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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
130644746d5091:
14	Add a new "syskrb5" mount option for Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
15	Without this patch, a Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mount must provide
16	a Kerberos credential for the client at mount time.
17	This patch uses a feature of NFSv4.1/4.2 called SP4_NONE, which
18	allows the state maintenance operations to be performed by any
19	authentication mechanism, so that these operations may be done via
20	AUTH_SYS instead of RPCSEC_GSS (KerberosV).  As such, no Kerberos
21	credential is required at mount time.
22	See mount_nfs(8).
23
24b4805d577787 and many others:
25	Add support so that nfsd(8), nfsuserd(8), mountd(8), gssd(8)
26	and rpc.tlsservd(8) can be run in an appropriately configured
27	vnet prison.  The vnet prison must be on its own file system,
28	have the "allow.nfsd" jail parameter set on it and enforce_statfs
29	cannot be set to "0".  Use of UDP and pNFS server configurations
30	are not permitted.  (ie. The nfsd command line options "-u", "-p"
31	and "-m" are not supported.)
32	See jail(8), nfsd(8) and mountd(8).
33
3468e86d5265bc,e58dfd0de589,59f5a5cb724e,6e272a78de36,4c4a4fd4a649,ba2ae2cca63a:
35	sendmail has been updated to the latest upstream version (8.17.1).
36
37225443828ec6..c44d097dcf92:
38	bhyve now supports more than 16 vCPUs in a guest.  By default
39	bhyve permits each guest to create the same number of vCPUs as
40	the count of physical CPUs on the host.  This limit can be
41	adjusted via the loader tunable hw.vmm.maxcpu.
42
431462dc95f796:
44	Kernel TLS offload now supports receive-side offload of TLS 1.3.
45
463ee882bf21af:
47	Change handling of the lowest address on an IPv4 (sub)net so that
48	packets are not sent as a broadcast unless this has been set as the
49	broadcast address.  This makes the lowest address usable for a host.
50	The old behavior can be restored with the net.inet.ip.broadcast_lowest
51	sysctl.  For more information, see
52	https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-schoen-intarea-lowest-address/.
53
5433ff39796ffe,8719e8a951b7:
55        A new rc(8) service script zfskeys allows for automatic decryption
56        of ZFS datasets encrypted with ZFS native encryption during boot.
57        See the rc.conf(5) manual page for more information.
58
59b7a2cf0d9102 - eae02d959363:
60	Upgrade bhyve's emulation to version 1.4 of the NVMe specification
61
620a6760a1de32, 3f3676a71266, 580c04df4db6:
63	Add WiFi 6 support.
64
65various:
66	Add support for the HiFive Unmatched RISC-V board.
67
689fb6e613373c:
69	Add a sysctl called vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio that can be used to
70	increase the NFS server's maximum I/O size from 128Kbytes
71	to any power of 2 up to 1Mbyte.  It can only be set when
72	the nfsd threads are not running and will normally require
73	an increase in kern.ipc.maxsockbuf to at least the value
74	recommended by the console log message generated when
75	setting vfs.nfsd.srvmaxio is first attempted.
76
779ec7dbf46b0a:
78	Add a new NFSv4.1/4.2 mount option "nconnect" that can
79	be used to specify the number of TCP connections that
80	will be used for the mount, up to a maximum of 16.
81	The first (default) TCP connection will be used for
82	all RPCs that consist of small RPC messages.
83	The RPCs that can consist of large RPC messages
84	(Read/Readdir/ReaddirPlus/Write) will be sent on the
85	additional TCP connections in a round robin fashion.
86	If either the NFS client or NFS server have multiple
87	network interfaces aggregated together or a network
88	interface that uses multiple queues, this can increase
89	NFS performance for the mount.
90
91various:
92	One True Awk has been updated to the latest from upstream
93	(20210215). All the FreeBSD patches, but one, have now been
94	either up streamed or discarded.  Notable changes include:
95		o Locale is no longer used for ranges
96		o Various bugs fixed
97		o Better compatibility with gawk and mawk
98
99	The one FreeBSD change, likely to be removed in FreeBSD 14, is that
100	we still allow hex numbers, prefixed with 0x, to be parsed and
101	interpreted as hex numbers while all other awks (including one
102	true awk now) interpret them as 0 in line with awk's historic
103	behavior.
104
1058a04edfdcbd2:
106	Change the default minor version used for an NFSv4 mount
107	to the highest minor version supported by the NFSv4 server.
