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157199806SWarner LoshUpdating Information for FreeBSD current users
253dfde79SWarner Losh
3456b5dd8SWarner LoshThis file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>.
4456b5dd8SWarner LoshSee end of file for further details.  For commonly done items, please see the
5456b5dd8SWarner LoshCOMMON ITEMS: section later in the file.  These instructions assume that you
6456b5dd8SWarner Loshbasically know what you are doing.  If not, then please consult the FreeBSD
7456b5dd8SWarner Loshhandbook.
8e72fd46aSWarner Losh
92c724730SWarner LoshItems affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
10456b5dd8SWarner Losh/usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before running portupgrade.
112c724730SWarner Losh
12cf48cc9fSKen SmithNOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 9.x IS SLOW:
13456b5dd8SWarner Losh	FreeBSD 9.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel
14456b5dd8SWarner Losh	and userland.  These features attempt to detect incorrect use of
15456b5dd8SWarner Losh	system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity
16456b5dd8SWarner Losh	checking and fail stop semantics.  They also substantially impact
17456b5dd8SWarner Losh	system performance.  If you want to do performance measurement,
18456b5dd8SWarner Losh	benchmarking, and optimization, you'll want to turn them off.  This
19456b5dd8SWarner Losh	includes various WITNESS- related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc
20456b5dd8SWarner Losh	debugging flags in userland, and various verbose features in the
21456b5dd8SWarner Losh	kernel.  Many developers choose to disable these features on build
22456b5dd8SWarner Losh	machines to maximize performance.  (To disable malloc debugging, run
236bea5c3cSTom Rhodes	ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.)
24efc06131SSam Leffler
254c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn20110112:
261eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	A SYSCTL_[ADD_]UQUAD was added for unsigned uint64_t pointers,
271eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	symmetric with the existing SYSCTL_[ADD_]QUAD.  Type checking
281eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	for scalar sysctls is defined but disabled.  Code that needs
291eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	UQUAD to pass the type checking that must compile on older
301eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	systems where the define is not present can check against
311eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	__FreeBSD_version >= 900030.
321eae8811SMatthew D Fleming
334c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	The system dialog(1) has been replaced with a new version previously
344c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	in ports as devel/cdialog. dialog(1) is mostly command-line compatible
354c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	with the previous version, but the libdialog associated with it has
364c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	a largely incompatible API. As such, the original version of libdialog
374c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	will be kept temporarily as libodialog, until its base system consumers
384c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	are replaced or updated. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900030.
394c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn
40e4f64803SWarner Losh20110103:
41e4f64803SWarner Losh	If you are trying to run make universe on a -stable system, and you get
42e4f64803SWarner Losh	the following warning:
43*7b57aa33SRebecca Cran	"Makefile", line 356: "Target architecture for i386/conf/GENERIC
44*7b57aa33SRebecca Cran	unknown.  config(8) likely too old."
45e4f64803SWarner Losh	or something similar to it, then you must upgrade your -stable system
46e4f64803SWarner Losh	to 8.2-Release or newer (really, any time after r210146 7/15/2010 in
47e4f64803SWarner Losh	stable/8) or build the config from the latest stable/8 branch and
48e4f64803SWarner Losh	install it on your system.
49e4f64803SWarner Losh
50e4f64803SWarner Losh	Prior to this date, building a current universe on 8-stable system from
51e4f64803SWarner Losh	between 7/15/2010 and 1/2/2011 would result in a weird shell parsing
52*7b57aa33SRebecca Cran	error in the first kernel build phase.  A new config on those old
53*7b57aa33SRebecca Cran	systems will fix that problem for older versions of -current.
54e4f64803SWarner Losh
5539bc9de5SLawrence Stewart20101228:
5639bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	The TCP stack has been modified to allow Khelp modules to interact with
5739bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	it via helper hook points and store per-connection data in the TCP
5839bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	control block. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900029. User space tools that
5939bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to
6039bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	be recompiled.
6139bc9de5SLawrence Stewart
62efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl20101114:
63efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Generic IEEE 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support has been
64efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	added to mii(4) and bge(4), bce(4), msk(4), nfe(4) and stge(4) along
65efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	with brgphy(4), e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy() have been converted
66efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	to take advantage of it instead of using custom implementations.  This
67efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	means that these drivers now no longer unconditionally advertise
68efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	support for flow control but only do so if flow control is a selected
69efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	media option.  This was implemented in the generic support that way in
70efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	order to allow flow control to be switched on and off via ifconfig(8)
71efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	with the PHY specific default to typically off in order to protect
72efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	from unwanted effects.  Consequently, if you used flow control with
73efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	one of the above mentioned drivers you now need to explicitly enable
74efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	it, for example via:
75efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl		ifconfig bge0 media auto mediaopt flowcontrol
76efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
77efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Along with the above mentioned changes generic support for setting
78efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	1000baseT master mode also has been added and brgphy(4), ciphy(4),
79efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy(4) have been converted to take
80efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	advantage of it.  This means that these drivers now no longer take the
81efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	link0 parameter for selecting master mode but the master media option
82efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	has to be used instead, for example like in the following:
83efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl		ifconfig bge0 media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,master
84efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
85efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Selection of master mode now is also available with all other PHY
86efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	drivers supporting 1000baseT.
87efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
88dbc42409SLawrence Stewart20101111:
89dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	The TCP stack has received a significant update to add support for
90dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	modularised congestion control and generally improve the clarity of
91dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	congestion control decisions. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900025. User
92dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g.
93dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	sockstat) need to be recompiled.
94dbc42409SLawrence Stewart
95fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow20101002:
96fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	The man(1) utility has been replaced by a new version that no longer
97fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	uses /etc/manpath.config. Please consult man.conf(5) for how to
98fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	migrate local entries to the new format.
99fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow
100337299c6SEd Maste20100928:
101337299c6SEd Maste	The copyright strings printed by login(1) and sshd(8) at the time of a
102337299c6SEd Maste	new connection have been removed to follow other operating systems and
103337299c6SEd Maste	upstream sshd.
104337299c6SEd Maste
105f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon20100915:
106f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon	A workaround for a fixed ld bug has been removed in kernel code,
107f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon	so make sure that your system ld is built from sources after
108130a0815SAndriy Gapon	revision 210245 from 2010-07-19 (r211583 if building head kernel
109130a0815SAndriy Gapon	on stable/8, r211584 for stable/7; both from 2010-08-21).
110130a0815SAndriy Gapon	A symptom of incorrect ld version is different addresses for
111130a0815SAndriy Gapon	set_pcpu section and __start_set_pcpu symbol in kernel and/or modules.
112f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon
113d69eb520SRui Paulo20100913:
114d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ipv6_prefer variable in rc.conf(5) has been split into
115d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	$ip6addrctl_policy and $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces.
116d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
117d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ip6addrctl_policy is a variable to choose a pre-defined
118d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	address selection policy set by ip6addrctl(8).  A value
119d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	"ipv4_prefer", "ipv6_prefer" or "AUTO" can be specified.  The
120d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	default is "AUTO".
121d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
122d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces specifies whether IFDISABLED
123d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	flag (see an entry of 20090926) is set on an interface with no
124d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	corresponding $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 line.  The default is "NO" for
125d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	security reason.  If you want IPv6 link-local address on all
126d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	interfaces by default, set this to "YES".
127d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
128d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The old ipv6_prefer="YES" is equivalent to
129d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" and
130d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer".
131d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
132d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato20100913:
133d69eb520SRui Paulo	DTrace has grown support for userland tracing. Due to this, DTrace is
134d69eb520SRui Paulo	now i386 and amd64 only.
135d69eb520SRui Paulo	dtruss(1) is now installed by default on those systems and a new
136d69eb520SRui Paulo	kernel module is needed for userland tracing: fasttrap.
137d69eb520SRui Paulo	No changes to your kernel config file are necessary to enable
138d69eb520SRui Paulo	userland tracing, but you might consider adding 'STRIP=' and
139d69eb520SRui Paulo	'CFLAGS+=-fno-omit-frame-pointer' to your make.conf if you want
140d69eb520SRui Paulo	to have informative userland stack traces in DTrace (ustack).
141d69eb520SRui Paulo
14240650455SRui Paulo20100725:
14340650455SRui Paulo	The acpi_aiboost(4) driver has been removed in favor of the new
14440650455SRui Paulo	aibs(4) driver. You should update your kernel configuration file.
14540650455SRui Paulo
1464dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan20100722:
1474dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	BSD grep has been imported to the base system and it is built by
1484dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	default.  It is completely BSD licensed, highly GNU-compatible, uses
1494dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	less memory than its GNU counterpart and has a small codebase.
1504dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	However, it is slower than its GNU counterpart, which is mostly
1514dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	noticeable for larger searches, for smaller ones it is measurable
1524dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	but not significant.  The reason is complex, the most important factor
1534dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	is that we lack a modern and efficient regex library and GNU
1544dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	overcomes this by optimizing the searches internally.  Future work
1554dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	on improving the regex performance is planned, for the meantime,
1564dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	users that need better performance, can build GNU grep instead by
1574dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	setting the WITH_GNU_GREP knob.
