UPDATING revision 299068
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
1420160504	p41	FreeBSD-SA-16:17.openssl
15			FreeBSD-EN-16:08.zfs
16
17	Fix multiple OpenSSL vulnerabilitites. [SA-16:17]
18
19	Fix memory leak in ZFS. [EN-16:08]
20
2120160429	p40	FreeBSD-SA-16:16.ntp
22
23	Fix multiple vulnerabilities of ntp.
24
2520160316	p39	FreeBSD-SA-16:14.openssh-xauth
26			FreeBSD-SA-16:15.sysarch
27
28	Fix OpenSSH xauth(1) command injection. [SA-16:14]
29	Fix incorrect argument validation in sysarch(2). [SA-16:15]
30
3120160310	p38	FreeBSD-SA-16:13.bind
32			FreeBSD-SA-16:12.openssl [revised]
33
34	Fix multiple vulnerabilities of BIND. [SA-16:13]
35
36	Fix a regression with OpenSSL patch. [SA-16:12]
37
3820160303	p37	FreeBSD-SA-16:12.openssl
39
40	Fix multiple vulnerabilities of OpenSSL.
41
4220160130	p36	FreeBSD-SA-16:11.openssl
43
44	Fix OpenSSL SSLv2 ciphersuite downgrade vulnerability. [SA-16:11]
45
4620160127	p35	FreeBSD-SA-16:08.bind
47			FreeBSD-SA-16:09.ntp
48			FreeBSD-SA-16:10.linux
49
50	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-16:08]
51
52	Fix multiple vulnerabilities of ntp. [SA-16:09]
53
54	Fix Linux compatibility layer issetugid(2) system call
55	vulnerability. [SA-16:10]
56
5720160114	p34	FreeBSD-SA-16:07.openssh
58
59	Fix OpenSSH client information leak. [SA-16:07]
60
6120160114	p33	FreeBSD-EN-16:02.pf
62			FreeBSD-EN-16:03.yplib
63			FreeBSD-SA-16:01.sctp
64			FreeBSD-SA-16:02.ntp
65			FreeBSD-SA-16:03.linux
66			FreeBSD-SA-16:04.linux
67			FreeBSD-SA-16:05.tcp
68			FreeBSD-SA-16:06.bsnmpd
69
70	Fix pf(4) generating bad TCP checksums. [EN-16:02]
71	Fix infinite loop in YP/NIS client library. [EN-16:03]
72	Fix remote denial of service in SCTP. [SA-16:01]
73	Update NTP to 4.2.8p5. [SA-16:02]
74	Fix kernel memory diclosure in Linux compatibility layer. [SA-16:03]
75	Fix kernel memory overwrite in Linux compatibility layer. [SA-16:04]
76	Fix crash in TCP MD5 signatures. [SA-16:05]
77	Fix insecure default permissions for snmpd.config. [SA-16:06]
78
7920151216	p32	FreeBSD-SA-15:27.bind
80	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:27]
81
8220151205	p31	FreeBSD-SA-15:26.openssl
83
84	Fix OpenSSL X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak. [SA-15:26]
85
8620151104	p30	FreeBSD-SA-15:25.ntp [revised]
87			FreeBSD-EN-15:19.kqueue
88			FreeBSD-EN-15:20.vm
89
90	Fix regression of ntpq(8) utility exiting due to trap 6 in
91	9.3-RELEASE-p29. [SA-15:25]
92
93	Fix regression in ntpd(8) lacking support for RAWDCF reference
94	clock in 9.3-RELEASE-p29. [SA-15:25]
95
96	Fix kqueue write events never fired for files greater 2GB. [EN-15:19]
97
98	Fix applications exiting due to segmentation violation on a correct
99	memory address. [EN-15:20]
100
10120151026:	p29	FreeBSD-SA-15:25.ntp
102
103	Fix multiple NTP vulnerabilities. New NTP version is 4.2.8p4.
104
105	The configuration file syntax has been changed, thus mergemaster
106	run is recommended.  Now the "kod" parameter requires "limited" 
107	parameter.  If the ntp.conf is not updated, the ntpd will run 
108	successfully, but with KoD disabled.
109
11020151002:	p28	FreeBSD-SA-15:24.rpcbind [revised]
111	Revised patch to address a regression that prevents NIS from working.
112
11320150929:	p27	FreeBSD-SA-15:24.rpcbind
114
115	Fix rpcbind(8) remote denial of service. [SA-15:24]
116
11720150916:	p26	FreeBSD-EN-15:18.pkg
118
119	Implement pubkey support for pkg(7) bootstrap. [EN-15:18]
120
12120150902:	p25	FreeBSD-SA-15:23.bind
122
123	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:23]
124
12520150825:	p24	FreeBSD-SA-15:21.amd64
126			FreeBSD-SA-15:22.openssh
127			FreeBSD-EN-15:15.pkg
128
129	Fix local privilege escalation in IRET handler. [SA-15:21]
130
131	Fix OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-15:22]
132
133	Fix insufficient check of unsupported pkg(7) signature methods.
134	[EN-15:15]
135
13620150818:	p23	FreeBSD-SA-15:20.expat
137
138	Fix multiple integer overflows in expat (libbsdxml) XML parser.
139	[SA-15:20]
140
14120150805:	p22	FreeBSD-SA-15:19.routed
142
143	Fix routed remote denial of service vulnerability.
144
14520150728:	p21	FreeBSD-SA-15:15.tcp
146			FreeBSD-SA-15:16.openssh
147			FreeBSD-SA-15:17.bind
148
149	Fix resource exhaustion in TCP reassembly. [SA-15:15]
150
151	Fix OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-15:16]
152
153	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:17]
154
15520150721:	p20	FreeBSD-SA-15:13.tcp
156
157	Fix resource exhaustion due to sessions stuck in LAST_ACK state.
158	[SA-15:13]
159
16020150707:	p19	FreeBSD-SA-15:11.bind
161	Fix BIND resolver remote denial of service when validating.
162
16320150630:	p18	FreeBSD-EN-15:08.sendmail [revised]
164			FreeBSD-EN-15:09.xlocale
165
166	Improvements to sendmail TLS/DH interoperability. [EN-15:08]
167
168	Fix inconsistency between locale and rune locale states.
169	[EN-15:09]
170
17120150618:	p17	FreeBSD-EN-15:08.sendmail
172	Improvements to sendmail TLS/DH interoperability. [EN-15:08]
173
17420150612:	p16	FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl
175	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL.  [SA-15:10]
176
17720150609:	p15	FreeBSD-EN-15:06.file
178
179	Updated base system file(1) to 5.22 to address multiple denial
180	of service issues.
181
18220150513:	p14	FreeBSD-EN-15:04.freebsd-update
183
184	Fix bug with freebsd-update(8) that does not ensure the previous
185	upgrade was completed. [EN-15:04]
186
18720150407:	p13	FreeBSD-SA-15:04.igmp [revised]
188			FreeBSD-SA-15:07.ntp
189			FreeBSD-SA-15:09.ipv6
190
191	Improved patch for SA-15:04.igmp.
192
193	Fix multiple vulnerabilities of ntp. [SA-15:07]
194
195	Fix Denial of Service with IPv6 Router Advertisements. [SA-15:09]
196
19720150320:	p12
198	Fix patch for SA-15:06.openssl.
199
20020150319:	p11	FreeBSD-SA-15:06.openssl
201	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL.  [SA-15:06]
202
20320150225:	p10	FreeBSD-SA-15:04.igmp
204			FreeBSD-SA-15:05.bind
205			FreeBSD-EN-15:01.vt
206			FreeBSD-EN-15:02.openssl
207			FreeBSD-EN-15:03.freebsd-update
208
209	Fix integer overflow in IGMP protocol. [SA-15:04]
210
211	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:05]
212
213	Fix vt(4) crash with improper ioctl parameters. [EN-15:01]
214
215	Updated base system OpenSSL to 0.9.8zd. [EN-15:02]
216
217	Fix freebsd-update libraries update ordering issue. [EN-15:03]
218
21920150127:	p9	FreeBSD-SA-15:02.kmem
220			FreeBSD-SA-15:03.sctp
221
222	Fix SCTP SCTP_SS_VALUE kernel memory corruption and disclosure
223	vulnerability.  [SA-15:02]
224
225	Fix SCTP stream reset vulnerability.  [SA-15:03]
226
22720150114:	p8	FreeBSD-SA-15:01.openssl
228	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL.  [SA-15:01]
229
23020141223:	p7	FreeBSD-SA-14:31.ntp
231			FreeBSD-EN-14:13.freebsd-update
232
233	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in NTP suite.  [SA-14:31]
