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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
34b40e2b6dSAndrey V. Elsukov20130709:
359b953f2cSBaptiste Daroussin	pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it
369b953f2cSBaptiste Daroussin	you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5).
379b953f2cSBaptiste Daroussin
389b953f2cSBaptiste Daroussin20130709:
39b40e2b6dSAndrey V. Elsukov	Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able
40b40e2b6dSAndrey V. Elsukov	keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking
41*aa011413SRui Paulo	statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.)
42b40e2b6dSAndrey V. Elsukov
4303630b54SSimon J. Gerraty20130629:
4403630b54SSimon J. Gerraty	Fix targets that run multiple make's to use && rather than ;
4503630b54SSimon J. Gerraty	so that subsequent steps depend on success of previous.
4603630b54SSimon J. Gerraty
4703630b54SSimon J. Gerraty	NOTE: if building 'universe' with -j* on stable/8 or stable/9
4803630b54SSimon J. Gerraty	it would be better to start the build using bmake, to avoid
4903630b54SSimon J. Gerraty	overloading the machine.
5003630b54SSimon J. Gerraty
515b3e0257SDag-Erling Smørgrav20130618:
525b3e0257SDag-Erling Smørgrav	Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write
535b3e0257SDag-Erling Smørgrav	to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space
545b3e0257SDag-Erling Smørgrav	even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had
555b3e0257SDag-Erling Smørgrav	write access to that file.
565b3e0257SDag-Erling Smørgrav
571cbff2a9SEitan Adler20130615:
581cbff2a9SEitan Adler	CVS has been removed from the base system.  An exact copy
591cbff2a9SEitan Adler	of the code is available from the devel/cvs port.
601cbff2a9SEitan Adler
61ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty20130613:
62ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty	Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake:
63ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty
64ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty		make: illegal option -- J
65ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty		usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable]
66ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty			...
67ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty		*** [buildworld] Error code 2
68ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty
69ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty	this likely due to an old instance of make in
70ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty	${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE})
71ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty	which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if
72ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty	you see the above error:
73ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty
74ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty		rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH`
75ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty
76ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty	should resolve it.
77ba10b444SSimon J. Gerraty
78ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty20130516:
79ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	Use bmake by default.
80ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via
81ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	-DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old
82ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE.
83ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty
84ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command
85ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the
86ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	command line.  Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer
87ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent
88ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty	behavior in parallel build.
89ff8d4375SSimon J. Gerraty
9032164d53SDag-Erling Smørgrav20130429:
9132164d53SDag-Erling Smørgrav        Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files.
9232164d53SDag-Erling Smørgrav
93562a9d58SSteven Hartland20130426:
94850163e4SEitan Adler	The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because
95850163e4SEitan Adler	the IDEA patent expired.
96850163e4SEitan Adler
97850163e4SEitan Adler20130426:
98562a9d58SSteven Hartland	The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed
99562a9d58SSteven Hartland	from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been
100562a9d58SSteven Hartland	enabled by default.
101562a9d58SSteven Hartland
10220e0cc0aSBrooks Davis20130425:
10320e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
10420e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in
10520e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as
10620e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	install and mtree.  When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where
10720e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	the install command does not support -l, you will need to
10820e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required.
10920e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
11020e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	&& make install).
11120e0cc0aSBrooks Davis
1129a95a7caSAlexander Motin20130404:
1139a95a7caSAlexander Motin	Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since
1149a95a7caSAlexander Motin	FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources.  Kernel modules
1159a95a7caSAlexander Motin	atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are
1169a95a7caSAlexander Motin	removed.  Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled
1179a95a7caSAlexander Motin	and removed.
1189a95a7caSAlexander Motin
1195ad7e649SJilles Tjoelker20130319:
1205ad7e649SJilles Tjoelker	SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2)
1215ad7e649SJilles Tjoelker	and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may
1225ad7e649SJilles Tjoelker	automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting
1235ad7e649SJilles Tjoelker	binaries will not work on older kernels.
1245ad7e649SJilles Tjoelker
125105421ffSMarius Strobl20130308:
126105421ffSMarius Strobl	CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further
127105421ffSMarius Strobl	information, see the respective 20130304 entry).
