UPDATING revision 344735
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://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
10
11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
12/usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before running portupgrade.
13
14NOTE: FreeBSD has switched from gcc to clang. If you have trouble bootstrapping
15from older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG and WITH_GCC to bootstrap to
16the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process
17from older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile.
18
1920190220:
20	Co-existance for Forth and Lua interpreters in bootloaders has now been
21	merged to ease testing of lualoader.  LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP, documented
22	in build(7), may be used to control which interpreter flavor is used in
23	the default loader to be installed.  For systems where Lua and Forth
24	coexist, this switch can also be made on a running system by creating a
25	link from /boot/loader{,.efi} to /boot/loader_${flavor}{,.efi} rather
26	than requiring a rebuild.
27
28	The default flavor in this branch will remain Forth.  As indicated in
29	the 20190216 UPDATING entry, booting is a complex environment; it would
30	be prudent to assume that lualoader may not work for your setup and make
31	provisions for backup boot methods.
32
3320190220:
34	zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader.
35	zfsloader is no longer necesasary once you've updated your
36	boot blocks. For a transition period, we will install a
37	hardlink for zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition
38	until the boot blocks can be updated (hard link because old
39	zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks).
40
4120190216:
42	Lualoader has been merged to facilitate testing on this branch.  It's
43	purely opt-in for now by building WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH in
44	/etc/src.conf, but co-existance will come shortly.  Booting is a complex
45	environment and test coverage for Lua-enabled loaders has been thin, so
46	it would be prudent to assume it might not work and make provisions for
47	backup boot methods.
48
4920190216:
50	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
51	7.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
52	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
53	or higher.
54
5520181228:
56	r342562 modifies the NFSv4 server so that it obeys vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport
57	in the same as it is applied to NFSv2 and 3.  This implies that NFSv4
58	servers that have vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport set will only allow mounts
59	from clients using a reserved port#. Since both the FreeBSD and Linux
60	NFSv4 clients use reserved port#s by default, this should not affect
61	most NFSv4 mounts.
62
6320181107:
64	The '%I' format in the kern.corefile sysctl limits the number of
65	core files that a process can generate to the number stored in the
66	debug.ncores sysctl. The '%I' format is replaced by the single digit
67	index. Previously, if all indexes were taken the kernel would overwrite
68	only a core file with the highest index in a filename.
69	Currently the system will create a new core file if there is a free
70	index or if all slots are taken it will overwrite the oldest one.
71
7220180818:
73	WITH_OFED option now only enables the build for the OFED libraries
74	and some fundamental client utilities.  OpenSM and rest of the
75	debugging tools are enabled by WITH_OFED_EXTRA build switch.
76	WITH_OFED is turned on by default on amd64.
77
7820180714:
79	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
80	6.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
81	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
82	or higher.
83
8420180601:
85	The releng/11.2 branch has been created from stable/11@r334458.
86
8720180504:
88	The tz database (tzdb) has been updated to 2018e.  This version more
89	correctly models time stamps in time zones with negative DST such as
90	Europe/Dublin (from 1971 on), Europe/Prague (1946/7), and
91	Africa/Windhoek (1994/2017).  This does not affect the UT offsets, only
92	time zone abbreviations and the tm_isdst flag.
93
9420180409:
95	The use of RSS hash from the network card aka flowid has been
96	disabled by default for lagg(4) as it's currently incompatible with
97	the lacp and loadbalance protocols.
98
99	This can be re-enabled by setting the following in loader.conf:
100	net.link.lagg.default_use_flowid="1"
101
10220180331:
103	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
104	6.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
105	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
106	or higher.
107
10820180211:
109	The LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT build variable as been renamed to
110	WITH/OUT_LOADER_FIREWIRE. LOADER_{NO_,}GELI_SUPPORT has been renamed
111	to WITH/OUT_LOADER_GELI.
112
11320180210:
114	The geli password typed at boot is now hidden.  To restore the previous
115	behavior, see geli(8) for configuration options.
116
117	The SW_WATCHDOG option is no longer necessary to enable the
118	hardclock-based software watchdog if no hardware watchdog is
119	configured. As before, SW_WATCHDOG will cause the software
120	watchdog to be enabled even if a hardware watchdog is configured.
121
12220180108:
123	lint(1) binaries and library are no longer built by default.  To
124	enable building them, define WITH_LINT in src.conf.  If you are using
125	a FreeBSD 12 or later system to build 11-stable, you may need to
126	install a lint(1) binary to use WITH_LINT.
127
12820171003:
129	When building multiple kernels using KERNCONF, non-existent KERNCONF
130	files will produce an error and buildkernel will fail. Previously
131	missing KERNCONF files silently failed giving no indication as to
132	why, only to subsequently discover during installkernel that the
133	desired kernel was never built in the first place.
