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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
13r363180:
14	The safexcel(4) crypto offload driver has been added.
15
16r363084:
17	nc(1) now implements SCTP mode, enabled by specifying the --sctp option.
18
19r362158, r362163:
20	struct export_args has changed so that the "user" specified for
21	the -maproot and -mapall exports(5) options may be in more than
22	16 groups.
23
24r361884:
25	sed(1) has learned about hex escapes (e.g. \x27) and will now do the
26	right thing with them, removing the need for printf magic or obnoxious
27	escaping in many scenarios.
28
29r361238, r361798, r361799:
30	ZFS will now unconditionally reject read(2) of a directory with EISDIR.
31	Additionally, read(2) of a directory is now rejected with EISDIR by
32	default and may be re-enabled for non-ZFS filesystems that allow it with
33	the sysctl(8) MIB 'security.bsd.allow_read_dir'.
34
35	Aliases for grep to default to '-d skip' may be desired if commonly
36	non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and the
37	possibility of EISDIR errors in stderr is not tolerable.  Example
38	aliases, commented out, have been installed in /root/.cshrc and
39	/root/.shrc.
40
41r361066:
42	Add exec.prepare and exec.release hooks for jail(8) and jail.conf(5).
43	exec.prepare runs before mounts, so can be used to populate new jails.
44	exec.release runs after unmounts, so can be used to remove ephemeral
45	jails.
46
47r360920,r360923,r360924,r360927,r360928,r360931,r360933,r360936:
48	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES, MD5,
49	MD5-KPDK, MD5-HMAC, SHA1-KPDK, and Skipjack algorithms from
50	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
51
52r360562:
53	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES,
54	MD5-HMAC, and Skipjack algorithms from /dev/crypto.
55
56r360557:
57	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, Blowfish, Cast, and
58	Camellia ciphers from IPsec(4).  Remove support for MD5-HMAC,
59	Keyed MD5, Keyed SHA1, and RIPEMD160-HMAC from IPsec(4).
60
61r359945:
62	Remove support for Triple DES, Blowfish, and MD5 HMAC from
63	geli(4).
64
65r359786-r359787:
66	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, and RC4 from in-kernel GSS
67	authentication.
68
69r357627:
70	remove elf2aout.
71
72r357560-r357565:
73	init(8), service(8), and cron(8) will now adopt user/class environment
74	variables (excluding PATH, by default, which will be overwritten) by
75	default.  Notably, environment variables for all cron jobs and rc
76	services can now be set via login.conf(5).
77
78r357455:
79	sparc64 has been removed from FreeBSD.
80
81r355677:
82	Adds support for NFSv4.2 (RFC-7862) and Extended Attributes
83	(RFC-8276) to the NFS client and server.
84	NFSv4.2 is comprised of several optional features that can be supported
85	in addition to NFSv4.1. This patch adds the following optional features:
86	- posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED/POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED)
87	- posix_fallocate()
88	- intra server file range copying via the copy_file_range(2) syscall
89	--> Avoiding data tranfer over the wire to/from the NFS client.
90	- lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE)
91	- Extended attribute syscalls for "user" namespace attributes as defined
92	  by RFC-8276.
93
94	For the client, NFSv4.2 is only used if the mount command line option
95	minorversion=2 is specified.
96	For the server, two new sysctls called vfs.nfsd.server_min_minorversion4
97 	and vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 have been added that allow
98	sysadmins to limit the minor versions of NFSv4 supported by the nfsd
99	server.
100	Setting vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 to 0 or 1 will disable NFSv4.2
101	on the server.
102
103r356263:
104	armv5 support has been removed from FreeBSD.
105
106r354517:
107	iwm(4) now supports most Intel 9260, 9460 and 9560 Wi-Fi devices.
108
109r354269:
110	sqlite3 is updated to sqlite3-3.30.1.
111
112r352668:
113	cron(8) now supports the -n (suppress mail on succesful run) and -q
114	(suppress logging of command execution) options in the crontab format.
115	See the crontab(5) manpage for details.
116
117r352304:
118	ntpd is no longer by default locked in memory. rlimit memlock 32
119	or rlimit memlock 0 can be used to restore this behaviour.
