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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
7e0fb6dc3SRobert Watsonhandbook:
8e0fb6dc3SRobert Watson
9e0fb6dc3SRobert Watson    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
10e72fd46aSWarner Losh
112c724730SWarner LoshItems affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
12456b5dd8SWarner Losh/usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before running portupgrade.
132c724730SWarner Losh
144f1def68SWarner LoshNOTE: FreeBSD has switched from gcc to clang. If you have trouble bootstrapping
156eeab389SWarner Loshfrom older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG to bootstrap to the tip of
16da0e842aSWarner Loshhead, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process from
17da0e842aSWarner Losholder version of current is a bit fragile.
184f1def68SWarner Losh
198a3b6cc1SKen SmithNOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 10.x IS SLOW:
208a3b6cc1SKen Smith	FreeBSD 10.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel
21456b5dd8SWarner Losh	and userland.  These features attempt to detect incorrect use of
22456b5dd8SWarner Losh	system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity
23456b5dd8SWarner Losh	checking and fail stop semantics.  They also substantially impact
24456b5dd8SWarner Losh	system performance.  If you want to do performance measurement,
25456b5dd8SWarner Losh	benchmarking, and optimization, you'll want to turn them off.  This
26456b5dd8SWarner Losh	includes various WITNESS- related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc
27456b5dd8SWarner Losh	debugging flags in userland, and various verbose features in the
28456b5dd8SWarner Losh	kernel.  Many developers choose to disable these features on build
2999e449f2SJason Evans	machines to maximize performance.  (To completely disable malloc
3099e449f2SJason Evans	debugging, define MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/make.conf, or to merely
3199e449f2SJason Evans	disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
3299e449f2SJason Evans	"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
33efc06131SSam Leffler
34*9d6d5a71SJilles Tjoelker20130802:
35*9d6d5a71SJilles Tjoelker	find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments,
36*9d6d5a71SJilles Tjoelker	instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did
37*9d6d5a71SJilles Tjoelker	not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message
38*9d6d5a71SJilles Tjoelker	would result:
39*9d6d5a71SJilles Tjoelker
40*9d6d5a71SJilles Tjoelker	find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe
41*9d6d5a71SJilles Tjoelker
42*9d6d5a71SJilles Tjoelker	Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented
43*9d6d5a71SJilles Tjoelker	without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing
44*9d6d5a71SJilles Tjoelker	directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the
45*9d6d5a71SJilles Tjoelker	old as well as the new version of find.
46*9d6d5a71SJilles Tjoelker
47663dea3dSAndriy Gapon20130726:
48663dea3dSAndriy Gapon	Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed.
49663dea3dSAndriy Gapon	Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs
50663dea3dSAndriy Gapon	path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by
51663dea3dSAndriy Gapon	slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs
52663dea3dSAndriy Gapon	subdirectories must be reviewed.
53663dea3dSAndriy Gapon
5446e95f64SAndrew Turner20130716:
5546e95f64SAndrew Turner	The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is
5646e95f64SAndrew Turner	incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will
5746e95f64SAndrew Turner	need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
5846e95f64SAndrew Turner
5946e95f64SAndrew Turner	To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set.
6046e95f64SAndrew Turner
6146e95f64SAndrew Turner	NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and
6246e95f64SAndrew Turner	users are advised to upgrade.
6346e95f64SAndrew Turner
64b40e2b6dSAndrey V. Elsukov20130709:
659b953f2cSBaptiste Daroussin	pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it
669b953f2cSBaptiste Daroussin	you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5).
679b953f2cSBaptiste Daroussin
689b953f2cSBaptiste Daroussin20130709:
69b40e2b6dSAndrey V. Elsukov	Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able
70b40e2b6dSAndrey V. Elsukov	keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking
71aa011413SRui Paulo	statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.)
72b40e2b6dSAndrey V. Elsukov
7303630b54SSimon J. Gerraty20130629:
7403630b54SSimon J. Gerraty	Fix targets that run multiple make's to use && rather than ;
7503630b54SSimon J. Gerraty	so that subsequent steps depend on success of previous.
7603630b54SSimon J. Gerraty
7703630b54SSimon J. Gerraty	NOTE: if building 'universe' with -j* on stable/8 or stable/9
7803630b54SSimon J. Gerraty	it would be better to start the build using bmake, to avoid
7903630b54SSimon J. Gerraty	overloading the machine.
8003630b54SSimon J. Gerraty
815b3e0257SDag-Erling Smørgrav20130618:
825b3e0257SDag-Erling Smørgrav	Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write
835b3e0257SDag-Erling Smørgrav	to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space
845b3e0257SDag-Erling Smørgrav	even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had
855b3e0257SDag-Erling Smørgrav	write access to that file.
865b3e0257SDag-Erling Smørgrav
871cbff2a9SEitan Adler20130615:
881cbff2a9SEitan Adler	CVS has been removed from the base system.  An exact copy
891cbff2a9SEitan Adler	of the code is available from the devel/cvs port.
901cbff2a9SEitan Adler
91ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty20130613:
92ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty	Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake:
93ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty
94ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty		make: illegal option -- J
95ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty		usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable]
96ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty			...
97ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty		*** [buildworld] Error code 2
98ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty
99ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty	this likely due to an old instance of make in
100ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty	${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE})
101ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty	which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if
102ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty	you see the above error:
103ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty
104ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty		rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH`
105ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty
106ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty	should resolve it.
107ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty
108ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty20130516:
109ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	Use bmake by default.
110ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via
111ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	-DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old
112ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE.
113ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty
114ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command
115ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the
116ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	command line.  Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer
117ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent
118ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	behavior in parallel build.
119ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty
12032164d53SDag-Erling Smørgrav20130429:
12132164d53SDag-Erling Smørgrav        Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files.
12232164d53SDag-Erling Smørgrav
123562a9d58SSteven Hartland20130426:
124850163e4SEitan Adler	The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because
125850163e4SEitan Adler	the IDEA patent expired.
126850163e4SEitan Adler
127850163e4SEitan Adler20130426:
128562a9d58SSteven Hartland	The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed
129562a9d58SSteven Hartland	from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been
130562a9d58SSteven Hartland	enabled by default.
131562a9d58SSteven Hartland
13220e0cc0aSBrooks Davis20130425:
13320e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
13420e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in
13520e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as
13620e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	install and mtree.  When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where
13720e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	the install command does not support -l, you will need to
13820e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required.
13920e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
14020e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	&& make install).
14120e0cc0aSBrooks Davis
1429a95a7caSAlexander Motin20130404:
1439a95a7caSAlexander Motin	Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since
1449a95a7caSAlexander Motin	FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources.  Kernel modules
1459a95a7caSAlexander Motin	atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are
1469a95a7caSAlexander Motin	removed.  Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled
1479a95a7caSAlexander Motin	and removed.
1489a95a7caSAlexander Motin
1495ad7e649SJilles Tjoelker20130319:
1505ad7e649SJilles Tjoelker	SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2)
1515ad7e649SJilles Tjoelker	and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may
1525ad7e649SJilles Tjoelker	automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting
1535ad7e649SJilles Tjoelker	binaries will not work on older kernels.
1545ad7e649SJilles Tjoelker
155105421ffSMarius Strobl20130308:
156105421ffSMarius Strobl	CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further
157105421ffSMarius Strobl	information, see the respective 20130304 entry).
158105421ffSMarius Strobl
1593a45b478SKenneth D. Merry20130304:
16023d44ab5SDavide Italiano	Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout,
16123d44ab5SDavide Italiano	so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions
16223d44ab5SDavide Italiano	in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced
16323d44ab5SDavide Italiano	by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild
16423d44ab5SDavide Italiano	is requested.
16523d44ab5SDavide Italiano
1663a45b478SKenneth D. Merry	The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64,
1673a45b478SKenneth D. Merry	but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE
1683a45b478SKenneth D. Merry	option) to save memory.  To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE
1693a45b478SKenneth D. Merry	option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0
1703a45b478SKenneth D. Merry	in /boot/loader.conf.
1713a45b478SKenneth D. Merry
172fe138cc2SAdrian Chadd20130301:
173fe138cc2SAdrian Chadd	The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64.
174fe138cc2SAdrian Chadd	This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system
175fe138cc2SAdrian Chadd	initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if
176fe138cc2SAdrian Chadd	a CAM target device was created.  This makes a FreeBSD system
177fe138cc2SAdrian Chadd	unusable on 128MB or less of RAM.
178fe138cc2SAdrian Chadd
17920a011d5SXin LI20130208:
18020a011d5SXin LI	A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD.  Please
18120a011d5SXin LI	refer to zpool-features(7) for more information.
18220a011d5SXin LI
18320a011d5SXin LI	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
18420a011d5SXin LI	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
18520a011d5SXin LI
1862dd076b8SGabor Kovesdan20130129:
1872dd076b8SGabor Kovesdan	A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed
1882dd076b8SGabor Kovesdan	as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch.
1892dd076b8SGabor Kovesdan	To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default,
1902dd076b8SGabor Kovesdan	while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild
1912d329593SGabor Kovesdan	and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set.
1922dd076b8SGabor Kovesdan
193fe06cae7SBrooks Davis20130121:
194fe06cae7SBrooks Davis	Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build
195fe06cae7SBrooks Davis	and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL
196fe06cae7SBrooks Davis	make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the
1978c5836c3SEitan Adler	command line.  If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs
198fe06cae7SBrooks Davis	you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or
199fe06cae7SBrooks Davis	/etc/src.conf.
200fe06cae7SBrooks Davis
201f2b19f9eSBrooks Davis20130118:
202f2b19f9eSBrooks Davis	The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an
203f2b19f9eSBrooks Davis	argument that is a file or path to append logs to.  In the
204f2b19f9eSBrooks Davis	unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line
205f2b19f9eSBrooks Davis	and the command line contained at least two files and a target
206f2b19f9eSBrooks Davis	directory the first file will have logs appended to it.  The -M
2074cf5de80SGlen Barber	option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its
2084cf5de80SGlen Barber	use is expected to be extremely rare.
209f2b19f9eSBrooks Davis
2103fea4e6bSAndriy Gapon20121223:
2113fea4e6bSAndriy Gapon	After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS
2123fea4e6bSAndriy Gapon	on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics.
2133fea4e6bSAndriy Gapon	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations.
2143fea4e6bSAndriy Gapon
215efec959cSJaakko Heinonen20121222:
216efec959cSJaakko Heinonen	GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata.
217efec959cSJaakko Heinonen	Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters,
218efec959cSJaakko Heinonen	'%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to
219efec959cSJaakko Heinonen	be updated.
220efec959cSJaakko Heinonen
22111631ad0SPawel Jakub Dawidek20121217:
22211631ad0SPawel Jakub Dawidek	By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved.  To
22311631ad0SPawel Jakub Dawidek	restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps
22411631ad0SPawel Jakub Dawidek	stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
22511631ad0SPawel Jakub Dawidek
22611631ad0SPawel Jakub Dawidek		savecore_flags=""
22711631ad0SPawel Jakub Dawidek
228e0fb6dc3SRobert Watson20121201:
229e0fb6dc3SRobert Watson	With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now
230e0fb6dc3SRobert Watson	depended on during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to add
231e0fb6dc3SRobert Watson	the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
232e0fb6dc3SRobert Watson
233b91dc775SHiroki Sato20121117:
234b91dc775SHiroki Sato	The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now
235b91dc775SHiroki Sato	filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via
236b91dc775SHiroki Sato	sysctl or routing socket.  This means the KAME-specific embedded scope
237b91dc775SHiroki Sato	id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application.
238b91dc775SHiroki Sato	This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid.
239b91dc775SHiroki Sato	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025.
240b91dc775SHiroki Sato
2415b6478b0SBrooks Davis20121105:
2425b6478b0SBrooks Davis	On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default.
2435b6478b0SBrooks Davis	This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang
2445b6478b0SBrooks Davis	and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++,
2455b6478b0SBrooks Davis	and /usr/bin/cpp.  To disable this behavior and revert to building
246da0e842aSWarner Losh	with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions
247da0e842aSWarner Losh	of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang
248da0e842aSWarner Losh	build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable
249da0e842aSWarner Losh	branch point).
2505b6478b0SBrooks Davis
251ffdbf9daSAndrey V. Elsukov20121102:
252a971b547SAndrey V. Elsukov	The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its
253ffdbf9daSAndrey V. Elsukov	functionality now turned on by default.
254a971b547SAndrey V. Elsukov
2558f134647SGleb Smirnoff20121023:
256cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and
257cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP.
258cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write
259cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes.
260cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current
261cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage.
262cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under
263cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal
264cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	of the two kernel options.
265cb69178dSAndre Oppermann
266cb69178dSAndre Oppermann20121023:
2678f134647SGleb Smirnoff	The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte
2688f134647SGleb Smirnoff	order. The following modules need to be recompiled together
2698f134647SGleb Smirnoff	with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4),
2708f134647SGleb Smirnoff	pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4).
2718f134647SGleb Smirnoff
2728859ec84SKonstantin Belousov20121022:
2738859ec84SKonstantin Belousov	Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The
2748859ec84SKonstantin Belousov	VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be
2758859ec84SKonstantin Belousov	recompiled.
2768859ec84SKonstantin Belousov
277e053ead0SAttilio Rao20121018:
278e053ead0SAttilio Rao	All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from
279e053ead0SAttilio Rao	the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs,
280e053ead0SAttilio Rao	portalfs, smbfs, xfs.
