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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
13r364725:
14	Changes to one obscure devd event generated on resume need to
15	be documented. The old form will still be generated in 13, but not
16	in 14.
17
18r363679:
19	Applications using regex(3), e.g. sed/grep, will no longer accept
20	redundant escapes for most ordinary characters.
21
22r363253:
23	SCTP support has been removed from GENERIC kernel configurations.
24	The SCTP stack is now built as sctp.ko and can be dynamically loaded.
25
26r363233:
27	Merge sendmail 8.16.1: See contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES for details.
28
29r363180:
30	The safexcel(4) crypto offload driver has been added.
31
32r363084:
33	nc(1) now implements SCTP mode, enabled by specifying the --sctp option.
34
35r362681:
36	A new implementation of bc and dc has been imported. It offers
37	better standards compliance, performance, localization and comes
38	with extensive test cases that are optionally installed.
39	Use WITHOUT_GH_BC=yes to build and install the world with the
40	previous version instead of the new one, if required.
41
42r362158, r362163:
43	struct export_args has changed so that the "user" specified for
44	the -maproot and -mapall exports(5) options may be in more than
45	16 groups.
46
47r361884:
48	sed(1) has learned about hex escapes (e.g. \x27) and will now do the
49	right thing with them, removing the need for printf magic or obnoxious
50	escaping in many scenarios.
51
52r361238, r361798, r361799:
53	ZFS will now unconditionally reject read(2) of a directory with EISDIR.
54	Additionally, read(2) of a directory is now rejected with EISDIR by
55	default and may be re-enabled for non-ZFS filesystems that allow it with
56	the sysctl(8) MIB 'security.bsd.allow_read_dir'.
57
58	Aliases for grep to default to '-d skip' may be desired if commonly
59	non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and the
60	possibility of EISDIR errors in stderr is not tolerable.  Example
61	aliases, commented out, have been installed in /root/.cshrc and
62	/root/.shrc.
63
64r361066:
65	Add exec.prepare and exec.release hooks for jail(8) and jail.conf(5).
66	exec.prepare runs before mounts, so can be used to populate new jails.
67	exec.release runs after unmounts, so can be used to remove ephemeral
68	jails.
69
70r360920,r360923,r360924,r360927,r360928,r360931,r360933,r360936:
71	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES, MD5,
72	MD5-KPDK, MD5-HMAC, SHA1-KPDK, and Skipjack algorithms from
73	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
74
75r360562:
76	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES,
77	MD5-HMAC, and Skipjack algorithms from /dev/crypto.
78
79r360557:
80	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, Blowfish, Cast, and
81	Camellia ciphers from IPsec(4).  Remove support for MD5-HMAC,
82	Keyed MD5, Keyed SHA1, and RIPEMD160-HMAC from IPsec(4).
83
84r359945:
85	Remove support for Triple DES, Blowfish, and MD5 HMAC from
86	geli(4).
87
88r359786-r359787:
89	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, and RC4 from in-kernel GSS
90	authentication.
91
92r357627:
93	remove elf2aout.
94
95r357560-r357565:
96	init(8), service(8), and cron(8) will now adopt user/class environment
97	variables (excluding PATH, by default, which will be overwritten) by
98	default.  Notably, environment variables for all cron jobs and rc
99	services can now be set via login.conf(5).
100
101r357455:
102	sparc64 has been removed from FreeBSD.
103
104r355677:
105	Adds support for NFSv4.2 (RFC-7862) and Extended Attributes
106	(RFC-8276) to the NFS client and server.
107	NFSv4.2 is comprised of several optional features that can be supported
108	in addition to NFSv4.1. This patch adds the following optional features:
109	- posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED/POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED)
110	- posix_fallocate()
111	- intra server file range copying via the copy_file_range(2) syscall
112	--> Avoiding data tranfer over the wire to/from the NFS client.
113	- lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE)
114	- Extended attribute syscalls for "user" namespace attributes as defined
115	  by RFC-8276.
116
117	For the client, NFSv4.2 is only used if the mount command line option
118	minorversion=2 is specified.
119	For the server, two new sysctls called vfs.nfsd.server_min_minorversion4
120 	and vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 have been added that allow
121	sysadmins to limit the minor versions of NFSv4 supported by the nfsd
122	server.
123	Setting vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 to 0 or 1 will disable NFSv4.2
124	on the server.
125
126r356263:
127	armv5 support has been removed from FreeBSD.
128
129r354517:
130	iwm(4) now supports most Intel 9260, 9460 and 9560 Wi-Fi devices.
