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diff --git a/website/content/en/releases/15.2R/_index.adoc b/website/content/en/releases/15.2R/_index.adoc index 90573fbd4b..c7dae20eb2 100644 --- a/website/content/en/releases/15.2R/_index.adoc +++ b/website/content/en/releases/15.2R/_index.adoc @@ -16,16 +16,14 @@ For more information about the release engineering process, please see the link: == Detailed Information -More detailed information -//, such as release notes -// and hardware notes, +More detailed information , such as release notes and hardware notes, can be found at these pages: //link:announce/[FreeBSD {localRel}-RELEASE announcement] + //link:signatures/[FreeBSD {localRel}-RELEASE signed checksum files] + -//link:installation/[FreeBSD {localRel}-RELEASE installation information] + -//link:hardware/[FreeBSD {localRel}-RELEASE hardware information] + -//link:relnotes/[FreeBSD {localRel}-RELEASE release notes] + -//link:errata/[FreeBSD {localRel}-RELEASE errata] + -//link:readme/[FreeBSD {localRel}-RELEASE readme] + +link:upgrading/[FreeBSD {localRel}-RELEASE installation information] + +link:hardware/[FreeBSD {localRel}-RELEASE hardware information] + +link:relnotes/[FreeBSD {localRel}-RELEASE release notes] + +link:errata/[FreeBSD {localRel}-RELEASE errata] + +link:readme/[FreeBSD {localRel}-RELEASE readme] + link:schedule/[FreeBSD {localRel}-RELEASE schedule] diff --git a/website/content/en/releases/15.2R/relnotes.adoc b/website/content/en/releases/15.2R/relnotes.adoc index 840ae9e943..6fae7ee2a8 100644 --- a/website/content/en/releases/15.2R/relnotes.adoc +++ b/website/content/en/releases/15.2R/relnotes.adoc @@ -363,9 +363,16 @@ Deprecated control values have been removed from man:mixer[8]; users relying on gitref:5ec4a7bb2cdf[repository=src]. {{< sponsored "The FreeBSD Foundation" >}} +man:makefs[8] now accepts an autotrim option that sets the autotrim property of the created ZFS pool to on or off, allowing imported pools to start trimming freed space without a separate zpool set step. When the option is omitted, the pool retains the default value of off. +gitref:4ff8c71df5de[repository=src]. +{{< sponsored "Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate")" >}} + [[userland-contrib]] === Contributed Software +ATF updated to version 0.26. +gitref:040ab05d3617[repository=src]. + Clang on FreeBSD now defaults to the LLVM linker (ld.lld) unless explicitly overridden, avoiding unexpected use of GNU ld from the system package manager; no user action is required for default behavior. gitref:8d0154e64186[repository=src]. @@ -384,14 +391,15 @@ gitref:c31042a7a944[repository=src]. man:less[1] has been updated to v710. gitref:d3c6de9c3cab[repository=src]. -libarchive has been updated to 3.8.9. -gitref:750cc0502912[repository=src]. +libarchive has been updated to 3.8.11. +gitref:80c954a926c6[repository=src]. LLVM compiler infrastructure, including clang, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind, lld, lldb, and openmp, has been updated to llvm-project 21.1.8. gitref:e40599641e0e[repository=src]. lutok has been updated to 0.6.2. -gitref:6dcc931d2b00[repository=src]. +gitref:6dcc931d2b00[repository=src], +gitref:d6cf497d2a1c[repository=src]. openresolv now trims leading dots from domain names in resolvconf, which affects DNS resolution behavior for users with such configurations. gitref:4fff1e9f1076[repository=src]. @@ -412,8 +420,8 @@ gitref:2c00a4216378[repository=src]. sqlite3 has been updated to 3.53.3. gitref:c81e5aa8a52e[repository=src]. -tzdata has been updated to 2026e. -gitref:961a842fdd3a[repository=src]. +tzdata has been updated to 2026f. +gitref:406279104888[repository=src]. unbound has been updated to 1.26.1. gitref:99c63b819cb5[repository=src]. @@ -516,6 +524,12 @@ gitref:7316de430095[repository=src]. The man:ixl[4] driver now enforces SR-IOV virtual function VLAN policies, with access VFs restricted to a hardware PVID and trunk VFs limited to 16 VLANs (VLAN 0 implicitly admitted). Hardware VLAN anti-spoofing and untrusted-VF limits of 18 MAC addresses and 16 VLANs are applied, and the effective policy is reported through the VF status interface and documented in ixl(4). gitref:3be664785727[repository=src]. +The man:ixgbe[4] driver now isolates a virtual function whose guest driver repeatedly causes transmit failures after a reset, preventing one faulty guest from leaving an 82599 or X540 physical function unusable for other guests. This keeps the physical port available to all other guests on the same adapter. +gitref:de91b2a0c393[repository=src]. + +The man:ntsync[4] driver provides kernel-level support for Windows NT synchronization primitives via a `/dev/ntsync` device compatible with the Linux interface used by Wine and Proton. This allows Wine-based applications and games to perform thread synchronization in the kernel instead of user space, reducing overhead and improving performance and stability for multi-threaded Windows software on FreeBSD. +gitref:43702cfc0ccb[repository=src]. + [[drivers-removals]] === Deprecated and Removed Drivers @@ -537,6 +551,9 @@ gitref:ba004afc874b[repository=src]. The msdosfs file system now handles file names containing surrogate pair characters, allowing access to files and directories with emoji or other supplementary-plane Unicode characters. Media written on other operating systems with such names are fully readable. gitref:8f3585150016[repository=src]. +man:zpool-export[8] now returns `EBUSY` when a zvol block device is in use, instead of hanging indefinitely, matching the