281e053ead0SAttilio Rao
28242a58907SGleb Smirnoff20121016:
28342a58907SGleb Smirnoff	The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following
28442a58907SGleb Smirnoff	modules need to be recompiled together with kernel:
28542a58907SGleb Smirnoff	ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4),
28642a58907SGleb Smirnoff	vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4),
28742a58907SGleb Smirnoff	faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4).
28842a58907SGleb Smirnoff
289d6b3aaf8SOleksandr Tymoshenko20121015:
290d6b3aaf8SOleksandr Tymoshenko	The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host
291d6b3aaf8SOleksandr Tymoshenko	Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver).
292d6b3aaf8SOleksandr Tymoshenko	No kernel config modifications are required, but if you
293d6b3aaf8SOleksandr Tymoshenko	load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead.
294d6b3aaf8SOleksandr Tymoshenko
2955fe58019SAttilio Rao20121014:
2965fe58019SAttilio Rao	Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system.
2975fe58019SAttilio Rao
298d38ae94bSGabor Kovesdan20121013:
299d38ae94bSGabor Kovesdan	The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed
300d38ae94bSGabor Kovesdan	sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious
301d38ae94bSGabor Kovesdan	problems have been reported.  The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT
30258b6d9a2SGabor Kovesdan	knob has also gone.
303d38ae94bSGabor Kovesdan
30421d172a3SGleb Smirnoff20121006:
30521d172a3SGleb Smirnoff	The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet
30621d172a3SGleb Smirnoff	filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled
30721d172a3SGleb Smirnoff	with new kernel.
30821d172a3SGleb Smirnoff
3097b81c83cSAdrian Chadd20121001:
3107b81c83cSAdrian Chadd	The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver
3117b81c83cSAdrian Chadd	PS-POLL and power-save support.  All wireless drivers need to be
3127b81c83cSAdrian Chadd	recompiled to work with the new kernel.
3137b81c83cSAdrian Chadd
314d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov20120913:
315d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov	The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number
316d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov	generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally.
317d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov	Add the PADLOCK_RNG option in the custom kernel config if
318d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov	needed.  The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the
319d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov	option, so the change only affects the custom kernel
320d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov	configurations.
321d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov
322d6d3f01eSGleb Smirnoff20120908:
323d6d3f01eSGleb Smirnoff	The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and
324d6d3f01eSGleb Smirnoff	snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel.
325d6d3f01eSGleb Smirnoff
3266e767defSMartin Matuska20120828:
3276e767defSMartin Matuska	A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged
3286e767defSMartin Matuska	to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be
3296e767defSMartin Matuska	imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support
3306e767defSMartin Matuska	this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5)
3316e767defSMartin Matuska	manual page.
3326e767defSMartin Matuska
333614e3098SMarius Strobl20120727:
334614e3098SMarius Strobl	The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto-
335614e3098SMarius Strobl	detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these
336614e3098SMarius Strobl	to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable.
337614e3098SMarius Strobl
3387e003b0aSChristian Brueffer20120712:
3391f13597dSJung-uk Kim	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c.  Any binaries requiring
3401f13597dSJung-uk Kim	libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled.  Also, there are
3411f13597dSJung-uk Kim	configuration changes.  Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf.
3421f13597dSJung-uk Kim
3431f13597dSJung-uk Kim20120712:
3447e003b0aSChristian Brueffer	The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency
3457e003b0aSChristian Brueffer	with other variables:
3467e003b0aSChristian Brueffer	  kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered   -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered
3477e003b0aSChristian Brueffer	  kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered
3487e003b0aSChristian Brueffer
349d22c63acSGabor Kovesdan20120628:
350d22c63acSGabor Kovesdan	The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort.  For now, GNU sort
351d22c63acSGabor Kovesdan	is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to
352d22c63acSGabor Kovesdan	GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT.  In this case, BSD sort will be
353d22c63acSGabor Kovesdan	installed as "bsdsort".
354d22c63acSGabor Kovesdan
3552d9cf57eSMartin Matuska20120611:
3562d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD.
3572d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning
3582d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward
3592d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS
3602d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools
3612d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information
3622d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	read the new zpool-features(5) manual page.
3632d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
3642d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
3652d9cf57eSMartin Matuska
366d1675e38SJason Evans20120417:
367d1675e38SJason Evans	The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported
368d1675e38SJason Evans	as contrib/jemalloc.  The most disruptive API change is to
369d1675e38SJason Evans	/etc/malloc.conf.  If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf,
370d1675e38SJason Evans	delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the
371d1675e38SJason Evans	new format after rebooting.  See malloc.conf(5) for details
372d1675e38SJason Evans	(specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL
373d1675e38SJason Evans	NAMESPACE section).
374d1675e38SJason Evans
37584db023eSJuli Mallett20120328:
37684db023eSJuli Mallett	Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb".  mips64eb
37784db023eSJuli Mallett	is now spelled mips64.  mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32.  mipseb is
37884db023eSJuli Mallett	now spelled mips.  This is to aid compatibility with third-party
37984db023eSJuli Mallett	software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3).  Little-endian
380474dbfb7SWarner Losh	settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine
381474dbfb7SWarner Losh	from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in
382474dbfb7SWarner Losh	your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine.
38384db023eSJuli Mallett
3849c170fd1SAttilio Rao20120306:
3859c170fd1SAttilio Rao	Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported
3869c170fd1SAttilio Rao	platforms.
3879c170fd1SAttilio Rao
388c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub20120229:
389c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub	Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on	nullfs(5). Previously
390c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub	nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer,
391c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub	as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect
392c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub	only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect
393c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub	only to	the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the
394c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub	lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to.
395c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub
396ca1672daSBjoern A. Zeeb20120211:
397ca1672daSBjoern A. Zeeb	The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored.
398ca1672daSBjoern A. Zeeb	If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to
399ca1672daSBjoern A. Zeeb	recompile libc again with your kernel.  You still need to recompile
400ca1672daSBjoern A. Zeeb	world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already
401ca1672daSBjoern A. Zeeb	comes from 20111215.
402ca1672daSBjoern A. Zeeb
403e0e0f25bSDoug Barton20120114:
404e0e0f25bSDoug Barton	The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr.  All
405e0e0f25bSDoug Barton	base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a
406e0e0f25bSDoug Barton	port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either
407e0e0f25bSDoug Barton	hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port.
408e0e0f25bSDoug Barton
4095d482324SDoug Barton	An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d:
4105d482324SDoug Barton	rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i
4115d482324SDoug Barton
41290d82653SAndriy Gapon20120109:
41390d82653SAndriy Gapon	panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts
41490d82653SAndriy Gapon	on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running.
41590d82653SAndriy Gapon	This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic
41690d82653SAndriy Gapon	tunable/sysctl.
41790d82653SAndriy Gapon	The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic.
41890d82653SAndriy Gapon
41908b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff20111215:
42008b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration
42108b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format
42208b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages
42308b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently
42408b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	not supported anymore.
42508b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff
42608b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User
42708b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8),
42808b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	need to be recompiled.
42908b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff
430d5d131eeSJaakko Heinonen20111122:
431d5d131eeSJaakko Heinonen	The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to
432d5d131eeSJaakko Heinonen	/dev/wmistat0.
433d5d131eeSJaakko Heinonen
434ed1f6dc2SAttilio Rao20111108:
435ed1f6dc2SAttilio Rao	The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to
436ed1f6dc2SAttilio Rao	explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems.
437ed1f6dc2SAttilio Rao	It is on by default for all supported platform at this present
438ed1f6dc2SAttilio Rao	time.
439ed1f6dc2SAttilio Rao
440a9ab459bSMarius Strobl20111101:
441a9ab459bSMarius Strobl	The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64,
442a9ab459bSMarius Strobl	i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files.
443a9ab459bSMarius Strobl
444e59e2d8eSNathan Whitehorn20110930:
445e59e2d8eSNathan Whitehorn	sysinstall has been removed
446e59e2d8eSNathan Whitehorn
4478a3b6cc1SKen Smith20110923:
4488a3b6cc1SKen Smith	The stable/9 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
4498a3b6cc1SKen Smith	RELENG_9 branch in CVS.
4508a3b6cc1SKen Smith
4514d30adc4SRick Macklem20110913:
4524d30adc4SRick Macklem	This commit modifies vfs_register() so that it uses a hash
4534d30adc4SRick Macklem	calculation to set vfc_typenum, which is enabled by default.
4544d30adc4SRick Macklem	The first time a system is booted after this change, the
4554d30adc4SRick Macklem	vfc_typenum values will change for all file systems. The
4564d30adc4SRick Macklem	main effect of this is a change to the NFS server file handles
4574d30adc4SRick Macklem	for file systems that use vfc_typenum in their fsid, such as ZFS.
4584d30adc4SRick Macklem	It will, however, prevent vfc_typenum from changing when file
4594d30adc4SRick Macklem	systems are loaded in a different order for subsequent reboots.
4604d30adc4SRick Macklem	To disable this, you can set vfs.typenumhash=0 in /boot/loader.conf
4614d30adc4SRick Macklem	until you are ready to remount all NFS clients after a reboot.
4624d30adc4SRick Macklem
4637596eb48SKonstantin Belousov20110828:
4647596eb48SKonstantin Belousov	Bump the shared library version numbers for libraries that
4657596eb48SKonstantin Belousov	do not use symbol versioning, have changed the ABI compared
4667596eb48SKonstantin Belousov	to stable/8 and which shared library version was not bumped.
4677596eb48SKonstantin Belousov	Done as part of 9.0-RELEASE cycle.
4687596eb48SKonstantin Belousov
46974d0c46dSRobert Watson20110815:
47074d0c46dSRobert Watson	During the merge of Capsicum features, the fget(9) KPI was modified.
47174d0c46dSRobert Watson	This may require the rebuilding of out-of-tree device drivers --
47274d0c46dSRobert Watson	issues have been reported specifically with the nVidia device driver.
47374d0c46dSRobert Watson	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 900041.
47474d0c46dSRobert Watson
47574d0c46dSRobert Watson	Also, there is a period between 20110811 and 20110814 where the
47674d0c46dSRobert Watson	special devices /dev/{stdin,stdout,stderr} did not work correctly.
47774d0c46dSRobert Watson	Building world from a kernel during that window may not work.
47874d0c46dSRobert Watson
479e0bfbfceSBjoern A. Zeeb20110628:
480e0bfbfceSBjoern A. Zeeb	The packet filter (pf) code has been updated to OpenBSD 4.5.
481e0bfbfceSBjoern A. Zeeb	You need to update userland tools to be in sync with kernel.
48270d57756SBjoern A. Zeeb	This update breaks backward compatibility with earlier pfsync(4)
48370d57756SBjoern A. Zeeb	versions.  Care must be taken when updating redundant firewall setups.
484e0bfbfceSBjoern A. Zeeb
485234dab4aSAndriy Gapon20110608:
486234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	The following sysctls and tunables are retired on x86 platforms:
487234dab4aSAndriy Gapon		machdep.hlt_cpus
488234dab4aSAndriy Gapon		machdep.hlt_logical_cpus
489234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	The following sysctl is retired:
490234dab4aSAndriy Gapon		machdep.hyperthreading_allowed
491234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	The sysctls were supposed to provide a way to dynamically offline and
492234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	online selected CPUs on x86 platforms, but the implementation has not
493234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	been reliable especially with SCHED_ULE scheduler.
494234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable is still available to ignore
495234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	hyperthreading CPUs at OS level.
496234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	Individual CPUs can be disabled using hint.lapic.X.disabled tunable,
497234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	where X is an APIC ID of a CPU.  Be advised, though, that disabling
498234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	CPUs in non-uniform fashion will result in non-uniform topology and
499234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	may lead to sub-optimal system performance with SCHED_ULE, which is
500234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	a default scheduler.
501234dab4aSAndriy Gapon
502f0fcb367SAttilio Rao20110607:
503f0fcb367SAttilio Rao	cpumask_t type is retired and cpuset_t is used in order to describe
504f0fcb367SAttilio Rao	a mask of CPUs.
505f0fcb367SAttilio Rao
506ec49fe39SBjoern A. Zeeb20110531:
507ec49fe39SBjoern A. Zeeb	Changes to ifconfig(8) for dynamic address family detection mandate
508ec49fe39SBjoern A. Zeeb	that you are running a kernel of 20110525 or later.  Make sure to
509ec49fe39SBjoern A. Zeeb	follow the update procedure to boot a new kernel before installing
510ec49fe39SBjoern A. Zeeb	world.
511ec49fe39SBjoern A. Zeeb
5124b547324SAttilio Rao20110513:
5134b547324SAttilio Rao	Support for sun4v architecture is officially dropped
5144b547324SAttilio Rao
5154a58ecccSMarius Strobl20110503:
5164a58ecccSMarius Strobl	Several KPI breaking changes have been committed to the mii(4) layer,
5174a58ecccSMarius Strobl	the PHY drivers and consequently some Ethernet drivers using mii(4).
5184a58ecccSMarius Strobl	This means that miibus.ko and the modules of the affected Ethernet
5194a58ecccSMarius Strobl	drivers need to be recompiled.
5204a58ecccSMarius Strobl
5214a58ecccSMarius Strobl	Note to kernel developers: Given that the OUI bit reversion problem
5224a58ecccSMarius Strobl	was fixed as part of these changes all mii(4) commits related to OUIs,
5234a58ecccSMarius Strobl	i.e. to sys/dev/mii/miidevs, PHY driver probing and vendor specific
5244a58ecccSMarius Strobl	handling, no longer can be merged verbatim to stable/8 and previous
5254a58ecccSMarius Strobl	branches.
