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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
13493d26c58e73:
14	The aq(4) driver was added, imported from the vendor repository.
15	This provides support for Aquantia / Marvell PCIe 1/2.5/5/10 Gigabit
16	Ethernet adapters (AQC107, AQC108, AQC109, AQC111, AQC112).
17
181a7151f79664:
19	A new CAM provider was added to dtrace.  This enables tracing of I/O
20	requests through the CAM layer without relying on fragile function
21	boundary tracing.  See dtrace_cam(4) for details.
22
23b8c99e7d912f:
24	The tdestroy(3) function was added to libc.  The tdestroy() function
25	destroys a whole search tree, freeing all allocated nodes.
26
274bf8ce037dc8:
28	The rge(4) driver was added, ported from OpenBSD.  This provides
29	support for RealTek RTL8125, RTL8126 and RTL8127 PCIe Ethernet
30	controllers.
31
32cbc6f7e941e4:
33	bhyve(8)'s VNC device can now listen on a unix(4) socket for VNC client
34	connections.
35
3639ee24182b92:
37	An rc(8) service can now be started as a specific user for auditing
38	purposes by setting the <service>_audit_user rc.conf(5) variable.
39
40dcb0790bad43:
41	A setaudit(8) utility was added to the base system.  This provides a
42	simple command-line wrapper for the setaudit(2) and setaudit_addr(2)
43	system calls.
44
458e3fd450cc53, 949cff4dceff, 0e724de9ed6f, 9f49f436a9ec, e35191ccf3b3:
46	Add support for an extension to NFSv4.2 (RFCnnnn) that
47	supports handling of POSIX draft ACLs via getfacl(1)/setfacl(1).
48
49dbac191956f9, fe21dbf70aa8:
50	Support for the kcmp(2) system call and fcntl(F_DUPFD_QUERY) for Linux
51	binaries.
52
53a86dc94b84d1:
54	tzdata2025c was imported.
55
56a98e5d785001:
57	Add strdupa(3) and strndupa(3) macros for compatability with glibc.
58
59e967a2a03677:
60	divert socket compat removal, consumers must use PF_DIVERT instead of
61	PF_INET.
62
634453ec5b8716b, 2a3b1641756a:
64	The reboot(8) and halt(8) commands now perform a graceful shutdown similar
65	to the shutdown(8) command including invoking rc.d scripts to shutdown
66	services.  The fastboot(8) and fasthalt(8) commands still perform a "fast"
67	reboot or shutdown.
68
69d9788eabffa4:
70	ipfilter cannot be used in a jail by default.
71
720ff0c19e7f70:
73	ipfs(8) is no longer built by default.
74
75575efcfff22f:
76	sendfile(2)'s SF_SYNC flag was removed.
77
78057dae35ffc6, 51a01f3debff, ca3e47b0ea68:
79	hwpmc(4) support for Intel Alder Lake 6-B7, 6-BA, and 6-BF CPU
80	hwpmc(4) support for Intel Emerald Rapids CPUs
81	hwpmc(4) support for Intel Alder Lake-N CPUs
82
831ecf01065b45:
84	New library libuvmem provides the vmem(9) API to userspace applications.
85
86b6cad334e64:
87	Make game controller devices accessible by members of the "game" group
88	by default.
89
90791c531402bd:
91	Add driver for Feature Integration Technology Inc. (aka Fintek) F81232
92	USB to serial devices.
93
94ec0cd287f55f:
95	Support for NVMe/TCP offload on Chelsio T7 adapters.  The nvmf_che(4)
96	module enables T7 adapters to process NVMe/TCP PDUs directly similar to
97	the PDU offload provided by cxgbei(4) for iSCSI.
98