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 1378ee8d1c4cda,f4f56ff43dbd: 14 The in-tree qat(4) driver has been replaced with Intel's QAT driver. 15 The new version provides additional interfaces to the chipset's 16 cryptographic and compression offload functionality. 17 18 This will have no visible change for most users; however, the new 19 driver does not support Atom C2000 chipsets. To preserve support for 20 those chipsets, the old driver has been renamed to qat_c2xxx and kept 21 in the tree. Users of qat(4) on C2000 hardware will thus need to 22 ensure that qat_c2xxx(4) is loaded instead of qat(4). 23 24da5b7e90e740,5a8fceb3bd9f,7b0a665d72c0,13ec1e3155c7,318d0db5fe8a,1ae2c59bcf21: 25 Boottrace is a new kernel-userspace interface for capturing trace 26 events during system boot and shutdown. Event annotations are 27 present in: 28 29 - The boot and shutdown paths in the kernel 30 - Some key system utilities (init(8), shutdown(8), reboot(8)) 31 - rc(8) scripts (via boottrace(8)) 32 33 In contrast to other existing boot-time tracing facilities like TSLOG, 34 Boottrace focuses on the ease of use and is aimed primarily at system 35 administrators. 36 37 It is available in the default GENERIC kernel and can be enabled by 38 toggling a single sysctl(8) variable. 39 40 See boottrace(4) for more details. 41 4205a1d0f5d7ac: 43 Kernel TLS offload now supports receive-side offload of TLS 1.3. 44 4519dc64451179: 46 if_stf now supports 6rd (RFC5969). 47 48c1d255d3ffdb, 3968b47cd974, bd452dcbede6: 49 Add WiFi 6 support to wpa. 50 51ba48d52ca6c8,4ac3d08a9693,2533eca1c2b9: 52 The default bell tone is now 800Hz. It may be set with kbdcontrol 53 again. There's devd integration for people wishing to use their sound 54 cards for the beep. 55 5692b3e07229ba: 57 net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait enabled by default. It prevents 58 creation of timewait entries for TCP connections that were 59 terminated locally. 60 61d410b585b6f0: 62 sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user. 63 64396851c20aeb: 65 libncursesw has been split into libtinfow and libncursesw, linker 66 scripts should make it transparent for consumers. pkg-config files 67 are also now installed to ease ports detecting the ncurses setup from 68 base. 69 70a422084abbda: 71 LLVM's MemorySanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels. See the 72 kmsan(9) manual page for more information. 73 7438da497a4dfc: 75 LLVM's AddressSanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels. See the 76 kasan(9) manual page for more information. 77 78f39dd6a97844,23f24377b1a9,628bd30ab5a4: 79 One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream 80 (20210727). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been 81 either up streamed or discarded. Notable changes include: 82 o Locale is no longer used for ranges 83 o Various bugs fixed 84 o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk 85 86 The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that 87 we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and 88 interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one 89 true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic 90 behavior. 91 92 A second change, less likely to be noticed, is the historic wart 93 if -Ft meaning to use hard tab characters as the field separator 94 is deprecated and will likely be removed in FreeBSD 14. 95 96ee29e6f31111: 97 Commit ee29e6f31111 added a new sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio 98 that can be used to increase the maximum I/O size for the NFS 99 server to any power of 2 up to 1Mbyte while the nfsd(8) is not running. 100 The FreeBSD NFS client can now be set to use a 1Mbyte I/O size 101 via the vfs.maxbcachebuf tunable and the Linux NFS client 102 can also do 1Mbyte I/O. 103 kern.ipc.maxsockbuf will need to be increased. A console 104 message will suggest a setting for it. 105 106d575e81fbcfa: 107 gconcat(8) has added support for appending devices to the device 108 not present at creation time. 109 11076681661be28: 111 Remove support for asymmetric cryptographic operations from 112 the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF). 113 114a145cf3f73c7: 115 The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4 116 supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0, 117 for NFSv4 mounts. 118 The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default. 119