5264a58ecccSMarius Strobl
527f9dfbfa1SAdrian Chadd20110430:
528f9dfbfa1SAdrian Chadd	Users of the Atheros AR71xx SoC code now need to add 'device ar71xx_pci'
529f9dfbfa1SAdrian Chadd	into their kernel configurations along with 'device pci'.
530f9dfbfa1SAdrian Chadd
5314309e17aSRick Macklem20110427:
5324309e17aSRick Macklem	The default NFS client is now the new NFS client, so fstype "newnfs"
5334309e17aSRick Macklem	is now "nfs" and the regular/old NFS client is now fstype "oldnfs".
5344309e17aSRick Macklem	Although mounts via fstype "nfs" will usually work without userland
5354309e17aSRick Macklem	changes, it is recommended that the mount(8) and mount_nfs(8)
5364309e17aSRick Macklem	commands be rebuilt from sources and that a link to mount_nfs called
5374309e17aSRick Macklem	mount_oldnfs be created. The new client is compiled into the
5384309e17aSRick Macklem	kernel with "options NFSCL" and this is needed for diskless root
5394309e17aSRick Macklem	file systems. The GENERIC kernel configs have been changed to use
5404309e17aSRick Macklem	NFSCL and NFSD (the new server) instead of NFSCLIENT and NFSSERVER.
5414309e17aSRick Macklem	To use the regular/old client, you can "mount -t oldnfs ...". For
5424309e17aSRick Macklem	a diskless root file system, you must also include a line like:
5434309e17aSRick Macklem
5444309e17aSRick Macklem	vfs.root.mountfrom="oldnfs:"
5454309e17aSRick Macklem
5464309e17aSRick Macklem	in the boot/loader.conf on the root fs on the NFS server to make
5474309e17aSRick Macklem	a diskless root fs use the old client.
5484309e17aSRick Macklem
54997b53e36SAlexander Motin20110424:
55097b53e36SAlexander Motin	The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new
55197b53e36SAlexander Motin	CAM-based ATA stack. It means that all legacy ATA drivers were
55297b53e36SAlexander Motin	removed and replaced by respective CAM drivers. If you are using
55397b53e36SAlexander Motin	ATA device names in /etc/fstab or other places, make sure to update
55497b53e36SAlexander Motin	them respectively (adX -> adaY, acdX -> cdY, afdX -> daY, astX -> saY,
555ddfddf12SAlexander Motin	where 'Y's are the sequential numbers starting from zero for each type
556ddfddf12SAlexander Motin	in order of detection, unless configured otherwise with tunables,
5570d307e09SAlexander Motin	see cam(4)). There will be symbolic links created in /dev/ to map
5580d307e09SAlexander Motin	old adX devices to the respective adaY. They should provide basic
5590d307e09SAlexander Motin	compatibility for file systems mounting in most cases, but they do
5600d307e09SAlexander Motin	not support old user-level APIs and do not have respective providers
5610d307e09SAlexander Motin	in GEOM. Consider using updated management tools with new device names.
5620d307e09SAlexander Motin
5630d307e09SAlexander Motin	It is possible to load devices ahci, ata, siis and mvs as modules,
5640d307e09SAlexander Motin	but option ATA_CAM should remain in kernel configuration to make ata
5650d307e09SAlexander Motin	module work as CAM driver supporting legacy ATA controllers. Device ata
5660d307e09SAlexander Motin	still can be used in modular fashion (atacore + ...). Modules atadisk
5670d307e09SAlexander Motin	and atapi* are not used and won't affect operation in ATA_CAM mode.
5685d4ac622SAlexander Motin	Note that to use CAM-based ATA kernel should include CAM devices
5695d4ac622SAlexander Motin	scbus, pass, da (or explicitly ada), cd and optionally others. All of
5705d4ac622SAlexander Motin	them are parts of the cam module.
57197b53e36SAlexander Motin
57297b53e36SAlexander Motin	ataraid(4) functionality is now supported by the RAID GEOM class.
57397b53e36SAlexander Motin	To use it you can load geom_raid kernel module and use graid(8) tool
57497b53e36SAlexander Motin	for management. Instead of /dev/arX device names, use /dev/raid/rX.
57597b53e36SAlexander Motin
57697b53e36SAlexander Motin	No kernel config options or code have been removed, so if a problem
57797b53e36SAlexander Motin	arises, please report it and optionally revert to the old ATA stack.
57897b53e36SAlexander Motin	In order to do it you can remove from the kernel config:
57997b53e36SAlexander Motin	    options        ATA_CAM
58097b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         ahci
58197b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         mvs
58297b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         siis
58397b53e36SAlexander Motin	, and instead add back:
58497b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         atadisk         # ATA disk drives
58597b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         ataraid         # ATA RAID drives
58697b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         atapicd         # ATAPI CDROM drives
58797b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         atapifd         # ATAPI floppy drives
58897b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         atapist         # ATAPI tape drives
58997b53e36SAlexander Motin
5902a85df8cSRick Macklem20110423:
5912a85df8cSRick Macklem	The default NFS server has been changed to the new server, which
5922a85df8cSRick Macklem	was referred to as the experimental server. If you need to switch
5932a85df8cSRick Macklem	back to the old NFS server, you must now put the "-o" option on
5942a85df8cSRick Macklem	both the mountd and nfsd commands. This can be done using the
5952a85df8cSRick Macklem	mountd_flags and nfs_server_flags rc.conf variables until an
5962a85df8cSRick Macklem	update to the rc scripts is committed, which is coming soon.
5972a85df8cSRick Macklem
59866f3a31fSDimitry Andric20110418:
59966f3a31fSDimitry Andric	The GNU Objective-C runtime library (libobjc), and other Objective-C
60066f3a31fSDimitry Andric	related components have been removed from the base system.  If you
60166f3a31fSDimitry Andric	require an Objective-C library, please use one of the available ports.
60266f3a31fSDimitry Andric
6031c62cc63SAdrian Chadd20110331:
6041c62cc63SAdrian Chadd	ath(4) has been split into bus- and device- modules. if_ath contains
6051c62cc63SAdrian Chadd	the HAL, the TX rate control and the network device code. if_ath_pci
6061c62cc63SAdrian Chadd	contains the PCI bus glue. For Atheros MIPS embedded systems, if_ath_ahb
6071c62cc63SAdrian Chadd	contains the AHB glue. Users need to load both if_ath_pci and if_ath
6081c62cc63SAdrian Chadd	in order to use ath on everything else.
6091c62cc63SAdrian Chadd
6101c62cc63SAdrian Chadd	TO REPEAT: if_ath_ahb is not needed for normal users. Normal users only
6111c62cc63SAdrian Chadd	need to load if_ath and if_ath_pci for ath(4) operation.
6121c62cc63SAdrian Chadd
6130a4b5285SNathan Whitehorn20110314:
6140a4b5285SNathan Whitehorn	As part of the replacement of sysinstall, the process of building
6150a4b5285SNathan Whitehorn	release media has changed significantly. For details, please re-read
6160a4b5285SNathan Whitehorn	release(7), which has been updated to reflect the new build process.
6170a4b5285SNathan Whitehorn
61876f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan20110218:
619ce8fb931SDimitry Andric	GNU binutils 2.17.50 (as of 2007-07-03) has been merged to -HEAD.  This
620ce8fb931SDimitry Andric	is the last available version under GPLv2.  It brings a number of new
621ce8fb931SDimitry Andric	features, such as support for newer x86 CPU's (with SSE-3, SSSE-3, SSE
622ce8fb931SDimitry Andric	4.1 and SSE 4.2), better support for powerpc64, a number of new
623ce8fb931SDimitry Andric	directives, and lots of other small improvements.  See the ChangeLog
624ce8fb931SDimitry Andric	file in contrib/binutils for the full details.
625ce8fb931SDimitry Andric
626ce8fb931SDimitry Andric20110218:
62776f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	IPsec's HMAC_SHA256-512 support has been fixed to be RFC4868
62876f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	compliant, and will now use half of hash for authentication.
62976f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	This will break interoperability with all stacks (including all
63076f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	actual FreeBSD versions) who implement
63176f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-sha-256-00 (they use 96 bits of hash for
63276f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	authentication).
63376f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	The only workaround with such peers is to use another HMAC
63476f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	algorithm for IPsec ("phase 2") authentication.
63576f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan
63613434232SMatthew D Fleming20110207:
63713434232SMatthew D Fleming	Remove the uio_yield prototype and symbol.  This function has
63813434232SMatthew D Fleming	been misnamed since it was introduced and should not be
63913434232SMatthew D Fleming	globally exposed with this name.  The equivalent functionality
64013434232SMatthew D Fleming	is now available using kern_yield(curthread->td_user_pri).
64113434232SMatthew D Fleming	The function remains undocumented.
64213434232SMatthew D Fleming
6434c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn20110112:
6441eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	A SYSCTL_[ADD_]UQUAD was added for unsigned uint64_t pointers,
6451eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	symmetric with the existing SYSCTL_[ADD_]QUAD.  Type checking
6461eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	for scalar sysctls is defined but disabled.  Code that needs
6471eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	UQUAD to pass the type checking that must compile on older
6481eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	systems where the define is not present can check against
6491eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	__FreeBSD_version >= 900030.
6501eae8811SMatthew D Fleming
6514c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	The system dialog(1) has been replaced with a new version previously
6524c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	in ports as devel/cdialog. dialog(1) is mostly command-line compatible
6534c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	with the previous version, but the libdialog associated with it has
6544c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	a largely incompatible API. As such, the original version of libdialog
6554c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	will be kept temporarily as libodialog, until its base system consumers
6564c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	are replaced or updated. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900030.
6574c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn
658e4f64803SWarner Losh20110103:
659e4f64803SWarner Losh	If you are trying to run make universe on a -stable system, and you get
660e4f64803SWarner Losh	the following warning:
6617b57aa33SRebecca Cran	"Makefile", line 356: "Target architecture for i386/conf/GENERIC
6627b57aa33SRebecca Cran	unknown.  config(8) likely too old."
663e4f64803SWarner Losh	or something similar to it, then you must upgrade your -stable system
664e4f64803SWarner Losh	to 8.2-Release or newer (really, any time after r210146 7/15/2010 in
665e4f64803SWarner Losh	stable/8) or build the config from the latest stable/8 branch and
666e4f64803SWarner Losh	install it on your system.
667e4f64803SWarner Losh
668e4f64803SWarner Losh	Prior to this date, building a current universe on 8-stable system from
669e4f64803SWarner Losh	between 7/15/2010 and 1/2/2011 would result in a weird shell parsing
6707b57aa33SRebecca Cran	error in the first kernel build phase.  A new config on those old
6717b57aa33SRebecca Cran	systems will fix that problem for older versions of -current.
672e4f64803SWarner Losh
67339bc9de5SLawrence Stewart20101228:
67439bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	The TCP stack has been modified to allow Khelp modules to interact with
67539bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	it via helper hook points and store per-connection data in the TCP
67639bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	control block. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900029. User space tools that
67739bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to
67839bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	be recompiled.
67939bc9de5SLawrence Stewart
680efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl20101114:
681efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Generic IEEE 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support has been
682efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	added to mii(4) and bge(4), bce(4), msk(4), nfe(4) and stge(4) along
683efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	with brgphy(4), e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy() have been converted
684efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	to take advantage of it instead of using custom implementations.  This
685efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	means that these drivers now no longer unconditionally advertise
686efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	support for flow control but only do so if flow control is a selected
687efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	media option.  This was implemented in the generic support that way in
688efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	order to allow flow control to be switched on and off via ifconfig(8)
689efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	with the PHY specific default to typically off in order to protect
690efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	from unwanted effects.  Consequently, if you used flow control with
691efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	one of the above mentioned drivers you now need to explicitly enable
692efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	it, for example via:
693efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl		ifconfig bge0 media auto mediaopt flowcontrol
694efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
695efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Along with the above mentioned changes generic support for setting
696efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	1000baseT master mode also has been added and brgphy(4), ciphy(4),
697efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy(4) have been converted to take
698efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	advantage of it.  This means that these drivers now no longer take the
699efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	link0 parameter for selecting master mode but the master media option
700efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	has to be used instead, for example like in the following:
701efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl		ifconfig bge0 media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,master
702efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
703efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Selection of master mode now is also available with all other PHY
704efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	drivers supporting 1000baseT.
705efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
706dbc42409SLawrence Stewart20101111:
707dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	The TCP stack has received a significant update to add support for
708dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	modularised congestion control and generally improve the clarity of
709dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	congestion control decisions. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900025. User
710dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g.
711dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	sockstat) need to be recompiled.
712dbc42409SLawrence Stewart
713fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow20101002:
714fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	The man(1) utility has been replaced by a new version that no longer
715fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	uses /etc/manpath.config. Please consult man.conf(5) for how to
716fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	migrate local entries to the new format.
717fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow
718337299c6SEd Maste20100928:
719337299c6SEd Maste	The copyright strings printed by login(1) and sshd(8) at the time of a
720337299c6SEd Maste	new connection have been removed to follow other operating systems and
721337299c6SEd Maste	upstream sshd.
