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The release notes for FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE contain a summary of the changes made to the FreeBSD base system on the 10.1-STABLE development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the FreeBSD kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.
This document contains the release notes for FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE. It describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of FreeBSD. It also provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of FreeBSD.
The snapshot distribution to
which these release notes apply represents a point along the
10.1-STABLE development branch between 10.1-RELEASE and
the future 10.2-RELEASE. Information regarding pre-built,
binary snapshot distributions along this branch can be
found at https://www.FreeBSD.org/snapshots/.
All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before installing FreeBSD. The errata document is updated with “late-breaking” information discovered late in the release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE can be found on the FreeBSD Web site.
This document describes the most user-visible new or changed features in FreeBSD since 10.1-RELEASE.
Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after 10.1-RELEASE, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single change made to FreeBSD between releases; this document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements.
[amd64,i386] Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions
(and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported
using the freebsd-update(8) utility. The binary upgrade
procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as
unmodified GENERIC kernel distributed as
a part of an official FreeBSD release. The freebsd-update(8)
utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet
connectivity.
Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the FreeBSD
base system from source code) from previous versions are
supported, according to the instructions in
/usr/src/UPDATING.
Upgrading FreeBSD should only be attempted after backing up all data and configuration files.
This section lists the various Security Advisories and Errata Notices since 10.1-RELEASE.
| Advisory | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD-SA-14:27.stdio | 10 December 2014 | Buffer overflow in stdio |
| FreeBSD-SA-14:28.file | 10 December 2014 | Multiple vulnerabilities in file(1) and libmagic(3) |
| FreeBSD-SA-14:30.unbound | 17 December 2014 | Remote denial of service vulnerability |
| FreeBSD-SA-14:31.ntp | 23 December 2014 | Multiple vulnerabilities in NTP suite |
| FreeBSD-SA-15:01.openssl | 14 January 2015 | Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL |
| FreeBSD-SA-15:02.kmem | 27 January 2015 | SCTP kernel memory corruption and disclosure vulnerability |
| FreeBSD-SA-15:03.sctp | 27 January 2015 | SCTP stream reset vulnerability |
| FreeBSD-SA-15:04.igmp | 25 February 2015 | Integer overflow in IGMP protocol |
| Errata | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD-EN-14:13.freebsd-update | 23 December 2014 | Fixed directory deletion issue in freebsd-update(8) |
| FreeBSD-EN-15:01.vt | 25 February 2015 | vt(4) crash with improper ioctl parameters |
| FreeBSD-EN-15:02.openssl | 25 February 2015 | OpenSSL update |
| FreeBSD-EN-15:03.freebsd-update | 25 February 2015 | freebsd-update(8) updates libraries in suboptimal order |
This section covers changes and additions to userland applications, contributed software, and system utilities.
The termcap(5) file is installed
as-is from sources, instead of reordering, creating
/etc/termcap.db by default, providing
a performance improvements to applications that use the
termcap(5) database, such as vi(1) and
ncurses(3). [r276991]
A new utility, dpv(1), has been added to the base system, providing a dialog(1)-style progress view from one or more input streams. A corresponding library, dpv(3), has also been added. [r275040]
The elfdump(1) utility has been updated to support capability mode provided by capsicum(4). [r275945]
The fstyp(8) utility has been added, which is used to determine the filesystem on a specified device. [r277434] (Sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation)
OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.1l. [r277597]
This section covers changes to kernel configurations, system tuning, and system control parameters that are not otherwise categorized.
Throttling via ACPI and P4TCC via device.hints(5) have been turned off by default. [r276986]
The hwpmc(4) default and maximum callchain depths have been increased. The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and the maximum increased from 32 to 128. [r278982] (Sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation)
This section covers changes and additions to devices and device drivers since 10.1-RELEASE.
This section covers general hardware support for physical machines, hypervisors, and virtualization environments, as well as hardware changes and updates that do not otherwise fit in other sections of this document.
This section covers changes and additions to file systems and other storage subsystems, both local and networked.
The ctl(4) LUN mapping has been rewritten, replacing iSCSI-specific mapping mechanisms with a new mechanism that works for any port. [r279002] (Sponsored by iXsystems)
The ctld(8) utility has been updated to allow controlling non-iSCSI ctl(4) ports. [r279055] (Sponsored by iXsystems)
The ctld(8) utility has been updated to include support for registering iSCSI targets and portals on iSNS servers. This provides a mechanism which allows iSCSI initiators to find targets and portals without requiring active discovery. [r274939] (Sponsored by iXsystems)
A new tunable,
vfs.zfs.spa_slop_shift, has been added,
which controls how much space is reserved by default. [r275490]
The arc_meta_limit
statistics are now visible through the
kstat sysctl(8). As a result of this
change, the vfs.zfs.arc_meta_used
sysctl(8) has been removed, and replaced with the
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.arc_meta_used
sysctl(8). [r277583]
This section covers the boot loader, boot menu, and other boot-related changes.
This section describes changes that affect networking in FreeBSD.
This section covers changes to the FreeBSD Ports Collection, package infrastructure, and package maintenance and installation tools.
This section covers changes to the FreeBSD Documentation Project sources and toolchain.
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