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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
13f76393a6305b6:
14	Add AES-GCM support to armv8crypto(4) providing accelerated
15	support for KTLS, IPsec, and other crypto API consumers.
16
17074a91f746bd:
18	The aesni(4) and armv8crypto(4) devices are now included in
19	GENERIC on amd64, i386, and arm64.
20
212e1c94aa1fd5:
22	Add support for enforcing W^X mapping policy for user
23	processes.  The policy is not enforced by default but can be
24	enabled by setting the kern.elf32.allow_wx and
25	kern.elf64.allow_wx sysctls to 0.  Individual binaries can be
26	exempted from the policy by elfctl(1) via the wxneeded
27	feature.
28
294979620ece98:
30	Add AES-XTS support to armv8crypto(4) providing accelerated
31	software support for the default GELI cipher on arm64 systems.
32
33r368667:
34	GDB 6.1.1 was removed.  Users of crashinfo(8) should install the
35	gdb package or devel/gdb port.
36
37r368559:
38	The hme(4) driver was removed.
39
40r367660:
41	Fixes the case where gssd will not startup because /usr is a separate
42	local file system that is not yet mounted.  It does not fix the case
43	where /usr is a separately mounted remote file system (such as NFS).
44	This latter case can be fixed by adding mountcritremote to the
45	REQUIRED line.  Unfortunately doing so implies that all Kerberized
46	NFS mounts in /etc/fstab will need the "late" mount option.
47	This was not done, since the requirement for "late" would introduce
48	a POLA violation.
49
50r367423:
51	This commit added a new startup scripts variable called
52	nfsv4_server_only which uses the -R option on mountd added by r367026.
53	When nfsv4_server_only is set to "YES" in /etc/rc.conf, the NFS server
54	only handles NFSv4 and does not register with rpcbind.  As such, rpcbind
55	does not need to be running.  Useful for sites which consider rpcbind a
56	security issue.
57
58r366267:
59        Kernel option ACPI_DMAR was renamed to IOMMU.  amd64's IOMMU subsystem
60        was split out from amd64 DMAR support and is now generic, i.e., it can
61        be used by all architectures.
62
63r364896:
64	A series of commits ending with r364896 added NFS over TLS
65	to the kernel.  This is believed to be compatible with
66	the Internet Draft titled "Towards Remote Procedure Call Encryption
67	By Default" (expected to soon become an RFC).
68	The mount_nfs(8) and exports(5) man pages describe the mount and
69	export option(s) related to NFS over TLS.
70	For NFS over TLS to work, the rpctlscd(8) { client } or rpctlssd(8)
71	{ server } must be running on a kernel built with "options KERN_TLS"
72	on an architecture where PMAP_HAS_DMAP != 0.
73
74r364725:
75	Changes to one obscure devd event generated on resume need to
76	be documented. The old form will still be generated in 13, but not
77	in 14.
78
79r363679:
80	Applications using regex(3), e.g. sed/grep, will no longer accept
81	redundant escapes for most ordinary characters.
82
83r363253:
84	SCTP support has been removed from GENERIC kernel configurations.
85	The SCTP stack is now built as sctp.ko and can be dynamically loaded.
86
87r363233:
88	Merge sendmail 8.16.1: See contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES for details.
89
90r363180:
91	The safexcel(4) crypto offload driver has been added.
92
93r363084:
94	nc(1) now implements SCTP mode, enabled by specifying the --sctp option.
95
96r362681:
97	A new implementation of bc and dc has been imported. It offers
98	better standards compliance, performance, localization and comes
99	with extensive test cases that are optionally installed.
100	Use WITHOUT_GH_BC=yes to build and install the world with the
101	previous version instead of the new one, if required.
102
103r362158, r362163:
104	struct export_args has changed so that the "user" specified for
105	the -maproot and -mapall exports(5) options may be in more than
106	16 groups.
107
108r361884:
109	sed(1) has learned about hex escapes (e.g. \x27) and will now do the
110	right thing with them, removing the need for printf magic or obnoxious
111	escaping in many scenarios.
