UPDATING revision 363496
1Updating Information for FreeBSD stable/11 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
1920200723:
20	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
21	been upgraded to 10.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
22	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
23	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
24
2520200507:
26	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
27	been upgraded to 10.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
28	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
29	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
30
3120200430:
32	The root certificates of the Mozilla CA Certificate Store have been
33	imported into the base system and can be managed with the certctl(8)
34	utility.  If you have installed the security/ca_root_nss port or package
35	with the ETCSYMLINK option (the default), be advised that there may be
36	differences between those included in the port and those included in
37	base due to differences in nss branch used as well as general update
38	frequency.  Note also that certctl(8) cannot manage certs in the
39	format used by the security/ca_root_nss port.
40
4120190913:
42	ntpd no longer by default locks its pages in memory, allowing them
43	to be paged out by the kernel. Use rlimit memlock to restore
44	historic BSD behaviour. For example, add "rlimit memlock 32"
45	to ntp.conf to lock up to 32 MB of ntpd address space in memory.
46
4720190723:
48	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
49	been upgraded to 8.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
50	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
51	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
52
5320190426:
54	CARP now sets DSCP value CS7(Network Traffic) in the flowlabel field
55	of packets by default instead of only setting TOS_LOWDELAY in IPv4,
56	which was deprecated in 1998.  Original behavior can be restored by
57	setting sysctl net.inet.carp.dscp=4.
58
5920190416:
60	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
61	8.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
62	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
63	or higher.
64
6520190226:
66	geom_uzip(4) depends on the new module xz.  If geom_uzip is statically
67	compiled into your custom kernel, add 'device xz' statement to the
68	kernel config.
69
7020190220:
71	Co-existance for Forth and Lua interpreters in bootloaders has now been
72	merged to ease testing of lualoader.  LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP, documented
73	in build(7), may be used to control which interpreter flavor is used in
74	the default loader to be installed.  For systems where Lua and Forth
75	coexist, this switch can also be made on a running system by creating a
76	link from /boot/loader{,.efi} to /boot/loader_${flavor}{,.efi} rather
77	than requiring a rebuild.
78
79	The default flavor in this branch will remain Forth.  As indicated in
80	the 20190216 UPDATING entry, booting is a complex environment; it would
81	be prudent to assume that lualoader may not work for your setup and make
82	provisions for backup boot methods.
83
8420190220:
85	zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader.
86	zfsloader is no longer necesasary once you've updated your
87	boot blocks. For a transition period, we will install a
88	hardlink for zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition
89	until the boot blocks can be updated (hard link because old
90	zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks).
91
9220190216:
93	Lualoader has been merged to facilitate testing on this branch.  It's
94	purely opt-in for now by building WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH in
95	/etc/src.conf, but co-existance will come shortly.  Booting is a complex
96	environment and test coverage for Lua-enabled loaders has been thin, so
97	it would be prudent to assume it might not work and make provisions for
98	backup boot methods.
99
10020190216:
101	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
102	7.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
103	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
104	or higher.
105
10620181228:
107	r342562 modifies the NFSv4 server so that it obeys vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport
108	in the same as it is applied to NFSv2 and 3.  This implies that NFSv4
109	servers that have vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport set will only allow mounts
110	from clients using a reserved port#. Since both the FreeBSD and Linux
111	NFSv4 clients use reserved port#s by default, this should not affect
112	most NFSv4 mounts.
113
11420181107:
115	The '%I' format in the kern.corefile sysctl limits the number of
116	core files that a process can generate to the number stored in the
117	debug.ncores sysctl. The '%I' format is replaced by the single digit
118	index. Previously, if all indexes were taken the kernel would overwrite
119	only a core file with the highest index in a filename.
120	Currently the system will create a new core file if there is a free
121	index or if all slots are taken it will overwrite the oldest one.
122
12320180818:
124	WITH_OFED option now only enables the build for the OFED libraries
125	and some fundamental client utilities.  OpenSM and rest of the
126	debugging tools are enabled by WITH_OFED_EXTRA build switch.
127	WITH_OFED is turned on by default on amd64.
128
12920180714:
130	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
131	6.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
132	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
133	or higher.
134
13520180601:
136	The releng/11.2 branch has been created from stable/11@r334458.
137
13820180504:
139	The tz database (tzdb) has been updated to 2018e.  This version more
140	correctly models time stamps in time zones with negative DST such as
141	Europe/Dublin (from 1971 on), Europe/Prague (1946/7), and
142	Africa/Windhoek (1994/2017).  This does not affect the UT offsets, only
143	time zone abbreviations and the tm_isdst flag.
144
14520180409:
146	The use of RSS hash from the network card aka flowid has been
147	disabled by default for lagg(4) as it's currently incompatible with
148	the lacp and loadbalance protocols.
149
150	This can be re-enabled by setting the following in loader.conf:
151	net.link.lagg.default_use_flowid="1"
152
15320180331:
154	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
155	6.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
156	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
157	or higher.
