FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE Release Notes
This section covers changes and additions to userland applications, contributed software, and system utilities.
Userland Configuration Changes
A new
rc.conf(5) variable has been added,
linux_mounts_enable, which controls if Linux®-specific
filesystems are mounted in /compat/linux if linux_enable is set
to YES.
[r364883] (Sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation)
The
devd(8) utility has been updated to change the default
syslogd(8) notification for resume from kern to
kernel.
[r365540]
Userland Application Changes
The
cron(8) utility has been updated to support two new flags in
crontab(5), -n and -q, which suppress
mail on successful runs and suppress logging of command execution,
respectively.
[r353134]
The dd(1) utility has been updated to include new operands: [r355520]
-
conv=fsync -
conf=fdatasync -
oflag=fsync -
oflag=sync -
iflag=fullblock
See dd(1) for usage details.
The
fsck_msdosfs(8) utility has been updated to include a variety
of enhancements, including reducing the memory footprint, a new
flag, -M, which disables the use of
mmap(2), and others.
[r357568]
The showmount(8) utility has been updated to implement support for long options. [r357078]
The man:certctl.8; utility has been added. [r357082]
The syslogd(8) utility has been updated to add property-based filters. [r359739]
The
mountd(8) utility has been updated to fix incorrect group
listing under certain conditions when -maproot or
-mapall is used for exports.
[r362602]
The sed(1) utility has been updated to read commands from stdin(4) when “-f -” is specified. [r362687]
The
sesutil(8) utility has been updated to include a
show subcommand to print output in a user-friendly
way.
[r364115]
The bhyve(8) utility has been updated to support setting additional AHCI controller parameters. [r364334]
The jail(8) utility has been updated to allow running Linux® in a jailed environment.
Contributed Software
The tcsh(1) utility has been updated to version 6.21.00. [r354191] (Sponsored by DARPA, AFRL)
The
mtree(8) utility has been updated to address an issue with
-f not considering type changes, fix username logic
with -c when
getlogin(2) fails, and to fix -O not descending
when a hash collision occurs.
[r356532]
The Elf Tool Chain has been updated to upstream revision r3769. [r358779] (Sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation)
The xz(1) utility has been updated to version 5.2.5. [r359635]
OpenSSH has been updated to version 7.9p1. [r360313] (Sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation)
The timezone database files have been updated to version 2020a. [r360361]
The private apr library has been updated to version 1.7.0. [r362180]
The svn{,lite} utility has been updated to version 1.14.0 LTS. [r362180]
The ntpd(8) suite of utilities have been updated to version 4.2.8p15. [r362716]
The bc(1) utility has been updated to version 3.1.1. [r362987]
The private sqlite3 utility has been updated to version 3.32.3. [r363179]
The BSD make(1) utility has been updated to version 20200719. [r363352]
The Sendmail utility has been updated to version 8.16.1. [r363465]
The
nc(1) utility has been updated to include a new
--sctp flag.
[r363474]
The clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt utilities and libc++ have been updated to version 10.0.1. [r363494]
OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1h. [r366177]