112
113r361238, r361798, r361799:
114	ZFS will now unconditionally reject read(2) of a directory with EISDIR.
115	Additionally, read(2) of a directory is now rejected with EISDIR by
116	default and may be re-enabled for non-ZFS filesystems that allow it with
117	the sysctl(8) MIB 'security.bsd.allow_read_dir'.
118
119	Aliases for grep to default to '-d skip' may be desired if commonly
120	non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and the
121	possibility of EISDIR errors in stderr is not tolerable.  Example
122	aliases, commented out, have been installed in /root/.cshrc and
123	/root/.shrc.
124
125r361066:
126	Add exec.prepare and exec.release hooks for jail(8) and jail.conf(5).
127	exec.prepare runs before mounts, so can be used to populate new jails.
128	exec.release runs after unmounts, so can be used to remove ephemeral
129	jails.
130
131r360920,r360923,r360924,r360927,r360928,r360931,r360933,r360936:
132	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES, MD5,
133	MD5-KPDK, MD5-HMAC, SHA1-KPDK, and Skipjack algorithms from
134	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
135
136r360562:
137	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES,
138	MD5-HMAC, and Skipjack algorithms from /dev/crypto.
139
140r360557:
141	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, Blowfish, Cast, and
142	Camellia ciphers from IPsec(4).  Remove support for MD5-HMAC,
143	Keyed MD5, Keyed SHA1, and RIPEMD160-HMAC from IPsec(4).
144
145r359945:
146	Remove support for Triple DES, Blowfish, and MD5 HMAC from
147	geli(4).
148
149r359786-r359787:
150	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, and RC4 from in-kernel GSS
151	authentication.
152
153r357627:
154	remove elf2aout.
155
156r357560-r357565:
157	init(8), service(8), and cron(8) will now adopt user/class environment
158	variables (excluding PATH, by default, which will be overwritten) by
159	default.  Notably, environment variables for all cron jobs and rc
160	services can now be set via login.conf(5).
161
162r357455:
163	sparc64 has been removed from FreeBSD.
164
165r355677:
166	Adds support for NFSv4.2 (RFC-7862) and Extended Attributes
167	(RFC-8276) to the NFS client and server.
168	NFSv4.2 is comprised of several optional features that can be supported
169	in addition to NFSv4.1. This patch adds the following optional features:
170	- posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED/POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED)
171	- posix_fallocate()
172	- intra server file range copying via the copy_file_range(2) syscall
173	--> Avoiding data tranfer over the wire to/from the NFS client.
174	- lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE)
175	- Extended attribute syscalls for "user" namespace attributes as defined
176	  by RFC-8276.
177
178	For the client, NFSv4.2 is only used if the mount command line option
179	minorversion=2 is specified.
180	For the server, two new sysctls called vfs.nfsd.server_min_minorversion4
181 	and vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 have been added that allow
182	sysadmins to limit the minor versions of NFSv4 supported by the nfsd
183	server.
184	Setting vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 to 0 or 1 will disable NFSv4.2
185	on the server.
186
187r356263:
188	armv5 support has been removed from FreeBSD.
189
190r354517:
191	iwm(4) now supports most Intel 9260, 9460 and 9560 Wi-Fi devices.
192
193r354269:
194	sqlite3 is updated to sqlite3-3.30.1.
195
196r352668:
197	cron(8) now supports the -n (suppress mail on succesful run) and -q
198	(suppress logging of command execution) options in the crontab format.
199	See the crontab(5) manpage for details.
200
201r352304:
202	ntpd is no longer by default locked in memory. rlimit memlock 32
203	or rlimit memlock 0 can be used to restore this behaviour.
204
205r351863:
206	rc.subr(8) now honors ${name}_env in all rc(8) scripts.  Previously,
207	environment variables set by a user via ${name}_env were ignored
208	if the service defined a custom *_cmd variable to control the behavior
209	of the run_rc_command function, e.g., start_cmd, instead of relying on
210	the variables like command and command_args,
211
212r351770,r352920,r352922,r352923:
213	dd(1) now supports conv=fsync, conv=fdatasync, oflag=fsync, oflag=sync,
214	and iflag=fullblock flags, compatible with illumos and GNU.