158
15920180211:
160	The LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT build variable as been renamed to
161	WITH/OUT_LOADER_FIREWIRE. LOADER_{NO_,}GELI_SUPPORT has been renamed
162	to WITH/OUT_LOADER_GELI.
163
16420180210:
165	The geli password typed at boot is now hidden.  To restore the previous
166	behavior, see geli(8) for configuration options.
167
168	The SW_WATCHDOG option is no longer necessary to enable the
169	hardclock-based software watchdog if no hardware watchdog is
170	configured. As before, SW_WATCHDOG will cause the software
171	watchdog to be enabled even if a hardware watchdog is configured.
172
17320180108:
174	lint(1) binaries and library are no longer built by default.  To
175	enable building them, define WITH_LINT in src.conf.  If you are using
176	a FreeBSD 12 or later system to build 11-stable, you may need to
177	install a lint(1) binary to use WITH_LINT.
178
17920171003:
180	When building multiple kernels using KERNCONF, non-existent KERNCONF
181	files will produce an error and buildkernel will fail. Previously
182	missing KERNCONF files silently failed giving no indication as to
183	why, only to subsequently discover during installkernel that the
184	desired kernel was never built in the first place.
185
18620170926:
187	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 5.0.0.
188	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
189	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
190
19120170822:
192	Since the switch to GPT disk labels, fsck for UFS/FFS has been
193	unable to automatically find alternate superblocks. As of r322806,
194	the information needed to find alternate superblocks has been
195	moved to the end of the area reserved for the boot block.
196	Filesystems created with a newfs of this vintage or later
197	will create the recovery information. If you have a filesystem
198	created prior to this change and wish to have a recovery block
199	created for your filesystem, you can do so by running fsck in
200	forground mode (i.e., do not use the -p or -y options). As it
201	starts, fsck will ask ``SAVE DATA TO FIND ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS''
202	to which you should answer yes.
203
20420170629:
205	The releng/11.1 branch has been created from stable/11@r320475.
206
20720170518:
208	arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default,
209	instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be
210	installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set
211	CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin .
212
21320170529:
214	The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend:
215	cfiscsi.ko does instead.
216
217	If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded
218	via one of the following methods:
219	- `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5).
220	- Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5).
221	- ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support
222	  (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5))
223
224	Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details.
225
22620170511:
227	The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko.
228	Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the
229	same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was
230	missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible
231	with mmc.ko).
232
23320170414:
234	Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now
235	use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail
236	instead of using the first assigned address of the jail.
237
23820170413:
239	As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when
240	keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with
241	documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state.
242	This allows keep state to specified without forcing keep frags
243	and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state.
244	To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with
245	keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5).
246
24720170402:
248	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0.
249	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
250	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
251
25220170323:
253	The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality
254	has been reimplemented.  It's not possible now to create a snapshot
255	by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/.  That should be the only user visible
256	change.
257
25820170319:
259	Many changes in the IPsec code have been merged from the FreeBSD-CURRENT
260	branch. The IPSEC_FILTERTUNNEL kernel option is removed in favour of
261	corresponding sysctl. The IPSEC_NAT_T kernel option is also removed,
262	and now NAT-T is supported by default. Security associations now use  
263	the single namespace for SPI allocation, so if you use several manually
264	configured security associations with the same SPI, this configuration
265	needs modification.
266
26720161217:
268	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1.
269	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
270	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
271
27220161124:
273	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0.
274	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
275	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
276
27720161119:
278	The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap
279	statistics at the front for all CPU variations.  libkvm(3) and all tools
280	that link against it need to be recompiled.
281
28220161030:
283	isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver,
284	chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware.
285	On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using
286	device hints.  Please see the corresponding manual pages for details.
287
28820161210:
289	Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed
290	to use an extension of .pico instead.  The purpose of this change is
291	to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file
292	systems.  On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so.
293
29420160811:
295	The releng/11.0 branch has been created from stable/11@r303970.
296
29720160708:
298	The stable/11 branch has been created from head@r302406.
299
30020160622:
301	The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with
302	a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2)
303	system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include
304	"options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the
305	default).  Users should ensure that this option is enabled in
306	their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their
307	kernel.
308
30920160527:
310	CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers.
311	This will effect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using
312	those disk's diskid device nodes.  For example, if /etc/fstab
313	previously contained a line like
314	"/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should
315	change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456".  Users of geom
316	transforms like gmirror may also be affected.  ZFS users should
317	generally be fine.
318
31920160523:
320	The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and
321	improved performance.  But it is binary-incompatible with the old API.
322	Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects
323	built with the old headers.
324
32520160520:
326	The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64.
327	Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these
328	functions and should be updated to the latest version before
329	installing a new libc.
330
33120160517:
332	The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support
333	for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system
334	is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT.
335	This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld
336	and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New
337	packages will be needed.
338
339	To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add
340	TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 
341	and the install steps.