234	Fix directory deletion issue in freebsd-update.	 [EN-14:13]
235
23620141210:	p6	FreeBSD-SA-14:28.file
237			FreeBSD-SA-14:29.bind
238
239	Fix multiple vulnerabilities in file(1) and libmagic(3).
240	[SA-14:28]
241
242	Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-14:29]
243
24420141104:	p5	FreeBSD-SA-14:25.setlogin
245			FreeBSD-SA-14:26.ftp
246			FreeBSD-EN-14:12.zfs
247
248	Fix kernel stack disclosure in setlogin(2) / getlogin(2).
249	[SA-14:25]
250
251	Fix remote command execution in ftp(1). [SA-14:26]
252
253	Fix NFSv4 and ZFS cache consistency issue. [EN-14:12]
254
25520141022:	p4	FreeBSD-EN-14:10.tzdata
256			FreeBSD-EN-14:11.crypt
257
258	Time zone data file update. [EN-14:10]
259
260	Change crypt(3) default hashing algorithm back to DES. [EN-14:11]
261
26220141021:	p3	FreeBSD-SA-14:20.rtsold
263			FreeBSD-SA-14:21.routed
264			FreeBSD-SA-14:22.namei
265			FreeBSD-SA-14:23.openssl
266
267	Fix rtsold(8) remote buffer overflow vulnerability. [SA-14:20]
268
269	Fix routed(8) remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-14:21]
270
271	Fix memory leak in sandboxed namei lookup. [SA-14:22]
272
273	Fix OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-14:23]
274
27520140916:	p2	FreeBSD-SA-14:19.tcp
276	Fix Denial of Service in TCP packet processing. [SA-14:19]
277
27820140909:	p1	FreeBSD-SA-14:18.openssl
279	Fix OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-14:18]
280
28120140716:
282	9.3-RELEASE.
283
28420140608:
285	On i386 and amd64 systems, the onifconsole flag is now set by default
286	in /etc/ttys for ttyu0. This causes ttyu0 to be automatically enabled
287	as a login TTY if it is set in the bootloader as an active kernel
288	console. No changes in behavior should result otherwise. To revert to
289	the previous behavior, set ttyu0 to "off" in /etc/ttys.
290
29120140512:
292	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release.
293
29420140321:
295	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release.
296
29720140216:
298	The nve(4) driver for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters has
299	been deprecated and will not be part of FreeBSD 11.0 and later
300	releases.  If you use this driver, please consider switching to
301	the nfe(4) driver instead.
302
30320131216:
304	The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism
305	has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string
306	than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function.
307	In particular, the random string produced from a session key of
308	enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will
309	be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change.
310	The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a
311	big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402.
312	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 902505.
313
31420130930:
315	9.2-RELEASE.
316
31720130823:
318	Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed.
319	Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs
320	path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by
321	slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs
322	subdirectories must be reviewed.
323
32420130705:
325	hastctl(8)'s `status' command output changed to terse one-liner format.
326	Scripts using this should switch to `list' command or be rewritten.
327
32820130618:
329        Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write
330        to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space
331        even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had
332        write access to that file.
333
33420130605:
335	Added ZFS TRIM support which is enabled by default. To disable
336	ZFS TRIM support set vfs.zfs.trim.enabled=0 in loader.conf.
337
338	Creating new ZFS pools and adding new devices to existing pools
339	first performs a full device level TRIM which can take a significant
340	amount of time. The sysctl vfs.zfs.vdev.trim_on_init can be set to 0
341	to disable this behaviour.
342
343	ZFS TRIM requires the underlying device support BIO_DELETE which
344	is currently provided by methods such as ATA TRIM and SCSI UNMAP
345	via CAM, which are typically supported by SSD's.
346
347	Stats for ZFS TRIM can be monitored by looking at the sysctl's
348	under kstat.zfs.misc.zio_trim.
349
35020130524:
351	`list' command has been added to hastctl(8).  For now, it is full
352	equivalent of `status' command.
353	WARNING: in the near future the output of hastctl's status command
354	will change to more terse format.  If you use `hastctl status'
355	for parsing in your scripts, switch to `hastctl list'.
356
35720130430:
358	The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
359	rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in
360	order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as
361	install and mtree.  When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where
362	the install command does not support -l, you will need to
363	install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required.
364	This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
365	&& make install).
366
367	Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build
368	and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL
369	make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the
370	command line.  If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs
371	you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or
372	/etc/src.conf.
373
37420130429:
375	Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files.
376
37720130315:
378	The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an
379	argument that is a file or path to append logs to.  In the
380	unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line
381	and the command line contained at least two files and a target
382	directory the first file will have logs appended to it.  The -M
383	option served little practical purpose in the last decade so it's
384	used expected to be extremely rare.
385
38620130225:
387	A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to.  Please refer to
388	zpool-features(7) for more information.
389
390	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
391	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
392
39320121224:
394	The VFS KBI was changed with the merge of several nullfs
395	optimizations and fixes.  All filesystem modules must be
396	recompiled.
397
39820121218:
399	With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now
400	depended on during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to add
401	the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
402
40320121205:
404	9.1-RELEASE.
405
40620121129:
407	A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to 9-STABLE.
408	Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning
409	is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward
410	compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS
411	pools. The first two read-only compatible "feature flags" for ZFS
412	pools are "com.delphix:async_destroy" and "com.delphix:empty_bpobj".
413	For more information read the new zpool-features(7) manual page.
414	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
415	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
416
41720121114:
418	The commit introducing bsd.compiler.mk breaks the traditional
419	building of kernels before this point. Add -m ${SRC}/share/mk
420	(for the right value of SRC) to your command lines to work
421	around; update your useland to a point after this; or use the
422	buildkernel/installkernel top-level targets. See also 20120829.
423
42420121102:
425	The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its
426	functionality now turned on by default.
427
42820120913:
429	The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number
430	generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally.
431	Add the PADLOCK_RNG option in the custom kernel config if
432	needed.  The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the
433	option, so the change only affects the custom kernel
434	configurations.
435
43620120829:
437	The amd64 kernel now uses xsetbv, xrstor instructions. To compile with
438	the traditional method, you must update your system with an installworld
439	before the kernel will build. The documented make buildkernel/installkernel
440	interfaces (coupled with fresh make kernel-toolchain) continue to work.
441
44220120727:
443	The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto-
444	detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these
445	to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable.
446
44720120422:
448	Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on	nullfs(5). Previously
449	nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer,
450	as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect
451	only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect
452	only to	the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the
453	lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to.
454
45520120109:
456	The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to
457	/dev/wmistat0.
458
45920120106:
460	A new VOP_ADVISE() was added to support posix_fadvise(2).  All
461	filesystem modules must be recompiled.
462
46320120106:
464	The interface of the VOP_VPTOCNP(9) changed, now the returned
465	vnode shall be referenced, previously it was required to be
466	only held.  All in-tree filesystems are converted.
467
46820120106:
469	9.0-RELEASE.
470
47120111101:
472	The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64,
473	i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files.
474
47520110913:
476	This commit modifies vfs_register() so that it uses a hash
477	calculation to set vfc_typenum, which is enabled by default.
478	The first time a system is booted after this change, the
479	vfc_typenum values will change for all file systems. The
480	main effect of this is a change to the NFS server file handles
481	for file systems that use vfc_typenum in their fsid, such as ZFS.
482	It will, however, prevent vfc_typenum from changing when file
483	systems are loaded in a different order for subsequent reboots.
484	To disable this, you can set vfs.typenumhash=0 in /boot/loader.conf
485	until you are ready to remount all NFS clients after a reboot.
486
48720110828:
488	Bump the shared library version numbers for libraries that
489	do not use symbol versioning, have changed the ABI compared
490	to stable/8 and which shared library version was not bumped.
491	Done as part of 9.0-RELEASE cycle.
492
49320110815:
494	During the merge of Capsicum features, the fget(9) KPI was modified.
495	This may require the rebuilding of out-of-tree device drivers --
496	issues have been reported specifically with the nVidia device driver.
497	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 900041.
498
499	Also, there is a period between 20110811 and 20110814 where the
500	special devices /dev/{stdin,stdout,stderr} did not work correctly.
501	Building world from a kernel during that window may not work.
502
50320110628:
504	The packet filter (pf) code has been updated to OpenBSD 4.5.
505	You need to update userland tools to be in sync with kernel.
506	This update breaks backward compatibility with earlier pfsync(4)
507	versions.  Care must be taken when updating redundant firewall setups.
508
50920110608:
510	The following sysctls and tunables are retired on x86 platforms:
511		machdep.hlt_cpus
512		machdep.hlt_logical_cpus
513	The following sysctl is retired:
514		machdep.hyperthreading_allowed
515	The sysctls were supposed to provide a way to dynamically offline and
516	online selected CPUs on x86 platforms, but the implementation has not
517	been reliable especially with SCHED_ULE scheduler.
518	machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable is still available to ignore
519	hyperthreading CPUs at OS level.
520	Individual CPUs can be disabled using hint.lapic.X.disabled tunable,
521	where X is an APIC ID of a CPU.  Be advised, though, that disabling
522	CPUs in non-uniform fashion will result in non-uniform topology and
523	may lead to sub-optimal system performance with SCHED_ULE, which is
524	a default scheduler.
