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1Release notes for FreeBSD 13.0.
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
13r363084:
14	nc(1) now implements SCTP mode, enabled by specifying the --sctp option.
15
16r362158, r362163:
17	struct export_args has changed so that the "user" specified for
18	the -maproot and -mapall exports(5) options may be in more than
19	16 groups.
20
21r361884:
22	sed(1) has learned about hex escapes (e.g. \x27) and will now do the
23	right thing with them, removing the need for printf magic or obnoxious
24	escaping in many scenarios.
25
26r361238, r361798, r361799:
27	ZFS will now unconditionally reject read(2) of a directory with EISDIR.
28	Additionally, read(2) of a directory is now rejected with EISDIR by
29	default and may be re-enabled for non-ZFS filesystems that allow it with
30	the sysctl(8) MIB 'security.bsd.allow_read_dir'.
31
32	Aliases for grep to default to '-d skip' may be desired if commonly
33	non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and the
34	possibility of EISDIR errors in stderr is not tolerable.  Example
35	aliases, commented out, have been installed in /root/.cshrc and
36	/root/.shrc.
37
38r361066:
39	Add exec.prepare and exec.release hooks for jail(8) and jail.conf(5).
40	exec.prepare runs before mounts, so can be used to populate new jails.
41	exec.release runs after unmounts, so can be used to remove ephemeral
42	jails.
43
44r360920,r360923,r360924,r360927,r360928,r360931,r360933,r360936:
45	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES, MD5,
46	MD5-KPDK, MD5-HMAC, SHA1-KPDK, and Skipjack algorithms from
47	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
48
49r360562:
50	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES,
51	MD5-HMAC, and Skipjack algorithms from /dev/crypto.
52
53r360557:
54	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, Blowfish, Cast, and
55	Camellia ciphers from IPsec(4).  Remove support for MD5-HMAC,
56	Keyed MD5, Keyed SHA1, and RIPEMD160-HMAC from IPsec(4).
57
58r359945:
59	Remove support for Triple DES, Blowfish, and MD5 HMAC from
60	geli(4).
61
62r359786-r359787:
63	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, and RC4 from in-kernel GSS
64	authentication.
65
66r357627:
67	remove elf2aout.
68
69r357560-r357565:
70	init(8), service(8), and cron(8) will now adopt user/class environment
71	variables (excluding PATH, by default, which will be overwritten) by
72	default.  Notably, environment variables for all cron jobs and rc
73	services can now be set via login.conf(5).
74
75r357455:
76	sparc64 has been removed from FreeBSD.
77
78r355677:
79	Adds support for NFSv4.2 (RFC-7862) and Extended Attributes
80	(RFC-8276) to the NFS client and server.
81	NFSv4.2 is comprised of several optional features that can be supported
82	in addition to NFSv4.1. This patch adds the following optional features:
83	- posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED/POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED)
84	- posix_fallocate()
85	- intra server file range copying via the copy_file_range(2) syscall
86	--> Avoiding data tranfer over the wire to/from the NFS client.
87	- lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE)
88	- Extended attribute syscalls for "user" namespace attributes as defined
89	  by RFC-8276.
90
91	For the client, NFSv4.2 is only used if the mount command line option
92	minorversion=2 is specified.
93	For the server, two new sysctls called vfs.nfsd.server_min_minorversion4
94 	and vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 have been added that allow
95	sysadmins to limit the minor versions of NFSv4 supported by the nfsd
96	server.
97	Setting vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 to 0 or 1 will disable NFSv4.2
98	on the server.
99
100r356263:
101	armv5 support has been removed from FreeBSD.
102
103r354517:
104	iwm(4) now supports most Intel 9260, 9460 and 9560 Wi-Fi devices.
105
106r354269:
107	sqlite3 is updated to sqlite3-3.30.1.
108
109r352668:
110	cron(8) now supports the -n (suppress mail on succesful run) and -q
111	(suppress logging of command execution) options in the crontab format.
112	See the crontab(5) manpage for details.
113
114r352304:
115	ntpd is no longer by default locked in memory. rlimit memlock 32
116	or rlimit memlock 0 can be used to restore this behaviour.
