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