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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
13bdc81eeda05d:
14
15	nda is now the default nvme device on all platforms. While nda creates
16	nvd links by default so fstab, etc continues to work, configuration
17	should be updated to the new nda devices.
18
19	To restore the old behavior, add hw.nvme.use_nvd=1 to loader.conf or
20	`options NVME_USE_NVD=1` to the kernel config.  To disable the nvd
21	compatibility aliases, add kern.cam.nda.nvd_compat=0 to loader.conf.
22
23bbb2d2ce4220:
24	Change pw (hence bsdinstall) not to move /home to /usr/home.
25	Previously, when creating the path to home directories, pw
26	would move any path in the root directory under /usr, creating
27	a symlink in root.  In particular, the default /home would become
28	/usr/home.  Now /home is at the top level by default.  /usr/home
29	can be used explicitly.
30
313416e102c4e9:
32	Remove TI code from armv7 GENERIC kernel.
33	This code doesn't cope with newer DTS and hasn't in a long time so
34	support for TI armv7 platform (like BeagleBone and Pandaboard) is now
35	removed from GENERIC.
36
37d198b8774d2c:
38	Add a new "fwget" utility.
39	The goal of this utility is to inspect the system for peripherals
40	that needs firmware and install the appropriate packages for them.
41	For now only pci subsystem is supported and only firmwares for Intel
42	and AMD GPUs are known.
43
44896516e54a8c:
45	Add a new "syskrb5" mount option for Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
46	Without this patch, a Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mount must provide
47	a Kerberos credential for the client at mount time.
48	This patch uses a feature of NFSv4.1/4.2 called SP4_NONE, which
49	allows the state maintenance operations to be performed by any
50	authentication mechanism, so that these operations may be done via
51	AUTH_SYS instead of RPCSEC_GSS (KerberosV).  As such, no Kerberos
52	credential is required at mount time.
53	See mount_nfs(8).
54
55330aa8acdec7,ff2f1f691cdb:
56	Adds support for the SP4_MACH_CRED case for the
57	NFSv4.1/4.2 ExchangeID operation since the Linux
58	NFSv4.1/4.2 client is now using this for Kerberized mounts.
59	This change should only affect Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
60	The Linux Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts currently work without
61	support for this because Linux will fall back to SP4_NONE,
62	but there is no guarantee this fallback will work forever.
63
647344856e3a6d and many others:
65	Add support so that nfsd(8), nfsuserd(8), mountd(8), gssd(8)
66	and rpc.tlsservd(8) can be run in an appropriately configured
67	vnet prison.  The vnet prison must be on its own file system,
68	have the "allow.nfsd" jail parameter set on it and enforce_statfs
69	cannot be set to "0".  Use of UDP and pNFS server configurations
70	are not permitted.  (ie. The nfsd command line options "-u", "-p"
71	and "-m" are not supported.)
72	See jail(8), nfsd(8) and mountd(8).
73
742fb4f839f3fc,d89513ed2050,3413ee88c39d,f97a19ecb985,021562c5020d,431d2a81d421:
75	sendmail has been updated to the latest upstream version (8.17.1).
76
774a30d7bb373c,d670a8f7c596,af01b4722577,4e240e55d818:
78	The growfs(7) script can now add a swap partition at the end of
79	the expansion area, and does so by default if there is no existing
80	swap.  See growfs(7).
81
8286edb11e7491:
83	llvm-objump is now always installed as objdump.
84
85616f32ea6da7:
86	mta_start_script along with othermta rc.d script has been retired.
87
88a67b925ff3e5:
89	The default mail transport agent is now dma(8) replacing sendmail.
90
9122893e584032:
92	L3 filtering on if_bridge will do surprising things which aren't
93	fail-safe, so net.link.bridge.pfil_member and
94	net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge now default to zero.
95
96f0bc4ed144fc:
97	A new DTrace provider, kinst, is introduced and documented in
98	dtrace_kinst(4).  The provider allows kernel instructions to be traced,
99	similar to the FBT (function boundary tracing) provider except that all
100	instructions may be probed instead of logical entry and return
101	instructions.  The provider is currently amd64-only.
102
1030eea46fb1f83:
104	Removed telnetd.
105
106981ef32230b2,33721eb991d8:
107	These commits make the use of NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts with the "intr"
108	mount option fairly usable, although not 100% correct, so long as
109	the "nolockd" mount option is used as well.  See the mount_nfs(8)
110	manual page for more information.
