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1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users.
2
3This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>.
4See end of file for further details.  For commonly done items, please see the
5COMMON ITEMS: section later in the file.  These instructions assume that you
6basically know what you are doing.  If not, then please consult the FreeBSD
7handbook:
8
9    https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#makeworld
10
11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
12/usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before updating system packages
13and/or ports.
14
15NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 14.x IS SLOW:
16	FreeBSD 14.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel
17	and userland.  These features attempt to detect incorrect use of
18	system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity
19	checking and fail stop semantics.  They also substantially impact
20	system performance.  If you want to do performance measurement,
21	benchmarking, and optimization, you'll want to turn them off.  This
22	includes various WITNESS- related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc
23	debugging flags in userland, and various verbose features in the
24	kernel.  Many developers choose to disable these features on build
25	machines to maximize performance.  (To completely disable malloc
26	debugging, define WITH_MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/src.conf and rebuild
27	world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
28	at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
29
3020211004:
31	Ncurses distribution has been split between libtinfow and libncurses
32	with libncurses.so becoming a linker (ld) script to seamlessly link
33	to libtinfow as needed. Bump _FreeBSD_version to 1400035 to reflect
34	this change.
35
3620210923:
37	As of commit 8160a0f62be6, the dummynet module no longer depends on the
38	ipfw module. Dummynet can now be used by pf as well as ipfw. As such
39	users who relied on this dependency may need to include ipfw in the
40	list of modules to load on their systems.
41
4220210922:
43	As of commit 903873ce1560, the mixer(8) utility has got a slightly
44	new syntax. Please refer to the mixer(8) manual page for more
45	information. The old mixer utility can be installed from ports:
46	audio/freebsd-13-mixer
47
4820210911:
49	As of commit 55089ef4f8bb, the global variable nfs_maxcopyrange has
50	been deleted from the nfscommon.ko.  As such, nfsd.ko must be built
51	from up to date sources to avoid an undefined reference when
52	being loaded.
53
5420210817:
55	As of commit 62ca9fc1ad56 OpenSSL no longer enables kernel TLS
56	by default.  Users can enable kernel TLS via the "KTLS" SSL
57	option.  This can be enabled globally by using a custom
58	OpenSSL config file via OPENSSL_CONF or via an
59	application-specific configuration option for applications
60	which permit setting SSL options via SSL_CONF_cmd(3).
61
6220210811:
63	Commit 3ad1e1c1ce20 changed the internal KAPI between the NFS
64	modules. Therefore, all need to be rebuilt from sources.
65
6620210730:
67	Commit b69019c14cd8 removes pf's DIOCGETSTATESNV ioctl.
68	As of be70c7a50d32 it is no longer used by userspace, but it does mean
69	users may not be able to enumerate pf states if they update the kernel
70	past b69019c14cd8 without first updating userspace past be70c7a50d32.
71
7220210729:
73	As of commit 01ad0c007964 if_bridge member interfaces can no longer
74	change their MTU. Changing the MTU of the bridge itself will change the
75	MTU on all member interfaces instead.
76
7720210716:
78	Commit ee29e6f31111 changed the internal KAPI between the nfscommon
79	and nfsd modules. Therefore, both need to be rebuilt from sources.
80	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1400026 for this KAPI change.
81
8220210715:
83	The 20210707 awk update brought in a change in behavior. This has
84	been corrected as of d4d252c49976. Between these dates, if you
85	installed a new awk binary, you may not be able to build a new
86	kernel because the change in behavior affected the genoffset
87	script used to build the kernel. If you did update, the fix is
88	to update your sources past the above hash and do
89		% cd usr.bin/awk
90		% make clean all
91		% sudo -E make install
92	to enable building kernels again.
93
9420210708:
95	Commit 1e0a518d6548 changed the internal KAPI between the NFS
96	modules. They all need to be rebuilt from sources.  I did not
97	bump __FreeBSD_version, since it was bumped recently.
98
9920210707:
100	awk has been updated to the latest one-true-awk version 20210215.
101	This contains a number of minor bug fixes.
102
10320210624:
104	The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
105	supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
106	for NFSv4 mounts.
107	The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.
108
10920210618:
110	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1400024 for LinuxKPI changes.
111	Most notably netdev.h can change now as the (last) dependencies
112	(mlx4/ofed) are now using struct ifnet directly, but also for PCI
113	additions and others.
114
11520210618:
116	The directory "blacklisted" under /usr/share/certs/ has been
117	renamed to "untrusted".
118
11920210611:
120	svnlite has been removed from base. Should you need svn for any reason
121	please install the svn package or port.
122
12320210611:
124	Commit e1a907a25cfa changed the internal KAPI between the krpc
125	and nfsserver.  As such, both modules must be rebuilt from
126	sources.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1400022.
127
12820210610:
129	The an(4) driver has been removed from FreeBSD.
130
13120210608:
132	The vendor/openzfs branch was renamed to vendor/openzfs/legacy to
133	start tracking OpenZFS upstream more closely. Please see
134https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2021-June/000153.html
135	for details on how to correct any errors that might result. The
136	short version is that you need to remove the old branch locally:
137	    git update-ref -d refs/remotes/freebsd/vendor/openzfs
138	(assuming your upstream origin is named 'freebsd').
139
14020210525:
141	Commits 17accc08ae15 and de102f870501 add new files to LinuxKPI
142	which break drm-kmod.  In addition various other additions where
143	comitted. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1400015 to be able to detect this.
144
14520210513:
146	Commit ca179c4d74f2 changed the package in which the OpenSSL
147	libraries and utilities are packaged.
148	It is recommended for pkgbase user to do:
149	pkg install -f FreeBSD-openssl
150	before pkg upgrade otherwise some dependencies might not be met
151	and pkg will stop working as libssl will not be present anymore
152	on the system.
153
15420210426:
155	Commit 875977314881 changed the internal KAPI between
156	the nfsd and nfscommon modules.  As such these modules
157	need to be rebuilt from sources.
158	Without this patch in your NFSv4.1/4.2 server, enabling
159	delegations by setting vfs.nfsd.issue_delegations non-zero
160	is not recommended.
161
16220210411:
163	Commit 7763814fc9c2 changed the internal KAPI between
164	the krpc and NFS.  As such, the krpc, nfscommon and
165	nfscl modules must all be rebuilt from sources.
166	Without this patch, NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts should not
167	be done with the nfscbd(8) daemon running, to avoid
168	needing a working back channel for server->client RPCs.
169
17020210330:
171	Commit 01ae8969a9ee fixed the NFSv4.1/4.2 server so that it
172	handles binding of the back channel as required by RFC5661.
173	Until this patch is in your server, avoid use of the "nconnects"
174	mount option for Linux NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
175
17620210225:
177	For 64-bit architectures the base system is now built with Position
178	Independent Executable (PIE) support enabled by default.  It may be
179	disabled using the WITHOUT_PIE knob.  A clean build is required.
180
18120210128:
182	Various LinuxKPI functionality was added which conflicts with DRM.
183	Please update your drm-kmod port to after the __FreeBSD_verison 1400003
184	update.
185
18620210108:
187	PC Card attachments for all devices have been removed. In the case of
188	wi and cmx, the entire drivers were removed because they were only
189	PC Card devices. FreeBSD_version 1300134 should be used for this
190	since it was bumped so recently.
191
19220210107:
193	Transport-independent parts of HID support have been split off the USB
194	code in to separate subsystem.  Kernel configs which include one of
195	ums, ukbd, uhid, atp, wsp, wmt, uaudio, ugold or ucycom drivers should
196	be updated with adding of "device hid" line.
197
19820210105:
199	ncurses installation has been modified to only keep the widechar
200	enabled version.  Incremental build is broken for that change, so it
201	requires a clean build.
202
20320201223:
204	The FreeBSD project has migrated from Subversion to Git. Temporary
205	instructions can be found at
206	https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/src-cvt.md
207	and other documents in that repo.
208
20920201216:
210	The services database has been updated to cover more of the basic
211	services expected in a modern system. The database is big enough
212	that it will cause issues in mergemaster in Releases previous to
213	12.2 and 11.3, or in very old current systems from before r358154.
214
21520201215:
216	Obsolete in-tree GDB 6.1.1 has been removed.  GDB (including kgdb)
217	may be installed from ports or packages.
218
21920201124:
220	ping6 has been merged into ping.  It can now be called as "ping -6".
221	See ping(8) for details.
222
22320201108:
224	Default value of net.add_addr_allfibs has been changed to 0.
225	If you have multi-fib configuration and rely on existence of all
226	interface routes in every fib, you need to set the above sysctl to 1.
227
22820201030:
229	The internal pre-processor in the calendar(1) program has been
230	extended to support more C pre-processor commands (e.g. #ifdef, #else,
231	and #undef) and to detect unbalanced conditional statements.
232	Error messages have been extended to include the filename and line
233	number if processing stops to help fixing malformed data files.
234
23520201026:
236	All the data files for the calendar(1) program, except calendar.freebsd,
237	have been moved to the deskutils/calendar-data port, much like the
238	jewish calendar entries were moved to deskutils/hebcal years ago. After
239	make delete-old-files, you need to install it to retain full
240	functionality. calendar(1) will issue a reminder for files it can't
241	find.
242
24320200923:
244	LINT files are no longer generated. We now include the relevant NOTES
245	files. Note: This may cause conflicts with updating in some cases.
246	        find sys -name LINT\* -delete
247	is suggested across this commit	to remove the generated	LINT files.
248
249	If you have tried to update with generated files there, the svn
250	command you want to un-auger the tree is
251		cd sys/amd64/conf
252		svn revert -R .
253	and then do the above find from the top level. Substitute 'amd64'
254	above with where the error message indicates a conflict.
255
25620200824:
257	OpenZFS support has been integrated. Do not upgrade root pools until
258	the loader is updated to support zstd. Furthermore, we caution against
259	'zpool upgrade' for the next few weeks. The change should be transparent
260	unless you  want to use new features.
261
262	Not all "NO_CLEAN" build scenarios work across these changes. Many
263	scenarios have been tested and fixed, but rebuilding kernels without
264	rebuilding world may fail.