128105421ffSMarius Strobl
1293a45b478SKenneth D. Merry20130304:
13023d44ab5SDavide Italiano	Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout,
13123d44ab5SDavide Italiano	so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions
13223d44ab5SDavide Italiano	in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced
13323d44ab5SDavide Italiano	by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild
13423d44ab5SDavide Italiano	is requested.
13523d44ab5SDavide Italiano
1363a45b478SKenneth D. Merry	The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64,
1373a45b478SKenneth D. Merry	but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE
1383a45b478SKenneth D. Merry	option) to save memory.  To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE
1393a45b478SKenneth D. Merry	option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0
1403a45b478SKenneth D. Merry	in /boot/loader.conf.
1413a45b478SKenneth D. Merry
142fe138cc2SAdrian Chadd20130301:
143fe138cc2SAdrian Chadd	The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64.
144fe138cc2SAdrian Chadd	This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system
145fe138cc2SAdrian Chadd	initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if
146fe138cc2SAdrian Chadd	a CAM target device was created.  This makes a FreeBSD system
147fe138cc2SAdrian Chadd	unusable on 128MB or less of RAM.
148fe138cc2SAdrian Chadd
14920a011d5SXin LI20130208:
15020a011d5SXin LI	A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD.  Please
15120a011d5SXin LI	refer to zpool-features(7) for more information.
15220a011d5SXin LI
15320a011d5SXin LI	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
15420a011d5SXin LI	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
15520a011d5SXin LI
1562dd076b8SGabor Kovesdan20130129:
1572dd076b8SGabor Kovesdan	A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed
1582dd076b8SGabor Kovesdan	as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch.
1592dd076b8SGabor Kovesdan	To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default,
1602dd076b8SGabor Kovesdan	while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild
1612d329593SGabor Kovesdan	and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set.
1622dd076b8SGabor Kovesdan
163fe06cae7SBrooks Davis20130121:
164fe06cae7SBrooks Davis	Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build
165fe06cae7SBrooks Davis	and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL
166fe06cae7SBrooks Davis	make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the
1678c5836c3SEitan Adler	command line.  If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs
168fe06cae7SBrooks Davis	you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or
169fe06cae7SBrooks Davis	/etc/src.conf.
170fe06cae7SBrooks Davis
171f2b19f9eSBrooks Davis20130118:
172f2b19f9eSBrooks Davis	The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an
173f2b19f9eSBrooks Davis	argument that is a file or path to append logs to.  In the
174f2b19f9eSBrooks Davis	unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line
175f2b19f9eSBrooks Davis	and the command line contained at least two files and a target
176f2b19f9eSBrooks Davis	directory the first file will have logs appended to it.  The -M
1774cf5de80SGlen Barber	option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its
1784cf5de80SGlen Barber	use is expected to be extremely rare.
179f2b19f9eSBrooks Davis
1803fea4e6bSAndriy Gapon20121223:
1813fea4e6bSAndriy Gapon	After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS
1823fea4e6bSAndriy Gapon	on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics.
1833fea4e6bSAndriy Gapon	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations.
1843fea4e6bSAndriy Gapon
185efec959cSJaakko Heinonen20121222:
186efec959cSJaakko Heinonen	GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata.
187efec959cSJaakko Heinonen	Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters,
188efec959cSJaakko Heinonen	'%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to
189efec959cSJaakko Heinonen	be updated.
190efec959cSJaakko Heinonen
19111631ad0SPawel Jakub Dawidek20121217:
19211631ad0SPawel Jakub Dawidek	By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved.  To
19311631ad0SPawel Jakub Dawidek	restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps
19411631ad0SPawel Jakub Dawidek	stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
19511631ad0SPawel Jakub Dawidek
19611631ad0SPawel Jakub Dawidek		savecore_flags=""
19711631ad0SPawel Jakub Dawidek
198e0fb6dc3SRobert Watson20121201:
199e0fb6dc3SRobert Watson	With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now
200e0fb6dc3SRobert Watson	depended on during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to add
201e0fb6dc3SRobert Watson	the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
202e0fb6dc3SRobert Watson
203b91dc775SHiroki Sato20121117:
204b91dc775SHiroki Sato	The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now
205b91dc775SHiroki Sato	filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via
206b91dc775SHiroki Sato	sysctl or routing socket.  This means the KAME-specific embedded scope
207b91dc775SHiroki Sato	id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application.
