UPDATING revision 295061
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
1420160130	p36	FreeBSD-SA-16:11.openssl
15
16	Fix OpenSSL SSLv2 ciphersuite downgrade vulnerability. [SA-16:11]
17
1820160127	p35	FreeBSD-SA-16:08.bind
19			FreeBSD-SA-16:09.ntp
20			FreeBSD-SA-16:10.linux
21
22	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-16:08]
23
24	Fix multiple vulnerabilities of ntp. [SA-16:09]
25
26	Fix Linux compatibility layer issetugid(2) system call
27	vulnerability. [SA-16:10]
28
2920160114	p34	FreeBSD-SA-16:07.openssh
30
31	Fix OpenSSH client information leak. [SA-16:07]
32
3320160114	p33	FreeBSD-EN-16:02.pf
34			FreeBSD-EN-16:03.yplib
35			FreeBSD-SA-16:01.sctp
36			FreeBSD-SA-16:02.ntp
37			FreeBSD-SA-16:03.linux
38			FreeBSD-SA-16:04.linux
39			FreeBSD-SA-16:05.tcp
40			FreeBSD-SA-16:06.bsnmpd
41
42	Fix pf(4) generating bad TCP checksums. [EN-16:02]
43	Fix infinite loop in YP/NIS client library. [EN-16:03]
44	Fix remote denial of service in SCTP. [SA-16:01]
45	Update NTP to 4.2.8p5. [SA-16:02]
46	Fix kernel memory diclosure in Linux compatibility layer. [SA-16:03]
47	Fix kernel memory overwrite in Linux compatibility layer. [SA-16:04]
48	Fix crash in TCP MD5 signatures. [SA-16:05]
49	Fix insecure default permissions for snmpd.config. [SA-16:06]
50
5120151216	p32	FreeBSD-SA-15:27.bind
52	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:27]
53
5420151205	p31	FreeBSD-SA-15:26.openssl
55
56	Fix OpenSSL X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak. [SA-15:26]
57
5820151104	p30	FreeBSD-SA-15:25.ntp [revised]
59			FreeBSD-EN-15:19.kqueue
60			FreeBSD-EN-15:20.vm
61
62	Fix regression of ntpq(8) utility exiting due to trap 6 in
63	9.3-RELEASE-p29. [SA-15:25]
64
65	Fix regression in ntpd(8) lacking support for RAWDCF reference
66	clock in 9.3-RELEASE-p29. [SA-15:25]
67
68	Fix kqueue write events never fired for files greater 2GB. [EN-15:19]
69
70	Fix applications exiting due to segmentation violation on a correct
71	memory address. [EN-15:20]
72
7320151026:	p29	FreeBSD-SA-15:25.ntp
74
75	Fix multiple NTP vulnerabilities. New NTP version is 4.2.8p4.
76
77	The configuration file syntax has been changed, thus mergemaster
78	run is recommended.  Now the "kod" parameter requires "limited" 
79	parameter.  If the ntp.conf is not updated, the ntpd will run 
80	successfully, but with KoD disabled.
81
8220151002:	p28	FreeBSD-SA-15:24.rpcbind [revised]
83	Revised patch to address a regression that prevents NIS from working.
84
8520150929:	p27	FreeBSD-SA-15:24.rpcbind
86
87	Fix rpcbind(8) remote denial of service. [SA-15:24]
88
8920150916:	p26	FreeBSD-EN-15:18.pkg
90
91	Implement pubkey support for pkg(7) bootstrap. [EN-15:18]
92
9320150902:	p25	FreeBSD-SA-15:23.bind
94
95	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:23]
96
9720150825:	p24	FreeBSD-SA-15:21.amd64
98			FreeBSD-SA-15:22.openssh
99			FreeBSD-EN-15:15.pkg
100
101	Fix local privilege escalation in IRET handler. [SA-15:21]
102
103	Fix OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-15:22]
104
105	Fix insufficient check of unsupported pkg(7) signature methods.
106	[EN-15:15]
107
10820150818:	p23	FreeBSD-SA-15:20.expat
109
110	Fix multiple integer overflows in expat (libbsdxml) XML parser.
111	[SA-15:20]
112
11320150805:	p22	FreeBSD-SA-15:19.routed
114
115	Fix routed remote denial of service vulnerability.
116
11720150728:	p21	FreeBSD-SA-15:15.tcp
118			FreeBSD-SA-15:16.openssh
119			FreeBSD-SA-15:17.bind
120
121	Fix resource exhaustion in TCP reassembly. [SA-15:15]
122
123	Fix OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-15:16]
124
125	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:17]
126
12720150721:	p20	FreeBSD-SA-15:13.tcp
128
129	Fix resource exhaustion due to sessions stuck in LAST_ACK state.
130	[SA-15:13]
131
13220150707:	p19	FreeBSD-SA-15:11.bind
133	Fix BIND resolver remote denial of service when validating.
134
13520150630:	p18	FreeBSD-EN-15:08.sendmail [revised]
136			FreeBSD-EN-15:09.xlocale
137
138	Improvements to sendmail TLS/DH interoperability. [EN-15:08]
139
140	Fix inconsistency between locale and rune locale states.
141	[EN-15:09]
142
14320150618:	p17	FreeBSD-EN-15:08.sendmail
144	Improvements to sendmail TLS/DH interoperability. [EN-15:08]
145
14620150612:	p16	FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl
147	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL.  [SA-15:10]
148
14920150609:	p15	FreeBSD-EN-15:06.file
150
151	Updated base system file(1) to 5.22 to address multiple denial
152	of service issues.
153
15420150513:	p14	FreeBSD-EN-15:04.freebsd-update
155
156	Fix bug with freebsd-update(8) that does not ensure the previous
157	upgrade was completed. [EN-15:04]
158
15920150407:	p13	FreeBSD-SA-15:04.igmp [revised]
160			FreeBSD-SA-15:07.ntp
161			FreeBSD-SA-15:09.ipv6
162
163	Improved patch for SA-15:04.igmp.
164
165	Fix multiple vulnerabilities of ntp. [SA-15:07]
166
167	Fix Denial of Service with IPv6 Router Advertisements. [SA-15:09]
168
16920150320:	p12
170	Fix patch for SA-15:06.openssl.
171
17220150319:	p11	FreeBSD-SA-15:06.openssl
173	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL.  [SA-15:06]
174
17520150225:	p10	FreeBSD-SA-15:04.igmp
176			FreeBSD-SA-15:05.bind
177			FreeBSD-EN-15:01.vt
178			FreeBSD-EN-15:02.openssl
179			FreeBSD-EN-15:03.freebsd-update
180
181	Fix integer overflow in IGMP protocol. [SA-15:04]
182
183	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:05]
184
185	Fix vt(4) crash with improper ioctl parameters. [EN-15:01]
186
187	Updated base system OpenSSL to 0.9.8zd. [EN-15:02]
188
189	Fix freebsd-update libraries update ordering issue. [EN-15:03]
190
19120150127:	p9	FreeBSD-SA-15:02.kmem
192			FreeBSD-SA-15:03.sctp
193
194	Fix SCTP SCTP_SS_VALUE kernel memory corruption and disclosure
195	vulnerability.  [SA-15:02]
196
197	Fix SCTP stream reset vulnerability.  [SA-15:03]
198
19920150114:	p8	FreeBSD-SA-15:01.openssl
200	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL.  [SA-15:01]
201
20220141223:	p7	FreeBSD-SA-14:31.ntp
203			FreeBSD-EN-14:13.freebsd-update
204
205	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in NTP suite.  [SA-14:31]
206	Fix directory deletion issue in freebsd-update.	 [EN-14:13]
207
20820141210:	p6	FreeBSD-SA-14:28.file
209			FreeBSD-SA-14:29.bind
210
211	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in file(1) and libmagic(3).
212	[SA-14:28]
213
214	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-14:29]
215
21620141104:	p5	FreeBSD-SA-14:25.setlogin
217			FreeBSD-SA-14:26.ftp
218			FreeBSD-EN-14:12.zfs
219
220	Fix kernel stack disclosure in setlogin(2) / getlogin(2).
221	[SA-14:25]
222
223	Fix remote command execution in ftp(1). [SA-14:26]
224
225	Fix NFSv4 and ZFS cache consistency issue. [EN-14:12]
226
22720141022:	p4	FreeBSD-EN-14:10.tzdata
228			FreeBSD-EN-14:11.crypt
229
230	Time zone data file update. [EN-14:10]
231
232	Change crypt(3) default hashing algorithm back to DES. [EN-14:11]
233
23420141021:	p3	FreeBSD-SA-14:20.rtsold
235			FreeBSD-SA-14:21.routed
236			FreeBSD-SA-14:22.namei
237			FreeBSD-SA-14:23.openssl
238
239	Fix rtsold(8) remote buffer overflow vulnerability. [SA-14:20]
240
241	Fix routed(8) remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-14:21]
242
243	Fix memory leak in sandboxed namei lookup. [SA-14:22]
244
245	Fix OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-14:23]
246
24720140916:	p2	FreeBSD-SA-14:19.tcp
248	Fix Denial of Service in TCP packet processing. [SA-14:19]
249
25020140909:	p1	FreeBSD-SA-14:18.openssl
251	Fix OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-14:18]
252
25320140716:
254	9.3-RELEASE.