525
52620110607:
527	cpumask_t type is retired and cpuset_t is used in order to describe
528	a mask of CPUs.
529
53020110531:
531	Changes to ifconfig(8) for dynamic address family detection mandate
532	that you are running a kernel of 20110525 or later.  Make sure to
533	follow the update procedure to boot a new kernel before installing
534	world.
535
53620110513:
537	Support for sun4v architecture is officially dropped
538
53920110503:
540	Several KPI breaking changes have been committed to the mii(4) layer,
541	the PHY drivers and consequently some Ethernet drivers using mii(4).
542	This means that miibus.ko and the modules of the affected Ethernet
543	drivers need to be recompiled.
544
545	Note to kernel developers: Given that the OUI bit reversion problem
546	was fixed as part of these changes all mii(4) commits related to OUIs,
547	i.e. to sys/dev/mii/miidevs, PHY driver probing and vendor specific
548	handling, no longer can be merged verbatim to stable/8 and previous
549	branches.
550
55120110430:
552	Users of the Atheros AR71xx SoC code now need to add 'device ar71xx_pci'
553	into their kernel configurations along with 'device pci'.
554
55520110427:
556	The default NFS client is now the new NFS client, so fstype "newnfs"
557	is now "nfs" and the regular/old NFS client is now fstype "oldnfs".
558	Although mounts via fstype "nfs" will usually work without userland
559	changes, it is recommended that the mount(8) and mount_nfs(8)
560	commands be rebuilt from sources and that a link to mount_nfs called
561	mount_oldnfs be created. The new client is compiled into the
562	kernel with "options NFSCL" and this is needed for diskless root
563	file systems. The GENERIC kernel configs have been changed to use
564	NFSCL and NFSD (the new server) instead of NFSCLIENT and NFSSERVER.
565	To use the regular/old client, you can "mount -t oldnfs ...". For
566	a diskless root file system, you must also include a line like:
567	
568	vfs.root.mountfrom="oldnfs:"
569
570	in the boot/loader.conf on the root fs on the NFS server to make
571	a diskless root fs use the old client.
572
57320110424:
574	The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new
575	CAM-based ATA stack. It means that all legacy ATA drivers were
576	removed and replaced by respective CAM drivers. If you are using
577	ATA device names in /etc/fstab or other places, make sure to update
578	them respectively (adX -> adaY, acdX -> cdY, afdX -> daY, astX -> saY,
579	where 'Y's are the sequential numbers starting from zero for each type
580	in order of detection, unless configured otherwise with tunables,
581	see cam(4)). There will be symbolic links created in /dev/ to map
582	old adX devices to the respective adaY. They should provide basic
583	compatibility for file systems mounting in most cases, but they do
584	not support old user-level APIs and do not have respective providers
585	in GEOM. Consider using updated management tools with new device names.
586
587	It is possible to load devices ahci, ata, siis and mvs as modules,
588	but option ATA_CAM should remain in kernel configuration to make ata
589	module work as CAM driver supporting legacy ATA controllers. Device ata
590	still can be used in modular fashion (atacore + ...). Modules atadisk
591	and atapi* are not used and won't affect operation in ATA_CAM mode.
592	Note that to use CAM-based ATA kernel should include CAM devices
593	scbus, pass, da (or explicitly ada), cd and optionally others. All of
594	them are parts of the cam module.
595
596	ataraid(4) functionality is now supported by the RAID GEOM class.
597	To use it you can load geom_raid kernel module and use graid(8) tool
598	for management. Instead of /dev/arX device names, use /dev/raid/rX.
599
600	No kernel config options or code have been removed, so if a problem
601	arises, please report it and optionally revert to the old ATA stack.
602	In order to do it you can remove from the kernel config:
603	    options        ATA_CAM
604	    device         ahci
605	    device         mvs
606	    device         siis
607	, and instead add back:
608	    device         atadisk         # ATA disk drives
609	    device         ataraid         # ATA RAID drives
610	    device         atapicd         # ATAPI CDROM drives
611	    device         atapifd         # ATAPI floppy drives
612	    device         atapist         # ATAPI tape drives
613
61420110423:
615	The default NFS server has been changed to the new server, which
616	was referred to as the experimental server. If you need to switch
617	back to the old NFS server, you must now put the "-o" option on
618	both the mountd and nfsd commands. This can be done using the
619	mountd_flags and nfs_server_flags rc.conf variables until an
620	update to the rc scripts is committed, which is coming soon.
621
62220110418:
623	The GNU Objective-C runtime library (libobjc), and other Objective-C
624	related components have been removed from the base system.  If you
625	require an Objective-C library, please use one of the available ports.
626
62720110331:
628	ath(4) has been split into bus- and device- modules. if_ath contains
629	the HAL, the TX rate control and the network device code. if_ath_pci
630	contains the PCI bus glue. For Atheros MIPS embedded systems, if_ath_ahb
631	contains the AHB glue. Users need to load both if_ath_pci and if_ath
632	in order to use ath on everything else.
633
634	TO REPEAT: if_ath_ahb is not needed for normal users. Normal users only
635	need to load if_ath and if_ath_pci for ath(4) operation.
636
63720110314:
638	As part of the replacement of sysinstall, the process of building
639	release media has changed significantly. For details, please re-read
640	release(7), which has been updated to reflect the new build process.
641
64220110218:
643	GNU binutils 2.17.50 (as of 2007-07-03) has been merged to -HEAD.  This
644	is the last available version under GPLv2.  It brings a number of new
645	features, such as support for newer x86 CPU's (with SSE-3, SSSE-3, SSE
646	4.1 and SSE 4.2), better support for powerpc64, a number of new
647	directives, and lots of other small improvements.  See the ChangeLog
648	file in contrib/binutils for the full details.
649
65020110218:
651	IPsec's HMAC_SHA256-512 support has been fixed to be RFC4868
652	compliant, and will now use half of hash for authentication.
653	This will break interoperability with all stacks (including all
654	actual FreeBSD versions) who implement
655	draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-sha-256-00 (they use 96 bits of hash for
656	authentication).
657	The only workaround with such peers is to use another HMAC
658	algorithm for IPsec ("phase 2") authentication.
659
66020110207:
661	Remove the uio_yield prototype and symbol.  This function has
662	been misnamed since it was introduced and should not be
663	globally exposed with this name.  The equivalent functionality
664	is now available using kern_yield(curthread->td_user_pri).
665	The function remains undocumented.
666
66720110112:
668	A SYSCTL_[ADD_]UQUAD was added for unsigned uint64_t pointers,
669	symmetric with the existing SYSCTL_[ADD_]QUAD.  Type checking
670	for scalar sysctls is defined but disabled.  Code that needs
671	UQUAD to pass the type checking that must compile on older
672	systems where the define is not present can check against
673	__FreeBSD_version >= 900030.
674
675	The system dialog(1) has been replaced with a new version previously
676	in ports as devel/cdialog. dialog(1) is mostly command-line compatible
677	with the previous version, but the libdialog associated with it has
678	a largely incompatible API. As such, the original version of libdialog
679	will be kept temporarily as libodialog, until its base system consumers
680	are replaced or updated. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900030.
681
68220110103:
683	If you are trying to run make universe on a -stable system, and you get
684	the following warning:
685	"Makefile", line 356: "Target architecture for i386/conf/GENERIC 
686	unknown.  config(8) likely too old."
687	or something similar to it, then you must upgrade your -stable system
688	to 8.2-Release or newer (really, any time after r210146 7/15/2010 in
689	stable/8) or build the config from the latest stable/8 branch and
690	install it on your system.
691
692	Prior to this date, building a current universe on 8-stable system from
693	between 7/15/2010 and 1/2/2011 would result in a weird shell parsing
694	error in the first kernel build phase.  A new config on those old 
695	systems will fix that problem for older versions of -current.
696
69720101228:
698	The TCP stack has been modified to allow Khelp modules to interact with
699	it via helper hook points and store per-connection data in the TCP
700	control block. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900029. User space tools that
701	rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to
702	be recompiled.
703
70420101114:
705	Generic IEEE 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support has been
706	added to mii(4) and bge(4), bce(4), msk(4), nfe(4) and stge(4) along
707	with brgphy(4), e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy() have been converted
708	to take advantage of it instead of using custom implementations.  This
709	means that these drivers now no longer unconditionally advertise
710	support for flow control but only do so if flow control is a selected
711	media option.  This was implemented in the generic support that way in
712	order to allow flow control to be switched on and off via ifconfig(8)
713	with the PHY specific default to typically off in order to protect
714	from unwanted effects.  Consequently, if you used flow control with
715	one of the above mentioned drivers you now need to explicitly enable
716	it, for example via:
717		ifconfig bge0 media auto mediaopt flowcontrol
718
719	Along with the above mentioned changes generic support for setting
720	1000baseT master mode also has been added and brgphy(4), ciphy(4),
721	e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy(4) have been converted to take
722	advantage of it.  This means that these drivers now no longer take the
723	link0 parameter for selecting master mode but the master media option
724	has to be used instead, for example like in the following:
725		ifconfig bge0 media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,master
726
727	Selection of master mode now is also available with all other PHY
728	drivers supporting 1000baseT.