208b91dc775SHiroki Sato	This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid.
209b91dc775SHiroki Sato	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025.
210b91dc775SHiroki Sato
2115b6478b0SBrooks Davis20121105:
2125b6478b0SBrooks Davis	On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default.
2135b6478b0SBrooks Davis	This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang
2145b6478b0SBrooks Davis	and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++,
2155b6478b0SBrooks Davis	and /usr/bin/cpp.  To disable this behavior and revert to building
216da0e842aSWarner Losh	with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions
217da0e842aSWarner Losh	of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang
218da0e842aSWarner Losh	build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable
219da0e842aSWarner Losh	branch point).
2205b6478b0SBrooks Davis
221ffdbf9daSAndrey V. Elsukov20121102:
222a971b547SAndrey V. Elsukov	The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its
223ffdbf9daSAndrey V. Elsukov	functionality now turned on by default.
224a971b547SAndrey V. Elsukov
2258f134647SGleb Smirnoff20121023:
226cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and
227cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP.
228cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write
229cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes.
230cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current
231cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage.
232cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under
233cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal
234cb69178dSAndre Oppermann	of the two kernel options.
235cb69178dSAndre Oppermann
236cb69178dSAndre Oppermann20121023:
2378f134647SGleb Smirnoff	The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte
2388f134647SGleb Smirnoff	order. The following modules need to be recompiled together
2398f134647SGleb Smirnoff	with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4),
2408f134647SGleb Smirnoff	pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4).
2418f134647SGleb Smirnoff
2428859ec84SKonstantin Belousov20121022:
2438859ec84SKonstantin Belousov	Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The
2448859ec84SKonstantin Belousov	VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be
2458859ec84SKonstantin Belousov	recompiled.
2468859ec84SKonstantin Belousov
247e053ead0SAttilio Rao20121018:
248e053ead0SAttilio Rao	All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from
249e053ead0SAttilio Rao	the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs,
250e053ead0SAttilio Rao	portalfs, smbfs, xfs.
251e053ead0SAttilio Rao
25242a58907SGleb Smirnoff20121016:
25342a58907SGleb Smirnoff	The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following
25442a58907SGleb Smirnoff	modules need to be recompiled together with kernel:
25542a58907SGleb Smirnoff	ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4),
25642a58907SGleb Smirnoff	vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4),
25742a58907SGleb Smirnoff	faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4).
25842a58907SGleb Smirnoff
259d6b3aaf8SOleksandr Tymoshenko20121015:
260d6b3aaf8SOleksandr Tymoshenko	The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host
261d6b3aaf8SOleksandr Tymoshenko	Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver).
262d6b3aaf8SOleksandr Tymoshenko	No kernel config modifications are required, but if you
263d6b3aaf8SOleksandr Tymoshenko	load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead.
264d6b3aaf8SOleksandr Tymoshenko
2655fe58019SAttilio Rao20121014:
2665fe58019SAttilio Rao	Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system.
2675fe58019SAttilio Rao
268d38ae94bSGabor Kovesdan20121013:
269d38ae94bSGabor Kovesdan	The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed
270d38ae94bSGabor Kovesdan	sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious
271d38ae94bSGabor Kovesdan	problems have been reported.  The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT
27258b6d9a2SGabor Kovesdan	knob has also gone.
273d38ae94bSGabor Kovesdan
27421d172a3SGleb Smirnoff20121006:
27521d172a3SGleb Smirnoff	The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet
27621d172a3SGleb Smirnoff	filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled
27721d172a3SGleb Smirnoff	with new kernel.