265
266	The ZFS cache file has moved from /boot to /etc to match the OpenZFS
267	upstream default. A fallback to /boot has been added for mountroot.
268
269	Pool auto import behavior at boot has been moved from the kernel module
270	to an explicit "zpool import -a" in one of the rc scripts enabled by
271	zfs_enable=YES. This means your non-root zpools won't auto import until
272	you upgrade your /etc/rc.d files.
273
27420200824:
275	The resume code now notifies devd with the 'kernel' system
276	rather than the old 'kern' subsystem to be consistent with
277	other use. The old notification will be created as well, but
278	will be removed prior to FreeBSD 14.0.
279
28020200821:
281	r362275 changed the internal API between the kernel RPC and the
282	NFS modules. As such, all the modules must be recompiled from
283	sources.
284
28520200817:
286	r364330 modified the internal API used between the NFS modules.
287	As such, all the NFS modules must be re-compiled from sources.
288
28920200816:
290	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
291	been upgraded to 11.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
292	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
293	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
294
29520200810:
296	r364092 modified the internal ABI used between the kernel NFS
297	modules.  As such, all of these modules need to be rebuilt
298	from sources, so a version bump was done.
299
30020200807:
301	Makefile.inc has been updated to work around the issue documented in
302	20200729. It was a case where the optimization of using symbolic links
303	to point to binaries created a situation where we'd run new binaries
304	with old libraries starting midway through the installworld process.
305
30620200729:
307	r363679 has redefined some undefined behavior in regcomp(3); notably,
308	extraneous escapes of most ordinary characters will no longer be
309	accepted.  An exp-run has identified all of the problems with this in
310	ports, but other non-ports software may need extra escapes removed to
311	continue to function.
312
313	Because of this change, installworld may encounter the following error
314	from rtld: Undefined symbol "regcomp@FBSD_1.6" -- It is imperative that
315	you do not halt installworld. Instead, let it run to completion (whether
316	successful or not) and run installworld once more.
317
31820200627:
319	A new implementation of bc and dc has been imported in r362681. This
320	implementation corrects non-conformant behavior of the previous bc
321	and adds GNU bc compatible options. It offers a number of extensions,
322	is much faster on large values, and has support for message catalogs
323	(a number of languages are already supported, contributions of further
324	languages welcome). The option WITHOUT_GH_BC can be used to build the
325	world with the previous versions of bc and dc.
326
32720200625:
328	r362639 changed the internal API used between the NFS kernel modules.
329	As such, they all need to be rebuilt from sources.
330
33120200613:
332	r362158 changed the arguments for VFS_CHECKEXP().  As such, any
333	out of tree file systems need to be modified and rebuilt.
334	Also, any file systems that are modules must be rebuilt.
335
33620200604:
337	read(2) of a directory fd is now rejected by default.  root may
338	re-enable it for system root only on non-ZFS filesystems with the
339	security.bsd.allow_read_dir sysctl(8) MIB if
340	security.bsd.suser_enabled=1.
341
342	It may be advised to setup aliases for grep to default to `-d skip` if
343	commonly non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and
344	the potential for the resulting stderr output is not tolerable.  Example
345	aliases are now installed, commented out, in /root/.cshrc and
346	/root/.shrc.
347
34820200523:
349	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
350	been upgraded to 10.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
351	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
352	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
353
35420200512:
355	Support for obsolete compilers has been removed from the build system.
356	Clang 6 and GCC 6.4 are the minimum supported versions.
357
35820200424:
359	closefrom(2) has been moved under COMPAT12, and replaced in libc with a
360	stub that calls close_range(2).  If using a custom kernel configuration,
361	you may want to ensure that the COMPAT_FREEBSD12 option is included, as
362	a slightly older -CURRENT userland and older FreeBSD userlands may not
363	be functional without closefrom(2).
364
36520200414:
366	Upstream DTS from Linux 5.6 was merged and they now have the SID
367	and THS (Secure ID controller and THermal Sensor) node present.
368	The DTB overlays have now been removed from the tree for the H3/H5 and
369	A64 SoCs and the aw_sid and aw_thermal driver have been updated to
370	deal with upstream DTS. If you are using those overlays you need to
371	remove them from loader.conf and update the DTBs on the FAT partition.
372
37320200310:
374	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
375	been upgraded to 10.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
376	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
377	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
378
37920200309:
380	The amd(8) automount daemon has been removed from the source tree.
381	As of FreeBSD 10.1 autofs(5) is the preferred tool for automounting.
382	amd is still available in the sysutils/am-utils port.
383
38420200301:
385	Removed brooktree driver (bktr.4) from the tree.
386
38720200229:
388	The WITH_GPL_DTC option has been removed.  The BSD-licenced device tree
389	compiler in usr.bin/dtc is used on all architectures which use dtc, and
390	the GPL dtc is available (if needed) from the sysutils/dtc port.
391
39220200229:
393	The WITHOUT_LLVM_LIBUNWIND option has been removed.  LLVM's libunwind
394	is used by all supported CPU architectures.
395
39620200229:
397	GCC 4.2.1 has been removed from the tree.  The WITH_GCC,
398	WITH_GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and WITH_GNUCXX options are no longer available.
399	Users who wish to build FreeBSD with GCC must use the external toolchain
400	ports or packages.
401
40220200220:
403	ncurses has been updated to a newer version (6.2-20200215). Given the ABI
404	has changed, users will have to rebuild all the ports that are linked to
405	ncurses.
406
40720200217:
408	The size of struct vnet and the magic cookie have changed.
409	Users need to recompile libkvm and all modules using VIMAGE
410	together with their new kernel.
411
41220200212:
413	Defining the long deprecated NO_CTF, NO_DEBUG_FILES, NO_INSTALLLIB,
414	NO_MAN, NO_PROFILE, and NO_WARNS variables is now an error.  Update
415	your Makefiles and scripts to define MK_<var>=no instead as required.
416
417	One exception to this is that program or library Makefiles should
418	define MAN to empty rather than setting MK_MAN=no.
419
42020200108:
421	Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler and LLD the default
422	linker for riscv64.
423
42420200107:
425	make universe no longer uses GCC 4.2.1 on any architectures.
426	Architectures not supported by in-tree Clang/LLVM require an
427	external toolchain package.
428
42920200104:
430	GCC 4.2.1 is now not built by default, as part of the GCC 4.2.1
431	retirement plan.  Specifically, the GCC, GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and GNUCXX
432	options default to off for all supported CPU architectures.  As a
433	short-term transition aid they may be enabled via WITH_* options.
434	GCC 4.2.1 is expected to be removed from the tree on 2020-03-31.
435
43620200102:
437	Support for armv5 has been disconnected and is being removed. The
438	machine combination MACHINE=arm MACHINE_ARCH=arm is no longer valid.
439	You must now use a MACHINE_ARCH of armv6 or armv7. The default
440	MACHINE_ARCH for MACHINE=arm is now armv7.
441
44220191226:
443	Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler for all powerpc architectures.
444	LLD is now the default linker for powerpc64.  The change for powerpc64
445	also includes a change to the ELFv2 ABI, incompatible with the existing
446	ABI.
447
44820191226:
449	Kernel-loadable random(4) modules are no longer unloadable.
450
45120191222:
452	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
453	been upgraded to 9.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
454	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
455	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
456
45720191212:
458	r355677 has modified the internal interface used between the
459	NFS modules in the kernel. As such, they must all be upgraded
460	simultaneously. I will do a version bump for this.
461
46220191205:
463	The root certificates of the Mozilla CA Certificate Store have been
464	imported into the base system and can be managed with the certctl(8)
465	utility.  If you have installed the security/ca_root_nss port or package
466	with the ETCSYMLINK option (the default), be advised that there may be
467	differences between those included in the port and those included in
468	base due to differences in nss branch used as well as general update
469	frequency.  Note also that certctl(8) cannot manage certs in the
470	format used by the security/ca_root_nss port.
471
47220191120:
473	The amd(8) automount daemon has been disabled by default, and will be
474	removed in the future.  As of FreeBSD 10.1 the autofs(5) is available
475	for automounting.
476
47720191107:
478	The nctgpio and wbwd drivers have been moved to the superio bus.
479	If you have one of these drivers in a kernel configuration, then
480	you should add device superio to it.  If you use one of these drivers
481	as a module and you compile a custom set of modules, then you should
482	add superio to the set.
483
48420191021:
485	KPIs for network drivers to access interface addresses have changed.
486	Users need to recompile NIC driver modules together with kernel.
487
48820191021:
489	The net.link.tap.user_open sysctl no longer prevents user opening of
490	already created /dev/tapNN devices.  Access is still controlled by
491	node permissions, just like tun devices.  The net.link.tap.user_open
492	sysctl is now used only to allow users to perform devfs cloning of
493	tap devices, and the subsequent open may not succeed if the user is not
494	in the appropriate group.  This sysctl may be deprecated/removed
495	completely in the future.
496
49720191009:
498	mips, powerpc, and sparc64 are no longer built as part of
499	universe / tinderbox unless MAKE_OBSOLETE_GCC is defined. If
500	not defined, mips, powerpc, and sparc64 builds will look for
501	the xtoolchain binaries and if installed use them for universe
502	builds. As llvm 9.0 becomes vetted for these architectures, they
503	will be removed from the list.
504
50520191009:
506	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
507	been upgraded to 9.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
508	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
509	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
510
51120191003:
512	The hpt27xx, hptmv, hptnr, and hptrr drivers have been removed from
513	GENERIC.  They are available as modules and can be loaded by adding
514	to /boot/loader.conf hpt27xx_load="YES", hptmv_load="YES",
515	hptnr_load="YES", or hptrr_load="YES", respectively.
516
51720190913:
518	ntpd no longer by default locks its pages in memory, allowing them
519	to be paged out by the kernel. Use rlimit memlock to restore
520	historic BSD behaviour. For example, add "rlimit memlock 32"
521	to ntp.conf to lock up to 32 MB of ntpd address space in memory.