255
25620140608:
257	On i386 and amd64 systems, the onifconsole flag is now set by default
258	in /etc/ttys for ttyu0. This causes ttyu0 to be automatically enabled
259	as a login TTY if it is set in the bootloader as an active kernel
260	console. No changes in behavior should result otherwise. To revert to
261	the previous behavior, set ttyu0 to "off" in /etc/ttys.
262
26320140512:
264	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release.
265
26620140321:
267	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release.
268
26920140216:
270	The nve(4) driver for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters has
271	been deprecated and will not be part of FreeBSD 11.0 and later
272	releases.  If you use this driver, please consider switching to
273	the nfe(4) driver instead.
274
27520131216:
276	The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism
277	has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string
278	than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function.
279	In particular, the random string produced from a session key of
280	enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will
281	be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change.
282	The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a
283	big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402.
284	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 902505.
285
28620130930:
287	9.2-RELEASE.
288
28920130823:
290	Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed.
291	Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs
292	path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by
293	slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs
294	subdirectories must be reviewed.
295
29620130705:
297	hastctl(8)'s `status' command output changed to terse one-liner format.
298	Scripts using this should switch to `list' command or be rewritten.
299
30020130618:
301        Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write
302        to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space
303        even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had
304        write access to that file.
305
30620130605:
307	Added ZFS TRIM support which is enabled by default. To disable
308	ZFS TRIM support set vfs.zfs.trim.enabled=0 in loader.conf.
309
310	Creating new ZFS pools and adding new devices to existing pools
311	first performs a full device level TRIM which can take a significant
312	amount of time. The sysctl vfs.zfs.vdev.trim_on_init can be set to 0
313	to disable this behaviour.
314
315	ZFS TRIM requires the underlying device support BIO_DELETE which
316	is currently provided by methods such as ATA TRIM and SCSI UNMAP
317	via CAM, which are typically supported by SSD's.
318
319	Stats for ZFS TRIM can be monitored by looking at the sysctl's
320	under kstat.zfs.misc.zio_trim.
321
32220130524:
323	`list' command has been added to hastctl(8).  For now, it is full
324	equivalent of `status' command.
325	WARNING: in the near future the output of hastctl's status command
326	will change to more terse format.  If you use `hastctl status'
327	for parsing in your scripts, switch to `hastctl list'.
328
32920130430:
330	The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
331	rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in
332	order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as
333	install and mtree.  When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where
334	the install command does not support -l, you will need to
335	install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required.
336	This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
337	&& make install).
338
339	Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build
340	and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL
341	make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the
342	command line.  If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs
343	you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or
344	/etc/src.conf.
345
34620130429:
347	Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files.
348
34920130315:
350	The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an
351	argument that is a file or path to append logs to.  In the
352	unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line
353	and the command line contained at least two files and a target
354	directory the first file will have logs appended to it.  The -M
355	option served little practical purpose in the last decade so it's
356	used expected to be extremely rare.
357
35820130225:
359	A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to.  Please refer to
360	zpool-features(7) for more information.
361
362	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
363	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
364
36520121224:
366	The VFS KBI was changed with the merge of several nullfs
367	optimizations and fixes.  All filesystem modules must be
368	recompiled.
369
37020121218:
371	With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now
372	depended on during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to add
373	the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
374
37520121205:
376	9.1-RELEASE.
377
37820121129:
379	A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to 9-STABLE.
380	Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning
381	is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward
382	compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS
383	pools. The first two read-only compatible "feature flags" for ZFS
384	pools are "com.delphix:async_destroy" and "com.delphix:empty_bpobj".
385	For more information read the new zpool-features(7) manual page.
386	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
387	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
388
38920121114:
390	The commit introducing bsd.compiler.mk breaks the traditional
391	building of kernels before this point. Add -m ${SRC}/share/mk
392	(for the right value of SRC) to your command lines to work
393	around; update your useland to a point after this; or use the
394	buildkernel/installkernel top-level targets. See also 20120829.
395
39620121102:
397	The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its
398	functionality now turned on by default.
399
40020120913:
401	The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number
402	generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally.
403	Add the PADLOCK_RNG option in the custom kernel config if
404	needed.  The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the
405	option, so the change only affects the custom kernel
406	configurations.
407
40820120829:
409	The amd64 kernel now uses xsetbv, xrstor instructions. To compile with
410	the traditional method, you must update your system with an installworld
411	before the kernel will build. The documented make buildkernel/installkernel
412	interfaces (coupled with fresh make kernel-toolchain) continue to work.
413
41420120727:
415	The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto-
416	detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these
417	to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable.
418
41920120422:
420	Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on	nullfs(5). Previously
421	nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer,
422	as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect
423	only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect
424	only to	the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the
425	lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to.
426
42720120109:
428	The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to
429	/dev/wmistat0.
430
43120120106:
432	A new VOP_ADVISE() was added to support posix_fadvise(2).  All
433	filesystem modules must be recompiled.
434
43520120106:
436	The interface of the VOP_VPTOCNP(9) changed, now the returned
437	vnode shall be referenced, previously it was required to be
438	only held.  All in-tree filesystems are converted.
439
44020120106:
441	9.0-RELEASE.
442
44320111101:
444	The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64,
445	i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files.
446
44720110913:
448	This commit modifies vfs_register() so that it uses a hash
449	calculation to set vfc_typenum, which is enabled by default.
450	The first time a system is booted after this change, the
451	vfc_typenum values will change for all file systems. The
452	main effect of this is a change to the NFS server file handles
453	for file systems that use vfc_typenum in their fsid, such as ZFS.
454	It will, however, prevent vfc_typenum from changing when file
455	systems are loaded in a different order for subsequent reboots.
456	To disable this, you can set vfs.typenumhash=0 in /boot/loader.conf
457	until you are ready to remount all NFS clients after a reboot.
458
45920110828:
460	Bump the shared library version numbers for libraries that
461	do not use symbol versioning, have changed the ABI compared
462	to stable/8 and which shared library version was not bumped.
463	Done as part of 9.0-RELEASE cycle.
464
46520110815:
466	During the merge of Capsicum features, the fget(9) KPI was modified.
467	This may require the rebuilding of out-of-tree device drivers --
468	issues have been reported specifically with the nVidia device driver.
469	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 900041.
470
471	Also, there is a period between 20110811 and 20110814 where the
472	special devices /dev/{stdin,stdout,stderr} did not work correctly.
473	Building world from a kernel during that window may not work.
474
47520110628:
476	The packet filter (pf) code has been updated to OpenBSD 4.5.
477	You need to update userland tools to be in sync with kernel.
478	This update breaks backward compatibility with earlier pfsync(4)
479	versions.  Care must be taken when updating redundant firewall setups.
480
48120110608:
482	The following sysctls and tunables are retired on x86 platforms:
483		machdep.hlt_cpus
484		machdep.hlt_logical_cpus
485	The following sysctl is retired:
486		machdep.hyperthreading_allowed
487	The sysctls were supposed to provide a way to dynamically offline and
488	online selected CPUs on x86 platforms, but the implementation has not
489	been reliable especially with SCHED_ULE scheduler.
490	machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable is still available to ignore
491	hyperthreading CPUs at OS level.
492	Individual CPUs can be disabled using hint.lapic.X.disabled tunable,
493	where X is an APIC ID of a CPU.  Be advised, though, that disabling
494	CPUs in non-uniform fashion will result in non-uniform topology and
495	may lead to sub-optimal system performance with SCHED_ULE, which is
496	a default scheduler.
497
49820110607:
499	cpumask_t type is retired and cpuset_t is used in order to describe
500	a mask of CPUs.
501
50220110531:
503	Changes to ifconfig(8) for dynamic address family detection mandate
504	that you are running a kernel of 20110525 or later.  Make sure to
505	follow the update procedure to boot a new kernel before installing
506	world.
507
50820110513:
509	Support for sun4v architecture is officially dropped
510
51120110503:
512	Several KPI breaking changes have been committed to the mii(4) layer,
513	the PHY drivers and consequently some Ethernet drivers using mii(4).
514	This means that miibus.ko and the modules of the affected Ethernet
515	drivers need to be recompiled.
