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1Release notes for FreeBSD 14.0.
2
3This file describes new user-visible features, changes and updates relevant to
4users of binary FreeBSD releases.  Each entry should describe the change in no
5more than several sentences and should reference manual pages where an
6interested user can find more information.  Entries should wrap after 80
7columns.  Each entry should begin with one or more commit IDs on one line,
8specified as a comma separated list and/or range, followed by a colon and a
9newline.  Entries should be separated by a newline.
10
11Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
12
133cb2f5f369ec:
14	The lua-flavored loader(8) will now interpret .lua files that appear in
15	loader_conf_files as lua, and execute them in a sandbox.  Existing
16	loader environment variables are available as globals in the sandbox,
17	and any global variable set, if not a table value, will be reflected in
18	the loader environment upon successful execution of the configuration
19	file.  Environment variables with names that aren't valid lua names may
20	be accessed as indices of _ENV; e.g., _ENV['net.fibs'].
21
22bdc81eeda05d:
23	nda is now the default nvme device on all platforms. While nda creates
24	nvd links by default so fstab, etc continues to work, configuration
25	should be updated to the new nda devices.
26
27	To restore the old behavior, add hw.nvme.use_nvd=1 to loader.conf or
28	`options NVME_USE_NVD=1` to the kernel config.  To disable the nvd
29	compatibility aliases, add kern.cam.nda.nvd_compat=0 to loader.conf.
30
31bbb2d2ce4220:
32	Change pw (hence bsdinstall) not to move /home to /usr/home.
33	Previously, when creating the path to home directories, pw
34	would move any path in the root directory under /usr, creating
35	a symlink in root.  In particular, the default /home would become
36	/usr/home.  Now /home is at the top level by default.  /usr/home
37	can be used explicitly.
38
393416e102c4e9:
40	Remove TI code from armv7 GENERIC kernel.
41	This code doesn't cope with newer DTS and hasn't in a long time so
42	support for TI armv7 platform (like BeagleBone and Pandaboard) is now
43	removed from GENERIC.
44
45d198b8774d2c:
46	Add a new "fwget" utility.
47	The goal of this utility is to inspect the system for peripherals
48	that needs firmware and install the appropriate packages for them.
49	For now only pci subsystem is supported and only firmwares for Intel
50	and AMD GPUs are known.
51
52896516e54a8c:
53	Add a new "syskrb5" mount option for Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
54	Without this patch, a Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mount must provide
55	a Kerberos credential for the client at mount time.
56	This patch uses a feature of NFSv4.1/4.2 called SP4_NONE, which
57	allows the state maintenance operations to be performed by any
58	authentication mechanism, so that these operations may be done via
59	AUTH_SYS instead of RPCSEC_GSS (KerberosV).  As such, no Kerberos
60	credential is required at mount time.
61	See mount_nfs(8).
62
63330aa8acdec7,ff2f1f691cdb:
64	Adds support for the SP4_MACH_CRED case for the
65	NFSv4.1/4.2 ExchangeID operation since the Linux
66	NFSv4.1/4.2 client is now using this for Kerberized mounts.
67	This change should only affect Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
68	The Linux Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts currently work without
69	support for this because Linux will fall back to SP4_NONE,
70	but there is no guarantee this fallback will work forever.
71
727344856e3a6d and many others:
73	Add support so that nfsd(8), nfsuserd(8), mountd(8), gssd(8)
74	and rpc.tlsservd(8) can be run in an appropriately configured
75	vnet prison.  The vnet prison must be on its own file system,
76	have the "allow.nfsd" jail parameter set on it and enforce_statfs
77	cannot be set to "0".  Use of UDP and pNFS server configurations
78	are not permitted.  (ie. The nfsd command line options "-u", "-p"
79	and "-m" are not supported.)
80	See jail(8), nfsd(8) and mountd(8).
81
822fb4f839f3fc,d89513ed2050,3413ee88c39d,f97a19ecb985,021562c5020d,431d2a81d421:
83	sendmail has been updated to the latest upstream version (8.17.1).
84
854a30d7bb373c,d670a8f7c596,af01b4722577,4e240e55d818:
86	The growfs(7) script can now add a swap partition at the end of
87	the expansion area, and does so by default if there is no existing
88	swap.  See growfs(7).
89
9086edb11e7491:
91	llvm-objump is now always installed as objdump.
92
93616f32ea6da7:
94	mta_start_script along with othermta rc.d script has been retired.
95
96a67b925ff3e5:
97	The default mail transport agent is now dma(8) replacing sendmail.
98
9922893e584032:
100	L3 filtering on if_bridge will do surprising things which aren't
101	fail-safe, so net.link.bridge.pfil_member and
102	net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge now default to zero.