131
132r354269:
133	sqlite3 is updated to sqlite3-3.30.1.
134
135r352668:
136	cron(8) now supports the -n (suppress mail on succesful run) and -q
137	(suppress logging of command execution) options in the crontab format.
138	See the crontab(5) manpage for details.
139
140r352304:
141	ntpd is no longer by default locked in memory. rlimit memlock 32
142	or rlimit memlock 0 can be used to restore this behaviour.
143
144r351770,r352920,r352922,r352923:
145	dd(1) now supports conv=fsync, conv=fdatasync, oflag=fsync, oflag=sync,
146	and iflag=fullblock flags, compatible with illumos and GNU.
147
148r351522:
149	Add kernel-side support for in-kernel Transport Layer Security
150	(KTLS).  KTLS permits using sendfile(2) over sockets using
151	TLS.
152
153r351397:
154	WPA is updated from 2.8 to 2.9.
155
156r351361:
157	Add probes for lockmgr(9) to the lockstat DTrace provider, add
158	corresponding lockstat(1) events, and document the new probes in
159	dtrace_lockstat.4.
160
161r351356:
162	Intel RST is a new 'feature' that remaps NVMe devices from
163	their normal location to part of the AHCI bar space.  This
164	will eliminate the need to set the BIOS SATA setting from RST
165	to AHCI causing the nvme drive to be erased before FreeBSD
166	will see the nvme drive. FreeBSD will now be able to see the
167	nvme drive now in the default config.
168
169r351201, r351372:
170	Add a vop_stdioctl() call, so that file systems that do not support
171	holes will have a trivial implementation of lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE).
172	The algorithm appears to be compatible with the POSIX draft and
173	the implementation in Linux for the case of a file system that
174	does not support holes.  Prior to this patch, lseek(2) would reply
175	-1 with errno set to ENOTTY for SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE on files in
176	file systems that do not support holes.
177	r351372 maps ENOTTY to EINVAL for lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE) for
178	any other cases, such as a ENOTTY return from vn_bmap_seekhole().
179
180r350665:
181	The fuse driver has been renamed to fusefs(5) and been substantially
182	rewritten.  The new driver includes many bug fixes and performance
183	enhancements, as well as the following user-visible features:
184	* Optional kernel-side permissions checks (-o default_permissions)
185	* mknod(2), socket(2), and pipe(2) support
186	* server side locking with fcntl(2)
187	* FUSE operations are now interruptible when mounted with -o intr
188	* server side handling of UTIME_NOW during utimensat(2)
189	* mount options may be updated with "mount -u"
190	* fusefs file system may now be exported over NFS
191	* RLIMIT_FSIZE support
192	* support for fuse file systems using protocols as old as 7.4
193
194	FUSE file system developers should also take note of the following new
195	features:
196	* The protocol level has been raised from 7.8 to 7.23
197	* kqueue support on /dev/fuse
198	* server-initiated cache invalidation via FUSE_NOTIFY_REPLY
199
200r350471:
201	gnop(8) can now configure a delay to be applied to read and write
202	request delays.  See the -d, -q and -x parameters.
203
204r350315, r350316:
205	Adds a Linux compatible copy_file_range(2) syscall.
206
207r350307:
208	libcap_random(3) has been removed.  Applications can use native
209	APIs to get random data in capability mode.
210
211r349529,r349530:
212	Add support for using unmapped mbufs with sendfile(2).
213
214r349352:
215	nand(4) and related components have been removed.
216
217r349349:
218	The UEFI loader now supports HTTP boot.
219
220r349335:
221	bhyve(8) now implements a High Definition Audio (HDA) driver, allowing
222	guests to play to and record audio data from the host.
223
224r349286:
225	swapon(8) can now erase a swap device immediately before enabling it,
226	similar to newfs(8)'s -E option.  This behaviour can be specified by
227	adding -E to swapon(8)'s command-line parameters, or by adding the
228	"trimonce" option to a swap device's /etc/fstab entry.
229
230r347908-r347923:
231	The following network drivers have been removed: bm(4), cs(4), de(4),
232	ed(4), ep(4), ex(4), fe(4), pcn(4), sf(4), sn(4), tl(4), tx(4), txp(4),
233	vx(4), wb(4), xe(4).
234
235r347532:
236	Wired page accounting has been split into kernel wirings and user
237	wirings (e.g., by mlock(2)).  Kernel wirings no long count towards
238	the global limit, which is renamed to vm.max_user_wired.  bhyve -S
239	allocates user-wired memory and is now subject to that limit.
240
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