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1963f38b2SChristos MargiolisRelease notes for FreeBSD 15.0.
28dbc2b6eSMark Johnston
38dbc2b6eSMark JohnstonThis file describes new user-visible features, changes and updates relevant to
48dbc2b6eSMark Johnstonusers of binary FreeBSD releases.  Each entry should describe the change in no
58dbc2b6eSMark Johnstonmore than several sentences and should reference manual pages where an
68dbc2b6eSMark Johnstoninterested user can find more information.  Entries should wrap after 80
78dbc2b6eSMark Johnstoncolumns.  Each entry should begin with one or more commit IDs on one line,
8cda1f88dSWarner Loshspecified as a comma separated list and/or range, followed by a colon and a
9cda1f88dSWarner Loshnewline.  Entries should be separated by a newline.
108dbc2b6eSMark Johnston
118dbc2b6eSMark JohnstonChanges to this file should not be MFCed.
128dbc2b6eSMark Johnston
13*208f089dSRick Macklem1a878807006c:
14*208f089dSRick Macklem	This commit added some statistics collection to the NFS-over-TLS
15*208f089dSRick Macklem	code in the NFS server so that sysadmins can moditor usage.
16*208f089dSRick Macklem	The statistics are available via the kern.rpc.tls.* sysctls.
17*208f089dSRick Macklem
18dac33a65SRick Macklem7c5146da1286:
19dac33a65SRick Macklem	Mountd has been modified to use strunvis(3) to decode directory
20dac33a65SRick Macklem	names in exports(5) file(s).  This allows special characters,
21dac33a65SRick Macklem	such as blanks, to be embedded in the directory name(s).
22dac33a65SRick Macklem	"vis -M" may be used to encode such directory name(s).
23dac33a65SRick Macklem
2433c2bd53SMark Johnstonc5359e2af5ab:
2533c2bd53SMark Johnston	bhyve(8) has a new network backend, "slirp", which makes use of the
2633c2bd53SMark Johnston	libslirp package to provide a userspace network stack.  This backend
2733c2bd53SMark Johnston	makes it possible to access the guest network from the host without
2833c2bd53SMark Johnston	requiring any extra network configuration on the host.
2933c2bd53SMark Johnston
30b351fa9dSChristos Margiolisbb830e346bd5:
31b351fa9dSChristos Margiolis	Set the IUTF8 flag by default in tty(4).
32b351fa9dSChristos Margiolis
33b351fa9dSChristos Margiolis	128f63cedc14 and 9e589b093857 added proper UTF-8 backspacing handling
34b351fa9dSChristos Margiolis	in the tty(4) driver, which is enabled by setting the new IUTF8 flag
35b351fa9dSChristos Margiolis	through stty(1). Since the default locale is UTF-8, enable IUTF8 by
36b351fa9dSChristos Margiolis	default.
37b351fa9dSChristos Margiolis
38bb63e82eSBaptiste Daroussinff01d71e48d4:
39b627b3e6SBaptiste Daroussin	dialog(1) has been replaced by bsddialog(1)
40bb63e82eSBaptiste Daroussin
41da51a121SJohn Baldwin41582f28ddf7:
42da51a121SJohn Baldwin	FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms.
43da51a121SJohn Baldwin	However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit
44da51a121SJohn Baldwin	binaries.
45da51a121SJohn Baldwin
46da51a121SJohn Baldwin	Support for executing 32-bit binaries on 64-bit platforms via
47da51a121SJohn Baldwin	COMPAT_FREEBSD32 will remain supported for at least the
48da51a121SJohn Baldwin	stable/15 and stable/16 branches.
49da51a121SJohn Baldwin
50da51a121SJohn Baldwin	Support for compiling individual 32-bit applications via
51da51a121SJohn Baldwin	`cc -m32` will also be supported for at least the stable/15
52da51a121SJohn Baldwin	branch which includes suitable headers in /usr/include and
53da51a121SJohn Baldwin	libraries in /usr/lib32.
54da51a121SJohn Baldwin
55da51a121SJohn Baldwin	Support for 32-bit platforms in ports for 15.0 and later
56da51a121SJohn Baldwin	releases is also deprecated, and these future releases may not
57da51a121SJohn Baldwin	include binary packages for 32-bit platforms or support for
58da51a121SJohn Baldwin	building 32-bit applications from ports.
59da51a121SJohn Baldwin
60da51a121SJohn Baldwin	stable/14 and earlier branches will retain existing 32-bit
61da51a121SJohn Baldwin	kernel and world support.  Ports will retain existing support
62768489c7SJohn Baldwin	for building ports and packages for 32-bit systems on stable/14
63da51a121SJohn Baldwin	and earlier branches as long as those branches are supported
64da51a121SJohn Baldwin	by the ports system.  However, all 32-bit platforms are Tier-2
65da51a121SJohn Baldwin	or Tier-3 and support for individual ports should be expected
66da51a121SJohn Baldwin	to degrade as upstreams deprecate 32-bit platforms.
67da51a121SJohn Baldwin
68da51a121SJohn Baldwin	With the current support schedule, stable/14 will be EOLed 5
69da51a121SJohn Baldwin	years after the release of 14.0.  The EOL of stable/14 would
70da51a121SJohn Baldwin	mark the end of support for 32-bit platforms including source
71da51a121SJohn Baldwin	releases, pre-built packages, and support for building
72da51a121SJohn Baldwin	applications from ports.  Given an estimated release date of
73da51a121SJohn Baldwin	October 2023 for 14.0, support for 32-bit platforms would end
74da51a121SJohn Baldwin	in October 2028.
75da51a121SJohn Baldwin
76da51a121SJohn Baldwin	The project may choose to alter this approach when 15.0 is
77da51a121SJohn Baldwin	released by extending some level of 32-bit support for one or
78da51a121SJohn Baldwin	more platforms in 15.0 or later.  Users should use the
79da51a121SJohn Baldwin	stable/14 branch to migrate off of 32-bit platforms.
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