1Release notes for FreeBSD 15.0. 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 137398d1ece5cf: 14 hw.snd.version is removed. 15 16a15f7c96a276,a8089ea5aee5: 17 NVMe over Fabrics controller. The nvmft(4) kernel module adds 18 a new frontend to the CAM target layer which exports ctl(4) 19 LUNs as NVMe namespaces to remote hosts. The nvmfd(8) daemon 20 is responsible for accepting incoming connection requests and 21 handing off connected queue pairs to nvmft(4). 22 23a1eda74167b5,1058c12197ab: 24 NVMe over Fabrics host. New commands added to nvmecontrol(8) 25 to establish connections to remote controllers. Once 26 connections are established they are handed off to the nvmf(4) 27 kernel module which creates nvmeX devices and exports remote 28 namespaces as nda(4) disks. 29 3025723d66369f: 31 As a side-effect of retiring the unit.* code in sound(4), the 32 hw.snd.maxunit loader(8) tunable is also retired. 33 34eeb04a736cb9: 35 date(1) now supports nanoseconds. For example: 36 `date -Ins` prints "2024-04-22T12:20:28,763742224+02:00" and 37 `date +%N` prints "415050400". 38 396d5ce2bb6344: 40 The default value of the nfs_reserved_port_only rc.conf(5) setting has 41 changed. The FreeBSD NFS server now requires the source port of 42 requests to be in the privileged port range (i.e., <= 1023), which 43 generally requires the client to have elevated privileges on their local 44 system. The previous behavior can be restored by setting 45 nfs_reserved_port_only=NO in rc.conf. 46 47aea973501b19: 48 ktrace(2) will now record detailed information about capability mode 49 violations. The kdump(1) utility has been updated to display such 50 information. 51 52f32a6403d346: 53 One True Awk updated to 2nd Edition. See https://awk.dev for details 54 on the additions. Unicode and CSVs (Comma Separated Values) are now 55 supported. 56 57fe86d923f83f: 58 usbconfig(8) now reads the descriptions of the usb vendor and products 59 from usb.ids when available, similarly to what pciconf(8) does. 60 614347ef60501f: 62 The powerd(8) utility is now enabled in /etc/rc.conf by default on 63 images for the arm64 Raspberry Pi's (arm64-aarch64-RPI img files). 64 This prevents the CPU clock from running slow all the time. 65 660b49e504a32d: 67 rc.d/jail now supports the legacy variable jail_${jailname}_zfs_dataset 68 to allow unmaintained jail managers like ezjail to make use of this 69 feature (simply rename jail_${jailname}_zfs_datasets in the ezjail 70 config to jail_${jailname}_zfs_dataset. 71 72e0dfe185cbca: 73 jail(8) now support zfs.dataset to add a list of ZFS datasets to a 74 jail. 75 7661174ad88e33: 77 newsyslog(8) now supports specifying a global compression method directly 78 at the beginning of the newsyslog.conf file, which will make newsyslog(8) 79 to behave like the corresponding option was passed to the newly added 80 '-c' option. For example: 81 82 <compress> none 83 84906748d208d3: 85 newsyslog(8) now accepts a new option, '-c' which overrides all historical 86 compression flags by treating their meaning as "treat the file as compressible" 87 rather than "compress the file with that specific method." 88 89 The following choices are available: 90 * none: Do not compress, regardless of flag. 91 * legacy: Historical behavior (J=bzip2, X=xz, Y=zstd, Z=gzip). 92 * bzip2, xz, zstd, gzip: apply the specified compression method. 93 94 We plan to change the default to 'none' in FreeBSD 15.0. 95 961a878807006c: 97 This commit added some statistics collection to the NFS-over-TLS 98 code in the NFS server so that sysadmins can moditor usage. 99 The statistics are available via the kern.rpc.tls.* sysctls. 100 1017c5146da1286: 102 Mountd has been modified to use strunvis(3) to decode directory 103 names in exports(5) file(s). This allows special characters, 104 such as blanks, to be embedded in the directory name(s). 105 "vis -M" may be used to encode such directory name(s). 106 107c5359e2af5ab: 108 bhyve(8) has a new network backend, "slirp", which makes use of the 109 libslirp package to provide a userspace network stack. This backend 110 makes it possible to access the guest network from the host without 111 requiring any extra network configuration on the host. 112 113bb830e346bd5: 114 Set the IUTF8 flag by default in tty(4). 115 116 128f63cedc14 and 9e589b093857 added proper UTF-8 backspacing handling 117 in the tty(4) driver, which is enabled by setting the new IUTF8 flag 118 through stty(1). Since the default locale is UTF-8, enable IUTF8 by 119 default. 120 121ff01d71e48d4: 122 dialog(1) has been replaced by bsddialog(1) 123 12441582f28ddf7: 125 FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms. 126 However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit 127 binaries. 128 129 Support for executing 32-bit binaries on 64-bit platforms via 130 COMPAT_FREEBSD32 will remain supported for at least the 131 stable/15 and stable/16 branches. 132 133 Support for compiling individual 32-bit applications via 134 `cc -m32` will also be supported for at least the stable/15 135 branch which includes suitable headers in /usr/include and 136 libraries in /usr/lib32. 137 138 Support for 32-bit platforms in ports for 15.0 and later 139 releases is also deprecated, and these future releases may not 140 include binary packages for 32-bit platforms or support for 141 building 32-bit applications from ports. 142 143 stable/14 and earlier branches will retain existing 32-bit 144 kernel and world support. Ports will retain existing support 145 for building ports and packages for 32-bit systems on stable/14 146 and earlier branches as long as those branches are supported 147 by the ports system. However, all 32-bit platforms are Tier-2 148 or Tier-3 and support for individual ports should be expected 149 to degrade as upstreams deprecate 32-bit platforms. 150 151 With the current support schedule, stable/14 will be EOLed 5 152 years after the release of 14.0. The EOL of stable/14 would 153 mark the end of support for 32-bit platforms including source 154 releases, pre-built packages, and support for building 155 applications from ports. Given an estimated release date of 156 October 2023 for 14.0, support for 32-bit platforms would end 157 in October 2028. 158 159 The project may choose to alter this approach when 15.0 is 160 released by extending some level of 32-bit support for one or 161 more platforms in 15.0 or later. Users should use the 162 stable/14 branch to migrate off of 32-bit platforms. 163