522
52320190823:
524	Several of ping6's options have been renamed for better consistency
525	with ping.  If you use any of -ARWXaghmrtwx, you must update your
526	scripts.  See ping6(8) for details.
527
52820190727:
529	The vfs.fusefs.sync_unmount and vfs.fusefs.init_backgrounded sysctls
530	and the "-o sync_unmount" and "-o init_backgrounded" mount options have
531	been removed from mount_fusefs(8).  You can safely remove them from
532	your scripts, because they had no effect.
533
534	The vfs.fusefs.fix_broken_io, vfs.fusefs.sync_resize,
535	vfs.fusefs.refresh_size, vfs.fusefs.mmap_enable,
536	vfs.fusefs.reclaim_revoked, and vfs.fusefs.data_cache_invalidate
537	sysctls have been removed.  If you felt the need to set any of them to
538	a non-default value, please tell asomers@FreeBSD.org why.
539
54020190713:
541	Default permissions on the /var/account/acct file (and copies of it
542	rotated by periodic daily scripts) are changed from 0644 to 0640
543	because the file contains sensitive information that should not be
544	world-readable.  If the /var/account directory must be created by
545	rc.d/accounting, the mode used is now 0750.  Admins who use the
546	accounting feature are encouraged to change the mode of an existing
547	/var/account directory to 0750 or 0700.
548
54920190620:
550	Entropy collection and the /dev/random device are no longer optional
551	components.  The "device random" option has been removed.
552	Implementations of distilling algorithms can still be made loadable
553	with "options RANDOM_LOADABLE" (e.g., random_fortuna.ko).
554
55520190612:
556	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
557	been upgraded to 8.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
558	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
559	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
560
56120190608:
562	A fix was applied to i386 kernel modules to avoid panics with
563	dpcpu or vnet.  Users need to recompile i386 kernel modules
564	having pcpu or vnet sections or they will refuse to load.
565
56620190513:
567	User-wired pages now have their own counter,
568	vm.stats.vm.v_user_wire_count.  The vm.max_wired sysctl was renamed
569	to vm.max_user_wired and changed from an unsigned int to an unsigned
570	long.  bhyve VMs wired with the -S are now subject to the user
571	wiring limit; the vm.max_user_wired sysctl may need to be tuned to
572	avoid running into the limit.
573
57420190507:
575	The IPSEC option has been removed from GENERIC.  Users requiring
576	ipsec(4) must now load the ipsec(4) kernel module.
577
57820190507:
579	The tap(4) driver has been folded into tun(4), and the module has been
580	renamed to tuntap.  You should update any kld_list="if_tap" or
581	kld_list="if_tun" entries in /etc/rc.conf, if_tap_load="YES" or
582	if_tun_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf to load the if_tuntap
583	module instead, and "device tap" or "device tun" entries in kernel
584	config files to select the tuntap device instead.
585
58620190418:
587	The following knobs have been added related to tradeoffs between
588	safe use of the random device and availability in the absence of
589	entropy:
590
591	kern.random.initial_seeding.bypass_before_seeding: tunable; set
592	non-zero to bypass the random device prior to seeding, or zero to
593	block random requests until the random device is initially seeded.
594	For now, set to 1 (unsafe) by default to restore pre-r346250 boot
595	availability properties.
596
597	kern.random.initial_seeding.read_random_bypassed_before_seeding:
598	read-only diagnostic sysctl that is set when bypass is enabled and
599	read_random(9) is bypassed, to enable programmatic handling of this
600	initial condition, if desired.
601
602	kern.random.initial_seeding.arc4random_bypassed_before_seeding:
603	Similar to the above, but for for arc4random(9) initial seeding.
604
605	kern.random.initial_seeding.disable_bypass_warnings: tunable; set
606	non-zero to disable warnings in dmesg when the same conditions are
607	met as for the diagnostic sysctls above.  Defaults to zero, i.e.,
608	produce warnings in dmesg when the conditions are met.
609
61020190416:
611	The loadable random module KPI has changed; the random_infra_init()
612	routine now requires a 3rd function pointer for a bool (*)(void)
613	method that returns true if the random device is seeded (and
614	therefore unblocked).
615
61620190404:
617	r345895 reverts r320698. This implies that an nfsuserd(8) daemon
618	built from head sources between r320757 (July 6, 2017) and
619	r338192 (Aug. 22, 2018) will not work unless the "-use-udpsock"
620	is added to the command line.
621	nfsuserd daemons built from head sources that are post-r338192 are
622	not affected and should continue to work.
623
62420190320:
625	The fuse(4) module has been renamed to fusefs(4) for consistency with
626	other filesystems.  You should update any kld_load="fuse" entries in
627	/etc/rc.conf, fuse_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf, and
628	"options FUSE" entries in kernel config files.
629
63020190304:
631	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
632	8.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
633	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
634	or higher.
635
63620190226:
637	geom_uzip(4) depends on the new module xz.  If geom_uzip is statically
638	compiled into your custom kernel, add 'device xz' statement to the
639	kernel config.
640
64120190219:
642	drm and drm2 have been removed from the tree. Please see
643	https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics for the latest information on
644	migrating to the drm ports.
645
64620190131:
647	Iflib is no longer unconditionally compiled into the kernel.  Drivers
648	using iflib and statically compiled into the kernel, now require
649	the 'device iflib' config option.  For the same drivers loaded as
650	modules on kernels not having 'device iflib', the iflib.ko module
651	is loaded automatically.
652
65320190125:
654	The IEEE80211_AMPDU_AGE and AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 kernel configuration
655	options no longer exist since r343219 and r343427 respectively;
656	nothing uses them, so they should be just removed from custom
657	kernel config files.
658
65920181230:
660	r342635 changes the way efibootmgr(8) works by requiring users to add
661	the -b (bootnum) parameter for commands where the bootnum was previously
662	specified with each option. For example 'efibootmgr -B 0001' is now
663	'efibootmgr -B -b 0001'.
664
66520181220:
666	r342286 modifies the NFSv4 server so that it obeys vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport
667	in the same as it is applied to NFSv2 and 3.  This implies that NFSv4
668	servers that have vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport set will only allow mounts
669	from clients using a reserved port. Since both the FreeBSD and Linux
670	NFSv4 clients use reserved ports by default, this should not affect
671	most NFSv4 mounts.
672
67320181219:
674	The XLP config has been removed. We can't support 64-bit atomics in this
675	kernel because it is running in 32-bit mode. XLP users must transition
676	to running a 64-bit kernel (XLP64 or XLPN32).
677
678	The mips GXEMUL support has been removed from FreeBSD. MALTA* + qemu is
679	the preferred emulator today and we don't need two different ones.
680
681	The old sibyte / swarm / Broadcom BCM1250 support has been
682	removed from the mips port.
683
68420181211:
685	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
686	7.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
687	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
688	or higher.
689
69020181211:
691	Remove the timed and netdate programs from the base tree.  Setting
692	the time with these daemons has been obsolete for over a decade.
693
69420181126:
695	On amd64, arm64 and armv7 (architectures that install LLVM's ld.lld
696	linker as /usr/bin/ld) GNU ld is no longer installed as ld.bfd, as
697	it produces broken binaries when ifuncs are in use.  Users needing
698	GNU ld should install the binutils port or package.
699
70020181123:
701	The BSD crtbegin and crtend code has been enabled by default. It has
702	had extensive testing on amd64, arm64, and i386. It can be disabled
703	by building a world with -DWITHOUT_BSD_CRTBEGIN.
704
70520181115:
706	The set of CTM commands (ctm, ctm_smail, ctm_rmail, ctm_dequeue)
707	has been converted to a port (misc/ctm) and will be removed from
708	FreeBSD-13.  It is available as a package (ctm) for all supported
709	FreeBSD versions.
710
71120181110:
712	The default newsyslog.conf(5) file has been changed to only include
713	files in /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ and /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ if
714	the filenames end in '.conf' and do not begin with a '.'.
715
716	You should check the configuration files in these two directories match
717	this naming convention. You can verify which configuration files are
718	being included using the command:
719		$ newsyslog -Nrv
720
72120181015:
722	Ports for the DRM modules have been simplified. Now, amd64 users should
723	just install the drm-kmod port. All others should install
724	drm-legacy-kmod.
725
726	Graphics hardware that's newer than about 2010 usually works with
727	drm-kmod.  For hardware older than 2013, however, some users will need
728	to use drm-legacy-kmod if drm-kmod doesn't work for them. Hardware older
729	than 2008 usually only works in drm-legacy-kmod. The graphics team can
730	only commit to hardware made since 2013 due to the complexity of the
731	market and difficulty to test all the older cards effectively. If you
732	have hardware supported by drm-kmod, you are strongly encouraged to use
733	that as you will get better support.
734
735	Other than KPI chasing, drm-legacy-kmod will not be updated. As outlined
736	elsewhere, the drm and drm2 modules will be eliminated from the src base
737	soon (with a limited exception for arm). Please update to the package
738	asap and report any issues to x11@freebsd.org.
739
740	Generally, anybody using the drm*-kmod packages should add
741	WITHOUT_DRM_MODULE=t and WITHOUT_DRM2_MODULE=t to avoid nasty
742	cross-threading surprises, especially with automatic driver
743	loading from X11 startup. These will become the defaults in 13-current
744	shortly.
745
74620181012:
747	The ixlv(4) driver has been renamed to iavf(4).  As a consequence,
748	custom kernel and module loading configuration files must be updated
749	accordingly.  Moreover, interfaces previous presented as ixlvN to the
750	system are now exposed as iavfN and network configuration files must
751	be adjusted as necessary.
752
75320181009:
754	OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1.  This update included
755	additional various API changes throughout the base system.  It is
756	important to rebuild third-party software after upgrading.  The value
757	of __FreeBSD_version has been bumped accordingly.
758
75920181006:
760	The legacy DRM modules and drivers have now been added to the loader's
761	module blacklist, in favor of loading them with kld_list in rc.conf(5).
762	The module blacklist may be overridden with the loader.conf(5)
763	'module_blacklist' variable, but loading them via rc.conf(5) is strongly
764	encouraged.