729
73020101111:
731	The TCP stack has received a significant update to add support for
732	modularised congestion control and generally improve the clarity of
733	congestion control decisions. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900025. User
734	space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g.
735	sockstat) need to be recompiled.
736
73720101002:
738	The man(1) utility has been replaced by a new version that no longer
739	uses /etc/manpath.config. Please consult man.conf(5) for how to
740	migrate local entries to the new format.
741
74220100928:
743	The copyright strings printed by login(1) and sshd(8) at the time of a
744	new connection have been removed to follow other operating systems and
745	upstream sshd.
746
74720100915:
748	A workaround for a fixed ld bug has been removed in kernel code,
749	so make sure that your system ld is built from sources after
750	revision 210245 from 2010-07-19 (r211583 if building head kernel
751	on stable/8, r211584 for stable/7; both from 2010-08-21).
752	A symptom of incorrect ld version is different addresses for
753	set_pcpu section and __start_set_pcpu symbol in kernel and/or modules.
754
75520100913:
756	The $ipv6_prefer variable in rc.conf(5) has been split into
757	$ip6addrctl_policy and $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces.
758
759	The $ip6addrctl_policy is a variable to choose a pre-defined
760	address selection policy set by ip6addrctl(8).  A value
761	"ipv4_prefer", "ipv6_prefer" or "AUTO" can be specified.  The
762	default is "AUTO".
763
764	The $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces specifies whether IFDISABLED
765	flag (see an entry of 20090926) is set on an interface with no
766	corresponding $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 line.  The default is "NO" for
767	security reason.  If you want IPv6 link-local address on all
768	interfaces by default, set this to "YES".
769
770	The old ipv6_prefer="YES" is equivalent to
771	ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" and
772	ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer".
773
77420100913:
775	DTrace has grown support for userland tracing. Due to this, DTrace is
776	now i386 and amd64 only.
777	dtruss(1) is now installed by default on those systems and a new
778	kernel module is needed for userland tracing: fasttrap.
779	No changes to your kernel config file are necessary to enable
780	userland tracing, but you might consider adding 'STRIP=' and
781	'CFLAGS+=-fno-omit-frame-pointer' to your make.conf if you want
782	to have informative userland stack traces in DTrace (ustack).
783
78420100725:
785	The acpi_aiboost(4) driver has been removed in favor of the new
786	aibs(4) driver. You should update your kernel configuration file.
787
78820100722:
789	BSD grep has been imported to the base system and it is built by
790	default.  It is completely BSD licensed, highly GNU-compatible, uses
791	less memory than its GNU counterpart and has a small codebase.
792	However, it is slower than its GNU counterpart, which is mostly
793	noticeable for larger searches, for smaller ones it is measurable
794	but not significant.  The reason is complex, the most important factor
795	is that we lack a modern and efficient regex library and GNU
796	overcomes this by optimizing the searches internally.  Future work
797	on improving the regex performance is planned, for the meantime,
798	users that need better performance, can build GNU grep instead by
799	setting the WITH_GNU_GREP knob.
800
80120100713:
802	Due to the import of powerpc64 support, all existing powerpc kernel
803	configuration files must be updated with a machine directive like this:
804	    machine powerpc powerpc
805
806	In addition, an updated config(8) is required to build powerpc kernels
807	after this change.
808
80920100713:
810	A new version of ZFS (version 15) has been merged to -HEAD.
811	This version uses a python library for the following subcommands:
812	zfs allow, zfs unallow, zfs groupspace, zfs userspace.
813	For full functionality of these commands the following port must
814	be installed: sysutils/py-zfs
815
81620100429:
817	'vm_page's are now hashed by physical address to an array of mutexes.
818	Currently this is only used to serialize access to hold_count. Over 
819	time the page queue mutex will be peeled away. This changes the size
820	of pmap on every architecture. And requires all callers of vm_page_hold
821	and vm_page_unhold to be updated. 
822 
82320100402:
824	WITH_CTF can now be specified in src.conf (not recommended, there
825	are some problems with static executables), make.conf (would also
826	affect ports which do not use GNU make and do not override the
827	compile targets) or in the kernel config (via "makeoptions
828	WITH_CTF=yes").
829	When WITH_CTF was specified there before this was silently ignored,
830	so make sure that WITH_CTF is not used in places which could lead
831	to unwanted behavior.
832
83320100311:
834	The kernel option COMPAT_IA32 has been replaced with COMPAT_FREEBSD32
835	to allow 32-bit compatibility on non-x86 platforms. All kernel
836	configurations on amd64 and ia64 platforms using these options must
837	be modified accordingly.
838
83920100113:
840	The utmp user accounting database has been replaced with utmpx,
841	the user accounting interface standardized by POSIX.
842	Unfortunately the semantics of utmp and utmpx don't match,
843	making it practically impossible to support both interfaces.
844	The user accounting database is used by tools like finger(1),
845	last(1), talk(1), w(1) and ac(8).
846
847	All applications in the base system use utmpx.  This means only
848	local binaries (e.g. from the ports tree) may still use these
849	utmp database files.  These applications must be rebuilt to make
850	use of utmpx.
851
852	After the system has been upgraded, it is safe to remove the old
853	log files (/var/run/utmp, /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/wtmp*),
854	assuming their contents is of no importance anymore.  Old wtmp
855	databases can only be used by last(1) and ac(8) after they have
856	been converted to the new format using wtmpcvt(1).
857
85820100108:
859	Introduce the kernel thread "deadlock resolver" (which can be enabled
860	via the DEADLKRES option, see NOTES for more details) and the
861	sleepq_type() function for sleepqueues.
862
86320091202:
864	The rc.firewall and rc.firewall6 were unified, and
865	rc.firewall6 and rc.d/ip6fw were removed.
866	According to the removal of rc.d/ip6fw, ipv6_firewall_* rc
867	variables are obsoleted.  Instead, the following new rc
868	variables are added to rc.d/ipfw:
869
870		firewall_client_net_ipv6, firewall_simple_iif_ipv6,
871		firewall_simple_inet_ipv6, firewall_simple_oif_ipv6,
872		firewall_simple_onet_ipv6, firewall_trusted_ipv6
873
874	The meanings correspond to the relevant IPv4 variables.
875
87620091125:
877	8.0-RELEASE.
878
87920091113:
880	The default terminal emulation for syscons(4) has been changed
881	from cons25 to xterm on all platforms except pc98.  This means
882	that the /etc/ttys file needs to be updated to ensure correct
883	operation of applications on the console.
884
885	The terminal emulation style can be toggled per window by using
886	vidcontrol(1)'s -T flag.  The TEKEN_CONS25 kernel configuration
887	options can be used to change the compile-time default back to
888	cons25.
889
890	To prevent graphical artifacts, make sure the TERM environment
891	variable is set to match the terminal emulation that is being
892	performed by syscons(4).
893
89420091109:
895	The layout of the structure ieee80211req_scan_result has changed.
896	Applications that require wireless scan results (e.g. ifconfig(8))
897	from net80211 need to be recompiled.
898
899	Applications such as wpa_supplicant(8) may require a full world
900	build without using NO_CLEAN in order to get synchronized with the
901	new structure.
902
90320091025:
904	The iwn(4) driver has been updated to support the 5000 and 5150 series.
905	There's one kernel module for each firmware. Adding "device iwnfw"
906	to the kernel configuration file means including all three firmware
907	images inside the kernel. If you want to include just the one for
908	your wireless card, use the devices iwn4965fw, iwn5000fw or
909	iwn5150fw.
910
91120090926:
912	The rc.d/network_ipv6, IPv6 configuration script has been integrated
913	into rc.d/netif.  The changes are the following:
914
915	1. To use IPv6, simply define $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 like $ifconfig_IF
916	   for IPv4.  For aliases, $ifconfig_IF_aliasN should be used.
917	   Note that both variables need the "inet6" keyword at the head.
918
919	   Do not set $ipv6_network_interfaces manually if you do not
920	   understand what you are doing.  It is not needed in most cases. 
921
922	   $ipv6_ifconfig_IF and $ipv6_ifconfig_IF_aliasN still work, but
923	   they are obsolete.
924
925	2. $ipv6_enable is obsolete.  Use $ipv6_prefer and
926	   "inet6 accept_rtadv" keyword in ifconfig(8) instead.
927
928	   If you define $ipv6_enable=YES, it means $ipv6_prefer=YES and
929	   all configured interfaces have "inet6 accept_rtadv" in the
930	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  These are for backward compatibility.
931
932	3. A new variable $ipv6_prefer has been added.  If NO, IPv6
933	   functionality of interfaces with no corresponding
934	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 is disabled by using "inet6 ifdisabled" flag,
935	   and the default address selection policy of ip6addrctl(8) 
936	   is the IPv4-preferred one (see rc.d/ip6addrctl for more details).