27821d172a3SGleb Smirnoff
2797b81c83cSAdrian Chadd20121001:
2807b81c83cSAdrian Chadd	The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver
2817b81c83cSAdrian Chadd	PS-POLL and power-save support.  All wireless drivers need to be
2827b81c83cSAdrian Chadd	recompiled to work with the new kernel.
2837b81c83cSAdrian Chadd
284d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov20120913:
285d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov	The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number
286d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov	generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally.
287d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov	Add the PADLOCK_RNG option in the custom kernel config if
288d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov	needed.  The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the
289d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov	option, so the change only affects the custom kernel
290d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov	configurations.
291d65043bcSKonstantin Belousov
292d6d3f01eSGleb Smirnoff20120908:
293d6d3f01eSGleb Smirnoff	The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and
294d6d3f01eSGleb Smirnoff	snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel.
295d6d3f01eSGleb Smirnoff
2966e767defSMartin Matuska20120828:
2976e767defSMartin Matuska	A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged
2986e767defSMartin Matuska	to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be
2996e767defSMartin Matuska	imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support
3006e767defSMartin Matuska	this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5)
3016e767defSMartin Matuska	manual page.
3026e767defSMartin Matuska
303614e3098SMarius Strobl20120727:
304614e3098SMarius Strobl	The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto-
305614e3098SMarius Strobl	detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these
306614e3098SMarius Strobl	to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable.
307614e3098SMarius Strobl
3087e003b0aSChristian Brueffer20120712:
3091f13597dSJung-uk Kim	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c.  Any binaries requiring
3101f13597dSJung-uk Kim	libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled.  Also, there are
3111f13597dSJung-uk Kim	configuration changes.  Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf.
3121f13597dSJung-uk Kim
3131f13597dSJung-uk Kim20120712:
3147e003b0aSChristian Brueffer	The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency
3157e003b0aSChristian Brueffer	with other variables:
3167e003b0aSChristian Brueffer	  kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered   -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered
3177e003b0aSChristian Brueffer	  kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered
3187e003b0aSChristian Brueffer
319d22c63acSGabor Kovesdan20120628:
320d22c63acSGabor Kovesdan	The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort.  For now, GNU sort
321d22c63acSGabor Kovesdan	is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to
322d22c63acSGabor Kovesdan	GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT.  In this case, BSD sort will be
323d22c63acSGabor Kovesdan	installed as "bsdsort".
324d22c63acSGabor Kovesdan
3252d9cf57eSMartin Matuska20120611:
3262d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD.
3272d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning
3282d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward
3292d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS
3302d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools
3312d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information
3322d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	read the new zpool-features(5) manual page.
3332d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
3342d9cf57eSMartin Matuska	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
3352d9cf57eSMartin Matuska
336d1675e38SJason Evans20120417:
337d1675e38SJason Evans	The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported
338d1675e38SJason Evans	as contrib/jemalloc.  The most disruptive API change is to
339d1675e38SJason Evans	/etc/malloc.conf.  If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf,
340d1675e38SJason Evans	delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the
341d1675e38SJason Evans	new format after rebooting.  See malloc.conf(5) for details
342d1675e38SJason Evans	(specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL
343d1675e38SJason Evans	NAMESPACE section).
344d1675e38SJason Evans
34584db023eSJuli Mallett20120328:
34684db023eSJuli Mallett	Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb".  mips64eb
34784db023eSJuli Mallett	is now spelled mips64.  mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32.  mipseb is
34884db023eSJuli Mallett	now spelled mips.  This is to aid compatibility with third-party
34984db023eSJuli Mallett	software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3).  Little-endian
350474dbfb7SWarner Losh	settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine
351474dbfb7SWarner Losh	from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in
352474dbfb7SWarner Losh	your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine.
35384db023eSJuli Mallett
3549c170fd1SAttilio Rao20120306:
3559c170fd1SAttilio Rao	Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported
3569c170fd1SAttilio Rao	platforms.