134
13520170926:
136	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 5.0.0.
137	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
138	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
139
14020170822:
141	Since the switch to GPT disk labels, fsck for UFS/FFS has been
142	unable to automatically find alternate superblocks. As of r322806,
143	the information needed to find alternate superblocks has been
144	moved to the end of the area reserved for the boot block.
145	Filesystems created with a newfs of this vintage or later
146	will create the recovery information. If you have a filesystem
147	created prior to this change and wish to have a recovery block
148	created for your filesystem, you can do so by running fsck in
149	forground mode (i.e., do not use the -p or -y options). As it
150	starts, fsck will ask ``SAVE DATA TO FIND ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS''
151	to which you should answer yes.
152
15320170629:
154	The releng/11.1 branch has been created from stable/11@r320475.
155
15620170518:
157	arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default,
158	instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be
159	installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set
160	CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin .
161
16220170529:
163	The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend:
164	cfiscsi.ko does instead.
165
166	If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded
167	via one of the following methods:
168	- `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5).
169	- Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5).
170	- ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support
171	  (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5))
172
173	Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details.
174
17520170511:
176	The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko.
177	Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the
178	same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was
179	missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible
180	with mmc.ko).
181
18220170414:
183	Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now
184	use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail
185	instead of using the first assigned address of the jail.
186
18720170413:
188	As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when
189	keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with
190	documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state.
191	This allows keep state to specified without forcing keep frags
192	and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state.
193	To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with
194	keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5).
195
19620170402:
197	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0.
198	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
199	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
200
20120170323:
202	The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality
203	has been reimplemented.  It's not possible now to create a snapshot
204	by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/.  That should be the only user visible
205	change.
206
20720170319:
208	Many changes in the IPsec code have been merged from the FreeBSD-CURRENT
209	branch. The IPSEC_FILTERTUNNEL kernel option is removed in favour of
210	corresponding sysctl. The IPSEC_NAT_T kernel option is also removed,
211	and now NAT-T is supported by default. Security associations now use  
212	the single namespace for SPI allocation, so if you use several manually
213	configured security associations with the same SPI, this configuration
214	needs modification.
215
21620161217:
217	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1.
218	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
219	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
220
22120161124:
222	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0.
223	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
224	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
225
22620161119:
227	The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap
228	statistics at the front for all CPU variations.  libkvm(3) and all tools
229	that link against it need to be recompiled.
230
23120161030:
232	isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver,
233	chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware.
234	On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using
235	device hints.  Please see the corresponding manual pages for details.
236
23720161210:
238	Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed
239	to use an extension of .pico instead.  The purpose of this change is
240	to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file
241	systems.  On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so.
242
24320160811:
244	The releng/11.0 branch has been created from stable/11@r303970.
245
24620160708:
247	The stable/11 branch has been created from head@r302406.
248
24920160622:
250	The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with
251	a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2)
252	system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include
253	"options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the
254	default).  Users should ensure that this option is enabled in
255	their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their
256	kernel.
257
25820160527:
259	CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers.
260	This will effect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using
261	those disk's diskid device nodes.  For example, if /etc/fstab
262	previously contained a line like
263	"/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should
264	change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456".  Users of geom
265	transforms like gmirror may also be affected.  ZFS users should
266	generally be fine.
267
26820160523:
269	The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and
270	improved performance.  But it is binary-incompatible with the old API.
271	Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects
272	built with the old headers.
273
27420160520:
275	The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64.
276	Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these
277	functions and should be updated to the latest version before
278	installing a new libc.
279
28020160517:
281	The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support
282	for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system
283	is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT.
284	This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld
285	and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New
286	packages will be needed.
287
288	To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add
289	TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 
290	and the install steps.
291
29220160510:
293	Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to
294	installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel.  Many kernel
295	modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode
296	KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules.  However,
297	manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will
298	now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel.
299
30020160414:
301	The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be
302	no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the
303	list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt
304	data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data
305	corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete:
306
307		o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware.
308		o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware.
309		o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware
310		o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares
311		o FCCT M500 all firmwares
312
313	Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware
314	with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for
315	updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these
316	drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given
317	this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no
318	other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above
319	vendors work.
320
321	To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your
322	drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting:
323		kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2"
324	in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the
325	quirks entry to 0x3.
326
32720160330:
328	The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is
329	now the one true way.  The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has
330	been removed.  See 20160311 for further details.
331
33220160317:
333	Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t.  All
334	drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled.
335
33620160311:
337	WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree
338	builds.  It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the
339	'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran
340	when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before
341	building anything else.  Dependencies are gathered at compile time with
342	-MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file.  Users should
343	run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older
344	stale .depend files.