1582965a453SKip Macy
1598fc25799SMartin Matuska20100713:
160c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	Due to the import of powerpc64 support, all existing powerpc kernel
161c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	configuration files must be updated with a machine directive like this:
162c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	    machine powerpc powerpc
163c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn
164c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	In addition, an updated config(8) is required to build powerpc kernels
165c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	after this change.
166c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn
167c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn20100713:
1688fc25799SMartin Matuska	A new version of ZFS (version 15) has been merged to -HEAD.
1698fc25799SMartin Matuska	This version uses a python library for the following subcommands:
1708fc25799SMartin Matuska	zfs allow, zfs unallow, zfs groupspace, zfs userspace.
1718fc25799SMartin Matuska	For full functionality of these commands the following port must
1728fc25799SMartin Matuska	be installed: sysutils/py-zfs
1738fc25799SMartin Matuska
1742965a453SKip Macy20100429:
1752965a453SKip Macy	'vm_page's are now hashed by physical address to an array of mutexes.
1762965a453SKip Macy	Currently this is only used to serialize access to hold_count. Over
1772965a453SKip Macy	time the page queue mutex will be peeled away. This changes the size
1782965a453SKip Macy	of pmap on every architecture. And requires all callers of vm_page_hold
1792965a453SKip Macy	and vm_page_unhold to be updated.
1802965a453SKip Macy
18121edb039SAlexander Leidinger20100402:
18221edb039SAlexander Leidinger	WITH_CTF can now be specified in src.conf (not recommended, there
18321edb039SAlexander Leidinger	are some problems with static executables), make.conf (would also
18421edb039SAlexander Leidinger	affect ports which do not use GNU make and do not override the
18521edb039SAlexander Leidinger	compile targets) or in the kernel config (via "makeoptions
18621edb039SAlexander Leidinger	WITH_CTF=yes").
18721edb039SAlexander Leidinger	When WITH_CTF was specified there before this was silently ignored,
18821edb039SAlexander Leidinger	so make sure that WITH_CTF is not used in places which could lead
18921edb039SAlexander Leidinger	to unwanted behavior.
19021edb039SAlexander Leidinger
191841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn20100311:
192841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	The kernel option COMPAT_IA32 has been replaced with COMPAT_FREEBSD32
193841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	to allow 32-bit compatibility on non-x86 platforms. All kernel
194841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	configurations on amd64 and ia64 platforms using these options must
195841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	be modified accordingly.
196841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn
197279d8efeSEd Schouten20100113:
198279d8efeSEd Schouten	The utmp user accounting database has been replaced with utmpx,
199279d8efeSEd Schouten	the user accounting interface standardized by POSIX.
200279d8efeSEd Schouten	Unfortunately the semantics of utmp and utmpx don't match,
201279d8efeSEd Schouten	making it practically impossible to support both interfaces.
202279d8efeSEd Schouten	The user accounting database is used by tools like finger(1),
203279d8efeSEd Schouten	last(1), talk(1), w(1) and ac(8).
204279d8efeSEd Schouten
205279d8efeSEd Schouten	All applications in the base system use utmpx.  This means only
206279d8efeSEd Schouten	local binaries (e.g. from the ports tree) may still use these
207279d8efeSEd Schouten	utmp database files.  These applications must be rebuilt to make
208279d8efeSEd Schouten	use of utmpx.
209279d8efeSEd Schouten
210279d8efeSEd Schouten	After the system has been upgraded, it is safe to remove the old
211279d8efeSEd Schouten	log files (/var/run/utmp, /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/wtmp*),
2125ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	assuming their contents is of no importance anymore.  Old wtmp
2135ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	databases can only be used by last(1) and ac(8) after they have
2145ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	been converted to the new format using wtmpcvt(1).
215279d8efeSEd Schouten
216f7829d0dSAttilio Rao20100108:
217f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	Introduce the kernel thread "deadlock resolver" (which can be enabled
218f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	via the DEADLKRES option, see NOTES for more details) and the
219f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	sleepq_type() function for sleepqueues.
220f7829d0dSAttilio Rao
221f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO20091202:
222f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	The rc.firewall and rc.firewall6 were unified, and
223f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	rc.firewall6 and rc.d/ip6fw were removed.
224f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	According to the removal of rc.d/ip6fw, ipv6_firewall_* rc
225f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	variables are obsoleted.  Instead, the following new rc
226f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	variables are added to rc.d/ipfw:
227f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
228f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_client_net_ipv6, firewall_simple_iif_ipv6,
229f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_simple_inet_ipv6, firewall_simple_oif_ipv6,
230f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_simple_onet_ipv6, firewall_trusted_ipv6
231f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
232f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	The meanings correspond to the relevant IPv4 variables.
233f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
234e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer20091125:
235e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer	8.0-RELEASE.
236e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer
237e42fc368SEd Schouten20091113:
238e42fc368SEd Schouten	The default terminal emulation for syscons(4) has been changed
2394b2361f8SEd Schouten	from cons25 to xterm on all platforms except pc98.  This means
2404b2361f8SEd Schouten	that the /etc/ttys file needs to be updated to ensure correct
2414b2361f8SEd Schouten	operation of applications on the console.
242e42fc368SEd Schouten
243e42fc368SEd Schouten	The terminal emulation style can be toggled per window by using
2444b2361f8SEd Schouten	vidcontrol(1)'s -T flag.  The TEKEN_CONS25 kernel configuration
2454b2361f8SEd Schouten	options can be used to change the compile-time default back to
2464b2361f8SEd Schouten	cons25.
247e42fc368SEd Schouten
248e42fc368SEd Schouten	To prevent graphical artifacts, make sure the TERM environment
249e42fc368SEd Schouten	variable is set to match the terminal emulation that is being
250e42fc368SEd Schouten	performed by syscons(4).
251e42fc368SEd Schouten
25207ddebb5SRui Paulo20091109:
25307ddebb5SRui Paulo	The layout of the structure ieee80211req_scan_result has changed.
25407ddebb5SRui Paulo	Applications that require wireless scan results (e.g. ifconfig(8))
25507ddebb5SRui Paulo	from net80211 need to be recompiled.
25607ddebb5SRui Paulo
25796b4300cSDoug Barton	Applications such as wpa_supplicant(8) may require a full world
25896b4300cSDoug Barton	build without using NO_CLEAN in order to get synchronized with the
25996b4300cSDoug Barton	new structure.
26096b4300cSDoug Barton
26163b49c2bSRui Paulo20091025:
26263b49c2bSRui Paulo	The iwn(4) driver has been updated to support the 5000 and 5150 series.
26363b49c2bSRui Paulo	There's one kernel module for each firmware. Adding "device iwnfw"
26463b49c2bSRui Paulo	to the kernel configuration file means including all three firmware
26563b49c2bSRui Paulo	images inside the kernel. If you want to include just the one for
26663b49c2bSRui Paulo	your wireless card, use the the devices iwn4965fw, iwn5000fw or
26763b49c2bSRui Paulo	iwn5150fw.
26863b49c2bSRui Paulo
2692e77c5abSHiroki Sato20090926:
2702e77c5abSHiroki Sato	The rc.d/network_ipv6, IPv6 configuration script has been integrated
2712e77c5abSHiroki Sato	into rc.d/netif.  The changes are the following:
2722e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2732e77c5abSHiroki Sato	1. To use IPv6, simply define $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 like $ifconfig_IF
2742e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   for IPv4.  For aliases, $ifconfig_IF_aliasN should be used.
2752e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Note that both variables need the "inet6" keyword at the head.
2762e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2772e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Do not set $ipv6_network_interfaces manually if you do not
2782e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   understand what you are doing.  It is not needed in most cases.
2792e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2802e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ipv6_ifconfig_IF and $ipv6_ifconfig_IF_aliasN still work, but
2812e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   they are obsolete.
2822e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2832e77c5abSHiroki Sato	2. $ipv6_enable is obsolete.  Use $ipv6_prefer and
2842e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   "inet6 accept_rtadv" keyword in ifconfig(8) instead.
2852e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2862e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   If you define $ipv6_enable=YES, it means $ipv6_prefer=YES and
2872e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   all configured interfaces have "inet6 accept_rtadv" in the
2882e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  These are for backward compatibility.
2892e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2902e77c5abSHiroki Sato	3. A new variable $ipv6_prefer has been added.  If NO, IPv6
2912e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   functionality of interfaces with no corresponding
2922e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 is disabled by using "inet6 ifdisabled" flag,
2932e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   and the default address selection policy of ip6addrctl(8)
2942e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   is the IPv4-preferred one (see rc.d/ip6addrctl for more details).
2952e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Note that if you want to configure IPv6 functionality on the
2962e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   disabled interfaces after boot, first you need to clear the flag by
2972e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   using ifconfig(8) like:
2982e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2992e77c5abSHiroki Sato		ifconfig em0 inet6 -ifdisabled
3002e77c5abSHiroki Sato
3012e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   If YES, the default address selection policy is set as
3022e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   IPv6-preferred.
3032e77c5abSHiroki Sato
3042e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   The default value of $ipv6_prefer is NO.
