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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
13ba48d52ca6c8,4ac3d08a9693,2533eca1c2b9:
14	The default bell tone is now 800Hz. It may be set with kbdcontrol
15	again. There's devd integration for people wishing to use their sound
16	cards for the beep.
17
1892b3e07229ba:
19	net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait enabled by default.  It prevents
20	creation of timewait entries for TCP connections that were
21	terminated locally.
22
23d410b585b6f0:
24	sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user.
25
26396851c20aeb:
27	libncursesw has been split into libtinfow and libncursesw, linker
28	scripts should make it transparent for consumers. pkg-config files
29	are also now installed to ease ports detecting the ncurses setup from
30	base.
31
32a422084abbda:
33	LLVM's MemorySanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
34	kmsan(9) manual page for more information.
35
3638da497a4dfc:
37	LLVM's AddressSanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
38	kasan(9) manual page for more information.
39
40f39dd6a97844,23f24377b1a9,628bd30ab5a4:
41	One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
42	(20210727). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
43	either up streamed or discarded.  Notable changes include:
44		o Locale is no longer used for ranges
45		o Various bugs fixed
46		o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
47
48	The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
49	we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
50	interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
51	true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
52	behavior.
53
54	A second change, less likely to be noticed, is the historic wart
55	if -Ft meaning to use hard tab characters as the field separator
56	is deprecated and will likely be removed in FreeBSD 14.
57
58ee29e6f31111:
59	Commit ee29e6f31111 added a new sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio
60	that can be used to increase the maximum I/O size for the NFS
61	server to any power of 2 up to 1Mbyte while the nfsd(8) is not running.
62	The FreeBSD NFS client can now be set to use a 1Mbyte I/O size
63	via the vfs.maxbcachebuf tunable and the Linux NFS client
64	can also do 1Mbyte I/O.
65	kern.ipc.maxsockbuf will need to be increased.  A console
66	message will suggest a setting for it.
67
68d575e81fbcfa:
69	gconcat(8) has added support for appending devices to the device
70	not present at creation time.
71
7276681661be28:
73	Remove support for asymmetric cryptographic operations from
74	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
75
76a145cf3f73c7:
77	The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
78	supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
79	for NFSv4 mounts.
80	The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.
81