342
34320160510:
344	Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to
345	installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel.  Many kernel
346	modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode
347	KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules.  However,
348	manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will
349	now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel.
350
35120160414:
352	The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be
353	no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the
354	list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt
355	data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data
356	corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete:
357
358		o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware.
359		o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware.
360		o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware
361		o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares
362		o FCCT M500 all firmwares
363
364	Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware
365	with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for
366	updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these
367	drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given
368	this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no
369	other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above
370	vendors work.
371
372	To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your
373	drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting:
374		kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2"
375	in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the
376	quirks entry to 0x3.
377
37820160330:
379	The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is
380	now the one true way.  The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has
381	been removed.  See 20160311 for further details.
382
38320160317:
384	Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t.  All
385	drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled.
386
38720160311:
388	WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree
389	builds.  It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the
390	'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran
391	when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before
392	building anything else.  Dependencies are gathered at compile time with
393	-MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file.  Users should
394	run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older
395	stale .depend files.
396
39720160306:
398	On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into
399	kernel modules.  Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time,
400	please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before
401	rebooting, e.g.:
402
403	make buildworld
404	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
405	make -C sys/boot install
406	<reboot in single user>
407
408	Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section,
409	below.
410
41120160305:
412	Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0.  Please
413	see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
414	upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
415
41620160301:
417	The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel.  The
418	VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed.
419	Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only
420	permitted on sockets and raw disks by default.  To enable
421	asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the
422	vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value.
423
42420160226:
425	The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the
426	ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a
427	drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The
428	(temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set
429	to obtain the GNU version if necessary.
430
43120160129:
432	Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default.  That
433	feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks.
434	Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will
435	still work, even if the guest is using ZFS.  Legacy behavior can be
436	restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1.
437
43820160119:
439	The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH.  They are
440	still available in the security/openssh-portable port.
441
44220160113:
443	With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required
444	during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user
445	prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
446
44720151216:
448	The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a
449	consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp
450	server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the
451	other loaders.
452
45320151211:
454	The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has
455	been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel,
456	a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced
457	for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild
458	the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or
459	later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding.
460
46120151207:
462	Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and
463	installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but
464	requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed
465	world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes
466	in src.conf(5).
467
46820151130:
469	r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and
470	nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether.
471	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
472
47320151108:
474	Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of
475	order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old
476	behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C".
477
478	Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given
479	collation results will be different.
480
481	Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient
482	locales before running make installworld.
483
484	rm -rf /usr/share/locale/*
485
48620151030:
487	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d.  Any binaries requiring
488	libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled.
489
49020151020:
491	Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0.
492	Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and
493	should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively.
494
49520151017:
496	The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into
497	sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and
498	'make -n -n' to recursively show commands.  Now 'make -n' will recurse
499	and 'make -N' will not.
500
50120151012:
502	If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster
503	and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now
504	updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld.  If you had
505	excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may
506	want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install".
507	/etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of
508	whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used.  If you are not using
509	SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior.
510
51120151011:
512	Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed.
513	It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases
514	and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.*
515	environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links.
516
51720151006:
518	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0.
519	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
520	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
521
52220150924:
523	Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/,
524	and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements
525	on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with
526	userland debug files.
527
528	When using the supported kernel installation method the
529	/usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old)
530	as is done with /boot/kernel.
531
532	Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing
533	debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5).
534
53520150827:
536	The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent
537	interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts
538	used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old
539	scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3)
540	or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your
541	rc.d scripts in /etc.
542
54320150827:
544	pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl'
545	These configurations are now automatically interpreted as
546	'scrub fragment reassemble'.
547
54820150817:
549	Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use
550	them, the kernel must have
551
552	device	random
553	options	RANDOM_LOADABLE
554
555	kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko
556	or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect
557	function calls that the loadable modules need to provide,
558	the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient.
559
560	The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to
561	unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway.
562
56320150813:
564	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired.
565	Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by
566	the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob.
567
56820150810:
569	The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the
570	uart(4) driver has been corrected.  Prior to this change the PPS
571	"assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS
572	pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse.
573
574	As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the
575	order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant
576	difference with this change.
577
578	Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by
579	configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to
580	remove that workaround.
581
58220150809:
583	The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed
584	from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have
585	access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group
586	with:
587
588	# pw groupmod video -m $USER
589
59020150806:
591	The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 
592	upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and
593	loader.rc.local instead.
594
59520150805:
596	GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size,
597	strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob
598	WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools.
599
60020150728:
601	As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some
602	architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than
603	ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing).
604
605	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater
606	than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations.
607
60820150706:
609	sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2.  Starting with FreeBSD 11.0
610	and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by
611	default, i.e., they will not contain "::".  For example, instead
612	of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1.  This permits a zero subnet
613	to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for
614	IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0.  This change requires that configuration
615	data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must
616	use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is
617	upgrading.  As a very simple check search for patterns like
618	'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'.  To return to the old
619	behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or
620	the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses.
