UPDATING revision 294054
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    http://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
1420160114	p34	FreeBSD-SA-16:07.openssh
15
16	Fix OpenSSH client information leak. [SA-16:07]
17
1820160114	p33	FreeBSD-EN-16:02.pf
19			FreeBSD-EN-16:03.yplib
20			FreeBSD-SA-16:01.sctp
21			FreeBSD-SA-16:02.ntp
22			FreeBSD-SA-16:03.linux
23			FreeBSD-SA-16:04.linux
24			FreeBSD-SA-16:05.tcp
25			FreeBSD-SA-16:06.bsnmpd
26
27	Fix pf(4) generating bad TCP checksums. [EN-16:02]
28	Fix infinite loop in YP/NIS client library. [EN-16:03]
29	Fix remote denial of service in SCTP. [SA-16:01]
30	Update NTP to 4.2.8p5. [SA-16:02]
31	Fix kernel memory diclosure in Linux compatibility layer. [SA-16:03]
32	Fix kernel memory overwrite in Linux compatibility layer. [SA-16:04]
33	Fix crash in TCP MD5 signatures. [SA-16:05]
34	Fix insecure default permissions for snmpd.config. [SA-16:06]
35
3620151216	p32	FreeBSD-SA-15:27.bind
37	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:27]
38
3920151205	p31	FreeBSD-SA-15:26.openssl
40
41	Fix OpenSSL X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak. [SA-15:26]
42
4320151104	p30	FreeBSD-SA-15:25.ntp [revised]
44			FreeBSD-EN-15:19.kqueue
45			FreeBSD-EN-15:20.vm
46
47	Fix regression of ntpq(8) utility exiting due to trap 6 in
48	9.3-RELEASE-p29. [SA-15:25]
49
50	Fix regression in ntpd(8) lacking support for RAWDCF reference
51	clock in 9.3-RELEASE-p29. [SA-15:25]
52
53	Fix kqueue write events never fired for files greater 2GB. [EN-15:19]
54
55	Fix applications exiting due to segmentation violation on a correct
56	memory address. [EN-15:20]
57
5820151026:	p29	FreeBSD-SA-15:25.ntp
59
60	Fix multiple NTP vulnerabilities. New NTP version is 4.2.8p4.
61
62	The configuration file syntax has been changed, thus mergemaster
63	run is recommended.  Now the "kod" parameter requires "limited" 
64	parameter.  If the ntp.conf is not updated, the ntpd will run 
65	successfully, but with KoD disabled.
66
6720151002:	p28	FreeBSD-SA-15:24.rpcbind [revised]
68	Revised patch to address a regression that prevents NIS from working.
69
7020150929:	p27	FreeBSD-SA-15:24.rpcbind
71
72	Fix rpcbind(8) remote denial of service. [SA-15:24]
73
7420150916:	p26	FreeBSD-EN-15:18.pkg
75
76	Implement pubkey support for pkg(7) bootstrap. [EN-15:18]
77
7820150902:	p25	FreeBSD-SA-15:23.bind
79
80	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:23]
81
8220150825:	p24	FreeBSD-SA-15:21.amd64
83			FreeBSD-SA-15:22.openssh
84			FreeBSD-EN-15:15.pkg
85
86	Fix local privilege escalation in IRET handler. [SA-15:21]
87
88	Fix OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-15:22]
89
90	Fix insufficient check of unsupported pkg(7) signature methods.
91	[EN-15:15]
92
9320150818:	p23	FreeBSD-SA-15:20.expat
94
95	Fix multiple integer overflows in expat (libbsdxml) XML parser.
96	[SA-15:20]
97
9820150805:	p22	FreeBSD-SA-15:19.routed
99
100	Fix routed remote denial of service vulnerability.
101
10220150728:	p21	FreeBSD-SA-15:15.tcp
103			FreeBSD-SA-15:16.openssh
104			FreeBSD-SA-15:17.bind
105
106	Fix resource exhaustion in TCP reassembly. [SA-15:15]
107
108	Fix OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-15:16]
109
110	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:17]
111
11220150721:	p20	FreeBSD-SA-15:13.tcp
113
114	Fix resource exhaustion due to sessions stuck in LAST_ACK state.
115	[SA-15:13]
116
11720150707:	p19	FreeBSD-SA-15:11.bind
118	Fix BIND resolver remote denial of service when validating.
119
12020150630:	p18	FreeBSD-EN-15:08.sendmail [revised]
121			FreeBSD-EN-15:09.xlocale
122
123	Improvements to sendmail TLS/DH interoperability. [EN-15:08]
124
125	Fix inconsistency between locale and rune locale states.
126	[EN-15:09]
127
12820150618:	p17	FreeBSD-EN-15:08.sendmail
129	Improvements to sendmail TLS/DH interoperability. [EN-15:08]
130
13120150612:	p16	FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl
132	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL.  [SA-15:10]
133
13420150609:	p15	FreeBSD-EN-15:06.file
135
136	Updated base system file(1) to 5.22 to address multiple denial
137	of service issues.
138
13920150513:	p14	FreeBSD-EN-15:04.freebsd-update
140
141	Fix bug with freebsd-update(8) that does not ensure the previous
142	upgrade was completed. [EN-15:04]
143
14420150407:	p13	FreeBSD-SA-15:04.igmp [revised]
145			FreeBSD-SA-15:07.ntp
146			FreeBSD-SA-15:09.ipv6
147
148	Improved patch for SA-15:04.igmp.
149
150	Fix multiple vulnerabilities of ntp. [SA-15:07]
151
152	Fix Denial of Service with IPv6 Router Advertisements. [SA-15:09]
153
15420150320:	p12
155	Fix patch for SA-15:06.openssl.
156
15720150319:	p11	FreeBSD-SA-15:06.openssl
158	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL.  [SA-15:06]
159
16020150225:	p10	FreeBSD-SA-15:04.igmp
161			FreeBSD-SA-15:05.bind
162			FreeBSD-EN-15:01.vt
163			FreeBSD-EN-15:02.openssl
164			FreeBSD-EN-15:03.freebsd-update
165
166	Fix integer overflow in IGMP protocol. [SA-15:04]
167
168	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:05]
169
170	Fix vt(4) crash with improper ioctl parameters. [EN-15:01]
171
172	Updated base system OpenSSL to 0.9.8zd. [EN-15:02]
173
174	Fix freebsd-update libraries update ordering issue. [EN-15:03]
175
17620150127:	p9	FreeBSD-SA-15:02.kmem
177			FreeBSD-SA-15:03.sctp
178
179	Fix SCTP SCTP_SS_VALUE kernel memory corruption and disclosure
180	vulnerability.  [SA-15:02]
181
182	Fix SCTP stream reset vulnerability.  [SA-15:03]
183
18420150114:	p8	FreeBSD-SA-15:01.openssl
185	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL.  [SA-15:01]
186
18720141223:	p7	FreeBSD-SA-14:31.ntp
188			FreeBSD-EN-14:13.freebsd-update
189
190	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in NTP suite.  [SA-14:31]
191	Fix directory deletion issue in freebsd-update.	 [EN-14:13]
192
19320141210:	p6	FreeBSD-SA-14:28.file
194			FreeBSD-SA-14:29.bind
195
196	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in file(1) and libmagic(3).
197	[SA-14:28]
198
199	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-14:29]
200
20120141104:	p5	FreeBSD-SA-14:25.setlogin
202			FreeBSD-SA-14:26.ftp
203			FreeBSD-EN-14:12.zfs
204
205	Fix kernel stack disclosure in setlogin(2) / getlogin(2).
206	[SA-14:25]
207
208	Fix remote command execution in ftp(1). [SA-14:26]
209
210	Fix NFSv4 and ZFS cache consistency issue. [EN-14:12]
211
21220141022:	p4	FreeBSD-EN-14:10.tzdata
213			FreeBSD-EN-14:11.crypt
214
215	Time zone data file update. [EN-14:10]
216
217	Change crypt(3) default hashing algorithm back to DES. [EN-14:11]
218
21920141021:	p3	FreeBSD-SA-14:20.rtsold
220			FreeBSD-SA-14:21.routed
221			FreeBSD-SA-14:22.namei
222			FreeBSD-SA-14:23.openssl
223
224	Fix rtsold(8) remote buffer overflow vulnerability. [SA-14:20]
225
226	Fix routed(8) remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-14:21]
227
228	Fix memory leak in sandboxed namei lookup. [SA-14:22]
229
230	Fix OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-14:23]
231
23220140916:	p2	FreeBSD-SA-14:19.tcp
233	Fix Denial of Service in TCP packet processing. [SA-14:19]
234
23520140909:	p1	FreeBSD-SA-14:18.openssl
236	Fix OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-14:18]
237
23820140716:
239	9.3-RELEASE.