3052e77c5abSHiroki Sato
3062e77c5abSHiroki Sato	4. If your system need to receive Router Advertisement messages,
3072e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   define "inet6 accept_rtadv" in $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  The rc(8)
3082e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   scripts automatically invoke rtsol(8) when the interface becomes
3092e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   UP.  The Router Advertisement messages are used for SLAAC
3102e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   (State-Less Address AutoConfiguration).
3112e77c5abSHiroki Sato
312350036a0SRui Paulo20090922:
313350036a0SRui Paulo	802.11s D3.03 support was committed. This is incompatible with the
314350036a0SRui Paulo	previous code, which was based on D3.0.
315350036a0SRui Paulo
3162e77c5abSHiroki Sato20090912:
3172e77c5abSHiroki Sato	A sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv now sets the default value
3182e77c5abSHiroki Sato	of a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV, not a global knob to
3192e77c5abSHiroki Sato	control whether accepting Router Advertisement messages or not.
3202e77c5abSHiroki Sato	Also, a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_AUTO_LINKLOCAL has been added and
3212e77c5abSHiroki Sato	a sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal is its default value.
3222e77c5abSHiroki Sato	The ifconfig(8) utility now supports these flags.
3232e77c5abSHiroki Sato
32463e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek20090910:
32563e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek	ZFS snapshots are now mounted with MNT_IGNORE flag. Use -v option for
32663e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek	mount(8) and -a option for df(1) to see them.
32763e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek
328411c7658SWarner Losh20090825:
329411c7658SWarner Losh	The old tunable hw.bus.devctl_disable has been superseded by
330411c7658SWarner Losh	hw.bus.devctl_queue.  hw.bus.devctl_disable=1 in loader.conf should be
331411c7658SWarner Losh	replaced by hw.bus.devctl_queue=0.  The default for this new tunable
332411c7658SWarner Losh	is 1000.
333411c7658SWarner Losh
334dc6fbf65SAttilio Rao20090813:
335456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Remove the option STOP_NMI.  The default action is now to use NMI only
336456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for KDB via the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and
337456b5dd8SWarner Losh	maintain stop_cpus() to just use a normal IPI_STOP on ia32 and amd64.
338456b5dd8SWarner Losh
339456b5dd8SWarner Losh20090803:
340f6a4f4b5SWarner Losh	The stable/8 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
341f6a4f4b5SWarner Losh	RELENG_8 branch in CVS.
342dc6fbf65SAttilio Rao
3433ca3047aSKen Smith20090719:
344456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Bump the shared library version numbers for all libraries that do not
345456b5dd8SWarner Losh	use symbol versioning as part of the 8.0-RELEASE cycle.  Bump
346456b5dd8SWarner Losh	__FreeBSD_version to 800105.
3473ca3047aSKen Smith
348eddfbb76SRobert Watson20090714:
349456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Due to changes in the implementation of virtual network stack support,
350456b5dd8SWarner Losh	all network-related kernel modules must be recompiled.  As this change
351456b5dd8SWarner Losh	breaks the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800104.
352eddfbb76SRobert Watson
353237fbe0aSLawrence Stewart20090713:
354456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The TOE interface to the TCP syncache has been modified to remove
355456b5dd8SWarner Losh	struct tcpopt (<netinet/tcp_var.h>) from the ABI of the network stack.
356456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The cxgb driver is the only TOE consumer affected by this change, and
357456b5dd8SWarner Losh	needs to be recompiled along with the kernel. As this change breaks
358456b5dd8SWarner Losh	the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800103.
359237fbe0aSLawrence Stewart
360962ebef8SLawrence Stewart20090712:
361962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	Padding has been added to struct tcpcb, sackhint and tcpstat in
362962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	<netinet/tcp_var.h> to facilitate future MFCs and bug fixes whilst
3631733d35cSRuslan Ermilov	maintaining the ABI. However, this change breaks the ABI, so bump
364962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	__FreeBSD_version to 800102. User space tools that rely on the size of
365962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	any of these structs (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
366962ebef8SLawrence Stewart
367bab42aadSDoug Rabson20090630:
368456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The NFS_LEGACYRPC option has been removed along with the old kernel
369456b5dd8SWarner Losh	RPC implementation that this option selected. Kernel configurations
370456b5dd8SWarner Losh	may need to be adjusted.
371bab42aadSDoug Rabson
3726cb7f168SBrooks Davis20090629:
373456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The network interface device nodes at /dev/net/<interface> have been
374456b5dd8SWarner Losh	removed.  All ioctl operations can be performed the normal way using
375456b5dd8SWarner Losh	routing sockets.  The kqueue functionality can generally be replaced
376456b5dd8SWarner Losh	with routing sockets.
3776cb7f168SBrooks Davis
378944bc81dSMarc Fonvieille20090628:
379456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The documentation from the FreeBSD Documentation Project (Handbook,
380456b5dd8SWarner Losh	FAQ, etc.) is now installed via packages by sysinstall(8) and under
381456b5dd8SWarner Losh	the /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd directory instead of /usr/share/doc.
382944bc81dSMarc Fonvieille
383f5e4c105SJohn Baldwin20090624:
384456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The ABI of various structures related to the SYSV IPC API have been
385456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed.  As a result, the COMPAT_FREEBSD[456] and COMPAT_43 kernel
386456b5dd8SWarner Losh	options now all require COMPAT_FREEBSD7.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to
387456b5dd8SWarner Losh	800100.
388f5e4c105SJohn Baldwin
389b58ea5f3SBjoern A. Zeeb20090622:
390456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Layout of struct vnet has changed as routing related variables were
391456b5dd8SWarner Losh	moved to their own Vimage module. Modules need to be recompiled.  Bump
392456b5dd8SWarner Losh	__FreeBSD_version to 800099.
393b58ea5f3SBjoern A. Zeeb
394838d9858SBrooks Davis20090619:
395456b5dd8SWarner Losh	NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS have been increased from 16 to 1023 and 1024
396456b5dd8SWarner Losh	respectively.  As long as no more than 16 groups per process are used,
397456b5dd8SWarner Losh	no changes should be visible.  When more than 16 groups are used, old
398456b5dd8SWarner Losh	binaries may fail if they call getgroups() or getgrouplist() with
399456b5dd8SWarner Losh	statically sized storage.  Recompiling will work around this, but
400456b5dd8SWarner Losh	applications should be modified to use dynamically allocated storage
401456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for group arrays as POSIX.1-2008 does not cap an implementation's
402456b5dd8SWarner Losh	number of supported groups at NGROUPS_MAX+1 as previous versions did.
403838d9858SBrooks Davis
404456b5dd8SWarner Losh	NFS and portalfs mounts may also be affected as the list of groups is
405456b5dd8SWarner Losh	truncated to 16.  Users of NFS who use more than 16 groups, should
406456b5dd8SWarner Losh	take care that negative group permissions are not used on the exported
407456b5dd8SWarner Losh	file systems as they will not be reliable unless a GSSAPI based
408456b5dd8SWarner Losh	authentication method is used.
409838d9858SBrooks Davis
410651175c9SAttilio Rao20090616:
411456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_LOCKMGRS has been introduced.  This
412456b5dd8SWarner Losh	option compiles in the support for adaptive spinning for lockmgrs
413456b5dd8SWarner Losh	which want to enable it.  The lockinit() function now accepts the flag
414456b5dd8SWarner Losh	LK_ADAPTIVE in order to make the lock object subject to adaptive
415456b5dd8SWarner Losh	spinning when both held in write and read mode.
416651175c9SAttilio Rao
4172c727cb9SSam Leffler20090613:
418456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of the structure returned by IEEE80211_IOC_STA_INFO has
419456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed.  User applications that use this ioctl need to be rebuilt.
4202c727cb9SSam Leffler
421f089869fSMarko Zec20090611:
422456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of struct thread has changed.  Kernel and modules need to
423456b5dd8SWarner Losh	be rebuilt.
424f089869fSMarko Zec
425bc29160dSMarko Zec20090608:
426456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of structs ifnet, domain, protosw and vnet_net has changed.
427456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Kernel modules need to be rebuilt.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097.
428bc29160dSMarko Zec
42989f98d57SEd Schouten20090602:
43089f98d57SEd Schouten	window(1) has been removed from the base system. It can now be
43189f98d57SEd Schouten	installed from ports. The port is called misc/window.
43289f98d57SEd Schouten
433c2c2a7c1SBjoern A. Zeeb20090601:
434456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The way we are storing and accessing `routing table' entries has
435456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed. Programs reading the FIB, like netstat, need to be
436456b5dd8SWarner Losh	re-compiled.
437c2c2a7c1SBjoern A. Zeeb
438529cb8e3SRobert Watson20090601:
439529cb8e3SRobert Watson	A new netisr implementation has been added for FreeBSD 8.  Network
440529cb8e3SRobert Watson	file system modules, such as igmp, ipdivert, and others, should be
441529cb8e3SRobert Watson	rebuilt.
442529cb8e3SRobert Watson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800096.
443529cb8e3SRobert Watson
4442a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala20090530:
445456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Remove the tunable/sysctl debug.mpsafevfs as its initial purpose is no
446456b5dd8SWarner Losh	more valid.
