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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
13r363253:
14	SCTP support has been removed from GENERIC kernel configurations.
15	The SCTP stack is now built as sctp.ko and can be dynamically loaded.
16
17r363233:
18	Merge sendmail 8.16.1: See contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES for details.
19
20r363180:
21	The safexcel(4) crypto offload driver has been added.
22
23r363084:
24	nc(1) now implements SCTP mode, enabled by specifying the --sctp option.
25
26r362158, r362163:
27	struct export_args has changed so that the "user" specified for
28	the -maproot and -mapall exports(5) options may be in more than
29	16 groups.
30
31r361884:
32	sed(1) has learned about hex escapes (e.g. \x27) and will now do the
33	right thing with them, removing the need for printf magic or obnoxious
34	escaping in many scenarios.
35
36r361238, r361798, r361799:
37	ZFS will now unconditionally reject read(2) of a directory with EISDIR.
38	Additionally, read(2) of a directory is now rejected with EISDIR by
39	default and may be re-enabled for non-ZFS filesystems that allow it with
40	the sysctl(8) MIB 'security.bsd.allow_read_dir'.
41
42	Aliases for grep to default to '-d skip' may be desired if commonly
43	non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and the
44	possibility of EISDIR errors in stderr is not tolerable.  Example
45	aliases, commented out, have been installed in /root/.cshrc and
46	/root/.shrc.
47
48r361066:
49	Add exec.prepare and exec.release hooks for jail(8) and jail.conf(5).
50	exec.prepare runs before mounts, so can be used to populate new jails.
51	exec.release runs after unmounts, so can be used to remove ephemeral
52	jails.
53
54r360920,r360923,r360924,r360927,r360928,r360931,r360933,r360936:
55	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES, MD5,
56	MD5-KPDK, MD5-HMAC, SHA1-KPDK, and Skipjack algorithms from
57	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
58
59r360562:
60	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES,
61	MD5-HMAC, and Skipjack algorithms from /dev/crypto.
62
63r360557:
64	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, Blowfish, Cast, and
65	Camellia ciphers from IPsec(4).  Remove support for MD5-HMAC,
66	Keyed MD5, Keyed SHA1, and RIPEMD160-HMAC from IPsec(4).
67
68r359945:
69	Remove support for Triple DES, Blowfish, and MD5 HMAC from
70	geli(4).
71
72r359786-r359787:
73	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, and RC4 from in-kernel GSS
74	authentication.
75
76r357627:
77	remove elf2aout.
78
79r357560-r357565:
80	init(8), service(8), and cron(8) will now adopt user/class environment
81	variables (excluding PATH, by default, which will be overwritten) by
82	default.  Notably, environment variables for all cron jobs and rc
83	services can now be set via login.conf(5).
84
85r357455:
86	sparc64 has been removed from FreeBSD.
87
88r355677:
89	Adds support for NFSv4.2 (RFC-7862) and Extended Attributes
90	(RFC-8276) to the NFS client and server.
91	NFSv4.2 is comprised of several optional features that can be supported
92	in addition to NFSv4.1. This patch adds the following optional features:
93	- posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED/POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED)
94	- posix_fallocate()
95	- intra server file range copying via the copy_file_range(2) syscall
96	--> Avoiding data tranfer over the wire to/from the NFS client.
97	- lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE)
98	- Extended attribute syscalls for "user" namespace attributes as defined
99	  by RFC-8276.
100
101	For the client, NFSv4.2 is only used if the mount command line option
102	minorversion=2 is specified.
103	For the server, two new sysctls called vfs.nfsd.server_min_minorversion4
104 	and vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 have been added that allow
105	sysadmins to limit the minor versions of NFSv4 supported by the nfsd
106	server.
107	Setting vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 to 0 or 1 will disable NFSv4.2
108	on the server.
109
110r356263:
111	armv5 support has been removed from FreeBSD.
112
113r354517:
114	iwm(4) now supports most Intel 9260, 9460 and 9560 Wi-Fi devices.
115
116r354269:
117	sqlite3 is updated to sqlite3-3.30.1.
118
119r352668:
120	cron(8) now supports the -n (suppress mail on succesful run) and -q
121	(suppress logging of command execution) options in the crontab format.
