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1Release notes for FreeBSD 13.0.
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
13r361884:
14	sed(1) has learned about hex escapes (e.g. \x27) and will now do the
15	right thing with them, removing the need for printf magic or obnoxious
16	escaping in many scenarios.
17
18r361238, r361798, r361799:
19	ZFS will now unconditionally reject read(2) of a directory with EISDIR.
20	Additionally, read(2) of a directory is now rejected with EISDIR by
21	default and may be re-enabled for non-ZFS filesystems that allow it with
22	the sysctl(8) MIB 'security.bsd.allow_read_dir'.
23
24	Aliases for grep to default to '-d skip' may be desired if commonly
25	non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and the
26	possibility of EISDIR errors in stderr is not tolerable.  Example
27	aliases, commented out, have been installed in /root/.cshrc and
28	/root/.shrc.
29
30r361066:
31	Add exec.prepare and exec.release hooks for jail(8) and jail.conf(5).
32	exec.prepare runs before mounts, so can be used to populate new jails.
33	exec.release runs after unmounts, so can be used to remove ephemeral
34	jails.
35
36r360920,r360923,r360924,r360927,r360928,r360931,r360933,r360936:
37	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES, MD5,
38	MD5-KPDK, MD5-HMAC, SHA1-KPDK, and Skipjack algorithms from
39	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
40
41r360562:
42	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES,
43	MD5-HMAC, and Skipjack algorithms from /dev/crypto.
44
45r360557:
46	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, Blowfish, Cast, and
47	Camellia ciphers from IPsec(4).  Remove support for MD5-HMAC,
48	Keyed MD5, Keyed SHA1, and RIPEMD160-HMAC from IPsec(4).
49
50r359945:
51	Remove support for Triple DES, Blowfish, and MD5 HMAC from
52	geli(4).
53
54r359786-r359787:
55	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, and RC4 from in-kernel GSS
56	authentication.
57
58r357627:
59	remove elf2aout.
60
61r357560-r357565:
62	init(8), service(8), and cron(8) will now adopt user/class environment
63	variables (excluding PATH, by default, which will be overwritten) by
64	default.  Notably, environment variables for all cron jobs and rc
65	services can now be set via login.conf(5).
66
67r357455:
68	sparc64 has been removed from FreeBSD.
69
70r355677:
71	Adds support for NFSv4.2 (RFC-7862) and Extended Attributes
72	(RFC-8276) to the NFS client and server.
73	NFSv4.2 is comprised of several optional features that can be supported
74	in addition to NFSv4.1. This patch adds the following optional features:
75	- posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED/POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED)
76	- posix_fallocate()
77	- intra server file range copying via the copy_file_range(2) syscall
78	--> Avoiding data tranfer over the wire to/from the NFS client.
79	- lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE)
80	- Extended attribute syscalls for "user" namespace attributes as defined
81	  by RFC-8276.
82
83	For the client, NFSv4.2 is only used if the mount command line option
84	minorversion=2 is specified.
85	For the server, two new sysctls called vfs.nfsd.server_min_minorversion4
86 	and vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 have been added that allow
87	sysadmins to limit the minor versions of NFSv4 supported by the nfsd
88	server.
89	Setting vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 to 0 or 1 will disable NFSv4.2
90	on the server.
91
92r356263:
93	armv5 support has been removed from FreeBSD.
94
95r354517:
96	iwm(4) now supports most Intel 9260, 9460 and 9560 Wi-Fi devices.
97
98r354269:
99	sqlite3 is updated to sqlite3-3.30.1.
100
101r352668:
102	cron(8) now supports the -n (suppress mail on succesful run) and -q
103	(suppress logging of command execution) options in the crontab format.
104	See the crontab(5) manpage for details.
105
106r352304:
107	ntpd is no longer by default locked in memory. rlimit memlock 32
108	or rlimit memlock 0 can be used to restore this behaviour.