3579c170fd1SAttilio Rao
358c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub20120229:
359c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub	Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on	nullfs(5). Previously
360c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub	nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer,
361c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub	as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect
362c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub	only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect
363c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub	only to	the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the
364c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub	lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to.
365c7e41c8bSMikolaj Golub
366ca1672daSBjoern A. Zeeb20120211:
367ca1672daSBjoern A. Zeeb	The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored.
368ca1672daSBjoern A. Zeeb	If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to
369ca1672daSBjoern A. Zeeb	recompile libc again with your kernel.  You still need to recompile
370ca1672daSBjoern A. Zeeb	world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already
371ca1672daSBjoern A. Zeeb	comes from 20111215.
372ca1672daSBjoern A. Zeeb
373e0e0f25bSDoug Barton20120114:
374e0e0f25bSDoug Barton	The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr.  All
375e0e0f25bSDoug Barton	base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a
376e0e0f25bSDoug Barton	port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either
377e0e0f25bSDoug Barton	hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port.
378e0e0f25bSDoug Barton
3795d482324SDoug Barton	An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d:
3805d482324SDoug Barton	rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i
3815d482324SDoug Barton
38290d82653SAndriy Gapon20120109:
38390d82653SAndriy Gapon	panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts
38490d82653SAndriy Gapon	on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running.
38590d82653SAndriy Gapon	This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic
38690d82653SAndriy Gapon	tunable/sysctl.
38790d82653SAndriy Gapon	The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic.
38890d82653SAndriy Gapon
38908b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff20111215:
39008b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration
39108b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format
39208b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages
39308b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently
39408b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	not supported anymore.
39508b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff
39608b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User
39708b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8),
39808b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff	need to be recompiled.
39908b68b0eSGleb Smirnoff
400d5d131eeSJaakko Heinonen20111122:
401d5d131eeSJaakko Heinonen	The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to
402d5d131eeSJaakko Heinonen	/dev/wmistat0.
403d5d131eeSJaakko Heinonen
404ed1f6dc2SAttilio Rao20111108:
405ed1f6dc2SAttilio Rao	The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to
406ed1f6dc2SAttilio Rao	explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems.
407ed1f6dc2SAttilio Rao	It is on by default for all supported platform at this present
408ed1f6dc2SAttilio Rao	time.
409ed1f6dc2SAttilio Rao
410a9ab459bSMarius Strobl20111101:
411a9ab459bSMarius Strobl	The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64,
412a9ab459bSMarius Strobl	i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files.
413a9ab459bSMarius Strobl
414e59e2d8eSNathan Whitehorn20110930:
415e59e2d8eSNathan Whitehorn	sysinstall has been removed
416e59e2d8eSNathan Whitehorn
4178a3b6cc1SKen Smith20110923:
4188a3b6cc1SKen Smith	The stable/9 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
4198a3b6cc1SKen Smith	RELENG_9 branch in CVS.
4208a3b6cc1SKen Smith
4214d30adc4SRick Macklem20110913:
4224d30adc4SRick Macklem	This commit modifies vfs_register() so that it uses a hash
4234d30adc4SRick Macklem	calculation to set vfc_typenum, which is enabled by default.
4244d30adc4SRick Macklem	The first time a system is booted after this change, the
4254d30adc4SRick Macklem	vfc_typenum values will change for all file systems. The
4264d30adc4SRick Macklem	main effect of this is a change to the NFS server file handles
4274d30adc4SRick Macklem	for file systems that use vfc_typenum in their fsid, such as ZFS.
4284d30adc4SRick Macklem	It will, however, prevent vfc_typenum from changing when file
4294d30adc4SRick Macklem	systems are loaded in a different order for subsequent reboots.
4304d30adc4SRick Macklem	To disable this, you can set vfs.typenumhash=0 in /boot/loader.conf
4314d30adc4SRick Macklem	until you are ready to remount all NFS clients after a reboot.
4324d30adc4SRick Macklem
4337596eb48SKonstantin Belousov20110828:
4347596eb48SKonstantin Belousov	Bump the shared library version numbers for libraries that
4357596eb48SKonstantin Belousov	do not use symbol versioning, have changed the ABI compared
4367596eb48SKonstantin Belousov	to stable/8 and which shared library version was not bumped.