516
517	Note to kernel developers: Given that the OUI bit reversion problem
518	was fixed as part of these changes all mii(4) commits related to OUIs,
519	i.e. to sys/dev/mii/miidevs, PHY driver probing and vendor specific
520	handling, no longer can be merged verbatim to stable/8 and previous
521	branches.
522
52320110430:
524	Users of the Atheros AR71xx SoC code now need to add 'device ar71xx_pci'
525	into their kernel configurations along with 'device pci'.
526
52720110427:
528	The default NFS client is now the new NFS client, so fstype "newnfs"
529	is now "nfs" and the regular/old NFS client is now fstype "oldnfs".
530	Although mounts via fstype "nfs" will usually work without userland
531	changes, it is recommended that the mount(8) and mount_nfs(8)
532	commands be rebuilt from sources and that a link to mount_nfs called
533	mount_oldnfs be created. The new client is compiled into the
534	kernel with "options NFSCL" and this is needed for diskless root
535	file systems. The GENERIC kernel configs have been changed to use
536	NFSCL and NFSD (the new server) instead of NFSCLIENT and NFSSERVER.
537	To use the regular/old client, you can "mount -t oldnfs ...". For
538	a diskless root file system, you must also include a line like:
539	
540	vfs.root.mountfrom="oldnfs:"
541
542	in the boot/loader.conf on the root fs on the NFS server to make
543	a diskless root fs use the old client.
544
54520110424:
546	The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new
547	CAM-based ATA stack. It means that all legacy ATA drivers were
548	removed and replaced by respective CAM drivers. If you are using
549	ATA device names in /etc/fstab or other places, make sure to update
550	them respectively (adX -> adaY, acdX -> cdY, afdX -> daY, astX -> saY,
551	where 'Y's are the sequential numbers starting from zero for each type
552	in order of detection, unless configured otherwise with tunables,
553	see cam(4)). There will be symbolic links created in /dev/ to map
554	old adX devices to the respective adaY. They should provide basic
555	compatibility for file systems mounting in most cases, but they do
556	not support old user-level APIs and do not have respective providers
557	in GEOM. Consider using updated management tools with new device names.
558
559	It is possible to load devices ahci, ata, siis and mvs as modules,
560	but option ATA_CAM should remain in kernel configuration to make ata
561	module work as CAM driver supporting legacy ATA controllers. Device ata
562	still can be used in modular fashion (atacore + ...). Modules atadisk
563	and atapi* are not used and won't affect operation in ATA_CAM mode.
564	Note that to use CAM-based ATA kernel should include CAM devices
565	scbus, pass, da (or explicitly ada), cd and optionally others. All of
566	them are parts of the cam module.
567
568	ataraid(4) functionality is now supported by the RAID GEOM class.
569	To use it you can load geom_raid kernel module and use graid(8) tool
570	for management. Instead of /dev/arX device names, use /dev/raid/rX.
571
572	No kernel config options or code have been removed, so if a problem
573	arises, please report it and optionally revert to the old ATA stack.
574	In order to do it you can remove from the kernel config:
575	    options        ATA_CAM
576	    device         ahci
577	    device         mvs
578	    device         siis
579	, and instead add back:
580	    device         atadisk         # ATA disk drives
581	    device         ataraid         # ATA RAID drives
582	    device         atapicd         # ATAPI CDROM drives
583	    device         atapifd         # ATAPI floppy drives
584	    device         atapist         # ATAPI tape drives
585
58620110423:
587	The default NFS server has been changed to the new server, which
588	was referred to as the experimental server. If you need to switch
589	back to the old NFS server, you must now put the "-o" option on
590	both the mountd and nfsd commands. This can be done using the
591	mountd_flags and nfs_server_flags rc.conf variables until an
592	update to the rc scripts is committed, which is coming soon.
593
59420110418:
595	The GNU Objective-C runtime library (libobjc), and other Objective-C
596	related components have been removed from the base system.  If you
597	require an Objective-C library, please use one of the available ports.
598
59920110331:
600	ath(4) has been split into bus- and device- modules. if_ath contains
601	the HAL, the TX rate control and the network device code. if_ath_pci
602	contains the PCI bus glue. For Atheros MIPS embedded systems, if_ath_ahb
603	contains the AHB glue. Users need to load both if_ath_pci and if_ath
604	in order to use ath on everything else.
605
606	TO REPEAT: if_ath_ahb is not needed for normal users. Normal users only
607	need to load if_ath and if_ath_pci for ath(4) operation.
608
60920110314:
610	As part of the replacement of sysinstall, the process of building
611	release media has changed significantly. For details, please re-read
612	release(7), which has been updated to reflect the new build process.
613
61420110218:
615	GNU binutils 2.17.50 (as of 2007-07-03) has been merged to -HEAD.  This
616	is the last available version under GPLv2.  It brings a number of new
617	features, such as support for newer x86 CPU's (with SSE-3, SSSE-3, SSE
618	4.1 and SSE 4.2), better support for powerpc64, a number of new
619	directives, and lots of other small improvements.  See the ChangeLog
620	file in contrib/binutils for the full details.
621
62220110218:
623	IPsec's HMAC_SHA256-512 support has been fixed to be RFC4868
624	compliant, and will now use half of hash for authentication.
625	This will break interoperability with all stacks (including all
626	actual FreeBSD versions) who implement
627	draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-sha-256-00 (they use 96 bits of hash for
628	authentication).
629	The only workaround with such peers is to use another HMAC
630	algorithm for IPsec ("phase 2") authentication.
631
63220110207:
633	Remove the uio_yield prototype and symbol.  This function has
634	been misnamed since it was introduced and should not be
635	globally exposed with this name.  The equivalent functionality
636	is now available using kern_yield(curthread->td_user_pri).
637	The function remains undocumented.
638
63920110112:
640	A SYSCTL_[ADD_]UQUAD was added for unsigned uint64_t pointers,
641	symmetric with the existing SYSCTL_[ADD_]QUAD.  Type checking
642	for scalar sysctls is defined but disabled.  Code that needs
643	UQUAD to pass the type checking that must compile on older
644	systems where the define is not present can check against
645	__FreeBSD_version >= 900030.
646
647	The system dialog(1) has been replaced with a new version previously
648	in ports as devel/cdialog. dialog(1) is mostly command-line compatible
649	with the previous version, but the libdialog associated with it has
650	a largely incompatible API. As such, the original version of libdialog
651	will be kept temporarily as libodialog, until its base system consumers
652	are replaced or updated. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900030.
653
65420110103:
655	If you are trying to run make universe on a -stable system, and you get
656	the following warning:
657	"Makefile", line 356: "Target architecture for i386/conf/GENERIC 
658	unknown.  config(8) likely too old."
659	or something similar to it, then you must upgrade your -stable system
660	to 8.2-Release or newer (really, any time after r210146 7/15/2010 in
661	stable/8) or build the config from the latest stable/8 branch and
662	install it on your system.
663
664	Prior to this date, building a current universe on 8-stable system from
665	between 7/15/2010 and 1/2/2011 would result in a weird shell parsing
666	error in the first kernel build phase.  A new config on those old 
667	systems will fix that problem for older versions of -current.
668
66920101228:
670	The TCP stack has been modified to allow Khelp modules to interact with
671	it via helper hook points and store per-connection data in the TCP
672	control block. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900029. User space tools that
673	rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to
674	be recompiled.
675
67620101114:
677	Generic IEEE 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support has been
678	added to mii(4) and bge(4), bce(4), msk(4), nfe(4) and stge(4) along
679	with brgphy(4), e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy() have been converted
680	to take advantage of it instead of using custom implementations.  This
681	means that these drivers now no longer unconditionally advertise
682	support for flow control but only do so if flow control is a selected
683	media option.  This was implemented in the generic support that way in
684	order to allow flow control to be switched on and off via ifconfig(8)
685	with the PHY specific default to typically off in order to protect
686	from unwanted effects.  Consequently, if you used flow control with
687	one of the above mentioned drivers you now need to explicitly enable
688	it, for example via:
689		ifconfig bge0 media auto mediaopt flowcontrol
690
691	Along with the above mentioned changes generic support for setting
692	1000baseT master mode also has been added and brgphy(4), ciphy(4),
693	e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy(4) have been converted to take
694	advantage of it.  This means that these drivers now no longer take the
695	link0 parameter for selecting master mode but the master media option
696	has to be used instead, for example like in the following:
697		ifconfig bge0 media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,master
698
699	Selection of master mode now is also available with all other PHY
700	drivers supporting 1000baseT.
701
70220101111:
703	The TCP stack has received a significant update to add support for
704	modularised congestion control and generally improve the clarity of
705	congestion control decisions. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900025. User
706	space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g.
707	sockstat) need to be recompiled.
708
70920101002:
710	The man(1) utility has been replaced by a new version that no longer
711	uses /etc/manpath.config. Please consult man.conf(5) for how to
712	migrate local entries to the new format.
