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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
130a6760a1de32, 3f3676a71266, 580c04df4db6:
14	Add WiFi 6 support.
15
16various:
17	Add support for the HiFive Unmatched RISC-V board.
18
199fb6e613373c:
20	Add a sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio that can be used to
21	increase the NFS server's maximum I/O size from 128Kbytes
22	to any power of 2 up to 1Mbyte.  It can only be set when
23	the nfsd threads are not running and will normally require
24	an increase in kern.ipc.maxsockbuf to at least the value
25	recommended by the console log message generated when
26	setting vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio is first attempted.
27
289ec7dbf46b0a:
29	Add a new NFSv4.1/4.2 mount option "nconnect" that can
30	be used to specify the number of TCP connections that
31	will be used for the mount, up to a maximum of 16.
32	The first (default) TCP connection will be used for
33	all RPCs that consist of small RPC messages.
34	The RPCs that can consist of large RPC messages
35	(Read/Readdir/ReaddirPlus/Write) will be sent on the
36	additional TCP connections in a round robin fashion.
37	If either the NFS client or NFS server have multiple
38	network interfaces aggregated together or a network
39	interface that uses multiple queues, this can increase
40	NFS performance for the mount.
41
42various:
43	One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
44	(20210215). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
45	either up streamed or discarded.  Notable changes include:
46		o Locale is no longer used for ranges
47		o Various bugs fixed
48		o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
49
50	The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
51	we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
52	interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
53	true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
54	behavior.
55
568a04edfdcbd2:
57	Change the default minor version used for an NFSv4 mount
58	to the highest minor version supported by the NFSv4 server.
59	This default can be overridden by using the "minorversion"
60	mount option.
61
622c76eebca71b, 59f6f5e23c1a:
63	Add two daemons rpc.tlsclntd(8) and rpc.tlsservd(8) that provide
64	support for NFS-over-TLS as described in the Internet Draft titled
65	"Towards Remote Procedure Call Encryption By Default".
66	These daemons are only built when WITH_OPENSSL_KTLS is specified
67	and are only tested on amd64 at this time.
68	They use KTLS to encrypt/decrypt all NFS RPC message traffic, plus
69	optional verification of machine identity via X.509 certificates.
70
71f76393a6305b6:
72	Add AES-GCM support to armv8crypto(4) providing accelerated
73	support for KTLS, IPsec, and other crypto API consumers.
74
75074a91f746bd:
76	The aesni(4) and armv8crypto(4) devices are now included in
77	GENERIC on amd64, i386, and arm64.
78
792e1c94aa1fd5:
80	Add support for enforcing W^X mapping policy for user
81	processes.  The policy is not enforced by default but can be
82	enabled by setting the kern.elf32.allow_wx and
83	kern.elf64.allow_wx sysctls to 0.  Individual binaries can be
84	exempted from the policy by elfctl(1) via the wxneeded
85	feature.
86
874979620ece98:
88	Add AES-XTS support to armv8crypto(4) providing accelerated
89	software support for the default GELI cipher on arm64 systems.
90
91022ca2fc7fe0:
92	Add aio_writev(2) and aio_readv(2), vectored analogues of aio_write(2)
93	and aio_read(2).
94
9592bbfe1f0d1f:
96	The fusefs(5) protocol has been updated to 7.28.  Support for
97	FUSE_COPY_FILE_RANGE and FUSE_LSEEK is added.
98
99r368667:
100	GDB 6.1.1 was removed.  Users of crashinfo(8) should install the
101	gdb package or devel/gdb port.
102
103r368559:
104	The hme(4) driver was removed.
105
106r367660:
107	Fixes the case where gssd will not startup because /usr is a separate
108	local file system that is not yet mounted.  It does not fix the case
109	where /usr is a separately mounted remote file system (such as NFS).
110	This latter case can be fixed by adding mountcritremote to the
111	REQUIRED line.  Unfortunately doing so implies that all Kerberized
112	NFS mounts in /etc/fstab will need the "late" mount option.
113	This was not done, since the requirement for "late" would introduce
114	a POLA violation.
115
116r367423:
117	This commit added a new startup scripts variable called
118	nfsv4_server_only which uses the -R option on mountd added by r367026.
119	When nfsv4_server_only is set to "YES" in /etc/rc.conf, the NFS server
120	only handles NFSv4 and does not register with rpcbind.  As such, rpcbind
121	does not need to be running.  Useful for sites which consider rpcbind a
122	security issue.
123
124r366267:
125        Kernel option ACPI_DMAR was renamed to IOMMU.  amd64's IOMMU subsystem
126        was split out from amd64 DMAR support and is now generic, i.e., it can
127        be used by all architectures.
128
129r364896:
130	A series of commits ending with r364896 added NFS over TLS
131	to the kernel.  This is believed to be compatible with
132	the Internet Draft titled "Towards Remote Procedure Call Encryption
133	By Default" (expected to soon become an RFC).
134	The mount_nfs(8) and exports(5) man pages describe the mount and
135	export option(s) related to NFS over TLS.
