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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
13d198b8774d2c
14	Add a new "fwget" utility.
15	The goal of this utility is to inspect the system for peripherals
16	that needs firmware and install the appropriate packages for them.
17	For now only pci subsystem is supported and only firmwares for Intel
18	and AMD GPUs are known.
19
20896516e54a8c
21	Add a new "syskrb5" mount option for Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
22	Without this patch, a Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mount must provide
23	a Kerberos credential for the client at mount time.
24	This patch uses a feature of NFSv4.1/4.2 called SP4_NONE, which
25	allows the state maintenance operations to be performed by any
26	authentication mechanism, so that these operations may be done via
27	AUTH_SYS instead of RPCSEC_GSS (KerberosV).  As such, no Kerberos
28	credential is required at mount time.
29	See mount_nfs(8).
30
31330aa8acdec7,ff2f1f691cdb
32	Adds support for the SP4_MACH_CRED case for the
33	NFSv4.1/4.2 ExchangeID operation since the Linux
34	NFSv4.1/4.2 client is now using this for Kerberized mounts.
35	This change should only affect Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
36	The Linux Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts currently work without
37	support for this because Linux will fall back to SP4_NONE,
38	but there is no guarantee this fallback will work forever.
39
407344856e3a6d and many others:
41	Add support so that nfsd(8), nfsuserd(8), mountd(8), gssd(8)
42	and rpc.tlsservd(8) can be run in an appropriately configured
43	vnet prison.  The vnet prison must be on its own file system,
44	have the "allow.nfsd" jail parameter set on it and enforce_statfs
45	cannot be set to "0".  Use of UDP and pNFS server configurations
46	are not permitted.  (ie. The nfsd command line options "-u", "-p"
47	and "-m" are not supported.)
48	See jail(8), nfsd(8) and mountd(8).
49
502fb4f839f3fc,d89513ed2050,3413ee88c39d,f97a19ecb985,021562c5020d,431d2a81d421:
51	sendmail has been updated to the latest upstream version (8.17.1).
52
534a30d7bb373c,d670a8f7c596,af01b4722577,4e240e55d818:
54	The growfs(7) script can now add a swap partition at the end of
55	the expansion area, and does so by default if there is no existing
56	swap.  See growfs(7).
57
5886edb11e7491:
59	llvm-objump is now always installed as objdump.
60
61616f32ea6da7:
62	mta_start_script along with othermta rc.d script has been retired.
63
64a67b925ff3e5:
65	The default mail transport agent is now dma(8) replacing sendmail.
66
6722893e584032:
68	L3 filtering on if_bridge will do surprising things which aren't
69	fail-safe, so net.link.bridge.pfil_member and
70	net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge now default to zero.
71
72f0bc4ed144fc:
73	A new DTrace provider, kinst, is introduced and documented in
74	dtrace_kinst(4).  The provider allows kernel instructions to be traced,
75	similar to the FBT (function boundary tracing) provider except that all
76	instructions may be probed instead of logical entry and return
77	instructions.  The provider is currently amd64-only.
78
790eea46fb1f83:
80	Removed telnetd.
81
82981ef32230b2,33721eb991d8:
83	These commits make the use of NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts with the "intr"
84	mount option fairly usable, although not 100% correct, so long as
85	the "nolockd" mount option is used as well.  See the mount_nfs(8)
86	manual page for more information.
87
88b875d4f5ddcb,0685c73cfe88:
89	The NFSv4.1/4.2 client and server will now generate console messages
90	if sessions are broken, suggesting that users check to ensure
91	that the /etc/hostid strings are unique for all NFSv4.1/4.2 clients.
92
93240afd8c1fcc:
94	makefs(8) has ZFS support; it can create a ZFS pool, backed by a
95	single disk vdev, containing one or more datasets populated from
96	the staging directory.
97
9878ee8d1c4cda,f4f56ff43dbd:
99	The in-tree qat(4) driver has been replaced with Intel's QAT driver.
100	The new version provides additional interfaces to the chipset's
101	cryptographic and compression offload functionality.
102
103	This will have no visible change for most users; however, the new
104	driver does not support Atom C2000 chipsets.  To preserve support for
105	those chipsets, the old driver has been renamed to qat_c2xxx and kept
106	in the tree.  Users of qat(4) on C2000 hardware will thus need to
107	ensure that qat_c2xxx(4) is loaded instead of qat(4).
108
109da5b7e90e740,5a8fceb3bd9f,7b0a665d72c0,13ec1e3155c7,318d0db5fe8a,1ae2c59bcf21:
110	Boottrace is a new kernel-userspace interface for capturing trace
111	events during system boot and shutdown. Event annotations are
112	present in:
113
114	- The boot and shutdown paths in the kernel
115	- Some key system utilities (init(8), shutdown(8), reboot(8))
116	- rc(8) scripts (via boottrace(8))
117
118	In contrast to other existing boot-time tracing facilities like TSLOG,
119	Boottrace focuses on the ease of use and is aimed primarily at system
120	administrators.
121
122	It is available in the default GENERIC kernel and can be enabled by
123	toggling a single sysctl(8) variable.
124
125	See boottrace(4) for more details.
126
12705a1d0f5d7ac:
128	Kernel TLS offload now supports receive-side offload of TLS 1.3.
129
13019dc64451179:
131	if_stf now supports 6rd (RFC5969).
132
133c1d255d3ffdb, 3968b47cd974, bd452dcbede6:
134	Add WiFi 6 support to wpa.
135
136ba48d52ca6c8,4ac3d08a9693,2533eca1c2b9:
137	The default bell tone is now 800Hz. It may be set with kbdcontrol
138	again. There's devd integration for people wishing to use their sound
139	cards for the beep.
140
14192b3e07229ba:
142	net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait enabled by default.  It prevents
143	creation of timewait entries for TCP connections that were
144	terminated locally.
145
146d410b585b6f0:
147	sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user.
148
149396851c20aeb:
150	libncursesw has been split into libtinfow and libncursesw, linker
151	scripts should make it transparent for consumers. pkg-config files
152	are also now installed to ease ports detecting the ncurses setup from
153	base.
154
155a422084abbda:
156	LLVM's MemorySanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
157	kmsan(9) manual page for more information.
158
15938da497a4dfc:
160	LLVM's AddressSanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
161	kasan(9) manual page for more information.
162
163f39dd6a97844,23f24377b1a9,628bd30ab5a4:
164	One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
165	(20210727). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
166	either up streamed or discarded.  Notable changes include:
167		o Locale is no longer used for ranges
168		o Various bugs fixed
169		o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
170
171	The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
172	we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
173	interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
174	true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
175	behavior.
176
177	A second change, less likely to be noticed, is the historic wart
178	if -Ft meaning to use hard tab characters as the field separator
179	is deprecated and will likely be removed in FreeBSD 14.
180
181ee29e6f31111:
182	Commit ee29e6f31111 added a new sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio
183	that can be used to increase the maximum I/O size for the NFS
184	server to any power of 2 up to 1Mbyte while the nfsd(8) is not running.
185	The FreeBSD NFS client can now be set to use a 1Mbyte I/O size
186	via the vfs.maxbcachebuf tunable and the Linux NFS client
187	can also do 1Mbyte I/O.
188	kern.ipc.maxsockbuf will need to be increased.  A console
189	message will suggest a setting for it.
190
191d575e81fbcfa:
192	gconcat(8) has added support for appending devices to the device
193	not present at creation time.
194
19576681661be28:
196	Remove support for asymmetric cryptographic operations from
197	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
198
199a145cf3f73c7:
200	The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
201	supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
202	for NFSv4 mounts.
203	The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.
204