722337299c6SEd Maste
723f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon20100915:
724f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon	A workaround for a fixed ld bug has been removed in kernel code,
725f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon	so make sure that your system ld is built from sources after
726130a0815SAndriy Gapon	revision 210245 from 2010-07-19 (r211583 if building head kernel
727130a0815SAndriy Gapon	on stable/8, r211584 for stable/7; both from 2010-08-21).
728130a0815SAndriy Gapon	A symptom of incorrect ld version is different addresses for
729130a0815SAndriy Gapon	set_pcpu section and __start_set_pcpu symbol in kernel and/or modules.
730f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon
731d69eb520SRui Paulo20100913:
732d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ipv6_prefer variable in rc.conf(5) has been split into
733d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	$ip6addrctl_policy and $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces.
734d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
735d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ip6addrctl_policy is a variable to choose a pre-defined
736d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	address selection policy set by ip6addrctl(8).  A value
737d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	"ipv4_prefer", "ipv6_prefer" or "AUTO" can be specified.  The
738d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	default is "AUTO".
739d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
740d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces specifies whether IFDISABLED
741d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	flag (see an entry of 20090926) is set on an interface with no
742d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	corresponding $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 line.  The default is "NO" for
743d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	security reason.  If you want IPv6 link-local address on all
744d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	interfaces by default, set this to "YES".
745d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
746d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The old ipv6_prefer="YES" is equivalent to
747d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" and
748d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer".
749d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
750d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato20100913:
751d69eb520SRui Paulo	DTrace has grown support for userland tracing. Due to this, DTrace is
752d69eb520SRui Paulo	now i386 and amd64 only.
753d69eb520SRui Paulo	dtruss(1) is now installed by default on those systems and a new
754d69eb520SRui Paulo	kernel module is needed for userland tracing: fasttrap.
755d69eb520SRui Paulo	No changes to your kernel config file are necessary to enable
756d69eb520SRui Paulo	userland tracing, but you might consider adding 'STRIP=' and
757d69eb520SRui Paulo	'CFLAGS+=-fno-omit-frame-pointer' to your make.conf if you want
758d69eb520SRui Paulo	to have informative userland stack traces in DTrace (ustack).
759d69eb520SRui Paulo
76040650455SRui Paulo20100725:
76140650455SRui Paulo	The acpi_aiboost(4) driver has been removed in favor of the new
76240650455SRui Paulo	aibs(4) driver. You should update your kernel configuration file.
76340650455SRui Paulo
7644dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan20100722:
7654dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	BSD grep has been imported to the base system and it is built by
7664dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	default.  It is completely BSD licensed, highly GNU-compatible, uses
7674dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	less memory than its GNU counterpart and has a small codebase.
7684dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	However, it is slower than its GNU counterpart, which is mostly
7694dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	noticeable for larger searches, for smaller ones it is measurable
7704dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	but not significant.  The reason is complex, the most important factor
7714dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	is that we lack a modern and efficient regex library and GNU
7724dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	overcomes this by optimizing the searches internally.  Future work
7734dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	on improving the regex performance is planned, for the meantime,
7744dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	users that need better performance, can build GNU grep instead by
7754dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	setting the WITH_GNU_GREP knob.
7762965a453SKip Macy
7778fc25799SMartin Matuska20100713:
778c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	Due to the import of powerpc64 support, all existing powerpc kernel
779c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	configuration files must be updated with a machine directive like this:
780c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	    machine powerpc powerpc
781c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn
782c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	In addition, an updated config(8) is required to build powerpc kernels
783c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	after this change.
784c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn
785c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn20100713:
7868fc25799SMartin Matuska	A new version of ZFS (version 15) has been merged to -HEAD.
7878fc25799SMartin Matuska	This version uses a python library for the following subcommands:
7888fc25799SMartin Matuska	zfs allow, zfs unallow, zfs groupspace, zfs userspace.
7898fc25799SMartin Matuska	For full functionality of these commands the following port must
7908fc25799SMartin Matuska	be installed: sysutils/py-zfs
7918fc25799SMartin Matuska
7922965a453SKip Macy20100429:
7932965a453SKip Macy	'vm_page's are now hashed by physical address to an array of mutexes.
7942965a453SKip Macy	Currently this is only used to serialize access to hold_count. Over
7952965a453SKip Macy	time the page queue mutex will be peeled away. This changes the size
7962965a453SKip Macy	of pmap on every architecture. And requires all callers of vm_page_hold
7972965a453SKip Macy	and vm_page_unhold to be updated.
7982965a453SKip Macy
79921edb039SAlexander Leidinger20100402:
80021edb039SAlexander Leidinger	WITH_CTF can now be specified in src.conf (not recommended, there
80121edb039SAlexander Leidinger	are some problems with static executables), make.conf (would also
80221edb039SAlexander Leidinger	affect ports which do not use GNU make and do not override the
80321edb039SAlexander Leidinger	compile targets) or in the kernel config (via "makeoptions
80421edb039SAlexander Leidinger	WITH_CTF=yes").
80521edb039SAlexander Leidinger	When WITH_CTF was specified there before this was silently ignored,
80621edb039SAlexander Leidinger	so make sure that WITH_CTF is not used in places which could lead
80721edb039SAlexander Leidinger	to unwanted behavior.
80821edb039SAlexander Leidinger
809841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn20100311:
810841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	The kernel option COMPAT_IA32 has been replaced with COMPAT_FREEBSD32
811841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	to allow 32-bit compatibility on non-x86 platforms. All kernel
812841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	configurations on amd64 and ia64 platforms using these options must
813841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	be modified accordingly.
814841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn
815279d8efeSEd Schouten20100113:
816279d8efeSEd Schouten	The utmp user accounting database has been replaced with utmpx,
817279d8efeSEd Schouten	the user accounting interface standardized by POSIX.
818279d8efeSEd Schouten	Unfortunately the semantics of utmp and utmpx don't match,
819279d8efeSEd Schouten	making it practically impossible to support both interfaces.
820279d8efeSEd Schouten	The user accounting database is used by tools like finger(1),
821279d8efeSEd Schouten	last(1), talk(1), w(1) and ac(8).
822279d8efeSEd Schouten
823279d8efeSEd Schouten	All applications in the base system use utmpx.  This means only
824279d8efeSEd Schouten	local binaries (e.g. from the ports tree) may still use these
825279d8efeSEd Schouten	utmp database files.  These applications must be rebuilt to make
826279d8efeSEd Schouten	use of utmpx.
827279d8efeSEd Schouten
828279d8efeSEd Schouten	After the system has been upgraded, it is safe to remove the old
829279d8efeSEd Schouten	log files (/var/run/utmp, /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/wtmp*),
8305ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	assuming their contents is of no importance anymore.  Old wtmp
8315ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	databases can only be used by last(1) and ac(8) after they have
8325ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	been converted to the new format using wtmpcvt(1).
833279d8efeSEd Schouten
834f7829d0dSAttilio Rao20100108:
835f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	Introduce the kernel thread "deadlock resolver" (which can be enabled
836f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	via the DEADLKRES option, see NOTES for more details) and the
837f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	sleepq_type() function for sleepqueues.
838f7829d0dSAttilio Rao
839f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO20091202:
840f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	The rc.firewall and rc.firewall6 were unified, and
841f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	rc.firewall6 and rc.d/ip6fw were removed.
842f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	According to the removal of rc.d/ip6fw, ipv6_firewall_* rc
843f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	variables are obsoleted.  Instead, the following new rc
844f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	variables are added to rc.d/ipfw:
845f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
846f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_client_net_ipv6, firewall_simple_iif_ipv6,
847f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_simple_inet_ipv6, firewall_simple_oif_ipv6,
848f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_simple_onet_ipv6, firewall_trusted_ipv6
849f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
850f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	The meanings correspond to the relevant IPv4 variables.
851f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
852e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer20091125:
853e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer	8.0-RELEASE.
854e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer
855e42fc368SEd Schouten20091113:
856e42fc368SEd Schouten	The default terminal emulation for syscons(4) has been changed
8574b2361f8SEd Schouten	from cons25 to xterm on all platforms except pc98.  This means
8584b2361f8SEd Schouten	that the /etc/ttys file needs to be updated to ensure correct
8594b2361f8SEd Schouten	operation of applications on the console.
860e42fc368SEd Schouten
861e42fc368SEd Schouten	The terminal emulation style can be toggled per window by using
8624b2361f8SEd Schouten	vidcontrol(1)'s -T flag.  The TEKEN_CONS25 kernel configuration
8634b2361f8SEd Schouten	options can be used to change the compile-time default back to
8644b2361f8SEd Schouten	cons25.
865e42fc368SEd Schouten
866e42fc368SEd Schouten	To prevent graphical artifacts, make sure the TERM environment
867e42fc368SEd Schouten	variable is set to match the terminal emulation that is being
868e42fc368SEd Schouten	performed by syscons(4).
869e42fc368SEd Schouten
87007ddebb5SRui Paulo20091109:
87107ddebb5SRui Paulo	The layout of the structure ieee80211req_scan_result has changed.
87207ddebb5SRui Paulo	Applications that require wireless scan results (e.g. ifconfig(8))
87307ddebb5SRui Paulo	from net80211 need to be recompiled.
87407ddebb5SRui Paulo
87596b4300cSDoug Barton	Applications such as wpa_supplicant(8) may require a full world
87696b4300cSDoug Barton	build without using NO_CLEAN in order to get synchronized with the
87796b4300cSDoug Barton	new structure.
87896b4300cSDoug Barton
87963b49c2bSRui Paulo20091025:
88063b49c2bSRui Paulo	The iwn(4) driver has been updated to support the 5000 and 5150 series.
88163b49c2bSRui Paulo	There's one kernel module for each firmware. Adding "device iwnfw"
88263b49c2bSRui Paulo	to the kernel configuration file means including all three firmware
88363b49c2bSRui Paulo	images inside the kernel. If you want to include just the one for
88436daf049SEitan Adler	your wireless card, use the devices iwn4965fw, iwn5000fw or
88563b49c2bSRui Paulo	iwn5150fw.
88663b49c2bSRui Paulo
8872e77c5abSHiroki Sato20090926:
8882e77c5abSHiroki Sato	The rc.d/network_ipv6, IPv6 configuration script has been integrated
8892e77c5abSHiroki Sato	into rc.d/netif.  The changes are the following:
8902e77c5abSHiroki Sato
8912e77c5abSHiroki Sato	1. To use IPv6, simply define $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 like $ifconfig_IF
8922e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   for IPv4.  For aliases, $ifconfig_IF_aliasN should be used.
8932e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Note that both variables need the "inet6" keyword at the head.
8942e77c5abSHiroki Sato
8952e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Do not set $ipv6_network_interfaces manually if you do not
8962e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   understand what you are doing.  It is not needed in most cases.
8972e77c5abSHiroki Sato
8982e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ipv6_ifconfig_IF and $ipv6_ifconfig_IF_aliasN still work, but
8992e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   they are obsolete.
9002e77c5abSHiroki Sato
9012e77c5abSHiroki Sato	2. $ipv6_enable is obsolete.  Use $ipv6_prefer and
9022e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   "inet6 accept_rtadv" keyword in ifconfig(8) instead.
9032e77c5abSHiroki Sato
9042e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   If you define $ipv6_enable=YES, it means $ipv6_prefer=YES and
9052e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   all configured interfaces have "inet6 accept_rtadv" in the
9062e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  These are for backward compatibility.
9072e77c5abSHiroki Sato
9082e77c5abSHiroki Sato	3. A new variable $ipv6_prefer has been added.  If NO, IPv6
9092e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   functionality of interfaces with no corresponding
9102e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 is disabled by using "inet6 ifdisabled" flag,
9112e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   and the default address selection policy of ip6addrctl(8)
9122e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   is the IPv4-preferred one (see rc.d/ip6addrctl for more details).
9132e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Note that if you want to configure IPv6 functionality on the
9142e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   disabled interfaces after boot, first you need to clear the flag by
9152e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   using ifconfig(8) like:
9162e77c5abSHiroki Sato
9172e77c5abSHiroki Sato		ifconfig em0 inet6 -ifdisabled
9182e77c5abSHiroki Sato
9192e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   If YES, the default address selection policy is set as
9202e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   IPv6-preferred.
9212e77c5abSHiroki Sato
9222e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   The default value of $ipv6_prefer is NO.
9232e77c5abSHiroki Sato
9242e77c5abSHiroki Sato	4. If your system need to receive Router Advertisement messages,
9252e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   define "inet6 accept_rtadv" in $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  The rc(8)
9262e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   scripts automatically invoke rtsol(8) when the interface becomes
9272e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   UP.  The Router Advertisement messages are used for SLAAC
9282e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   (State-Less Address AutoConfiguration).
9292e77c5abSHiroki Sato
930350036a0SRui Paulo20090922:
931350036a0SRui Paulo	802.11s D3.03 support was committed. This is incompatible with the
932350036a0SRui Paulo	previous code, which was based on D3.0.
933350036a0SRui Paulo
9342e77c5abSHiroki Sato20090912:
9352e77c5abSHiroki Sato	A sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv now sets the default value
9362e77c5abSHiroki Sato	of a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV, not a global knob to
9372e77c5abSHiroki Sato	control whether accepting Router Advertisement messages or not.
9382e77c5abSHiroki Sato	Also, a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_AUTO_LINKLOCAL has been added and
9392e77c5abSHiroki Sato	a sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal is its default value.
9402e77c5abSHiroki Sato	The ifconfig(8) utility now supports these flags.
9412e77c5abSHiroki Sato
94263e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek20090910:
94363e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek	ZFS snapshots are now mounted with MNT_IGNORE flag. Use -v option for
94463e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek	mount(8) and -a option for df(1) to see them.
