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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
134a30d7bb373c,d670a8f7c596,af01b4722577,4e240e55d818:
14	The growfs(7) script can now add a swap partition at the end of
15	the expansion area, and does so by default if there is no existing
16	swap.  See growfs(7).
17
1886edb11e7491:
19	llvm-objump is now always installed as objdump.
20
21616f32ea6da7:
22	mta_start_script along with othermta rc.d script has been retired.
23
24a67b925ff3e5:
25	The default mail transport agent is now dma(8) replacing sendmail.
26
2722893e584032:
28	L3 filtering on if_bridge will do surprising things which aren't
29	fail-safe, so net.link.bridge.pfil_member and
30	net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge now default to zero.
31
32f0bc4ed144fc:
33	A new DTrace provider, kinst, is introduced and documented in
34	dtrace_kinst(4).  The provider allows kernel instructions to be traced,
35	similar to the FBT (function boundary tracing) provider except that all
36	instructions may be probed instead of logical entry and return
37	instructions.  The provider is currently amd64-only.
38
390eea46fb1f83:
40	Removed telnetd.
41
42981ef32230b2,33721eb991d8:
43	These commits make the use of NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts with the "intr"
44	mount option fairly usable, although not 100% correct, so long as
45	the "nolockd" mount option is used as well.  See the mount_nfs(8)
46	manual page for more information.
47
48b875d4f5ddcb,0685c73cfe88:
49	The NFSv4.1/4.2 client and server will now generate console messages
50	if sessions are broken, suggesting that users check to ensure
51	that the /etc/hostid strings are unique for all NFSv4.1/4.2 clients.
52
53240afd8c1fcc:
54	makefs(8) has ZFS support; it can create a ZFS pool, backed by a
55	single disk vdev, containing one or more datasets populated from
56	the staging directory.
57
5878ee8d1c4cda,f4f56ff43dbd:
59	The in-tree qat(4) driver has been replaced with Intel's QAT driver.
60	The new version provides additional interfaces to the chipset's
61	cryptographic and compression offload functionality.
62
63	This will have no visible change for most users; however, the new
64	driver does not support Atom C2000 chipsets.  To preserve support for
65	those chipsets, the old driver has been renamed to qat_c2xxx and kept
66	in the tree.  Users of qat(4) on C2000 hardware will thus need to
67	ensure that qat_c2xxx(4) is loaded instead of qat(4).
68
69da5b7e90e740,5a8fceb3bd9f,7b0a665d72c0,13ec1e3155c7,318d0db5fe8a,1ae2c59bcf21:
70	Boottrace is a new kernel-userspace interface for capturing trace
71	events during system boot and shutdown. Event annotations are
72	present in:
73
74	- The boot and shutdown paths in the kernel
75	- Some key system utilities (init(8), shutdown(8), reboot(8))
76	- rc(8) scripts (via boottrace(8))
77
78	In contrast to other existing boot-time tracing facilities like TSLOG,
79	Boottrace focuses on the ease of use and is aimed primarily at system
80	administrators.
81
82	It is available in the default GENERIC kernel and can be enabled by
83	toggling a single sysctl(8) variable.
84
85	See boottrace(4) for more details.
86
8705a1d0f5d7ac:
88	Kernel TLS offload now supports receive-side offload of TLS 1.3.
89
9019dc64451179:
91	if_stf now supports 6rd (RFC5969).
92
93c1d255d3ffdb, 3968b47cd974, bd452dcbede6:
94	Add WiFi 6 support to wpa.
95
96ba48d52ca6c8,4ac3d08a9693,2533eca1c2b9:
97	The default bell tone is now 800Hz. It may be set with kbdcontrol
98	again. There's devd integration for people wishing to use their sound
99	cards for the beep.
100
10192b3e07229ba:
102	net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait enabled by default.  It prevents
103	creation of timewait entries for TCP connections that were
104	terminated locally.
105
106d410b585b6f0:
107	sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user.
108
109396851c20aeb:
110	libncursesw has been split into libtinfow and libncursesw, linker
111	scripts should make it transparent for consumers. pkg-config files
112	are also now installed to ease ports detecting the ncurses setup from
113	base.
114
115a422084abbda:
116	LLVM's MemorySanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
117	kmsan(9) manual page for more information.
118
11938da497a4dfc:
120	LLVM's AddressSanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
121	kasan(9) manual page for more information.
122
123f39dd6a97844,23f24377b1a9,628bd30ab5a4:
124	One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
125	(20210727). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
126	either up streamed or discarded.  Notable changes include:
127		o Locale is no longer used for ranges
128		o Various bugs fixed
129		o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
130
131	The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
132	we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
133	interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
134	true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
135	behavior.
136
137	A second change, less likely to be noticed, is the historic wart
138	if -Ft meaning to use hard tab characters as the field separator
139	is deprecated and will likely be removed in FreeBSD 14.
140
141ee29e6f31111:
142	Commit ee29e6f31111 added a new sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio
143	that can be used to increase the maximum I/O size for the NFS
144	server to any power of 2 up to 1Mbyte while the nfsd(8) is not running.
145	The FreeBSD NFS client can now be set to use a 1Mbyte I/O size
146	via the vfs.maxbcachebuf tunable and the Linux NFS client
147	can also do 1Mbyte I/O.
148	kern.ipc.maxsockbuf will need to be increased.  A console
149	message will suggest a setting for it.
150
151d575e81fbcfa:
152	gconcat(8) has added support for appending devices to the device
153	not present at creation time.
154
15576681661be28:
156	Remove support for asymmetric cryptographic operations from
157	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
158
159a145cf3f73c7:
160	The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
161	supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
162	for NFSv4 mounts.
163	The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.
164