345
34620160306:
347	On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into
348	kernel modules.  Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time,
349	please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before
350	rebooting, e.g.:
351
352	make buildworld
353	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
354	make -C sys/boot install
355	<reboot in single user>
356
357	Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section,
358	below.
359
36020160305:
361	Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0.  Please
362	see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
363	upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
364
36520160301:
366	The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel.  The
367	VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed.
368	Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only
369	permitted on sockets and raw disks by default.  To enable
370	asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the
371	vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value.
372
37320160226:
374	The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the
375	ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a
376	drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The
377	(temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set
378	to obtain the GNU version if necessary.
379
38020160129:
381	Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default.  That
382	feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks.
383	Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will
384	still work, even if the guest is using ZFS.  Legacy behavior can be
385	restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1.
386
38720160119:
388	The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH.  They are
389	still available in the security/openssh-portable port.
390
39120160113:
392	With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required
393	during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user
394	prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
395
39620151216:
397	The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a
398	consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp
399	server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the
400	other loaders.
401
40220151211:
403	The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has
404	been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel,
405	a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced
406	for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild
407	the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or
408	later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding.
409
41020151207:
411	Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and
412	installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but
413	requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed
414	world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes
415	in src.conf(5).
416
41720151130:
418	r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and
419	nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether.
420	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
421
42220151108:
423	Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of
424	order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old
425	behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C".
426
427	Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given
428	collation results will be different.
429
430	Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient
431	locales before running make installworld.
432
433	rm -rf /usr/share/locale/*
434
43520151030:
436	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d.  Any binaries requiring
437	libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled.
438
43920151020:
440	Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0.
441	Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and
442	should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively.
443
44420151017:
445	The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into
446	sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and
447	'make -n -n' to recursively show commands.  Now 'make -n' will recurse
448	and 'make -N' will not.
449
45020151012:
451	If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster
452	and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now
453	updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld.  If you had
454	excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may
455	want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install".
456	/etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of
457	whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used.  If you are not using
458	SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior.
459
46020151011:
461	Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed.
462	It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases
463	and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.*
464	environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links.
465
46620151006:
467	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0.
468	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
469	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
470
47120150924:
472	Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/,
473	and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements
474	on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with
475	userland debug files.
476
477	When using the supported kernel installation method the
478	/usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old)
479	as is done with /boot/kernel.
480
481	Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing
482	debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5).
483
48420150827:
485	The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent
486	interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts
487	used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old
488	scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3)
489	or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your
490	rc.d scripts in /etc.
491
49220150827:
493	pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl'
494	These configurations are now automatically interpreted as
495	'scrub fragment reassemble'.
496
49720150817:
498	Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use
499	them, the kernel must have
500
501	device	random
502	options	RANDOM_LOADABLE
503
504	kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko
505	or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect
506	function calls that the loadable modules need to provide,
507	the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient.
508
509	The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to
510	unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway.
511
51220150813:
513	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired.
514	Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by
515	the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob.
516
51720150810:
518	The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the
519	uart(4) driver has been corrected.  Prior to this change the PPS
520	"assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS
521	pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse.
522
523	As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the
524	order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant
525	difference with this change.
526
527	Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by
528	configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to
529	remove that workaround.
530
53120150809:
532	The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed
533	from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have
534	access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group
535	with:
536
537	# pw groupmod video -m $USER
538
53920150806:
540	The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 
541	upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and
542	loader.rc.local instead.
543
54420150805:
545	GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size,
546	strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob
547	WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools.
548
54920150728:
550	As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some
551	architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than
552	ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing).
553
554	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater
555	than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations.
556
55720150706:
558	sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2.  Starting with FreeBSD 11.0
559	and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by
560	default, i.e., they will not contain "::".  For example, instead
561	of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1.  This permits a zero subnet
562	to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for
563	IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0.  This change requires that configuration
564	data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must
565	use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is
566	upgrading.  As a very simple check search for patterns like
567	'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'.  To return to the old
568	behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or
569	the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses.
570
57120150630:
572	The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now
573	Fortuna, replacing Yarrow.
574
575	Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config
576	file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override
577	this default. You may choose *ONE* of:
578
579	options	RANDOM_YARROW	# Legacy /dev/random algorithm.
580	options	RANDOM_DUMMY	# Blocking-only driver.
581
582	If you have neither, you get Fortuna.  For most people,
583	read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works
584	like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant.
585
586	If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed
587	entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building
588	embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading,
589	and it is assumed you know what you need.
590
591	*PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the
592	habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member
593	of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual
594	behaviour from your security subsystems.