136	For NFS over TLS to work, the rpctlscd(8) { client } or rpctlssd(8)
137	{ server } must be running on a kernel built with "options KERN_TLS"
138	on an architecture where PMAP_HAS_DMAP != 0.
139
140r364725:
141	Changes to one obscure devd event generated on resume need to
142	be documented. The old form will still be generated in 13, but not
143	in 14.
144
145r363679:
146	Applications using regex(3), e.g. sed/grep, will no longer accept
147	redundant escapes for most ordinary characters.
148
149r363253:
150	SCTP support has been removed from GENERIC kernel configurations.
151	The SCTP stack is now built as sctp.ko and can be dynamically loaded.
152
153r363233:
154	Merge sendmail 8.16.1: See contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES for details.
155
156r363180:
157	The safexcel(4) crypto offload driver has been added.
158
159r363084:
160	nc(1) now implements SCTP mode, enabled by specifying the --sctp option.
161
162r362681:
163	A new implementation of bc and dc has been imported. It offers
164	better standards compliance, performance, localization and comes
165	with extensive test cases that are optionally installed.
166	Use WITHOUT_GH_BC=yes to build and install the world with the
167	previous version instead of the new one, if required.
168
169r362158, r362163:
170	struct export_args has changed so that the "user" specified for
171	the -maproot and -mapall exports(5) options may be in more than
172	16 groups.
173
174r361884:
175	sed(1) has learned about hex escapes (e.g. \x27) and will now do the
176	right thing with them, removing the need for printf magic or obnoxious
177	escaping in many scenarios.
178
179r361238, r361798, r361799:
180	ZFS will now unconditionally reject read(2) of a directory with EISDIR.
181	Additionally, read(2) of a directory is now rejected with EISDIR by
182	default and may be re-enabled for non-ZFS filesystems that allow it with
183	the sysctl(8) MIB 'security.bsd.allow_read_dir'.
184
185	Aliases for grep to default to '-d skip' may be desired if commonly
186	non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and the
187	possibility of EISDIR errors in stderr is not tolerable.  Example
188	aliases, commented out, have been installed in /root/.cshrc and
189	/root/.shrc.
190
191r361066:
192	Add exec.prepare and exec.release hooks for jail(8) and jail.conf(5).
193	exec.prepare runs before mounts, so can be used to populate new jails.
194	exec.release runs after unmounts, so can be used to remove ephemeral
195	jails.
196
197r360920,r360923,r360924,r360927,r360928,r360931,r360933,r360936:
198	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES, MD5,
199	MD5-KPDK, MD5-HMAC, SHA1-KPDK, and Skipjack algorithms from
200	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
201
202r360562:
203	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES,
204	MD5-HMAC, and Skipjack algorithms from /dev/crypto.
205
206r360557:
207	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, Blowfish, Cast, and
208	Camellia ciphers from IPsec(4).  Remove support for MD5-HMAC,
209	Keyed MD5, Keyed SHA1, and RIPEMD160-HMAC from IPsec(4).
210
211r359945:
212	Remove support for Triple DES, Blowfish, and MD5 HMAC from
213	geli(4).
214
215r359786-r359787:
216	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, and RC4 from in-kernel GSS
217	authentication.
218
219r357627:
220	remove elf2aout.
221
222r357560-r357565:
223	init(8), service(8), and cron(8) will now adopt user/class environment
224	variables (excluding PATH, by default, which will be overwritten) by
225	default.  Notably, environment variables for all cron jobs and rc
226	services can now be set via login.conf(5).
227
228r357455:
229	sparc64 has been removed from FreeBSD.
230
231r355677:
232	Adds support for NFSv4.2 (RFC-7862) and Extended Attributes
233	(RFC-8276) to the NFS client and server.
234	NFSv4.2 is comprised of several optional features that can be supported
235	in addition to NFSv4.1. This patch adds the following optional features:
236	- posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED/POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED)
237	- posix_fallocate()
238	- intra server file range copying via the copy_file_range(2) syscall
239	--> Avoiding data tranfer over the wire to/from the NFS client.
240	- lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE)
241	- Extended attribute syscalls for "user" namespace attributes as defined
242	  by RFC-8276.
243
244	For the client, NFSv4.2 is only used if the mount command line option
245	minorversion=2 is specified.
246	For the server, two new sysctls called vfs.nfsd.server_min_minorversion4
247 	and vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 have been added that allow
248	sysadmins to limit the minor versions of NFSv4 supported by the nfsd
249	server.
250	Setting vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 to 0 or 1 will disable NFSv4.2
251	on the server.
252
253r356263:
254	armv5 support has been removed from FreeBSD.
255
256r354517:
257	iwm(4) now supports most Intel 9260, 9460 and 9560 Wi-Fi devices.