713
71420100928:
715	The copyright strings printed by login(1) and sshd(8) at the time of a
716	new connection have been removed to follow other operating systems and
717	upstream sshd.
718
71920100915:
720	A workaround for a fixed ld bug has been removed in kernel code,
721	so make sure that your system ld is built from sources after
722	revision 210245 from 2010-07-19 (r211583 if building head kernel
723	on stable/8, r211584 for stable/7; both from 2010-08-21).
724	A symptom of incorrect ld version is different addresses for
725	set_pcpu section and __start_set_pcpu symbol in kernel and/or modules.
726
72720100913:
728	The $ipv6_prefer variable in rc.conf(5) has been split into
729	$ip6addrctl_policy and $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces.
730
731	The $ip6addrctl_policy is a variable to choose a pre-defined
732	address selection policy set by ip6addrctl(8).  A value
733	"ipv4_prefer", "ipv6_prefer" or "AUTO" can be specified.  The
734	default is "AUTO".
735
736	The $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces specifies whether IFDISABLED
737	flag (see an entry of 20090926) is set on an interface with no
738	corresponding $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 line.  The default is "NO" for
739	security reason.  If you want IPv6 link-local address on all
740	interfaces by default, set this to "YES".
741
742	The old ipv6_prefer="YES" is equivalent to
743	ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" and
744	ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer".
745
74620100913:
747	DTrace has grown support for userland tracing. Due to this, DTrace is
748	now i386 and amd64 only.
749	dtruss(1) is now installed by default on those systems and a new
750	kernel module is needed for userland tracing: fasttrap.
751	No changes to your kernel config file are necessary to enable
752	userland tracing, but you might consider adding 'STRIP=' and
753	'CFLAGS+=-fno-omit-frame-pointer' to your make.conf if you want
754	to have informative userland stack traces in DTrace (ustack).
755
75620100725:
757	The acpi_aiboost(4) driver has been removed in favor of the new
758	aibs(4) driver. You should update your kernel configuration file.
759
76020100722:
761	BSD grep has been imported to the base system and it is built by
762	default.  It is completely BSD licensed, highly GNU-compatible, uses
763	less memory than its GNU counterpart and has a small codebase.
764	However, it is slower than its GNU counterpart, which is mostly
765	noticeable for larger searches, for smaller ones it is measurable
766	but not significant.  The reason is complex, the most important factor
767	is that we lack a modern and efficient regex library and GNU
768	overcomes this by optimizing the searches internally.  Future work
769	on improving the regex performance is planned, for the meantime,
770	users that need better performance, can build GNU grep instead by
771	setting the WITH_GNU_GREP knob.
772
77320100713:
774	Due to the import of powerpc64 support, all existing powerpc kernel
775	configuration files must be updated with a machine directive like this:
776	    machine powerpc powerpc
777
778	In addition, an updated config(8) is required to build powerpc kernels
779	after this change.
780
78120100713:
782	A new version of ZFS (version 15) has been merged to -HEAD.
783	This version uses a python library for the following subcommands:
784	zfs allow, zfs unallow, zfs groupspace, zfs userspace.
785	For full functionality of these commands the following port must
786	be installed: sysutils/py-zfs
787
78820100429:
789	'vm_page's are now hashed by physical address to an array of mutexes.
790	Currently this is only used to serialize access to hold_count. Over 
791	time the page queue mutex will be peeled away. This changes the size
792	of pmap on every architecture. And requires all callers of vm_page_hold
793	and vm_page_unhold to be updated. 
794 
79520100402:
796	WITH_CTF can now be specified in src.conf (not recommended, there
797	are some problems with static executables), make.conf (would also
798	affect ports which do not use GNU make and do not override the
799	compile targets) or in the kernel config (via "makeoptions
800	WITH_CTF=yes").
801	When WITH_CTF was specified there before this was silently ignored,
802	so make sure that WITH_CTF is not used in places which could lead
803	to unwanted behavior.
804
80520100311:
806	The kernel option COMPAT_IA32 has been replaced with COMPAT_FREEBSD32
807	to allow 32-bit compatibility on non-x86 platforms. All kernel
808	configurations on amd64 and ia64 platforms using these options must
809	be modified accordingly.
810
81120100113:
812	The utmp user accounting database has been replaced with utmpx,
813	the user accounting interface standardized by POSIX.
814	Unfortunately the semantics of utmp and utmpx don't match,
815	making it practically impossible to support both interfaces.
816	The user accounting database is used by tools like finger(1),
817	last(1), talk(1), w(1) and ac(8).
818
819	All applications in the base system use utmpx.  This means only
820	local binaries (e.g. from the ports tree) may still use these
821	utmp database files.  These applications must be rebuilt to make
822	use of utmpx.
823
824	After the system has been upgraded, it is safe to remove the old
825	log files (/var/run/utmp, /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/wtmp*),
826	assuming their contents is of no importance anymore.  Old wtmp
827	databases can only be used by last(1) and ac(8) after they have
828	been converted to the new format using wtmpcvt(1).
829
83020100108:
831	Introduce the kernel thread "deadlock resolver" (which can be enabled
832	via the DEADLKRES option, see NOTES for more details) and the
833	sleepq_type() function for sleepqueues.
834
83520091202:
836	The rc.firewall and rc.firewall6 were unified, and
837	rc.firewall6 and rc.d/ip6fw were removed.
838	According to the removal of rc.d/ip6fw, ipv6_firewall_* rc
839	variables are obsoleted.  Instead, the following new rc
840	variables are added to rc.d/ipfw:
841
842		firewall_client_net_ipv6, firewall_simple_iif_ipv6,
843		firewall_simple_inet_ipv6, firewall_simple_oif_ipv6,
844		firewall_simple_onet_ipv6, firewall_trusted_ipv6
845
846	The meanings correspond to the relevant IPv4 variables.
847
84820091125:
849	8.0-RELEASE.
850
85120091113:
852	The default terminal emulation for syscons(4) has been changed
853	from cons25 to xterm on all platforms except pc98.  This means
854	that the /etc/ttys file needs to be updated to ensure correct
855	operation of applications on the console.
856
857	The terminal emulation style can be toggled per window by using
858	vidcontrol(1)'s -T flag.  The TEKEN_CONS25 kernel configuration
859	options can be used to change the compile-time default back to
860	cons25.
861
862	To prevent graphical artifacts, make sure the TERM environment
863	variable is set to match the terminal emulation that is being
864	performed by syscons(4).
865
86620091109:
867	The layout of the structure ieee80211req_scan_result has changed.
868	Applications that require wireless scan results (e.g. ifconfig(8))
869	from net80211 need to be recompiled.
870
871	Applications such as wpa_supplicant(8) may require a full world
872	build without using NO_CLEAN in order to get synchronized with the
873	new structure.
874
87520091025:
876	The iwn(4) driver has been updated to support the 5000 and 5150 series.
877	There's one kernel module for each firmware. Adding "device iwnfw"
878	to the kernel configuration file means including all three firmware
879	images inside the kernel. If you want to include just the one for
880	your wireless card, use the devices iwn4965fw, iwn5000fw or
881	iwn5150fw.
882
88320090926:
884	The rc.d/network_ipv6, IPv6 configuration script has been integrated
885	into rc.d/netif.  The changes are the following:
886
887	1. To use IPv6, simply define $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 like $ifconfig_IF
888	   for IPv4.  For aliases, $ifconfig_IF_aliasN should be used.
889	   Note that both variables need the "inet6" keyword at the head.
890
891	   Do not set $ipv6_network_interfaces manually if you do not
892	   understand what you are doing.  It is not needed in most cases. 
893
894	   $ipv6_ifconfig_IF and $ipv6_ifconfig_IF_aliasN still work, but
895	   they are obsolete.
896
897	2. $ipv6_enable is obsolete.  Use $ipv6_prefer and
898	   "inet6 accept_rtadv" keyword in ifconfig(8) instead.
899
900	   If you define $ipv6_enable=YES, it means $ipv6_prefer=YES and
901	   all configured interfaces have "inet6 accept_rtadv" in the
902	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  These are for backward compatibility.
903
904	3. A new variable $ipv6_prefer has been added.  If NO, IPv6
905	   functionality of interfaces with no corresponding
906	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 is disabled by using "inet6 ifdisabled" flag,
907	   and the default address selection policy of ip6addrctl(8) 
908	   is the IPv4-preferred one (see rc.d/ip6addrctl for more details).
909	   Note that if you want to configure IPv6 functionality on the
910	   disabled interfaces after boot, first you need to clear the flag by
911	   using ifconfig(8) like:
912
913		ifconfig em0 inet6 -ifdisabled
914
915	   If YES, the default address selection policy is set as
916	   IPv6-preferred.
917
918	   The default value of $ipv6_prefer is NO.
919
920	4. If your system need to receive Router Advertisement messages,
921	   define "inet6 accept_rtadv" in $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  The rc(8)
922	   scripts automatically invoke rtsol(8) when the interface becomes
923	   UP.  The Router Advertisement messages are used for SLAAC
924	   (State-Less Address AutoConfiguration).