937	   Note that if you want to configure IPv6 functionality on the
938	   disabled interfaces after boot, first you need to clear the flag by
939	   using ifconfig(8) like:
940
941		ifconfig em0 inet6 -ifdisabled
942
943	   If YES, the default address selection policy is set as
944	   IPv6-preferred.
945
946	   The default value of $ipv6_prefer is NO.
947
948	4. If your system need to receive Router Advertisement messages,
949	   define "inet6 accept_rtadv" in $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  The rc(8)
950	   scripts automatically invoke rtsol(8) when the interface becomes
951	   UP.  The Router Advertisement messages are used for SLAAC
952	   (State-Less Address AutoConfiguration).
953
95420090922:
955	802.11s D3.03 support was committed. This is incompatible with the
956	previous code, which was based on D3.0.
957
95820090912:
959	A sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv now sets the default value
960	of a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV, not a global knob to
961	control whether accepting Router Advertisement messages or not.
962	Also, a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_AUTO_LINKLOCAL has been added and
963	a sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal is its default value.
964	The ifconfig(8) utility now supports these flags.
965
96620090910:
967	ZFS snapshots are now mounted with MNT_IGNORE flag. Use -v option for
968	mount(8) and -a option for df(1) to see them.
969
97020090825:
971	The old tunable hw.bus.devctl_disable has been superseded by
972	hw.bus.devctl_queue.  hw.bus.devctl_disable=1 in loader.conf should be
973	replaced by hw.bus.devctl_queue=0.  The default for this new tunable
974	is 1000.
975
97620090813:
977	Remove the option STOP_NMI.  The default action is now to use NMI only
978	for KDB via the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and
979	maintain stop_cpus() to just use a normal IPI_STOP on ia32 and amd64.
980
98120090803:
982	The stable/8 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
983	RELENG_8 branch in CVS.
984
98520090719:
986	Bump the shared library version numbers for all libraries that do not
987	use symbol versioning as part of the 8.0-RELEASE cycle.  Bump
988	__FreeBSD_version to 800105.
989
99020090714:
991	Due to changes in the implementation of virtual network stack support,
992	all network-related kernel modules must be recompiled.  As this change
993	breaks the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800104.
994
99520090713:
996	The TOE interface to the TCP syncache has been modified to remove
997	struct tcpopt (<netinet/tcp_var.h>) from the ABI of the network stack.
998	The cxgb driver is the only TOE consumer affected by this change, and
999	needs to be recompiled along with the kernel. As this change breaks
1000	the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800103.
1001
100220090712: 
1003	Padding has been added to struct tcpcb, sackhint and tcpstat in
1004	<netinet/tcp_var.h> to facilitate future MFCs and bug fixes whilst
1005	maintaining the ABI. However, this change breaks the ABI, so bump
1006	__FreeBSD_version to 800102. User space tools that rely on the size of
1007	any of these structs (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
1008
100920090630:
1010	The NFS_LEGACYRPC option has been removed along with the old kernel
1011	RPC implementation that this option selected. Kernel configurations
1012	may need to be adjusted.
1013
101420090629:
1015	The network interface device nodes at /dev/net/<interface> have been
1016	removed.  All ioctl operations can be performed the normal way using
1017	routing sockets.  The kqueue functionality can generally be replaced
1018	with routing sockets.
1019
102020090628:
1021	The documentation from the FreeBSD Documentation Project (Handbook,
1022	FAQ, etc.) is now installed via packages by sysinstall(8) and under
1023	the /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd directory instead of /usr/share/doc.
1024
102520090624:
1026	The ABI of various structures related to the SYSV IPC API have been
1027	changed.  As a result, the COMPAT_FREEBSD[456] and COMPAT_43 kernel
1028	options now all require COMPAT_FREEBSD7.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to
1029	800100.
1030
103120090622:
1032	Layout of struct vnet has changed as routing related variables were
1033	moved to their own Vimage module. Modules need to be recompiled.  Bump
1034	__FreeBSD_version to 800099.
1035
103620090619:
1037	NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS have been increased from 16 to 1023 and 1024
1038	respectively.  As long as no more than 16 groups per process are used,
1039	no changes should be visible.  When more than 16 groups are used, old
1040	binaries may fail if they call getgroups() or getgrouplist() with
1041	statically sized storage.  Recompiling will work around this, but
1042	applications should be modified to use dynamically allocated storage
1043	for group arrays as POSIX.1-2008 does not cap an implementation's
1044	number of supported groups at NGROUPS_MAX+1 as previous versions did.
1045
1046	NFS and portalfs mounts may also be affected as the list of groups is
1047	truncated to 16.  Users of NFS who use more than 16 groups, should
1048	take care that negative group permissions are not used on the exported
1049	file systems as they will not be reliable unless a GSSAPI based
1050	authentication method is used.
1051
105220090616: 
1053	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_LOCKMGRS has been introduced.  This
1054	option compiles in the support for adaptive spinning for lockmgrs
1055	which want to enable it.  The lockinit() function now accepts the flag
1056	LK_ADAPTIVE in order to make the lock object subject to adaptive
1057	spinning when both held in write and read mode.
1058
105920090613:
1060	The layout of the structure returned by IEEE80211_IOC_STA_INFO has
1061	changed.  User applications that use this ioctl need to be rebuilt.
1062
106320090611:
1064	The layout of struct thread has changed.  Kernel and modules need to
1065	be rebuilt.
1066
106720090608:
1068	The layout of structs ifnet, domain, protosw and vnet_net has changed.
1069	Kernel modules need to be rebuilt.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097.
1070
107120090602:
1072	window(1) has been removed from the base system. It can now be
1073	installed from ports. The port is called misc/window.
1074
107520090601:
1076	The way we are storing and accessing `routing table' entries has
1077	changed. Programs reading the FIB, like netstat, need to be
1078	re-compiled.
1079
108020090601:
1081	A new netisr implementation has been added for FreeBSD 8.  Network
1082	file system modules, such as igmp, ipdivert, and others, should be
1083	rebuilt.
1084	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800096.
1085
108620090530:
1087	Remove the tunable/sysctl debug.mpsafevfs as its initial purpose is no
1088	more valid.
1089
109020090530:
1091	Add VOP_ACCESSX(9).  File system modules need to be rebuilt.
1092	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800094.
1093
109420090529:
1095	Add mnt_xflag field to 'struct mount'.  File system modules need to be
1096	rebuilt.
1097	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800093.
1098
109920090528:
1100	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_SX has been retired while it has been
1101	introduced the option NO_ADAPTIVE_SX which handles the reversed logic.
1102	The KPI for sx_init_flags() changes as accepting flags:
1103	SX_ADAPTIVESPIN flag has been retired while the SX_NOADAPTIVE flag has
1104	been introduced in order to handle the reversed logic.
1105	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800092.
1106
110720090527:
1108	Add support for hierarchical jails.  Remove global securelevel.
1109	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800091.
1110
111120090523:
1112	The layout of struct vnet_net has changed, therefore modules
1113	need to be rebuilt.
1114	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800090.
1115
111620090523:
1117	The newly imported zic(8) produces a new format in the output. Please
1118	run tzsetup(8) to install the newly created data to /etc/localtime.
1119
112020090520:
1121	The sysctl tree for the usb stack has renamed from hw.usb2.* to
1122	hw.usb.* and is now consistent again with previous releases.
1123
112420090520:
1125	802.11 monitor mode support was revised and driver api's were changed.
1126	Drivers dependent on net80211 now support DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO instead
1127	of DLT_IEEE802_11.  No user-visible data structures were changed but
1128	applications that use DLT_IEEE802_11 may require changes.
1129	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800088.
1130
113120090430:
1132	The layout of the following structs has changed: sysctl_oid,
1133	socket, ifnet, inpcbinfo, tcpcb, syncache_head, vnet_inet,
1134	vnet_inet6 and vnet_ipfw.  Most modules need to be rebuild or
1135	panics may be experienced.  World rebuild is required for
1136	correctly checking networking state from userland.
1137	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800085.
1138
113920090429:
1140	MLDv2 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
1141	to the IPv6 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
1142	The implementation of SSM within FreeBSD's IPv6 stack closely
1143	follows the IPv4 implementation.
1144
1145	For kernel developers:
1146
1147	* The most important changes are that the ip6_output() and
1148	  ip6_input() paths no longer take the IN6_MULTI_LOCK,
1149	  and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
1150
1151	* As with the changes to the IPv4 stack to support SSM, filtering
1152	  of inbound multicast traffic must now be performed by transport
1153	  protocols within the IPv6 stack. This does not apply to TCP and
1154	  SCTP, however, it does apply to UDP in IPv6 and raw IPv6.
1155
1156	* The KPIs used by IPv6 multicast are similar to those used by
1157	  the IPv4 stack, with the following differences:
1158	   * im6o_mc_filter() is analogous to imo_multicast_filter().