240
24120140608:
242	On i386 and amd64 systems, the onifconsole flag is now set by default
243	in /etc/ttys for ttyu0. This causes ttyu0 to be automatically enabled
244	as a login TTY if it is set in the bootloader as an active kernel
245	console. No changes in behavior should result otherwise. To revert to
246	the previous behavior, set ttyu0 to "off" in /etc/ttys.
247
24820140512:
249	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release.
250
25120140321:
252	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release.
253
25420140216:
255	The nve(4) driver for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters has
256	been deprecated and will not be part of FreeBSD 11.0 and later
257	releases.  If you use this driver, please consider switching to
258	the nfe(4) driver instead.
259
26020131216:
261	The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism
262	has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string
263	than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function.
264	In particular, the random string produced from a session key of
265	enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will
266	be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change.
267	The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a
268	big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402.
269	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 902505.
270
27120130930:
272	9.2-RELEASE.
273
27420130823:
275	Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed.
276	Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs
277	path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by
278	slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs
279	subdirectories must be reviewed.
280
28120130705:
282	hastctl(8)'s `status' command output changed to terse one-liner format.
283	Scripts using this should switch to `list' command or be rewritten.
284
28520130618:
286        Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write
287        to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space
288        even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had
289        write access to that file.
290
29120130605:
292	Added ZFS TRIM support which is enabled by default. To disable
293	ZFS TRIM support set vfs.zfs.trim.enabled=0 in loader.conf.
294
295	Creating new ZFS pools and adding new devices to existing pools
296	first performs a full device level TRIM which can take a significant
297	amount of time. The sysctl vfs.zfs.vdev.trim_on_init can be set to 0
298	to disable this behaviour.
299
300	ZFS TRIM requires the underlying device support BIO_DELETE which
301	is currently provided by methods such as ATA TRIM and SCSI UNMAP
302	via CAM, which are typically supported by SSD's.
303
304	Stats for ZFS TRIM can be monitored by looking at the sysctl's
305	under kstat.zfs.misc.zio_trim.
306
30720130524:
308	`list' command has been added to hastctl(8).  For now, it is full
309	equivalent of `status' command.
310	WARNING: in the near future the output of hastctl's status command
311	will change to more terse format.  If you use `hastctl status'
312	for parsing in your scripts, switch to `hastctl list'.
313
31420130430:
315	The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
316	rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in
317	order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as
318	install and mtree.  When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where
319	the install command does not support -l, you will need to
320	install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required.
321	This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
322	&& make install).
323
324	Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build
325	and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL
326	make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the
327	command line.  If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs
328	you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or
329	/etc/src.conf.
330
33120130429:
332	Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files.
333
33420130315:
335	The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an
336	argument that is a file or path to append logs to.  In the
337	unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line
338	and the command line contained at least two files and a target
339	directory the first file will have logs appended to it.  The -M
340	option served little practical purpose in the last decade so it's
341	used expected to be extremely rare.
342
34320130225:
344	A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to.  Please refer to
345	zpool-features(7) for more information.
346
347	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
348	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
349
35020121224:
351	The VFS KBI was changed with the merge of several nullfs
352	optimizations and fixes.  All filesystem modules must be
353	recompiled.
354
35520121218:
356	With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now
357	depended on during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to add
358	the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
359
36020121205:
361	9.1-RELEASE.
362
36320121129:
364	A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to 9-STABLE.
365	Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning
366	is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward
367	compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS
368	pools. The first two read-only compatible "feature flags" for ZFS
369	pools are "com.delphix:async_destroy" and "com.delphix:empty_bpobj".
370	For more information read the new zpool-features(7) manual page.
371	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
372	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
373
37420121114:
375	The commit introducing bsd.compiler.mk breaks the traditional
376	building of kernels before this point. Add -m ${SRC}/share/mk
377	(for the right value of SRC) to your command lines to work
378	around; update your useland to a point after this; or use the
379	buildkernel/installkernel top-level targets. See also 20120829.
380
38120121102:
382	The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its
383	functionality now turned on by default.
384
38520120913:
386	The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number
387	generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally.
388	Add the PADLOCK_RNG option in the custom kernel config if
389	needed.  The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the
390	option, so the change only affects the custom kernel
391	configurations.
392
39320120829:
394	The amd64 kernel now uses xsetbv, xrstor instructions. To compile with
395	the traditional method, you must update your system with an installworld
396	before the kernel will build. The documented make buildkernel/installkernel
397	interfaces (coupled with fresh make kernel-toolchain) continue to work.
398
39920120727:
400	The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto-
401	detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these
402	to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable.
403
40420120422:
405	Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on	nullfs(5). Previously
406	nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer,
407	as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect
408	only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect
409	only to	the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the
410	lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to.
411
41220120109:
413	The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to
414	/dev/wmistat0.
415
41620120106:
417	A new VOP_ADVISE() was added to support posix_fadvise(2).  All
418	filesystem modules must be recompiled.
419
42020120106:
421	The interface of the VOP_VPTOCNP(9) changed, now the returned
422	vnode shall be referenced, previously it was required to be
423	only held.  All in-tree filesystems are converted.
424
42520120106:
426	9.0-RELEASE.
427
42820111101:
429	The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64,
430	i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files.
431
43220110913:
433	This commit modifies vfs_register() so that it uses a hash
434	calculation to set vfc_typenum, which is enabled by default.
435	The first time a system is booted after this change, the
436	vfc_typenum values will change for all file systems. The
437	main effect of this is a change to the NFS server file handles
438	for file systems that use vfc_typenum in their fsid, such as ZFS.
439	It will, however, prevent vfc_typenum from changing when file
440	systems are loaded in a different order for subsequent reboots.
441	To disable this, you can set vfs.typenumhash=0 in /boot/loader.conf
442	until you are ready to remount all NFS clients after a reboot.
443
44420110828:
445	Bump the shared library version numbers for libraries that
446	do not use symbol versioning, have changed the ABI compared
447	to stable/8 and which shared library version was not bumped.
448	Done as part of 9.0-RELEASE cycle.
449
45020110815:
451	During the merge of Capsicum features, the fget(9) KPI was modified.
452	This may require the rebuilding of out-of-tree device drivers --
453	issues have been reported specifically with the nVidia device driver.
454	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 900041.
455
456	Also, there is a period between 20110811 and 20110814 where the
457	special devices /dev/{stdin,stdout,stderr} did not work correctly.
458	Building world from a kernel during that window may not work.
459
46020110628:
461	The packet filter (pf) code has been updated to OpenBSD 4.5.
462	You need to update userland tools to be in sync with kernel.
463	This update breaks backward compatibility with earlier pfsync(4)
464	versions.  Care must be taken when updating redundant firewall setups.
465
46620110608:
467	The following sysctls and tunables are retired on x86 platforms:
468		machdep.hlt_cpus
469		machdep.hlt_logical_cpus
470	The following sysctl is retired:
471		machdep.hyperthreading_allowed
472	The sysctls were supposed to provide a way to dynamically offline and
473	online selected CPUs on x86 platforms, but the implementation has not
474	been reliable especially with SCHED_ULE scheduler.
475	machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable is still available to ignore
476	hyperthreading CPUs at OS level.
477	Individual CPUs can be disabled using hint.lapic.X.disabled tunable,
478	where X is an APIC ID of a CPU.  Be advised, though, that disabling
479	CPUs in non-uniform fashion will result in non-uniform topology and
480	may lead to sub-optimal system performance with SCHED_ULE, which is
481	a default scheduler.
482
48320110607:
484	cpumask_t type is retired and cpuset_t is used in order to describe
485	a mask of CPUs.
486
48720110531:
488	Changes to ifconfig(8) for dynamic address family detection mandate
489	that you are running a kernel of 20110525 or later.  Make sure to
490	follow the update procedure to boot a new kernel before installing
491	world.
492
49320110513:
494	Support for sun4v architecture is officially dropped
495
49620110503:
497	Several KPI breaking changes have been committed to the mii(4) layer,
498	the PHY drivers and consequently some Ethernet drivers using mii(4).
499	This means that miibus.ko and the modules of the affected Ethernet
500	drivers need to be recompiled.
501
502	Note to kernel developers: Given that the OUI bit reversion problem
503	was fixed as part of these changes all mii(4) commits related to OUIs,
504	i.e. to sys/dev/mii/miidevs, PHY driver probing and vendor specific
505	handling, no longer can be merged verbatim to stable/8 and previous
506	branches.
507
50820110430:
509	Users of the Atheros AR71xx SoC code now need to add 'device ar71xx_pci'
510	into their kernel configurations along with 'device pci'.
511
51220110427:
513	The default NFS client is now the new NFS client, so fstype "newnfs"
514	is now "nfs" and the regular/old NFS client is now fstype "oldnfs".
