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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
13da5b7e90e740,5a8fceb3bd9f,7b0a665d72c0,13ec1e3155c7,318d0db5fe8a,1ae2c59bcf21:
14	Boottrace is a new kernel-userspace interface for capturing trace
15	events during system boot and shutdown. Event annotations are
16	present in:
17
18	- The boot and shutdown paths in the kernel
19	- Some key system utilities (init(8), shutdown(8), reboot(8))
20	- rc(8) scripts (via boottrace(8))
21
22        In contrast to other existing boot-time tracing facilities like TSLOG,
23        Boottrace focuses on the ease of use and is aimed primarily at system
24        administrators.
25
26        It is available in the default GENERIC kernel and can be enabled by
27        toggling a single sysctl(8) variable.
28
29	See boottrace(4) for more details.
30
3105a1d0f5d7ac:
32	Kernel TLS offload now supports receive-side offload of TLS 1.3.
33
3419dc64451179:
35	if_stf now supports 6rd (RFC5969).
36
37c1d255d3ffdb, 3968b47cd974, bd452dcbede6:
38	Add WiFi 6 support to wpa.
39
40ba48d52ca6c8,4ac3d08a9693,2533eca1c2b9:
41	The default bell tone is now 800Hz. It may be set with kbdcontrol
42	again. There's devd integration for people wishing to use their sound
43	cards for the beep.
44
4592b3e07229ba:
46	net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait enabled by default.  It prevents
47	creation of timewait entries for TCP connections that were
48	terminated locally.
49
50d410b585b6f0:
51	sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user.
52
53396851c20aeb:
54	libncursesw has been split into libtinfow and libncursesw, linker
55	scripts should make it transparent for consumers. pkg-config files
56	are also now installed to ease ports detecting the ncurses setup from
57	base.
58
59a422084abbda:
60	LLVM's MemorySanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
61	kmsan(9) manual page for more information.
62
6338da497a4dfc:
64	LLVM's AddressSanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
65	kasan(9) manual page for more information.
66
67f39dd6a97844,23f24377b1a9,628bd30ab5a4:
68	One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
69	(20210727). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
70	either up streamed or discarded.  Notable changes include:
71		o Locale is no longer used for ranges
72		o Various bugs fixed
73		o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
74
75	The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
76	we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
77	interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
78	true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
79	behavior.
80
81	A second change, less likely to be noticed, is the historic wart
82	if -Ft meaning to use hard tab characters as the field separator
83	is deprecated and will likely be removed in FreeBSD 14.
84
85ee29e6f31111:
86	Commit ee29e6f31111 added a new sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio
87	that can be used to increase the maximum I/O size for the NFS
88	server to any power of 2 up to 1Mbyte while the nfsd(8) is not running.
89	The FreeBSD NFS client can now be set to use a 1Mbyte I/O size
90	via the vfs.maxbcachebuf tunable and the Linux NFS client
91	can also do 1Mbyte I/O.
92	kern.ipc.maxsockbuf will need to be increased.  A console
93	message will suggest a setting for it.
94
95d575e81fbcfa:
96	gconcat(8) has added support for appending devices to the device
97	not present at creation time.
98
9976681661be28:
100	Remove support for asymmetric cryptographic operations from
101	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
102
103a145cf3f73c7:
104	The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
105	supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
106	for NFSv4 mounts.
107	The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.
108