595
596	NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device
597	random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and
598	many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH.
599	You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set
600	of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3)
601	and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND
602	sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to
603	share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this
604	will never happen.
605
60620150623:
607	An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail
608	entry below has been been committed in revision 284717.
609
61020150616:
611	FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is
612	available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake.
613
61420150615:
615	The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry
616	below has been been committed in revision 284436.  The work
617	around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the
618	default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration
619	setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file.
620
62120150614:
622	ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from
623	atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf
624	and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work
625	with Kyuafile and kyua.
626
62720150614:
628	The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl
629	security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes
630	with DH parameters below 768 bits.  sendmail releases prior
631	to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit
632	DH parameter setting for client connections.  To work around
633	this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a
634	2048 bit DH parameter by:
635
636	1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc
637	2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or
638	   exists and is set to a string beginning with '5',
639	   replace it with '2'.
640	3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to
641	   a file path, create a new file with:
642		openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048
643	4. Rebuild the .cf file:
644		cd /etc/mail/; make; make install
645	5. Restart sendmail:
646		cd /etc/mail/; make restart
647
648	A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be
649	updated.
650
65120150604:
652	Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default
653	in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted
654	entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new,
655	machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD
656	5.x.
657
658	Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details.
659
66020150525:
661	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release.  Please see the
662	20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading,
663	if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
664
66520150521:
666	TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update
667	may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black,
668	and Pandaboard:
669
670	- dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the
671	  same but content is different now
672	- GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank)
673	  has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old
674	  addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3.
675	- Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is
676	  now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0
677
67820150501:
679	soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim.
680	If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff
681	from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff.
682
68320150423:
684	chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as
685	defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored.
686
68720150415:
688	The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with
689	POSIX.  The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards.
690
69120150416:
692	Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding
693	DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies.  This is now
694	enforced in src.libnames.mk.
695
69620150324:
697	From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers
698	supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4).
699	Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely,
700	replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively.
701
70220150315:
703	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release.  Please see
704	the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
705	upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
706
70720150307:
708	The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent
709	executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8)
710	newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and
711	kernel before rebooting.
712
71320150217:
714	If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014),
715	but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly.  Immediately
716	upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g.
717	ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that
718	range.  This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random
719	or /dev/urandom.  All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected.
720
72120150210:
722	The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility
723	with 10.1-RELEASE.  The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work
724	with the new kernel.
725
72620150131:
727	The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent
728	executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8),
729	so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting.
730
73120150118:
732	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release.  This is a bugfix
733	only release, no new features have been added.  Please see the 20141231
734	entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you
735	are not already using 3.5.0.
736
73720150107:
738	ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now
739	taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They
740	should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support.
741	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the
742	binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information.
743
74420150105:
745	The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control
746	using a local socket.  Users who have already enabled the
747	local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration
748	by running "service local_unbound setup" as root.
749
75020150102:
751	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed.
752	To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports.
753
75420141231:
755	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release.
756
757	As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is
758	a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library.  This means that to
759	be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with
760	clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler
761	should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your
762	system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or
763	later.
764
765	On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and
766	libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out
767	of the box.
768
769	On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and
770	powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be
771	built (with clang) and installed first.  If both clang and libc++ are
772	missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++.
773
774	On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow
775	the instructions for 9.x above.
776
777	Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by
778	default, and do not build clang.
779
780	Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to
781	build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all.  In those
782	cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround.
783
784	This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which
785	the following are most likely to appear:
786
787	-Wabsolute-value
788
789	This warns in two cases, for both C and C++:
790	* When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned
791	  quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was
792	  intended.  The code should be fixed, if at all possible.  If you are
793	  sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without
794	  loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit
795	  cast, or disable the warning.
796
797	* When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called
798	  abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation.
799	  If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please
800	  make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted
801	  side-effects.
802
803	-Wtautological-undefined-compare and
804	-Wundefined-bool-conversion
805
806	These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while
807	'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code.  However, there is
808	some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this
809	feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions.
810
811	Squid and openjdk do this, for example.  The warning can be turned off
812	for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result
813	in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are
814	unreachable could be optimized away.
815
81620141222:
817	The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER)
818	kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some
819	utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later.
820	If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail.
821	If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used,
822	the utilities will report errors.
823
82420141121:
825	The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of
826	directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent
827	directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS.  Users with build systems with
828	such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent
829	directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to
830	LOCAL_DIRS.
831
83220141109:
833	faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith
834	has been obsolete for a very long time.
835
83620141104:
837	vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings
838	support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as
839	support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video
840	drivers.
