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1Release notes for FreeBSD 14.0.
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
133416e102c4e9:
14	Remove TI code from armv7 GENERIC kernel.
15	This code doesn't cope with newer DTS and hasn't in a long time so
16	support for TI armv7 platform (like BeagleBone and Pandaboard) is now
17	removed from GENERIC.
18
19d198b8774d2c:
20	Add a new "fwget" utility.
21	The goal of this utility is to inspect the system for peripherals
22	that needs firmware and install the appropriate packages for them.
23	For now only pci subsystem is supported and only firmwares for Intel
24	and AMD GPUs are known.
25
26896516e54a8c:
27	Add a new "syskrb5" mount option for Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
28	Without this patch, a Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mount must provide
29	a Kerberos credential for the client at mount time.
30	This patch uses a feature of NFSv4.1/4.2 called SP4_NONE, which
31	allows the state maintenance operations to be performed by any
32	authentication mechanism, so that these operations may be done via
33	AUTH_SYS instead of RPCSEC_GSS (KerberosV).  As such, no Kerberos
34	credential is required at mount time.
35	See mount_nfs(8).
36
37330aa8acdec7,ff2f1f691cdb:
38	Adds support for the SP4_MACH_CRED case for the
39	NFSv4.1/4.2 ExchangeID operation since the Linux
40	NFSv4.1/4.2 client is now using this for Kerberized mounts.
41	This change should only affect Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
42	The Linux Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts currently work without
43	support for this because Linux will fall back to SP4_NONE,
44	but there is no guarantee this fallback will work forever.
45
467344856e3a6d and many others:
47	Add support so that nfsd(8), nfsuserd(8), mountd(8), gssd(8)
48	and rpc.tlsservd(8) can be run in an appropriately configured
49	vnet prison.  The vnet prison must be on its own file system,
50	have the "allow.nfsd" jail parameter set on it and enforce_statfs
51	cannot be set to "0".  Use of UDP and pNFS server configurations
52	are not permitted.  (ie. The nfsd command line options "-u", "-p"
53	and "-m" are not supported.)
54	See jail(8), nfsd(8) and mountd(8).
55
562fb4f839f3fc,d89513ed2050,3413ee88c39d,f97a19ecb985,021562c5020d,431d2a81d421:
57	sendmail has been updated to the latest upstream version (8.17.1).
58
594a30d7bb373c,d670a8f7c596,af01b4722577,4e240e55d818:
60	The growfs(7) script can now add a swap partition at the end of
61	the expansion area, and does so by default if there is no existing
62	swap.  See growfs(7).
63
6486edb11e7491:
65	llvm-objump is now always installed as objdump.
66
67616f32ea6da7:
68	mta_start_script along with othermta rc.d script has been retired.
69
70a67b925ff3e5:
71	The default mail transport agent is now dma(8) replacing sendmail.
72
7322893e584032:
74	L3 filtering on if_bridge will do surprising things which aren't
75	fail-safe, so net.link.bridge.pfil_member and
76	net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge now default to zero.
77
78f0bc4ed144fc:
79	A new DTrace provider, kinst, is introduced and documented in
80	dtrace_kinst(4).  The provider allows kernel instructions to be traced,
81	similar to the FBT (function boundary tracing) provider except that all
82	instructions may be probed instead of logical entry and return
83	instructions.  The provider is currently amd64-only.
84
850eea46fb1f83:
86	Removed telnetd.
87
88981ef32230b2,33721eb991d8:
89	These commits make the use of NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts with the "intr"
90	mount option fairly usable, although not 100% correct, so long as
91	the "nolockd" mount option is used as well.  See the mount_nfs(8)
92	manual page for more information.
93
94b875d4f5ddcb,0685c73cfe88:
95	The NFSv4.1/4.2 client and server will now generate console messages
96	if sessions are broken, suggesting that users check to ensure
97	that the /etc/hostid strings are unique for all NFSv4.1/4.2 clients.
98
99240afd8c1fcc:
100	makefs(8) has ZFS support; it can create a ZFS pool, backed by a
101	single disk vdev, containing one or more datasets populated from
102	the staging directory.