447faef64ccSAttilio Rao
448faef64ccSAttilio Rao20090530:
4492a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Add VOP_ACCESSX(9).  File system modules need to be rebuilt.
4502a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800094.
4512a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala
452b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala20090529:
453456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Add mnt_xflag field to 'struct mount'.  File system modules need to be
454456b5dd8SWarner Losh	rebuilt.
455b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800093.
456b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala
4571ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao20090528:
4581ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_SX has been retired while it has been
4591ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	introduced the option NO_ADAPTIVE_SX which handles the reversed logic.
4601ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	The KPI for sx_init_flags() changes as accepting flags:
461456b5dd8SWarner Losh	SX_ADAPTIVESPIN flag has been retired while the SX_NOADAPTIVE flag has
462456b5dd8SWarner Losh	been introduced in order to handle the reversed logic.
4631ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800092.
4641ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao
4650304c731SJamie Gritton20090527:
4660304c731SJamie Gritton	Add support for hierarchical jails.  Remove global securelevel.
4670304c731SJamie Gritton	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800091.
4680304c731SJamie Gritton
469dfc79e89SEdwin Groothuis20090523:
47037f17770SMarko Zec	The layout of struct vnet_net has changed, therefore modules
47137f17770SMarko Zec	need to be rebuilt.
47237f17770SMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800090.
47337f17770SMarko Zec
47437f17770SMarko Zec20090523:
475456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The newly imported zic(8) produces a new format in the output. Please
476456b5dd8SWarner Losh	run tzsetup(8) to install the newly created data to /etc/localtime.
477dfc79e89SEdwin Groothuis
47823790ac0SSam Leffler20090520:
4799360ae40SAndrew Thompson	The sysctl tree for the usb stack has renamed from hw.usb2.* to
4809360ae40SAndrew Thompson	hw.usb.* and is now consistent again with previous releases.
4819360ae40SAndrew Thompson
4829360ae40SAndrew Thompson20090520:
483456b5dd8SWarner Losh	802.11 monitor mode support was revised and driver api's were changed.
484456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Drivers dependent on net80211 now support DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO instead
485456b5dd8SWarner Losh	of DLT_IEEE802_11.  No user-visible data structures were changed but
486456b5dd8SWarner Losh	applications that use DLT_IEEE802_11 may require changes.
48723790ac0SSam Leffler	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800088.
48823790ac0SSam Leffler
489f6dfe47aSMarko Zec20090430:
490f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	The layout of the following structs has changed: sysctl_oid,
491f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	socket, ifnet, inpcbinfo, tcpcb, syncache_head, vnet_inet,
492f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	vnet_inet6 and vnet_ipfw.  Most modules need to be rebuild or
493f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	panics may be experienced.  World rebuild is required for
494f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	correctly checking networking state from userland.
495f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800085.
496f6dfe47aSMarko Zec
49733cde130SBruce M Simpson20090429:
49833cde130SBruce M Simpson	MLDv2 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
49933cde130SBruce M Simpson	to the IPv6 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
50033cde130SBruce M Simpson	The implementation of SSM within FreeBSD's IPv6 stack closely
50133cde130SBruce M Simpson	follows the IPv4 implementation.
50233cde130SBruce M Simpson
50333cde130SBruce M Simpson	For kernel developers:
50433cde130SBruce M Simpson
50533cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The most important changes are that the ip6_output() and
50633cde130SBruce M Simpson	  ip6_input() paths no longer take the IN6_MULTI_LOCK,
50733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
50833cde130SBruce M Simpson
50933cde130SBruce M Simpson	* As with the changes to the IPv4 stack to support SSM, filtering
51033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  of inbound multicast traffic must now be performed by transport
51133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  protocols within the IPv6 stack. This does not apply to TCP and
51233cde130SBruce M Simpson	  SCTP, however, it does apply to UDP in IPv6 and raw IPv6.
51333cde130SBruce M Simpson
51433cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The KPIs used by IPv6 multicast are similar to those used by
51533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  the IPv4 stack, with the following differences:
51633cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * im6o_mc_filter() is analogous to imo_multicast_filter().
51733cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * The legacy KAME entry points in6_joingroup and in6_leavegroup()
51833cde130SBruce M Simpson	     are shimmed to in6_mc_join() and in6_mc_leave() respectively.
51933cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * IN6_LOOKUP_MULTI() has been deprecated and removed.
52033cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * IPv6 relies on MLD for the DAD mechanism. KAME's internal KPIs
52133cde130SBruce M Simpson	     for MLDv1 have an additional 'timer' argument which is used to
52233cde130SBruce M Simpson	     jitter the initial membership report for the solicited-node
52333cde130SBruce M Simpson	     multicast membership on-link.
52433cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * This is not strictly needed for MLDv2, which already jitters
52533cde130SBruce M Simpson	     its report transmissions.  However, the 'timer' argument is
52633cde130SBruce M Simpson	     preserved in case MLDv1 is active on the interface.
52733cde130SBruce M Simpson
52833cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The KAME linked-list based IPv6 membership implementation has
52933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  been refactored to use a vector similar to that used by the IPv4
53033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  stack.
53133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Code which maintains a list of its own multicast memberships
53233cde130SBruce M Simpson	  internally, e.g. carp, has been updated to reflect the new
53333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  semantics.
53433cde130SBruce M Simpson
53533cde130SBruce M Simpson	* There is a known Lock Order Reversal (LOR) due to in6_setscope()
53633cde130SBruce M Simpson	  acquiring the IF_AFDATA_LOCK and being called within ip6_output().
53733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Whilst MLDv2 tries to avoid this otherwise benign LOR, it is an
53833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  implementation constraint which needs to be addressed in HEAD.
53933cde130SBruce M Simpson
54033cde130SBruce M Simpson	For application developers:
54133cde130SBruce M Simpson
54233cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The changes are broadly similar to those made for the IPv4
54333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  stack.
54433cde130SBruce M Simpson
54533cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The use of IPv4 and IPv6 multicast socket options on the same
54633cde130SBruce M Simpson	  socket, using mapped addresses, HAS NOT been tested or supported.
54733cde130SBruce M Simpson
54833cde130SBruce M Simpson	* There are a number of issues with the implementation of various
54933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  IPv6 multicast APIs which need to be resolved in the API surface
55033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  before the implementation is fully compatible with KAME userland
55133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  use, and these are mostly to do with interface index treatment.
55233cde130SBruce M Simpson
55333cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The literature available discusses the use of either the delta / ASM
55433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  API with setsockopt(2)/getsockopt(2), or the full-state / ASM API
55533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  using setsourcefilter(3)/getsourcefilter(3). For more information
55633cde130SBruce M Simpson	  please refer to RFC 3768, 'Socket Interface Extensions for
55733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Multicast Source Filters'.
55833cde130SBruce M Simpson
55933cde130SBruce M Simpson	* Applications which use the published RFC 3678 APIs should be fine.
56033cde130SBruce M Simpson
56133cde130SBruce M Simpson	For systems administrators:
56233cde130SBruce M Simpson
56333cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The mtest(8) utility has been refactored to support IPv6, in
56433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  addition to IPv4. Interface addresses are no longer accepted
56533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  as arguments, their names must be used instead. The utility
56633cde130SBruce M Simpson	  will map the interface name to its first IPv4 address as
56733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  returned by getifaddrs(3).
56833cde130SBruce M Simpson
56933cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The ifmcstat(8) utility has also been updated to print the MLDv2
57033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  endpoint state and source filter lists via sysctl(3).
57133cde130SBruce M Simpson
57233cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The net.inet6.ip6.mcast.loop sysctl may be tuned to 0 to disable
57333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  loopback of IPv6 multicast datagrams by default; it defaults to 1
57433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  to preserve the existing behaviour. Disabling multicast loopback is
57533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  recommended for optimal system performance.
57633cde130SBruce M Simpson
57733cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The IPv6 MROUTING code has been changed to examine this sysctl
57833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  instead of attempting to perform a group lookup before looping
57933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  back forwarded datagrams.
58033cde130SBruce M Simpson
58133cde130SBruce M Simpson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800084.
58233cde130SBruce M Simpson
5838b8bf775SRobert Watson20090422:
584131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin	Implement low-level Bluetooth HCI API.
585131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800083.
586131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin
5878b8bf775SRobert Watson20090419:
5888b8bf775SRobert Watson	The layout of struct malloc_type, used by modules to register new
5898b8bf775SRobert Watson	memory allocation types, has changed.  Most modules will need to
5908b8bf775SRobert Watson	be rebuilt or panics may be experienced.
5918b8bf775SRobert Watson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800081.
5928b8bf775SRobert Watson
593de4ab55eSKip Macy20090415:
594773b573aSKip Macy	Anticipate overflowing inp_flags - add inp_flags2.
595773b573aSKip Macy	This changes most offsets in inpcb, so checking v4 connection
596773b573aSKip Macy	state will require a world rebuild.
597773b573aSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800080.
598f146c211SXin LI
599773b573aSKip Macy20090415:
600de4ab55eSKip Macy	Add an llentry to struct route and struct route_in6. Modules
601de4ab55eSKip Macy	embedding a struct route will need to be recompiled.