841
842	You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf,
843	most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will
844	indicate what you need to do.
845
846	vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to
847	syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information:
848	  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
849
850	If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding
851	the following line to /boot/loader.conf:
852	  kern.vty=sc
853
85420141102:
855	pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite.
856	Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to
857	execute it.
858
85920141009:
860	gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures
861	that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the
862	devel/gperf port.
863
86420140923:
865	pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to
866	contrib/pjdfstest .
867
86820140922:
869	At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted
870	to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure
871	update.  If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports,
872	add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf.  Users are
873	encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during
874	their next update cycle.
875
87620140729:
877	The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when
878	using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This
879	will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from
880	initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to
881	1.12.4_8 or newer.
882
88320140723:
884	The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and
885	TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH.
886
88720140719:
888	The default unbound configuration has been modified to address
889	issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private
890	address ranges.  If you use the local_unbound service, run
891	"service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your
892	configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the
893	new configuration.
894
89520140709:
896	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed
897	anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install
898	them again.
899	UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal
900
90120140708:
902	The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is
903	statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base
904	system, and the shared library is no longer installed.  The
905	devel/readline port is available for third party software that
906	requires readline.
907
90820140702:
909	The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of
910	known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the
911	architecture.
912
91320140701:
914	Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from
915	projects/nfsv4.1-server.  Since this includes changes to the
916	internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full
917	build of the kernel and modules will be necessary.
918	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
919
92020140629:
921	The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed
922	WITHOUT_VT.  (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning
923	which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.)
924
92520140619:
926	Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to
927	64 chars, that breaks ABI.  All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm
928	and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
929
93020140606:
931	The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and
932	1 respectively to match the upstream numbers.  They were out of
933	sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the
934	upstream versions were not respected.  These libraries are private
935	and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a
936	non-issue.  However, unclean source trees will yield broken test
937	programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a
938	"make installworld".
939
940	Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into
941	/usr/libexec/.  Already-built shell test programs will keep the
942	path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old"
943	is run.
944
945	If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object
946	tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures.
947	This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced
948	binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will
949	be removed during a clean upgrade.
950
95120140512:
952	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release.
953
95420140508:
955	We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should
956	be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to
957	ObsoleteFiles.inc).
958
95920140505:
960	/etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the
961	past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old
962	behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this
963	behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf
964	(which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the
965	behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual
966	directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that.
967	Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios,
968	other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of
969	temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld
970	as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this
971	setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree.
972
973	One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk
974	is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to
975	use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk
976	as well.
977
97820140430:
979	The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a
980	standard device.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
981
98220140424:
983	The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls
984	building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1)
985	in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a
986	build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for
987	build hosts for older releases.
988
989	This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and
990	r276991, respectively.
991
99220140418:
993	The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for
994	a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds
995	will silently lack HESIOD.
996
99720140405:
998	The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling
999	of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented
1000	any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL
1001	control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make
1002	changes to the serial console port without having to reboot.
1003	However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is
1004	associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal
1005	line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact.
1006	Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the
1007	serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to
1008	preserve the previous behaviour. E.g:
1009	    ttyu0  "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire"  vt100  on  secure
1010
101120140306:
1012	Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default
1013	to improve performance.  To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind
1014	with command line option -W.
1015
101620140226:
1017	Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream
1018	dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need
1019	to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps
1020	may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail
1021	to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler.
1022
102320140216:
1024	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release.
1025
102620140216:
1027	The nve(4) driver has been removed.  Please use the nfe(4) driver
1028	for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead.
1029
103020140212:
1031	An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283.
1032	This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built
1033	against the previous version of libc++ to crash.  The incompatibility
1034	has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built
1035	between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled.
1036
103720140204:
1038	OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum
1039	capability mode support.  Please note that enabling the feature in
1040	kernel is still highly recommended.
1041
104220140131:
1043	OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as
1044	the default privilege separation method.  This requires Capsicum
1045	capability mode support in kernel.
1046
104720140128:
1048	The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer
1049	versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for
1050	these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries
1051	requiring these two libraries should be recompiled.
1052	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006.
1053
105420140110:
1055	If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile
1056	instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such
1057	Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during
1058	NO_CLEAN builds.  This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual
1059	intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN:
1060	  # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f
1061
106220131213:
1063	The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism
1064	has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string
1065	than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function.
1066	In particular, the random string produced from a session key of
1067	enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will
1068	be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change.
1069	The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a
1070	big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402.
1071	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004.
1072
107320131108:
1074	The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality
1075	has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS.  If you were
1076	using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you
1077	should change your settings to use the latter.