515	Although mounts via fstype "nfs" will usually work without userland
516	changes, it is recommended that the mount(8) and mount_nfs(8)
517	commands be rebuilt from sources and that a link to mount_nfs called
518	mount_oldnfs be created. The new client is compiled into the
519	kernel with "options NFSCL" and this is needed for diskless root
520	file systems. The GENERIC kernel configs have been changed to use
521	NFSCL and NFSD (the new server) instead of NFSCLIENT and NFSSERVER.
522	To use the regular/old client, you can "mount -t oldnfs ...". For
523	a diskless root file system, you must also include a line like:
524	
525	vfs.root.mountfrom="oldnfs:"
526
527	in the boot/loader.conf on the root fs on the NFS server to make
528	a diskless root fs use the old client.
529
53020110424:
531	The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new
532	CAM-based ATA stack. It means that all legacy ATA drivers were
533	removed and replaced by respective CAM drivers. If you are using
534	ATA device names in /etc/fstab or other places, make sure to update
535	them respectively (adX -> adaY, acdX -> cdY, afdX -> daY, astX -> saY,
536	where 'Y's are the sequential numbers starting from zero for each type
537	in order of detection, unless configured otherwise with tunables,
538	see cam(4)). There will be symbolic links created in /dev/ to map
539	old adX devices to the respective adaY. They should provide basic
540	compatibility for file systems mounting in most cases, but they do
541	not support old user-level APIs and do not have respective providers
542	in GEOM. Consider using updated management tools with new device names.
543
544	It is possible to load devices ahci, ata, siis and mvs as modules,
545	but option ATA_CAM should remain in kernel configuration to make ata
546	module work as CAM driver supporting legacy ATA controllers. Device ata
547	still can be used in modular fashion (atacore + ...). Modules atadisk
548	and atapi* are not used and won't affect operation in ATA_CAM mode.
549	Note that to use CAM-based ATA kernel should include CAM devices
550	scbus, pass, da (or explicitly ada), cd and optionally others. All of
551	them are parts of the cam module.
552
553	ataraid(4) functionality is now supported by the RAID GEOM class.
554	To use it you can load geom_raid kernel module and use graid(8) tool
555	for management. Instead of /dev/arX device names, use /dev/raid/rX.
556
557	No kernel config options or code have been removed, so if a problem
558	arises, please report it and optionally revert to the old ATA stack.
559	In order to do it you can remove from the kernel config:
560	    options        ATA_CAM
561	    device         ahci
562	    device         mvs
563	    device         siis
564	, and instead add back:
565	    device         atadisk         # ATA disk drives
566	    device         ataraid         # ATA RAID drives
567	    device         atapicd         # ATAPI CDROM drives
568	    device         atapifd         # ATAPI floppy drives
569	    device         atapist         # ATAPI tape drives
570
57120110423:
572	The default NFS server has been changed to the new server, which
573	was referred to as the experimental server. If you need to switch
574	back to the old NFS server, you must now put the "-o" option on
575	both the mountd and nfsd commands. This can be done using the
576	mountd_flags and nfs_server_flags rc.conf variables until an
577	update to the rc scripts is committed, which is coming soon.
578
57920110418:
580	The GNU Objective-C runtime library (libobjc), and other Objective-C
581	related components have been removed from the base system.  If you
582	require an Objective-C library, please use one of the available ports.
583
58420110331:
585	ath(4) has been split into bus- and device- modules. if_ath contains
586	the HAL, the TX rate control and the network device code. if_ath_pci
587	contains the PCI bus glue. For Atheros MIPS embedded systems, if_ath_ahb
588	contains the AHB glue. Users need to load both if_ath_pci and if_ath
589	in order to use ath on everything else.
590
591	TO REPEAT: if_ath_ahb is not needed for normal users. Normal users only
592	need to load if_ath and if_ath_pci for ath(4) operation.
593
59420110314:
595	As part of the replacement of sysinstall, the process of building
596	release media has changed significantly. For details, please re-read
597	release(7), which has been updated to reflect the new build process.
598
59920110218:
600	GNU binutils 2.17.50 (as of 2007-07-03) has been merged to -HEAD.  This
601	is the last available version under GPLv2.  It brings a number of new
602	features, such as support for newer x86 CPU's (with SSE-3, SSSE-3, SSE
603	4.1 and SSE 4.2), better support for powerpc64, a number of new
604	directives, and lots of other small improvements.  See the ChangeLog
605	file in contrib/binutils for the full details.
606
60720110218:
608	IPsec's HMAC_SHA256-512 support has been fixed to be RFC4868
609	compliant, and will now use half of hash for authentication.
610	This will break interoperability with all stacks (including all
611	actual FreeBSD versions) who implement
612	draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-sha-256-00 (they use 96 bits of hash for
613	authentication).
614	The only workaround with such peers is to use another HMAC
615	algorithm for IPsec ("phase 2") authentication.
616
61720110207:
618	Remove the uio_yield prototype and symbol.  This function has
619	been misnamed since it was introduced and should not be
620	globally exposed with this name.  The equivalent functionality
621	is now available using kern_yield(curthread->td_user_pri).
622	The function remains undocumented.
623
62420110112:
625	A SYSCTL_[ADD_]UQUAD was added for unsigned uint64_t pointers,
626	symmetric with the existing SYSCTL_[ADD_]QUAD.  Type checking
627	for scalar sysctls is defined but disabled.  Code that needs
628	UQUAD to pass the type checking that must compile on older
629	systems where the define is not present can check against
630	__FreeBSD_version >= 900030.
631
632	The system dialog(1) has been replaced with a new version previously
633	in ports as devel/cdialog. dialog(1) is mostly command-line compatible
634	with the previous version, but the libdialog associated with it has
635	a largely incompatible API. As such, the original version of libdialog
636	will be kept temporarily as libodialog, until its base system consumers
637	are replaced or updated. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900030.
638
63920110103:
640	If you are trying to run make universe on a -stable system, and you get
641	the following warning:
642	"Makefile", line 356: "Target architecture for i386/conf/GENERIC 
643	unknown.  config(8) likely too old."
644	or something similar to it, then you must upgrade your -stable system
645	to 8.2-Release or newer (really, any time after r210146 7/15/2010 in
646	stable/8) or build the config from the latest stable/8 branch and
647	install it on your system.
648
649	Prior to this date, building a current universe on 8-stable system from
650	between 7/15/2010 and 1/2/2011 would result in a weird shell parsing
651	error in the first kernel build phase.  A new config on those old 
652	systems will fix that problem for older versions of -current.
653
65420101228:
655	The TCP stack has been modified to allow Khelp modules to interact with
656	it via helper hook points and store per-connection data in the TCP
657	control block. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900029. User space tools that
658	rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to
659	be recompiled.
660
66120101114:
662	Generic IEEE 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support has been
663	added to mii(4) and bge(4), bce(4), msk(4), nfe(4) and stge(4) along
664	with brgphy(4), e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy() have been converted
665	to take advantage of it instead of using custom implementations.  This
666	means that these drivers now no longer unconditionally advertise
667	support for flow control but only do so if flow control is a selected
668	media option.  This was implemented in the generic support that way in
669	order to allow flow control to be switched on and off via ifconfig(8)
670	with the PHY specific default to typically off in order to protect
671	from unwanted effects.  Consequently, if you used flow control with
672	one of the above mentioned drivers you now need to explicitly enable
673	it, for example via:
674		ifconfig bge0 media auto mediaopt flowcontrol
675
676	Along with the above mentioned changes generic support for setting
677	1000baseT master mode also has been added and brgphy(4), ciphy(4),
678	e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy(4) have been converted to take
679	advantage of it.  This means that these drivers now no longer take the
680	link0 parameter for selecting master mode but the master media option
681	has to be used instead, for example like in the following:
682		ifconfig bge0 media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,master
683
684	Selection of master mode now is also available with all other PHY
685	drivers supporting 1000baseT.
686
68720101111:
688	The TCP stack has received a significant update to add support for
689	modularised congestion control and generally improve the clarity of
690	congestion control decisions. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900025. User
691	space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g.
692	sockstat) need to be recompiled.
693
69420101002:
695	The man(1) utility has been replaced by a new version that no longer
696	uses /etc/manpath.config. Please consult man.conf(5) for how to
697	migrate local entries to the new format.
698
69920100928:
700	The copyright strings printed by login(1) and sshd(8) at the time of a
701	new connection have been removed to follow other operating systems and
702	upstream sshd.
703
70420100915:
705	A workaround for a fixed ld bug has been removed in kernel code,
706	so make sure that your system ld is built from sources after
707	revision 210245 from 2010-07-19 (r211583 if building head kernel
708	on stable/8, r211584 for stable/7; both from 2010-08-21).
