The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=send-pr&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">send-pr</span>(1)</span></a>
|
||
utility used for submitting problem reports has been replaced
|
||
with a stub shell script that instructs to use the Bugzilla
|
||
web interface. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=267911">[r267911]</a></p><div class="sect3"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="periodic-scripts"></a>2.3.1. <a class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=periodic&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">periodic</span>(8)</span></a> Scripts</h4></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="filename">/etc/periodic/security/800.loginfail</code>
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=periodic&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">periodic</span>(8)</span></a> script has been refined to catch more
|
||
authentication failures and reduce false positives. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263662">[r263662]</a></p></div><div class="sect3"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="rc-scripts"></a>2.3.2. <a class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rc</span>(8)</span></a> Scripts</h4></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Support for <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="quote">“<span class="quote">first boot</span>”</span>
|
||
scripts has been added to <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rc</span>(8)</span></a>. See <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rc</span>(8)</span></a> and
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.conf&sektion=5"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rc.conf</span>(5)</span></a> for implementation details. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=256917">[r256917]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rc</span>(8)</span></a> system will now
|
||
re-source <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.conf&sektion=5"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rc.conf</span>(5)</span></a> on receipt of
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">SIGALRM</code>. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260432">[r260432]</a></p></div></div><div class="sect2"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="contrib"></a>2.4. Contributed Software</h3></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=readline&sektion=3"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">readline</span>(3)</span></a> library has been
|
||
updated to version 1.104. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=255934">[r255934]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">Sendmail</span> has
|
||
been updated to version 8.14.9. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=266711">[r266711]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">BIND</span> has
|
||
been updated to version 9.9.5. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262706">[r262706]</a><span class="contrib">
|
||
(Sponsored by
|
||
DK Hostmaster A/S)</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xz&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">xz</span>(1)</span></a> utility has been updated
|
||
to a post-5.0.5 snapshot. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263286">[r263286]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">OpenSSH</span> has
|
||
been updated to version 6.6p1. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263970">[r263970]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">OpenSSL</span> has
|
||
been updated to version 0.9.8za. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=267285">[r267285]</a></p></div><div class="sect2"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="ports"></a>2.5. Ports and Packages</h3></div></div></div><div xmlns="" class="important"><h3 class="admontitle">Important: </h3><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Note to FreeBSD desktop users: please read this section
|
||
carefully, especially before upgrading ports that
|
||
depend on <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">Xorg</span>. </p></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">In April 2014, the FreeBSD Ports collection switched to a
|
||
newer version of <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">Xorg</span> that supports
|
||
<acronym xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="acronym">KMS</acronym> (Kernel Mode Setting). </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Users upgrading from earlier versions of FreeBSD 9.x or
|
||
FreeBSD 8.x should be aware of several things regarding
|
||
<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">Xorg</span>: </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">
|
||
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">When applications are built from the FreeBSD Ports
|
||
Collection or installed from the <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal"><a class="link" href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-July/001570.html" target="_top">new_xorg</a></code>
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pkg</span>(8)</span></a> repository, the newer, KMS-aware version of
|
||
<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">Xorg</span> is used. </p></li><li class="listitem"><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <acronym xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="acronym">KMS</acronym> version of
|
||
<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">Xorg</span> does not switch back to
|
||
text mode after leaving the X desktop environment, and
|
||
the system console will not be visible. The new
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vt&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">vt</span>(4)</span></a> console driver supports graphic consoles and
|
||
keeps the console visible after X has exited. The
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vt&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">vt</span>(4)</span></a> driver must be compiled into the kernel.