103
104f0bc4ed144fc:
105	A new DTrace provider, kinst, is introduced and documented in
106	dtrace_kinst(4).  The provider allows kernel instructions to be traced,
107	similar to the FBT (function boundary tracing) provider except that all
108	instructions may be probed instead of logical entry and return
109	instructions.  The provider is currently amd64-only.
110
1110eea46fb1f83:
112	Removed telnetd.
113
114981ef32230b2,33721eb991d8:
115	These commits make the use of NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts with the "intr"
116	mount option fairly usable, although not 100% correct, so long as
117	the "nolockd" mount option is used as well.  See the mount_nfs(8)
118	manual page for more information.
119
120b875d4f5ddcb,0685c73cfe88:
121	The NFSv4.1/4.2 client and server will now generate console messages
122	if sessions are broken, suggesting that users check to ensure
123	that the /etc/hostid strings are unique for all NFSv4.1/4.2 clients.
124
125240afd8c1fcc:
126	makefs(8) has ZFS support; it can create a ZFS pool, backed by a
127	single disk vdev, containing one or more datasets populated from
128	the staging directory.
129
13078ee8d1c4cda,f4f56ff43dbd:
131	The in-tree qat(4) driver has been replaced with Intel's QAT driver.
132	The new version provides additional interfaces to the chipset's
133	cryptographic and compression offload functionality.
134
135	This will have no visible change for most users; however, the new
136	driver does not support Atom C2000 chipsets.  To preserve support for
137	those chipsets, the old driver has been renamed to qat_c2xxx and kept
138	in the tree.  Users of qat(4) on C2000 hardware will thus need to
139	ensure that qat_c2xxx(4) is loaded instead of qat(4).
140
141da5b7e90e740,5a8fceb3bd9f,7b0a665d72c0,13ec1e3155c7,318d0db5fe8a,1ae2c59bcf21:
142	Boottrace is a new kernel-userspace interface for capturing trace
143	events during system boot and shutdown. Event annotations are
144	present in:
145
146	- The boot and shutdown paths in the kernel
147	- Some key system utilities (init(8), shutdown(8), reboot(8))
148	- rc(8) scripts (via boottrace(8))
149
150	In contrast to other existing boot-time tracing facilities like TSLOG,
151	Boottrace focuses on the ease of use and is aimed primarily at system
152	administrators.
153
154	It is available in the default GENERIC kernel and can be enabled by
155	toggling a single sysctl(8) variable.
156
157	See boottrace(4) for more details.
158
15905a1d0f5d7ac:
160	Kernel TLS offload now supports receive-side offload of TLS 1.3.
161
16219dc64451179:
163	if_stf now supports 6rd (RFC5969).
164
165c1d255d3ffdb, 3968b47cd974, bd452dcbede6:
166	Add WiFi 6 support to wpa.
167
168ba48d52ca6c8,4ac3d08a9693,2533eca1c2b9:
169	The default bell tone is now 800Hz. It may be set with kbdcontrol
170	again. There's devd integration for people wishing to use their sound
171	cards for the beep.
172
17392b3e07229ba:
174	net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait enabled by default.  It prevents
175	creation of timewait entries for TCP connections that were
176	terminated locally.
177
178d410b585b6f0:
179	sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user.
180
181396851c20aeb:
182	libncursesw has been split into libtinfow and libncursesw, linker
183	scripts should make it transparent for consumers. pkg-config files
184	are also now installed to ease ports detecting the ncurses setup from
185	base.
186
187a422084abbda:
188	LLVM's MemorySanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
189	kmsan(9) manual page for more information.
190
19138da497a4dfc:
192	LLVM's AddressSanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
193	kasan(9) manual page for more information.
194
195f39dd6a97844,23f24377b1a9,628bd30ab5a4:
196	One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
197	(20210727). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
198	either up streamed or discarded.  Notable changes include:
199		o Locale is no longer used for ranges
200		o Various bugs fixed
201		o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
202
203	The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
204	we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
205	interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
206	true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
207	behavior.
208
209	A second change, less likely to be noticed, is the historic wart
210	if -Ft meaning to use hard tab characters as the field separator
211	is deprecated and will likely be removed in FreeBSD 14.
212
213ee29e6f31111:
214	Commit ee29e6f31111 added a new sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio
215	that can be used to increase the maximum I/O size for the NFS
216	server to any power of 2 up to 1Mbyte while the nfsd(8) is not running.
217	The FreeBSD NFS client can now be set to use a 1Mbyte I/O size
218	via the vfs.maxbcachebuf tunable and the Linux NFS client
219	can also do 1Mbyte I/O.
220	kern.ipc.maxsockbuf will need to be increased.  A console
221	message will suggest a setting for it.
222
223d575e81fbcfa:
224	gconcat(8) has added support for appending devices to the device
225	not present at creation time.
226
22776681661be28:
228	Remove support for asymmetric cryptographic operations from
229	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
230
231a145cf3f73c7:
232	The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
233	supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
234	for NFSv4 mounts.
235	The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.
236