709	A symptom of incorrect ld version is different addresses for
710	set_pcpu section and __start_set_pcpu symbol in kernel and/or modules.
711
71220100913:
713	The $ipv6_prefer variable in rc.conf(5) has been split into
714	$ip6addrctl_policy and $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces.
715
716	The $ip6addrctl_policy is a variable to choose a pre-defined
717	address selection policy set by ip6addrctl(8).  A value
718	"ipv4_prefer", "ipv6_prefer" or "AUTO" can be specified.  The
719	default is "AUTO".
720
721	The $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces specifies whether IFDISABLED
722	flag (see an entry of 20090926) is set on an interface with no
723	corresponding $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 line.  The default is "NO" for
724	security reason.  If you want IPv6 link-local address on all
725	interfaces by default, set this to "YES".
726
727	The old ipv6_prefer="YES" is equivalent to
728	ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" and
729	ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer".
730
73120100913:
732	DTrace has grown support for userland tracing. Due to this, DTrace is
733	now i386 and amd64 only.
734	dtruss(1) is now installed by default on those systems and a new
735	kernel module is needed for userland tracing: fasttrap.
736	No changes to your kernel config file are necessary to enable
737	userland tracing, but you might consider adding 'STRIP=' and
738	'CFLAGS+=-fno-omit-frame-pointer' to your make.conf if you want
739	to have informative userland stack traces in DTrace (ustack).
740
74120100725:
742	The acpi_aiboost(4) driver has been removed in favor of the new
743	aibs(4) driver. You should update your kernel configuration file.
744
74520100722:
746	BSD grep has been imported to the base system and it is built by
747	default.  It is completely BSD licensed, highly GNU-compatible, uses
748	less memory than its GNU counterpart and has a small codebase.
749	However, it is slower than its GNU counterpart, which is mostly
750	noticeable for larger searches, for smaller ones it is measurable
751	but not significant.  The reason is complex, the most important factor
752	is that we lack a modern and efficient regex library and GNU
753	overcomes this by optimizing the searches internally.  Future work
754	on improving the regex performance is planned, for the meantime,
755	users that need better performance, can build GNU grep instead by
756	setting the WITH_GNU_GREP knob.
757
75820100713:
759	Due to the import of powerpc64 support, all existing powerpc kernel
760	configuration files must be updated with a machine directive like this:
761	    machine powerpc powerpc
762
763	In addition, an updated config(8) is required to build powerpc kernels
764	after this change.
765
76620100713:
767	A new version of ZFS (version 15) has been merged to -HEAD.
768	This version uses a python library for the following subcommands:
769	zfs allow, zfs unallow, zfs groupspace, zfs userspace.
770	For full functionality of these commands the following port must
771	be installed: sysutils/py-zfs
772
77320100429:
774	'vm_page's are now hashed by physical address to an array of mutexes.
775	Currently this is only used to serialize access to hold_count. Over 
776	time the page queue mutex will be peeled away. This changes the size
777	of pmap on every architecture. And requires all callers of vm_page_hold
778	and vm_page_unhold to be updated. 
779 
78020100402:
781	WITH_CTF can now be specified in src.conf (not recommended, there
782	are some problems with static executables), make.conf (would also
783	affect ports which do not use GNU make and do not override the
784	compile targets) or in the kernel config (via "makeoptions
785	WITH_CTF=yes").
786	When WITH_CTF was specified there before this was silently ignored,
787	so make sure that WITH_CTF is not used in places which could lead
788	to unwanted behavior.
789
79020100311:
791	The kernel option COMPAT_IA32 has been replaced with COMPAT_FREEBSD32
792	to allow 32-bit compatibility on non-x86 platforms. All kernel
793	configurations on amd64 and ia64 platforms using these options must
794	be modified accordingly.
795
79620100113:
797	The utmp user accounting database has been replaced with utmpx,
798	the user accounting interface standardized by POSIX.
799	Unfortunately the semantics of utmp and utmpx don't match,
800	making it practically impossible to support both interfaces.
801	The user accounting database is used by tools like finger(1),
802	last(1), talk(1), w(1) and ac(8).
803
804	All applications in the base system use utmpx.  This means only
805	local binaries (e.g. from the ports tree) may still use these
806	utmp database files.  These applications must be rebuilt to make
807	use of utmpx.
808
809	After the system has been upgraded, it is safe to remove the old
810	log files (/var/run/utmp, /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/wtmp*),
811	assuming their contents is of no importance anymore.  Old wtmp
812	databases can only be used by last(1) and ac(8) after they have
813	been converted to the new format using wtmpcvt(1).
814
81520100108:
816	Introduce the kernel thread "deadlock resolver" (which can be enabled
817	via the DEADLKRES option, see NOTES for more details) and the
818	sleepq_type() function for sleepqueues.
819
82020091202:
821	The rc.firewall and rc.firewall6 were unified, and
822	rc.firewall6 and rc.d/ip6fw were removed.
823	According to the removal of rc.d/ip6fw, ipv6_firewall_* rc
824	variables are obsoleted.  Instead, the following new rc
825	variables are added to rc.d/ipfw:
826
827		firewall_client_net_ipv6, firewall_simple_iif_ipv6,
828		firewall_simple_inet_ipv6, firewall_simple_oif_ipv6,
829		firewall_simple_onet_ipv6, firewall_trusted_ipv6
830
831	The meanings correspond to the relevant IPv4 variables.
832
83320091125:
834	8.0-RELEASE.
835
83620091113:
837	The default terminal emulation for syscons(4) has been changed
838	from cons25 to xterm on all platforms except pc98.  This means
839	that the /etc/ttys file needs to be updated to ensure correct
840	operation of applications on the console.
841
842	The terminal emulation style can be toggled per window by using
843	vidcontrol(1)'s -T flag.  The TEKEN_CONS25 kernel configuration
844	options can be used to change the compile-time default back to
845	cons25.
846
847	To prevent graphical artifacts, make sure the TERM environment
848	variable is set to match the terminal emulation that is being
849	performed by syscons(4).
850
85120091109:
852	The layout of the structure ieee80211req_scan_result has changed.
853	Applications that require wireless scan results (e.g. ifconfig(8))
854	from net80211 need to be recompiled.
855
856	Applications such as wpa_supplicant(8) may require a full world
857	build without using NO_CLEAN in order to get synchronized with the
858	new structure.
859
86020091025:
861	The iwn(4) driver has been updated to support the 5000 and 5150 series.
862	There's one kernel module for each firmware. Adding "device iwnfw"
863	to the kernel configuration file means including all three firmware
864	images inside the kernel. If you want to include just the one for
865	your wireless card, use the devices iwn4965fw, iwn5000fw or
866	iwn5150fw.
867
86820090926:
869	The rc.d/network_ipv6, IPv6 configuration script has been integrated
870	into rc.d/netif.  The changes are the following:
871
872	1. To use IPv6, simply define $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 like $ifconfig_IF
873	   for IPv4.  For aliases, $ifconfig_IF_aliasN should be used.
874	   Note that both variables need the "inet6" keyword at the head.
875
876	   Do not set $ipv6_network_interfaces manually if you do not
877	   understand what you are doing.  It is not needed in most cases. 
878
879	   $ipv6_ifconfig_IF and $ipv6_ifconfig_IF_aliasN still work, but
880	   they are obsolete.
881
882	2. $ipv6_enable is obsolete.  Use $ipv6_prefer and
883	   "inet6 accept_rtadv" keyword in ifconfig(8) instead.
884
885	   If you define $ipv6_enable=YES, it means $ipv6_prefer=YES and
886	   all configured interfaces have "inet6 accept_rtadv" in the
887	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  These are for backward compatibility.
888
889	3. A new variable $ipv6_prefer has been added.  If NO, IPv6
890	   functionality of interfaces with no corresponding
891	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 is disabled by using "inet6 ifdisabled" flag,
892	   and the default address selection policy of ip6addrctl(8) 
893	   is the IPv4-preferred one (see rc.d/ip6addrctl for more details).
894	   Note that if you want to configure IPv6 functionality on the
895	   disabled interfaces after boot, first you need to clear the flag by
896	   using ifconfig(8) like:
897
898		ifconfig em0 inet6 -ifdisabled
899
900	   If YES, the default address selection policy is set as
901	   IPv6-preferred.
902
903	   The default value of $ipv6_prefer is NO.
904
905	4. If your system need to receive Router Advertisement messages,
906	   define "inet6 accept_rtadv" in $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  The rc(8)
907	   scripts automatically invoke rtsol(8) when the interface becomes
908	   UP.  The Router Advertisement messages are used for SLAAC
909	   (State-Less Address AutoConfiguration).