765
76620181002:
767	The cam(4) based nda(4) driver will be used over nvd(4) by default on
768	powerpc64. You may set 'options NVME_USE_NVD=1' in your kernel conf or
769	loader tunable 'hw.nvme.use_nvd=1' if you wish to use the existing
770	driver.  Make sure to edit /boot/etc/kboot.conf and fstab to use the
771	nda device name.
772
77320180913:
774	Reproducible build mode is now on by default, in preparation for
775	FreeBSD 12.0.  This eliminates build metadata such as the user,
776	host, and time from the kernel (and uname), unless the working tree
777	corresponds to a modified checkout from a version control system.
778	The previous behavior can be obtained by setting the /etc/src.conf
779	knob WITHOUT_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD.
780
78120180826:
782	The Yarrow CSPRNG has been removed from the kernel as it has not been
783	supported by its designers since at least 2003. Fortuna has been the
784	default since FreeBSD-11.
785
78620180822:
787	devctl freeze/thaw have gone into the tree, the rc scripts have been
788	updated to use them and devmatch has been changed.  You should update
789	kernel, userland and rc scripts all at the same time.
790
79120180818:
792	The default interpreter has been switched from 4th to Lua.
793	LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP, documented in build(7), will override the default
794	interpreter.  If you have custom FORTH code you will need to set
795	LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP=4th (valid values are 4th, lua or simp) in
796	src.conf for the build.  This will create default hard links between
797	loader and loader_4th instead of loader and loader_lua, the new default.
798	If you are using UEFI it will create the proper hard link to loader.efi.
799
800	bhyve uses userboot.so. It remains 4th-only until some issues are solved
801	regarding coexisting with multiple versions of FreeBSD are resolved.
802
80320180815:
804	ls(1) now respects the COLORTERM environment variable used in other
805	systems and software to indicate that a colored terminal is both
806	supported and desired.  If ls(1) is suddenly emitting colors, they may
807	be disabled again by either removing the unwanted COLORTERM from your
808	environment, or using `ls --color=never`.  The ls(1) specific CLICOLOR
809	may not be observed in a future release.
810
81120180808:
812	The default pager for most commands has been changed to "less".  To
813	restore the old behavior, set PAGER="more" and MANPAGER="more -s" in
814	your environment.
815
81620180731:
817	The jedec_ts(4) driver has been removed. A superset of its functionality
818	is available in the jedec_dimm(4) driver, and the manpage for that
819	driver includes migration instructions. If you have "device jedec_ts"
820	in your kernel configuration file, it must be removed.
821
82220180730:
823	amd64/GENERIC now has EFI runtime services, EFIRT, enabled by default.
824	This should have no effect if the kernel is booted via BIOS/legacy boot.
825	EFIRT may be disabled via a loader tunable, efi.rt.disabled, if a system
826	has a buggy firmware that prevents a successful boot due to use of
827	runtime services.
828
82920180727:
830	Atmel AT91RM9200 and AT91SAM9, Cavium CNS 11xx and XScale
831	support has been removed from the tree. These ports were
832	obsolete and/or known to be broken for many years.
833
83420180723:
835	loader.efi has been augmented to participate more fully in the
836	UEFI boot manager protocol. loader.efi will now look at the
837	BootXXXX environment variable to determine if a specific kernel
838	or root partition was specified. XXXX is derived from BootCurrent.
839	efibootmgr(8) manages these standard UEFI variables.
840
84120180720:
842	zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader.
843	zfsloader is no longer necessary once you've updated your
844	boot blocks. For a transition period, we will install a
845	hardlink for zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition
846	until the boot blocks can be updated (hard link because old
847	zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks).
848
84920180719:
850	ARM64 now have efifb support, if you want to have serial console
851	on your arm64 board when an screen is connected and the bootloader
852	setup a frame buffer for us to use, just add :
853	boot_serial=YES
854	boot_multicons=YES
855	in /boot/loader.conf
856	For Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI) users, this is needed even if you don't have
857	an screen connected as the firmware will setup a frame buffer are that
858	u-boot will expose as an EFI frame buffer.
859
86020180719:
861	New uid:gid added, ntpd:ntpd (123:123).  Be sure to run mergemaster
862	or take steps to update /etc/passwd before doing installworld on
863	existing systems.  Do not skip the "mergemaster -Fp" step before
864	installworld, as described in the update procedures near the bottom
865	of this document.  Also, rc.d/ntpd now starts ntpd(8) as user ntpd
866	if the new mac_ntpd(4) policy is available, unless ntpd_flags or
867	the ntp config file contain options that change file/dir locations.
868	When such options (e.g., "statsdir" or "crypto") are used, ntpd can
869	still be run as non-root by setting ntpd_user=ntpd in rc.conf, after
870	taking steps to ensure that all required files/dirs are accessible
871	by the ntpd user.
872
87320180717:
874	Big endian arm support has been removed.
875
87620180711:
877	The static environment setup in kernel configs is no longer mutually
878	exclusive with the loader(8) environment by default.  In order to
879	restore the previous default behavior of disabling the loader(8)
880	environment if a static environment is present, you must specify
881	loader_env.disabled=1 in the static environment.
882
88320180705:
884	The ABI of syscalls used by management tools like sockstat and
885	netstat has been broken to allow 32-bit binaries to work on
886	64-bit kernels without modification.  These programs will need
887	to match the kernel in order to function.  External programs may
888	require minor modifications to accommodate a change of type in
889	structures from pointers to 64-bit virtual addresses.
890
89120180702:
892	On i386 and amd64 atomics are now inlined. Out of tree modules using
893	atomics will need to be rebuilt.
894
89520180701:
896	The '%I' format in the kern.corefile sysctl limits the number of
897	core files that a process can generate to the number stored in the
898	debug.ncores sysctl. The '%I' format is replaced by the single digit
899	index. Previously, if all indexes were taken the kernel would overwrite
900	only a core file with the highest index in a filename.
901	Currently the system will create a new core file if there is a free
902	index or if all slots are taken it will overwrite the oldest one.
903
90420180630:
905	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
906	6.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
907	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
908	or higher.
909
91020180628:
911	r335753 introduced a new quoting method. However, etc/devd/devmatch.conf
912	needed to be changed to work with it. This change was made with r335763
913	and requires a mergemaster / etcupdate / etc to update the installed
914	file.
915
91620180612:
917	r334930 changed the interface between the NFS modules, so they all
918	need to be rebuilt.  r335018 did a __FreeBSD_version bump for this.
919
92020180530:
921	As of r334391 lld is the default amd64 system linker; it is installed
922	as /usr/bin/ld.  Kernel build workarounds (see 20180510 entry) are no
923	longer necessary.
924
92520180530:
926	The kernel / userland interface for devinfo changed, so you'll
927	need a new kernel and userland as a pair for it to work (rebuilding
928	lib/libdevinfo is all that's required). devinfo and devmatch will
929	not work, but everything else will when there's a mismatch.
930
93120180523:
932	The on-disk format for hwpmc callchain records has changed to include
933	threadid corresponding to a given record. This changes the field offsets
934	and thus requires that libpmcstat be rebuilt before using a kernel
935	later than r334108.
936
93720180517:
938	The vxge(4) driver has been removed.  This driver was introduced into
939	HEAD one week before the Exar left the Ethernet market and is not
940	known to be used.  If you have device vxge in your kernel config file
941	it must be removed.
942
94320180510:
944	The amd64 kernel now requires a ld that supports ifunc to produce a
945	working kernel, either lld or a newer binutils. lld is built by default
946	on amd64, and the 'buildkernel' target uses it automatically. However,
947	it is not the default linker, so building the kernel the traditional
948	way requires LD=ld.lld on the command line (or LD=/usr/local/bin/ld for
949	binutils port/package). lld will soon be default, and this requirement
950	will go away.
951
952	NOTE: As of r334391 lld is the default system linker on amd64, and no
953	workaround is necessary.
954
95520180508:
956	The nxge(4) driver has been removed.  This driver was for PCI-X 10g
957	cards made by s2io/Neterion.  The company was acquired by Exar and
958	no longer sells or supports Ethernet products.  If you have device
959	nxge in your kernel config file it must be removed.
960
96120180504:
962	The tz database (tzdb) has been updated to 2018e.  This version more
963	correctly models time stamps in time zones with negative DST such as
964	Europe/Dublin (from 1971 on), Europe/Prague (1946/7), and
965	Africa/Windhoek (1994/2017).  This does not affect the UT offsets, only
966	time zone abbreviations and the tm_isdst flag.
967
96820180502:
969	The ixgb(4) driver has been removed.  This driver was for an early and
970	uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a single ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel
971	quickly shifted to the long lived ixgbe family.  If you have device
972	ixgb in your kernel config file it must be removed.
973
97420180501:
975	The lmc(4) driver has been removed.  This was a WAN interface
976	card that was already reportedly rare in 2003, and had an ambiguous
977	license.  If you have device lmc in your kernel config file it must
978	be removed.
979
98020180413:
981	Support for Arcnet networks has been removed.  If you have device
982	arcnet or device cm in your kernel config file they must be
983	removed.
984
98520180411:
986	Support for FDDI networks has been removed.  If you have device
987	fddi or device fpa in your kernel config file they must be
988	removed.
989
99020180406:
991	In addition to supporting RFC 3164 formatted messages, the
992	syslogd(8) service is now capable of parsing RFC 5424 formatted
993	log messages. The main benefit of using RFC 5424 is that clients
994	may now send log messages with timestamps containing year numbers,
995	microseconds and time zone offsets.
996
997	Similarly, the syslog(3) C library function has been altered to
998	send RFC 5424 formatted messages to the local system logging
999	daemon. On systems using syslogd(8), this change should have no
1000	negative impact, as long as syslogd(8) and the C library are
1001	updated at the same time. On systems using a different system
1002	logging daemon, it may be necessary to make configuration
1003	adjustments, depending on the software used.