1159	   * The legacy KAME entry points in6_joingroup and in6_leavegroup()
1160	     are shimmed to in6_mc_join() and in6_mc_leave() respectively.
1161	   * IN6_LOOKUP_MULTI() has been deprecated and removed.
1162	   * IPv6 relies on MLD for the DAD mechanism. KAME's internal KPIs
1163	     for MLDv1 have an additional 'timer' argument which is used to
1164	     jitter the initial membership report for the solicited-node
1165	     multicast membership on-link.
1166	   * This is not strictly needed for MLDv2, which already jitters
1167	     its report transmissions.  However, the 'timer' argument is
1168	     preserved in case MLDv1 is active on the interface.
1169
1170	* The KAME linked-list based IPv6 membership implementation has
1171	  been refactored to use a vector similar to that used by the IPv4
1172	  stack.
1173	  Code which maintains a list of its own multicast memberships
1174	  internally, e.g. carp, has been updated to reflect the new
1175	  semantics.
1176
1177	* There is a known Lock Order Reversal (LOR) due to in6_setscope()
1178	  acquiring the IF_AFDATA_LOCK and being called within ip6_output().
1179	  Whilst MLDv2 tries to avoid this otherwise benign LOR, it is an
1180	  implementation constraint which needs to be addressed in HEAD.
1181
1182	For application developers:
1183
1184	* The changes are broadly similar to those made for the IPv4
1185	  stack.
1186
1187	* The use of IPv4 and IPv6 multicast socket options on the same
1188	  socket, using mapped addresses, HAS NOT been tested or supported.
1189
1190	* There are a number of issues with the implementation of various
1191	  IPv6 multicast APIs which need to be resolved in the API surface
1192	  before the implementation is fully compatible with KAME userland
1193	  use, and these are mostly to do with interface index treatment.
1194
1195	* The literature available discusses the use of either the delta / ASM
1196	  API with setsockopt(2)/getsockopt(2), or the full-state / ASM API
1197	  using setsourcefilter(3)/getsourcefilter(3). For more information
1198	  please refer to RFC 3768, 'Socket Interface Extensions for
1199	  Multicast Source Filters'.
1200
1201	* Applications which use the published RFC 3678 APIs should be fine.
1202
1203	For systems administrators:
1204
1205	* The mtest(8) utility has been refactored to support IPv6, in
1206	  addition to IPv4. Interface addresses are no longer accepted
1207	  as arguments, their names must be used instead. The utility
1208	  will map the interface name to its first IPv4 address as
1209	  returned by getifaddrs(3).
1210
1211	* The ifmcstat(8) utility has also been updated to print the MLDv2
1212	  endpoint state and source filter lists via sysctl(3).
1213
1214	* The net.inet6.ip6.mcast.loop sysctl may be tuned to 0 to disable
1215	  loopback of IPv6 multicast datagrams by default; it defaults to 1
1216	  to preserve the existing behaviour. Disabling multicast loopback is
1217	  recommended for optimal system performance.
1218
1219	* The IPv6 MROUTING code has been changed to examine this sysctl
1220	  instead of attempting to perform a group lookup before looping
1221	  back forwarded datagrams.
1222
1223	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800084.
1224
122520090422:
1226	Implement low-level Bluetooth HCI API.
1227	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800083.
1228
122920090419:
1230	The layout of struct malloc_type, used by modules to register new
1231	memory allocation types, has changed.  Most modules will need to
1232	be rebuilt or panics may be experienced.
1233	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800081.
1234
123520090415:
1236	Anticipate overflowing inp_flags - add inp_flags2.
1237	This changes most offsets in inpcb, so checking v4 connection
1238	state will require a world rebuild.
1239	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800080.
1240
124120090415:
1242	Add an llentry to struct route and struct route_in6. Modules
1243	embedding a struct route will need to be recompiled.
1244	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800079.
1245
124620090414:
1247	The size of rt_metrics_lite and by extension rtentry has changed.
1248	Networking administration apps will need to be recompiled.
1249	The route command now supports show as an alias for get, weighting
1250	of routes, sticky and nostick flags to alter the behavior of stateful
1251	load balancing.
1252	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800078.
1253
125420090408:
1255	Do not use Giant for kbdmux(4) locking. This is wrong and
1256	apparently causing more problems than it solves. This will
1257	re-open the issue where interrupt handlers may race with
1258	kbdmux(4) in polling mode. Typical symptoms include (but
1259	not limited to) duplicated and/or missing characters when
1260	low level console functions (such as gets) are used while
1261	interrupts are enabled (for example geli password prompt,
1262	mountroot prompt etc.). Disabling kbdmux(4) may help.
1263
126420090407:
1265	The size of structs vnet_net, vnet_inet and vnet_ipfw has changed;
1266	kernel modules referencing any of the above need to be recompiled.
1267	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800075.
1268
126920090320:
1270	GEOM_PART has become the default partition slicer for storage devices,
1271	replacing GEOM_MBR, GEOM_BSD, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_GPT slicers. It
1272	introduces some changes:
1273
1274	MSDOS/EBR: the devices created from MSDOS extended partition entries
1275	(EBR) can be named differently than with GEOM_MBR and are now symlinks
1276	to devices with offset-based names. fstabs may need to be modified.
1277
1278	BSD: the "geometry does not match label" warning is harmless in most
1279	cases but it points to problems in file system misalignment with
1280	disk geometry. The "c" partition is now implicit, covers the whole
1281	top-level drive and cannot be (mis)used by users.
1282
1283	General: Kernel dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices
1284	whose partition types indicate they are meant to be used for file
1285	systems (or, in case of MSDOS partitions, as something else than
1286	the "386BSD" type).
1287
1288	Most of these changes date approximately from 200812.
1289
129020090319:
1291	The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows
1292	Linux removing theirs in 2.6 and making libusb the default interface
1293	(supported by sane).
1294
129520090319:
1296	The multicast forwarding code has been cleaned up. netstat(1)
1297	only relies on KVM now for printing bandwidth upcall meters.
1298	The IPv4 and IPv6 modules are split into ip_mroute_mod and
1299	ip6_mroute_mod respectively. The config(5) options for statically
1300	compiling this code remain the same, i.e. 'options MROUTING'.
1301
130220090315:
1303	Support for the IFF_NEEDSGIANT network interface flag has been
1304	removed, which means that non-MPSAFE network device drivers are no
1305	longer supported.  In particular, if_ar, if_sr, and network device
1306	drivers from the old (legacy) USB stack can no longer be built or
1307	used.
1308
130920090313:
1310	POSIX.1 Native Language Support (NLS) has been enabled in libc and
1311	a bunch of new language catalog files have also been added.
1312	This means that some common libc messages are now localized and
1313	they depend on the LC_MESSAGES environmental variable.
1314
131520090313:
1316	The k8temp(4) driver has been renamed to amdtemp(4) since
1317	support for Family 10 and Family 11 CPU families was added.
1318
131920090309:
1320	IGMPv3 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
1321	to the IPv4 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
1322
1323	For kernel developers, the most important changes are that the
1324	ip_output() and ip_input() paths no longer take the IN_MULTI_LOCK(),
1325	and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
1326
1327	Transport protocols (UDP, Raw IP) are now responsible for filtering
1328	inbound multicast traffic according to group membership and source
1329	filters. The imo_multicast_filter() KPI exists for this purpose.
1330	Transports which do not use multicast (SCTP, TCP) already reject
1331	multicast by default. Forwarding and receive performance may improve
1332	as a mutex acquisition is no longer needed in the ip_input()
1333	low-level input path.  in_addmulti() and in_delmulti() are shimmed
1334	to new KPIs which exist to support SSM in-kernel.
1335
1336	For application developers, it is recommended that loopback of
1337	multicast datagrams be disabled for best performance, as this
1338	will still cause the lock to be taken for each looped-back
1339	datagram transmission. The net.inet.ip.mcast.loop sysctl may
1340	be tuned to 0 to disable loopback by default; it defaults to 1
1341	to preserve the existing behaviour.
1342
1343	For systems administrators, to obtain best performance with
1344	multicast reception and multiple groups, it is always recommended
1345	that a card with a suitably precise hash filter is used. Hash
1346	collisions will still result in the lock being taken within the
1347	transport protocol input path to check group membership.
1348
1349	If deploying FreeBSD in an environment with IGMP snooping switches,
1350	it is recommended that the net.inet.igmp.sendlocal sysctl remain
1351	enabled; this forces 224.0.0.0/24 group membership to be announced
1352	via IGMP.
1353
1354	The size of 'struct igmpstat' has changed; netstat needs to be
1355	recompiled to reflect this.
1356	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800070.
1357
135820090309:
1359	libusb20.so.1 is now installed as libusb.so.1 and the ports system
1360	updated to use it. This requires a buildworld/installworld in order to
1361	update the library and dependencies (usbconfig, etc). Its advisable to
1362	rebuild all ports which uses libusb. More specific directions are given
1363	in the ports collection UPDATING file. Any /etc/libmap.conf entries for
1364	libusb are no longer required and can be removed.