602de4ab55eSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800079.
603de4ab55eSKip Macy
604427ac07fSKip Macy20090414:
605427ac07fSKip Macy	The size of rt_metrics_lite and by extension rtentry has changed.
606427ac07fSKip Macy	Networking administration apps will need to be recompiled.
607427ac07fSKip Macy	The route command now supports show as an alias for get, weighting
608427ac07fSKip Macy	of routes, sticky and nostick flags to alter the behavior of stateful
609427ac07fSKip Macy	load balancing.
610427ac07fSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800078.
6118713ec3dSRenato Botelho
61287437955SMaksim Yevmenkin20090408:
61387437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	Do not use Giant for kbdmux(4) locking. This is wrong and
61487437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	apparently causing more problems than it solves. This will
61587437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	re-open the issue where interrupt handlers may race with
61687437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	kbdmux(4) in polling mode. Typical symptoms include (but
61787437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	not limited to) duplicated and/or missing characters when
61887437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	low level console functions (such as gets) are used while
61987437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	interrupts are enabled (for example geli password prompt,
62087437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	mountroot prompt etc.). Disabling kbdmux(4) may help.
62187437955SMaksim Yevmenkin
6222f6a1858SMarko Zec20090407:
6232f6a1858SMarko Zec	The size of structs vnet_net, vnet_inet and vnet_ipfw has changed;
6242f6a1858SMarko Zec	kernel modules referencing any of the above need to be recompiled.
6252f6a1858SMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800075.
6262f6a1858SMarko Zec
627781d043cSIvan Voras20090320:
628781d043cSIvan Voras	GEOM_PART has become the default partition slicer for storage devices,
629781d043cSIvan Voras	replacing GEOM_MBR, GEOM_BSD, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_GPT slicers. It
6309a07b548SIvan Voras	introduces some changes:
6319a07b548SIvan Voras
6329a07b548SIvan Voras	MSDOS/EBR: the devices created from MSDOS extended partition entries
6339a07b548SIvan Voras	(EBR) can be named differently than with GEOM_MBR and are now symlinks
6349a07b548SIvan Voras	to devices with offset-based names. fstabs may need to be modified.
6359a07b548SIvan Voras
6369a07b548SIvan Voras	BSD: the "geometry does not match label" warning is harmless in most
6379a07b548SIvan Voras	cases but it points to problems in file system misalignment with
6389a07b548SIvan Voras	disk geometry. The "c" partition is now implicit, covers the whole
6399a07b548SIvan Voras	top-level drive and cannot be (mis)used by users.
6409a07b548SIvan Voras
6419a07b548SIvan Voras	General: Kernel dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices
6429a07b548SIvan Voras	whose partition types indicate they are meant to be used for file
6439a07b548SIvan Voras	systems (or, in case of MSDOS partitions, as something else than
6449a07b548SIvan Voras	the "386BSD" type).
6459a07b548SIvan Voras
6469a07b548SIvan Voras	Most of these changes date approximately from 200812.
647781d043cSIvan Voras
648443fc317SBruce M Simpson20090319:
6492b78d306SAndrew Thompson	The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows
6502b78d306SAndrew Thompson	Linux removing theirs in 2.6 and making libusb the default interface
6512b78d306SAndrew Thompson	(supported by sane).
6522b78d306SAndrew Thompson
6532b78d306SAndrew Thompson20090319:
654443fc317SBruce M Simpson	The multicast forwarding code has been cleaned up. netstat(1)
655443fc317SBruce M Simpson	only relies on KVM now for printing bandwidth upcall meters.
656443fc317SBruce M Simpson	The IPv4 and IPv6 modules are split into ip_mroute_mod and
657443fc317SBruce M Simpson	ip6_mroute_mod respectively. The config(5) options for statically
658443fc317SBruce M Simpson	compiling this code remain the same, i.e. 'options MROUTING'.
659443fc317SBruce M Simpson
6601df14375SRobert Watson20090315:
6611df14375SRobert Watson	Support for the IFF_NEEDSGIANT network interface flag has been
6621df14375SRobert Watson	removed, which means that non-MPSAFE network device drivers are no
6631df14375SRobert Watson	longer supported.  In particular, if_ar, if_sr, and network device
6641df14375SRobert Watson	drivers from the old (legacy) USB stack can no longer be built or
6651df14375SRobert Watson	used.
6661df14375SRobert Watson
667e667034dSRui Paulo20090313:
6687e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	POSIX.1 Native Language Support (NLS) has been enabled in libc and
6697e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	a bunch of new language catalog files have also been added.
6707e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	This means that some common libc messages are now localized and
6717e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	they depend on the LC_MESSAGES environmental variable.
6727e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan
6737e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan20090313:
674e667034dSRui Paulo	The k8temp(4) driver has been renamed to amdtemp(4) since
6758fb1e038SDavid E. O'Brien	support for Family 10 and Family 11 CPU families was added.
676e667034dSRui Paulo
677a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson20090309:
678d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	IGMPv3 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
679d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to the IPv4 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
680d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
681d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For kernel developers, the most important changes are that the
682d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	ip_output() and ip_input() paths no longer take the IN_MULTI_LOCK(),
683d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
684d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
685d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Transport protocols (UDP, Raw IP) are now responsible for filtering
686d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	inbound multicast traffic according to group membership and source
687d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	filters. The imo_multicast_filter() KPI exists for this purpose.
688d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Transports which do not use multicast (SCTP, TCP) already reject
689d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast by default. Forwarding and receive performance may improve
690d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	as a mutex acquisition is no longer needed in the ip_input()
691d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	low-level input path.  in_addmulti() and in_delmulti() are shimmed
692d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to new KPIs which exist to support SSM in-kernel.
693d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
694d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For application developers, it is recommended that loopback of
695d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast datagrams be disabled for best performance, as this
696d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	will still cause the lock to be taken for each looped-back
697d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	datagram transmission. The net.inet.ip.mcast.loop sysctl may
698d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	be tuned to 0 to disable loopback by default; it defaults to 1
699d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to preserve the existing behaviour.
700d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
701d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For systems administrators, to obtain best performance with
702d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast reception and multiple groups, it is always recommended
703d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	that a card with a suitably precise hash filter is used. Hash
704d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	collisions will still result in the lock being taken within the
705d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	transport protocol input path to check group membership.
706d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
707d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	If deploying FreeBSD in an environment with IGMP snooping switches,
708d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	it is recommended that the net.inet.igmp.sendlocal sysctl remain
709d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	enabled; this forces 224.0.0.0/24 group membership to be announced
710d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	via IGMP.
711d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
712d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	The size of 'struct igmpstat' has changed; netstat needs to be
713d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	recompiled to reflect this.
714d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800070.
715d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
716d10910e6SBruce M Simpson20090309:
717a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	libusb20.so.1 is now installed as libusb.so.1 and the ports system
718a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	updated to use it. This requires a buildworld/installworld in order to
719a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	update the library and dependencies (usbconfig, etc). Its advisable to
720cb2fe9b1SStanislav Sedov	rebuild all ports which uses libusb. More specific directions are given
7210ee5826eSAndrew Thompson	in the ports collection UPDATING file. Any /etc/libmap.conf entries for
7223296f80dSAndrew Thompson	libusb are no longer required and can be removed.
723a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson
72465067cc8SKonstantin Belousov20090302:
7259f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	A workaround is committed to allow the creation of System V shared
7269f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	memory segment of size > 2 GB on the 64-bit architectures.
7279f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	Due to a limitation of the existing ABI, the shm_segsz member
72865067cc8SKonstantin Belousov	of the struct shmid_ds, returned by shmctl(IPC_STAT) call is
729813bb2c9SJoel Dahl	wrong for large segments. Note that limits must be explicitly
73065067cc8SKonstantin Belousov	raised to allow such segments to be created.
73165067cc8SKonstantin Belousov
732176273eaSRobert Watson20090301:
733176273eaSRobert Watson	The layout of struct ifnet has changed, requiring a rebuild of all
734176273eaSRobert Watson	network device driver modules.
735176273eaSRobert Watson
736a13a5664SAndrew Thompson20090227:
737a13a5664SAndrew Thompson	The /dev handling for the new USB stack has changed, a
738a13a5664SAndrew Thompson	buildworld/installworld is required for libusb20.
739a13a5664SAndrew Thompson
74071e9286cSAndrew Thompson20090223:
74171e9286cSAndrew Thompson	The new USB2 stack has now been permanently moved in and all kernel and
742200dcf9aSAndrew Thompson	module names reverted to their previous values (eg, usb, ehci, ohci,
7439c1e15b5SAndrew Thompson	ums, ...).  The old usb stack can be compiled in by prefixing the name
74471e9286cSAndrew Thompson	with the letter 'o', the old usb modules have been removed.
745a709c9a6SWarner Losh	Updating entry 20090216 for xorg and 20090215 for libmap may still
746a709c9a6SWarner Losh	apply.
74771e9286cSAndrew Thompson
748553bf6a4SMike Makonnen20090217:
749553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	The rc.conf(5) option if_up_delay has been renamed to
750553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	defaultroute_delay to better reflect its purpose. If you have
751553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	customized this setting in /etc/rc.conf you need to update it to
752553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	use the new name.