108	This default can be overridden by using the "minorversion"
109	mount option.
110
1112c76eebca71b, 59f6f5e23c1a:
112	Add two daemons rpc.tlsclntd(8) and rpc.tlsservd(8) that provide
113	support for NFS-over-TLS as described in the Internet Draft titled
114	"Towards Remote Procedure Call Encryption By Default".
115	These daemons are only built when WITH_OPENSSL_KTLS is specified
116	and are only tested on amd64 at this time.
117	They use KTLS to encrypt/decrypt all NFS RPC message traffic, plus
118	optional verification of machine identity via X.509 certificates.
119
120f76393a6305b6:
121	Add AES-GCM support to armv8crypto(4) providing accelerated
122	support for KTLS, IPsec, and other crypto API consumers.
123
124074a91f746bd:
125	The aesni(4) and armv8crypto(4) devices are now included in
126	GENERIC on amd64, i386, and arm64.
127
1282e1c94aa1fd5:
129	Add support for enforcing W^X mapping policy for user
130	processes.  The policy is not enforced by default but can be
131	enabled by setting the kern.elf32.allow_wx and
132	kern.elf64.allow_wx sysctls to 0.  Individual binaries can be
133	exempted from the policy by elfctl(1) via the wxneeded
134	feature.
135
1364979620ece98:
137	Add AES-XTS support to armv8crypto(4) providing accelerated
138	software support for the default GELI cipher on arm64 systems.
139
140022ca2fc7fe0:
141	Add aio_writev(2) and aio_readv(2), vectored analogues of aio_write(2)
142	and aio_read(2).
143
14492bbfe1f0d1f:
145	The fusefs(5) protocol has been updated to 7.28.  Support for
146	FUSE_COPY_FILE_RANGE and FUSE_LSEEK is added.
147
148r368667:
149	GDB 6.1.1 was removed.  Users of crashinfo(8) should install the
150	gdb package or devel/gdb port.
151
152r368559:
153	The hme(4) driver was removed.
154
155r367660:
156	Fixes the case where gssd will not startup because /usr is a separate
157	local file system that is not yet mounted.  It does not fix the case
158	where /usr is a separately mounted remote file system (such as NFS).
159	This latter case can be fixed by adding mountcritremote to the
160	REQUIRED line.  Unfortunately doing so implies that all Kerberized
161	NFS mounts in /etc/fstab will need the "late" mount option.
162	This was not done, since the requirement for "late" would introduce
163	a POLA violation.
164
165r367423:
166	This commit added a new startup scripts variable called
167	nfsv4_server_only which uses the -R option on mountd added by r367026.
168	When nfsv4_server_only is set to "YES" in /etc/rc.conf, the NFS server
169	only handles NFSv4 and does not register with rpcbind.  As such, rpcbind
170	does not need to be running.  Useful for sites which consider rpcbind a
171	security issue.
172
173r366267:
174        Kernel option ACPI_DMAR was renamed to IOMMU.  amd64's IOMMU subsystem
175        was split out from amd64 DMAR support and is now generic, i.e., it can
176        be used by all architectures.
177
178r364896:
179	A series of commits ending with r364896 added NFS over TLS
180	to the kernel.  This is believed to be compatible with
181	the Internet Draft titled "Towards Remote Procedure Call Encryption
182	By Default" (expected to soon become an RFC).
183	The mount_nfs(8) and exports(5) man pages describe the mount and
184	export option(s) related to NFS over TLS.
185	For NFS over TLS to work, the rpctlscd(8) { client } or rpctlssd(8)
186	{ server } must be running on a kernel built with "options KERN_TLS"
187	on an architecture where PMAP_HAS_DMAP != 0.
188
189r364725:
190	Changes to one obscure devd event generated on resume need to
191	be documented. The old form will still be generated in 13, but not
192	in 14.
193
194r363679:
195	Applications using regex(3), e.g. sed/grep, will no longer accept
196	redundant escapes for most ordinary characters.
197
198r363253:
199	SCTP support has been removed from GENERIC kernel configurations.
200	The SCTP stack is now built as sctp.ko and can be dynamically loaded.
201
202r363233:
203	Merge sendmail 8.16.1: See contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES for details.
204
205r363180:
206	The safexcel(4) crypto offload driver has been added.
207
208r363084:
209	nc(1) now implements SCTP mode, enabled by specifying the --sctp option.
