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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
13b8e137d8d32d:
14	This commit added some statistics collection to the NFS-over-TLS
15	code in the NFS server so that sysadmins can moditor usage.
16	The statistics are available via the kern.rpc.tls.* sysctls.
17
1841582f28ddf7:
19	FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms.
20	However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit
21	binaries.
22
23	Support for executing 32-bit binaries on 64-bit platforms via
24	COMPAT_FREEBSD32 will remain supported for at least the
25	stable/15 and stable/16 branches.
26
27	Support for compiling individual 32-bit applications via
28	`cc -m32` will also be supported for at least the stable/15
29	branch which includes suitable headers in /usr/include and
30	libraries in /usr/lib32.
31
32	Support for 32-bit platforms in ports for 15.0 and later
33	releases is also deprecated, and these future releases may not
34	include binary packages for 32-bit platforms or support for
35	building 32-bit applications from ports.
36
37	stable/14 and earlier branches will retain existing 32-bit
38	kernel and world support.  Ports will retain existing support
39	for building ports and packages for 32-bit systems on stable/14
40	and earlier branches as long as those branches are supported
41	by the ports system.  However, all 32-bit platforms are Tier-2
42	or Tier-3 and support for individual ports should be expected
43	to degrade as upstreams deprecate 32-bit platforms.
44
45	With the current support schedule, stable/14 will be EOLed 5
46	years after the release of 14.0.  The EOL of stable/14 would
47	mark the end of support for 32-bit platforms including source
48	releases, pre-built packages, and support for building
49	applications from ports.  Given an estimated release date of
50	October 2023 for 14.0, support for 32-bit platforms would end
51	in October 2028.
52
53	The project may choose to alter this approach when 15.0 is
54	released by extending some level of 32-bit support for one or
55	more platforms in 15.0 or later.  Users should use the
56	stable/14 branch to migrate off of 32-bit platforms.
57
583cb2f5f369ec:
59	The lua-flavored loader(8) will now interpret .lua files that appear in
60	loader_conf_files as lua, and execute them in a sandbox.  Existing
61	loader environment variables are available as globals in the sandbox,
62	and any global variable set, if not a table value, will be reflected in
63	the loader environment upon successful execution of the configuration
64	file.  Environment variables with names that aren't valid lua names may
65	be accessed as indices of _ENV; e.g., _ENV['net.fibs'].
66
67bdc81eeda05d:
68	nda is now the default nvme device on all platforms. While nda creates
69	nvd links by default so fstab, etc continues to work, configuration
70	should be updated to the new nda devices.
71
72	To restore the old behavior, add hw.nvme.use_nvd=1 to loader.conf or
73	`options NVME_USE_NVD=1` to the kernel config.  To disable the nvd
74	compatibility aliases, add kern.cam.nda.nvd_compat=0 to loader.conf.
75
76bbb2d2ce4220:
77	Change pw (hence bsdinstall) not to move /home to /usr/home.
78	Previously, when creating the path to home directories, pw
79	would move any path in the root directory under /usr, creating
80	a symlink in root.  In particular, the default /home would become
81	/usr/home.  Now /home is at the top level by default.  /usr/home
82	can be used explicitly.
83
843416e102c4e9:
85	Remove TI code from armv7 GENERIC kernel.
86	This code doesn't cope with newer DTS and hasn't in a long time so
87	support for TI armv7 platform (like BeagleBone and Pandaboard) is now
88	removed from GENERIC.
89
90d198b8774d2c:
91	Add a new "fwget" utility.
92	The goal of this utility is to inspect the system for peripherals
93	that needs firmware and install the appropriate packages for them.
94	For now only pci subsystem is supported and only firmwares for Intel
95	and AMD GPUs are known.
96
97896516e54a8c:
98	Add a new "syskrb5" mount option for Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
99	Without this patch, a Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mount must provide
100	a Kerberos credential for the client at mount time.
101	This patch uses a feature of NFSv4.1/4.2 called SP4_NONE, which
102	allows the state maintenance operations to be performed by any
103	authentication mechanism, so that these operations may be done via
104	AUTH_SYS instead of RPCSEC_GSS (KerberosV).  As such, no Kerberos
105	credential is required at mount time.
106	See mount_nfs(8).
107
108330aa8acdec7,ff2f1f691cdb:
109	Adds support for the SP4_MACH_CRED case for the
110	NFSv4.1/4.2 ExchangeID operation since the Linux
111	NFSv4.1/4.2 client is now using this for Kerberized mounts.
112	This change should only affect Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
113	The Linux Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts currently work without
114	support for this because Linux will fall back to SP4_NONE,
115	but there is no guarantee this fallback will work forever.
116
1177344856e3a6d and many others:
118	Add support so that nfsd(8), nfsuserd(8), mountd(8), gssd(8)
119	and rpc.tlsservd(8) can be run in an appropriately configured
120	vnet prison.  The vnet prison must be on its own file system,
121	have the "allow.nfsd" jail parameter set on it and enforce_statfs
122	cannot be set to "0".  Use of UDP and pNFS server configurations
123	are not permitted.  (ie. The nfsd command line options "-u", "-p"
124	and "-m" are not supported.)
125	See jail(8), nfsd(8) and mountd(8).
126
1272fb4f839f3fc,d89513ed2050,3413ee88c39d,f97a19ecb985,021562c5020d,431d2a81d421:
128	sendmail has been updated to the latest upstream version (8.17.1).
129
1304a30d7bb373c,d670a8f7c596,af01b4722577,4e240e55d818:
131	The growfs(7) script can now add a swap partition at the end of
132	the expansion area, and does so by default if there is no existing
133	swap.  See growfs(7).
134
13586edb11e7491:
136	llvm-objdump is now always installed as objdump.