258
259r354269:
260	sqlite3 is updated to sqlite3-3.30.1.
261
262r352668:
263	cron(8) now supports the -n (suppress mail on succesful run) and -q
264	(suppress logging of command execution) options in the crontab format.
265	See the crontab(5) manpage for details.
266
267r352304:
268	ntpd is no longer by default locked in memory. rlimit memlock 32
269	or rlimit memlock 0 can be used to restore this behaviour.
270
271r351863:
272	rc.subr(8) now honors ${name}_env in all rc(8) scripts.  Previously,
273	environment variables set by a user via ${name}_env were ignored
274	if the service defined a custom *_cmd variable to control the behavior
275	of the run_rc_command function, e.g., start_cmd, instead of relying on
276	the variables like command and command_args,
277
278r351770,r352920,r352922,r352923:
279	dd(1) now supports conv=fsync, conv=fdatasync, oflag=fsync, oflag=sync,
280	and iflag=fullblock flags, compatible with illumos and GNU.
281
282r351522:
283	Add kernel-side support for in-kernel Transport Layer Security
284	(KTLS).  KTLS permits using sendfile(2) over sockets using
285	TLS.
286
287r351397:
288	WPA is updated from 2.8 to 2.9.
289
290r351361:
291	Add probes for lockmgr(9) to the lockstat DTrace provider, add
292	corresponding lockstat(1) events, and document the new probes in
293	dtrace_lockstat.4.
294
295r351356:
296	Intel RST is a new 'feature' that remaps NVMe devices from
297	their normal location to part of the AHCI bar space.  This
298	will eliminate the need to set the BIOS SATA setting from RST
299	to AHCI causing the nvme drive to be erased before FreeBSD
300	will see the nvme drive. FreeBSD will now be able to see the
301	nvme drive now in the default config.
302
303r351201, r351372:
304	Add a vop_stdioctl() call, so that file systems that do not support
305	holes will have a trivial implementation of lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE).
306	The algorithm appears to be compatible with the POSIX draft and
307	the implementation in Linux for the case of a file system that
308	does not support holes.  Prior to this patch, lseek(2) would reply
309	-1 with errno set to ENOTTY for SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE on files in
310	file systems that do not support holes.
311	r351372 maps ENOTTY to EINVAL for lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE) for
312	any other cases, such as a ENOTTY return from vn_bmap_seekhole().
313
314r350665:
315	The fuse driver has been renamed to fusefs(5) and been substantially
316	rewritten.  The new driver includes many bug fixes and performance
317	enhancements, as well as the following user-visible features:
318	* Optional kernel-side permissions checks (-o default_permissions)
319	* mknod(2), socket(2), and pipe(2) support
320	* server side locking with fcntl(2)
321	* FUSE operations are now interruptible when mounted with -o intr
322	* server side handling of UTIME_NOW during utimensat(2)
323	* mount options may be updated with "mount -u"
324	* fusefs file system may now be exported over NFS
325	* RLIMIT_FSIZE support
326	* support for fuse file systems using protocols as old as 7.4
327
328	FUSE file system developers should also take note of the following new
329	features:
330	* The protocol level has been raised from 7.8 to 7.23
331	* kqueue support on /dev/fuse
332	* server-initiated cache invalidation via FUSE_NOTIFY_REPLY
333
334r350471:
335	gnop(8) can now configure a delay to be applied to read and write
336	request delays.  See the -d, -q and -x parameters.
337
338r350315, r350316:
339	Adds a Linux compatible copy_file_range(2) syscall.
340
341r350307:
342	libcap_random(3) has been removed.  Applications can use native
343	APIs to get random data in capability mode.
344
345r349529,r349530:
346	Add support for using unmapped mbufs with sendfile(2).
347
348r349352:
349	nand(4) and related components have been removed.
350
351r349349:
352	The UEFI loader now supports HTTP boot.
353
354r349335:
355	bhyve(8) now implements a High Definition Audio (HDA) driver, allowing
356	guests to play to and record audio data from the host.
357
358r349286:
359	swapon(8) can now erase a swap device immediately before enabling it,
360	similar to newfs(8)'s -E option.  This behaviour can be specified by
361	adding -E to swapon(8)'s command-line parameters, or by adding the
362	"trimonce" option to a swap device's /etc/fstab entry.
363
364r347908-r347923:
365	The following network drivers have been removed: bm(4), cs(4), de(4),
366	ed(4), ep(4), ex(4), fe(4), pcn(4), sf(4), sn(4), tl(4), tx(4), txp(4),
367	vx(4), wb(4), xe(4).
368
369r347532:
370	Wired page accounting has been split into kernel wirings and user
371	wirings (e.g., by mlock(2)).  Kernel wirings no long count towards
372	the global limit, which is renamed to vm.max_user_wired.  bhyve -S
373	allocates user-wired memory and is now subject to that limit.
374
375$FreeBSD$
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