1078
107920131025:
1080	The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from
1081	NetBSD.  The output is generally the same, but may vary
1082	slightly.  If you found you need identical output adding
1083	"-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick.  For the
1084	time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree.
1085
108620131014:
1087	libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private.
1088	This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg
1089	1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make
1090	delete-old-libs":
1091	  # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean
1092	  or
1093	  # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml
1094
109520131010:
1096	The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head
1097	revision r256279.
1098
109920131010:
1100	The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8)
1101	configuration file.  The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables
1102	for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to
1103	/var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked.
1104	This is transparently backward compatible.  See below about some
1105	incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details.
1106
1107	These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration
1108	file.  One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate
1109	a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without
1110	running the jail(8) utility.   The default pathname of the
1111	configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by
1112	using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables.
1113
1114	Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at
1115	this moment.  Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name
1116	with an integer.
1117
111820130930:
1119	BIND has been removed from the base system.  If all you need
1120	is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound
1121	service instead.  Otherwise, several versions of BIND are
1122	available in the ports tree.   The dns/bind99 port is one example.
1123
1124	With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base
1125	system.  Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are
1126	in the base system.  Alternatively, nslookup and dig can
1127	be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port.
1128
112920130916:
1130	With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now
1131	required during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
1132	add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
1133
113420130911:
1135	OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default
1136	silently trust signed SSHFP records.  This can be controlled with
1137	the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting.  DNSSEC support
1138	can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf.
1139
114020130906:
1141	The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++)
1142	are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system
1143	compiler.  You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX
1144	options in src.conf.
1145
114620130905:
1147	The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel
1148	configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work.
1149	If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include
1150	'options PROCDESC'.
1151
115220130905:
1153	The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified
1154	in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs
1155	have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the
1156	following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is
1157	advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl,
1158	kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq.
1159
116020130903:
1161	AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc.  The AES-NI module
1162	has been updated to use this support.  A new gcc is required to build
1163	the aesni module on both i386 and amd64.
1164
116520130821:
1166	The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices.
1167	Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be
1168	used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG".
1169
117020130813:
1171	WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets.  WITH_ICONV now
1172	enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default.
1173	WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time
1174	compatibility.  Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way.
1175	If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely
1176	need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT.
1177
117820130806:
1179	INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and
1180	Illumos origin, including ZFS.  If you have INVARIANTS in your
1181	kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG
1182	explicitly.
1183	DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS)
1184	locks if WITNESS option was set.  Because that generated a lot of
1185	witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false
1186	positives, this is no longer done.  New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS
1187	can be used to achieve the previous behavior.
1188
118920130806:
1190	Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead
1191	of time_second.  Although this is not a user-visible functional
1192	change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8),
1193	rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated
1194	to r253970 or later.
1195
119620130802:
1197	find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments,
1198	instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did
1199	not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message
1200	would result:
1201
1202	find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe
1203
1204	Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented
1205	without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing
1206	directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the
1207	old as well as the new version of find.
1208
120920130726:
1210	Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed.
1211	Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs
1212	path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by
1213	slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs
1214	subdirectories must be reviewed.
1215
121620130716:
1217	The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is
1218	incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will
1219	need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
1220
1221	To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set.
1222
1223	NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and
1224	users are advised to upgrade.
1225
122620130709:
1227	pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it
1228	you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5).
1229
123020130709:
1231	Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able
1232	keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking
1233	statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.)
1234
123520130618:
1236	Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write
1237	to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space
1238	even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had
1239	write access to that file.
1240
124120130615:
1242	CVS has been removed from the base system.  An exact copy
1243	of the code is available from the devel/cvs port.
1244
124520130613:
1246	Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake:
1247
1248		make: illegal option -- J
1249		usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable]
1250			...
1251		*** [buildworld] Error code 2
1252
1253	this likely due to an old instance of make in
1254	${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE})
1255	which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if
1256	you see the above error:
1257
1258		rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH`
1259
1260	should resolve it.
1261
126220130516:
1263	Use bmake by default.
1264	Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via
1265	-DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old
1266	make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE.
1267
1268	It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command
1269	line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the
1270	command line.  Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer
1271	than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent
1272	behavior in parallel build.
1273
127420130429:
1275        Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files.
1276
127720130426:
1278	The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because
1279	the IDEA patent expired.
1280
128120130426:
1282	The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed
1283	from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been
1284	enabled by default.
1285
128620130425:
1287	The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
1288	rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in
1289	order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as
1290	install and mtree.  When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where
1291	the install command does not support -l, you will need to
1292	install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required.
1293	This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
1294	&& make install).
1295
129620130404:
1297	Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since
1298	FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources.  Kernel modules
1299	atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are
1300	removed.  Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled
1301	and removed.