910
91120090922:
912	802.11s D3.03 support was committed. This is incompatible with the
913	previous code, which was based on D3.0.
914
91520090912:
916	A sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv now sets the default value
917	of a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV, not a global knob to
918	control whether accepting Router Advertisement messages or not.
919	Also, a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_AUTO_LINKLOCAL has been added and
920	a sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal is its default value.
921	The ifconfig(8) utility now supports these flags.
922
92320090910:
924	ZFS snapshots are now mounted with MNT_IGNORE flag. Use -v option for
925	mount(8) and -a option for df(1) to see them.
926
92720090825:
928	The old tunable hw.bus.devctl_disable has been superseded by
929	hw.bus.devctl_queue.  hw.bus.devctl_disable=1 in loader.conf should be
930	replaced by hw.bus.devctl_queue=0.  The default for this new tunable
931	is 1000.
932
93320090813:
934	Remove the option STOP_NMI.  The default action is now to use NMI only
935	for KDB via the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and
936	maintain stop_cpus() to just use a normal IPI_STOP on ia32 and amd64.
937
93820090803:
939	The stable/8 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
940	RELENG_8 branch in CVS.
941
94220090719:
943	Bump the shared library version numbers for all libraries that do not
944	use symbol versioning as part of the 8.0-RELEASE cycle.  Bump
945	__FreeBSD_version to 800105.
946
94720090714:
948	Due to changes in the implementation of virtual network stack support,
949	all network-related kernel modules must be recompiled.  As this change
950	breaks the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800104.
951
95220090713:
953	The TOE interface to the TCP syncache has been modified to remove
954	struct tcpopt (<netinet/tcp_var.h>) from the ABI of the network stack.
955	The cxgb driver is the only TOE consumer affected by this change, and
956	needs to be recompiled along with the kernel. As this change breaks
957	the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800103.
958
95920090712: 
960	Padding has been added to struct tcpcb, sackhint and tcpstat in
961	<netinet/tcp_var.h> to facilitate future MFCs and bug fixes whilst
962	maintaining the ABI. However, this change breaks the ABI, so bump
963	__FreeBSD_version to 800102. User space tools that rely on the size of
964	any of these structs (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
965
96620090630:
967	The NFS_LEGACYRPC option has been removed along with the old kernel
968	RPC implementation that this option selected. Kernel configurations
969	may need to be adjusted.
970
97120090629:
972	The network interface device nodes at /dev/net/<interface> have been
973	removed.  All ioctl operations can be performed the normal way using
974	routing sockets.  The kqueue functionality can generally be replaced
975	with routing sockets.
976
97720090628:
978	The documentation from the FreeBSD Documentation Project (Handbook,
979	FAQ, etc.) is now installed via packages by sysinstall(8) and under
980	the /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd directory instead of /usr/share/doc.
981
98220090624:
983	The ABI of various structures related to the SYSV IPC API have been
984	changed.  As a result, the COMPAT_FREEBSD[456] and COMPAT_43 kernel
985	options now all require COMPAT_FREEBSD7.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to
986	800100.
987
98820090622:
989	Layout of struct vnet has changed as routing related variables were
990	moved to their own Vimage module. Modules need to be recompiled.  Bump
991	__FreeBSD_version to 800099.
992
99320090619:
994	NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS have been increased from 16 to 1023 and 1024
995	respectively.  As long as no more than 16 groups per process are used,
996	no changes should be visible.  When more than 16 groups are used, old
997	binaries may fail if they call getgroups() or getgrouplist() with
998	statically sized storage.  Recompiling will work around this, but
999	applications should be modified to use dynamically allocated storage
1000	for group arrays as POSIX.1-2008 does not cap an implementation's
1001	number of supported groups at NGROUPS_MAX+1 as previous versions did.
1002
1003	NFS and portalfs mounts may also be affected as the list of groups is
1004	truncated to 16.  Users of NFS who use more than 16 groups, should
1005	take care that negative group permissions are not used on the exported
1006	file systems as they will not be reliable unless a GSSAPI based
1007	authentication method is used.
1008
100920090616: 
1010	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_LOCKMGRS has been introduced.  This
1011	option compiles in the support for adaptive spinning for lockmgrs
1012	which want to enable it.  The lockinit() function now accepts the flag
1013	LK_ADAPTIVE in order to make the lock object subject to adaptive
1014	spinning when both held in write and read mode.
1015
101620090613:
1017	The layout of the structure returned by IEEE80211_IOC_STA_INFO has
1018	changed.  User applications that use this ioctl need to be rebuilt.
1019
102020090611:
1021	The layout of struct thread has changed.  Kernel and modules need to
1022	be rebuilt.
1023
102420090608:
1025	The layout of structs ifnet, domain, protosw and vnet_net has changed.
1026	Kernel modules need to be rebuilt.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097.
1027
102820090602:
1029	window(1) has been removed from the base system. It can now be
1030	installed from ports. The port is called misc/window.
1031
103220090601:
1033	The way we are storing and accessing `routing table' entries has
1034	changed. Programs reading the FIB, like netstat, need to be
1035	re-compiled.
1036
103720090601:
1038	A new netisr implementation has been added for FreeBSD 8.  Network
1039	file system modules, such as igmp, ipdivert, and others, should be
1040	rebuilt.
1041	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800096.
1042
104320090530:
1044	Remove the tunable/sysctl debug.mpsafevfs as its initial purpose is no
1045	more valid.
1046
104720090530:
1048	Add VOP_ACCESSX(9).  File system modules need to be rebuilt.
1049	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800094.
1050
105120090529:
1052	Add mnt_xflag field to 'struct mount'.  File system modules need to be
1053	rebuilt.
1054	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800093.
1055
105620090528:
1057	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_SX has been retired while it has been
1058	introduced the option NO_ADAPTIVE_SX which handles the reversed logic.
1059	The KPI for sx_init_flags() changes as accepting flags:
1060	SX_ADAPTIVESPIN flag has been retired while the SX_NOADAPTIVE flag has
1061	been introduced in order to handle the reversed logic.
1062	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800092.
1063
106420090527:
1065	Add support for hierarchical jails.  Remove global securelevel.
1066	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800091.
1067
106820090523:
1069	The layout of struct vnet_net has changed, therefore modules
1070	need to be rebuilt.
1071	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800090.
1072
107320090523:
1074	The newly imported zic(8) produces a new format in the output. Please
1075	run tzsetup(8) to install the newly created data to /etc/localtime.
1076
107720090520:
1078	The sysctl tree for the usb stack has renamed from hw.usb2.* to
1079	hw.usb.* and is now consistent again with previous releases.
1080
108120090520:
1082	802.11 monitor mode support was revised and driver api's were changed.
1083	Drivers dependent on net80211 now support DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO instead
1084	of DLT_IEEE802_11.  No user-visible data structures were changed but
1085	applications that use DLT_IEEE802_11 may require changes.
1086	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800088.
1087
108820090430:
1089	The layout of the following structs has changed: sysctl_oid,
1090	socket, ifnet, inpcbinfo, tcpcb, syncache_head, vnet_inet,
1091	vnet_inet6 and vnet_ipfw.  Most modules need to be rebuild or
1092	panics may be experienced.  World rebuild is required for
1093	correctly checking networking state from userland.
1094	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800085.
1095
109620090429:
1097	MLDv2 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
1098	to the IPv6 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
1099	The implementation of SSM within FreeBSD's IPv6 stack closely
1100	follows the IPv4 implementation.
1101
1102	For kernel developers:
1103
1104	* The most important changes are that the ip6_output() and
1105	  ip6_input() paths no longer take the IN6_MULTI_LOCK,
1106	  and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
1107
1108	* As with the changes to the IPv4 stack to support SSM, filtering
1109	  of inbound multicast traffic must now be performed by transport
1110	  protocols within the IPv6 stack. This does not apply to TCP and
1111	  SCTP, however, it does apply to UDP in IPv6 and raw IPv6.
1112
1113	* The KPIs used by IPv6 multicast are similar to those used by
1114	  the IPv4 stack, with the following differences:
1115	   * im6o_mc_filter() is analogous to imo_multicast_filter().
1116	   * The legacy KAME entry points in6_joingroup and in6_leavegroup()
1117	     are shimmed to in6_mc_join() and in6_mc_leave() respectively.
1118	   * IN6_LOOKUP_MULTI() has been deprecated and removed.
1119	   * IPv6 relies on MLD for the DAD mechanism. KAME's internal KPIs
1120	     for MLDv1 have an additional 'timer' argument which is used to
1121	     jitter the initial membership report for the solicited-node
1122	     multicast membership on-link.
1123	   * This is not strictly needed for MLDv2, which already jitters
1124	     its report transmissions.  However, the 'timer' argument is
1125	     preserved in case MLDv1 is active on the interface.