621
62220150630:
623	The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now
624	Fortuna, replacing Yarrow.
625
626	Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config
627	file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override
628	this default. You may choose *ONE* of:
629
630	options	RANDOM_YARROW	# Legacy /dev/random algorithm.
631	options	RANDOM_DUMMY	# Blocking-only driver.
632
633	If you have neither, you get Fortuna.  For most people,
634	read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works
635	like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant.
636
637	If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed
638	entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building
639	embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading,
640	and it is assumed you know what you need.
641
642	*PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the
643	habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member
644	of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual
645	behaviour from your security subsystems.
646
647	NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device
648	random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and
649	many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH.
650	You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set
651	of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3)
652	and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND
653	sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to
654	share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this
655	will never happen.
656
65720150623:
658	An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail
659	entry below has been been committed in revision 284717.
660
66120150616:
662	FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is
663	available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake.
664
66520150615:
666	The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry
667	below has been been committed in revision 284436.  The work
668	around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the
669	default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration
670	setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file.
671
67220150614:
673	ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from
674	atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf
675	and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work
676	with Kyuafile and kyua.
677
67820150614:
679	The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl
680	security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes
681	with DH parameters below 768 bits.  sendmail releases prior
682	to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit
683	DH parameter setting for client connections.  To work around
684	this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a
685	2048 bit DH parameter by:
686
687	1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc
688	2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or
689	   exists and is set to a string beginning with '5',
690	   replace it with '2'.
691	3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to
692	   a file path, create a new file with:
693		openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048
694	4. Rebuild the .cf file:
695		cd /etc/mail/; make; make install
696	5. Restart sendmail:
697		cd /etc/mail/; make restart
698
699	A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be
700	updated.
701
70220150604:
703	Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default
704	in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted
705	entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new,
706	machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD
707	5.x.
708
709	Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details.
710
71120150525:
712	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release.  Please see the
713	20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading,
714	if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
715
71620150521:
717	TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update
718	may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black,
719	and Pandaboard:
720
721	- dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the
722	  same but content is different now
723	- GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank)
724	  has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old
725	  addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3.
726	- Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is
727	  now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0
728
72920150501:
730	soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim.
731	If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff
732	from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff.
733
73420150423:
735	chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as
736	defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored.
737
73820150415:
739	The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with
740	POSIX.  The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards.
741
74220150416:
743	Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding
744	DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies.  This is now
745	enforced in src.libnames.mk.
746
74720150324:
748	From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers
749	supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4).
750	Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely,
751	replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively.
752
75320150315:
754	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release.  Please see
755	the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
756	upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
757
75820150307:
759	The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent
760	executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8)
761	newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and
762	kernel before rebooting.
763
76420150217:
765	If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014),
766	but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly.  Immediately
767	upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g.
768	ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that
769	range.  This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random
770	or /dev/urandom.  All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected.
771
77220150210:
773	The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility
774	with 10.1-RELEASE.  The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work
775	with the new kernel.
776
77720150131:
778	The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent
779	executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8),
780	so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting.
781
78220150118:
783	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release.  This is a bugfix
784	only release, no new features have been added.  Please see the 20141231
785	entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you
786	are not already using 3.5.0.
787
78820150107:
789	ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now
790	taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They
791	should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support.
792	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the
793	binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information.
794
79520150105:
796	The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control
797	using a local socket.  Users who have already enabled the
798	local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration
799	by running "service local_unbound setup" as root.
800
80120150102:
802	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed.
803	To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports.
804
80520141231:
806	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release.
807
808	As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is
809	a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library.  This means that to
810	be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with
811	clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler
812	should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your
813	system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or
814	later.
815
816	On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and
817	libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out
818	of the box.
819
820	On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and
821	powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be
822	built (with clang) and installed first.  If both clang and libc++ are
823	missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++.
824
825	On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow
826	the instructions for 9.x above.
827
828	Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by
829	default, and do not build clang.
830
831	Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to
832	build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all.  In those
833	cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround.
834
835	This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which
836	the following are most likely to appear:
837
838	-Wabsolute-value
839
840	This warns in two cases, for both C and C++:
841	* When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned
842	  quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was
843	  intended.  The code should be fixed, if at all possible.  If you are
844	  sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without
845	  loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit
846	  cast, or disable the warning.
847
848	* When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called
849	  abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation.
850	  If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please
851	  make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted
852	  side-effects.
853
854	-Wtautological-undefined-compare and
855	-Wundefined-bool-conversion
856
857	These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while
858	'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code.  However, there is
859	some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this
860	feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions.
861
862	Squid and openjdk do this, for example.  The warning can be turned off
863	for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result
864	in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are
865	unreachable could be optimized away.