137
138616f32ea6da7:
139	mta_start_script along with othermta rc.d script has been retired.
140
141a67b925ff3e5:
142	The default mail transport agent is now dma(8) replacing sendmail.
143
14422893e584032:
145	L3 filtering on if_bridge will do surprising things which aren't
146	fail-safe, so net.link.bridge.pfil_member and
147	net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge now default to zero.
148
149f0bc4ed144fc:
150	A new DTrace provider, kinst, is introduced and documented in
151	dtrace_kinst(4).  The provider allows kernel instructions to be traced,
152	similar to the FBT (function boundary tracing) provider except that all
153	instructions may be probed instead of logical entry and return
154	instructions.  The provider is currently amd64-only.
155
1560aa2700123e2:
157	OPIE has been removed from the base system.  If you still wish
158	to use it, install the security/opie port.  Otherwise, make
159	sure to remove or comment out any mention of pam_opie and
160	pam_opieaccess from your PAM policies (etcupdate will normally
161	take care of this for the stock policies).
162
1630eea46fb1f83:
164	Removed telnetd.
165
166981ef32230b2,33721eb991d8:
167	These commits make the use of NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts with the "intr"
168	mount option fairly usable, although not 100% correct, so long as
169	the "nolockd" mount option is used as well.  See the mount_nfs(8)
170	manual page for more information.
171
172b875d4f5ddcb,0685c73cfe88:
173	The NFSv4.1/4.2 client and server will now generate console messages
174	if sessions are broken, suggesting that users check to ensure
175	that the /etc/hostid strings are unique for all NFSv4.1/4.2 clients.
176
177240afd8c1fcc:
178	makefs(8) has ZFS support; it can create a ZFS pool, backed by a
179	single disk vdev, containing one or more datasets populated from
180	the staging directory.
181
18278ee8d1c4cda,f4f56ff43dbd:
183	The in-tree qat(4) driver has been replaced with Intel's QAT driver.
184	The new version provides additional interfaces to the chipset's
185	cryptographic and compression offload functionality.
186
187	This will have no visible change for most users; however, the new
188	driver does not support Atom C2000 chipsets.  To preserve support for
189	those chipsets, the old driver has been renamed to qat_c2xxx and kept
190	in the tree.  Users of qat(4) on C2000 hardware will thus need to
191	ensure that qat_c2xxx(4) is loaded instead of qat(4).
192
193da5b7e90e740,5a8fceb3bd9f,7b0a665d72c0,13ec1e3155c7,318d0db5fe8a,1ae2c59bcf21:
194	Boottrace is a new kernel-userspace interface for capturing trace
195	events during system boot and shutdown. Event annotations are
196	present in:
197
198	- The boot and shutdown paths in the kernel
199	- Some key system utilities (init(8), shutdown(8), reboot(8))
200	- rc(8) scripts (via boottrace(8))
201
202	In contrast to other existing boot-time tracing facilities like TSLOG,
203	Boottrace focuses on the ease of use and is aimed primarily at system
204	administrators.
205
206	It is available in the default GENERIC kernel and can be enabled by
207	toggling a single sysctl(8) variable.
208
209	See boottrace(4) for more details.
210
21105a1d0f5d7ac:
212	Kernel TLS offload now supports receive-side offload of TLS 1.3.
213
21419dc64451179:
215	if_stf now supports 6rd (RFC5969).
216
217c1d255d3ffdb, 3968b47cd974, bd452dcbede6:
218	Add WiFi 6 support to wpa.
219
220ba48d52ca6c8,4ac3d08a9693,2533eca1c2b9:
221	The default bell tone is now 800Hz. It may be set with kbdcontrol
222	again. There's devd integration for people wishing to use their sound
223	cards for the beep.
224
22592b3e07229ba:
226	net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait enabled by default.  It prevents
227	creation of timewait entries for TCP connections that were
228	terminated locally.
229
230d410b585b6f0:
231	sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user.
232
233396851c20aeb:
234	libncursesw has been split into libtinfow and libncursesw, linker
235	scripts should make it transparent for consumers. pkg-config files
236	are also now installed to ease ports detecting the ncurses setup from
237	base.
238
239a422084abbda:
240	LLVM's MemorySanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
241	kmsan(9) manual page for more information.
242
24338da497a4dfc:
244	LLVM's AddressSanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels.  See the
245	kasan(9) manual page for more information.
246
247f39dd6a97844,23f24377b1a9,628bd30ab5a4:
248	One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
249	(20210727). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
250	either up streamed or discarded.  Notable changes include:
251		o Locale is no longer used for ranges
252		o Various bugs fixed
253		o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
254
255	The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
256	we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
257	interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
258	true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
259	behavior.
260
261	A second change, less likely to be noticed, is the historic wart
262	if -Ft meaning to use hard tab characters as the field separator
263	is deprecated and will likely be removed in FreeBSD 14.
264
265ee29e6f31111:
266	Commit ee29e6f31111 added a new sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio
267	that can be used to increase the maximum I/O size for the NFS
268	server to any power of 2 up to 1Mbyte while the nfsd(8) is not running.
269	The FreeBSD NFS client can now be set to use a 1Mbyte I/O size
270	via the vfs.maxbcachebuf tunable and the Linux NFS client
271	can also do 1Mbyte I/O.
272	kern.ipc.maxsockbuf will need to be increased.  A console
273	message will suggest a setting for it.
274
275d575e81fbcfa:
276	gconcat(8) has added support for appending devices to the device
277	not present at creation time.
278
27976681661be28:
280	Remove support for asymmetric cryptographic operations from
281	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
282
283a145cf3f73c7:
284	The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
285	supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
286	for NFSv4 mounts.
287	The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.
288