753553bf6a4SMike Makonnen
754bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson20090216:
755bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	xorg 7.4 wants to configure its input devices via hald which does not
756bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	yet work with USB2. If the keyboard/mouse does not work in xorg then
757bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	add
758bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson		Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
759bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	to your ServerLayout section.  This will cause X to use the configured
760cbb9c89eSMaxim Konovalov	kbd and mouse sections from your xorg.conf.
761bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson
762e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson20090215:
763e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new USB2
764e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	stack. No kernel config options or code have been removed so if a
765e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	problem arises please report it and optionally revert to the old USB
766e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	stack. If you are loading USB kernel modules or have a custom kernel
767e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	that includes GENERIC then ensure that usb names are also changed over,
768cbb9c89eSMaxim Konovalov	eg uftdi -> usb2_serial_ftdi.
769e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson
770a709c9a6SWarner Losh	Older programs linked against the ports libusb 0.1 need to be
771a709c9a6SWarner Losh	redirected to the new stack's libusb20.  /etc/libmap.conf can
772a709c9a6SWarner Losh	be used for this:
773a709c9a6SWarner Losh		# Map old usb library to new one for usb2 stack
774a709c9a6SWarner Losh		libusb-0.1.so.8	libusb20.so.1
775a709c9a6SWarner Losh
77621293e70SAndrew Thompson20090209:
77721293e70SAndrew Thompson	All USB ethernet devices now attach as interfaces under the name ueN
77821293e70SAndrew Thompson	(eg. ue0). This is to provide a predictable name as vendors often
77921293e70SAndrew Thompson	change usb chipsets in a product without notice.
78021293e70SAndrew Thompson
78114943437SJohn Baldwin20090203:
78214943437SJohn Baldwin	The ichsmb(4) driver has been changed to require SMBus slave
78314943437SJohn Baldwin	addresses be left-justified (xxxxxxx0b) rather than right-justified.
78414943437SJohn Baldwin	All of the other SMBus controller drivers require left-justified
78514943437SJohn Baldwin	slave addresses, so this change makes all the drivers provide the
78614943437SJohn Baldwin	same interface.
78714943437SJohn Baldwin
78809f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb20090201:
78909f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb	INET6 statistics (struct ip6stat) was updated.
79009f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb	netstat(1) needs to be recompiled.
79109f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb
79274f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev20090119:
79374f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	NTFS has been removed from GENERIC kernel on amd64 to match
79474f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	GENERIC on i386. Should not cause any issues since mount_ntfs(8)
79574f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	will load ntfs.ko module automatically when NTFS support is
79674f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	actually needed, unless ntfs.ko is not installed or security
79774f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	level prohibits loading kernel modules. If either is the case,
79874f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	"options NTFS" has to be added into kernel config.
79974f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev
80024cb0f22SLawrence Stewart20090115:
80124cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	TCP Appropriate Byte Counting (RFC 3465) support added to kernel.
80224cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	New field in struct tcpcb breaks ABI, so bump __FreeBSD_version to
80324cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	800061. User space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in
80424cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
80524cb0f22SLawrence Stewart
8065d55747eSAlexander Motin20081225:
8075d55747eSAlexander Motin	ng_tty(4) module updated to match the new TTY subsystem.
8085d55747eSAlexander Motin	Due to API change, user-level applications must be updated.
8095d55747eSAlexander Motin	New API support added to mpd5 CVS and expected to be present
8105d55747eSAlexander Motin	in next mpd5.3 release.
8115d55747eSAlexander Motin
812efc06131SSam Leffler20081219:
813a1c64cafSSam Leffler	With __FreeBSD_version 800060 the makefs tool is part of
814a1c64cafSSam Leffler	the base system (it was a port).
815efc06131SSam Leffler
816991f8615SKip Macy20081216:
817991f8615SKip Macy	The afdata and ifnet locks have been changed from mutexes to
818991f8615SKip Macy	rwlocks, network modules will need to be re-compiled.
8191d7e99caSJohn Baldwin
8206e6b3f7cSQing Li20081214:
8216e6b3f7cSQing Li	__FreeBSD_version 800059 incorporates the new arp-v2 rewrite.
8226e6b3f7cSQing Li	RTF_CLONING, RTF_LLINFO and RTF_WASCLONED flags are eliminated.
8236e6b3f7cSQing Li	The new code reduced struct rtentry{} by 16 bytes on 32-bit
8246e6b3f7cSQing Li	architecture and 40 bytes on 64-bit architecture. The userland
8256e6b3f7cSQing Li	applications "arp" and "ndp" have been updated accordingly.
8266e6b3f7cSQing Li	The output from "netstat -r" shows only routing entries and
8276e6b3f7cSQing Li	none of the L2 information.
8286e6b3f7cSQing Li
82933644623SSam Leffler20081130:
83033644623SSam Leffler	__FreeBSD_version 800057 marks the switchover from the
83133644623SSam Leffler	binary ath hal to source code. Users must add the line:
83233644623SSam Leffler
833c60b227cSSam Leffler	options	AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
83433644623SSam Leffler
83533644623SSam Leffler	to their kernel config files when specifying:
83633644623SSam Leffler
83733644623SSam Leffler	device	ath_hal
83833644623SSam Leffler
83933644623SSam Leffler	The ath_hal module no longer exists; the code is now compiled
84033644623SSam Leffler	together with the driver in the ath module.  It is now
84133644623SSam Leffler	possible to tailor chip support (i.e. reduce the set of chips
84233644623SSam Leffler	and thereby the code size); consult ath_hal(4) for details.
84333644623SSam Leffler
844db7f0b97SKip Macy20081121:
845db7f0b97SKip Macy	__FreeBSD_version 800054 adds memory barriers to
846db7f0b97SKip Macy	<machine/atomic.h>, new interfaces to ifnet to facilitate
847db7f0b97SKip Macy	multiple hardware transmit queues for cards that support
848db7f0b97SKip Macy	them, and a lock-less ring-buffer implementation to
849db7f0b97SKip Macy	enable drivers to more efficiently manage queueing of
850db7f0b97SKip Macy	packets.
851db7f0b97SKip Macy
852de2e1b35SXin LI20081117:
853de2e1b35SXin LI	A new version of ZFS (version 13) has been merged to -HEAD.
854de3a91a0SXin LI	This version has zpool attribute "listsnapshots" off by
855de3a91a0SXin LI	default, which means "zfs list" does not show snapshots,
856de2e1b35SXin LI	and is the same as Solaris behavior.
857de2e1b35SXin LI
85802d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin20081028:
85902d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin	dummynet(4) ABI has changed. ipfw(8) needs to be recompiled.
86002d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin
861e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy20081009:
862d8135f4aSNick Hibma	The uhci, ohci, ehci and slhci USB Host controller drivers have
863d8135f4aSNick Hibma	been put into separate modules. If you load the usb module
864d8135f4aSNick Hibma	separately through loader.conf you will need to load the
865d8135f4aSNick Hibma	appropriate *hci module as well. E.g. for a UHCI-based USB 2.0
866d8135f4aSNick Hibma	controller add the following to loader.conf:
867d8135f4aSNick Hibma
868d8135f4aSNick Hibma		uhci_load="YES"
869d8135f4aSNick Hibma		ehci_load="YES"
870d8135f4aSNick Hibma
871d8135f4aSNick Hibma20081009:
872e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	The ABI used by the PMC toolset has changed.  Please keep
873e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	userland (libpmc(3)) and the kernel module (hwpmc(4)) in
874e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	sync.
875e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy
876b868265dSAlexander Motin20081009:
877b868265dSAlexander Motin	atapci kernel module now includes only generic PCI ATA
878b868265dSAlexander Motin	driver. AHCI driver moved to ataahci kernel module.
879b868265dSAlexander Motin	All vendor-specific code moved into separate kernel modules:
880b868265dSAlexander Motin	ataacard, ataacerlabs, ataadaptec, ataamd, ataati, atacenatek,
881b868265dSAlexander Motin	atacypress, atacyrix, atahighpoint, ataintel, ataite, atajmicron,
882b868265dSAlexander Motin	atamarvell, atamicron, atanational, atanetcell, atanvidia,
883b868265dSAlexander Motin	atapromise, ataserverworks, atasiliconimage, atasis, atavia
884b868265dSAlexander Motin
885bc093719SEd Schouten20080820:
886bc093719SEd Schouten	The TTY subsystem of the kernel has been replaced by a new
887bc093719SEd Schouten	implementation, which provides better scalability and an
888bc093719SEd Schouten	improved driver model. Most common drivers have been migrated to
889bc093719SEd Schouten	the new TTY subsystem, while others have not. The following
890bc093719SEd Schouten	drivers have not yet been ported to the new TTY layer:
891bc093719SEd Schouten
892bc093719SEd Schouten	PCI/ISA:
89366e7dc38SEd Schouten		cy, digi, rc, rp, sio
894bc093719SEd Schouten
895bc093719SEd Schouten	USB:
89666e7dc38SEd Schouten		ubser, ucycom
897bc093719SEd Schouten
898bc093719SEd Schouten	Line disciplines:
899bc093719SEd Schouten		ng_h4, ng_tty, ppp, sl, snp
900bc093719SEd Schouten
901bc093719SEd Schouten	Adding these drivers to your kernel configuration file shall
902bc093719SEd Schouten	cause compilation to fail.