866
86720141222:
868	The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER)
869	kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some
870	utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later.
871	If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail.
872	If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used,
873	the utilities will report errors.
874
87520141121:
876	The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of
877	directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent
878	directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS.  Users with build systems with
879	such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent
880	directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to
881	LOCAL_DIRS.
882
88320141109:
884	faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith
885	has been obsolete for a very long time.
886
88720141104:
888	vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings
889	support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as
890	support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video
891	drivers.
892
893	You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf,
894	most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will
895	indicate what you need to do.
896
897	vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to
898	syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information:
899	  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
900
901	If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding
902	the following line to /boot/loader.conf:
903	  kern.vty=sc
904
90520141102:
906	pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite.
907	Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to
908	execute it.
909
91020141009:
911	gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures
912	that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the
913	devel/gperf port.
914
91520140923:
916	pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to
917	contrib/pjdfstest .
918
91920140922:
920	At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted
921	to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure
922	update.  If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports,
923	add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf.  Users are
924	encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during
925	their next update cycle.
926
92720140729:
928	The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when
929	using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This
930	will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from
931	initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to
932	1.12.4_8 or newer.
933
93420140723:
935	The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and
936	TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH.
937
93820140719:
939	The default unbound configuration has been modified to address
940	issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private
941	address ranges.  If you use the local_unbound service, run
942	"service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your
943	configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the
944	new configuration.
945
94620140709:
947	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed
948	anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install
949	them again.
950	UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal
951
95220140708:
953	The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is
954	statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base
955	system, and the shared library is no longer installed.  The
956	devel/readline port is available for third party software that
957	requires readline.
958
95920140702:
960	The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of
961	known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the
962	architecture.
963
96420140701:
965	Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from
966	projects/nfsv4.1-server.  Since this includes changes to the
967	internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full
968	build of the kernel and modules will be necessary.
969	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
970
97120140629:
972	The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed
973	WITHOUT_VT.  (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning
974	which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.)
975
97620140619:
977	Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to
978	64 chars, that breaks ABI.  All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm
979	and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
980
98120140606:
982	The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and
983	1 respectively to match the upstream numbers.  They were out of
984	sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the
985	upstream versions were not respected.  These libraries are private
986	and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a
987	non-issue.  However, unclean source trees will yield broken test
988	programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a
989	"make installworld".
990
991	Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into
992	/usr/libexec/.  Already-built shell test programs will keep the
993	path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old"
994	is run.
995
996	If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object
997	tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures.
998	This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced
999	binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will
1000	be removed during a clean upgrade.
1001
100220140512:
1003	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release.
1004
100520140508:
1006	We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should
1007	be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to
1008	ObsoleteFiles.inc).
1009
101020140505:
1011	/etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the
1012	past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old
1013	behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this
1014	behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf
1015	(which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the
1016	behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual
1017	directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that.
1018	Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios,
1019	other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of
1020	temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld
1021	as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this
1022	setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree.
1023
1024	One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk
1025	is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to
1026	use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk
1027	as well.
1028
102920140430:
1030	The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a
1031	standard device.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
1032
103320140424:
1034	The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls
1035	building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1)
1036	in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a
1037	build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for
1038	build hosts for older releases.
1039
1040	This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and
1041	r276991, respectively.
1042
104320140418:
1044	The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for
1045	a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds
1046	will silently lack HESIOD.
1047
104820140405:
1049	The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling
1050	of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented
1051	any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL
1052	control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make
1053	changes to the serial console port without having to reboot.
1054	However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is
1055	associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal
1056	line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact.
1057	Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the
1058	serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to
1059	preserve the previous behaviour. E.g:
1060	    ttyu0  "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire"  vt100  on  secure
1061
106220140306:
1063	Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default
1064	to improve performance.  To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind
1065	with command line option -W.
1066
106720140226:
1068	Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream
1069	dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need
1070	to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps
1071	may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail
1072	to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler.
1073
107420140216:
1075	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release.
1076
107720140216:
1078	The nve(4) driver has been removed.  Please use the nfe(4) driver
1079	for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead.
1080
108120140212:
1082	An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283.
1083	This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built
1084	against the previous version of libc++ to crash.  The incompatibility
1085	has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built
1086	between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled.
1087
108820140204:
1089	OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum
1090	capability mode support.  Please note that enabling the feature in
1091	kernel is still highly recommended.
1092
109320140131:
1094	OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as
1095	the default privilege separation method.  This requires Capsicum
1096	capability mode support in kernel.
1097
109820140128:
1099	The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer
1100	versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for
1101	these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries
1102	requiring these two libraries should be recompiled.
1103	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006.
1104
110520140110:
1106	If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile
1107	instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such
1108	Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during
1109	NO_CLEAN builds.  This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual
1110	intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN:
1111	  # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f
1112
111320131213:
1114	The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism
1115	has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string
1116	than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function.
