157199806SWarner LoshUpdating Information for FreeBSD current users 253dfde79SWarner Losh 3f8c77507SWarner LoshThis file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries 4ea31d04dSWarner Loshdirectly to him. See end of file for further details. 5ea31d04dSWarner Losh 61a50e0c7SWarner Losh19991113: 71a50e0c7SWarner Losh Gcc 2.95.2 is now the default compiler. 81a50e0c7SWarner Losh 925c3f405SWarner Losh19991015: 1025c3f405SWarner Losh PCCARD has been updated to attach pcic to the isa bus. Therefore 1125c3f405SWarner Losh you will need to modify kernel config files that have pcic/card 1225c3f405SWarner Losh in them as follows: 1325c3f405SWarner Losh controller pcic0 at isa? 1425c3f405SWarner Losh controller pcic1 at isa? 1525c3f405SWarner Losh controller card0 1625c3f405SWarner Losh 1773c86a1fSWarner Losh19990929: 1873c86a1fSWarner Losh The sigset_t datatype has been changed from an integral type 1973c86a1fSWarner Losh to a compound type and can hold 128 signals. Syscalls directly 2073c86a1fSWarner Losh or indirectly using the new sigset_t have been added as to 2120d1019bSChris Costello maintain compatibility with existing binaries. A new kernel must 2273c86a1fSWarner Losh be made and installed and booted with before a make world can 2373c86a1fSWarner Losh be done. 2473c86a1fSWarner Losh 2560dbe536SWarner Losh19990919: 2660dbe536SWarner Losh New jail syscall format requires recompilation of jail(8) with 2760dbe536SWarner Losh fresh headers installed (or a make world will do it for you). 2860dbe536SWarner Losh 2960dbe536SWarner Losh19990914: 3060dbe536SWarner Losh Matt Dillon checked in many vm related things and sent a heads up 3160dbe536SWarner Losh to -current urging caution and to report vm problems to him. 3260dbe536SWarner Losh As of the 19th, no killer problems have been reported, but you 3360dbe536SWarner Losh have been warned. 3460dbe536SWarner Losh 355f83e348SWarner Losh19990908: 365f83e348SWarner Losh The new miibus has been added to the system. If you are using 375f83e348SWarner Losh the dm, rl, sf, sis, ste, tl, wb or xl drivers, you need to 385f83e348SWarner Losh add "controller miibus0" to your config file. 395f83e348SWarner Losh 40d9806965SNick Hibma19990905: 41d9806965SNick Hibma /var/cron/log has been moved to /var/log/cron to get all the 42d9806965SNick Hibma log files in one place. 435f83e348SWarner Losh 4430e90e8bSWarner Losh19990831: 4530e90e8bSWarner Losh tn3270 has been removed from the based system and added as a port. 4630e90e8bSWarner Losh 47f8a59eaeSWarner Losh19990830: 48f8a59eaeSWarner Losh User-visible TCP timers are now expressed in units of 1ms, instead 49f8a59eaeSWarner Losh of 500ms, so if you've customized any timer values under 50f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ``net.inet.tcp'', multiply them by 500 to preserve TCP's behavior. 51f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 5230e90e8bSWarner Losh19990828: 5330e90e8bSWarner Losh RCS Id tags changed to FreeBSD. This will cause huge cvsup 5430e90e8bSWarner Losh updates. 5530e90e8bSWarner Losh 56f8a59eaeSWarner Losh19990821: 57f8a59eaeSWarner Losh On 28-May-1999 libreadline was upgraded from readline-2.2 to 58f8a59eaeSWarner Losh readline-4.0. At that time the shared library major version 59f8a59eaeSWarner Losh number was bumped from "3" to "4". It has been deemed that 60f8a59eaeSWarner Losh the interface change between readline-2.2 and readline-4.0 was 61f8a59eaeSWarner Losh not suffient to warrant the version number bump. 62f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 63f8a59eaeSWarner Losh Thus I have reverted it back to "3". You will need to perform 64f8a59eaeSWarner Losh the below immediately before your next ``make world'': 65f8a59eaeSWarner Losh cd /usr/lib 66f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ls -l libreadline.so.4 67f8a59eaeSWarner Losh (if you have /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4) 68f8a59eaeSWarner Losh mv libreadline.so.4 libreadline.so.3 69f8a59eaeSWarner Losh rm -f libreadline.so 70f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ln -s libreadline.so.3 libreadline.so 71f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 727eedd934SWarner Losh19990801: 737eedd934SWarner Losh Changes to the pccardd kernel interface require that you recompile 747eedd934SWarner Losh pccardd for new kernel. 757eedd934SWarner Losh 76882984b3SWarner Losh19980725: 77882984b3SWarner Losh The ipfw interface to the kernel has changed. You will need to 78882984b3SWarner Losh recompile ipfw programs for the new kernel. 