|
||
A <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="filename">VT</code> kernel configuration example
|
||
file is included in 9.3-RELEASE, but is not
|
||
compiled or enabled by default. See <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vt&sektion=4"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">vt</span>(4)</span></a> and the
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="link" href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/VT" target="_top">vt(4) wiki
|
||
page</a> for additional information. </p></li><li class="listitem"><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Packages for <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">KDE4</span> are not
|
||
available in the default (<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">latest</code>)
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pkg</span>(8)</span></a> repository, however are available in the
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">new_xorg</code> repository. See the <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="link" href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-July/001570.html" target="_top">announcement
|
||
email</a> for details on how to use the
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">new_xorg</code> repository. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The older <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">Xorg</span> that does
|
||
not support <acronym xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="acronym">KMS</acronym> can still be
|
||
installed from the <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">latest</code> upstream
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pkg</span>(8)</span></a> repository and the packages included on the
|
||
9.3-RELEASE DVD. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">However, it is important to note that some newer
|
||
applications require the newer
|
||
<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">Xorg</span>, and will not work with
|
||
the old version. The newer
|
||
<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">Xorg</span> is recommended, and
|
||
should be used unless not compatible with legacy
|
||
graphics cards. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">To continue using the old version of
|
||
<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="application">Xorg</span> when building from the
|
||
FreeBSD Ports Collection, set
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">WITHOUT_NEW_XORG=yes</code> in
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make.conf&sektion=5"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">make.conf</span>(5)</span></a>. </p></li></ul></div>
|
||
</p></div><div class="sect2"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="releng"></a>2.6. Release Engineering and Integration</h3></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">As part of the release build, the
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=etcupdate&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">etcupdate</span>(8)</span></a> utility will bootstrap the system, allowing
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=etcupdate&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">etcupdate</span>(8)</span></a> to work after the first upgrade of a
|
||
system. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=260891">[r260891]</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="filename">release.sh</code>
|
||
script and release <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="filename">Makefile</code> have been
|
||
updated to use <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=7"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pkg</span>(7)</span></a> to populate the dvd installation
|
||
medium. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=262879">[r262879]</a><span class="contrib">
|
||
(Sponsored by
|
||
The FreeBSD Foundation)</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">The <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=services.mkdb&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">services.mkdb</span>(8)</span></a> utility has
|
||
been updated to support multiple byte orders. Similar to
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cap_mkdb&sektion=1"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">cap_mkdb</span>(1)</span></a>, the <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="filename">services.db</code> will
|
||
be created with proper endinanness as part of
|
||
cross-architecture release builds. <a href="http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=263028">[r263028]</a></p></div></div><div class="sect1"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="upgrade"></a>3. Upgrading from Previous Releases of FreeBSD</h2></div></div></div><div class="sect2"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="idp62762144"></a>3.1. Upgrading Using <a class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">freebsd-update</span>(8)</span></a> or a Source-Based
|
||
Procedure</h3></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">[amd64,i386] Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
|
||
(and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
|
||
using the <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">freebsd-update</span>(8)</span></a> utility. The binary upgrade
|
||
procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well
|
||
as an unmodified <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="filename">GENERIC</code> kernel,
|
||
distributed as a part of an official FreeBSD release. The
|
||
<a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="citerefentry" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update&sektion=8"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">freebsd-update</span>(8)</span></a> utility requires that the host being
|
||
upgraded have Internet connectivity. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the FreeBSD
|
||
base system from source code) from previous versions are
|
||
supported using to the instructions in
|
||
<code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="filename">/usr/src/UPDATING</code>. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">For more specific information about upgrading
|
||
instructions, see <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="uri"><a class="uri" href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/installation.html" target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/installation.html</a></code>. </p><div xmlns="" class="important"><h3 class="admontitle">Important: </h3><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">Upgrading FreeBSD should only be attempted
|
||
after backing up <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="emphasis"><em>all</em></span> data and
|
||
configuration files. </p></div></div><div class="sect2"><div xmlns="" class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="idp62787232"></a>3.2. User-Visible
|
||
Incompatibilities</h3></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional">FreeBSD 9.0 and later versions have several
|
||
configuration incompatibilities with earlier versions of FreeBSD.
|
||
These differences are best understood before upgrading.
|
||
<span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="emphasis"><em>Please read this section and the <a class="link" href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#UPGRADE" target="_top">Upgrading
|
||
Section in 9.0-RELEASE Release Notes</a> carefully
|
||
before submitting a problem report and/or posting a question
|
||
to the FreeBSD mailing lists.</em></span> </p></div></div></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" align="center"><small>This file, and other release-related documents,
|
||
can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/</a>.</small></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" align="center"><small>For questions about FreeBSD, read the
|
||
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html">documentation</a> before
|
||
contacting <<a href="mailto:questions@FreeBSD.org">questions@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" align="center"><small>All users of FreeBSD 9.3-STABLE should
|
||
subscribe to the <<a href="mailto:stable@FreeBSD.org">stable@FreeBSD.org</a>>
|
||
mailing list.</small></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" align="center"><small>For questions about this documentation,
|
||
e-mail <<a href="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">doc@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p></body></html> |