1117	In particular, the random string produced from a session key of
1118	enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will
1119	be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change.
1120	The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a
1121	big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402.
1122	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004.
1123
112420131108:
1125	The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality
1126	has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS.  If you were
1127	using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you
1128	should change your settings to use the latter.
1129
113020131025:
1131	The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from
1132	NetBSD.  The output is generally the same, but may vary
1133	slightly.  If you found you need identical output adding
1134	"-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick.  For the
1135	time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree.
1136
113720131014:
1138	libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private.
1139	This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg
1140	1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make
1141	delete-old-libs":
1142	  # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean
1143	  or
1144	  # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml
1145
114620131010:
1147	The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head
1148	revision r256279.
1149
115020131010:
1151	The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8)
1152	configuration file.  The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables
1153	for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to
1154	/var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked.
1155	This is transparently backward compatible.  See below about some
1156	incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details.
1157
1158	These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration
1159	file.  One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate
1160	a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without
1161	running the jail(8) utility.   The default pathname of the
1162	configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by
1163	using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables.
1164
1165	Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at
1166	this moment.  Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name
1167	with an integer.
1168
116920130930:
1170	BIND has been removed from the base system.  If all you need
1171	is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound
1172	service instead.  Otherwise, several versions of BIND are
1173	available in the ports tree.   The dns/bind99 port is one example.
1174
1175	With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base
1176	system.  Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are
1177	in the base system.  Alternatively, nslookup and dig can
1178	be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port.
1179
118020130916:
1181	With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now
1182	required during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
1183	add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
1184
118520130911:
1186	OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default
1187	silently trust signed SSHFP records.  This can be controlled with
1188	the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting.  DNSSEC support
1189	can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf.
1190
119120130906:
1192	The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++)
1193	are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system
1194	compiler.  You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX
1195	options in src.conf.
1196
119720130905:
1198	The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel
1199	configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work.
1200	If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include
1201	'options PROCDESC'.
1202
120320130905:
1204	The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified
1205	in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs
1206	have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the
1207	following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is
1208	advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl,
1209	kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq.
1210
121120130903:
1212	AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc.  The AES-NI module
1213	has been updated to use this support.  A new gcc is required to build
1214	the aesni module on both i386 and amd64.
1215
121620130821:
1217	The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices.
1218	Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be
1219	used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG".
1220
122120130813:
1222	WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets.  WITH_ICONV now
1223	enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default.
1224	WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time
1225	compatibility.  Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way.
1226	If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely
1227	need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT.
1228
122920130806:
1230	INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and
1231	Illumos origin, including ZFS.  If you have INVARIANTS in your
1232	kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG
1233	explicitly.
1234	DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS)
1235	locks if WITNESS option was set.  Because that generated a lot of
1236	witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false
1237	positives, this is no longer done.  New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS
1238	can be used to achieve the previous behavior.
1239
124020130806:
1241	Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead
1242	of time_second.  Although this is not a user-visible functional
1243	change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8),
1244	rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated
1245	to r253970 or later.
1246
124720130802:
1248	find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments,
1249	instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did
1250	not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message
1251	would result:
1252
1253	find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe
1254
1255	Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented
1256	without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing
1257	directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the
1258	old as well as the new version of find.
1259
126020130726:
1261	Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed.
1262	Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs
1263	path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by
1264	slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs
1265	subdirectories must be reviewed.
1266
126720130716:
1268	The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is
1269	incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will
1270	need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
1271
1272	To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set.
1273
1274	NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and
1275	users are advised to upgrade.
1276
127720130709:
1278	pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it
1279	you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5).
1280
128120130709:
1282	Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able
1283	keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking
1284	statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.)
1285
128620130618:
1287	Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write
1288	to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space
1289	even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had
1290	write access to that file.
1291
129220130615:
1293	CVS has been removed from the base system.  An exact copy
1294	of the code is available from the devel/cvs port.
1295
129620130613:
1297	Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake:
1298
1299		make: illegal option -- J
1300		usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable]
1301			...
1302		*** [buildworld] Error code 2
1303
1304	this likely due to an old instance of make in
1305	${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE})
1306	which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if
1307	you see the above error:
1308
1309		rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH`
1310
1311	should resolve it.
1312
131320130516:
1314	Use bmake by default.
1315	Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via
1316	-DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old
1317	make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE.
1318
1319	It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command
1320	line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the
1321	command line.  Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer
1322	than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent
1323	behavior in parallel build.
1324
132520130429:
1326        Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files.
1327
132820130426:
1329	The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because
1330	the IDEA patent expired.
1331
133220130426:
1333	The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed
1334	from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been
1335	enabled by default.
1336
133720130425:
1338	The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
1339	rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in
1340	order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as
1341	install and mtree.  When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where
1342	the install command does not support -l, you will need to
1343	install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required.
1344	This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
1345	&& make install).