1004
1005	When using syslog-ng, add the 'syslog-protocol' flag to local
1006	input sources to enable parsing of RFC 5424 formatted messages:
1007
1008		source src {
1009			unix-dgram("/var/run/log" flags(syslog-protocol));
1010		}
1011
1012	When using rsyslog, disable the 'SysSock.UseSpecialParser' option
1013	of the 'imuxsock' module to let messages be processed by the
1014	regular RFC 3164/5424 parsing pipeline:
1015
1016		module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.UseSpecialParser="off")
1017
1018	Do note that these changes only affect communication between local
1019	applications and syslogd(8). The format that syslogd(8) uses to
1020	store messages on disk or forward messages to other systems
1021	remains unchanged. syslogd(8) still uses RFC 3164 for these
1022	purposes. Options to customize this behaviour will be added in the
1023	future. Utilities that process log files stored in /var/log are
1024	thus expected to continue to function as before.
1025
1026	__FreeBSD_version has been incremented to 1200061 to denote this
1027	change.
1028
102920180328:
1030	Support for token ring networks has been removed. If you
1031	have "device token" in your kernel config you should remove
1032	it. No device drivers supported token ring.
1033
103420180323:
1035	makefs was modified to be able to tag ISO9660 El Torito boot catalog
1036	entries as EFI instead of overloading the i386 tag as done previously.
1037	The amd64 mkisoimages.sh script used to build amd64 ISO images for
1038	release was updated to use this. This may mean that makefs must be
1039	updated before "make cdrom" can be run in the release directory. This
1040	should be as simple as:
1041
1042		$ cd $SRCDIR/usr.sbin/makefs
1043		$ make depend all install
1044
104520180212:
1046	FreeBSD boot loader enhanced with Lua scripting. It's purely opt-in for
1047	now by building WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH in /etc/src.conf.
1048	Co-existence for the transition period will come shortly. Booting is a
1049	complex environment and test coverage for Lua-enabled loaders has been
1050	thin, so it would be prudent to assume it might not work and make
1051	provisions for backup boot methods.
1052
105320180211:
1054	devmatch functionality has been turned on in devd. It will automatically
1055	load drivers for unattached devices. This may cause unexpected drivers
1056	to be loaded. Please report any problems to current@ and
1057	imp@freebsd.org.
1058
105920180114:
1060	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
1061	6.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
1062	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
1063	or higher.
1064
106520180110:
1066	LLVM's lld linker is now used as the FreeBSD/amd64 bootstrap linker.
1067	This means it is used to link the kernel and userland libraries and
1068	executables, but is not yet installed as /usr/bin/ld by default.
1069
1070	To revert to ld.bfd as the bootstrap linker, in /etc/src.conf set
1071	WITHOUT_LLD_BOOTSTRAP=yes
1072
107320180110:
1074	On i386, pmtimer has been removed. Its functionality has been folded
1075	into apm. It was a no-op on ACPI in current for a while now (but was
1076	still needed on i386 in FreeBSD 11 and earlier). Users may need to
1077	remove it from kernel config files.
1078
107920180104:
1080	The use of RSS hash from the network card aka flowid has been
1081	disabled by default for lagg(4) as it's currently incompatible with
1082	the lacp and loadbalance protocols.
1083
1084	This can be re-enabled by setting the following in loader.conf:
1085	net.link.lagg.default_use_flowid="1"
1086
108720180102:
1088	The SW_WATCHDOG option is no longer necessary to enable the
1089	hardclock-based software watchdog if no hardware watchdog is
1090	configured. As before, SW_WATCHDOG will cause the software
1091	watchdog to be enabled even if a hardware watchdog is configured.
1092
109320171215:
1094	r326887 fixes the issue described in the 20171214 UPDATING entry.
1095	r326888 flips the switch back to building GELI support always.
1096
109720171214:
1098	r362593 broke ZFS + GELI support for reasons unknown. However,
1099	it also broke ZFS support generally, so GELI has been turned off
1100	by default as the lesser evil in r326857. If you boot off ZFS and/or
1101	GELI, it might not be a good time to update.
1102
110320171125:
1104	PowerPC users must update loader(8) by rebuilding world before
1105	installing a new kernel, as the protocol connecting them has
1106	changed. Without the update, loader metadata will not be passed
1107	successfully to the kernel and users will have to enter their
1108	root partition at the kernel mountroot prompt to continue booting.
1109	Newer versions of loader can boot old kernels without issue.
1110
111120171110:
1112	The LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT build variable has been renamed to
1113	WITH/OUT_LOADER_FIREWIRE. LOADER_{NO_,}GELI_SUPPORT has been renamed
1114	to WITH/OUT_LOADER_GELI.
1115
111620171106:
1117	The naive and non-compliant support of posix_fallocate(2) in ZFS
1118	has been removed as of r325320.  The system call now returns EINVAL
1119	when used on a ZFS file.  Although the new behavior complies with the
1120	standard, some consumers are not prepared to cope with it.
1121	One known victim is lld prior to r325420.
1122
112320171102:
1124	Building in a FreeBSD src checkout will automatically create object
1125	directories now rather than store files in the current directory if
1126	'make obj' was not ran.  Calling 'make obj' is no longer necessary.
1127	This feature can be disabled by setting WITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ=yes in
1128	/etc/src-env.conf (not /etc/src.conf), or passing the option in the
1129	environment.
1130
113120171101:
1132	The default MAKEOBJDIR has changed from /usr/obj/<srcdir> for native
1133	builds, and /usr/obj/<arch>/<srcdir> for cross-builds, to a unified
1134	/usr/obj/<srcdir>/<arch>.  This behavior can be changed to the old
1135	format by setting WITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR=yes in /etc/src-env.conf,
1136	the environment, or with -DWITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR when building.
1137	The UNIFIED_OBJDIR option is a transitional feature that will be
1138	removed for 12.0 release; please migrate to the new format for any
1139	tools by looking up the OBJDIR used by 'make -V .OBJDIR' means rather
1140	than hardcoding paths.
1141
114220171028:
1143	The native-xtools target no longer installs the files by default to the
1144	OBJDIR.  Use the native-xtools-install target with a DESTDIR to install
1145	to ${DESTDIR}/${NXTP} where NXTP defaults to /nxb-bin.
1146
114720171021:
1148	As part of the boot loader infrastructure cleanup, LOADER_*_SUPPORT
1149	options are changing from controlling the build if defined / undefined
1150	to controlling the build with explicit 'yes' or 'no' values. They will
1151	shift to WITH/WITHOUT options to match other options in the system.
1152
115320171010:
1154	libstand has turned into a private library for sys/boot use only.
1155	It is no longer supported as a public interface outside of sys/boot.
1156
115720171005:
1158	The arm port has split armv6 into armv6 and armv7. armv7 is now
1159	a valid TARGET_ARCH/MACHINE_ARCH setting. If you have an armv7 system
1160	and are running a kernel from before r324363, you will need to add
1161	MACHINE_ARCH=armv7 to 'make buildworld' to do a native build.
1162
116320171003:
1164	When building multiple kernels using KERNCONF, non-existent KERNCONF
1165	files will produce an error and buildkernel will fail. Previously
1166	missing KERNCONF files silently failed giving no indication as to
1167	why, only to subsequently discover during installkernel that the
1168	desired kernel was never built in the first place.
1169
117020170912:
1171	The default serial number format for CTL LUNs has changed.  This will
1172	affect users who use /dev/diskid/* device nodes, or whose FibreChannel
1173	or iSCSI clients care about their LUNs' serial numbers.  Users who
1174	require serial number stability should hardcode serial numbers in
1175	/etc/ctl.conf .
1176
117720170912:
1178	For 32-bit arm compiled for hard-float support, soft-floating point
1179	binaries now always get their shared libraries from
1180	LD_SOFT_LIBRARY_PATH (in the past, this was only used if
1181	/usr/libsoft also existed). Only users with a hard-float ld.so, but
1182	soft-float everything else should be affected.
1183
118420170826:
1185	The geli password typed at boot is now hidden.  To restore the previous
1186	behavior, see geli(8) for configuration options.
1187
118820170825:
1189	Move PMTUD blackhole counters to TCPSTATS and remove them from bare
1190	sysctl values.  Minor nit, but requires a rebuild of both world/kernel
1191	to complete.
1192
119320170814:
1194	"make check" behavior (made in ^/head@r295380) has been changed to
1195	execute from a limited sandbox, as opposed to executing from
1196	${TESTSDIR}.
1197
1198	Behavioral changes:
1199	- The "beforecheck" and "aftercheck" targets are now specified.
1200	- ${CHECKDIR} (added in commit noted above) has been removed.
1201	- Legacy behavior can be enabled by setting
1202	  WITHOUT_MAKE_CHECK_USE_SANDBOX in src.conf(5) or the environment.
1203
1204	If the limited sandbox mode is enabled, "make check" will execute
1205	"make distribution", then install, execute the tests, and clean up the
1206	sandbox if successful.
1207
1208	The "make distribution" and "make install" targets are typically run as
1209	root to set appropriate permissions and ownership at installation time.
1210	The end-user should set "WITH_INSTALL_AS_USER" in src.conf(5) or the
1211	environment if executing "make check" with limited sandbox mode using
1212	an unprivileged user.
1213
121420170808:
1215	Since the switch to GPT disk labels, fsck for UFS/FFS has been
1216	unable to automatically find alternate superblocks. As of r322297,
1217	the information needed to find alternate superblocks has been
1218	moved to the end of the area reserved for the boot block.
1219	Filesystems created with a newfs of this vintage or later
1220	will create the recovery information. If you have a filesystem
1221	created prior to this change and wish to have a recovery block
1222	created for your filesystem, you can do so by running fsck in
1223	foreground mode (i.e., do not use the -p or -y options). As it
1224	starts, fsck will ask ``SAVE DATA TO FIND ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS''
1225	to which you should answer yes.
1226
122720170728:
1228	As of r321665, an NFSv4 server configuration that services
1229	Kerberos mounts or clients that do not support the uid/gid in
1230	owner/owner_group string capability, must explicitly enable
1231	the nfsuserd daemon by adding nfsuserd_enable="YES" to the
1232	machine's /etc/rc.conf file.