1126
1127	* The KAME linked-list based IPv6 membership implementation has
1128	  been refactored to use a vector similar to that used by the IPv4
1129	  stack.
1130	  Code which maintains a list of its own multicast memberships
1131	  internally, e.g. carp, has been updated to reflect the new
1132	  semantics.
1133
1134	* There is a known Lock Order Reversal (LOR) due to in6_setscope()
1135	  acquiring the IF_AFDATA_LOCK and being called within ip6_output().
1136	  Whilst MLDv2 tries to avoid this otherwise benign LOR, it is an
1137	  implementation constraint which needs to be addressed in HEAD.
1138
1139	For application developers:
1140
1141	* The changes are broadly similar to those made for the IPv4
1142	  stack.
1143
1144	* The use of IPv4 and IPv6 multicast socket options on the same
1145	  socket, using mapped addresses, HAS NOT been tested or supported.
1146
1147	* There are a number of issues with the implementation of various
1148	  IPv6 multicast APIs which need to be resolved in the API surface
1149	  before the implementation is fully compatible with KAME userland
1150	  use, and these are mostly to do with interface index treatment.
1151
1152	* The literature available discusses the use of either the delta / ASM
1153	  API with setsockopt(2)/getsockopt(2), or the full-state / ASM API
1154	  using setsourcefilter(3)/getsourcefilter(3). For more information
1155	  please refer to RFC 3768, 'Socket Interface Extensions for
1156	  Multicast Source Filters'.
1157
1158	* Applications which use the published RFC 3678 APIs should be fine.
1159
1160	For systems administrators:
1161
1162	* The mtest(8) utility has been refactored to support IPv6, in
1163	  addition to IPv4. Interface addresses are no longer accepted
1164	  as arguments, their names must be used instead. The utility
1165	  will map the interface name to its first IPv4 address as
1166	  returned by getifaddrs(3).
1167
1168	* The ifmcstat(8) utility has also been updated to print the MLDv2
1169	  endpoint state and source filter lists via sysctl(3).
1170
1171	* The net.inet6.ip6.mcast.loop sysctl may be tuned to 0 to disable
1172	  loopback of IPv6 multicast datagrams by default; it defaults to 1
1173	  to preserve the existing behaviour. Disabling multicast loopback is
1174	  recommended for optimal system performance.
1175
1176	* The IPv6 MROUTING code has been changed to examine this sysctl
1177	  instead of attempting to perform a group lookup before looping
1178	  back forwarded datagrams.
1179
1180	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800084.
1181
118220090422:
1183	Implement low-level Bluetooth HCI API.
1184	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800083.
1185
118620090419:
1187	The layout of struct malloc_type, used by modules to register new
1188	memory allocation types, has changed.  Most modules will need to
1189	be rebuilt or panics may be experienced.
1190	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800081.
1191
119220090415:
1193	Anticipate overflowing inp_flags - add inp_flags2.
1194	This changes most offsets in inpcb, so checking v4 connection
1195	state will require a world rebuild.
1196	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800080.
1197
119820090415:
1199	Add an llentry to struct route and struct route_in6. Modules
1200	embedding a struct route will need to be recompiled.
1201	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800079.
1202
120320090414:
1204	The size of rt_metrics_lite and by extension rtentry has changed.
1205	Networking administration apps will need to be recompiled.
1206	The route command now supports show as an alias for get, weighting
1207	of routes, sticky and nostick flags to alter the behavior of stateful
1208	load balancing.
1209	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800078.
1210
121120090408:
1212	Do not use Giant for kbdmux(4) locking. This is wrong and
1213	apparently causing more problems than it solves. This will
1214	re-open the issue where interrupt handlers may race with
1215	kbdmux(4) in polling mode. Typical symptoms include (but
1216	not limited to) duplicated and/or missing characters when
1217	low level console functions (such as gets) are used while
1218	interrupts are enabled (for example geli password prompt,
1219	mountroot prompt etc.). Disabling kbdmux(4) may help.
1220
122120090407:
1222	The size of structs vnet_net, vnet_inet and vnet_ipfw has changed;
1223	kernel modules referencing any of the above need to be recompiled.
1224	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800075.
1225
122620090320:
1227	GEOM_PART has become the default partition slicer for storage devices,
1228	replacing GEOM_MBR, GEOM_BSD, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_GPT slicers. It
1229	introduces some changes:
1230
1231	MSDOS/EBR: the devices created from MSDOS extended partition entries
1232	(EBR) can be named differently than with GEOM_MBR and are now symlinks
1233	to devices with offset-based names. fstabs may need to be modified.
1234
1235	BSD: the "geometry does not match label" warning is harmless in most
1236	cases but it points to problems in file system misalignment with
1237	disk geometry. The "c" partition is now implicit, covers the whole
1238	top-level drive and cannot be (mis)used by users.
1239
1240	General: Kernel dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices
1241	whose partition types indicate they are meant to be used for file
1242	systems (or, in case of MSDOS partitions, as something else than
1243	the "386BSD" type).
1244
1245	Most of these changes date approximately from 200812.
1246
124720090319:
1248	The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows
1249	Linux removing theirs in 2.6 and making libusb the default interface
1250	(supported by sane).
1251
125220090319:
1253	The multicast forwarding code has been cleaned up. netstat(1)
1254	only relies on KVM now for printing bandwidth upcall meters.
1255	The IPv4 and IPv6 modules are split into ip_mroute_mod and
1256	ip6_mroute_mod respectively. The config(5) options for statically
1257	compiling this code remain the same, i.e. 'options MROUTING'.
1258
125920090315:
1260	Support for the IFF_NEEDSGIANT network interface flag has been
1261	removed, which means that non-MPSAFE network device drivers are no
1262	longer supported.  In particular, if_ar, if_sr, and network device
1263	drivers from the old (legacy) USB stack can no longer be built or
1264	used.
1265
126620090313:
1267	POSIX.1 Native Language Support (NLS) has been enabled in libc and
1268	a bunch of new language catalog files have also been added.
1269	This means that some common libc messages are now localized and
1270	they depend on the LC_MESSAGES environmental variable.
1271
127220090313:
1273	The k8temp(4) driver has been renamed to amdtemp(4) since
1274	support for Family 10 and Family 11 CPU families was added.
1275
127620090309:
1277	IGMPv3 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
1278	to the IPv4 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
1279
1280	For kernel developers, the most important changes are that the
1281	ip_output() and ip_input() paths no longer take the IN_MULTI_LOCK(),
1282	and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
1283
1284	Transport protocols (UDP, Raw IP) are now responsible for filtering
1285	inbound multicast traffic according to group membership and source
1286	filters. The imo_multicast_filter() KPI exists for this purpose.
1287	Transports which do not use multicast (SCTP, TCP) already reject
1288	multicast by default. Forwarding and receive performance may improve
1289	as a mutex acquisition is no longer needed in the ip_input()
1290	low-level input path.  in_addmulti() and in_delmulti() are shimmed
1291	to new KPIs which exist to support SSM in-kernel.
1292
1293	For application developers, it is recommended that loopback of
1294	multicast datagrams be disabled for best performance, as this
1295	will still cause the lock to be taken for each looped-back
1296	datagram transmission. The net.inet.ip.mcast.loop sysctl may
1297	be tuned to 0 to disable loopback by default; it defaults to 1
1298	to preserve the existing behaviour.
1299
1300	For systems administrators, to obtain best performance with
1301	multicast reception and multiple groups, it is always recommended
1302	that a card with a suitably precise hash filter is used. Hash
1303	collisions will still result in the lock being taken within the
1304	transport protocol input path to check group membership.
1305
1306	If deploying FreeBSD in an environment with IGMP snooping switches,
1307	it is recommended that the net.inet.igmp.sendlocal sysctl remain
1308	enabled; this forces 224.0.0.0/24 group membership to be announced
1309	via IGMP.
1310
1311	The size of 'struct igmpstat' has changed; netstat needs to be
1312	recompiled to reflect this.
1313	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800070.
1314
131520090309:
1316	libusb20.so.1 is now installed as libusb.so.1 and the ports system
1317	updated to use it. This requires a buildworld/installworld in order to
1318	update the library and dependencies (usbconfig, etc). Its advisable to
1319	rebuild all ports which uses libusb. More specific directions are given
1320	in the ports collection UPDATING file. Any /etc/libmap.conf entries for
1321	libusb are no longer required and can be removed.
1322
132320090302:
1324	A workaround is committed to allow the creation of System V shared
1325	memory segment of size > 2 GB on the 64-bit architectures.
1326	Due to a limitation of the existing ABI, the shm_segsz member
1327	of the struct shmid_ds, returned by shmctl(IPC_STAT) call is
1328	wrong for large segments. Note that limits must be explicitly
1329	raised to allow such segments to be created.
