Release notes for FreeBSD 14.0.
This file describes new user-visible features, changes and updates relevant to
users of binary FreeBSD releases. Each entry should describe the change in no
more than several sentences and should reference manual pages where an
interested user can find more information. Entries should wrap after 80
columns. Each entry should begin with one or more commit IDs on one line,
specified as a comma separated list and/or range, followed by a colon and a
newline. Entries should be separated by a newline.
Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
eeb04a736cb9:
date(1) now supports nanoseconds. For example:
`date -Ins` prints "2024-04-22T12:20:28,763742224+02:00" and
`date +%N` prints "415050400".
7b9a772f9f64:
usbconfig(8) now reads the descriptions of the usb vendor and products
from usb.ids when available, similarly to what pciconf(8) does.
daf917daba9c:
One True Awk updated to 2nd Edition with new -csv support and UTF-8
support. See https://awk.dev for more details.
b8e137d8d32d:
This commit added some statistics collection to the NFS-over-TLS
code in the NFS server so that sysadmins can moditor usage.
The statistics are available via the kern.rpc.tls.* sysctls.
41582f28ddf7:
FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms.
However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit
binaries.
Support for executing 32-bit binaries on 64-bit platforms via
COMPAT_FREEBSD32 will remain supported for at least the
stable/15 and stable/16 branches.
Support for compiling individual 32-bit applications via
`cc -m32` will also be supported for at least the stable/15
branch which includes suitable headers in /usr/include and
libraries in /usr/lib32.
Support for 32-bit platforms in ports for 15.0 and later
releases is also deprecated, and these future releases may not
include binary packages for 32-bit platforms or support for
building 32-bit applications from ports.
stable/14 and earlier branches will retain existing 32-bit
kernel and world support. Ports will retain existing support
for building ports and packages for 32-bit systems on stable/14
and earlier branches as long as those branches are supported
by the ports system. However, all 32-bit platforms are Tier-2
or Tier-3 and support for individual ports should be expected
to degrade as upstreams deprecate 32-bit platforms.
With the current support schedule, stable/14 will be EOLed 5
years after the release of 14.0. The EOL of stable/14 would
mark the end of support for 32-bit platforms including source
releases, pre-built packages, and support for building
applications from ports. Given an estimated release date of
October 2023 for 14.0, support for 32-bit platforms would end
in October 2028.
The project may choose to alter this approach when 15.0 is
released by extending some level of 32-bit support for one or
more platforms in 15.0 or later. Users should use the
stable/14 branch to migrate off of 32-bit platforms.
3cb2f5f369ec:
The lua-flavored loader(8) will now interpret .lua files that appear in
loader_conf_files as lua, and execute them in a sandbox. Existing
loader environment variables are available as globals in the sandbox,
and any global variable set, if not a table value, will be reflected in
the loader environment upon successful execution of the configuration
file. Environment variables with names that aren't valid lua names may
be accessed as indices of _ENV; e.g., _ENV['net.fibs'].
bdc81eeda05d:
nda is now the default nvme device on all platforms. While nda creates
nvd links by default so fstab, etc continues to work, configuration
should be updated to the new nda devices.
To restore the old behavior, add hw.nvme.use_nvd=1 to loader.conf or
`options NVME_USE_NVD=1` to the kernel config. To disable the nvd
compatibility aliases, add kern.cam.nda.nvd_compat=0 to loader.conf.
bbb2d2ce4220:
Change pw (hence bsdinstall) not to move /home to /usr/home.
Previously, when creating the path to home directories, pw
would move any path in the root directory under /usr, creating
a symlink in root. In particular, the default /home would become
/usr/home. Now /home is at the top level by default. /usr/home
can be used explicitly.
3416e102c4e9:
Remove TI code from armv7 GENERIC kernel.
This code doesn't cope with newer DTS and hasn't in a long time so
support for TI armv7 platform (like BeagleBone and Pandaboard) is now
removed from GENERIC.
d198b8774d2c:
Add a new "fwget" utility.
The goal of this utility is to inspect the system for peripherals
that needs firmware and install the appropriate packages for them.
For now only pci subsystem is supported and only firmwares for Intel
and AMD GPUs are known.
896516e54a8c:
Add a new "syskrb5" mount option for Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
Without this patch, a Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mount must provide
a Kerberos credential for the client at mount time.
This patch uses a feature of NFSv4.1/4.2 called SP4_NONE, which
allows the state maintenance operations to be performed by any
authentication mechanism, so that these operations may be done via
AUTH_SYS instead of RPCSEC_GSS (KerberosV). As such, no Kerberos
credential is required at mount time.
See mount_nfs(8).
330aa8acdec7,ff2f1f691cdb:
Adds support for the SP4_MACH_CRED case for the
NFSv4.1/4.2 ExchangeID operation since the Linux
NFSv4.1/4.2 client is now using this for Kerberized mounts.
This change should only affect Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
The Linux Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts currently work without
support for this because Linux will fall back to SP4_NONE,
but there is no guarantee this fallback will work forever.
7344856e3a6d and many others:
Add support so that nfsd(8), nfsuserd(8), mountd(8), gssd(8)
and rpc.tlsservd(8) can be run in an appropriately configured
vnet prison. The vnet prison must be on its own file system,
have the "allow.nfsd" jail parameter set on it and enforce_statfs
cannot be set to "0". Use of UDP and pNFS server configurations
are not permitted. (ie. The nfsd command line options "-u", "-p"
and "-m" are not supported.)