94563e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek
946411c7658SWarner Losh20090825:
947411c7658SWarner Losh	The old tunable hw.bus.devctl_disable has been superseded by
948411c7658SWarner Losh	hw.bus.devctl_queue.  hw.bus.devctl_disable=1 in loader.conf should be
949411c7658SWarner Losh	replaced by hw.bus.devctl_queue=0.  The default for this new tunable
950411c7658SWarner Losh	is 1000.
951411c7658SWarner Losh
952dc6fbf65SAttilio Rao20090813:
953456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Remove the option STOP_NMI.  The default action is now to use NMI only
954456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for KDB via the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and
955456b5dd8SWarner Losh	maintain stop_cpus() to just use a normal IPI_STOP on ia32 and amd64.
956456b5dd8SWarner Losh
957456b5dd8SWarner Losh20090803:
958f6a4f4b5SWarner Losh	The stable/8 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
959f6a4f4b5SWarner Losh	RELENG_8 branch in CVS.
960dc6fbf65SAttilio Rao
9613ca3047aSKen Smith20090719:
962456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Bump the shared library version numbers for all libraries that do not
963456b5dd8SWarner Losh	use symbol versioning as part of the 8.0-RELEASE cycle.  Bump
964456b5dd8SWarner Losh	__FreeBSD_version to 800105.
9653ca3047aSKen Smith
966eddfbb76SRobert Watson20090714:
967456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Due to changes in the implementation of virtual network stack support,
968456b5dd8SWarner Losh	all network-related kernel modules must be recompiled.  As this change
969456b5dd8SWarner Losh	breaks the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800104.
970eddfbb76SRobert Watson
971237fbe0aSLawrence Stewart20090713:
972456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The TOE interface to the TCP syncache has been modified to remove
973456b5dd8SWarner Losh	struct tcpopt (<netinet/tcp_var.h>) from the ABI of the network stack.
974456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The cxgb driver is the only TOE consumer affected by this change, and
975456b5dd8SWarner Losh	needs to be recompiled along with the kernel. As this change breaks
976456b5dd8SWarner Losh	the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800103.
977237fbe0aSLawrence Stewart
978962ebef8SLawrence Stewart20090712:
979962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	Padding has been added to struct tcpcb, sackhint and tcpstat in
980962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	<netinet/tcp_var.h> to facilitate future MFCs and bug fixes whilst
9811733d35cSRuslan Ermilov	maintaining the ABI. However, this change breaks the ABI, so bump
982962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	__FreeBSD_version to 800102. User space tools that rely on the size of
983962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	any of these structs (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
984962ebef8SLawrence Stewart
985bab42aadSDoug Rabson20090630:
986456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The NFS_LEGACYRPC option has been removed along with the old kernel
987456b5dd8SWarner Losh	RPC implementation that this option selected. Kernel configurations
988456b5dd8SWarner Losh	may need to be adjusted.
989bab42aadSDoug Rabson
9906cb7f168SBrooks Davis20090629:
991456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The network interface device nodes at /dev/net/<interface> have been
992456b5dd8SWarner Losh	removed.  All ioctl operations can be performed the normal way using
993456b5dd8SWarner Losh	routing sockets.  The kqueue functionality can generally be replaced
994456b5dd8SWarner Losh	with routing sockets.
9956cb7f168SBrooks Davis
996944bc81dSMarc Fonvieille20090628:
997456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The documentation from the FreeBSD Documentation Project (Handbook,
998456b5dd8SWarner Losh	FAQ, etc.) is now installed via packages by sysinstall(8) and under
999456b5dd8SWarner Losh	the /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd directory instead of /usr/share/doc.
1000944bc81dSMarc Fonvieille
1001f5e4c105SJohn Baldwin20090624:
1002456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The ABI of various structures related to the SYSV IPC API have been
1003456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed.  As a result, the COMPAT_FREEBSD[456] and COMPAT_43 kernel
1004456b5dd8SWarner Losh	options now all require COMPAT_FREEBSD7.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to
1005456b5dd8SWarner Losh	800100.
1006f5e4c105SJohn Baldwin
1007b58ea5f3SBjoern A. Zeeb20090622:
1008456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Layout of struct vnet has changed as routing related variables were
1009456b5dd8SWarner Losh	moved to their own Vimage module. Modules need to be recompiled.  Bump
1010456b5dd8SWarner Losh	__FreeBSD_version to 800099.
1011b58ea5f3SBjoern A. Zeeb
1012838d9858SBrooks Davis20090619:
1013456b5dd8SWarner Losh	NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS have been increased from 16 to 1023 and 1024
1014456b5dd8SWarner Losh	respectively.  As long as no more than 16 groups per process are used,
1015456b5dd8SWarner Losh	no changes should be visible.  When more than 16 groups are used, old
1016456b5dd8SWarner Losh	binaries may fail if they call getgroups() or getgrouplist() with
1017456b5dd8SWarner Losh	statically sized storage.  Recompiling will work around this, but
1018456b5dd8SWarner Losh	applications should be modified to use dynamically allocated storage
1019456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for group arrays as POSIX.1-2008 does not cap an implementation's
1020456b5dd8SWarner Losh	number of supported groups at NGROUPS_MAX+1 as previous versions did.
1021838d9858SBrooks Davis
1022456b5dd8SWarner Losh	NFS and portalfs mounts may also be affected as the list of groups is
1023456b5dd8SWarner Losh	truncated to 16.  Users of NFS who use more than 16 groups, should
1024456b5dd8SWarner Losh	take care that negative group permissions are not used on the exported
1025456b5dd8SWarner Losh	file systems as they will not be reliable unless a GSSAPI based
1026456b5dd8SWarner Losh	authentication method is used.
1027838d9858SBrooks Davis
1028651175c9SAttilio Rao20090616:
1029456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_LOCKMGRS has been introduced.  This
1030456b5dd8SWarner Losh	option compiles in the support for adaptive spinning for lockmgrs
1031456b5dd8SWarner Losh	which want to enable it.  The lockinit() function now accepts the flag
1032456b5dd8SWarner Losh	LK_ADAPTIVE in order to make the lock object subject to adaptive
1033456b5dd8SWarner Losh	spinning when both held in write and read mode.
1034651175c9SAttilio Rao
10352c727cb9SSam Leffler20090613:
1036456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of the structure returned by IEEE80211_IOC_STA_INFO has
1037456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed.  User applications that use this ioctl need to be rebuilt.
10382c727cb9SSam Leffler
1039f089869fSMarko Zec20090611:
1040456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of struct thread has changed.  Kernel and modules need to
1041456b5dd8SWarner Losh	be rebuilt.
1042f089869fSMarko Zec
1043bc29160dSMarko Zec20090608:
1044456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of structs ifnet, domain, protosw and vnet_net has changed.
1045456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Kernel modules need to be rebuilt.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097.
1046bc29160dSMarko Zec
104789f98d57SEd Schouten20090602:
104889f98d57SEd Schouten	window(1) has been removed from the base system. It can now be
104989f98d57SEd Schouten	installed from ports. The port is called misc/window.
105089f98d57SEd Schouten
1051c2c2a7c1SBjoern A. Zeeb20090601:
1052456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The way we are storing and accessing `routing table' entries has
1053456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed. Programs reading the FIB, like netstat, need to be
1054456b5dd8SWarner Losh	re-compiled.
1055c2c2a7c1SBjoern A. Zeeb
1056529cb8e3SRobert Watson20090601:
1057529cb8e3SRobert Watson	A new netisr implementation has been added for FreeBSD 8.  Network
1058529cb8e3SRobert Watson	file system modules, such as igmp, ipdivert, and others, should be
1059529cb8e3SRobert Watson	rebuilt.
1060529cb8e3SRobert Watson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800096.
1061529cb8e3SRobert Watson
10622a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala20090530:
1063456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Remove the tunable/sysctl debug.mpsafevfs as its initial purpose is no
1064456b5dd8SWarner Losh	more valid.
1065faef64ccSAttilio Rao
1066faef64ccSAttilio Rao20090530:
10672a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Add VOP_ACCESSX(9).  File system modules need to be rebuilt.
10682a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800094.
10692a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala
1070b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala20090529:
1071456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Add mnt_xflag field to 'struct mount'.  File system modules need to be
1072456b5dd8SWarner Losh	rebuilt.
1073b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800093.
1074b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala
10751ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao20090528:
10761ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_SX has been retired while it has been
10771ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	introduced the option NO_ADAPTIVE_SX which handles the reversed logic.
10781ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	The KPI for sx_init_flags() changes as accepting flags:
1079456b5dd8SWarner Losh	SX_ADAPTIVESPIN flag has been retired while the SX_NOADAPTIVE flag has
1080456b5dd8SWarner Losh	been introduced in order to handle the reversed logic.
10811ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800092.
10821ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao
10830304c731SJamie Gritton20090527:
10840304c731SJamie Gritton	Add support for hierarchical jails.  Remove global securelevel.
10850304c731SJamie Gritton	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800091.
10860304c731SJamie Gritton
1087dfc79e89SEdwin Groothuis20090523:
108837f17770SMarko Zec	The layout of struct vnet_net has changed, therefore modules
108937f17770SMarko Zec	need to be rebuilt.
109037f17770SMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800090.
109137f17770SMarko Zec
109237f17770SMarko Zec20090523:
1093456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The newly imported zic(8) produces a new format in the output. Please
1094456b5dd8SWarner Losh	run tzsetup(8) to install the newly created data to /etc/localtime.
1095dfc79e89SEdwin Groothuis
109623790ac0SSam Leffler20090520:
10979360ae40SAndrew Thompson	The sysctl tree for the usb stack has renamed from hw.usb2.* to
10989360ae40SAndrew Thompson	hw.usb.* and is now consistent again with previous releases.
10999360ae40SAndrew Thompson
11009360ae40SAndrew Thompson20090520:
1101456b5dd8SWarner Losh	802.11 monitor mode support was revised and driver api's were changed.
1102456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Drivers dependent on net80211 now support DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO instead
1103456b5dd8SWarner Losh	of DLT_IEEE802_11.  No user-visible data structures were changed but
1104456b5dd8SWarner Losh	applications that use DLT_IEEE802_11 may require changes.
110523790ac0SSam Leffler	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800088.
110623790ac0SSam Leffler
1107f6dfe47aSMarko Zec20090430:
1108f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	The layout of the following structs has changed: sysctl_oid,
1109f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	socket, ifnet, inpcbinfo, tcpcb, syncache_head, vnet_inet,
1110f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	vnet_inet6 and vnet_ipfw.  Most modules need to be rebuild or
1111f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	panics may be experienced.  World rebuild is required for
1112f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	correctly checking networking state from userland.
1113f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800085.
1114f6dfe47aSMarko Zec
111533cde130SBruce M Simpson20090429:
111633cde130SBruce M Simpson	MLDv2 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
111733cde130SBruce M Simpson	to the IPv6 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
111833cde130SBruce M Simpson	The implementation of SSM within FreeBSD's IPv6 stack closely
111933cde130SBruce M Simpson	follows the IPv4 implementation.
112033cde130SBruce M Simpson
112133cde130SBruce M Simpson	For kernel developers:
112233cde130SBruce M Simpson
112333cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The most important changes are that the ip6_output() and
112433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  ip6_input() paths no longer take the IN6_MULTI_LOCK,
112533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
112633cde130SBruce M Simpson
112733cde130SBruce M Simpson	* As with the changes to the IPv4 stack to support SSM, filtering
112833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  of inbound multicast traffic must now be performed by transport
112933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  protocols within the IPv6 stack. This does not apply to TCP and
113033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  SCTP, however, it does apply to UDP in IPv6 and raw IPv6.
113133cde130SBruce M Simpson
113233cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The KPIs used by IPv6 multicast are similar to those used by
113333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  the IPv4 stack, with the following differences:
113433cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * im6o_mc_filter() is analogous to imo_multicast_filter().
113533cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * The legacy KAME entry points in6_joingroup and in6_leavegroup()
113633cde130SBruce M Simpson	     are shimmed to in6_mc_join() and in6_mc_leave() respectively.
113733cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * IN6_LOOKUP_MULTI() has been deprecated and removed.
113833cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * IPv6 relies on MLD for the DAD mechanism. KAME's internal KPIs
113933cde130SBruce M Simpson	     for MLDv1 have an additional 'timer' argument which is used to
114033cde130SBruce M Simpson	     jitter the initial membership report for the solicited-node
114133cde130SBruce M Simpson	     multicast membership on-link.
114233cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * This is not strictly needed for MLDv2, which already jitters
114333cde130SBruce M Simpson	     its report transmissions.  However, the 'timer' argument is
114433cde130SBruce M Simpson	     preserved in case MLDv1 is active on the interface.
114533cde130SBruce M Simpson
114633cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The KAME linked-list based IPv6 membership implementation has
114733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  been refactored to use a vector similar to that used by the IPv4
114833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  stack.
114933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Code which maintains a list of its own multicast memberships
115033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  internally, e.g. carp, has been updated to reflect the new
115133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  semantics.
115233cde130SBruce M Simpson
115333cde130SBruce M Simpson	* There is a known Lock Order Reversal (LOR) due to in6_setscope()
115433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  acquiring the IF_AFDATA_LOCK and being called within ip6_output().
115533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Whilst MLDv2 tries to avoid this otherwise benign LOR, it is an
115633cde130SBruce M Simpson	  implementation constraint which needs to be addressed in HEAD.
