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1Release notes for FreeBSD 16.0.
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
13dbac191956f9, fe21dbf70aa8:
14	Support for the kcmp(2) system call and fcntl(F_DUPFD_QUERY) for Linux
15	binaries.
16
17a86dc94b84d1:
18	tzdata2025c was imported.
19
20a98e5d785001:
21	Add strdupa(3) and strndupa(3) macros for compatability with glibc.
22
23e967a2a03677:
24	divert socket compat removal, consumers must use PF_DIVERT instead of
25	PF_INET.
26
274453ec5b8716b, 2a3b1641756a:
28	The reboot(8) and halt(8) commands now perform a graceful shutdown similar
29	to the shutdown(8) command including invoking rc.d scripts to shutdown
30	services.  The fastboot(8) and fasthalt(8) commands still perform a "fast"
31	reboot or shutdown.
32
33d9788eabffa4:
34	ipfilter cannot be used in a jail by default.
35
360ff0c19e7f70:
37	ipfs(8) is no longer built by default.
38
39575efcfff22f:
40	sendfile(2)'s SF_SYNC flag was removed.
41
42057dae35ffc6, 51a01f3debff, ca3e47b0ea68:
43	hwpmc(4) support for Intel Alder Lake 6-B7, 6-BA, and 6-BF CPU
44	hwpmc(4) support for Intel Emerald Rapids CPUs
45	hwpmc(4) support for Intel Alder Lake-N CPUs
46
471ecf01065b45:
48	New library libuvmem provides the vmem(9) API to userspace applications.
49
50b6cad334e64:
51	Make game controller devices accessible by members of the "game" group
52	by default.
53
54791c531402bd:
55	Add driver for Feature Integration Technology Inc. (aka Fintek) F81232
56	USB to serial devices.
57
58ec0cd287f55f:
59	Support for NVMe/TCP offload on Chelsio T7 adapters.  The nvmf_che(4)
60	module enables T7 adapters to process NVMe/TCP PDUs directly similar to
61	the PDU offload provided by cxgbei(4) for iSCSI.
62