109
110r351770,r352920,r352922,r352923:
111	dd(1) now supports conv=fsync, conv=fdatasync, oflag=fsync, oflag=sync,
112	and iflag=fullblock flags, compatible with illumos and GNU.
113
114r351522:
115	Add kernel-side support for in-kernel Transport Layer Security
116	(KTLS).  KTLS permits using sendfile(2) over sockets using
117	TLS.
118
119r351397:
120	WPA is updated from 2.8 to 2.9.
121
122r351361:
123	Add probes for lockmgr(9) to the lockstat DTrace provider, add
124	corresponding lockstat(1) events, and document the new probes in
125	dtrace_lockstat.4.
126
127r351356:
128	Intel RST is a new 'feature' that remaps NVMe devices from
129	their normal location to part of the AHCI bar space.  This
130	will eliminate the need to set the BIOS SATA setting from RST
131	to AHCI causing the nvme drive to be erased before FreeBSD
132	will see the nvme drive. FreeBSD will now be able to see the
133	nvme drive now in the default config.
134
135r351201, r351372:
136	Add a vop_stdioctl() call, so that file systems that do not support
137	holes will have a trivial implementation of lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE).
138	The algorithm appears to be compatible with the POSIX draft and
139	the implementation in Linux for the case of a file system that
140	does not support holes.  Prior to this patch, lseek(2) would reply
141	-1 with errno set to ENOTTY for SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE on files in
142	file systems that do not support holes.
143	r351372 maps ENOTTY to EINVAL for lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE) for
144	any other cases, such as a ENOTTY return from vn_bmap_seekhole().
145
146r350665:
147	The fuse driver has been renamed to fusefs(5) and been substantially
148	rewritten.  The new driver includes many bug fixes and performance
149	enhancements, as well as the following user-visible features:
150	* Optional kernel-side permissions checks (-o default_permissions)
151	* mknod(2), socket(2), and pipe(2) support
152	* server side locking with fcntl(2)
153	* FUSE operations are now interruptible when mounted with -o intr
154	* server side handling of UTIME_NOW during utimensat(2)
155	* mount options may be updated with "mount -u"
156	* fusefs file system may now be exported over NFS
157	* RLIMIT_FSIZE support
158	* support for fuse file systems using protocols as old as 7.4
159
160	FUSE file system developers should also take note of the following new
161	features:
162	* The protocol level has been raised from 7.8 to 7.23
163	* kqueue support on /dev/fuse
164	* server-initiated cache invalidation via FUSE_NOTIFY_REPLY
165
166r350471:
167	gnop(8) can now configure a delay to be applied to read and write
168	request delays.  See the -d, -q and -x parameters.
169
170r350315, r350316:
171	Adds a Linux compatible copy_file_range(2) syscall.
172
173r350307:
174	libcap_random(3) has been removed.  Applications can use native
175	APIs to get random data in capability mode.
176
177r349529,r349530:
178	Add support for using unmapped mbufs with sendfile(2).
179
180r349352:
181	nand(4) and related components have been removed.
182
183r349349:
184	The UEFI loader now supports HTTP boot.
185
186r349335:
187	bhyve(8) now implements a High Definition Audio (HDA) driver, allowing
188	guests to play to and record audio data from the host.
189
190r349286:
191	swapon(8) can now erase a swap device immediately before enabling it,
192	similar to newfs(8)'s -E option.  This behaviour can be specified by
193	adding -E to swapon(8)'s command-line parameters, or by adding the
194	"trimonce" option to a swap device's /etc/fstab entry.
195
196r347908-r347923:
197	The following network drivers have been removed: bm(4), cs(4), de(4),
198	ed(4), ep(4), ex(4), fe(4), pcn(4), sf(4), sn(4), tl(4), tx(4), txp(4),
199	vx(4), wb(4), xe(4).
200
201r347532:
202	Wired page accounting has been split into kernel wirings and user
203	wirings (e.g., by mlock(2)).  Kernel wirings no long count towards
204	the global limit, which is renamed to vm.max_user_wired.  bhyve -S
205	allocates user-wired memory and is now subject to that limit.
206
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