1346
134720130404:
1348	Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since
1349	FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources.  Kernel modules
1350	atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are
1351	removed.  Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled
1352	and removed.
1353
135420130319:
1355	SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2)
1356	and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may
1357	automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting
1358	binaries will not work on older kernels.
1359
136020130308:
1361	CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further
1362	information, see the respective 20130304 entry).
1363
136420130304:
1365	Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout,
1366	so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions
1367	in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced
1368	by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild
1369	is requested.
1370
1371	The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64,
1372	but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE
1373	option) to save memory.  To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE
1374	option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0
1375	in /boot/loader.conf.
1376
137720130301:
1378	The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64.
1379	This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system
1380	initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if
1381	a CAM target device was created.  This makes a FreeBSD system
1382	unusable on 128MB or less of RAM.
1383
138420130208:
1385	A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD.  Please
1386	refer to zpool-features(7) for more information.
1387
1388	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
1389	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
1390
139120130129:
1392	A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed
1393	as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch.
1394	To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default,
1395	while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild
1396	and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set.
1397
139820130121:
1399	Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build
1400	and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL
1401	make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the
1402	command line.  If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs
1403	you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or
1404	/etc/src.conf.
1405
140620130118:
1407	The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an
1408	argument that is a file or path to append logs to.  In the
1409	unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line
1410	and the command line contained at least two files and a target
1411	directory the first file will have logs appended to it.  The -M
1412	option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its
1413	use is expected to be extremely rare.
1414
141520121223:
1416	After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS
1417	on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics.
1418	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations.
1419
142020121222:
1421	GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata.
1422	Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters,
1423	'%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to
1424	be updated.
1425
142620121217:
1427	By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved.  To
1428	restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps
1429	stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
1430
1431		savecore_flags=""
1432
143320121201:
1434	With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now
1435	required during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
1436	add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
1437
143820121117:
1439	The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now
1440	filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via
1441	sysctl or routing socket.  This means the KAME-specific embedded scope
1442	id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application.
1443	This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid.
1444	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025.
1445
144620121105:
1447	On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default.
1448	This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang
1449	and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++,
1450	and /usr/bin/cpp.  To disable this behavior and revert to building
1451	with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions
1452	of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang
1453	build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable
1454	branch point).
1455
145620121102:
1457	The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its
1458	functionality now turned on by default.
1459
146020121023:
1461	The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and
1462	split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP.
1463	NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write
1464	mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes.
1465	NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current
1466	driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage.
1467	Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under
1468	consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal
1469	of the two kernel options.
1470
147120121023:
1472	The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte
1473	order. The following modules need to be recompiled together
1474	with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4),
1475	pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4).
1476
147720121022:
1478	Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The
1479	VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be
1480	recompiled.
1481
148220121018:
1483	All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from
1484	the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs,
1485	portalfs, smbfs, xfs.
1486
148720121016:
1488	The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following
1489	modules need to be recompiled together with kernel:
1490	ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4),
1491	vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4),
1492	faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4).
1493
149420121015:
1495	The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host
1496	Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver).
1497	No kernel config modifications are required, but if you
1498	load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead.
1499
150020121014:
1501	Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system.
1502
150320121013:
1504	The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed
1505	sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious
1506	problems have been reported.  The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT
1507	knob has also gone.
1508
150920121006:
1510	The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet
1511	filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled
1512	with new kernel.
1513
151420121001:
1515	The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver
1516	PS-POLL and power-save support.  All wireless drivers need to be
1517	recompiled to work with the new kernel.
1518
151920120913:
1520	The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number
1521	generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally.
1522	Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if
1523	needed.  The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the
1524	device, so the change only affects the custom kernel
1525	configurations.
1526
152720120908:
1528	The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and
1529	snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel.
1530
153120120828:
1532	A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged
1533	to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be
1534	imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support
1535	this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5)
1536	manual page.
1537
153820120727:
1539	The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto-
1540	detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these
1541	to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable.
1542
154320120712:
1544	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c.  Any binaries requiring
1545	libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled.  Also, there are
1546	configuration changes.  Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf.
1547
154820120712:
1549	The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency
1550	with other variables:
1551	  kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered   -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered
1552	  kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered
1553
155420120628:
1555	The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort.  For now, GNU sort
1556	is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to
1557	GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT.  In this case, BSD sort will be
1558	installed as "bsdsort".
1559
156020120611:
1561	A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD.
1562	Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning
1563	is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward
1564	compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS
1565	pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools
1566	is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information
1567	read the new zpool-features(5) manual page.
1568	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
1569	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
1570
157120120417:
1572	The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported
1573	as contrib/jemalloc.  The most disruptive API change is to
1574	/etc/malloc.conf.  If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf,
1575	delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the
1576	new format after rebooting.  See malloc.conf(5) for details
1577	(specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL
1578	NAMESPACE section).
1579
158020120328:
1581	Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb".  mips64eb
1582	is now spelled mips64.  mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32.  mipseb is
1583	now spelled mips.  This is to aid compatibility with third-party
1584	software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3).  Little-endian
1585	settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine
1586	from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in
1587	your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine.