79882984b3SWarner Losh 80882984b3SWarner Losh19990715: 81882984b3SWarner Losh The bpfilter device has been renamed to bpf. You will need to 82882984b3SWarner Losh change your config files in order to enable this in newer kernels. 83882984b3SWarner Losh 84e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990704: 85e5bd655aSWarner Losh src/contrib/sys/softupdates is moving to 8695d18cfcSWarner Losh src/sys/contrib/softupdates. Update your symbolic links/etc. 87e5bd655aSWarner Losh 88e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990702: 89e5bd655aSWarner Losh Major changes have been made to vinum and its interface. See 90e5bd655aSWarner Losh the man page (vinum(8)) for details. Look at the concat, 91e5bd655aSWarner Losh mirror and stripe commands, as well as the SIMPLIFIED 92e5bd655aSWarner Losh CONFIGURATION section. 93e5bd655aSWarner Losh 94e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990628: 95e5bd655aSWarner Losh Newsyslog.conf has had a minor, but potentially dangerous, 96e5bd655aSWarner Losh change to its username/group syntax. The old syntax was 97e5bd655aSWarner Losh user.group, while the new syntax is user:group. 98e5bd655aSWarner Losh 99e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990627: 100e5bd655aSWarner Losh Inetd wrapping default has changed. Please see the updated 101e5bd655aSWarner Losh man page for details. 102e5bd655aSWarner Losh 103ed478e7cSWarner Losh19990623: 104ed478e7cSWarner Losh Compaq Smart Raid driver committed as ida. 105ed478e7cSWarner Losh 106075eeff2SWarner Losh19990622: 107075eeff2SWarner Losh The second phase of syscons cleanup has happened. Some 108075eeff2SWarner Losh functionality has been made optional. For details, see 109075eeff2SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update-June.txt 1106ae429caSWarner Losh Everyone will need to re-config(8) their kernels, but old 1116ae429caSWarner Losh binaries will work with the new kernel. 112075eeff2SWarner Losh 113a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990620: 114a883e9d3SWarner Losh IPFW uid/gid-based filtering support has been committed. This 115a883e9d3SWarner Losh breaks binary compatibility with previous copies of 116a883e9d3SWarner Losh ipfw(8). Any utilities using the ioctl()s of ipfw (especially 117a883e9d3SWarner Losh ipfw(8)) need to be recompiled with the newest headers 118a883e9d3SWarner Losh installed. 119a883e9d3SWarner Losh 120a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990618: 121a883e9d3SWarner Losh Inetd now wraps all stream-based services, including internals. 122a883e9d3SWarner Losh Syslog "severity" options are honoured. Installed syslog.conf 123a883e9d3SWarner Losh and hosts.allow should be checked. 124a883e9d3SWarner Losh 12507b72539SWarner Losh19990509: 12607b72539SWarner Losh Most of the problems with newbus have been corrected, but 12707b72539SWarner Losh it is still current and evolving. 12807b72539SWarner Losh 12907b72539SWarner Losh libcam's ABI has changed. You must recompile the world and 13007b72539SWarner Losh any ports that use it. 13107b72539SWarner Losh 13209fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990427: 13309fcf3f9SWarner Losh Massive changes to SMP went into the tree that should speed 13409fcf3f9SWarner Losh things up. However, if you experience problems with SMP 13509fcf3f9SWarner Losh machines, you can back off to the PRE_SMP_VMSHARE tag in the 13609fcf3f9SWarner Losh CVS repository (or run an MP kernel). 13709fcf3f9SWarner Losh 13809fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990420: 13909fcf3f9SWarner Losh Pccardd and the pccard bus in general seem to be broken or 14009fcf3f9SWarner Losh most people. Soren has patches to make it better for some, 14109fcf3f9SWarner Losh but not all people. Work is underway to make it better for 14209fcf3f9SWarner Losh all people. 14309fcf3f9SWarner Losh 144ea31d04dSWarner Losh19990416: 145ea31d04dSWarner Losh new bus changes integrated into -current. Many problems were 146ea31d04dSWarner Losh initially reported, but most have been fixed. You'll need a 147ea31d04dSWarner Losh new config and to tweak your kernel config file the way that 148ea31d04dSWarner Losh GENERIC was tweaked. Keep a copy of your old kernel when 149ea31d04dSWarner Losh upgrading in case your new kernel doesn't work (and report the 150ea31d04dSWarner Losh breakage to current@freebsd.org). 151ea31d04dSWarner Losh 152ea31d04dSWarner Losh As of 19990421 the remaining problems/quirks are 153ea31d04dSWarner Losh 154ea31d04dSWarner Losh o sio no longer supports pnp nor pccard. This will be corrected, 155ea31d04dSWarner Losh but the new pccard code needs to be completed. 156ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Some of the sound drivers broke for some people. It seems 157ea31d04dSWarner Losh inconsistant as to who/what/when/where things broke. 158ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Duplicate device entries in your config do not work. Previously 159ea31d04dSWarner Losh they were silently ignored. psm0 seems to be the most common 160ea31d04dSWarner Losh duplicate choice, although some reports have come in from people 161ea31d04dSWarner Losh that wired their scsi disk entries. 162ea31d04dSWarner Losh o You must move the keyboard and mouse attachments from the 163ea31d04dSWarner Losh isa bus to the atkbdc bus. See GENERIC for details. 164ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Machines with multiple host-pci bridges (Intel 450NX) will not 165ea31d04dSWarner Losh probe the second pci bus. 166ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Some probe ordering may have changed, so device naming may change 167ea31d04dSWarner Losh with the new kernel. If you have multiple devices, please double 168ea31d04dSWarner Losh check to make sure they didn't move. This is especially true 169ea31d04dSWarner Losh for cards on different buses. 170ea31d04dSWarner Losh o The bus attachment for vga0 is always isa0 and never pci0 when 171ea31d04dSWarner Losh it is in fact a pci card. It is safe to ignore this. 172ea31d04dSWarner Losh o The format of the boot messages has changed (and is not 173ea31d04dSWarner Losh guaranteed to be constant for a while) so you may see this 174ea31d04dSWarner Losh in some shell scripts that diff dmesg from day to day as well 175ea31d04dSWarner Losh as scripts that parse dmesg output. 176f8c77507SWarner Losh 177d24adca8SWarner Losh19990414: 178d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout sometimes has problems compiling with -g, remove -g 179d24adca8SWarner Losh from those compilation units affected until this is corrected. 180d24adca8SWarner Losh 181d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout has problems with producing some threaded libraries, 182d24adca8SWarner Losh so make world -DWANT_AOUT is not functional at this time. 183d24adca8SWarner Losh 184ea31d04dSWarner Losh Since make world for a.out isn't functional, you cannot do 185ea31d04dSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf from a pre-egcs a.out system. To work around 186ea31d04dSWarner Losh this problem, make aout-to-elf using 3.1-stable first (or a 187ea31d04dSWarner Losh pre egcs -current) and then a simple make world will take you 188ea31d04dSWarner Losh the rest of the way with a -current source base. 189ea31d04dSWarner Losh 190d5ca0636SWarner Losh19990413: 191d24adca8SWarner Losh Make -j works again for make world. As always, use it with 192d24adca8SWarner Losh care, and be sure to try a make world w/o -j before reporting 193d24adca8SWarner Losh problems (that is, know if the problem exists w/o -j before 194d24adca8SWarner Losh reporting the problem with -j). 195d24adca8SWarner Losh 196d24adca8SWarner Losh19990413: 197d24adca8SWarner Losh Note cc -aout, which had been broken since the conversion to 198ea31d04dSWarner Losh egcs, now supposedly works. If you have rebuilt things like 199d24adca8SWarner Losh XFree86 a.out libraries, you should rebuild them again or 200ea31d04dSWarner Losh progams that use them, including netscape, will fail to work. 201d5ca0636SWarner Losh 2021f692d40SWarner Losh19990409: 2031f692d40SWarner Losh NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from 2041f692d40SWarner Losh the old compiler and vice versa. 2051f692d40SWarner Losh 2061f692d40SWarner Losh19990408: 20781725689SWarner Losh In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree. A number 20881725689SWarner Losh of problems have been discussed in -current. Here is a highlight 20981725689SWarner Losh of a few of the more common ones. With the exception of make 21081725689SWarner Losh -j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed. 21181725689SWarner Losh 21281725689SWarner Losh c++ is broken after make world: This is correct. Because we 21381725689SWarner Losh changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++ 21481725689SWarner Losh working again. The code generated by the old compiler and new 21581725689SWarner Losh compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being 21681725689SWarner Losh undefined. 