925
92620090922:
927	802.11s D3.03 support was committed. This is incompatible with the
928	previous code, which was based on D3.0.
929
93020090912:
931	A sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv now sets the default value
932	of a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV, not a global knob to
933	control whether accepting Router Advertisement messages or not.
934	Also, a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_AUTO_LINKLOCAL has been added and
935	a sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal is its default value.
936	The ifconfig(8) utility now supports these flags.
937
93820090910:
939	ZFS snapshots are now mounted with MNT_IGNORE flag. Use -v option for
940	mount(8) and -a option for df(1) to see them.
941
94220090825:
943	The old tunable hw.bus.devctl_disable has been superseded by
944	hw.bus.devctl_queue.  hw.bus.devctl_disable=1 in loader.conf should be
945	replaced by hw.bus.devctl_queue=0.  The default for this new tunable
946	is 1000.
947
94820090813:
949	Remove the option STOP_NMI.  The default action is now to use NMI only
950	for KDB via the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and
951	maintain stop_cpus() to just use a normal IPI_STOP on ia32 and amd64.
952
95320090803:
954	The stable/8 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
955	RELENG_8 branch in CVS.
956
95720090719:
958	Bump the shared library version numbers for all libraries that do not
959	use symbol versioning as part of the 8.0-RELEASE cycle.  Bump
960	__FreeBSD_version to 800105.
961
96220090714:
963	Due to changes in the implementation of virtual network stack support,
964	all network-related kernel modules must be recompiled.  As this change
965	breaks the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800104.
966
96720090713:
968	The TOE interface to the TCP syncache has been modified to remove
969	struct tcpopt (<netinet/tcp_var.h>) from the ABI of the network stack.
970	The cxgb driver is the only TOE consumer affected by this change, and
971	needs to be recompiled along with the kernel. As this change breaks
972	the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800103.
973
97420090712: 
975	Padding has been added to struct tcpcb, sackhint and tcpstat in
976	<netinet/tcp_var.h> to facilitate future MFCs and bug fixes whilst
977	maintaining the ABI. However, this change breaks the ABI, so bump
978	__FreeBSD_version to 800102. User space tools that rely on the size of
979	any of these structs (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
980
98120090630:
982	The NFS_LEGACYRPC option has been removed along with the old kernel
983	RPC implementation that this option selected. Kernel configurations
984	may need to be adjusted.
985
98620090629:
987	The network interface device nodes at /dev/net/<interface> have been
988	removed.  All ioctl operations can be performed the normal way using
989	routing sockets.  The kqueue functionality can generally be replaced
990	with routing sockets.
991
99220090628:
993	The documentation from the FreeBSD Documentation Project (Handbook,
994	FAQ, etc.) is now installed via packages by sysinstall(8) and under
995	the /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd directory instead of /usr/share/doc.
996
99720090624:
998	The ABI of various structures related to the SYSV IPC API have been
999	changed.  As a result, the COMPAT_FREEBSD[456] and COMPAT_43 kernel
1000	options now all require COMPAT_FREEBSD7.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to
1001	800100.
1002
100320090622:
1004	Layout of struct vnet has changed as routing related variables were
1005	moved to their own Vimage module. Modules need to be recompiled.  Bump
1006	__FreeBSD_version to 800099.
1007
100820090619:
1009	NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS have been increased from 16 to 1023 and 1024
1010	respectively.  As long as no more than 16 groups per process are used,
1011	no changes should be visible.  When more than 16 groups are used, old
1012	binaries may fail if they call getgroups() or getgrouplist() with
1013	statically sized storage.  Recompiling will work around this, but
1014	applications should be modified to use dynamically allocated storage
1015	for group arrays as POSIX.1-2008 does not cap an implementation's
1016	number of supported groups at NGROUPS_MAX+1 as previous versions did.
1017
1018	NFS and portalfs mounts may also be affected as the list of groups is
1019	truncated to 16.  Users of NFS who use more than 16 groups, should
1020	take care that negative group permissions are not used on the exported
1021	file systems as they will not be reliable unless a GSSAPI based
1022	authentication method is used.
1023
102420090616: 
1025	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_LOCKMGRS has been introduced.  This
1026	option compiles in the support for adaptive spinning for lockmgrs
1027	which want to enable it.  The lockinit() function now accepts the flag
1028	LK_ADAPTIVE in order to make the lock object subject to adaptive
1029	spinning when both held in write and read mode.
1030
103120090613:
1032	The layout of the structure returned by IEEE80211_IOC_STA_INFO has
1033	changed.  User applications that use this ioctl need to be rebuilt.
1034
103520090611:
1036	The layout of struct thread has changed.  Kernel and modules need to
1037	be rebuilt.
1038
103920090608:
1040	The layout of structs ifnet, domain, protosw and vnet_net has changed.
1041	Kernel modules need to be rebuilt.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097.
1042
104320090602:
1044	window(1) has been removed from the base system. It can now be
1045	installed from ports. The port is called misc/window.
1046
104720090601:
1048	The way we are storing and accessing `routing table' entries has
1049	changed. Programs reading the FIB, like netstat, need to be
1050	re-compiled.
1051
105220090601:
1053	A new netisr implementation has been added for FreeBSD 8.  Network
1054	file system modules, such as igmp, ipdivert, and others, should be
1055	rebuilt.
1056	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800096.
1057
105820090530:
1059	Remove the tunable/sysctl debug.mpsafevfs as its initial purpose is no
1060	more valid.
1061
106220090530:
1063	Add VOP_ACCESSX(9).  File system modules need to be rebuilt.
1064	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800094.
1065
106620090529:
1067	Add mnt_xflag field to 'struct mount'.  File system modules need to be
1068	rebuilt.
1069	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800093.
1070
107120090528:
1072	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_SX has been retired while it has been
1073	introduced the option NO_ADAPTIVE_SX which handles the reversed logic.
1074	The KPI for sx_init_flags() changes as accepting flags:
1075	SX_ADAPTIVESPIN flag has been retired while the SX_NOADAPTIVE flag has
1076	been introduced in order to handle the reversed logic.
1077	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800092.
1078
107920090527:
1080	Add support for hierarchical jails.  Remove global securelevel.
1081	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800091.
1082
108320090523:
1084	The layout of struct vnet_net has changed, therefore modules
1085	need to be rebuilt.
1086	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800090.
1087
108820090523:
1089	The newly imported zic(8) produces a new format in the output. Please
1090	run tzsetup(8) to install the newly created data to /etc/localtime.
1091
109220090520:
1093	The sysctl tree for the usb stack has renamed from hw.usb2.* to
1094	hw.usb.* and is now consistent again with previous releases.
1095
109620090520:
1097	802.11 monitor mode support was revised and driver api's were changed.
1098	Drivers dependent on net80211 now support DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO instead
1099	of DLT_IEEE802_11.  No user-visible data structures were changed but
1100	applications that use DLT_IEEE802_11 may require changes.
1101	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800088.
1102
110320090430:
1104	The layout of the following structs has changed: sysctl_oid,
1105	socket, ifnet, inpcbinfo, tcpcb, syncache_head, vnet_inet,
1106	vnet_inet6 and vnet_ipfw.  Most modules need to be rebuild or
1107	panics may be experienced.  World rebuild is required for
1108	correctly checking networking state from userland.
1109	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800085.
1110
111120090429:
1112	MLDv2 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
1113	to the IPv6 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
1114	The implementation of SSM within FreeBSD's IPv6 stack closely
1115	follows the IPv4 implementation.
1116
1117	For kernel developers:
1118
1119	* The most important changes are that the ip6_output() and
1120	  ip6_input() paths no longer take the IN6_MULTI_LOCK,
1121	  and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
1122
1123	* As with the changes to the IPv4 stack to support SSM, filtering
1124	  of inbound multicast traffic must now be performed by transport
1125	  protocols within the IPv6 stack. This does not apply to TCP and
1126	  SCTP, however, it does apply to UDP in IPv6 and raw IPv6.
1127
1128	* The KPIs used by IPv6 multicast are similar to those used by
1129	  the IPv4 stack, with the following differences:
1130	   * im6o_mc_filter() is analogous to imo_multicast_filter().
1131	   * The legacy KAME entry points in6_joingroup and in6_leavegroup()
1132	     are shimmed to in6_mc_join() and in6_mc_leave() respectively.
1133	   * IN6_LOOKUP_MULTI() has been deprecated and removed.
1134	   * IPv6 relies on MLD for the DAD mechanism. KAME's internal KPIs
1135	     for MLDv1 have an additional 'timer' argument which is used to
1136	     jitter the initial membership report for the solicited-node
1137	     multicast membership on-link.