1588
158920120306:
1590	Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported
1591	platforms.
1592
159320120229:
1594	Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on	nullfs(5). Previously
1595	nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer,
1596	as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect
1597	only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect
1598	only to	the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the
1599	lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to.
1600
160120120211:
1602	The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored.
1603	If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to
1604	recompile libc again with your kernel.  You still need to recompile
1605	world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already
1606	comes from 20111215.
1607
160820120114:
1609	The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr.  All
1610	base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a
1611	port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either
1612	hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port.
1613
1614	An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d:
1615	rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i
1616
161720120109:
1618	panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts
1619	on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running.
1620	This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic
1621	tunable/sysctl.
1622	The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic.
1623
162420111215:
1625	The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration
1626	of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format
1627	of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages
1628	for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently
1629	not supported anymore.
1630
1631	Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User
1632	utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8),
1633	need to be recompiled.
1634
163520111122:
1636	The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to
1637	/dev/wmistat0.
1638
163920111108:
1640	The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to
1641	explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems.
1642	It is on by default for all supported platform at this present
1643	time.
1644
164520111101:
1646	The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64,
1647	i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files.
1648
164920110930:
1650	sysinstall has been removed
1651
165220110923:
1653	The stable/9 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
1654	RELENG_9 branch in CVS.
1655
1656COMMON ITEMS:
1657
1658	General Notes
1659	-------------
1660	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1661	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
1662	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1663	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1664	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1665	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1666	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1667
1668	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
1669	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1670	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1671	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1672	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
1673
1674	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best
1675	to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first,
1676	then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade
1677	path, and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try
1678	this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade.
1679
1680	When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before
1681	installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell
1682	around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your
1683	starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade.
1684
1685	This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes
1686	information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted.
1687	Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be
1688	placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check
1689	older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries
1690	should write them with this in mind.
1691
1692	ZFS notes
1693	---------
1694	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
1695	these two steps:
1696
1697	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
1698	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
1699
1700	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
1701
1702	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
1703	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0:
1704	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0"
1705
1706	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
1707
1708	To build a kernel
1709	-----------------
1710	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
1711	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
1712	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
1713
1714	make kernel-toolchain
1715	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1716	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1717
1718	To test a kernel once
1719	---------------------
1720	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
1721	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
1722	debugging information) run
1723	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
1724	nextboot -k testkernel
1725
1726	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1727	--------------------------------------------------------------
1728	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
1729	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1730	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
1731
1732	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
1733	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1734	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1735	make depend
1736	make
1737	make install
1738
1739	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1740
1741	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1742	-----------------------------------------------------------
1743	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
1744	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
1745
1746	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1747	make buildworld
1748	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1749							[1]
1750	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1751	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
1752	make installworld
1753	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
1754	make delete-old					[6]
1755	<reboot>
1756
1757	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1758	--------------------------------------------------
1759	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1760	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1761	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1762	# size.
1763
1764	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1765	<boot into -stable>
1766	make buildworld
1767	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1768	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1769	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1770	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC
1771	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
1772	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1773	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1774	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1775	<reboot into current>
1776	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1777	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1778	<reboot>
1779
1780
1781	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
1782	----------------------------------------------
1783	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1784	make buildworld					[9]
1785	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1786							[1]
1787	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1788	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
1789	make installworld
1790	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
1791	make delete-old					[6]
1792	<reboot>
1793
1794	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1795	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1796	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1797	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1798	the UPDATING entries.
1799
1800	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
1801	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
1802	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
1803	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
1804	much fewer pitfalls.
1805
1806	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1807	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1808	system on reboot.
1809
1810	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1811		fsck -p
1812		mount -u /
1813		mount -a
1814		cd src
1815		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1816	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1817	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1818
1819	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1820	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1821	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1822	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1823	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
1824	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
1825	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1826
1827	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1828	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1829	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1830	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1831	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
1832	from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430.
1833
1834	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
1835	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
1836	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
1837
1838	[8] The new kernel must be able to run existing binaries used by
1839	an installworld.  When upgrading across major versions, the new
1840	kernel's configuration must include the correct COMPAT_FREEBSD<n>
1841	option for existing binaries (e.g. COMPAT_FREEBSD11 to run 11.x
1842	binaries).  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1843	hard to boot to recover.  A GENERIC kernel will include suitable
1844	compatibility options to run binaries from older branches.
1845
1846	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1847	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1848
1849	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1850	cvs prune empty directories.
1851
1852	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1853	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1854	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1855
1856	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1857	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1858	warn if it is improperly defined.
1859FORMAT:
1860
1861This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
1862breakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
1863list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011.
1864If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
1865to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
1866
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