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1Release notes for FreeBSD 16.0.
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
130fa7b3bee72e, c71f18998e0b, 4162a419a475, f5a77dc8f8df:
14	LinuxKPI based wireless drivers, especially iwlwifi(4) are now
15	supported on RISC-V.
16
178254b0dec02b3, bd55cbb50c588:
18	The mac(4) framework has been extended to support jail operations,
19	allowing a policy to constrain jail creation, modification, removal, and
20	attachment.  Jails have additionally been made a first-class mac(4)
21	object, and a mac.label jail(8) property has been added to facilitate
22	administration of their labels.
23
24c558eca47970:
25	The smartpqi(4) driver was updated to vendor version 4660.0.2002
26	for the SmartArry storage controllers.
27
28493d26c58e73:
29	The aq(4) driver was added, imported from the vendor repository.
30	This provides support for Aquantia / Marvell PCIe 1/2.5/5/10 Gigabit
31	Ethernet adapters (AQC107, AQC108, AQC109, AQC111, AQC112).
32
331a7151f79664:
34	A new CAM provider was added to dtrace.  This enables tracing of I/O
35	requests through the CAM layer without relying on fragile function
36	boundary tracing.  See dtrace_cam(4) for details.
37
38b8c99e7d912f:
39	The tdestroy(3) function was added to libc.  The tdestroy() function
40	destroys a whole search tree, freeing all allocated nodes.
41
424bf8ce037dc8:
43	The rge(4) driver was added, ported from OpenBSD.  This provides
44	support for RealTek RTL8125, RTL8126 and RTL8127 PCIe Ethernet
45	controllers.
46
47cbc6f7e941e4:
48	bhyve(8)'s VNC device can now listen on a unix(4) socket for VNC client
49	connections.
50
5139ee24182b92:
52	An rc(8) service can now be started as a specific user for auditing
53	purposes by setting the <service>_audit_user rc.conf(5) variable.
54
55dcb0790bad43:
56	A setaudit(8) utility was added to the base system.  This provides a
57	simple command-line wrapper for the setaudit(2) and setaudit_addr(2)
58	system calls.
59
608e3fd450cc53, 949cff4dceff, 0e724de9ed6f, 9f49f436a9ec, e35191ccf3b3:
61	Add support for an extension to NFSv4.2 (RFCnnnn) that
62	supports handling of POSIX draft ACLs via getfacl(1)/setfacl(1).
63
64dbac191956f9, fe21dbf70aa8:
65	Support for the kcmp(2) system call and fcntl(F_DUPFD_QUERY) for Linux
66	binaries.
67
68a86dc94b84d1:
69	tzdata2025c was imported.
70
71a98e5d785001:
72	Add strdupa(3) and strndupa(3) macros for compatability with glibc.
73
74e967a2a03677:
75	divert socket compat removal, consumers must use PF_DIVERT instead of
76	PF_INET.
77
784453ec5b8716b, 2a3b1641756a:
79	The reboot(8) and halt(8) commands now perform a graceful shutdown similar
80	to the shutdown(8) command including invoking rc.d scripts to shutdown
81	services.  The fastboot(8) and fasthalt(8) commands still perform a "fast"
82	reboot or shutdown.
83
84d9788eabffa4:
85	ipfilter cannot be used in a jail by default.
86
870ff0c19e7f70:
88	ipfs(8) is no longer built by default.
89
90575efcfff22f:
91	sendfile(2)'s SF_SYNC flag was removed.
92
93057dae35ffc6, 51a01f3debff, ca3e47b0ea68:
94	hwpmc(4) support for Intel Alder Lake 6-B7, 6-BA, and 6-BF CPU
95	hwpmc(4) support for Intel Emerald Rapids CPUs
96	hwpmc(4) support for Intel Alder Lake-N CPUs
97
981ecf01065b45:
99	New library libuvmem provides the vmem(9) API to userspace applications.
100
101b6cad334e64:
102	Make game controller devices accessible by members of the "game" group
103	by default.
104
105791c531402bd:
106	Add driver for Feature Integration Technology Inc. (aka Fintek) F81232
107	USB to serial devices.
108
109ec0cd287f55f:
110	Support for NVMe/TCP offload on Chelsio T7 adapters.  The nvmf_che(4)
111	module enables T7 adapters to process NVMe/TCP PDUs directly similar to
112	the PDU offload provided by cxgbei(4) for iSCSI.
113