120
121r351770,r352920,r352922,r352923:
122	dd(1) now supports conv=fsync, conv=fdatasync, oflag=fsync, oflag=sync,
123	and iflag=fullblock flags, compatible with illumos and GNU.
124
125r351522:
126	Add kernel-side support for in-kernel Transport Layer Security
127	(KTLS).  KTLS permits using sendfile(2) over sockets using
128	TLS.
129
130r351397:
131	WPA is updated from 2.8 to 2.9.
132
133r351361:
134	Add probes for lockmgr(9) to the lockstat DTrace provider, add
135	corresponding lockstat(1) events, and document the new probes in
136	dtrace_lockstat.4.
137
138r351356:
139	Intel RST is a new 'feature' that remaps NVMe devices from
140	their normal location to part of the AHCI bar space.  This
141	will eliminate the need to set the BIOS SATA setting from RST
142	to AHCI causing the nvme drive to be erased before FreeBSD
143	will see the nvme drive. FreeBSD will now be able to see the
144	nvme drive now in the default config.
145
146r351201, r351372:
147	Add a vop_stdioctl() call, so that file systems that do not support
148	holes will have a trivial implementation of lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE).
149	The algorithm appears to be compatible with the POSIX draft and
150	the implementation in Linux for the case of a file system that
151	does not support holes.  Prior to this patch, lseek(2) would reply
152	-1 with errno set to ENOTTY for SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE on files in
153	file systems that do not support holes.
154	r351372 maps ENOTTY to EINVAL for lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE) for
155	any other cases, such as a ENOTTY return from vn_bmap_seekhole().
156
157r350665:
158	The fuse driver has been renamed to fusefs(5) and been substantially
159	rewritten.  The new driver includes many bug fixes and performance
160	enhancements, as well as the following user-visible features:
161	* Optional kernel-side permissions checks (-o default_permissions)
162	* mknod(2), socket(2), and pipe(2) support
163	* server side locking with fcntl(2)
164	* FUSE operations are now interruptible when mounted with -o intr
165	* server side handling of UTIME_NOW during utimensat(2)
166	* mount options may be updated with "mount -u"
167	* fusefs file system may now be exported over NFS
168	* RLIMIT_FSIZE support
169	* support for fuse file systems using protocols as old as 7.4
170
171	FUSE file system developers should also take note of the following new
172	features:
173	* The protocol level has been raised from 7.8 to 7.23
174	* kqueue support on /dev/fuse
175	* server-initiated cache invalidation via FUSE_NOTIFY_REPLY
176
177r350471:
178	gnop(8) can now configure a delay to be applied to read and write
179	request delays.  See the -d, -q and -x parameters.
180
181r350315, r350316:
182	Adds a Linux compatible copy_file_range(2) syscall.
183
184r350307:
185	libcap_random(3) has been removed.  Applications can use native
186	APIs to get random data in capability mode.
187
188r349529,r349530:
189	Add support for using unmapped mbufs with sendfile(2).
190
191r349352:
192	nand(4) and related components have been removed.
193
194r349349:
195	The UEFI loader now supports HTTP boot.
196
197r349335:
198	bhyve(8) now implements a High Definition Audio (HDA) driver, allowing
199	guests to play to and record audio data from the host.
200
201r349286:
202	swapon(8) can now erase a swap device immediately before enabling it,
203	similar to newfs(8)'s -E option.  This behaviour can be specified by
204	adding -E to swapon(8)'s command-line parameters, or by adding the
205	"trimonce" option to a swap device's /etc/fstab entry.
206
207r347908-r347923:
208	The following network drivers have been removed: bm(4), cs(4), de(4),
209	ed(4), ep(4), ex(4), fe(4), pcn(4), sf(4), sn(4), tl(4), tx(4), txp(4),
210	vx(4), wb(4), xe(4).
211
212r347532:
213	Wired page accounting has been split into kernel wirings and user
214	wirings (e.g., by mlock(2)).  Kernel wirings no long count towards
215	the global limit, which is renamed to vm.max_user_wired.  bhyve -S
216	allocates user-wired memory and is now subject to that limit.
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