1138	   * This is not strictly needed for MLDv2, which already jitters
1139	     its report transmissions.  However, the 'timer' argument is
1140	     preserved in case MLDv1 is active on the interface.
1141
1142	* The KAME linked-list based IPv6 membership implementation has
1143	  been refactored to use a vector similar to that used by the IPv4
1144	  stack.
1145	  Code which maintains a list of its own multicast memberships
1146	  internally, e.g. carp, has been updated to reflect the new
1147	  semantics.
1148
1149	* There is a known Lock Order Reversal (LOR) due to in6_setscope()
1150	  acquiring the IF_AFDATA_LOCK and being called within ip6_output().
1151	  Whilst MLDv2 tries to avoid this otherwise benign LOR, it is an
1152	  implementation constraint which needs to be addressed in HEAD.
1153
1154	For application developers:
1155
1156	* The changes are broadly similar to those made for the IPv4
1157	  stack.
1158
1159	* The use of IPv4 and IPv6 multicast socket options on the same
1160	  socket, using mapped addresses, HAS NOT been tested or supported.
1161
1162	* There are a number of issues with the implementation of various
1163	  IPv6 multicast APIs which need to be resolved in the API surface
1164	  before the implementation is fully compatible with KAME userland
1165	  use, and these are mostly to do with interface index treatment.
1166
1167	* The literature available discusses the use of either the delta / ASM
1168	  API with setsockopt(2)/getsockopt(2), or the full-state / ASM API
1169	  using setsourcefilter(3)/getsourcefilter(3). For more information
1170	  please refer to RFC 3768, 'Socket Interface Extensions for
1171	  Multicast Source Filters'.
1172
1173	* Applications which use the published RFC 3678 APIs should be fine.
1174
1175	For systems administrators:
1176
1177	* The mtest(8) utility has been refactored to support IPv6, in
1178	  addition to IPv4. Interface addresses are no longer accepted
1179	  as arguments, their names must be used instead. The utility
1180	  will map the interface name to its first IPv4 address as
1181	  returned by getifaddrs(3).
1182
1183	* The ifmcstat(8) utility has also been updated to print the MLDv2
1184	  endpoint state and source filter lists via sysctl(3).
1185
1186	* The net.inet6.ip6.mcast.loop sysctl may be tuned to 0 to disable
1187	  loopback of IPv6 multicast datagrams by default; it defaults to 1
1188	  to preserve the existing behaviour. Disabling multicast loopback is
1189	  recommended for optimal system performance.
1190
1191	* The IPv6 MROUTING code has been changed to examine this sysctl
1192	  instead of attempting to perform a group lookup before looping
1193	  back forwarded datagrams.
1194
1195	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800084.
1196
119720090422:
1198	Implement low-level Bluetooth HCI API.
1199	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800083.
1200
120120090419:
1202	The layout of struct malloc_type, used by modules to register new
1203	memory allocation types, has changed.  Most modules will need to
1204	be rebuilt or panics may be experienced.
1205	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800081.
1206
120720090415:
1208	Anticipate overflowing inp_flags - add inp_flags2.
1209	This changes most offsets in inpcb, so checking v4 connection
1210	state will require a world rebuild.
1211	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800080.
1212
121320090415:
1214	Add an llentry to struct route and struct route_in6. Modules
1215	embedding a struct route will need to be recompiled.
1216	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800079.
1217
121820090414:
1219	The size of rt_metrics_lite and by extension rtentry has changed.
1220	Networking administration apps will need to be recompiled.
1221	The route command now supports show as an alias for get, weighting
1222	of routes, sticky and nostick flags to alter the behavior of stateful
1223	load balancing.
1224	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800078.
1225
122620090408:
1227	Do not use Giant for kbdmux(4) locking. This is wrong and
1228	apparently causing more problems than it solves. This will
1229	re-open the issue where interrupt handlers may race with
1230	kbdmux(4) in polling mode. Typical symptoms include (but
1231	not limited to) duplicated and/or missing characters when
1232	low level console functions (such as gets) are used while
1233	interrupts are enabled (for example geli password prompt,
1234	mountroot prompt etc.). Disabling kbdmux(4) may help.
1235
123620090407:
1237	The size of structs vnet_net, vnet_inet and vnet_ipfw has changed;
1238	kernel modules referencing any of the above need to be recompiled.
1239	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800075.
1240
124120090320:
1242	GEOM_PART has become the default partition slicer for storage devices,
1243	replacing GEOM_MBR, GEOM_BSD, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_GPT slicers. It
1244	introduces some changes:
1245
1246	MSDOS/EBR: the devices created from MSDOS extended partition entries
1247	(EBR) can be named differently than with GEOM_MBR and are now symlinks
1248	to devices with offset-based names. fstabs may need to be modified.
1249
1250	BSD: the "geometry does not match label" warning is harmless in most
1251	cases but it points to problems in file system misalignment with
1252	disk geometry. The "c" partition is now implicit, covers the whole
1253	top-level drive and cannot be (mis)used by users.
1254
1255	General: Kernel dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices
1256	whose partition types indicate they are meant to be used for file
1257	systems (or, in case of MSDOS partitions, as something else than
1258	the "386BSD" type).
1259
1260	Most of these changes date approximately from 200812.
1261
126220090319:
1263	The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows
1264	Linux removing theirs in 2.6 and making libusb the default interface
1265	(supported by sane).
1266
126720090319:
1268	The multicast forwarding code has been cleaned up. netstat(1)
1269	only relies on KVM now for printing bandwidth upcall meters.
1270	The IPv4 and IPv6 modules are split into ip_mroute_mod and
1271	ip6_mroute_mod respectively. The config(5) options for statically
1272	compiling this code remain the same, i.e. 'options MROUTING'.
1273
127420090315:
1275	Support for the IFF_NEEDSGIANT network interface flag has been
1276	removed, which means that non-MPSAFE network device drivers are no
1277	longer supported.  In particular, if_ar, if_sr, and network device
1278	drivers from the old (legacy) USB stack can no longer be built or
1279	used.
1280
128120090313:
1282	POSIX.1 Native Language Support (NLS) has been enabled in libc and
1283	a bunch of new language catalog files have also been added.
1284	This means that some common libc messages are now localized and
1285	they depend on the LC_MESSAGES environmental variable.
1286
128720090313:
1288	The k8temp(4) driver has been renamed to amdtemp(4) since
1289	support for Family 10 and Family 11 CPU families was added.
1290
129120090309:
1292	IGMPv3 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
1293	to the IPv4 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
1294
1295	For kernel developers, the most important changes are that the
1296	ip_output() and ip_input() paths no longer take the IN_MULTI_LOCK(),
1297	and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
1298
1299	Transport protocols (UDP, Raw IP) are now responsible for filtering
1300	inbound multicast traffic according to group membership and source
1301	filters. The imo_multicast_filter() KPI exists for this purpose.
1302	Transports which do not use multicast (SCTP, TCP) already reject
1303	multicast by default. Forwarding and receive performance may improve
1304	as a mutex acquisition is no longer needed in the ip_input()
1305	low-level input path.  in_addmulti() and in_delmulti() are shimmed
1306	to new KPIs which exist to support SSM in-kernel.
1307
1308	For application developers, it is recommended that loopback of
1309	multicast datagrams be disabled for best performance, as this
1310	will still cause the lock to be taken for each looped-back
1311	datagram transmission. The net.inet.ip.mcast.loop sysctl may
1312	be tuned to 0 to disable loopback by default; it defaults to 1
1313	to preserve the existing behaviour.
1314
1315	For systems administrators, to obtain best performance with
1316	multicast reception and multiple groups, it is always recommended
1317	that a card with a suitably precise hash filter is used. Hash
1318	collisions will still result in the lock being taken within the
1319	transport protocol input path to check group membership.
1320
1321	If deploying FreeBSD in an environment with IGMP snooping switches,
1322	it is recommended that the net.inet.igmp.sendlocal sysctl remain
1323	enabled; this forces 224.0.0.0/24 group membership to be announced
1324	via IGMP.
1325
1326	The size of 'struct igmpstat' has changed; netstat needs to be
1327	recompiled to reflect this.
1328	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800070.
1329
133020090309:
1331	libusb20.so.1 is now installed as libusb.so.1 and the ports system
1332	updated to use it. This requires a buildworld/installworld in order to
1333	update the library and dependencies (usbconfig, etc). Its advisable to
1334	rebuild all ports which uses libusb. More specific directions are given
1335	in the ports collection UPDATING file. Any /etc/libmap.conf entries for
1336	libusb are no longer required and can be removed.
1337
133820090302:
1339	A workaround is committed to allow the creation of System V shared
1340	memory segment of size > 2 GB on the 64-bit architectures.