1233
123420170722:
1235	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 5.0.0.
1236	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
1237	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1238
123920170701:
1240	WITHOUT_RCMDS is now the default. Set WITH_RCMDS if you need the
1241	r-commands (rlogin, rsh, etc.) to be built with the base system.
1242
124320170625:
1244	The FreeBSD/powerpc platform now uses a 64-bit type for time_t.  This is
1245	a very major ABI incompatible change, so users of FreeBSD/powerpc must
1246	be careful when performing source upgrades.  It is best to run
1247	'make installworld' from an alternate root system, either a live
1248	CD/memory stick, or a temporary root partition.  Additionally, all ports
1249	must be recompiled.  powerpc64 is largely unaffected, except in the case
1250	of 32-bit compatibility.  All 32-bit binaries will be affected.
1251
125220170623:
1253	Forward compatibility for the "ino64" project have been committed. This
1254	will allow most new binaries to run on older kernels in a limited
1255	fashion.  This prevents many of the common foot-shooting actions in the
1256	upgrade as well as the limited ability to roll back the kernel across
1257	the ino64 upgrade. Complicated use cases may not work properly, though
1258	enough simpler ones work to allow recovery in most situations.
1259
126020170620:
1261	Switch back to the BSDL dtc (Device Tree Compiler). Set WITH_GPL_DTC
1262	if you require the GPL compiler.
1263
126420170618:
1265	The internal ABI used for communication between the NFS kernel modules
1266	was changed by r320085, so __FreeBSD_version was bumped to
1267	ensure all the NFS related modules are updated together.
1268
126920170617:
1270	The ABI of struct event was changed by extending the data
1271	member to 64bit and adding ext fields.  For upgrade, same
1272	precautions as for the entry 20170523 "ino64" must be
1273	followed.
1274
127520170531:
1276	The GNU roff toolchain has been removed from base. To render manpages
1277	which are not supported by mandoc(1), man(1) can fallback on GNU roff
1278	from ports (and recommends to install it).
1279	To render roff(7) documents, consider using GNU roff from ports or the
1280	heirloom doctools roff toolchain from ports via pkg install groff or
1281	via pkg install heirloom-doctools.
1282
128320170524:
1284	The ath(4) and ath_hal(4) modules now build piecemeal to allow for
1285	smaller runtime footprint builds.  This is useful for embedded systems
1286	which only require one chipset support.
1287
1288	If you load it as a module, make sure this is in /boot/loader.conf:
1289
1290	if_ath_load="YES"
1291
1292	This will load the HAL, all chip/RF backends and if_ath_pci.
1293	If you have if_ath_pci in /boot/loader.conf, ensure it is after
1294	if_ath or it will not load any HAL chipset support.
1295
1296	If you want to selectively load things (eg on cheaper ARM/MIPS
1297	platforms where RAM is at a premium) you should:
1298
1299	* load ath_hal
1300	* load the chip modules in question
1301	* load ath_rate, ath_dfs
1302	* load ath_main
1303	* load if_ath_pci and/or if_ath_ahb depending upon your particular
1304	  bus bind type - this is where probe/attach is done.
1305
1306	For further comments/feedback, poke adrian@ .
1307
130820170523:
1309	The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends
1310	a number of types to 64 bits.  Upgrading in place requires care and
1311	adherence to the documented upgrade procedure.
1312
1313	If using a custom kernel configuration ensure that the
1314	COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option is included (as during the upgrade the
1315	system will be running the ino64 kernel with the existing world).
1316
1317	For the safest in-place upgrade begin by removing previous build
1318	artifacts via "rm -rf /usr/obj/*".  Then, carefully follow the full
1319	procedure documented below under the heading "To rebuild everything and
1320	install it on the current system."  Specifically, a reboot is required
1321	after installing the new kernel before installing world. While an
1322	installworld normally works by accident from multiuser after rebooting
1323	the proper kernel, there are many cases where this will fail across this
1324	upgrade and installworld from single user is required.
1325
132620170424:
1327	The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and
1328	patm(4) devices has been removed.  Consumers should plan a
1329	migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11.
1330
133120170420:
1332	GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU
1333	diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of
1334	GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name.
1335
133620170413:
1337	As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when
1338	keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with
1339	documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state.
1340	This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags
1341	and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state.
1342	To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with
1343	keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5).
1344
134520170407:
1346	arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default,
1347	instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be
1348	installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set
1349	CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin .
1350
135120170405:
1352	The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl
1353	net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted.  L2 broadcast
1354	packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets.
1355
135620170331:
1357	Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now
1358	use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail
1359	instead of using the first assigned address of the jail.
1360
136120170329:
1362	The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend:
1363	cfiscsi.ko does instead.
1364
1365	If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded
1366	via one of the following methods:
1367	- `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5).
1368	- Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5).
1369	- ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support
1370	  (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5))
1371
1372	Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details.
1373
137420170316:
1375	The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko.
1376	Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the
1377	same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was
1378	missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible
1379	with mmc.ko).
1380
138120170315:
1382	The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity.
1383	If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify
1384	them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must
1385	be prefixed with colon.
1386
138720170311:
1388	The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been
1389	removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version
1390	(sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware.
1391
139220170302:
1393	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0.
1394	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
1395	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1396
139720170221:
1398	The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality
1399	has been reimplemented.  It's not possible now to create a snapshot
1400	by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/.  That should be the only user visible
1401	change.
1402
140320170216:
1404	EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer
1405	valid.
1406
140720170215:
1408	MCA bus support has been removed.
1409
141020170127:
1411	The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed
1412	WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC.
1413
141420170112:
1415	The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that
1416	the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications.
1417
141820170109:
1419	The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via
1420	IFLIB.  If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4)
1421	but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom
1422	configuration.
1423
142420161217:
1425	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1.
1426	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
1427	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1428
142920161124:
1430	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0.
1431	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
1432	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1433
143420161119:
1435	The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap
1436	statistics at the front for all CPU variations.  libkvm(3) and all tools
1437	that link against it need to be recompiled.
1438
143920161030:
1440	isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver,
1441	chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware.
1442	On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using
1443	device hints.  Please see the corresponding manual pages for details.
1444
144520161017:
1446	The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of
1447	rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific
1448	parts.
1449	Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name
1450	conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B))
1451
145220161015:
1453	GNU rcs has been removed from base.  It is available as packages:
1454	- rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version.
1455	- rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was
1456	removed from base.
1457
145820161008:
1459	Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control
1460	modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the
1461	TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.)
1462
146320161003:
1464	The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired.
1465	ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy.
1466
146720160924:
1468	Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed
1469	to use an extension of .pico instead.  The purpose of this change is
1470	to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file
1471	systems.  On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so.
1472
147320160918:
1474	GNU rcs has been turned off by default.  It can (temporarily) be built
1475	again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf.
1476	Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages:
1477	- rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version.
1478	- rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base.
1479
148020160918:
1481	The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr.
1482
148320160908:
1484	The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into
1485	two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and
1486	QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH.  Define both for the original
1487	QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior.
1488
148920160824:
1490	r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace
1491	programs and the kernel.  ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be
1492	rebuilt to work with new kernels.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped
1493	to 1200005.
1494
149520160818:
1496	The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP
1497	packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3
1498	broadcast packets.  It is not expected that this will affect any
1499	standards-conforming UDP application.  The new behaviour can be
1500	disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to
1501	0.
1502
150320160818:
1504	Remove the openbsd_poll system call.
1505	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
1506
150720160708:
1508	The stable/11 branch has been created from head@r302406.
1509
151020160622:
1511	The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with
1512	a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2)
1513	system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include
1514	"options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the
1515	default).  Users should ensure that this option is enabled in
1516	their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their
1517	kernel.
1518
151920160527:
1520	CAM now strips the leading spaces from each SCSI disk's serial number.
1521	This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using
1522	those disk's diskid device nodes.  For example, if /etc/fstab
1523	previously contained a line like
1524	"/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should
1525	change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456".  Users of geom
1526	transforms like gmirror may also be affected.  ZFS users should
1527	generally be fine.
1528
152920160523:
1530	The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and
1531	improved performance.  But it is binary-incompatible with the old API.
1532	Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects
1533	built with the old headers.
1534
153520160520:
1536	The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64.
1537	Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these
1538	functions and should be updated to the latest version before
1539	installing a new libc.
1540
154120160517:
1542	The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support
1543	for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system
1544	is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT.
1545	This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld
1546	and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New
1547	packages will be needed.
1548
1549	To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add
1550	TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build
1551	and the install steps.
1552
155320160510:
1554	Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to
1555	installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel.  Many kernel
1556	modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode
1557	KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules.  However,
1558	manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will
1559	now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel.
1560
156120160414:
1562	The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be
1563	no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the
1564	list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt
1565	data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data
1566	corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete:
1567
1568		o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware.
1569		o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware.
1570		o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware
1571		o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares
1572		o FCCT M500 all firmwares
1573
1574	Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware
1575	with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for
1576	updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these
1577	drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given
1578	this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no
1579	other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above
1580	vendors work.
1581
1582	To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your
1583	drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting:
1584		kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2"
1585	in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the
1586	quirks entry to 0x3.
1587
158820160330:
1589	The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is
1590	now the one true way.  The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has
1591	been removed.  See 20160311 for further details.
1592
159320160317:
1594	Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t.  All
1595	drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled.
1596
159720160311:
1598	WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree
1599	builds.  It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the
1600	'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran
1601	when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before
1602	building anything else.  Dependencies are gathered at compile time with
1603	-MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file.  Users should
1604	run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older
1605	stale .depend files.
1606
160720160306:
1608	On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into
1609	kernel modules.  Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time,
1610	please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before
1611	rebooting, e.g.:
1612
1613	make buildworld
1614	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1615	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1616	make -C sys/boot install
1617	<reboot in single user>
1618
1619	Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section,
1620	below.