1302
130320130319:
1304	SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2)
1305	and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may
1306	automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting
1307	binaries will not work on older kernels.
1308
130920130308:
1310	CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further
1311	information, see the respective 20130304 entry).
1312
131320130304:
1314	Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout,
1315	so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions
1316	in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced
1317	by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild
1318	is requested.
1319
1320	The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64,
1321	but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE
1322	option) to save memory.  To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE
1323	option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0
1324	in /boot/loader.conf.
1325
132620130301:
1327	The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64.
1328	This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system
1329	initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if
1330	a CAM target device was created.  This makes a FreeBSD system
1331	unusable on 128MB or less of RAM.
1332
133320130208:
1334	A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD.  Please
1335	refer to zpool-features(7) for more information.
1336
1337	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
1338	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
1339
134020130129:
1341	A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed
1342	as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch.
1343	To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default,
1344	while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild
1345	and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set.
1346
134720130121:
1348	Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build
1349	and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL
1350	make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the
1351	command line.  If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs
1352	you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or
1353	/etc/src.conf.
1354
135520130118:
1356	The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an
1357	argument that is a file or path to append logs to.  In the
1358	unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line
1359	and the command line contained at least two files and a target
1360	directory the first file will have logs appended to it.  The -M
1361	option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its
1362	use is expected to be extremely rare.
1363
136420121223:
1365	After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS
1366	on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics.
1367	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations.
1368
136920121222:
1370	GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata.
1371	Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters,
1372	'%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to
1373	be updated.
1374
137520121217:
1376	By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved.  To
1377	restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps
1378	stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
1379
1380		savecore_flags=""
1381
138220121201:
1383	With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now
1384	required during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
1385	add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
1386
138720121117:
1388	The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now
1389	filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via
1390	sysctl or routing socket.  This means the KAME-specific embedded scope
1391	id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application.
1392	This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid.
1393	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025.
1394
139520121105:
1396	On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default.
1397	This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang
1398	and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++,
1399	and /usr/bin/cpp.  To disable this behavior and revert to building
1400	with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions
1401	of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang
1402	build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable
1403	branch point).
1404
140520121102:
1406	The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its
1407	functionality now turned on by default.
1408
140920121023:
1410	The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and
1411	split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP.
1412	NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write
1413	mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes.
1414	NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current
1415	driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage.
1416	Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under
1417	consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal
1418	of the two kernel options.
1419
142020121023:
1421	The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte
1422	order. The following modules need to be recompiled together
1423	with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4),
1424	pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4).
1425
142620121022:
1427	Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The
1428	VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be
1429	recompiled.
1430
143120121018:
1432	All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from
1433	the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs,
1434	portalfs, smbfs, xfs.
1435
143620121016:
1437	The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following
1438	modules need to be recompiled together with kernel:
1439	ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4),
1440	vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4),
1441	faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4).
1442
144320121015:
1444	The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host
1445	Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver).
1446	No kernel config modifications are required, but if you
1447	load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead.
1448
144920121014:
1450	Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system.
1451
145220121013:
1453	The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed
1454	sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious
1455	problems have been reported.  The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT
1456	knob has also gone.
1457
145820121006:
1459	The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet
1460	filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled
1461	with new kernel.
1462
146320121001:
1464	The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver
1465	PS-POLL and power-save support.  All wireless drivers need to be
1466	recompiled to work with the new kernel.
1467
146820120913:
1469	The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number
1470	generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally.
1471	Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if
1472	needed.  The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the
1473	device, so the change only affects the custom kernel
1474	configurations.
1475
147620120908:
1477	The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and
1478	snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel.
1479
148020120828:
1481	A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged
1482	to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be
1483	imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support
1484	this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5)
1485	manual page.
1486
148720120727:
1488	The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto-
1489	detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these
1490	to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable.
1491
149220120712:
1493	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c.  Any binaries requiring
1494	libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled.  Also, there are
1495	configuration changes.  Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf.
1496
149720120712:
1498	The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency
1499	with other variables:
1500	  kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered   -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered
1501	  kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered
1502
150320120628:
1504	The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort.  For now, GNU sort
1505	is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to
1506	GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT.  In this case, BSD sort will be
1507	installed as "bsdsort".
1508
150920120611:
1510	A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD.
1511	Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning
1512	is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward
1513	compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS
1514	pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools
1515	is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information
1516	read the new zpool-features(5) manual page.