1341	Due to a limitation of the existing ABI, the shm_segsz member
1342	of the struct shmid_ds, returned by shmctl(IPC_STAT) call is
1343	wrong for large segments. Note that limits must be explicitly
1344	raised to allow such segments to be created.
1345
134620090301:
1347	The layout of struct ifnet has changed, requiring a rebuild of all
1348	network device driver modules.
1349
135020090227:
1351	The /dev handling for the new USB stack has changed, a
1352	buildworld/installworld is required for libusb20.
1353
135420090223:
1355	The new USB2 stack has now been permanently moved in and all kernel and
1356	module names reverted to their previous values (eg, usb, ehci, ohci,
1357	ums, ...).  The old usb stack can be compiled in by prefixing the name
1358	with the letter 'o', the old usb modules have been removed.
1359	Updating entry 20090216 for xorg and 20090215 for libmap may still
1360	apply.
1361
136220090217:
1363	The rc.conf(5) option if_up_delay has been renamed to
1364	defaultroute_delay to better reflect its purpose. If you have
1365	customized this setting in /etc/rc.conf you need to update it to
1366	use the new name.
1367
136820090216:
1369	xorg 7.4 wants to configure its input devices via hald which does not
1370	yet work with USB2. If the keyboard/mouse does not work in xorg then
1371	add
1372		Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
1373	to your ServerLayout section.  This will cause X to use the configured
1374	kbd and mouse sections from your xorg.conf.
1375
137620090215:
1377	The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new USB2
1378	stack. No kernel config options or code have been removed so if a
1379	problem arises please report it and optionally revert to the old USB
1380	stack. If you are loading USB kernel modules or have a custom kernel
1381	that includes GENERIC then ensure that usb names are also changed over,
1382	eg uftdi -> usb2_serial_ftdi.
1383
1384	Older programs linked against the ports libusb 0.1 need to be
1385	redirected to the new stack's libusb20.  /etc/libmap.conf can
1386	be used for this:
1387		# Map old usb library to new one for usb2 stack
1388		libusb-0.1.so.8	libusb20.so.1
1389
139020090209:
1391	All USB ethernet devices now attach as interfaces under the name ueN
1392	(eg. ue0). This is to provide a predictable name as vendors often
1393	change usb chipsets in a product without notice.
1394
139520090203:
1396	The ichsmb(4) driver has been changed to require SMBus slave
1397	addresses be left-justified (xxxxxxx0b) rather than right-justified.
1398	All of the other SMBus controller drivers require left-justified
1399	slave addresses, so this change makes all the drivers provide the
1400	same interface.
1401
140220090201:
1403	INET6 statistics (struct ip6stat) was updated.
1404	netstat(1) needs to be recompiled.
1405
140620090119:
1407	NTFS has been removed from GENERIC kernel on amd64 to match
1408	GENERIC on i386. Should not cause any issues since mount_ntfs(8)
1409	will load ntfs.ko module automatically when NTFS support is
1410	actually needed, unless ntfs.ko is not installed or security
1411	level prohibits loading kernel modules. If either is the case,
1412	"options NTFS" has to be added into kernel config.
1413
141420090115:
1415	TCP Appropriate Byte Counting (RFC 3465) support added to kernel.
1416	New field in struct tcpcb breaks ABI, so bump __FreeBSD_version to
1417	800061. User space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in
1418	tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
1419
142020081225:
1421	ng_tty(4) module updated to match the new TTY subsystem.
1422	Due to API change, user-level applications must be updated.
1423	New API support added to mpd5 CVS and expected to be present
1424	in next mpd5.3 release.
1425
142620081219:
1427	With __FreeBSD_version 800060 the makefs tool is part of
1428	the base system (it was a port).
1429
143020081216:
1431	The afdata and ifnet locks have been changed from mutexes to
1432	rwlocks, network modules will need to be re-compiled.
1433
143420081214:
1435	__FreeBSD_version 800059 incorporates the new arp-v2 rewrite.
1436	RTF_CLONING, RTF_LLINFO and RTF_WASCLONED flags are eliminated.
1437	The new code reduced struct rtentry{} by 16 bytes on 32-bit
1438	architecture and 40 bytes on 64-bit architecture. The userland
1439	applications "arp" and "ndp" have been updated accordingly.
1440	The output from "netstat -r" shows only routing entries and
1441	none of the L2 information.
1442
144320081130:
1444	__FreeBSD_version 800057 marks the switchover from the
1445	binary ath hal to source code. Users must add the line:
1446
1447	options	AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
1448
1449	to their kernel config files when specifying:
1450
1451	device	ath_hal
1452
1453	The ath_hal module no longer exists; the code is now compiled
1454	together with the driver in the ath module.  It is now
1455	possible to tailor chip support (i.e. reduce the set of chips
1456	and thereby the code size); consult ath_hal(4) for details.
1457
145820081121:
1459	__FreeBSD_version 800054 adds memory barriers to
1460	<machine/atomic.h>, new interfaces to ifnet to facilitate
1461	multiple hardware transmit queues for cards that support
1462	them, and a lock-less ring-buffer implementation to
1463	enable drivers to more efficiently manage queueing of
1464	packets.
1465
146620081117:
1467	A new version of ZFS (version 13) has been merged to -HEAD.
1468	This version has zpool attribute "listsnapshots" off by
1469	default, which means "zfs list" does not show snapshots,
1470	and is the same as Solaris behavior.
1471
147220081028:
1473	dummynet(4) ABI has changed. ipfw(8) needs to be recompiled.
1474
147520081009:
1476	The uhci, ohci, ehci and slhci USB Host controller drivers have
1477	been put into separate modules. If you load the usb module
1478	separately through loader.conf you will need to load the
1479	appropriate *hci module as well. E.g. for a UHCI-based USB 2.0
1480	controller add the following to loader.conf:
1481
1482		uhci_load="YES"
1483		ehci_load="YES"
1484
148520081009:
1486	The ABI used by the PMC toolset has changed.  Please keep
1487	userland (libpmc(3)) and the kernel module (hwpmc(4)) in
1488	sync.
1489
149020081009:
1491	atapci kernel module now includes only generic PCI ATA
1492	driver. AHCI driver moved to ataahci kernel module.
1493	All vendor-specific code moved into separate kernel modules:
1494	ataacard, ataacerlabs, ataadaptec, ataamd, ataati, atacenatek,
1495	atacypress, atacyrix, atahighpoint, ataintel, ataite, atajmicron,
1496	atamarvell, atamicron, atanational, atanetcell, atanvidia,
1497	atapromise, ataserverworks, atasiliconimage, atasis, atavia
1498
149920080820:
1500	The TTY subsystem of the kernel has been replaced by a new
1501	implementation, which provides better scalability and an
1502	improved driver model. Most common drivers have been migrated to
1503	the new TTY subsystem, while others have not. The following
1504	drivers have not yet been ported to the new TTY layer:
1505
1506	PCI/ISA:
1507		cy, digi, rc, rp, sio
1508
1509	USB:
1510		ubser, ucycom
1511
1512	Line disciplines:
1513		ng_h4, ng_tty, ppp, sl, snp
1514
1515	Adding these drivers to your kernel configuration file shall
1516	cause compilation to fail.
1517
151820080818:
1519	ntpd has been upgraded to 4.2.4p5.
1520
152120080801:
1522	OpenSSH has been upgraded to 5.1p1.
1523
1524	For many years, FreeBSD's version of OpenSSH preferred DSA
1525	over RSA for host and user authentication keys.  With this
1526	upgrade, we've switched to the vendor's default of RSA over
1527	DSA.  This may cause upgraded clients to warn about unknown
1528	host keys even for previously known hosts.  Users should
1529	follow the usual procedure for verifying host keys before
1530	accepting the RSA key.
1531
1532	This can be circumvented by setting the "HostKeyAlgorithms"
1533	option to "ssh-dss,ssh-rsa" in ~/.ssh/config or on the ssh
1534	command line.
1535
1536	Please note that the sequence of keys offered for
1537	authentication has been changed as well.  You may want to
1538	specify IdentityFile in a different order to revert this
1539	behavior.
1540
154120080713:
1542	The sio(4) driver has been removed from the i386 and amd64
1543	kernel configuration files. This means uart(4) is now the
1544	default serial port driver on those platforms as well.
1545
1546	To prevent collisions with the sio(4) driver, the uart(4) driver
1547	uses different names for its device nodes. This means the
1548	onboard serial port will now most likely be called "ttyu0"
1549	instead of "ttyd0". You may need to reconfigure applications to
1550	use the new device names.
1551
1552	When using the serial port as a boot console, be sure to update
1553	/boot/device.hints and /etc/ttys before booting the new kernel.