1365
136620090302:
1367	A workaround is committed to allow the creation of System V shared
1368	memory segment of size > 2 GB on the 64-bit architectures.
1369	Due to a limitation of the existing ABI, the shm_segsz member
1370	of the struct shmid_ds, returned by shmctl(IPC_STAT) call is
1371	wrong for large segments. Note that limits must be explicitly
1372	raised to allow such segments to be created.
1373
137420090301:
1375	The layout of struct ifnet has changed, requiring a rebuild of all
1376	network device driver modules.
1377
137820090227:
1379	The /dev handling for the new USB stack has changed, a
1380	buildworld/installworld is required for libusb20.
1381
138220090223:
1383	The new USB2 stack has now been permanently moved in and all kernel and
1384	module names reverted to their previous values (eg, usb, ehci, ohci,
1385	ums, ...).  The old usb stack can be compiled in by prefixing the name
1386	with the letter 'o', the old usb modules have been removed.
1387	Updating entry 20090216 for xorg and 20090215 for libmap may still
1388	apply.
1389
139020090217:
1391	The rc.conf(5) option if_up_delay has been renamed to
1392	defaultroute_delay to better reflect its purpose. If you have
1393	customized this setting in /etc/rc.conf you need to update it to
1394	use the new name.
1395
139620090216:
1397	xorg 7.4 wants to configure its input devices via hald which does not
1398	yet work with USB2. If the keyboard/mouse does not work in xorg then
1399	add
1400		Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
1401	to your ServerLayout section.  This will cause X to use the configured
1402	kbd and mouse sections from your xorg.conf.
1403
140420090215:
1405	The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new USB2
1406	stack. No kernel config options or code have been removed so if a
1407	problem arises please report it and optionally revert to the old USB
1408	stack. If you are loading USB kernel modules or have a custom kernel
1409	that includes GENERIC then ensure that usb names are also changed over,
1410	eg uftdi -> usb2_serial_ftdi.
1411
1412	Older programs linked against the ports libusb 0.1 need to be
1413	redirected to the new stack's libusb20.  /etc/libmap.conf can
1414	be used for this:
1415		# Map old usb library to new one for usb2 stack
1416		libusb-0.1.so.8	libusb20.so.1
1417
141820090209:
1419	All USB ethernet devices now attach as interfaces under the name ueN
1420	(eg. ue0). This is to provide a predictable name as vendors often
1421	change usb chipsets in a product without notice.
1422
142320090203:
1424	The ichsmb(4) driver has been changed to require SMBus slave
1425	addresses be left-justified (xxxxxxx0b) rather than right-justified.
1426	All of the other SMBus controller drivers require left-justified
1427	slave addresses, so this change makes all the drivers provide the
1428	same interface.
1429
143020090201:
1431	INET6 statistics (struct ip6stat) was updated.
1432	netstat(1) needs to be recompiled.
1433
143420090119:
1435	NTFS has been removed from GENERIC kernel on amd64 to match
1436	GENERIC on i386. Should not cause any issues since mount_ntfs(8)
1437	will load ntfs.ko module automatically when NTFS support is
1438	actually needed, unless ntfs.ko is not installed or security
1439	level prohibits loading kernel modules. If either is the case,
1440	"options NTFS" has to be added into kernel config.
1441
144220090115:
1443	TCP Appropriate Byte Counting (RFC 3465) support added to kernel.
1444	New field in struct tcpcb breaks ABI, so bump __FreeBSD_version to
1445	800061. User space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in
1446	tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
1447
144820081225:
1449	ng_tty(4) module updated to match the new TTY subsystem.
1450	Due to API change, user-level applications must be updated.
1451	New API support added to mpd5 CVS and expected to be present
1452	in next mpd5.3 release.
1453
145420081219:
1455	With __FreeBSD_version 800060 the makefs tool is part of
1456	the base system (it was a port).
1457
145820081216:
1459	The afdata and ifnet locks have been changed from mutexes to
1460	rwlocks, network modules will need to be re-compiled.
1461
146220081214:
1463	__FreeBSD_version 800059 incorporates the new arp-v2 rewrite.
1464	RTF_CLONING, RTF_LLINFO and RTF_WASCLONED flags are eliminated.
1465	The new code reduced struct rtentry{} by 16 bytes on 32-bit
1466	architecture and 40 bytes on 64-bit architecture. The userland
1467	applications "arp" and "ndp" have been updated accordingly.
1468	The output from "netstat -r" shows only routing entries and
1469	none of the L2 information.
1470
147120081130:
1472	__FreeBSD_version 800057 marks the switchover from the
1473	binary ath hal to source code. Users must add the line:
1474
1475	options	AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
1476
1477	to their kernel config files when specifying:
1478
1479	device	ath_hal
1480
1481	The ath_hal module no longer exists; the code is now compiled
1482	together with the driver in the ath module.  It is now
1483	possible to tailor chip support (i.e. reduce the set of chips
1484	and thereby the code size); consult ath_hal(4) for details.
1485
148620081121:
1487	__FreeBSD_version 800054 adds memory barriers to
1488	<machine/atomic.h>, new interfaces to ifnet to facilitate
1489	multiple hardware transmit queues for cards that support
1490	them, and a lock-less ring-buffer implementation to
1491	enable drivers to more efficiently manage queueing of
1492	packets.
1493
149420081117:
1495	A new version of ZFS (version 13) has been merged to -HEAD.
1496	This version has zpool attribute "listsnapshots" off by
1497	default, which means "zfs list" does not show snapshots,
1498	and is the same as Solaris behavior.
1499
150020081028:
1501	dummynet(4) ABI has changed. ipfw(8) needs to be recompiled.
1502
150320081009:
1504	The uhci, ohci, ehci and slhci USB Host controller drivers have
1505	been put into separate modules. If you load the usb module
1506	separately through loader.conf you will need to load the
1507	appropriate *hci module as well. E.g. for a UHCI-based USB 2.0
1508	controller add the following to loader.conf:
1509
1510		uhci_load="YES"
1511		ehci_load="YES"
1512
151320081009:
1514	The ABI used by the PMC toolset has changed.  Please keep
1515	userland (libpmc(3)) and the kernel module (hwpmc(4)) in
1516	sync.
1517
151820081009:
1519	atapci kernel module now includes only generic PCI ATA
1520	driver. AHCI driver moved to ataahci kernel module.
1521	All vendor-specific code moved into separate kernel modules:
1522	ataacard, ataacerlabs, ataadaptec, ataamd, ataati, atacenatek,
1523	atacypress, atacyrix, atahighpoint, ataintel, ataite, atajmicron,
1524	atamarvell, atamicron, atanational, atanetcell, atanvidia,
1525	atapromise, ataserverworks, atasiliconimage, atasis, atavia
1526
152720080820:
1528	The TTY subsystem of the kernel has been replaced by a new
1529	implementation, which provides better scalability and an
1530	improved driver model. Most common drivers have been migrated to
1531	the new TTY subsystem, while others have not. The following
1532	drivers have not yet been ported to the new TTY layer:
1533
1534	PCI/ISA:
1535		cy, digi, rc, rp, sio
1536
1537	USB:
1538		ubser, ucycom
1539
1540	Line disciplines:
1541		ng_h4, ng_tty, ppp, sl, snp
1542
1543	Adding these drivers to your kernel configuration file shall
1544	cause compilation to fail.
1545
154620080818:
1547	ntpd has been upgraded to 4.2.4p5.
1548
154920080801:
1550	OpenSSH has been upgraded to 5.1p1.
1551
1552	For many years, FreeBSD's version of OpenSSH preferred DSA
1553	over RSA for host and user authentication keys.  With this
1554	upgrade, we've switched to the vendor's default of RSA over
1555	DSA.  This may cause upgraded clients to warn about unknown
1556	host keys even for previously known hosts.  Users should
1557	follow the usual procedure for verifying host keys before
1558	accepting the RSA key.
1559
1560	This can be circumvented by setting the "HostKeyAlgorithms"
1561	option to "ssh-dss,ssh-rsa" in ~/.ssh/config or on the ssh
1562	command line.
1563
1564	Please note that the sequence of keys offered for
1565	authentication has been changed as well.  You may want to
1566	specify IdentityFile in a different order to revert this
1567	behavior.
1568
156920080713:
1570	The sio(4) driver has been removed from the i386 and amd64
1571	kernel configuration files. This means uart(4) is now the
1572	default serial port driver on those platforms as well.
1573
1574	To prevent collisions with the sio(4) driver, the uart(4) driver
1575	uses different names for its device nodes. This means the
1576	onboard serial port will now most likely be called "ttyu0"
1577	instead of "ttyd0". You may need to reconfigure applications to
1578	use the new device names.
1579
1580	When using the serial port as a boot console, be sure to update
1581	/boot/device.hints and /etc/ttys before booting the new kernel.