111
112b875d4f5ddcb,0685c73cfe88:
113	The NFSv4.1/4.2 client and server will now generate console messages
114	if sessions are broken, suggesting that users check to ensure
115	that the /etc/hostid strings are unique for all NFSv4.1/4.2 clients.
116
117240afd8c1fcc:
118	makefs(8) has ZFS support; it can create a ZFS pool, backed by a
119	single disk vdev, containing one or more datasets populated from
120	the staging directory.
121
12278ee8d1c4cda,f4f56ff43dbd:
123	The in-tree qat(4) driver has been replaced with Intel's QAT driver.
124	The new version provides additional interfaces to the chipset's
125	cryptographic and compression offload functionality.
126
127	This will have no visible change for most users; however, the new
128	driver does not support Atom C2000 chipsets.  To preserve support for
129	those chipsets, the old driver has been renamed to qat_c2xxx and kept
130	in the tree.  Users of qat(4) on C2000 hardware will thus need to
131	ensure that qat_c2xxx(4) is loaded instead of qat(4).
132
133da5b7e90e740,5a8fceb3bd9f,7b0a665d72c0,13ec1e3155c7,318d0db5fe8a,1ae2c59bcf21:
134	Boottrace is a new kernel-userspace interface for capturing trace
135	events during system boot and shutdown. Event annotations are
136	present in:
137
138	- The boot and shutdown paths in the kernel
139	- Some key system utilities (init(8), shutdown(8), reboot(8))
140	- rc(8) scripts (via boottrace(8))
141
142	In contrast to other existing boot-time tracing facilities like TSLOG,
143	Boottrace focuses on the ease of use and is aimed primarily at system
144	administrators.
145
146	It is available in the default GENERIC kernel and can be enabled by
147	toggling a single sysctl(8) variable.
148
149	See boottrace(4) for more details.
150
15105a1d0f5d7ac:
152	Kernel TLS offload now supports receive-side offload of TLS 1.3.
153
15419dc64451179:
155	if_stf now supports 6rd (RFC5969).
156
157c1d255d3ffdb, 3968b47cd974, bd452dcbede6:
158	Add WiFi 6 support to wpa.
159
160ba48d52ca6c8,4ac3d08a9693,2533eca1c2b9:
161	The default bell tone is now 800Hz. It may be set with kbdcontrol
162	again. There's devd integration for people wishing to use their sound
163	cards for the beep.
164
16592b3e07229ba:
166	net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait enabled by default.  It prevents
167	creation of timewait entries for TCP connections that were
168	terminated locally.
169
170d410b585b6f0:
171	sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user.
172
173396851c20aeb:
174	libncursesw has been split into libtinfow and libncursesw, linker
175	scripts should make it transparent for consumers. pkg-config files
176	are also now installed to ease ports detecting the ncurses setup from
177	base.
178
179a422084abbda:
180	LLVM's MemorySanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
181	kmsan(9) manual page for more information.
182
18338da497a4dfc:
184	LLVM's AddressSanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
185	kasan(9) manual page for more information.
186
187f39dd6a97844,23f24377b1a9,628bd30ab5a4:
188	One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
189	(20210727). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
190	either up streamed or discarded.  Notable changes include:
191		o Locale is no longer used for ranges
192		o Various bugs fixed
193		o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
194
195	The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
196	we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
197	interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
198	true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
199	behavior.
200
201	A second change, less likely to be noticed, is the historic wart
202	if -Ft meaning to use hard tab characters as the field separator
203	is deprecated and will likely be removed in FreeBSD 14.
204
205ee29e6f31111:
206	Commit ee29e6f31111 added a new sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio
207	that can be used to increase the maximum I/O size for the NFS
208	server to any power of 2 up to 1Mbyte while the nfsd(8) is not running.
209	The FreeBSD NFS client can now be set to use a 1Mbyte I/O size
210	via the vfs.maxbcachebuf tunable and the Linux NFS client
211	can also do 1Mbyte I/O.
212	kern.ipc.maxsockbuf will need to be increased.  A console
213	message will suggest a setting for it.
214
215d575e81fbcfa:
216	gconcat(8) has added support for appending devices to the device
217	not present at creation time.
218
21976681661be28:
220	Remove support for asymmetric cryptographic operations from
221	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
222
223a145cf3f73c7:
224	The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
225	supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
226	for NFSv4 mounts.
227	The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.
228