1554	If you forget to do so, you can still manually specify the hints
1555	at the loader prompt:
1556
1557		set hint.uart.0.at="isa"
1558		set hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8"
1559		set hint.uart.0.flags="0x10"
1560		set hint.uart.0.irq="4"
1561		boot -s
1562
156320080609:
1564	The gpt(8) utility has been removed. Use gpart(8) to partition
1565	disks instead.
1566
156720080603:
1568	The version that Linuxulator emulates was changed from 2.4.2
1569	to 2.6.16. If you experience any problems with Linux binaries
1570	please try to set sysctl compat.linux.osrelease to 2.4.2 and
1571	if it fixes the problem contact emulation mailing list.
1572
157320080525:
1574	ISDN4BSD (I4B) was removed from the src tree. You may need to
1575	update a your kernel configuration and remove relevant entries.
1576
157720080509:
1578	I have checked in code to support multiple routing tables.
1579	See the man pages setfib(1) and setfib(2).
1580	This is a hopefully backwards compatible version,
1581	but to make use of it you need to compile your kernel
1582	with options ROUTETABLES=2 (or more up to 16).
1583
158420080420:
1585	The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss
1586	operation on devices that are capable.  The underlying device
1587	is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are
1588	cloned with ifconfig.  This requires changes to rc.conf files.
1589	For example, change:
1590		ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP"
1591	to
1592		wlans_ath0=wlan0
1593		ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
1594	see rc.conf(5) for more details.  In addition, mergemaster of
1595	/etc/rc.d is highly recommended.  Simultaneous update of userland
1596	and kernel wouldn't hurt either.
1597
1598	As part of the multi-bss changes the wlan_scan_ap and wlan_scan_sta
1599	modules were merged into the base wlan module.  All references
1600	to these modules (e.g. in kernel config files) must be removed.
1601
160220080408:
1603	psm(4) has gained write(2) support in native operation level.
1604	Arbitrary commands can be written to /dev/psm%d and status can
1605	be read back from it.  Therefore, an application is responsible
1606	for status validation and error recovery.  It is a no-op in
1607	other operation levels.
1608
160920080312:
1610	Support for KSE threading has been removed from the kernel.  To
1611	run legacy applications linked against KSE libmap.conf may
1612	be used.  The following libmap.conf may be used to ensure
1613	compatibility with any prior release:
1614
1615	libpthread.so.1 libthr.so.1
1616	libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2
1617	libkse.so.3 libthr.so.3
1618
161920080301:
1620	The layout of struct vmspace has changed. This affects libkvm
1621	and any executables that link against libkvm and use the
1622	kvm_getprocs() function. In particular, but not exclusively,
1623	it affects ps(1), fstat(1), pkill(1), systat(1), top(1) and w(1).
1624	The effects are minimal, but it's advisable to upgrade world
1625	nonetheless.
1626
162720080229:
1628	The latest em driver no longer has support in it for the
1629	82575 adapter, this is now moved to the igb driver. The
1630	split was done to make new features that are incompatible
1631	with older hardware easier to do.
1632
163320080220:
1634	The new geom_lvm(4) geom class has been renamed to geom_linux_lvm(4),
1635	likewise the kernel option is now GEOM_LINUX_LVM.
1636
163720080211:
1638	The default NFS mount mode has changed from UDP to TCP for
1639	increased reliability.  If you rely on (insecurely) NFS
1640	mounting across a firewall you may need to update your
1641	firewall rules.
1642
164320080208:
1644	Belatedly note the addition of m_collapse for compacting
1645	mbuf chains.
1646
164720080126:
1648	The fts(3) structures have been changed to use adequate
1649	integer types for their members and so to be able to cope
1650	with huge file trees.  The old fts(3) ABI is preserved
1651	through symbol versioning in libc, so third-party binaries
1652	using fts(3) should still work, although they will not take
1653	advantage of the extended types.  At the same time, some
1654	third-party software might fail to build after this change
1655	due to unportable assumptions made in its source code about
1656	fts(3) structure members.  Such software should be fixed
1657	by its vendor or, in the worst case, in the ports tree.
1658	FreeBSD_version 800015 marks this change for the unlikely
1659	case that a portable fix is impossible.
1660
166120080123:
1662	To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running
1663	FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE.  Upgrading to -current
1664	from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems.
1665
166620071128:
1667	The ADAPTIVE_GIANT kernel option has been retired because its
1668	functionality is the default now.
1669
167020071118:
1671	The AT keyboard emulation of sunkbd(4) has been turned on
1672	by default. In order to make the special symbols of the Sun
1673	keyboards driven by sunkbd(4) work under X these now have
1674	to be configured the same way as Sun USB keyboards driven
1675	by ukbd(4) (which also does AT keyboard emulation), f.e.:
1676
1677	Option	"XkbLayout" "us"
1678	Option	"XkbRules" "xorg"
1679	Option	"XkbSymbols" "pc(pc105)+sun_vndr/usb(sun_usb)+us"
1680
168120071024:
1682	It has been decided that it is desirable to provide ABI
1683	backwards compatibility to the FreeBSD 4/5/6 versions of the
1684	PCIOCGETCONF, PCIOCREAD and PCIOCWRITE IOCTLs, which was
1685	broken with the introduction of PCI domain support (see the
1686	20070930 entry). Unfortunately, this required the ABI of
1687	PCIOCGETCONF to be broken again in order to be able to
1688	provide backwards compatibility to the old version of that
1689	IOCTL. Thus consumers of PCIOCGETCONF have to be recompiled
1690	again. As for prominent ports this affects neither pciutils
1691	nor xorg-server this time, the hal port needs to be rebuilt
1692	however.
1693
169420071020:
1695	The misnamed kthread_create() and friends have been renamed
1696	to kproc_create() etc. Many of the callers already
1697	used kproc_start()..
1698	I will return kthread_create() and friends in a while
1699	with implementations that actually create threads, not procs.
1700	Renaming corresponds with version 800002.
1701
170220071010:
1703	RELENG_7 branched.
1704
1705COMMON ITEMS:
1706
1707	General Notes
1708	-------------
1709	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1710	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
1711	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1712	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1713	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1714	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1715	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1716
1717	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
1718	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1719	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1720	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1721	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
1722
1723	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best
1724	to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first,
1725	then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade
1726	path, and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try
1727	this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade.
1728
1729	ZFS notes
1730	---------
1731	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
1732	these two steps:
1733
1734	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
1735	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
1736
1737	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
1738
1739	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
1740	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ad0:
1741	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0"
1742
1743	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
1744
1745	To build a kernel
1746	-----------------
1747	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
1748	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
1749	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
1750
1751	make kernel-toolchain
1752	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1753	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1754
1755	To test a kernel once
1756	---------------------
1757	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
1758	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
1759	debugging information) run
1760	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
1761	nextboot -k testkernel
1762
1763	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1764	--------------------------------------------------------------
1765	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
1766	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1767	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
1768
1769	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
1770	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1771	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1772	make depend
1773	make
1774	make install
1775
1776	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1777
1778	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1779	-----------------------------------------------------------
1780	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
1781	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
1782
1783	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1784	make buildworld
1785	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1786							[1]
1787	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1788	mergemaster -p					[5]
1789	make installworld
1790	mergemaster -i					[4]
1791	make delete-old					[6]
1792	<reboot>
1793
1794
1795	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1796	--------------------------------------------------
1797	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1798	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1799	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1800	# size.
1801
1802	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1803	<boot into -stable>
1804	make buildworld
1805	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1806	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1807	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1808	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1809	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
1810	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1811	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1812	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1813	<reboot into current>
1814	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1815	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1816	<reboot>
1817
1818
1819	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
1820	----------------------------------------------
1821	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1822	make buildworld					[9]
1823	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1824							[1]
1825	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1826	mergemaster -p					[5]
1827	make installworld
1828	mergemaster -i					[4]
1829	make delete-old					[6]
1830	<reboot>
1831
1832	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1833	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1834	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1835	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1836	the UPDATING entries.
1837
1838	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
1839	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
1840	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
1841	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
1842	much fewer pitfalls.
1843
1844	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1845	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1846	system on reboot.
1847
1848	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1849		fsck -p
1850		mount -u /
1851		mount -a
1852		cd src
1853		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1854	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1855	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1856
1857	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1858	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1859	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1860	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1861	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
1862	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
1863	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1864
1865	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1866	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1867	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1868	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1869	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
1870	from [78]-stable or 9-stable before 20130430.
1871
1872	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
1873	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
1874	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
1875
1876	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
1877	do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
1878	your kernel.  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1879	hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
1880	required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels.  And so on
1881	for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
1882
1883	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1884	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1885
1886	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1887	cvs prune empty directories.
1888
1889	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1890	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1891	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1892
1893	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1894	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1895	warn if it is improperly defined.
1896FORMAT:
1897
1898This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
1899breakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
1900list of such breakages, and only contains entries since October 10, 2007.
1901If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
1902to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
1903
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