103
10478ee8d1c4cda,f4f56ff43dbd:
105	The in-tree qat(4) driver has been replaced with Intel's QAT driver.
106	The new version provides additional interfaces to the chipset's
107	cryptographic and compression offload functionality.
108
109	This will have no visible change for most users; however, the new
110	driver does not support Atom C2000 chipsets.  To preserve support for
111	those chipsets, the old driver has been renamed to qat_c2xxx and kept
112	in the tree.  Users of qat(4) on C2000 hardware will thus need to
113	ensure that qat_c2xxx(4) is loaded instead of qat(4).
114
115da5b7e90e740,5a8fceb3bd9f,7b0a665d72c0,13ec1e3155c7,318d0db5fe8a,1ae2c59bcf21:
116	Boottrace is a new kernel-userspace interface for capturing trace
117	events during system boot and shutdown. Event annotations are
118	present in:
119
120	- The boot and shutdown paths in the kernel
121	- Some key system utilities (init(8), shutdown(8), reboot(8))
122	- rc(8) scripts (via boottrace(8))
123
124	In contrast to other existing boot-time tracing facilities like TSLOG,
125	Boottrace focuses on the ease of use and is aimed primarily at system
126	administrators.
127
128	It is available in the default GENERIC kernel and can be enabled by
129	toggling a single sysctl(8) variable.
130
131	See boottrace(4) for more details.
132
13305a1d0f5d7ac:
134	Kernel TLS offload now supports receive-side offload of TLS 1.3.
135
13619dc64451179:
137	if_stf now supports 6rd (RFC5969).
138
139c1d255d3ffdb, 3968b47cd974, bd452dcbede6:
140	Add WiFi 6 support to wpa.
141
142ba48d52ca6c8,4ac3d08a9693,2533eca1c2b9:
143	The default bell tone is now 800Hz. It may be set with kbdcontrol
144	again. There's devd integration for people wishing to use their sound
145	cards for the beep.
146
14792b3e07229ba:
148	net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait enabled by default.  It prevents
149	creation of timewait entries for TCP connections that were
150	terminated locally.
151
152d410b585b6f0:
153	sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user.
154
155396851c20aeb:
156	libncursesw has been split into libtinfow and libncursesw, linker
157	scripts should make it transparent for consumers. pkg-config files
158	are also now installed to ease ports detecting the ncurses setup from
159	base.
160
161a422084abbda:
162	LLVM's MemorySanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
163	kmsan(9) manual page for more information.
164
16538da497a4dfc:
166	LLVM's AddressSanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
167	kasan(9) manual page for more information.
168
169f39dd6a97844,23f24377b1a9,628bd30ab5a4:
170	One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
171	(20210727). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
172	either up streamed or discarded.  Notable changes include:
173		o Locale is no longer used for ranges
174		o Various bugs fixed
175		o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
176
177	The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
178	we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
179	interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
180	true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
181	behavior.
182
183	A second change, less likely to be noticed, is the historic wart
184	if -Ft meaning to use hard tab characters as the field separator
185	is deprecated and will likely be removed in FreeBSD 14.
186
187ee29e6f31111:
188	Commit ee29e6f31111 added a new sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio
189	that can be used to increase the maximum I/O size for the NFS
190	server to any power of 2 up to 1Mbyte while the nfsd(8) is not running.
191	The FreeBSD NFS client can now be set to use a 1Mbyte I/O size
192	via the vfs.maxbcachebuf tunable and the Linux NFS client
193	can also do 1Mbyte I/O.
194	kern.ipc.maxsockbuf will need to be increased.  A console
195	message will suggest a setting for it.
196
197d575e81fbcfa:
198	gconcat(8) has added support for appending devices to the device
199	not present at creation time.
200
20176681661be28:
202	Remove support for asymmetric cryptographic operations from
203	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
204
205a145cf3f73c7:
206	The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
207	supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
208	for NFSv4 mounts.
209	The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.
210