215
216r351522:
217	Add kernel-side support for in-kernel Transport Layer Security
218	(KTLS).  KTLS permits using sendfile(2) over sockets using
219	TLS.
220
221r351397:
222	WPA is updated from 2.8 to 2.9.
223
224r351361:
225	Add probes for lockmgr(9) to the lockstat DTrace provider, add
226	corresponding lockstat(1) events, and document the new probes in
227	dtrace_lockstat.4.
228
229r351356:
230	Intel RST is a new 'feature' that remaps NVMe devices from
231	their normal location to part of the AHCI bar space.  This
232	will eliminate the need to set the BIOS SATA setting from RST
233	to AHCI causing the nvme drive to be erased before FreeBSD
234	will see the nvme drive. FreeBSD will now be able to see the
235	nvme drive now in the default config.
236
237r351201, r351372:
238	Add a vop_stdioctl() call, so that file systems that do not support
239	holes will have a trivial implementation of lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE).
240	The algorithm appears to be compatible with the POSIX draft and
241	the implementation in Linux for the case of a file system that
242	does not support holes.  Prior to this patch, lseek(2) would reply
243	-1 with errno set to ENOTTY for SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE on files in
244	file systems that do not support holes.
245	r351372 maps ENOTTY to EINVAL for lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE) for
246	any other cases, such as a ENOTTY return from vn_bmap_seekhole().
247
248r350665:
249	The fuse driver has been renamed to fusefs(5) and been substantially
250	rewritten.  The new driver includes many bug fixes and performance
251	enhancements, as well as the following user-visible features:
252	* Optional kernel-side permissions checks (-o default_permissions)
253	* mknod(2), socket(2), and pipe(2) support
254	* server side locking with fcntl(2)
255	* FUSE operations are now interruptible when mounted with -o intr
256	* server side handling of UTIME_NOW during utimensat(2)
257	* mount options may be updated with "mount -u"
258	* fusefs file system may now be exported over NFS
259	* RLIMIT_FSIZE support
260	* support for fuse file systems using protocols as old as 7.4
261
262	FUSE file system developers should also take note of the following new
263	features:
264	* The protocol level has been raised from 7.8 to 7.23
265	* kqueue support on /dev/fuse
266	* server-initiated cache invalidation via FUSE_NOTIFY_REPLY
267
268r350471:
269	gnop(8) can now configure a delay to be applied to read and write
270	request delays.  See the -d, -q and -x parameters.
271
272r350315, r350316:
273	Adds a Linux compatible copy_file_range(2) syscall.
274
275r350307:
276	libcap_random(3) has been removed.  Applications can use native
277	APIs to get random data in capability mode.
278
279r349529,r349530:
280	Add support for using unmapped mbufs with sendfile(2).
281
282r349352:
283	nand(4) and related components have been removed.
284
285r349349:
286	The UEFI loader now supports HTTP boot.
287
288r349335:
289	bhyve(8) now implements a High Definition Audio (HDA) driver, allowing
290	guests to play to and record audio data from the host.
291
292r349286:
293	swapon(8) can now erase a swap device immediately before enabling it,
294	similar to newfs(8)'s -E option.  This behaviour can be specified by
295	adding -E to swapon(8)'s command-line parameters, or by adding the
296	"trimonce" option to a swap device's /etc/fstab entry.
297
298r347908-r347923:
299	The following network drivers have been removed: bm(4), cs(4), de(4),
300	ed(4), ep(4), ex(4), fe(4), pcn(4), sf(4), sn(4), tl(4), tx(4), txp(4),
301	vx(4), wb(4), xe(4).
302
303r347532:
304	Wired page accounting has been split into kernel wirings and user
305	wirings (e.g., by mlock(2)).  Kernel wirings no long count towards
306	the global limit, which is renamed to vm.max_user_wired.  bhyve -S
307	allocates user-wired memory and is now subject to that limit.
308
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