21781725689SWarner Losh 21881725689SWarner Losh cpp is broken in make world: There was a window where cpp 21981725689SWarner Losh would be built incorrectly. The fix for this is 220420d4744SMasafumi Max NAKANE cd src/gnu/usr.bin/cc 22181725689SWarner Losh make clean 22281725689SWarner Losh make all 22381725689SWarner Losh make install 22481725689SWarner Losh and this should correct your problems. See the -current 22581725689SWarner Losh archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning. 22681725689SWarner Losh 22781725689SWarner Losh Make -j n doesn't work. Work contiunes to make this work, 22881725689SWarner Losh I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th. 22981725689SWarner Losh 230ff5e1f79SWarner Losh19990329: 231ff5e1f79SWarner Losh Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building 232ff5e1f79SWarner Losh the legacy a.out bits. Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to 233ff5e1f79SWarner Losh build them. 234ff5e1f79SWarner Losh 235fe9af953SWarner Losh19990316: 236fe9af953SWarner Losh The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 237fe9af953SWarner Losh been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 238fe9af953SWarner Losh "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 239fe9af953SWarner Losh 240fe9af953SWarner Losh19990314: 241fe9af953SWarner Losh For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 242fe9af953SWarner Losh please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 243fe9af953SWarner Losh -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 244fe9af953SWarner Losh be fixed in the future. 245fe9af953SWarner Losh 246ce32355fSWarner Losh19990309: 247fe9af953SWarner Losh New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 248fe9af953SWarner Losh details. 249ce32355fSWarner Losh 250f8c77507SWarner Losh19990225: 251f8c77507SWarner Losh struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 252f8c77507SWarner Losh usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 2531fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 2540edeb9e7SWarner Losh19990214: 2550edeb9e7SWarner Losh The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 2567dd38e55SWarner Losh See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 2577dd38e55SWarner Losh for proper configuration details. 2580edeb9e7SWarner Losh 2591fc1a0dcSWarner Losh19990210: 2601fc1a0dcSWarner Losh The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 2610edeb9e7SWarner Losh driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 26257199806SWarner Losh 2637dd38e55SWarner Losh19990209: 2647dd38e55SWarner Losh New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 2657dd38e55SWarner Losh iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 2667dd38e55SWarner Losh make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 2677dd38e55SWarner Losh ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 2687dd38e55SWarner Losh 2699a3105eeSWarner Losh19990125: 2709a3105eeSWarner Losh Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 2719a3105eeSWarner Losh the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 2729a3105eeSWarner Losh is in order (or better yet a make world). 2739a3105eeSWarner Losh 2749a3105eeSWarner Losh19990122: 2759a3105eeSWarner Losh On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 2769a3105eeSWarner Losh blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 2779a3105eeSWarner Losh edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 2789a3105eeSWarner Losh problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 2799a3105eeSWarner Losh 2809a3105eeSWarner Losh19990121: 2818cd37f69SWarner Losh Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 2828cd37f69SWarner Losh updates, please see 2833652181cSWarner Losh 2848cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 2853652181cSWarner Losh 2868cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. 2878cd37f69SWarner Losh 2888cd37f69SWarner Losh Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 2898cd37f69SWarner Losh information please see 2903652181cSWarner Losh 2918cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 2928cd37f69SWarner Losh or 2938cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 2943652181cSWarner Losh 2958cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 2968cd37f69SWarner Losh but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 2978cd37f69SWarner Losh 2988cd37f69SWarner Losh19990120: 2998cd37f69SWarner Losh Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 3008cd37f69SWarner Losh branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 3018cd37f69SWarner Losh 302ad56ea87SWarner Losh19990119: 303ad56ea87SWarner Losh More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 304ad56ea87SWarner Losh files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 305ad56ea87SWarner Losh and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 306ad56ea87SWarner Losh config file changes are needed. 