1517	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
1518	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
1519
152020120417:
1521	The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported
1522	as contrib/jemalloc.  The most disruptive API change is to
1523	/etc/malloc.conf.  If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf,
1524	delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the
1525	new format after rebooting.  See malloc.conf(5) for details
1526	(specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL
1527	NAMESPACE section).
1528
152920120328:
1530	Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb".  mips64eb
1531	is now spelled mips64.  mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32.  mipseb is
1532	now spelled mips.  This is to aid compatibility with third-party
1533	software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3).  Little-endian
1534	settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine
1535	from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in
1536	your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine.
1537
153820120306:
1539	Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported
1540	platforms.
1541
154220120229:
1543	Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on	nullfs(5). Previously
1544	nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer,
1545	as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect
1546	only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect
1547	only to	the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the
1548	lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to.
1549
155020120211:
1551	The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored.
1552	If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to
1553	recompile libc again with your kernel.  You still need to recompile
1554	world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already
1555	comes from 20111215.
1556
155720120114:
1558	The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr.  All
1559	base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a
1560	port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either
1561	hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port.
1562
1563	An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d:
1564	rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i
1565
156620120109:
1567	panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts
1568	on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running.
1569	This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic
1570	tunable/sysctl.
1571	The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic.
1572
157320111215:
1574	The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration
1575	of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format
1576	of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages
1577	for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently
1578	not supported anymore.
1579
1580	Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User
1581	utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8),
1582	need to be recompiled.
1583
158420111122:
1585	The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to
1586	/dev/wmistat0.
1587
158820111108:
1589	The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to
1590	explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems.
1591	It is on by default for all supported platform at this present
1592	time.
1593
159420111101:
1595	The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64,
1596	i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files.
1597
159820110930:
1599	sysinstall has been removed
1600
160120110923:
1602	The stable/9 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
1603	RELENG_9 branch in CVS.
1604
1605COMMON ITEMS:
1606
1607	General Notes
1608	-------------
1609	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1610	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
1611	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1612	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1613	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1614	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1615	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1616
1617	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
1618	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1619	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1620	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1621	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
1622
1623	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best
1624	to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first,
1625	then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade
1626	path, and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try
1627	this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade.
1628
1629	When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before
1630	installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell
1631	around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your
1632	starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade.
1633
1634	This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes
1635	information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted.
1636	Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be
1637	placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check
1638	older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries
1639	should write them with this in mind.
1640
1641	ZFS notes
1642	---------
1643	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
1644	these two steps:
1645
1646	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
1647	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
1648
1649	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
1650
1651	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
1652	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0:
1653	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0"
1654
1655	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
1656
1657	To build a kernel
1658	-----------------
1659	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
1660	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
1661	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
1662
1663	make kernel-toolchain
1664	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1665	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1666
1667	To test a kernel once
1668	---------------------
1669	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
1670	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
1671	debugging information) run
1672	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
1673	nextboot -k testkernel
1674
1675	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1676	--------------------------------------------------------------
1677	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
1678	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1679	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
1680
1681	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
1682	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1683	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1684	make depend
1685	make
1686	make install
1687
1688	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1689
1690	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1691	-----------------------------------------------------------
1692	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
1693	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
1694
1695	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1696	make buildworld
1697	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1698							[1]
1699	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1700	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
1701	make installworld
1702	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
1703	make delete-old					[6]
1704	<reboot>
1705
1706	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1707	--------------------------------------------------
1708	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1709	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1710	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1711	# size.
1712
1713	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1714	<boot into -stable>
1715	make buildworld
1716	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1717	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1718	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1719	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC
1720	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
1721	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1722	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1723	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1724	<reboot into current>
1725	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1726	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1727	<reboot>
1728
1729
1730	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
1731	----------------------------------------------
1732	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1733	make buildworld					[9]
1734	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1735							[1]
1736	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1737	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
1738	make installworld
1739	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
1740	make delete-old					[6]
1741	<reboot>
1742
1743	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1744	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1745	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1746	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1747	the UPDATING entries.
1748
1749	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
1750	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
1751	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
1752	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
1753	much fewer pitfalls.
1754
1755	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1756	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1757	system on reboot.
1758
1759	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1760		fsck -p
1761		mount -u /
1762		mount -a
1763		cd src
1764		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1765	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1766	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1767
1768	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1769	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1770	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1771	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1772	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
1773	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
1774	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1775
1776	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1777	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1778	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1779	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1780	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
1781	from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430.
1782
1783	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
1784	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
1785	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
1786
1787	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
1788	do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
1789	your kernel.  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1790	hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
1791	required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels.  And so on
1792	for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
1793
1794	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1795	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1796
1797	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1798	cvs prune empty directories.
1799
1800	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1801	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1802	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1803
1804	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1805	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1806	warn if it is improperly defined.
1807FORMAT:
1808
1809This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
1810breakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
1811list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011.
1812If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
1813to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
1814
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