122	See the crontab(5) manpage for details.
123
124r352304:
125	ntpd is no longer by default locked in memory. rlimit memlock 32
126	or rlimit memlock 0 can be used to restore this behaviour.
127
128r351770,r352920,r352922,r352923:
129	dd(1) now supports conv=fsync, conv=fdatasync, oflag=fsync, oflag=sync,
130	and iflag=fullblock flags, compatible with illumos and GNU.
131
132r351522:
133	Add kernel-side support for in-kernel Transport Layer Security
134	(KTLS).  KTLS permits using sendfile(2) over sockets using
135	TLS.
136
137r351397:
138	WPA is updated from 2.8 to 2.9.
139
140r351361:
141	Add probes for lockmgr(9) to the lockstat DTrace provider, add
142	corresponding lockstat(1) events, and document the new probes in
143	dtrace_lockstat.4.
144
145r351356:
146	Intel RST is a new 'feature' that remaps NVMe devices from
147	their normal location to part of the AHCI bar space.  This
148	will eliminate the need to set the BIOS SATA setting from RST
149	to AHCI causing the nvme drive to be erased before FreeBSD
150	will see the nvme drive. FreeBSD will now be able to see the
151	nvme drive now in the default config.
152
153r351201, r351372:
154	Add a vop_stdioctl() call, so that file systems that do not support
155	holes will have a trivial implementation of lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE).
156	The algorithm appears to be compatible with the POSIX draft and
157	the implementation in Linux for the case of a file system that
158	does not support holes.  Prior to this patch, lseek(2) would reply
159	-1 with errno set to ENOTTY for SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE on files in
160	file systems that do not support holes.
161	r351372 maps ENOTTY to EINVAL for lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE) for
162	any other cases, such as a ENOTTY return from vn_bmap_seekhole().
163
164r350665:
165	The fuse driver has been renamed to fusefs(5) and been substantially
166	rewritten.  The new driver includes many bug fixes and performance
167	enhancements, as well as the following user-visible features:
168	* Optional kernel-side permissions checks (-o default_permissions)
169	* mknod(2), socket(2), and pipe(2) support
170	* server side locking with fcntl(2)
171	* FUSE operations are now interruptible when mounted with -o intr
172	* server side handling of UTIME_NOW during utimensat(2)
173	* mount options may be updated with "mount -u"
174	* fusefs file system may now be exported over NFS
175	* RLIMIT_FSIZE support
176	* support for fuse file systems using protocols as old as 7.4
177
178	FUSE file system developers should also take note of the following new
179	features:
180	* The protocol level has been raised from 7.8 to 7.23
181	* kqueue support on /dev/fuse
182	* server-initiated cache invalidation via FUSE_NOTIFY_REPLY
183
184r350471:
185	gnop(8) can now configure a delay to be applied to read and write
186	request delays.  See the -d, -q and -x parameters.
187
188r350315, r350316:
189	Adds a Linux compatible copy_file_range(2) syscall.
190
191r350307:
192	libcap_random(3) has been removed.  Applications can use native
193	APIs to get random data in capability mode.
194
195r349529,r349530:
196	Add support for using unmapped mbufs with sendfile(2).
197
198r349352:
199	nand(4) and related components have been removed.
200
201r349349:
202	The UEFI loader now supports HTTP boot.
203
204r349335:
205	bhyve(8) now implements a High Definition Audio (HDA) driver, allowing
206	guests to play to and record audio data from the host.
207
208r349286:
209	swapon(8) can now erase a swap device immediately before enabling it,
210	similar to newfs(8)'s -E option.  This behaviour can be specified by
211	adding -E to swapon(8)'s command-line parameters, or by adding the
212	"trimonce" option to a swap device's /etc/fstab entry.
213
214r347908-r347923:
215	The following network drivers have been removed: bm(4), cs(4), de(4),
216	ed(4), ep(4), ex(4), fe(4), pcn(4), sf(4), sn(4), tl(4), tx(4), txp(4),
217	vx(4), wb(4), xe(4).
218
219r347532:
220	Wired page accounting has been split into kernel wirings and user
221	wirings (e.g., by mlock(2)).  Kernel wirings no long count towards
222	the global limit, which is renamed to vm.max_user_wired.  bhyve -S
223	allocates user-wired memory and is now subject to that limit.
224
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