1582	If you forget to do so, you can still manually specify the hints
1583	at the loader prompt:
1584
1585		set hint.uart.0.at="isa"
1586		set hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8"
1587		set hint.uart.0.flags="0x10"
1588		set hint.uart.0.irq="4"
1589		boot -s
1590
159120080609:
1592	The gpt(8) utility has been removed. Use gpart(8) to partition
1593	disks instead.
1594
159520080603:
1596	The version that Linuxulator emulates was changed from 2.4.2
1597	to 2.6.16. If you experience any problems with Linux binaries
1598	please try to set sysctl compat.linux.osrelease to 2.4.2 and
1599	if it fixes the problem contact emulation mailing list.
1600
160120080525:
1602	ISDN4BSD (I4B) was removed from the src tree. You may need to
1603	update a your kernel configuration and remove relevant entries.
1604
160520080509:
1606	I have checked in code to support multiple routing tables.
1607	See the man pages setfib(1) and setfib(2).
1608	This is a hopefully backwards compatible version,
1609	but to make use of it you need to compile your kernel
1610	with options ROUTETABLES=2 (or more up to 16).
1611
161220080420:
1613	The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss
1614	operation on devices that are capable.  The underlying device
1615	is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are
1616	cloned with ifconfig.  This requires changes to rc.conf files.
1617	For example, change:
1618		ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP"
1619	to
1620		wlans_ath0=wlan0
1621		ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
1622	see rc.conf(5) for more details.  In addition, mergemaster of
1623	/etc/rc.d is highly recommended.  Simultaneous update of userland
1624	and kernel wouldn't hurt either.
1625
1626	As part of the multi-bss changes the wlan_scan_ap and wlan_scan_sta
1627	modules were merged into the base wlan module.  All references
1628	to these modules (e.g. in kernel config files) must be removed.
1629
163020080408:
1631	psm(4) has gained write(2) support in native operation level.
1632	Arbitrary commands can be written to /dev/psm%d and status can
1633	be read back from it.  Therefore, an application is responsible
1634	for status validation and error recovery.  It is a no-op in
1635	other operation levels.
1636
163720080312:
1638	Support for KSE threading has been removed from the kernel.  To
1639	run legacy applications linked against KSE libmap.conf may
1640	be used.  The following libmap.conf may be used to ensure
1641	compatibility with any prior release:
1642
1643	libpthread.so.1 libthr.so.1
1644	libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2
1645	libkse.so.3 libthr.so.3
1646
164720080301:
1648	The layout of struct vmspace has changed. This affects libkvm
1649	and any executables that link against libkvm and use the
1650	kvm_getprocs() function. In particular, but not exclusively,
1651	it affects ps(1), fstat(1), pkill(1), systat(1), top(1) and w(1).
1652	The effects are minimal, but it's advisable to upgrade world
1653	nonetheless.
1654
165520080229:
1656	The latest em driver no longer has support in it for the
1657	82575 adapter, this is now moved to the igb driver. The
1658	split was done to make new features that are incompatible
1659	with older hardware easier to do.
1660
166120080220:
1662	The new geom_lvm(4) geom class has been renamed to geom_linux_lvm(4),
1663	likewise the kernel option is now GEOM_LINUX_LVM.
1664
166520080211:
1666	The default NFS mount mode has changed from UDP to TCP for
1667	increased reliability.  If you rely on (insecurely) NFS
1668	mounting across a firewall you may need to update your
1669	firewall rules.
1670
167120080208:
1672	Belatedly note the addition of m_collapse for compacting
1673	mbuf chains.
1674
167520080126:
1676	The fts(3) structures have been changed to use adequate
1677	integer types for their members and so to be able to cope
1678	with huge file trees.  The old fts(3) ABI is preserved
1679	through symbol versioning in libc, so third-party binaries
1680	using fts(3) should still work, although they will not take
1681	advantage of the extended types.  At the same time, some
1682	third-party software might fail to build after this change
1683	due to unportable assumptions made in its source code about
1684	fts(3) structure members.  Such software should be fixed
1685	by its vendor or, in the worst case, in the ports tree.
1686	FreeBSD_version 800015 marks this change for the unlikely
1687	case that a portable fix is impossible.
1688
168920080123:
1690	To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running
1691	FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE.  Upgrading to -current
1692	from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems.
1693
169420071128:
1695	The ADAPTIVE_GIANT kernel option has been retired because its
1696	functionality is the default now.
1697
169820071118:
1699	The AT keyboard emulation of sunkbd(4) has been turned on
1700	by default. In order to make the special symbols of the Sun
1701	keyboards driven by sunkbd(4) work under X these now have
1702	to be configured the same way as Sun USB keyboards driven
1703	by ukbd(4) (which also does AT keyboard emulation), f.e.:
1704
1705	Option	"XkbLayout" "us"
1706	Option	"XkbRules" "xorg"
1707	Option	"XkbSymbols" "pc(pc105)+sun_vndr/usb(sun_usb)+us"
1708
170920071024:
1710	It has been decided that it is desirable to provide ABI
1711	backwards compatibility to the FreeBSD 4/5/6 versions of the
1712	PCIOCGETCONF, PCIOCREAD and PCIOCWRITE IOCTLs, which was
1713	broken with the introduction of PCI domain support (see the
1714	20070930 entry). Unfortunately, this required the ABI of
1715	PCIOCGETCONF to be broken again in order to be able to
1716	provide backwards compatibility to the old version of that
1717	IOCTL. Thus consumers of PCIOCGETCONF have to be recompiled
1718	again. As for prominent ports this affects neither pciutils
1719	nor xorg-server this time, the hal port needs to be rebuilt
1720	however.
1721
172220071020:
1723	The misnamed kthread_create() and friends have been renamed
1724	to kproc_create() etc. Many of the callers already
1725	used kproc_start()..
1726	I will return kthread_create() and friends in a while
1727	with implementations that actually create threads, not procs.
1728	Renaming corresponds with version 800002.
1729
173020071010:
1731	RELENG_7 branched.
1732
1733COMMON ITEMS:
1734
1735	General Notes
1736	-------------
1737	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1738	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
1739	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1740	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1741	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1742	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1743	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1744
1745	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
1746	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1747	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1748	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1749	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
1750
1751	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best
1752	to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first,
1753	then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade
1754	path, and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try
1755	this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade.
1756
1757	ZFS notes
1758	---------
1759	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
1760	these two steps:
1761
1762	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
1763	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
1764
1765	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
1766
1767	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
1768	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ad0:
1769	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0"
1770
1771	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
1772
1773	To build a kernel
1774	-----------------
1775	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
1776	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
1777	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
1778
1779	make kernel-toolchain
1780	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1781	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1782
1783	To test a kernel once
1784	---------------------
1785	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
1786	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
1787	debugging information) run
1788	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
1789	nextboot -k testkernel
1790
1791	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1792	--------------------------------------------------------------
1793	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
1794	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1795	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
1796
1797	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
1798	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1799	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1800	make depend
1801	make
1802	make install
1803
1804	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1805
1806	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1807	-----------------------------------------------------------
1808	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
1809	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
1810
1811	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1812	make buildworld
1813	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1814							[1]
1815	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1816	mergemaster -p					[5]
1817	make installworld
1818	mergemaster -i					[4]
1819	make delete-old					[6]
1820	<reboot>
1821
1822
1823	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1824	--------------------------------------------------
1825	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1826	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1827	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1828	# size.
1829
1830	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1831	<boot into -stable>
1832	make buildworld
1833	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1834	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1835	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1836	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1837	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
1838	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1839	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1840	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1841	<reboot into current>
1842	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1843	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1844	<reboot>
1845
1846
1847	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
1848	----------------------------------------------
1849	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1850	make buildworld					[9]
1851	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1852							[1]
1853	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1854	mergemaster -p					[5]
1855	make installworld
1856	mergemaster -i					[4]
1857	make delete-old					[6]
1858	<reboot>
1859
1860	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1861	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1862	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1863	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1864	the UPDATING entries.
1865
1866	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
1867	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
1868	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
1869	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
1870	much fewer pitfalls.
1871
1872	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1873	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1874	system on reboot.
1875
1876	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1877		fsck -p
1878		mount -u /
1879		mount -a
1880		cd src
1881		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1882	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1883	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1884
1885	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1886	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1887	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1888	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1889	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
1890	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
1891	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1892
1893	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1894	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1895	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1896	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1897	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
1898	from [78]-stable or 9-stable before 20130430.
1899
1900	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
1901	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
1902	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
1903
1904	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
1905	do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
1906	your kernel.  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1907	hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
1908	required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels.  And so on
1909	for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
1910
1911	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1912	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1913
1914	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1915	cvs prune empty directories.
1916
1917	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1918	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1919	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1920
1921	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1922	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1923	warn if it is improperly defined.
1924FORMAT:
1925
1926This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
1927breakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
1928list of such breakages, and only contains entries since October 10, 2007.
1929If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
1930to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
1931
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