behavior for mounted ZFS datasets. +gitref:cc010bbc3491[repository=src]. + [[boot]] == Boot Loader Changes @@ -545,6 +562,51 @@ This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other boot-related changes. [[boot-loader]] === Boot Loader Changes +The UEFI boot loader now applies command-line overrides earlier, so console selection via man:efibootmgr[8] takes effect before the GELI passphrase prompt. This provides serial console access on systems that do not advertise a serial console through ConOut. +gitref:ea041ed323ee[repository=src]. + +man:bhyveload[8] now releases its host /boot handle before executing guest boot scripts, limiting the sandbox's exposure to the host /boot directory. +gitref:84ec2d3b67df[repository=src]. + +The boot loader now rejects ELF files with inconsistent segment sizes (where a segment's file size exceeds its in-memory size), preventing malformed kernels from being loaded. Normal boot is unaffected. +gitref:6e4ef01c603c[repository=src]. + +The man:boot0cfg[8] utility now accepts a regular file as its trailing argument, not just a live disk provider. This allows users to configure man:boot0[8] parameters in a binary before flashing it with man:gpart[8] bootcode or using it with man:mkimg[1]. +gitref:15a0a7d525cf[repository=src]. + +The EFI loader now allocates trampoline memory as executable code rather than data, so firmware that enforces non-executable data protections can boot it successfully. The trampoline is the small stub that hands control from the loader over to the kernel. This improves boot reliability on affected systems. +gitref:6db7fa3765ae[repository=src]. +{{< sponsored "The FreeBSD Foundation" >}} + +The boot loader now recognizes ELF constructor sections and passes them to the kernel, allowing constructors to run during boot. This is required for KASAN. +gitref:984a3970b16f[repository=src]. +{{< sponsored "The FreeBSD Foundation" >}} + +The boot loader's graphical menu no longer suffers from display corruption caused by incorrect shadow buffer offset handling. +gitref:4a1a1bf3afc7[repository=src]. +{{< sponsored "The FreeBSD Foundation" >}} + +The `zfskeys` boot script no longer pauses boot to ask for an interactively entered ZFS passphrase unless both `zfskeys_enable` and `zfskeys_prompt_enable` are set to `YES` in man:rc.conf[5]. This restores the previous behavior of not prompting by default. +gitref:3f73758036c7[repository=src]. + +man:loader.efi[8] on a ZFS root under UEFI Secure Boot with man:mac_veriexec[4] enabled no longer reports a spurious no entry error. Users booting such a configuration should update the EFI loader and re-sign it. +gitref:6b1371fca772[repository=src]. +{{< sponsored "Defenso" >}} + +The lualoader adds `be-list` and `be-switch` commands so boot environments can be listed and switched directly from the loader command prompt, with matching man page updates. +gitref:f77062f506f7[repository=src]. + +The EFI boot loader no longer fails to boot in a situation where it previously jumped to the wrong code, fixing a load failure that could prevent booting on affected systems. +gitref:95632c90ba32[repository=src]. +{{< sponsored "Netflix" >}} + +The boot loader's graphics framebuffer code now batches updates through a shadow buffer instead of flushing on every operation, improving boot time on some platforms. +gitref:1802f2ca7215[repository=src]. +{{< sponsored "The FreeBSD Foundation" >}} + +The boot loader's Lua menu now follows symbolic links when locating bootable kernels, so symlinked kernel paths in /boot are detected and offered in the boot menu. +gitref:8c78774107a7[repository=src]. + [[network]] == Networking @@ -563,6 +625,13 @@ gitref:4d3f5d2ca43c[repository=src]. rc.firewall now supports on-disk lists for `firewall_allowservices` and `firewall_trusted`: when a list element is an absolute path, the file is read and each non-comment, non-blank line's first word is treated as an address or subnet to add to the list. gitref:3aec74070b0d[repository=src]. +man:ifconfig[8] -v output now reports SR-IOV virtual function status for supported NICs. The display groups optional identity, initialization, resource, VLAN, administrator policy, protocol, traffic-permission, and fault-containment fields, while omitted values remain distinct from zero or false. Device-neutral PCI attachment and passthrough state remain available through man:iovctl[8] -L. +gitref:d36050dc99ea[repository=src]. +{{< sponsored "Intel Corporation (initial version) | BBOX.io" >}} + +The man:iflib[4] framework exports a per-device tx_watchdog_events counter at dev.<driver>.<unit>.iflib.tx_watchdog_events. The man:em[4], man:igb[4], and man:igc[4] drivers no longer count transmit watchdog resets as output errors, preventing those error counters from overstating packet loss. +gitref:f7ea2d561288[repository=src]. + [[hardware]] == Hardware Support @@ -585,6 +654,9 @@ This section covers changes to manual (man:man[1]) pages and other documentation [[man-pages]] === Man Pages +man:man[1] now searches translated manual pages in pure language subdirectories such as share/ja/man1, share/de/man1, and share/ru/man1, in addition to locale-style paths. This allows localized pages from ports that use only $lang directories to be found instead of silently falling back to English. +gitref:9fe7f514ef24[repository=src]. + A manual page has been added for the man:aq[4] driver, documenting the Aquantia AQtion Ethernet driver and its supported hardware and tunables. gitref:08dbff58cd21[repository=src]. {{< sponsored "The FreeBSD Foundation" >}} |