1621
162220160305:
1623	Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0.  Please
1624	see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
1625	upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1626
162720160301:
1628	The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel.  The
1629	VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed.
1630	Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only
1631	permitted on sockets and raw disks by default.  To enable
1632	asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the
1633	vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value.
1634
163520160226:
1636	The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the
1637	ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a
1638	drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The
1639	(temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set
1640	to obtain the GNU version if necessary.
1641
164220160129:
1643	Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default.  That
1644	feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks.
1645	Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will
1646	still work, even if the guest is using ZFS.  Legacy behavior can be
1647	restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1.
1648
164920160119:
1650	The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH.  They are
1651	still available in the security/openssh-portable port.
1652
165320160113:
1654	With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required
1655	during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user
1656	prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
1657
165820151216:
1659	The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a
1660	consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp
1661	server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the
1662	other loaders.
1663
166420151211:
1665	The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has
1666	been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel,
1667	a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced
1668	for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild
1669	the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or
1670	later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding.
1671
167220151207:
1673	Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and
1674	installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but
1675	requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed
1676	world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes
1677	in src.conf(5).
1678
167920151130:
1680	r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and
1681	nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether.
1682	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
1683
168420151108:
1685	Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of
1686	order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old
1687	behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C".
1688
1689	Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given
1690	collation results will be different.
1691
1692	Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient
1693	locales before running make installworld.
1694
1695	rm -rf /usr/share/locale/*
1696
169720151030:
1698	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d.  Any binaries requiring
1699	libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled.
1700
170120151020:
1702	Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0.
1703	Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and
1704	should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively.
1705
170620151017:
1707	The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into
1708	sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and
1709	'make -n -n' to recursively show commands.  Now 'make -n' will recurse
1710	and 'make -N' will not.
1711
171220151012:
1713	If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster
1714	and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now
1715	updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld.  If you had
1716	excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may
1717	want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install".
1718	/etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of
1719	whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used.  If you are not using
1720	SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior.
1721
172220151011:
1723	Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed.
1724	It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases
1725	and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.*
1726	environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links.
1727
172820151006:
1729	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0.
1730	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
1731	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1732
173320150924:
1734	Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/,
1735	and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements
1736	on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with
1737	userland debug files.
1738
1739	When using the supported kernel installation method the
1740	/usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old)
1741	as is done with /boot/kernel.
1742
1743	Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing
1744	debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5).
1745
174620150827:
1747	The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent
1748	interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts
1749	used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old
1750	scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3)
1751	or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your
1752	rc.d scripts in /etc.
1753
175420150827:
1755	pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl'
1756	These configurations are now automatically interpreted as
1757	'scrub fragment reassemble'.
1758
175920150817:
1760	Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use
1761	them, the kernel must have
1762
1763	device	random
1764	options	RANDOM_LOADABLE
1765
1766	kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko
1767	or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect
1768	function calls that the loadable modules need to provide,
1769	the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient.
1770
1771	The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to
1772	unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway.
1773
177420150813:
1775	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired.
1776	Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by
1777	the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob.
1778
177920150810:
1780	The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the
1781	uart(4) driver has been corrected.  Prior to this change the PPS
1782	"assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS
1783	pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse.
1784
1785	As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the
1786	order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant
1787	difference with this change.
1788
1789	Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by
1790	configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to
1791	remove that workaround.
1792
179320150809:
1794	The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed
1795	from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have
1796	access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group
1797	with:
1798
1799	# pw groupmod video -m $USER
1800
180120150806:
1802	The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during
1803	upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and
1804	loader.rc.local instead.
1805
180620150805:
1807	GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size,
1808	strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob
1809	WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools.
1810
181120150728:
1812	As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some
1813	architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than
1814	ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing).
1815
1816	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater
1817	than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations.
1818
181920150706:
1820	sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2.  Starting with FreeBSD 11.0
1821	and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by
1822	default, i.e., they will not contain "::".  For example, instead
1823	of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1.  This permits a zero subnet
1824	to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for
1825	IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0.  This change requires that configuration
1826	data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must
1827	use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is
1828	upgrading.  As a very simple check search for patterns like
1829	'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'.  To return to the old
1830	behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or
1831	the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses.
1832
183320150630:
1834	The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now
1835	Fortuna, replacing Yarrow.
1836
1837	Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config
1838	file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override
1839	this default. You may choose *ONE* of:
1840
1841	options	RANDOM_YARROW	# Legacy /dev/random algorithm.
1842	options	RANDOM_DUMMY	# Blocking-only driver.
1843
1844	If you have neither, you get Fortuna.  For most people,
1845	read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works
1846	like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant.
1847
1848	If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed
1849	entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building
1850	embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading,
1851	and it is assumed you know what you need.
1852
1853	*PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the
1854	habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member
1855	of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual
1856	behaviour from your security subsystems.
1857
1858	NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device
1859	random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and
1860	many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH.
1861	You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set
1862	of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3)
1863	and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND
1864	sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to
1865	share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this
1866	will never happen.
1867
186820150623:
1869	An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail
1870	entry below has been committed in revision 284717.
1871
187220150616:
1873	FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is
1874	available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake.
1875
187620150615:
1877	The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry
1878	below has been committed in revision 284436.  The work
1879	around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the
1880	default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration
1881	setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file.
1882
188320150614:
1884	ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from
1885	atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf
1886	and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work
1887	with Kyuafile and kyua.
1888
188920150614:
1890	The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl
1891	security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes
1892	with DH parameters below 768 bits.  sendmail releases prior
1893	to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit
1894	DH parameter setting for client connections.  To work around
1895	this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a
1896	2048 bit DH parameter by:
1897
1898	1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc
1899	2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or
1900	   exists and is set to a string beginning with '5',
1901	   replace it with '2'.
1902	3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to
1903	   a file path, create a new file with:
1904		openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048
1905	4. Rebuild the .cf file:
1906		cd /etc/mail/; make; make install
1907	5. Restart sendmail:
1908		cd /etc/mail/; make restart
1909
1910	A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be
1911	updated.
1912
191320150604:
1914	Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default
1915	in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted
1916	entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new,
1917	machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD
1918	5.x.
1919
1920	Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details.
1921
192220150525:
1923	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release.  Please see the
1924	20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading,
1925	if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
1926
192720150521:
1928	TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update
1929	may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black,
1930	and Pandaboard:
1931
1932	- dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the
1933	  same but content is different now
1934	- GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank)
1935	  has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old
1936	  addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3.
1937	- Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is
1938	  now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0
1939
194020150501:
1941	soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim.
1942	If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff
1943	from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff.
1944
194520150423:
1946	chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as
1947	defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored.
1948
194920150415:
1950	The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with
1951	POSIX.  The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards.
1952
195320150416:
1954	Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding
1955	DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies.  This is now
1956	enforced in src.libnames.mk.
1957
195820150324:
1959	From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers
1960	supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4).
1961	Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely,
1962	replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively.
1963
196420150315:
1965	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release.  Please see
1966	the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
1967	upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
1968
196920150307:
1970	The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent
1971	executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8)
1972	newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and
1973	kernel before rebooting.
1974
197520150217:
1976	If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014),
1977	but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly.  Immediately
1978	upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g.
1979	ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that
1980	range.  This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random
1981	or /dev/urandom.  All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected.
1982
198320150210:
1984	The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility
1985	with 10.1-RELEASE.  The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work
1986	with the new kernel.
1987
198820150131:
1989	The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent
1990	executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8),
1991	so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting.
1992
199320150118:
1994	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release.  This is a bugfix
1995	only release, no new features have been added.  Please see the 20141231
1996	entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you
1997	are not already using 3.5.0.
1998
199920150107:
2000	ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now
2001	taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They
2002	should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support.
2003	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the
2004	binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information.
2005
200620150105:
2007	The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control
2008	using a local socket.  Users who have already enabled the
2009	local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration
2010	by running "service local_unbound setup" as root.
2011
201220150102:
2013	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed.
2014	To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports.
2015
201620141231:
2017	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release.
2018
2019	As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is
2020	a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library.  This means that to
2021	be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with
2022	clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler
2023	should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your
2024	system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or
2025	later.
2026
2027	On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and
2028	libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out
2029	of the box.
2030
2031	On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and
2032	powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be
2033	built (with clang) and installed first.  If both clang and libc++ are
2034	missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++.
2035
2036	On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow
2037	the instructions for 9.x above.
2038
2039	Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by
2040	default, and do not build clang.
2041
2042	Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to
2043	build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all.  In those
2044	cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround.
2045
2046	This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which
2047	the following are most likely to appear:
2048
2049	-Wabsolute-value
2050
2051	This warns in two cases, for both C and C++:
2052	* When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned
2053	  quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was
2054	  intended.  The code should be fixed, if at all possible.  If you are
2055	  sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without
2056	  loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit
2057	  cast, or disable the warning.
2058
2059	* When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called
2060	  abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation.
2061	  If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please
2062	  make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted
2063	  side-effects.
2064
2065	-Wtautological-undefined-compare and
2066	-Wundefined-bool-conversion
2067
2068	These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while
2069	'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code.  However, there is
2070	some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this
2071	feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions.
2072
2073	Squid and openjdk do this, for example.  The warning can be turned off
2074	for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result
2075	in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are
2076	unreachable could be optimized away.
2077
207820141222:
2079	The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER)
2080	kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some
2081	utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later.
2082	If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail.
2083	If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used,
2084	the utilities will report errors.
2085
208620141121:
2087	The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of
2088	directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent
2089	directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS.  Users with build systems with
2090	such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent
2091	directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to
2092	LOCAL_DIRS.
2093
209420141109:
2095	faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith
2096	has been obsolete for a very long time.
2097
209820141104:
2099	vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings
2100	support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as
2101	support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video
2102	drivers.
2103
2104	You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf,
2105	most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will
2106	indicate what you need to do.