115733cde130SBruce M Simpson
115833cde130SBruce M Simpson	For application developers:
115933cde130SBruce M Simpson
116033cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The changes are broadly similar to those made for the IPv4
116133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  stack.
116233cde130SBruce M Simpson
116333cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The use of IPv4 and IPv6 multicast socket options on the same
116433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  socket, using mapped addresses, HAS NOT been tested or supported.
116533cde130SBruce M Simpson
116633cde130SBruce M Simpson	* There are a number of issues with the implementation of various
116733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  IPv6 multicast APIs which need to be resolved in the API surface
116833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  before the implementation is fully compatible with KAME userland
116933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  use, and these are mostly to do with interface index treatment.
117033cde130SBruce M Simpson
117133cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The literature available discusses the use of either the delta / ASM
117233cde130SBruce M Simpson	  API with setsockopt(2)/getsockopt(2), or the full-state / ASM API
117333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  using setsourcefilter(3)/getsourcefilter(3). For more information
117433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  please refer to RFC 3768, 'Socket Interface Extensions for
117533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Multicast Source Filters'.
117633cde130SBruce M Simpson
117733cde130SBruce M Simpson	* Applications which use the published RFC 3678 APIs should be fine.
117833cde130SBruce M Simpson
117933cde130SBruce M Simpson	For systems administrators:
118033cde130SBruce M Simpson
118133cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The mtest(8) utility has been refactored to support IPv6, in
118233cde130SBruce M Simpson	  addition to IPv4. Interface addresses are no longer accepted
118333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  as arguments, their names must be used instead. The utility
118433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  will map the interface name to its first IPv4 address as
118533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  returned by getifaddrs(3).
118633cde130SBruce M Simpson
118733cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The ifmcstat(8) utility has also been updated to print the MLDv2
118833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  endpoint state and source filter lists via sysctl(3).
118933cde130SBruce M Simpson
119033cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The net.inet6.ip6.mcast.loop sysctl may be tuned to 0 to disable
119133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  loopback of IPv6 multicast datagrams by default; it defaults to 1
119233cde130SBruce M Simpson	  to preserve the existing behaviour. Disabling multicast loopback is
119333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  recommended for optimal system performance.
119433cde130SBruce M Simpson
119533cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The IPv6 MROUTING code has been changed to examine this sysctl
119633cde130SBruce M Simpson	  instead of attempting to perform a group lookup before looping
119733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  back forwarded datagrams.
119833cde130SBruce M Simpson
119933cde130SBruce M Simpson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800084.
120033cde130SBruce M Simpson
12018b8bf775SRobert Watson20090422:
1202131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin	Implement low-level Bluetooth HCI API.
1203131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800083.
1204131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin
12058b8bf775SRobert Watson20090419:
12068b8bf775SRobert Watson	The layout of struct malloc_type, used by modules to register new
12078b8bf775SRobert Watson	memory allocation types, has changed.  Most modules will need to
12088b8bf775SRobert Watson	be rebuilt or panics may be experienced.
12098b8bf775SRobert Watson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800081.
12108b8bf775SRobert Watson
1211de4ab55eSKip Macy20090415:
1212773b573aSKip Macy	Anticipate overflowing inp_flags - add inp_flags2.
1213773b573aSKip Macy	This changes most offsets in inpcb, so checking v4 connection
1214773b573aSKip Macy	state will require a world rebuild.
1215773b573aSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800080.
1216f146c211SXin LI
1217773b573aSKip Macy20090415:
1218de4ab55eSKip Macy	Add an llentry to struct route and struct route_in6. Modules
1219de4ab55eSKip Macy	embedding a struct route will need to be recompiled.
1220de4ab55eSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800079.
1221de4ab55eSKip Macy
1222427ac07fSKip Macy20090414:
1223427ac07fSKip Macy	The size of rt_metrics_lite and by extension rtentry has changed.
1224427ac07fSKip Macy	Networking administration apps will need to be recompiled.
1225427ac07fSKip Macy	The route command now supports show as an alias for get, weighting
1226427ac07fSKip Macy	of routes, sticky and nostick flags to alter the behavior of stateful
1227427ac07fSKip Macy	load balancing.
1228427ac07fSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800078.
12298713ec3dSRenato Botelho
123087437955SMaksim Yevmenkin20090408:
123187437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	Do not use Giant for kbdmux(4) locking. This is wrong and
123287437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	apparently causing more problems than it solves. This will
123387437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	re-open the issue where interrupt handlers may race with
123487437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	kbdmux(4) in polling mode. Typical symptoms include (but
123587437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	not limited to) duplicated and/or missing characters when
123687437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	low level console functions (such as gets) are used while
123787437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	interrupts are enabled (for example geli password prompt,
123887437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	mountroot prompt etc.). Disabling kbdmux(4) may help.
123987437955SMaksim Yevmenkin
12402f6a1858SMarko Zec20090407:
12412f6a1858SMarko Zec	The size of structs vnet_net, vnet_inet and vnet_ipfw has changed;
12422f6a1858SMarko Zec	kernel modules referencing any of the above need to be recompiled.
12432f6a1858SMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800075.
12442f6a1858SMarko Zec
1245781d043cSIvan Voras20090320:
1246781d043cSIvan Voras	GEOM_PART has become the default partition slicer for storage devices,
1247781d043cSIvan Voras	replacing GEOM_MBR, GEOM_BSD, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_GPT slicers. It
12489a07b548SIvan Voras	introduces some changes:
12499a07b548SIvan Voras
12509a07b548SIvan Voras	MSDOS/EBR: the devices created from MSDOS extended partition entries
12519a07b548SIvan Voras	(EBR) can be named differently than with GEOM_MBR and are now symlinks
12529a07b548SIvan Voras	to devices with offset-based names. fstabs may need to be modified.
12539a07b548SIvan Voras
12549a07b548SIvan Voras	BSD: the "geometry does not match label" warning is harmless in most
12559a07b548SIvan Voras	cases but it points to problems in file system misalignment with
12569a07b548SIvan Voras	disk geometry. The "c" partition is now implicit, covers the whole
12579a07b548SIvan Voras	top-level drive and cannot be (mis)used by users.
12589a07b548SIvan Voras
12599a07b548SIvan Voras	General: Kernel dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices
12609a07b548SIvan Voras	whose partition types indicate they are meant to be used for file
12619a07b548SIvan Voras	systems (or, in case of MSDOS partitions, as something else than
12629a07b548SIvan Voras	the "386BSD" type).
12639a07b548SIvan Voras
12649a07b548SIvan Voras	Most of these changes date approximately from 200812.
1265781d043cSIvan Voras
1266443fc317SBruce M Simpson20090319:
12672b78d306SAndrew Thompson	The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows
12682b78d306SAndrew Thompson	Linux removing theirs in 2.6 and making libusb the default interface
12692b78d306SAndrew Thompson	(supported by sane).
12702b78d306SAndrew Thompson
12712b78d306SAndrew Thompson20090319:
1272443fc317SBruce M Simpson	The multicast forwarding code has been cleaned up. netstat(1)
1273443fc317SBruce M Simpson	only relies on KVM now for printing bandwidth upcall meters.
1274443fc317SBruce M Simpson	The IPv4 and IPv6 modules are split into ip_mroute_mod and
1275443fc317SBruce M Simpson	ip6_mroute_mod respectively. The config(5) options for statically
1276443fc317SBruce M Simpson	compiling this code remain the same, i.e. 'options MROUTING'.
1277443fc317SBruce M Simpson
12781df14375SRobert Watson20090315:
12791df14375SRobert Watson	Support for the IFF_NEEDSGIANT network interface flag has been
12801df14375SRobert Watson	removed, which means that non-MPSAFE network device drivers are no
12811df14375SRobert Watson	longer supported.  In particular, if_ar, if_sr, and network device
12821df14375SRobert Watson	drivers from the old (legacy) USB stack can no longer be built or
12831df14375SRobert Watson	used.
12841df14375SRobert Watson
1285e667034dSRui Paulo20090313:
12867e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	POSIX.1 Native Language Support (NLS) has been enabled in libc and
12877e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	a bunch of new language catalog files have also been added.
12887e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	This means that some common libc messages are now localized and
12897e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	they depend on the LC_MESSAGES environmental variable.
12907e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan
12917e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan20090313:
1292e667034dSRui Paulo	The k8temp(4) driver has been renamed to amdtemp(4) since
12938fb1e038SDavid E. O'Brien	support for Family 10 and Family 11 CPU families was added.
1294e667034dSRui Paulo
1295a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson20090309:
1296d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	IGMPv3 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
1297d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to the IPv4 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
1298d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
1299d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For kernel developers, the most important changes are that the
1300d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	ip_output() and ip_input() paths no longer take the IN_MULTI_LOCK(),
1301d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
1302d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
1303d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Transport protocols (UDP, Raw IP) are now responsible for filtering
1304d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	inbound multicast traffic according to group membership and source
1305d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	filters. The imo_multicast_filter() KPI exists for this purpose.
1306d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Transports which do not use multicast (SCTP, TCP) already reject
1307d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast by default. Forwarding and receive performance may improve
1308d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	as a mutex acquisition is no longer needed in the ip_input()
1309d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	low-level input path.  in_addmulti() and in_delmulti() are shimmed
1310d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to new KPIs which exist to support SSM in-kernel.
1311d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
1312d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For application developers, it is recommended that loopback of
1313d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast datagrams be disabled for best performance, as this
1314d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	will still cause the lock to be taken for each looped-back
1315d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	datagram transmission. The net.inet.ip.mcast.loop sysctl may
1316d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	be tuned to 0 to disable loopback by default; it defaults to 1
1317d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to preserve the existing behaviour.
1318d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
1319d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For systems administrators, to obtain best performance with
1320d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast reception and multiple groups, it is always recommended
1321d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	that a card with a suitably precise hash filter is used. Hash
1322d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	collisions will still result in the lock being taken within the
1323d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	transport protocol input path to check group membership.
1324d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
1325d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	If deploying FreeBSD in an environment with IGMP snooping switches,
1326d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	it is recommended that the net.inet.igmp.sendlocal sysctl remain
1327d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	enabled; this forces 224.0.0.0/24 group membership to be announced
1328d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	via IGMP.
1329d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
1330d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	The size of 'struct igmpstat' has changed; netstat needs to be
1331d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	recompiled to reflect this.
1332d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800070.
1333d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
1334d10910e6SBruce M Simpson20090309:
1335a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	libusb20.so.1 is now installed as libusb.so.1 and the ports system
1336a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	updated to use it. This requires a buildworld/installworld in order to
1337a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	update the library and dependencies (usbconfig, etc). Its advisable to
1338cb2fe9b1SStanislav Sedov	rebuild all ports which uses libusb. More specific directions are given
13390ee5826eSAndrew Thompson	in the ports collection UPDATING file. Any /etc/libmap.conf entries for
13403296f80dSAndrew Thompson	libusb are no longer required and can be removed.
1341a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson
134265067cc8SKonstantin Belousov20090302:
13439f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	A workaround is committed to allow the creation of System V shared
13449f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	memory segment of size > 2 GB on the 64-bit architectures.
13459f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	Due to a limitation of the existing ABI, the shm_segsz member
134665067cc8SKonstantin Belousov	of the struct shmid_ds, returned by shmctl(IPC_STAT) call is
1347813bb2c9SJoel Dahl	wrong for large segments. Note that limits must be explicitly
134865067cc8SKonstantin Belousov	raised to allow such segments to be created.
134965067cc8SKonstantin Belousov
1350176273eaSRobert Watson20090301:
1351176273eaSRobert Watson	The layout of struct ifnet has changed, requiring a rebuild of all
1352176273eaSRobert Watson	network device driver modules.
1353176273eaSRobert Watson
1354a13a5664SAndrew Thompson20090227:
1355a13a5664SAndrew Thompson	The /dev handling for the new USB stack has changed, a
1356a13a5664SAndrew Thompson	buildworld/installworld is required for libusb20.
1357a13a5664SAndrew Thompson
135871e9286cSAndrew Thompson20090223:
135971e9286cSAndrew Thompson	The new USB2 stack has now been permanently moved in and all kernel and
1360200dcf9aSAndrew Thompson	module names reverted to their previous values (eg, usb, ehci, ohci,
13619c1e15b5SAndrew Thompson	ums, ...).  The old usb stack can be compiled in by prefixing the name
136271e9286cSAndrew Thompson	with the letter 'o', the old usb modules have been removed.
1363a709c9a6SWarner Losh	Updating entry 20090216 for xorg and 20090215 for libmap may still
1364a709c9a6SWarner Losh	apply.
136571e9286cSAndrew Thompson
1366553bf6a4SMike Makonnen20090217:
1367553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	The rc.conf(5) option if_up_delay has been renamed to
1368553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	defaultroute_delay to better reflect its purpose. If you have
1369553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	customized this setting in /etc/rc.conf you need to update it to
1370553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	use the new name.
1371553bf6a4SMike Makonnen
1372bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson20090216:
1373bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	xorg 7.4 wants to configure its input devices via hald which does not
1374bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	yet work with USB2. If the keyboard/mouse does not work in xorg then
1375bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	add
1376bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson		Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
1377bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	to your ServerLayout section.  This will cause X to use the configured
1378cbb9c89eSMaxim Konovalov	kbd and mouse sections from your xorg.conf.
1379bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson
1380e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson20090215:
1381e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new USB2
1382e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	stack. No kernel config options or code have been removed so if a
1383e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	problem arises please report it and optionally revert to the old USB
1384e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	stack. If you are loading USB kernel modules or have a custom kernel
1385e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	that includes GENERIC then ensure that usb names are also changed over,
1386cbb9c89eSMaxim Konovalov	eg uftdi -> usb2_serial_ftdi.