307ad56ea87SWarner Losh 30857199806SWarner Losh19990111: 309a85c0f55SWarner Losh New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 310a85c0f55SWarner Losh stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 311a85c0f55SWarner Losh update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 312a85c0f55SWarner Losh kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 313a85c0f55SWarner Losh The instruction can be found in 31457199806SWarner Losh 3157dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 31657199806SWarner Losh 317a85c0f55SWarner Losh It has notes on splash screen too. 31857199806SWarner Losh 31957199806SWarner Losh19990106: 3209857e582SWarner Losh Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 321db23c94fSWarner Losh install the new bootblocks: 32257199806SWarner Losh 3237dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 32457199806SWarner Losh 3259ba54ae0SWarner Losh When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 3269ba54ae0SWarner Losh /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 3279ba54ae0SWarner Losh elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 3289857e582SWarner Losh messages about being unable to find library files. The 3299857e582SWarner Losh mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 3309857e582SWarner Losh keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 3319857e582SWarner Losh recommended. 33257199806SWarner Losh 33357199806SWarner Losh19990104: 3342c558794SWarner Losh Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 33557199806SWarner Losh 3367dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 33757199806SWarner Losh 3382c558794SWarner Losh about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 3392c558794SWarner Losh for doing the upgrade. 34057199806SWarner Losh 34157199806SWarner Losh19981230: 342d5513f53SWarner Losh You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 343e363c17bSWarner Losh become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 344e363c17bSWarner Losh your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 345e363c17bSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 346e363c17bSWarner Losh a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 347e363c17bSWarner Losh continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 348e363c17bSWarner Losh for more details. 34957199806SWarner Losh 35057199806SWarner Losh19981224: 351355edc3eSWarner Losh The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 352355edc3eSWarner Losh driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 353355edc3eSWarner Losh this in your configuration files. 35457199806SWarner Losh 355355edc3eSWarner Losh Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 356355edc3eSWarner Losh configured" at boot time. 35757199806SWarner Losh 358355edc3eSWarner Losh The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 359355edc3eSWarner Losh with no replacement driver. 36057199806SWarner Losh 36157199806SWarner Losh19981202: 362ab308df6SWarner Losh New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 363ab308df6SWarner Losh aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 36457199806SWarner Losh 36557199806SWarner Losh19981201: 366ab308df6SWarner Losh New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 367ab308df6SWarner Losh src/etc/group: 368ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 369ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53: 370ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 371ab308df6SWarner Losh tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 372ab308df6SWarner Losh kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 373ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 37457199806SWarner Losh 37557199806SWarner Losh19981118: 37653dfde79SWarner Losh PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 37753dfde79SWarner Losh to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 37853dfde79SWarner Losh See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 37957199806SWarner Losh 3801fc1a0dcSWarner LoshThis file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 3811fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 38260dbe536SWarner Loshand it only starts on November 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 3831fc1a0dcSWarner Loshversion of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 3841fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 385f8c77507SWarner LoshPlease filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 386f8c77507SWarner Loshthe style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 387f8c77507SWarner Losh 38897d92980SPeter Wemm$FreeBSD$ 389