210
211r362681:
212	A new implementation of bc and dc has been imported. It offers
213	better standards compliance, performance, localization and comes
214	with extensive test cases that are optionally installed.
215	Use WITHOUT_GH_BC=yes to build and install the world with the
216	previous version instead of the new one, if required.
217
218r362158, r362163:
219	struct export_args has changed so that the "user" specified for
220	the -maproot and -mapall exports(5) options may be in more than
221	16 groups.
222
223r361884:
224	sed(1) has learned about hex escapes (e.g. \x27) and will now do the
225	right thing with them, removing the need for printf magic or obnoxious
226	escaping in many scenarios.
227
228r361238, r361798, r361799:
229	ZFS will now unconditionally reject read(2) of a directory with EISDIR.
230	Additionally, read(2) of a directory is now rejected with EISDIR by
231	default and may be re-enabled for non-ZFS filesystems that allow it with
232	the sysctl(8) MIB 'security.bsd.allow_read_dir'.
233
234	Aliases for grep to default to '-d skip' may be desired if commonly
235	non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and the
236	possibility of EISDIR errors in stderr is not tolerable.  Example
237	aliases, commented out, have been installed in /root/.cshrc and
238	/root/.shrc.
239
240r361066:
241	Add exec.prepare and exec.release hooks for jail(8) and jail.conf(5).
242	exec.prepare runs before mounts, so can be used to populate new jails.
243	exec.release runs after unmounts, so can be used to remove ephemeral
244	jails.
245
246r360920,r360923,r360924,r360927,r360928,r360931,r360933,r360936:
247	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES, MD5,
248	MD5-KPDK, MD5-HMAC, SHA1-KPDK, and Skipjack algorithms from
249	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
250
251r360562:
252	Remove support for ARC4, Blowfish, Cast, DES, Triple DES,
253	MD5-HMAC, and Skipjack algorithms from /dev/crypto.
254
255r360557:
256	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, Blowfish, Cast, and
257	Camellia ciphers from IPsec(4).  Remove support for MD5-HMAC,
258	Keyed MD5, Keyed SHA1, and RIPEMD160-HMAC from IPsec(4).
259
260r359945:
261	Remove support for Triple DES, Blowfish, and MD5 HMAC from
262	geli(4).
263
264r359786-r359787:
265	Remove support for DES, Triple DES, and RC4 from in-kernel GSS
266	authentication.
267
268r357627:
269	remove elf2aout.
270
271r357560-r357565:
272	init(8), service(8), and cron(8) will now adopt user/class environment
273	variables (excluding PATH, by default, which will be overwritten) by
274	default.  Notably, environment variables for all cron jobs and rc
275	services can now be set via login.conf(5).
276
277r357455:
278	sparc64 has been removed from FreeBSD.
279
280r355677:
281	Adds support for NFSv4.2 (RFC-7862) and Extended Attributes
282	(RFC-8276) to the NFS client and server.
283	NFSv4.2 is comprised of several optional features that can be supported
284	in addition to NFSv4.1. This patch adds the following optional features:
285	- posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED/POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED)
286	- posix_fallocate()
287	- intra server file range copying via the copy_file_range(2) syscall
288	--> Avoiding data tranfer over the wire to/from the NFS client.
289	- lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE)
290	- Extended attribute syscalls for "user" namespace attributes as defined
291	  by RFC-8276.
292
293	For the client, NFSv4.2 is only used if the mount command line option
294	minorversion=2 is specified.
295	For the server, two new sysctls called vfs.nfsd.server_min_minorversion4
296 	and vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 have been added that allow
297	sysadmins to limit the minor versions of NFSv4 supported by the nfsd
298	server.
299	Setting vfs.nfsd.server_max_minorversion4 to 0 or 1 will disable NFSv4.2
300	on the server.
301
302r356263:
303	armv5 support has been removed from FreeBSD.
304
305r354517:
306	iwm(4) now supports most Intel 9260, 9460 and 9560 Wi-Fi devices.
307
308r354269:
309	sqlite3 is updated to sqlite3-3.30.1.
310
311r352668:
312	cron(8) now supports the -n (suppress mail on succesful run) and -q
313	(suppress logging of command execution) options in the crontab format.
314	See the crontab(5) manpage for details.
315
316r352304:
317	ntpd is no longer by default locked in memory. rlimit memlock 32
318	or rlimit memlock 0 can be used to restore this behaviour.