2107
2108	vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to
2109	syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information:
2110	  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
2111
2112	If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding
2113	the following line to /boot/loader.conf:
2114	  kern.vty=sc
2115
211620141102:
2117	pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite.
2118	Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to
2119	execute it.
2120
212120141009:
2122	gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures
2123	that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the
2124	devel/gperf port.
2125
212620140923:
2127	pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to
2128	contrib/pjdfstest .
2129
213020140922:
2131	At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted
2132	to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure
2133	update.  If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports,
2134	add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf.  Users are
2135	encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during
2136	their next update cycle.
2137
213820140729:
2139	The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when
2140	using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This
2141	will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from
2142	initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to
2143	1.12.4_8 or newer.
2144
214520140723:
2146	The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and
2147	TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH.
2148
214920140719:
2150	The default unbound configuration has been modified to address
2151	issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private
2152	address ranges.  If you use the local_unbound service, run
2153	"service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your
2154	configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the
2155	new configuration.
2156
215720140709:
2158	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed
2159	anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install
2160	them again.
2161	UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal
2162
216320140708:
2164	The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is
2165	statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base
2166	system, and the shared library is no longer installed.  The
2167	devel/readline port is available for third party software that
2168	requires readline.
2169
217020140702:
2171	The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of
2172	known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the
2173	architecture.
2174
217520140701:
2176	Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from
2177	projects/nfsv4.1-server.  Since this includes changes to the
2178	internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full
2179	build of the kernel and modules will be necessary.
2180	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
2181
218220140629:
2183	The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed
2184	WITHOUT_VT.  (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning
2185	which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.)
2186
218720140619:
2188	Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to
2189	64 chars, that breaks ABI.  All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm
2190	and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
2191
219220140606:
2193	The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and
2194	1 respectively to match the upstream numbers.  They were out of
2195	sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the
2196	upstream versions were not respected.  These libraries are private
2197	and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a
2198	non-issue.  However, unclean source trees will yield broken test
2199	programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a
2200	"make installworld".
2201
2202	Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into
2203	/usr/libexec/.  Already-built shell test programs will keep the
2204	path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old"
2205	is run.
2206
2207	If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object
2208	tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures.
2209	This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced
2210	binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will
2211	be removed during a clean upgrade.
2212
221320140512:
2214	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release.
2215
221620140508:
2217	We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should
2218	be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to
2219	ObsoleteFiles.inc).
2220
222120140505:
2222	/etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the
2223	past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old
2224	behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this
2225	behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf
2226	(which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the
2227	behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual
2228	directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that.
2229	Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios,
2230	other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of
2231	temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld
2232	as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this
2233	setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree.
2234
2235	One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk
2236	is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to
2237	use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk
2238	as well.
2239
224020140430:
2241	The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a
2242	standard device.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
2243
224420140424:
2245	The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls
2246	building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1)
2247	in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a
2248	build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for
2249	build hosts for older releases.
2250
2251	This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and
2252	r276991, respectively.
2253
225420140418:
2255	The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for
2256	a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds
2257	will silently lack HESIOD.
2258
225920140405:
2260	The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling
2261	of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented
2262	any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL
2263	control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make
2264	changes to the serial console port without having to reboot.
2265	However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is
2266	associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal
2267	line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact.
2268	Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the
2269	serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to
2270	preserve the previous behaviour. E.g:
2271	    ttyu0  "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire"  vt100  on  secure
2272
227320140306:
2274	Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default
2275	to improve performance.  To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind
2276	with command line option -W.
2277
227820140226:
2279	Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream
2280	dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need
2281	to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps
2282	may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail
2283	to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler.
2284
228520140216:
2286	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release.
2287
228820140216:
2289	The nve(4) driver has been removed.  Please use the nfe(4) driver
2290	for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead.
2291
229220140212:
2293	An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283.
2294	This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built
2295	against the previous version of libc++ to crash.  The incompatibility
2296	has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built
2297	between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled.
2298
229920140204:
2300	OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum
2301	capability mode support.  Please note that enabling the feature in
2302	kernel is still highly recommended.
2303
230420140131:
2305	OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as
2306	the default privilege separation method.  This requires Capsicum
2307	capability mode support in kernel.
2308
230920140128:
2310	The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer
2311	versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for
2312	these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries
2313	requiring these two libraries should be recompiled.
2314	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006.
2315
231620140110:
2317	If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile
2318	instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such
2319	Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during
2320	NO_CLEAN builds.  This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual
2321	intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN:
2322	  # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f
2323
232420131213:
2325	The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism
2326	has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string
2327	than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function.
2328	In particular, the random string produced from a session key of
2329	enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will
2330	be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change.
2331	The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a
2332	big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402.
2333	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004.
2334
233520131108:
2336	The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality
2337	has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS.  If you were
2338	using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you
2339	should change your settings to use the latter.
2340
234120131025:
2342	The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from
2343	NetBSD.  The output is generally the same, but may vary
2344	slightly.  If you found you need identical output adding
2345	"-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick.  For the
2346	time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree.
2347
234820131014:
2349	libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private.
2350	This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg
2351	1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make
2352	delete-old-libs":
2353	  # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean
2354	  or
2355	  # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml
2356
235720131010:
2358	The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head
2359	revision r256279.
2360
2361COMMON ITEMS:
2362
2363	General Notes
2364	-------------
2365	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
2366	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
2367	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
2368	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
2369	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
2370	Occasionally a build failure will occur with "make -j" due to a race
2371	condition.  If this happens try building again without -j, and please
2372	report a bug if it happens consistently.
2373
2374	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to
2375	upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then
2376	do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path,
2377	and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try this
2378	approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade.  Since
2379	the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgrade from
2380	anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the
2381	last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's
2382	an exception.
2383
2384	The update process will emit an error on an attempt to perform a build
2385	or install from a FreeBSD version below the earliest supported version.
2386	When updating from an older version the update should be performed one
2387	major release at a time, including running `make delete-old` at each
2388	step.
2389
2390	When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before
2391	installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell
2392	around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your
2393	starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade.
2394
2395	This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes
2396	information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted.
2397	Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be
2398	placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check
2399	older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries
2400	should write them with this in mind.
2401
2402	ZFS notes
2403	---------
2404	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
2405	these two steps:
2406
2407	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
2408	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
2409
2410	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
2411
2412	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the
2413	freebsd-boot partition of a GPT partitioned drive ada0:
2414	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i $N ada0"
2415	The value $N will typically be 1 (if booting from BIOS) or 2 (if
2416	booting from EFI).
2417
2418	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
2419
2420	To build a kernel
2421	-----------------
2422	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
2423	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
2424	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
2425
2426	make kernel-toolchain
2427	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2428	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2429
2430	To test a kernel once
2431	---------------------
2432	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
2433	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
2434	debugging information) run
2435	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
2436	nextboot -k testkernel
2437
2438	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
2439	-----------------------------------------------------------
2440	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
2441	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
2442
2443	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
2444	make buildworld
2445	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2446	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2447							[1]
2448	<reboot in single user>				[3]
2449	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
2450	make installworld
2451	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
2452	make delete-old					[6]
2453	<reboot>
2454
2455	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
2456	--------------------------------------------------
2457	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
2458	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
2459	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
2460	# size.
2461
2462	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
2463	<boot into -stable>
2464	make buildworld
2465	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2466	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
2467	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
2468	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC
2469	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
2470	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
2471	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
2472	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
2473	<reboot into current>
2474	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
2475	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
2476	<reboot>
2477
2478
2479	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
2480	----------------------------------------------
2481	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
2482	make buildworld					[9]
2483	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE	[8]
2484	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2485							[1]
2486	<reboot in single user>				[3]
2487	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
2488	make installworld
2489	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
2490	make delete-old					[6]
2491	<reboot>
2492
2493	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
2494	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
2495	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
2496	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
2497	the UPDATING entries.
2498
2499	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
2500	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
2501	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
2502	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
2503	much fewer pitfalls.
2504
2505	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you should disable
2506	them at this point so they don't crash your system on
2507	reboot. Alternatively, you should rebuild all the modules you have in
2508	your system and install them as well.  If you are running -current, you
2509	should seriously consider placing all sources to all the modules for
2510	your system (or symlinks to them) in /usr/local/sys/modules so this
2511	happens automatically. If all your modules come from ports, then adding
2512	the port origin directories to PORTS_MODULES instead is also automatic
2513	and effective, eg:
2514	     PORTS_MODULES+=x11/nvidia-driver
2515
2516	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
2517		fsck -p
2518		mount -u /
2519		mount -a
2520		sh /etc/rc.d/zfs start	# mount zfs filesystem, if needed
2521		cd src			# full path to source
2522		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
2523	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that you boot
2524	into single user mode to do the installworld.
2525
2526	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
2527	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
2528	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
2529	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
2530	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
2531	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
2532	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
2533
2534	[5] Usually this step is a no-op.  However, from time to time
2535	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
2536	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
2537	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
2538	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
2539	from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430.
2540
2541	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
2542	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
2543	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
2544
2545	[8] The new kernel must be able to run existing binaries used by an
2546	installworld.  When upgrading across major versions, the new kernel's
2547	configuration must include the correct COMPAT_FREEBSD<n> option for
2548	existing binaries (e.g. COMPAT_FREEBSD11 to run 11.x binaries).  Failure
2549	to do so may leave you with a system that is hard to boot to recover. A
2550	GENERIC kernel will include suitable compatibility options to run
2551	binaries from older branches.  Note that the ability to run binaries
2552	from unsupported branches is not guaranteed.
2553
2554	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
2555	last time you updated your kernel config file. Options also
2556	change over time, so you may need to adjust your custom kernels
2557	for these as well.
2558
2559	[9] If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
2560	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
2561	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
2562
2563	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
2564	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
2565	warn if it is improperly defined.
2566FORMAT:
2567
2568This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
2569breakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
2570list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011.
2571If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
2572to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
2573
2574Copyright information:
2575
2576Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
2577
2578Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without
2579modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this
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2581
2582THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY WARNER LOSH ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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2593
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