1330
133120090301:
1332	The layout of struct ifnet has changed, requiring a rebuild of all
1333	network device driver modules.
1334
133520090227:
1336	The /dev handling for the new USB stack has changed, a
1337	buildworld/installworld is required for libusb20.
1338
133920090223:
1340	The new USB2 stack has now been permanently moved in and all kernel and
1341	module names reverted to their previous values (eg, usb, ehci, ohci,
1342	ums, ...).  The old usb stack can be compiled in by prefixing the name
1343	with the letter 'o', the old usb modules have been removed.
1344	Updating entry 20090216 for xorg and 20090215 for libmap may still
1345	apply.
1346
134720090217:
1348	The rc.conf(5) option if_up_delay has been renamed to
1349	defaultroute_delay to better reflect its purpose. If you have
1350	customized this setting in /etc/rc.conf you need to update it to
1351	use the new name.
1352
135320090216:
1354	xorg 7.4 wants to configure its input devices via hald which does not
1355	yet work with USB2. If the keyboard/mouse does not work in xorg then
1356	add
1357		Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
1358	to your ServerLayout section.  This will cause X to use the configured
1359	kbd and mouse sections from your xorg.conf.
1360
136120090215:
1362	The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new USB2
1363	stack. No kernel config options or code have been removed so if a
1364	problem arises please report it and optionally revert to the old USB
1365	stack. If you are loading USB kernel modules or have a custom kernel
1366	that includes GENERIC then ensure that usb names are also changed over,
1367	eg uftdi -> usb2_serial_ftdi.
1368
1369	Older programs linked against the ports libusb 0.1 need to be
1370	redirected to the new stack's libusb20.  /etc/libmap.conf can
1371	be used for this:
1372		# Map old usb library to new one for usb2 stack
1373		libusb-0.1.so.8	libusb20.so.1
1374
137520090209:
1376	All USB ethernet devices now attach as interfaces under the name ueN
1377	(eg. ue0). This is to provide a predictable name as vendors often
1378	change usb chipsets in a product without notice.
1379
138020090203:
1381	The ichsmb(4) driver has been changed to require SMBus slave
1382	addresses be left-justified (xxxxxxx0b) rather than right-justified.
1383	All of the other SMBus controller drivers require left-justified
1384	slave addresses, so this change makes all the drivers provide the
1385	same interface.
1386
138720090201:
1388	INET6 statistics (struct ip6stat) was updated.
1389	netstat(1) needs to be recompiled.
1390
139120090119:
1392	NTFS has been removed from GENERIC kernel on amd64 to match
1393	GENERIC on i386. Should not cause any issues since mount_ntfs(8)
1394	will load ntfs.ko module automatically when NTFS support is
1395	actually needed, unless ntfs.ko is not installed or security
1396	level prohibits loading kernel modules. If either is the case,
1397	"options NTFS" has to be added into kernel config.
1398
139920090115:
1400	TCP Appropriate Byte Counting (RFC 3465) support added to kernel.
1401	New field in struct tcpcb breaks ABI, so bump __FreeBSD_version to
1402	800061. User space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in
1403	tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
1404
140520081225:
1406	ng_tty(4) module updated to match the new TTY subsystem.
1407	Due to API change, user-level applications must be updated.
1408	New API support added to mpd5 CVS and expected to be present
1409	in next mpd5.3 release.
1410
141120081219:
1412	With __FreeBSD_version 800060 the makefs tool is part of
1413	the base system (it was a port).
1414
141520081216:
1416	The afdata and ifnet locks have been changed from mutexes to
1417	rwlocks, network modules will need to be re-compiled.
1418
141920081214:
1420	__FreeBSD_version 800059 incorporates the new arp-v2 rewrite.
1421	RTF_CLONING, RTF_LLINFO and RTF_WASCLONED flags are eliminated.
1422	The new code reduced struct rtentry{} by 16 bytes on 32-bit
1423	architecture and 40 bytes on 64-bit architecture. The userland
1424	applications "arp" and "ndp" have been updated accordingly.
1425	The output from "netstat -r" shows only routing entries and
1426	none of the L2 information.
1427
142820081130:
1429	__FreeBSD_version 800057 marks the switchover from the
1430	binary ath hal to source code. Users must add the line:
1431
1432	options	AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
1433
1434	to their kernel config files when specifying:
1435
1436	device	ath_hal
1437
1438	The ath_hal module no longer exists; the code is now compiled
1439	together with the driver in the ath module.  It is now
1440	possible to tailor chip support (i.e. reduce the set of chips
1441	and thereby the code size); consult ath_hal(4) for details.
1442
144320081121:
1444	__FreeBSD_version 800054 adds memory barriers to
1445	<machine/atomic.h>, new interfaces to ifnet to facilitate
1446	multiple hardware transmit queues for cards that support
1447	them, and a lock-less ring-buffer implementation to
1448	enable drivers to more efficiently manage queueing of
1449	packets.
1450
145120081117:
1452	A new version of ZFS (version 13) has been merged to -HEAD.
1453	This version has zpool attribute "listsnapshots" off by
1454	default, which means "zfs list" does not show snapshots,
1455	and is the same as Solaris behavior.
1456
145720081028:
1458	dummynet(4) ABI has changed. ipfw(8) needs to be recompiled.
1459
146020081009:
1461	The uhci, ohci, ehci and slhci USB Host controller drivers have
1462	been put into separate modules. If you load the usb module
1463	separately through loader.conf you will need to load the
1464	appropriate *hci module as well. E.g. for a UHCI-based USB 2.0
1465	controller add the following to loader.conf:
1466
1467		uhci_load="YES"
1468		ehci_load="YES"
1469
147020081009:
1471	The ABI used by the PMC toolset has changed.  Please keep
1472	userland (libpmc(3)) and the kernel module (hwpmc(4)) in
1473	sync.
1474
147520081009:
1476	atapci kernel module now includes only generic PCI ATA
1477	driver. AHCI driver moved to ataahci kernel module.
1478	All vendor-specific code moved into separate kernel modules:
1479	ataacard, ataacerlabs, ataadaptec, ataamd, ataati, atacenatek,
1480	atacypress, atacyrix, atahighpoint, ataintel, ataite, atajmicron,
1481	atamarvell, atamicron, atanational, atanetcell, atanvidia,
1482	atapromise, ataserverworks, atasiliconimage, atasis, atavia
1483
148420080820:
1485	The TTY subsystem of the kernel has been replaced by a new
1486	implementation, which provides better scalability and an
1487	improved driver model. Most common drivers have been migrated to
1488	the new TTY subsystem, while others have not. The following
1489	drivers have not yet been ported to the new TTY layer:
1490
1491	PCI/ISA:
1492		cy, digi, rc, rp, sio
1493
1494	USB:
1495		ubser, ucycom
1496
1497	Line disciplines:
1498		ng_h4, ng_tty, ppp, sl, snp
1499
1500	Adding these drivers to your kernel configuration file shall
1501	cause compilation to fail.
1502
150320080818:
1504	ntpd has been upgraded to 4.2.4p5.
1505
150620080801:
1507	OpenSSH has been upgraded to 5.1p1.
1508
1509	For many years, FreeBSD's version of OpenSSH preferred DSA
1510	over RSA for host and user authentication keys.  With this
1511	upgrade, we've switched to the vendor's default of RSA over
1512	DSA.  This may cause upgraded clients to warn about unknown
1513	host keys even for previously known hosts.  Users should
1514	follow the usual procedure for verifying host keys before
1515	accepting the RSA key.
1516
1517	This can be circumvented by setting the "HostKeyAlgorithms"
1518	option to "ssh-dss,ssh-rsa" in ~/.ssh/config or on the ssh
1519	command line.
1520
1521	Please note that the sequence of keys offered for
1522	authentication has been changed as well.  You may want to
1523	specify IdentityFile in a different order to revert this
1524	behavior.
1525
152620080713:
1527	The sio(4) driver has been removed from the i386 and amd64
1528	kernel configuration files. This means uart(4) is now the
1529	default serial port driver on those platforms as well.
1530
1531	To prevent collisions with the sio(4) driver, the uart(4) driver
1532	uses different names for its device nodes. This means the
1533	onboard serial port will now most likely be called "ttyu0"
1534	instead of "ttyd0". You may need to reconfigure applications to
1535	use the new device names.
1536
1537	When using the serial port as a boot console, be sure to update
1538	/boot/device.hints and /etc/ttys before booting the new kernel.
1539	If you forget to do so, you can still manually specify the hints
1540	at the loader prompt:
1541
1542		set hint.uart.0.at="isa"
1543		set hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8"
1544		set hint.uart.0.flags="0x10"
1545		set hint.uart.0.irq="4"
1546		boot -s
1547
154820080609:
1549	The gpt(8) utility has been removed. Use gpart(8) to partition
1550	disks instead.