1387e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson
1388a709c9a6SWarner Losh	Older programs linked against the ports libusb 0.1 need to be
1389a709c9a6SWarner Losh	redirected to the new stack's libusb20.  /etc/libmap.conf can
1390a709c9a6SWarner Losh	be used for this:
1391a709c9a6SWarner Losh		# Map old usb library to new one for usb2 stack
1392a709c9a6SWarner Losh		libusb-0.1.so.8	libusb20.so.1
1393a709c9a6SWarner Losh
139421293e70SAndrew Thompson20090209:
139521293e70SAndrew Thompson	All USB ethernet devices now attach as interfaces under the name ueN
139621293e70SAndrew Thompson	(eg. ue0). This is to provide a predictable name as vendors often
139721293e70SAndrew Thompson	change usb chipsets in a product without notice.
139821293e70SAndrew Thompson
139914943437SJohn Baldwin20090203:
140014943437SJohn Baldwin	The ichsmb(4) driver has been changed to require SMBus slave
140114943437SJohn Baldwin	addresses be left-justified (xxxxxxx0b) rather than right-justified.
140214943437SJohn Baldwin	All of the other SMBus controller drivers require left-justified
140314943437SJohn Baldwin	slave addresses, so this change makes all the drivers provide the
140414943437SJohn Baldwin	same interface.
140514943437SJohn Baldwin
140609f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb20090201:
140709f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb	INET6 statistics (struct ip6stat) was updated.
140809f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb	netstat(1) needs to be recompiled.
140909f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb
141074f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev20090119:
141174f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	NTFS has been removed from GENERIC kernel on amd64 to match
141274f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	GENERIC on i386. Should not cause any issues since mount_ntfs(8)
141374f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	will load ntfs.ko module automatically when NTFS support is
141474f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	actually needed, unless ntfs.ko is not installed or security
141574f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	level prohibits loading kernel modules. If either is the case,
141674f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	"options NTFS" has to be added into kernel config.
141774f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev
141824cb0f22SLawrence Stewart20090115:
141924cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	TCP Appropriate Byte Counting (RFC 3465) support added to kernel.
142024cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	New field in struct tcpcb breaks ABI, so bump __FreeBSD_version to
142124cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	800061. User space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in
142224cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
142324cb0f22SLawrence Stewart
14245d55747eSAlexander Motin20081225:
14255d55747eSAlexander Motin	ng_tty(4) module updated to match the new TTY subsystem.
14265d55747eSAlexander Motin	Due to API change, user-level applications must be updated.
14275d55747eSAlexander Motin	New API support added to mpd5 CVS and expected to be present
14285d55747eSAlexander Motin	in next mpd5.3 release.
14295d55747eSAlexander Motin
1430efc06131SSam Leffler20081219:
1431a1c64cafSSam Leffler	With __FreeBSD_version 800060 the makefs tool is part of
1432a1c64cafSSam Leffler	the base system (it was a port).
1433efc06131SSam Leffler
1434991f8615SKip Macy20081216:
1435991f8615SKip Macy	The afdata and ifnet locks have been changed from mutexes to
1436991f8615SKip Macy	rwlocks, network modules will need to be re-compiled.
14371d7e99caSJohn Baldwin
14386e6b3f7cSQing Li20081214:
14396e6b3f7cSQing Li	__FreeBSD_version 800059 incorporates the new arp-v2 rewrite.
14406e6b3f7cSQing Li	RTF_CLONING, RTF_LLINFO and RTF_WASCLONED flags are eliminated.
14416e6b3f7cSQing Li	The new code reduced struct rtentry{} by 16 bytes on 32-bit
14426e6b3f7cSQing Li	architecture and 40 bytes on 64-bit architecture. The userland
14436e6b3f7cSQing Li	applications "arp" and "ndp" have been updated accordingly.
14446e6b3f7cSQing Li	The output from "netstat -r" shows only routing entries and
14456e6b3f7cSQing Li	none of the L2 information.
14466e6b3f7cSQing Li
144733644623SSam Leffler20081130:
144833644623SSam Leffler	__FreeBSD_version 800057 marks the switchover from the
144933644623SSam Leffler	binary ath hal to source code. Users must add the line:
145033644623SSam Leffler
1451c60b227cSSam Leffler	options	AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
145233644623SSam Leffler
145333644623SSam Leffler	to their kernel config files when specifying:
145433644623SSam Leffler
145533644623SSam Leffler	device	ath_hal
145633644623SSam Leffler
145733644623SSam Leffler	The ath_hal module no longer exists; the code is now compiled
145833644623SSam Leffler	together with the driver in the ath module.  It is now
145933644623SSam Leffler	possible to tailor chip support (i.e. reduce the set of chips
146033644623SSam Leffler	and thereby the code size); consult ath_hal(4) for details.
146133644623SSam Leffler
1462db7f0b97SKip Macy20081121:
1463db7f0b97SKip Macy	__FreeBSD_version 800054 adds memory barriers to
1464db7f0b97SKip Macy	<machine/atomic.h>, new interfaces to ifnet to facilitate
1465db7f0b97SKip Macy	multiple hardware transmit queues for cards that support
1466db7f0b97SKip Macy	them, and a lock-less ring-buffer implementation to
1467db7f0b97SKip Macy	enable drivers to more efficiently manage queueing of
1468db7f0b97SKip Macy	packets.
1469db7f0b97SKip Macy
1470de2e1b35SXin LI20081117:
1471de2e1b35SXin LI	A new version of ZFS (version 13) has been merged to -HEAD.
1472de3a91a0SXin LI	This version has zpool attribute "listsnapshots" off by
1473de3a91a0SXin LI	default, which means "zfs list" does not show snapshots,
1474de2e1b35SXin LI	and is the same as Solaris behavior.
1475de2e1b35SXin LI
147602d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin20081028:
147702d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin	dummynet(4) ABI has changed. ipfw(8) needs to be recompiled.
147802d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin
1479e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy20081009:
1480d8135f4aSNick Hibma	The uhci, ohci, ehci and slhci USB Host controller drivers have
1481d8135f4aSNick Hibma	been put into separate modules. If you load the usb module
1482d8135f4aSNick Hibma	separately through loader.conf you will need to load the
1483d8135f4aSNick Hibma	appropriate *hci module as well. E.g. for a UHCI-based USB 2.0
1484d8135f4aSNick Hibma	controller add the following to loader.conf:
1485d8135f4aSNick Hibma
1486d8135f4aSNick Hibma		uhci_load="YES"
1487d8135f4aSNick Hibma		ehci_load="YES"
1488d8135f4aSNick Hibma
1489d8135f4aSNick Hibma20081009:
1490e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	The ABI used by the PMC toolset has changed.  Please keep
1491e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	userland (libpmc(3)) and the kernel module (hwpmc(4)) in
1492e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	sync.
1493e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy
1494b868265dSAlexander Motin20081009:
1495b868265dSAlexander Motin	atapci kernel module now includes only generic PCI ATA
1496b868265dSAlexander Motin	driver. AHCI driver moved to ataahci kernel module.
1497b868265dSAlexander Motin	All vendor-specific code moved into separate kernel modules:
1498b868265dSAlexander Motin	ataacard, ataacerlabs, ataadaptec, ataamd, ataati, atacenatek,
1499b868265dSAlexander Motin	atacypress, atacyrix, atahighpoint, ataintel, ataite, atajmicron,
1500b868265dSAlexander Motin	atamarvell, atamicron, atanational, atanetcell, atanvidia,
1501b868265dSAlexander Motin	atapromise, ataserverworks, atasiliconimage, atasis, atavia
1502b868265dSAlexander Motin
1503bc093719SEd Schouten20080820:
1504bc093719SEd Schouten	The TTY subsystem of the kernel has been replaced by a new
1505bc093719SEd Schouten	implementation, which provides better scalability and an
1506bc093719SEd Schouten	improved driver model. Most common drivers have been migrated to
1507bc093719SEd Schouten	the new TTY subsystem, while others have not. The following
1508bc093719SEd Schouten	drivers have not yet been ported to the new TTY layer:
1509bc093719SEd Schouten
1510bc093719SEd Schouten	PCI/ISA:
151166e7dc38SEd Schouten		cy, digi, rc, rp, sio
1512bc093719SEd Schouten
1513bc093719SEd Schouten	USB:
151466e7dc38SEd Schouten		ubser, ucycom
1515bc093719SEd Schouten
1516bc093719SEd Schouten	Line disciplines:
1517bc093719SEd Schouten		ng_h4, ng_tty, ppp, sl, snp
1518bc093719SEd Schouten
1519bc093719SEd Schouten	Adding these drivers to your kernel configuration file shall
1520bc093719SEd Schouten	cause compilation to fail.
1521bc093719SEd Schouten
15229d965219SOllivier Robert20080818:
15239d965219SOllivier Robert	ntpd has been upgraded to 4.2.4p5.
15249d965219SOllivier Robert
1525eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav20080801:
1526eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	OpenSSH has been upgraded to 5.1p1.
1527eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
1528eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	For many years, FreeBSD's version of OpenSSH preferred DSA
1529eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	over RSA for host and user authentication keys.  With this
1530eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	upgrade, we've switched to the vendor's default of RSA over
1531eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	DSA.  This may cause upgraded clients to warn about unknown
1532eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	host keys even for previously known hosts.  Users should
1533eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	follow the usual procedure for verifying host keys before
1534eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	accepting the RSA key.
1535eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
1536eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	This can be circumvented by setting the "HostKeyAlgorithms"
1537eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	option to "ssh-dss,ssh-rsa" in ~/.ssh/config or on the ssh
1538eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	command line.
1539eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
1540737d990aSXin LI	Please note that the sequence of keys offered for
1541737d990aSXin LI	authentication has been changed as well.  You may want to
1542737d990aSXin LI	specify IdentityFile in a different order to revert this
1543737d990aSXin LI	behavior.
1544737d990aSXin LI
1545f4d811f0SEd Schouten20080713:
1546f4d811f0SEd Schouten	The sio(4) driver has been removed from the i386 and amd64
1547f4d811f0SEd Schouten	kernel configuration files. This means uart(4) is now the
1548f4d811f0SEd Schouten	default serial port driver on those platforms as well.
1549f4d811f0SEd Schouten
1550f4d811f0SEd Schouten	To prevent collisions with the sio(4) driver, the uart(4) driver
1551f4d811f0SEd Schouten	uses different names for its device nodes. This means the
1552f4d811f0SEd Schouten	onboard serial port will now most likely be called "ttyu0"
1553f4d811f0SEd Schouten	instead of "ttyd0". You may need to reconfigure applications to
1554f4d811f0SEd Schouten	use the new device names.
1555f4d811f0SEd Schouten
1556db96ec0bSEd Schouten	When using the serial port as a boot console, be sure to update
1557db96ec0bSEd Schouten	/boot/device.hints and /etc/ttys before booting the new kernel.
1558db96ec0bSEd Schouten	If you forget to do so, you can still manually specify the hints
1559db96ec0bSEd Schouten	at the loader prompt:
1560db96ec0bSEd Schouten
1561db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.at="isa"
1562db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8"
1563db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.flags="0x10"
1564db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.irq="4"
1565db96ec0bSEd Schouten		boot -s
1566db96ec0bSEd Schouten
1567bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar20080609:
1568bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar	The gpt(8) utility has been removed. Use gpart(8) to partition
1569bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar	disks instead.
1570bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar
157127f7c387SRoman Divacky20080603:
1572a47444d5SRoman Divacky	The version that Linuxulator emulates was changed from 2.4.2
1573a47444d5SRoman Divacky	to 2.6.16. If you experience any problems with Linux binaries
1574a47444d5SRoman Divacky	please try to set sysctl compat.linux.osrelease to 2.4.2 and
1575a47444d5SRoman Divacky	if it fixes the problem contact emulation mailing list.
1576a47444d5SRoman Divacky
15772e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb20080525:
15782e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb	ISDN4BSD (I4B) was removed from the src tree. You may need to
15792e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb	update a your kernel configuration and remove relevant entries.
15802e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb
15814dcedde3SJulian Elischer20080509:
15824dcedde3SJulian Elischer	I have checked in code to support multiple routing tables.
1583032e0bf8SMaxim Konovalov	See the man pages setfib(1) and setfib(2).
15844dcedde3SJulian Elischer	This is a hopefully backwards compatible version,
15854dcedde3SJulian Elischer	but to make use of it you need to compile your kernel
15864dcedde3SJulian Elischer	with options ROUTETABLES=2 (or more up to 16).
15874dcedde3SJulian Elischer
1588de570baaSSam Leffler20080420:
1589de570baaSSam Leffler	The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss
1590de570baaSSam Leffler	operation on devices that are capable.  The underlying device
1591de570baaSSam Leffler	is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are
1592de570baaSSam Leffler	cloned with ifconfig.  This requires changes to rc.conf files.
15935318f840SWarner Losh	For example, change:
15945318f840SWarner Losh		ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP"
15955318f840SWarner Losh	to
15965318f840SWarner Losh		wlans_ath0=wlan0
15975318f840SWarner Losh		ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
15980f95e625SWarner Losh	see rc.conf(5) for more details.  In addition, mergemaster of
15990f95e625SWarner Losh	/etc/rc.d is highly recommended.  Simultaneous update of userland
16000f95e625SWarner Losh	and kernel wouldn't hurt either.