117
118r351770,r352920,r352922,r352923:
119	dd(1) now supports conv=fsync, conv=fdatasync, oflag=fsync, oflag=sync,
120	and iflag=fullblock flags, compatible with illumos and GNU.
121
122r351522:
123	Add kernel-side support for in-kernel Transport Layer Security
124	(KTLS).  KTLS permits using sendfile(2) over sockets using
125	TLS.
126
127r351397:
128	WPA is updated from 2.8 to 2.9.
129
130r351361:
131	Add probes for lockmgr(9) to the lockstat DTrace provider, add
132	corresponding lockstat(1) events, and document the new probes in
133	dtrace_lockstat.4.
134
135r351356:
136	Intel RST is a new 'feature' that remaps NVMe devices from
137	their normal location to part of the AHCI bar space.  This
138	will eliminate the need to set the BIOS SATA setting from RST
139	to AHCI causing the nvme drive to be erased before FreeBSD
140	will see the nvme drive. FreeBSD will now be able to see the
141	nvme drive now in the default config.
142
143r351201, r351372:
144	Add a vop_stdioctl() call, so that file systems that do not support
145	holes will have a trivial implementation of lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE).
146	The algorithm appears to be compatible with the POSIX draft and
147	the implementation in Linux for the case of a file system that
148	does not support holes.  Prior to this patch, lseek(2) would reply
149	-1 with errno set to ENOTTY for SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE on files in
150	file systems that do not support holes.
151	r351372 maps ENOTTY to EINVAL for lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE) for
152	any other cases, such as a ENOTTY return from vn_bmap_seekhole().
153
154r350665:
155	The fuse driver has been renamed to fusefs(5) and been substantially
156	rewritten.  The new driver includes many bug fixes and performance
157	enhancements, as well as the following user-visible features:
158	* Optional kernel-side permissions checks (-o default_permissions)
159	* mknod(2), socket(2), and pipe(2) support
160	* server side locking with fcntl(2)
161	* FUSE operations are now interruptible when mounted with -o intr
162	* server side handling of UTIME_NOW during utimensat(2)
163	* mount options may be updated with "mount -u"
164	* fusefs file system may now be exported over NFS
165	* RLIMIT_FSIZE support
166	* support for fuse file systems using protocols as old as 7.4
167
168	FUSE file system developers should also take note of the following new
169	features:
170	* The protocol level has been raised from 7.8 to 7.23
171	* kqueue support on /dev/fuse
172	* server-initiated cache invalidation via FUSE_NOTIFY_REPLY
173
174r350471:
175	gnop(8) can now configure a delay to be applied to read and write
176	request delays.  See the -d, -q and -x parameters.
177
178r350315, r350316:
179	Adds a Linux compatible copy_file_range(2) syscall.
180
181r350307:
182	libcap_random(3) has been removed.  Applications can use native
183	APIs to get random data in capability mode.
184
185r349529,r349530:
186	Add support for using unmapped mbufs with sendfile(2).
187
188r349352:
189	nand(4) and related components have been removed.
190
191r349349:
192	The UEFI loader now supports HTTP boot.
193
194r349335:
195	bhyve(8) now implements a High Definition Audio (HDA) driver, allowing
196	guests to play to and record audio data from the host.
197
198r349286:
199	swapon(8) can now erase a swap device immediately before enabling it,
200	similar to newfs(8)'s -E option.  This behaviour can be specified by
201	adding -E to swapon(8)'s command-line parameters, or by adding the
202	"trimonce" option to a swap device's /etc/fstab entry.
203
204r347908-r347923:
205	The following network drivers have been removed: bm(4), cs(4), de(4),
206	ed(4), ep(4), ex(4), fe(4), pcn(4), sf(4), sn(4), tl(4), tx(4), txp(4),
207	vx(4), wb(4), xe(4).
208
209r347532:
210	Wired page accounting has been split into kernel wirings and user
211	wirings (e.g., by mlock(2)).  Kernel wirings no long count towards
212	the global limit, which is renamed to vm.max_user_wired.  bhyve -S
213	allocates user-wired memory and is now subject to that limit.
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