1551
155220080603:
1553	The version that Linuxulator emulates was changed from 2.4.2
1554	to 2.6.16. If you experience any problems with Linux binaries
1555	please try to set sysctl compat.linux.osrelease to 2.4.2 and
1556	if it fixes the problem contact emulation mailing list.
1557
155820080525:
1559	ISDN4BSD (I4B) was removed from the src tree. You may need to
1560	update a your kernel configuration and remove relevant entries.
1561
156220080509:
1563	I have checked in code to support multiple routing tables.
1564	See the man pages setfib(1) and setfib(2).
1565	This is a hopefully backwards compatible version,
1566	but to make use of it you need to compile your kernel
1567	with options ROUTETABLES=2 (or more up to 16).
1568
156920080420:
1570	The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss
1571	operation on devices that are capable.  The underlying device
1572	is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are
1573	cloned with ifconfig.  This requires changes to rc.conf files.
1574	For example, change:
1575		ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP"
1576	to
1577		wlans_ath0=wlan0
1578		ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
1579	see rc.conf(5) for more details.  In addition, mergemaster of
1580	/etc/rc.d is highly recommended.  Simultaneous update of userland
1581	and kernel wouldn't hurt either.
1582
1583	As part of the multi-bss changes the wlan_scan_ap and wlan_scan_sta
1584	modules were merged into the base wlan module.  All references
1585	to these modules (e.g. in kernel config files) must be removed.
1586
158720080408:
1588	psm(4) has gained write(2) support in native operation level.
1589	Arbitrary commands can be written to /dev/psm%d and status can
1590	be read back from it.  Therefore, an application is responsible
1591	for status validation and error recovery.  It is a no-op in
1592	other operation levels.
1593
159420080312:
1595	Support for KSE threading has been removed from the kernel.  To
1596	run legacy applications linked against KSE libmap.conf may
1597	be used.  The following libmap.conf may be used to ensure
1598	compatibility with any prior release:
1599
1600	libpthread.so.1 libthr.so.1
1601	libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2
1602	libkse.so.3 libthr.so.3
1603
160420080301:
1605	The layout of struct vmspace has changed. This affects libkvm
1606	and any executables that link against libkvm and use the
1607	kvm_getprocs() function. In particular, but not exclusively,
1608	it affects ps(1), fstat(1), pkill(1), systat(1), top(1) and w(1).
1609	The effects are minimal, but it's advisable to upgrade world
1610	nonetheless.
1611
161220080229:
1613	The latest em driver no longer has support in it for the
1614	82575 adapter, this is now moved to the igb driver. The
1615	split was done to make new features that are incompatible
1616	with older hardware easier to do.
1617
161820080220:
1619	The new geom_lvm(4) geom class has been renamed to geom_linux_lvm(4),
1620	likewise the kernel option is now GEOM_LINUX_LVM.
1621
162220080211:
1623	The default NFS mount mode has changed from UDP to TCP for
1624	increased reliability.  If you rely on (insecurely) NFS
1625	mounting across a firewall you may need to update your
1626	firewall rules.
1627
162820080208:
1629	Belatedly note the addition of m_collapse for compacting
1630	mbuf chains.
1631
163220080126:
1633	The fts(3) structures have been changed to use adequate
1634	integer types for their members and so to be able to cope
1635	with huge file trees.  The old fts(3) ABI is preserved
1636	through symbol versioning in libc, so third-party binaries
1637	using fts(3) should still work, although they will not take
1638	advantage of the extended types.  At the same time, some
1639	third-party software might fail to build after this change
1640	due to unportable assumptions made in its source code about
1641	fts(3) structure members.  Such software should be fixed
1642	by its vendor or, in the worst case, in the ports tree.
1643	FreeBSD_version 800015 marks this change for the unlikely
1644	case that a portable fix is impossible.
1645
164620080123:
1647	To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running
1648	FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE.  Upgrading to -current
1649	from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems.
1650
165120071128:
1652	The ADAPTIVE_GIANT kernel option has been retired because its
1653	functionality is the default now.
1654
165520071118:
1656	The AT keyboard emulation of sunkbd(4) has been turned on
1657	by default. In order to make the special symbols of the Sun
1658	keyboards driven by sunkbd(4) work under X these now have
1659	to be configured the same way as Sun USB keyboards driven
1660	by ukbd(4) (which also does AT keyboard emulation), f.e.:
1661
1662	Option	"XkbLayout" "us"
1663	Option	"XkbRules" "xorg"
1664	Option	"XkbSymbols" "pc(pc105)+sun_vndr/usb(sun_usb)+us"
1665
166620071024:
1667	It has been decided that it is desirable to provide ABI
1668	backwards compatibility to the FreeBSD 4/5/6 versions of the
1669	PCIOCGETCONF, PCIOCREAD and PCIOCWRITE IOCTLs, which was
1670	broken with the introduction of PCI domain support (see the
1671	20070930 entry). Unfortunately, this required the ABI of
1672	PCIOCGETCONF to be broken again in order to be able to
1673	provide backwards compatibility to the old version of that
1674	IOCTL. Thus consumers of PCIOCGETCONF have to be recompiled
1675	again. As for prominent ports this affects neither pciutils
1676	nor xorg-server this time, the hal port needs to be rebuilt
1677	however.
1678
167920071020:
1680	The misnamed kthread_create() and friends have been renamed
1681	to kproc_create() etc. Many of the callers already
1682	used kproc_start()..
1683	I will return kthread_create() and friends in a while
1684	with implementations that actually create threads, not procs.
1685	Renaming corresponds with version 800002.
1686
168720071010:
1688	RELENG_7 branched.
1689
1690COMMON ITEMS:
1691
1692	General Notes
1693	-------------
1694	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1695	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
1696	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1697	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1698	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1699	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1700	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1701
1702	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
1703	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1704	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1705	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1706	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
1707
1708	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best
1709	to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first,
1710	then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade
1711	path, and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try
1712	this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade.
1713
1714	ZFS notes
1715	---------
1716	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
1717	these two steps:
1718
1719	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
1720	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
1721
1722	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
1723
1724	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
1725	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ad0:
1726	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0"
1727
1728	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
1729
1730	To build a kernel
1731	-----------------
1732	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
1733	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
1734	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
1735
1736	make kernel-toolchain
1737	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1738	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1739
1740	To test a kernel once
1741	---------------------
1742	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
1743	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
1744	debugging information) run
1745	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
1746	nextboot -k testkernel
1747
1748	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1749	--------------------------------------------------------------
1750	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
1751	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1752	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
1753
1754	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
1755	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1756	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1757	make depend
1758	make
1759	make install
1760
1761	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1762
1763	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1764	-----------------------------------------------------------
1765	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
1766	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
1767
1768	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1769	make buildworld
1770	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1771							[1]
1772	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1773	mergemaster -p					[5]
1774	make installworld
1775	mergemaster -i					[4]
1776	make delete-old					[6]
1777	<reboot>
1778
1779
1780	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1781	--------------------------------------------------
1782	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1783	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1784	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1785	# size.
1786
1787	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1788	<boot into -stable>
1789	make buildworld
1790	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1791	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1792	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1793	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1794	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
1795	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1796	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1797	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1798	<reboot into current>
1799	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1800	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1801	<reboot>
1802
1803
1804	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
1805	----------------------------------------------
1806	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1807	make buildworld					[9]
1808	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1809							[1]
1810	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1811	mergemaster -p					[5]
1812	make installworld
1813	mergemaster -i					[4]
1814	make delete-old					[6]
1815	<reboot>
1816
1817	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1818	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1819	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1820	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1821	the UPDATING entries.
1822
1823	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
1824	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
1825	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
1826	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
1827	much fewer pitfalls.
1828
1829	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1830	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1831	system on reboot.
1832
1833	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1834		fsck -p
1835		mount -u /
1836		mount -a
1837		cd src
1838		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1839	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1840	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1841
1842	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1843	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1844	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1845	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1846	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
1847	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
1848	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1849
1850	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1851	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1852	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1853	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1854	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
1855	from [78]-stable or 9-stable before 20130430.
1856
1857	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
1858	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
1859	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
1860
1861	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
1862	do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
1863	your kernel.  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1864	hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
1865	required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels.  And so on
1866	for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
1867
1868	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1869	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1870
1871	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1872	cvs prune empty directories.
1873
1874	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1875	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1876	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1877
1878	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1879	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1880	warn if it is improperly defined.
1881FORMAT:
1882
1883This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
1884breakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
1885list of such breakages, and only contains entries since October 10, 2007.
1886If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
1887to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
1888
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