1601de570baaSSam Leffler
1602de570baaSSam Leffler	As part of the multi-bss changes the wlan_scan_ap and wlan_scan_sta
1603de570baaSSam Leffler	modules were merged into the base wlan module.  All references
1604de570baaSSam Leffler	to these modules (e.g. in kernel config files) must be removed.
1605de570baaSSam Leffler
1606ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim20080408:
1607ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	psm(4) has gained write(2) support in native operation level.
1608ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	Arbitrary commands can be written to /dev/psm%d and status can
1609ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	be read back from it.  Therefore, an application is responsible
1610ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	for status validation and error recovery.  It is a no-op in
1611ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	other operation levels.
1612ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim
1613e4c67b94SJeff Roberson20080312:
1614e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	Support for KSE threading has been removed from the kernel.  To
1615e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	run legacy applications linked against KSE libmap.conf may
1616e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	be used.  The following libmap.conf may be used to ensure
1617e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	compatibility with any prior release:
1618e4c67b94SJeff Roberson
1619e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libpthread.so.1 libthr.so.1
1620e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2
1621e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libkse.so.3 libthr.so.3
1622e4c67b94SJeff Roberson
16238775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar20080301:
16248775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	The layout of struct vmspace has changed. This affects libkvm
16258775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	and any executables that link against libkvm and use the
16268775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	kvm_getprocs() function. In particular, but not exclusively,
16278775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	it affects ps(1), fstat(1), pkill(1), systat(1), top(1) and w(1).
16288775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	The effects are minimal, but it's advisable to upgrade world
16298775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	nonetheless.
16308775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar
1631df09ebc0SJack F Vogel20080229:
1632df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	The latest em driver no longer has support in it for the
1633df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	82575 adapter, this is now moved to the igb driver. The
1634df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	split was done to make new features that are incompatible
1635df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	with older hardware easier to do.
1636df09ebc0SJack F Vogel
16371669d8afSAndrew Thompson20080220:
16381669d8afSAndrew Thompson	The new geom_lvm(4) geom class has been renamed to geom_linux_lvm(4),
16391669d8afSAndrew Thompson	likewise the kernel option is now GEOM_LINUX_LVM.
16401669d8afSAndrew Thompson
16412427fa19SKris Kennaway20080211:
16422427fa19SKris Kennaway	The default NFS mount mode has changed from UDP to TCP for
16432427fa19SKris Kennaway	increased reliability.  If you rely on (insecurely) NFS
16442427fa19SKris Kennaway	mounting across a firewall you may need to update your
16452427fa19SKris Kennaway	firewall rules.
16462427fa19SKris Kennaway
16475e9f6b73SSam Leffler20080208:
16485e9f6b73SSam Leffler	Belatedly note the addition of m_collapse for compacting
16495e9f6b73SSam Leffler	mbuf chains.
16505e9f6b73SSam Leffler
165148aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy20080126:
165248aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	The fts(3) structures have been changed to use adequate
165348aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	integer types for their members and so to be able to cope
165448aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	with huge file trees.  The old fts(3) ABI is preserved
165548aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	through symbol versioning in libc, so third-party binaries
165648aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	using fts(3) should still work, although they will not take
165748aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	advantage of the extended types.  At the same time, some
165848aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	third-party software might fail to build after this change
165948aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	due to unportable assumptions made in its source code about
166048aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	fts(3) structure members.  Such software should be fixed
166148aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	by its vendor or, in the worst case, in the ports tree.
166248aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	FreeBSD_version 800015 marks this change for the unlikely
166348aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	case that a portable fix is impossible.
166448aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy
166551dc1e12SRuslan Ermilov20080123:
16668015f45cSWarner Losh	To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running
166751dc1e12SRuslan Ermilov	FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE.  Upgrading to -current
16688015f45cSWarner Losh	from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems.
16698015f45cSWarner Losh
1670ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato20071128:
1671ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato	The ADAPTIVE_GIANT kernel option has been retired because its
1672ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato	functionality is the default now.
1673ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato
1674e393af84SMarius Strobl20071118:
1675e393af84SMarius Strobl	The AT keyboard emulation of sunkbd(4) has been turned on
1676e393af84SMarius Strobl	by default. In order to make the special symbols of the Sun
1677e393af84SMarius Strobl	keyboards driven by sunkbd(4) work under X these now have
1678e393af84SMarius Strobl	to be configured the same way as Sun USB keyboards driven
1679e393af84SMarius Strobl	by ukbd(4) (which also does AT keyboard emulation), f.e.:
1680e393af84SMarius Strobl
1681e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbLayout" "us"
1682e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbRules" "xorg"
1683e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbSymbols" "pc(pc105)+sun_vndr/usb(sun_usb)+us"
1684e393af84SMarius Strobl
168533d3fffaSMarius Strobl20071024:
168633d3fffaSMarius Strobl	It has been decided that it is desirable to provide ABI
168733d3fffaSMarius Strobl	backwards compatibility to the FreeBSD 4/5/6 versions of the
168833d3fffaSMarius Strobl	PCIOCGETCONF, PCIOCREAD and PCIOCWRITE IOCTLs, which was
168933d3fffaSMarius Strobl	broken with the introduction of PCI domain support (see the
169033d3fffaSMarius Strobl	20070930 entry). Unfortunately, this required the ABI of
169133d3fffaSMarius Strobl	PCIOCGETCONF to be broken again in order to be able to
169233d3fffaSMarius Strobl	provide backwards compatibility to the old version of that
169333d3fffaSMarius Strobl	IOCTL. Thus consumers of PCIOCGETCONF have to be recompiled
169433d3fffaSMarius Strobl	again. As for prominent ports this affects neither pciutils
169533d3fffaSMarius Strobl	nor xorg-server this time, the hal port needs to be rebuilt
169633d3fffaSMarius Strobl	however.
169733d3fffaSMarius Strobl
16983d461febSJulian Elischer20071020:
16993d461febSJulian Elischer	The misnamed kthread_create() and friends have been renamed
17003d461febSJulian Elischer	to kproc_create() etc. Many of the callers already
17013d461febSJulian Elischer	used kproc_start()..
17023d461febSJulian Elischer	I will return kthread_create() and friends in a while
17033d461febSJulian Elischer	with implementations that actually create threads, not procs.
17043d461febSJulian Elischer	Renaming corresponds with version 800002.
17053d461febSJulian Elischer
1706c15e0967SKen Smith20071010:
1707c15e0967SKen Smith	RELENG_7 branched.
1708c15e0967SKen Smith
1709dc0dbf5cSWarner LoshCOMMON ITEMS:
1710dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
1711a24eff53SWarner Losh	General Notes
1712a24eff53SWarner Losh	-------------
1713456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1714456b5dd8SWarner Losh	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
17151733d35cSRuslan Ermilov	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1716456b5dd8SWarner Losh	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1717456b5dd8SWarner Losh	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1718456b5dd8SWarner Losh	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1719456b5dd8SWarner Losh	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1720a24eff53SWarner Losh
17215780f3baSWarner Losh	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
17225780f3baSWarner Losh	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1723456b5dd8SWarner Losh	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1724456b5dd8SWarner Losh	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1725456b5dd8SWarner Losh	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
17265780f3baSWarner Losh
1727456b5dd8SWarner Losh	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best
1728456b5dd8SWarner Losh	to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first,
1729456b5dd8SWarner Losh	then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade
1730456b5dd8SWarner Losh	path, and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try
1731456b5dd8SWarner Losh	this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade.
1732081ff8acSDoug Barton
17336eeab389SWarner Losh	When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before
1734da0e842aSWarner Losh	installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell
1735da0e842aSWarner Losh	around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your
1736da0e842aSWarner Losh	starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade.
1737da0e842aSWarner Losh
17388fc25799SMartin Matuska	ZFS notes
17398fc25799SMartin Matuska	---------
17408fc25799SMartin Matuska	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
17418fc25799SMartin Matuska	these two steps:
17428fc25799SMartin Matuska
17438fc25799SMartin Matuska	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
17448fc25799SMartin Matuska	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
17458fc25799SMartin Matuska
17468fc25799SMartin Matuska	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
17478fc25799SMartin Matuska
17488fc25799SMartin Matuska	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
17498fc25799SMartin Matuska	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ad0:
17508fc25799SMartin Matuska	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0"
17518fc25799SMartin Matuska
17528fc25799SMartin Matuska	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
17538fc25799SMartin Matuska
1754dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh	To build a kernel
1755dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh	-----------------
1756ba01eb20SWarner Losh	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
17571cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
17581cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
17591cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien
17601cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	make kernel-toolchain
1761282e0f01SRuslan Ermilov	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1762282e0f01SRuslan Ermilov	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1763dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
17642e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	To test a kernel once
17652e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	---------------------
17662e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
17672e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
17682e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	debugging information) run
17692e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
17702e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	nextboot -k testkernel
17712e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger
1772ba01eb20SWarner Losh	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1773ba01eb20SWarner Losh	--------------------------------------------------------------
1774456b5dd8SWarner Losh	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
17750fbd2da9SKen Smith	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1776456b5dd8SWarner Losh	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
17770fbd2da9SKen Smith
17780fbd2da9SKen Smith	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
177947d0d01fSWarner Losh	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
17800fbd2da9SKen Smith	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1781ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make depend
1782ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make
1783ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make install
1784ba01eb20SWarner Losh
1785ba01eb20SWarner Losh	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1786ba01eb20SWarner Losh
1787ba01eb20SWarner Losh	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1788ba01eb20SWarner Losh	-----------------------------------------------------------
178963cb445eSWarner Losh	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
179063cb445eSWarner Losh	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
179163cb445eSWarner Losh
1792f643de42SWarner Losh	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
179363cb445eSWarner Losh	make buildworld
17946586253aSWarner Losh	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
179563cb445eSWarner Losh							[1]
179663cb445eSWarner Losh	<reboot in single user>				[3]
179763cb445eSWarner Losh	mergemaster -p					[5]
179863cb445eSWarner Losh	make installworld
179950e8eca6SDoug Barton	mergemaster -i					[4]
180094877c06SAlexander Leidinger	make delete-old					[6]
180163cb445eSWarner Losh	<reboot>
180263cb445eSWarner Losh
1803f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1804f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	--------------------------------------------------
1805f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1806f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1807f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1808f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# size.
1809f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
1810f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1811f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<boot into -stable>
1812f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	make buildworld
18133ecf3bddSRuslan Ermilov	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1814f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1815f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1816f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
18172d5cde04SRuslan Ermilov	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
18183ecf3bddSRuslan Ermilov	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1819f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1820f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1821f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<reboot into current>
1822f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1823737d990aSXin LI	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1824f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<reboot>
1825f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
1826f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
182715974d55SGavin Atkinson	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
1828f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	----------------------------------------------
1829f643de42SWarner Losh	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
183021c075eaSWarner Losh	make buildworld					[9]
1831e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1832fc8c157fSWarner Losh							[1]
1833fc8c157fSWarner Losh	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1834835284beSWarner Losh	mergemaster -p					[5]
1835ba26da8eSWarner Losh	make installworld
1836802fc49dSBrian Feldman	mergemaster -i					[4]
183794877c06SAlexander Leidinger	make delete-old					[6]
1838ba26da8eSWarner Losh	<reboot>
1839ba26da8eSWarner Losh
1840fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1841fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1842fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1843fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1844fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	the UPDATING entries.
1845ba26da8eSWarner Losh
18461dece4a9SWarner Losh	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
18471dece4a9SWarner Losh	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
18481dece4a9SWarner Losh	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
18491dece4a9SWarner Losh	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
18501dece4a9SWarner Losh	much fewer pitfalls.
18511dece4a9SWarner Losh
1852134d2e86SWarner Losh	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1853134d2e86SWarner Losh	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1854134d2e86SWarner Losh	system on reboot.
1855134d2e86SWarner Losh
1856ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1857ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		fsck -p
1858ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		mount -u /
1859ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		mount -a
18606586253aSWarner Losh		cd src
186147d0d01fSWarner Losh		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1862f6a0ef01SWarner Losh	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1863f6a0ef01SWarner Losh	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1864ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh
1865a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1866a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1867a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1868a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1869a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
187050e8eca6SDoug Barton	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
187150e8eca6SDoug Barton	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1872a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh
1873835284beSWarner Losh	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1874835284beSWarner Losh	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1875835284beSWarner Losh	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1876835284beSWarner Losh	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1877835284beSWarner Losh	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
187820e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430.
1879835284beSWarner Losh
188094877c06SAlexander Leidinger	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
188194877c06SAlexander Leidinger	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
188294877c06SAlexander Leidinger	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
188394877c06SAlexander Leidinger
1884456b5dd8SWarner Losh	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
1885456b5dd8SWarner Losh	do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
1886456b5dd8SWarner Losh	your kernel.  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1887456b5dd8SWarner Losh	hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
1888456b5dd8SWarner Losh	required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels.  And so on
1889456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
1890c74fe6afSWarner Losh
1891e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1892e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1893e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
189421c075eaSWarner Losh	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1895e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	cvs prune empty directories.
1896e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
1897e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1898e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1899e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1900e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
1901e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1902e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1903e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	warn if it is improperly defined.
1904dc0dbf5cSWarner LoshFORMAT:
1905dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
1906f699bbbbSMark OvensThis file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
1907630f2154SGlen Barberbreakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
1908630f2154SGlen Barberlist of such breakages, and only contains entries since October 10, 2007.
1909630f2154SGlen BarberIf you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
1910630f2154SGlen Barberto fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
19111fc1a0dcSWarner Losh
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