903bc093719SEd Schouten
9049d965219SOllivier Robert20080818:
9059d965219SOllivier Robert	ntpd has been upgraded to 4.2.4p5.
9069d965219SOllivier Robert
907eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav20080801:
908eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	OpenSSH has been upgraded to 5.1p1.
909eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
910eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	For many years, FreeBSD's version of OpenSSH preferred DSA
911eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	over RSA for host and user authentication keys.  With this
912eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	upgrade, we've switched to the vendor's default of RSA over
913eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	DSA.  This may cause upgraded clients to warn about unknown
914eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	host keys even for previously known hosts.  Users should
915eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	follow the usual procedure for verifying host keys before
916eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	accepting the RSA key.
917eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
918eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	This can be circumvented by setting the "HostKeyAlgorithms"
919eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	option to "ssh-dss,ssh-rsa" in ~/.ssh/config or on the ssh
920eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	command line.
921eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
922737d990aSXin LI	Please note that the sequence of keys offered for
923737d990aSXin LI	authentication has been changed as well.  You may want to
924737d990aSXin LI	specify IdentityFile in a different order to revert this
925737d990aSXin LI	behavior.
926737d990aSXin LI
927f4d811f0SEd Schouten20080713:
928f4d811f0SEd Schouten	The sio(4) driver has been removed from the i386 and amd64
929f4d811f0SEd Schouten	kernel configuration files. This means uart(4) is now the
930f4d811f0SEd Schouten	default serial port driver on those platforms as well.
931f4d811f0SEd Schouten
932f4d811f0SEd Schouten	To prevent collisions with the sio(4) driver, the uart(4) driver
933f4d811f0SEd Schouten	uses different names for its device nodes. This means the
934f4d811f0SEd Schouten	onboard serial port will now most likely be called "ttyu0"
935f4d811f0SEd Schouten	instead of "ttyd0". You may need to reconfigure applications to
936f4d811f0SEd Schouten	use the new device names.
937f4d811f0SEd Schouten
938db96ec0bSEd Schouten	When using the serial port as a boot console, be sure to update
939db96ec0bSEd Schouten	/boot/device.hints and /etc/ttys before booting the new kernel.
940db96ec0bSEd Schouten	If you forget to do so, you can still manually specify the hints
941db96ec0bSEd Schouten	at the loader prompt:
942db96ec0bSEd Schouten
943db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.at="isa"
944db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8"
945db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.flags="0x10"
946db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.irq="4"
947db96ec0bSEd Schouten		boot -s
948db96ec0bSEd Schouten
949bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar20080609:
950bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar	The gpt(8) utility has been removed. Use gpart(8) to partition
951bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar	disks instead.
952bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar
95327f7c387SRoman Divacky20080603:
954a47444d5SRoman Divacky	The version that Linuxulator emulates was changed from 2.4.2
955a47444d5SRoman Divacky	to 2.6.16. If you experience any problems with Linux binaries
956a47444d5SRoman Divacky	please try to set sysctl compat.linux.osrelease to 2.4.2 and
957a47444d5SRoman Divacky	if it fixes the problem contact emulation mailing list.
958a47444d5SRoman Divacky
9592e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb20080525:
9602e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb	ISDN4BSD (I4B) was removed from the src tree. You may need to
9612e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb	update a your kernel configuration and remove relevant entries.
9622e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb
9634dcedde3SJulian Elischer20080509:
9644dcedde3SJulian Elischer	I have checked in code to support multiple routing tables.
965032e0bf8SMaxim Konovalov	See the man pages setfib(1) and setfib(2).
9664dcedde3SJulian Elischer	This is a hopefully backwards compatible version,
9674dcedde3SJulian Elischer	but to make use of it you need to compile your kernel
9684dcedde3SJulian Elischer	with options ROUTETABLES=2 (or more up to 16).
9694dcedde3SJulian Elischer
970de570baaSSam Leffler20080420:
971de570baaSSam Leffler	The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss
972de570baaSSam Leffler	operation on devices that are capable.  The underlying device
973de570baaSSam Leffler	is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are
974de570baaSSam Leffler	cloned with ifconfig.  This requires changes to rc.conf files.
9755318f840SWarner Losh	For example, change:
9765318f840SWarner Losh		ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP"
9775318f840SWarner Losh	to
9785318f840SWarner Losh		wlans_ath0=wlan0
9795318f840SWarner Losh		ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
9800f95e625SWarner Losh	see rc.conf(5) for more details.  In addition, mergemaster of
9810f95e625SWarner Losh	/etc/rc.d is highly recommended.  Simultaneous update of userland
9820f95e625SWarner Losh	and kernel wouldn't hurt either.
983de570baaSSam Leffler
984de570baaSSam Leffler	As part of the multi-bss changes the wlan_scan_ap and wlan_scan_sta
985de570baaSSam Leffler	modules were merged into the base wlan module.  All references
986de570baaSSam Leffler	to these modules (e.g. in kernel config files) must be removed.
987de570baaSSam Leffler
988ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim20080408:
989ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	psm(4) has gained write(2) support in native operation level.
990ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	Arbitrary commands can be written to /dev/psm%d and status can
991ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	be read back from it.  Therefore, an application is responsible
992ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	for status validation and error recovery.  It is a no-op in
993ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	other operation levels.
994ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim
995e4c67b94SJeff Roberson20080312:
996e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	Support for KSE threading has been removed from the kernel.  To
997e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	run legacy applications linked against KSE libmap.conf may
998e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	be used.  The following libmap.conf may be used to ensure
999e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	compatibility with any prior release:
1000e4c67b94SJeff Roberson
1001e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libpthread.so.1 libthr.so.1
1002e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2
1003e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libkse.so.3 libthr.so.3
1004e4c67b94SJeff Roberson
10058775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar20080301:
10068775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	The layout of struct vmspace has changed. This affects libkvm
10078775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	and any executables that link against libkvm and use the
10088775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	kvm_getprocs() function. In particular, but not exclusively,
10098775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	it affects ps(1), fstat(1), pkill(1), systat(1), top(1) and w(1).
10108775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	The effects are minimal, but it's advisable to upgrade world
10118775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	nonetheless.
10128775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar
1013df09ebc0SJack F Vogel20080229:
1014df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	The latest em driver no longer has support in it for the
1015df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	82575 adapter, this is now moved to the igb driver. The
1016df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	split was done to make new features that are incompatible
1017df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	with older hardware easier to do.
1018df09ebc0SJack F Vogel
10191669d8afSAndrew Thompson20080220:
10201669d8afSAndrew Thompson	The new geom_lvm(4) geom class has been renamed to geom_linux_lvm(4),
10211669d8afSAndrew Thompson	likewise the kernel option is now GEOM_LINUX_LVM.
10221669d8afSAndrew Thompson
10232427fa19SKris Kennaway20080211:
10242427fa19SKris Kennaway	The default NFS mount mode has changed from UDP to TCP for
10252427fa19SKris Kennaway	increased reliability.  If you rely on (insecurely) NFS
10262427fa19SKris Kennaway	mounting across a firewall you may need to update your
10272427fa19SKris Kennaway	firewall rules.
10282427fa19SKris Kennaway
10295e9f6b73SSam Leffler20080208:
10305e9f6b73SSam Leffler	Belatedly note the addition of m_collapse for compacting
10315e9f6b73SSam Leffler	mbuf chains.
10325e9f6b73SSam Leffler
103348aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy20080126:
103448aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	The fts(3) structures have been changed to use adequate
103548aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	integer types for their members and so to be able to cope
103648aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	with huge file trees.  The old fts(3) ABI is preserved
103748aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	through symbol versioning in libc, so third-party binaries
103848aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	using fts(3) should still work, although they will not take
103948aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	advantage of the extended types.  At the same time, some
104048aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	third-party software might fail to build after this change
104148aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	due to unportable assumptions made in its source code about
104248aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	fts(3) structure members.  Such software should be fixed
104348aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	by its vendor or, in the worst case, in the ports tree.
104448aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	FreeBSD_version 800015 marks this change for the unlikely
104548aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	case that a portable fix is impossible.
104648aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy
104751dc1e12SRuslan Ermilov20080123:
10488015f45cSWarner Losh	To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running
104951dc1e12SRuslan Ermilov	FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE.  Upgrading to -current
10508015f45cSWarner Losh	from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems.
10518015f45cSWarner Losh
1052ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato20071128:
1053ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato	The ADAPTIVE_GIANT kernel option has been retired because its
1054ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato	functionality is the default now.