319
320r351863:
321	rc.subr(8) now honors ${name}_env in all rc(8) scripts.  Previously,
322	environment variables set by a user via ${name}_env were ignored
323	if the service defined a custom *_cmd variable to control the behavior
324	of the run_rc_command function, e.g., start_cmd, instead of relying on
325	the variables like command and command_args,
326
327r351770,r352920,r352922,r352923:
328	dd(1) now supports conv=fsync, conv=fdatasync, oflag=fsync, oflag=sync,
329	and iflag=fullblock flags, compatible with illumos and GNU.
330
331r351522:
332	Add kernel-side support for in-kernel Transport Layer Security
333	(KTLS).  KTLS permits using sendfile(2) over sockets using
334	TLS.
335
336r351397:
337	WPA is updated from 2.8 to 2.9.
338
339r351361:
340	Add probes for lockmgr(9) to the lockstat DTrace provider, add
341	corresponding lockstat(1) events, and document the new probes in
342	dtrace_lockstat.4.
343
344r351356:
345	Intel RST is a new 'feature' that remaps NVMe devices from
346	their normal location to part of the AHCI bar space.  This
347	will eliminate the need to set the BIOS SATA setting from RST
348	to AHCI causing the nvme drive to be erased before FreeBSD
349	will see the nvme drive. FreeBSD will now be able to see the
350	nvme drive now in the default config.
351
352r351201, r351372:
353	Add a vop_stdioctl() call, so that file systems that do not support
354	holes will have a trivial implementation of lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE).
355	The algorithm appears to be compatible with the POSIX draft and
356	the implementation in Linux for the case of a file system that
357	does not support holes.  Prior to this patch, lseek(2) would reply
358	-1 with errno set to ENOTTY for SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE on files in
359	file systems that do not support holes.
360	r351372 maps ENOTTY to EINVAL for lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE) for
361	any other cases, such as a ENOTTY return from vn_bmap_seekhole().
362
363r350665:
364	The fuse driver has been renamed to fusefs(5) and been substantially
365	rewritten.  The new driver includes many bug fixes and performance
366	enhancements, as well as the following user-visible features:
367	* Optional kernel-side permissions checks (-o default_permissions)
368	* mknod(2), socket(2), and pipe(2) support
369	* server side locking with fcntl(2)
370	* FUSE operations are now interruptible when mounted with -o intr
371	* server side handling of UTIME_NOW during utimensat(2)
372	* mount options may be updated with "mount -u"
373	* fusefs file system may now be exported over NFS
374	* RLIMIT_FSIZE support
375	* support for fuse file systems using protocols as old as 7.4
376
377	FUSE file system developers should also take note of the following new
378	features:
379	* The protocol level has been raised from 7.8 to 7.23
380	* kqueue support on /dev/fuse
381	* server-initiated cache invalidation via FUSE_NOTIFY_REPLY
382
383r350471:
384	gnop(8) can now configure a delay to be applied to read and write
385	request delays.  See the -d, -q and -x parameters.
386
387r350315, r350316:
388	Adds a Linux compatible copy_file_range(2) syscall.
389
390r350307:
391	libcap_random(3) has been removed.  Applications can use native
392	APIs to get random data in capability mode.
393
394r349529,r349530:
395	Add support for using unmapped mbufs with sendfile(2).
396
397r349352:
398	nand(4) and related components have been removed.
399
400r349349:
401	The UEFI loader now supports HTTP boot.
402
403r349335:
404	bhyve(8) now implements a High Definition Audio (HDA) driver, allowing
405	guests to play to and record audio data from the host.
406
407r349286:
408	swapon(8) can now erase a swap device immediately before enabling it,
409	similar to newfs(8)'s -E option.  This behaviour can be specified by
410	adding -E to swapon(8)'s command-line parameters, or by adding the
411	"trimonce" option to a swap device's /etc/fstab entry.
412
413r347908-r347923:
414	The following network drivers have been removed: bm(4), cs(4), de(4),
415	ed(4), ep(4), ex(4), fe(4), pcn(4), sf(4), sn(4), tl(4), tx(4), txp(4),
416	vx(4), wb(4), xe(4).
417
418r347532:
419	Wired page accounting has been split into kernel wirings and user
420	wirings (e.g., by mlock(2)).  Kernel wirings no long count towards
421	the global limit, which is renamed to vm.max_user_wired.  bhyve -S
422	allocates user-wired memory and is now subject to that limit.
423