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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
13f32a6403d346:
14	One True Awk updated to 2nd Edition. See https://awk.dev for details
15	on the additions. Unicode and CSVs (Comma Separated Values) are now
16	supported.
17
18fe86d923f83f:
19	usbconfig(8) now reads the descriptions of the usb vendor and products
20	from usb.ids when available, similarly to what pciconf(8) does.
21
224347ef60501f:
23	The powerd(8) utility is now enabled in /etc/rc.conf by default on
24	images for the arm64 Raspberry Pi's (arm64-aarch64-RPI img files).
25	This prevents the CPU clock from running slow all the time.
26
270b49e504a32d:
28	rc.d/jail now supports the legacy variable jail_${jailname}_zfs_dataset
29	to allow unmaintained jail managers like ezjail to make use of this
30	feature (simply rename jail_${jailname}_zfs_datasets in the ezjail
31	config to jail_${jailname}_zfs_dataset.
32
33e0dfe185cbca:
34	jail(8) now support zfs.dataset to add a list of ZFS datasets to a
35        jail.
36
3761174ad88e33:
38	newsyslog(8) now supports specifying a global compression method directly
39	at the beginning of the newsyslog.conf file, which will make newsyslog(8)
40	to behave like the corresponding option was passed to the newly added
41	'-c' option. For example:
42
43	<compress> none
44
45906748d208d3:
46	newsyslog(8) now accepts a new option, '-c' which overrides all historical
47	compression flags by treating their meaning as "treat the file as compressible"
48	rather than "compress the file with that specific method."
49
50	The following choices are available:
51	 * none: Do not compress, regardless of flag.
52	 * legacy: Historical behavior (J=bzip2, X=xz, Y=zstd, Z=gzip).
53	 * bzip2, xz, zstd, gzip: apply the specified compression method.
54
55	We plan to change the default to 'none' in FreeBSD 15.0.
56
571a878807006c:
58	This commit added some statistics collection to the NFS-over-TLS
59	code in the NFS server so that sysadmins can moditor usage.
60	The statistics are available via the kern.rpc.tls.* sysctls.
61
627c5146da1286:
63	Mountd has been modified to use strunvis(3) to decode directory
64	names in exports(5) file(s).  This allows special characters,
65	such as blanks, to be embedded in the directory name(s).
66	"vis -M" may be used to encode such directory name(s).
67
68c5359e2af5ab:
69	bhyve(8) has a new network backend, "slirp", which makes use of the
70	libslirp package to provide a userspace network stack.  This backend
71	makes it possible to access the guest network from the host without
72	requiring any extra network configuration on the host.
73
74bb830e346bd5:
75	Set the IUTF8 flag by default in tty(4).
76
77	128f63cedc14 and 9e589b093857 added proper UTF-8 backspacing handling
78	in the tty(4) driver, which is enabled by setting the new IUTF8 flag
79	through stty(1). Since the default locale is UTF-8, enable IUTF8 by
80	default.
81
82ff01d71e48d4:
83	dialog(1) has been replaced by bsddialog(1)
84
8541582f28ddf7:
86	FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms.
87	However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit
88	binaries.
89
90	Support for executing 32-bit binaries on 64-bit platforms via
91	COMPAT_FREEBSD32 will remain supported for at least the
92	stable/15 and stable/16 branches.
93
94	Support for compiling individual 32-bit applications via
95	`cc -m32` will also be supported for at least the stable/15
96	branch which includes suitable headers in /usr/include and
97	libraries in /usr/lib32.
98
99	Support for 32-bit platforms in ports for 15.0 and later
100	releases is also deprecated, and these future releases may not
101	include binary packages for 32-bit platforms or support for
102	building 32-bit applications from ports.
103
104	stable/14 and earlier branches will retain existing 32-bit
105	kernel and world support.  Ports will retain existing support
106	for building ports and packages for 32-bit systems on stable/14
107	and earlier branches as long as those branches are supported
108	by the ports system.  However, all 32-bit platforms are Tier-2
109	or Tier-3 and support for individual ports should be expected
110	to degrade as upstreams deprecate 32-bit platforms.
111
112	With the current support schedule, stable/14 will be EOLed 5
113	years after the release of 14.0.  The EOL of stable/14 would
114	mark the end of support for 32-bit platforms including source
115	releases, pre-built packages, and support for building
116	applications from ports.  Given an estimated release date of
117	October 2023 for 14.0, support for 32-bit platforms would end
118	in October 2028.
119
120	The project may choose to alter this approach when 15.0 is
121	released by extending some level of 32-bit support for one or
122	more platforms in 15.0 or later.  Users should use the
123	stable/14 branch to migrate off of 32-bit platforms.
124