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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
13r360562:
14	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES,
15	MD5-HMAC, and Skipjack algorithms from /dev/crypto.
16
17r360557:
18	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, Blowfish, Cast, and
19	Camellia ciphers from IPsec(4).  Remove support for MD5-HMAC,
20	Keyed MD5, Keyed SHA1, and RIPEMD160-HMAC from IPsec(4).
21
22r359945:
23	Remove support for Triple DES, Blowfish, and MD5 HMAC from
24	geli(4).
25
26r359786-r359787:
27	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, and RC4 from in-kernel GSS
28	authentication.
29
30r357627:
31	remove elf2aout.
32
33r357560-r357565:
34	init(8), service(8), and cron(8) will now adopt user/class environment
35	variables (excluding PATH, by default, which will be overwritten) by
36	default.  Notably, environment variables for all cron jobs and rc
37	services can now be set via login.conf(5).
38
39r357455:
40	sparc64 has been removed from FreeBSD.
41
42r355677:
43	Adds support for NFSv4.2 (RFC-7862) and Extended Attributes
44	(RFC-8276) to the NFS client and server.
45	NFSv4.2 is comprised of several optional features that can be supported
46	in addition to NFSv4.1. This patch adds the following optional features:
47	- posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED/POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED)
48	- posix_fallocate()
49	- intra server file range copying via the copy_file_range(2) syscall
50	--> Avoiding data tranfer over the wire to/from the NFS client.
51	- lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE)
52	- Extended attribute syscalls for "user" namespace attributes as defined
53	  by RFC-8276.
54
55	For the client, NFSv4.2 is only used if the mount command line option
56	minorversion=2 is specified.
57	For the server, two new sysctls called vfs.nfsd.server_min_minorversion4
58 	and vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 have been added that allow
59	sysadmins to limit the minor versions of NFSv4 supported by the nfsd
60	server.
61	Setting vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 to 0 or 1 will disable NFSv4.2
62	on the server.
63
64r356263:
65	armv5 support has been removed from FreeBSD.
66
67r354517:
68	iwm(4) now supports most Intel 9260, 9460 and 9560 Wi-Fi devices.
69
70r354269:
71	sqlite3 is updated to sqlite3-3.30.1.
72
73r352668:
74	cron(8) now supports the -n (suppress mail on succesful run) and -q
75	(suppress logging of command execution) options in the crontab format.
76	See the crontab(5) manpage for details.
77
78r352304:
79	ntpd is no longer by default locked in memory. rlimit memlock 32
80	or rlimit memlock 0 can be used to restore this behaviour.
81
82r351522:
83	Add kernel-side support for in-kernel Transport Layer Security
84	(KTLS).  KTLS permits using sendfile(2) over sockets using
85	TLS.
86
87r351397:
88	WPA is updated from 2.8 to 2.9.
89
90r351361:
91	Add probes for lockmgr(9) to the lockstat DTrace provider, add
92	corresponding lockstat(1) events, and document the new probes in
93	dtrace_lockstat.4.
94
95r351356:
96	Intel RST is a new 'feature' that remaps NVMe devices from
97	their normal location to part of the AHCI bar space.  This
98	will eliminate the need to set the BIOS SATA setting from RST
99	to AHCI causing the nvme drive to be erased before FreeBSD
100	will see the nvme drive. FreeBSD will now be able to see the
101	nvme drive now in the default config.
102
103r351201, r351372:
104	Add a vop_stdioctl() call, so that file systems that do not support
105	holes will have a trivial implementation of lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE).
106	The algorithm appears to be compatible with the POSIX draft and
107	the implementation in Linux for the case of a file system that
108	does not support holes.  Prior to this patch, lseek(2) would reply
109	-1 with errno set to ENOTTY for SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE on files in
110	file systems that do not support holes.
111	r351372 maps ENOTTY to EINVAL for lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE) for
112	any other cases, such as a ENOTTY return from vn_bmap_seekhole().
113
114r350665:
115	The fuse driver has been renamed to fusefs(5) and been substantially
116	rewritten.  The new driver includes many bug fixes and performance
117	enhancements, as well as the following user-visible features:
118	* Optional kernel-side permissions checks (-o default_permissions)
119	* mknod(2), socket(2), and pipe(2) support
120	* server side locking with fcntl(2)
121	* FUSE operations are now interruptible when mounted with -o intr
122	* server side handling of UTIME_NOW during utimensat(2)
123	* mount options may be updated with "mount -u"
124	* fusefs file system may now be exported over NFS
125	* RLIMIT_FSIZE support
126	* support for fuse file systems using protocols as old as 7.4
127
128	FUSE file system developers should also take note of the following new
129	features:
130	* The protocol level has been raised from 7.8 to 7.23
131	* kqueue support on /dev/fuse
132	* server-initiated cache invalidation via FUSE_NOTIFY_REPLY
133
134r350471:
135	gnop(8) can now configure a delay to be applied to read and write
136	request delays.  See the -d, -q and -x parameters.
137
138r350315, r350316:
139	Adds a Linux compatible copy_file_range(2) syscall.
140
141r350307:
142	libcap_random(3) has been removed.  Applications can use native
143	APIs to get random data in capability mode.
144
145r349529,r349530:
146	Add support for using unmapped mbufs with sendfile(2).
147
148r349352:
149	nand(4) and related components have been removed.
150
151r349349:
152	The UEFI loader now supports HTTP boot.
153
154r349335:
155	bhyve(8) now implements a High Definition Audio (HDA) driver, allowing
156	guests to play to and record audio data from the host.
157
158r349286:
159	swapon(8) can now erase a swap device immediately before enabling it,
160	similar to newfs(8)'s -E option.  This behaviour can be specified by
161	adding -E to swapon(8)'s command-line parameters, or by adding the
162	"trimonce" option to a swap device's /etc/fstab entry.
163
164r347908-r347923:
165	The following network drivers have been removed: bm(4), cs(4), de(4),
166	ed(4), ep(4), ex(4), fe(4), pcn(4), sf(4), sn(4), tl(4), tx(4), txp(4),
167	vx(4), wb(4), xe(4).
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