1055ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato
1056e393af84SMarius Strobl20071118:
1057e393af84SMarius Strobl	The AT keyboard emulation of sunkbd(4) has been turned on
1058e393af84SMarius Strobl	by default. In order to make the special symbols of the Sun
1059e393af84SMarius Strobl	keyboards driven by sunkbd(4) work under X these now have
1060e393af84SMarius Strobl	to be configured the same way as Sun USB keyboards driven
1061e393af84SMarius Strobl	by ukbd(4) (which also does AT keyboard emulation), f.e.:
1062e393af84SMarius Strobl
1063e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbLayout" "us"
1064e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbRules" "xorg"
1065e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbSymbols" "pc(pc105)+sun_vndr/usb(sun_usb)+us"
1066e393af84SMarius Strobl
106733d3fffaSMarius Strobl20071024:
106833d3fffaSMarius Strobl	It has been decided that it is desirable to provide ABI
106933d3fffaSMarius Strobl	backwards compatibility to the FreeBSD 4/5/6 versions of the
107033d3fffaSMarius Strobl	PCIOCGETCONF, PCIOCREAD and PCIOCWRITE IOCTLs, which was
107133d3fffaSMarius Strobl	broken with the introduction of PCI domain support (see the
107233d3fffaSMarius Strobl	20070930 entry). Unfortunately, this required the ABI of
107333d3fffaSMarius Strobl	PCIOCGETCONF to be broken again in order to be able to
107433d3fffaSMarius Strobl	provide backwards compatibility to the old version of that
107533d3fffaSMarius Strobl	IOCTL. Thus consumers of PCIOCGETCONF have to be recompiled
107633d3fffaSMarius Strobl	again. As for prominent ports this affects neither pciutils
107733d3fffaSMarius Strobl	nor xorg-server this time, the hal port needs to be rebuilt
107833d3fffaSMarius Strobl	however.
107933d3fffaSMarius Strobl
10803d461febSJulian Elischer20071020:
10813d461febSJulian Elischer	The misnamed kthread_create() and friends have been renamed
10823d461febSJulian Elischer	to kproc_create() etc. Many of the callers already
10833d461febSJulian Elischer	used kproc_start()..
10843d461febSJulian Elischer	I will return kthread_create() and friends in a while
10853d461febSJulian Elischer	with implementations that actually create threads, not procs.
10863d461febSJulian Elischer	Renaming corresponds with version 800002.
10873d461febSJulian Elischer
1088c15e0967SKen Smith20071010:
1089c15e0967SKen Smith	RELENG_7 branched.
1090c15e0967SKen Smith
1091dc0dbf5cSWarner LoshCOMMON ITEMS:
1092dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
1093a24eff53SWarner Losh	General Notes
1094a24eff53SWarner Losh	-------------
1095456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1096456b5dd8SWarner Losh	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
10971733d35cSRuslan Ermilov	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1098456b5dd8SWarner Losh	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1099456b5dd8SWarner Losh	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1100456b5dd8SWarner Losh	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1101456b5dd8SWarner Losh	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1102a24eff53SWarner Losh
11035780f3baSWarner Losh	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
11045780f3baSWarner Losh	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1105456b5dd8SWarner Losh	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1106456b5dd8SWarner Losh	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1107456b5dd8SWarner Losh	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
11085780f3baSWarner Losh
1109456b5dd8SWarner Losh	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best
1110456b5dd8SWarner Losh	to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first,
1111456b5dd8SWarner Losh	then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade
1112456b5dd8SWarner Losh	path, and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try
1113456b5dd8SWarner Losh	this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade.
1114081ff8acSDoug Barton
11158fc25799SMartin Matuska	ZFS notes
11168fc25799SMartin Matuska	---------
11178fc25799SMartin Matuska	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
11188fc25799SMartin Matuska	these two steps:
11198fc25799SMartin Matuska
11208fc25799SMartin Matuska	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
11218fc25799SMartin Matuska	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
11228fc25799SMartin Matuska
11238fc25799SMartin Matuska	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
11248fc25799SMartin Matuska
11258fc25799SMartin Matuska	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
11268fc25799SMartin Matuska	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ad0:
11278fc25799SMartin Matuska	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0"
11288fc25799SMartin Matuska
11298fc25799SMartin Matuska	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
11308fc25799SMartin Matuska
1131dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh	To build a kernel
1132dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh	-----------------
1133ba01eb20SWarner Losh	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
11341cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
11351cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
11361cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien
11371cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	make kernel-toolchain
1138282e0f01SRuslan Ermilov	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1139282e0f01SRuslan Ermilov	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1140dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
11412e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	To test a kernel once
11422e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	---------------------
11432e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
11442e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
11452e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	debugging information) run
11462e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
11472e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	nextboot -k testkernel
11482e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger
1149ba01eb20SWarner Losh	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1150ba01eb20SWarner Losh	--------------------------------------------------------------
1151456b5dd8SWarner Losh	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
11520fbd2da9SKen Smith	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1153456b5dd8SWarner Losh	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
11540fbd2da9SKen Smith
11550fbd2da9SKen Smith	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
115647d0d01fSWarner Losh	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
11570fbd2da9SKen Smith	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1158ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make depend
1159ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make
1160ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make install
1161ba01eb20SWarner Losh
1162ba01eb20SWarner Losh	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1163ba01eb20SWarner Losh
1164ba01eb20SWarner Losh	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1165ba01eb20SWarner Losh	-----------------------------------------------------------
116663cb445eSWarner Losh	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
116763cb445eSWarner Losh	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
116863cb445eSWarner Losh
1169f643de42SWarner Losh	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
117063cb445eSWarner Losh	make buildworld
11716586253aSWarner Losh	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
117263cb445eSWarner Losh							[1]
117363cb445eSWarner Losh	<reboot in single user>				[3]
117463cb445eSWarner Losh	mergemaster -p					[5]
117563cb445eSWarner Losh	make installworld
117650e8eca6SDoug Barton	mergemaster -i					[4]
117794877c06SAlexander Leidinger	make delete-old					[6]
117863cb445eSWarner Losh	<reboot>
117963cb445eSWarner Losh
1180759f0aefSWarner Losh
1181f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1182f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	--------------------------------------------------
1183f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1184f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1185f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1186f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# size.
1187f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
1188f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1189f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<boot into -stable>
1190f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	make buildworld
11913ecf3bddSRuslan Ermilov	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1192f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1193f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1194f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
11952d5cde04SRuslan Ermilov	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
11963ecf3bddSRuslan Ermilov	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1197f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1198f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1199f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<reboot into current>
1200f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1201737d990aSXin LI	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1202f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<reboot>
1203f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
1204f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
1205456b5dd8SWarner Losh	To upgrade in-place from 8.x-stable to current
1206f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	----------------------------------------------
1207f643de42SWarner Losh	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
120821c075eaSWarner Losh	make buildworld					[9]
1209e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1210fc8c157fSWarner Losh							[1]
1211fc8c157fSWarner Losh	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1212835284beSWarner Losh	mergemaster -p					[5]
1213ba26da8eSWarner Losh	make installworld
1214802fc49dSBrian Feldman	mergemaster -i					[4]
121594877c06SAlexander Leidinger	make delete-old					[6]
1216ba26da8eSWarner Losh	<reboot>
1217ba26da8eSWarner Losh
1218fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1219fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1220fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1221fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1222fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	the UPDATING entries.
1223ba26da8eSWarner Losh
12241dece4a9SWarner Losh	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
12251dece4a9SWarner Losh	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
12261dece4a9SWarner Losh	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
12271dece4a9SWarner Losh	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
12281dece4a9SWarner Losh	much fewer pitfalls.
12291dece4a9SWarner Losh
1230134d2e86SWarner Losh	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1231134d2e86SWarner Losh	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1232134d2e86SWarner Losh	system on reboot.
1233134d2e86SWarner Losh
1234ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1235ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		fsck -p
1236ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		mount -u /
1237ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		mount -a
12386586253aSWarner Losh		cd src
123947d0d01fSWarner Losh		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1240f6a0ef01SWarner Losh	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1241f6a0ef01SWarner Losh	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1242ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh
1243a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1244a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1245a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1246a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1247a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
124850e8eca6SDoug Barton	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
124950e8eca6SDoug Barton	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1250a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh
1251835284beSWarner Losh	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1252835284beSWarner Losh	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1253835284beSWarner Losh	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1254835284beSWarner Losh	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1255835284beSWarner Losh	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
1256835284beSWarner Losh	from current before 20020224 or from -stable before 20020408.
1257835284beSWarner Losh
125894877c06SAlexander Leidinger	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
125994877c06SAlexander Leidinger	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
126094877c06SAlexander Leidinger	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
126194877c06SAlexander Leidinger
1262456b5dd8SWarner Losh	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
1263456b5dd8SWarner Losh	do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
1264456b5dd8SWarner Losh	your kernel.  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1265456b5dd8SWarner Losh	hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
1266456b5dd8SWarner Losh	required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels.  And so on
1267456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
1268c74fe6afSWarner Losh
1269e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1270e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1271e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
127221c075eaSWarner Losh	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1273e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	cvs prune empty directories.
1274e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
1275e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1276e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1277e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1278e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
1279e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1280e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1281e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	warn if it is improperly defined.
1282dc0dbf5cSWarner LoshFORMAT:
1283dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
1284f699bbbbSMark OvensThis file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
12851fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current.  Not all things will be listed here,
12868ce4cbbfSWarner Loshand it only starts on October 16, 2004.  Updating files can found in
1287f8ab1dd6SWarner Loshprevious releases if your system is older than this.
12881fc1a0dcSWarner Losh
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