See jail(8), nfsd(8) and mountd(8).
2fb4f839f3fc,d89513ed2050,3413ee88c39d,f97a19ecb985,021562c5020d,431d2a81d421:
sendmail has been updated to the latest upstream version (8.17.1).
4a30d7bb373c,d670a8f7c596,af01b4722577,4e240e55d818:
The growfs(7) script can now add a swap partition at the end of
the expansion area, and does so by default if there is no existing
swap. See growfs(7).
86edb11e7491:
llvm-objdump is now always installed as objdump.
616f32ea6da7:
mta_start_script along with othermta rc.d script has been retired.
a67b925ff3e5:
The default mail transport agent is now dma(8) replacing sendmail.
22893e584032:
L3 filtering on if_bridge will do surprising things which aren't
fail-safe, so net.link.bridge.pfil_member and
net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge now default to zero.
f0bc4ed144fc:
A new DTrace provider, kinst, is introduced and documented in
dtrace_kinst(4). The provider allows kernel instructions to be traced,
similar to the FBT (function boundary tracing) provider except that all
instructions may be probed instead of logical entry and return
instructions. The provider is currently amd64-only.
0aa2700123e2:
OPIE has been removed from the base system. If you still wish
to use it, install the security/opie port. Otherwise, make
sure to remove or comment out any mention of pam_opie and
pam_opieaccess from your PAM policies (etcupdate will normally
take care of this for the stock policies).
0eea46fb1f83:
Removed telnetd.
981ef32230b2,33721eb991d8:
These commits make the use of NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts with the "intr"
mount option fairly usable, although not 100% correct, so long as
the "nolockd" mount option is used as well. See the mount_nfs(8)
manual page for more information.
b875d4f5ddcb,0685c73cfe88:
The NFSv4.1/4.2 client and server will now generate console messages
if sessions are broken, suggesting that users check to ensure
that the /etc/hostid strings are unique for all NFSv4.1/4.2 clients.
240afd8c1fcc:
makefs(8) has ZFS support; it can create a ZFS pool, backed by a
single disk vdev, containing one or more datasets populated from
the staging directory.
78ee8d1c4cda,f4f56ff43dbd:
The in-tree qat(4) driver has been replaced with Intel's QAT driver.
The new version provides additional interfaces to the chipset's
cryptographic and compression offload functionality.
This will have no visible change for most users; however, the new
driver does not support Atom C2000 chipsets. To preserve support for
those chipsets, the old driver has been renamed to qat_c2xxx and kept
in the tree. Users of qat(4) on C2000 hardware will thus need to
ensure that qat_c2xxx(4) is loaded instead of qat(4).
da5b7e90e740,5a8fceb3bd9f,7b0a665d72c0,13ec1e3155c7,318d0db5fe8a,1ae2c59bcf21:
Boottrace is a new kernel-userspace interface for capturing trace
events during system boot and shutdown. Event annotations are
present in:
- The boot and shutdown paths in the kernel
- Some key system utilities (init(8), shutdown(8), reboot(8))
- rc(8) scripts (via boottrace(8))
In contrast to other existing boot-time tracing facilities like TSLOG,
Boottrace focuses on the ease of use and is aimed primarily at system
administrators.
It is available in the default GENERIC kernel and can be enabled by
toggling a single sysctl(8) variable.
See boottrace(4) for more details.
05a1d0f5d7ac:
Kernel TLS offload now supports receive-side offload of TLS 1.3.
19dc64451179:
if_stf now supports 6rd (RFC5969).
c1d255d3ffdb, 3968b47cd974, bd452dcbede6:
Add WiFi 6 support to wpa.
ba48d52ca6c8,4ac3d08a9693,2533eca1c2b9:
The default bell tone is now 800Hz. It may be set with kbdcontrol
again. There's devd integration for people wishing to use their sound
cards for the beep.
92b3e07229ba:
net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait enabled by default. It prevents
creation of timewait entries for TCP connections that were
terminated locally.
d410b585b6f0:
sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user.
396851c20aeb:
libncursesw has been split into libtinfow and libncursesw, linker
scripts should make it transparent for consumers. pkg-config files
are also now installed to ease ports detecting the ncurses setup from
base.
a422084abbda:
LLVM's MemorySanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels. See the
kmsan(9) manual page for more information.
38da497a4dfc:
LLVM's AddressSanitizer can now be used in amd64 kernels. See the
kasan(9) manual page for more information.
f39dd6a97844,23f24377b1a9,628bd30ab5a4:
One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
(20210727). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
either up streamed or discarded. Notable changes include:
o Locale is no longer used for ranges
o Various bugs fixed
o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
behavior.
A second change, less likely to be noticed, is the historic wart
if -Ft meaning to use hard tab characters as the field separator
is deprecated and will likely be removed in FreeBSD 14.
ee29e6f31111:
Commit ee29e6f31111 added a new sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio
that can be used to increase the maximum I/O size for the NFS
server to any power of 2 up to 1Mbyte while the nfsd(8) is not running.
The FreeBSD NFS client can now be set to use a 1Mbyte I/O size
via the vfs.maxbcachebuf tunable and the Linux NFS client
can also do 1Mbyte I/O.
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf will need to be increased. A console
message will suggest a setting for it.
d575e81fbcfa:
gconcat(8) has added support for appending devices to the device
not present at creation time.
76681661be28:
Remove support for asymmetric cryptographic operations from
the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
a145cf3f73c7:
The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
for NFSv4 mounts.
The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.