4377596eb48SKonstantin Belousov	Done as part of 9.0-RELEASE cycle.
4387596eb48SKonstantin Belousov
43974d0c46dSRobert Watson20110815:
44074d0c46dSRobert Watson	During the merge of Capsicum features, the fget(9) KPI was modified.
44174d0c46dSRobert Watson	This may require the rebuilding of out-of-tree device drivers --
44274d0c46dSRobert Watson	issues have been reported specifically with the nVidia device driver.
44374d0c46dSRobert Watson	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 900041.
44474d0c46dSRobert Watson
44574d0c46dSRobert Watson	Also, there is a period between 20110811 and 20110814 where the
44674d0c46dSRobert Watson	special devices /dev/{stdin,stdout,stderr} did not work correctly.
44774d0c46dSRobert Watson	Building world from a kernel during that window may not work.
44874d0c46dSRobert Watson
449e0bfbfceSBjoern A. Zeeb20110628:
450e0bfbfceSBjoern A. Zeeb	The packet filter (pf) code has been updated to OpenBSD 4.5.
451e0bfbfceSBjoern A. Zeeb	You need to update userland tools to be in sync with kernel.
45270d57756SBjoern A. Zeeb	This update breaks backward compatibility with earlier pfsync(4)
45370d57756SBjoern A. Zeeb	versions.  Care must be taken when updating redundant firewall setups.
454e0bfbfceSBjoern A. Zeeb
455234dab4aSAndriy Gapon20110608:
456234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	The following sysctls and tunables are retired on x86 platforms:
457234dab4aSAndriy Gapon		machdep.hlt_cpus
458234dab4aSAndriy Gapon		machdep.hlt_logical_cpus
459234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	The following sysctl is retired:
460234dab4aSAndriy Gapon		machdep.hyperthreading_allowed
461234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	The sysctls were supposed to provide a way to dynamically offline and
462234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	online selected CPUs on x86 platforms, but the implementation has not
463234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	been reliable especially with SCHED_ULE scheduler.
464234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable is still available to ignore
465234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	hyperthreading CPUs at OS level.
466234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	Individual CPUs can be disabled using hint.lapic.X.disabled tunable,
467234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	where X is an APIC ID of a CPU.  Be advised, though, that disabling
468234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	CPUs in non-uniform fashion will result in non-uniform topology and
469234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	may lead to sub-optimal system performance with SCHED_ULE, which is
470234dab4aSAndriy Gapon	a default scheduler.
471234dab4aSAndriy Gapon
472f0fcb367SAttilio Rao20110607:
473f0fcb367SAttilio Rao	cpumask_t type is retired and cpuset_t is used in order to describe
474f0fcb367SAttilio Rao	a mask of CPUs.
475f0fcb367SAttilio Rao
476ec49fe39SBjoern A. Zeeb20110531:
477ec49fe39SBjoern A. Zeeb	Changes to ifconfig(8) for dynamic address family detection mandate
478ec49fe39SBjoern A. Zeeb	that you are running a kernel of 20110525 or later.  Make sure to
479ec49fe39SBjoern A. Zeeb	follow the update procedure to boot a new kernel before installing
480ec49fe39SBjoern A. Zeeb	world.
481ec49fe39SBjoern A. Zeeb
4824b547324SAttilio Rao20110513:
4834b547324SAttilio Rao	Support for sun4v architecture is officially dropped
4844b547324SAttilio Rao
4854a58ecccSMarius Strobl20110503:
4864a58ecccSMarius Strobl	Several KPI breaking changes have been committed to the mii(4) layer,
4874a58ecccSMarius Strobl	the PHY drivers and consequently some Ethernet drivers using mii(4).
4884a58ecccSMarius Strobl	This means that miibus.ko and the modules of the affected Ethernet
4894a58ecccSMarius Strobl	drivers need to be recompiled.
4904a58ecccSMarius Strobl
4914a58ecccSMarius Strobl	Note to kernel developers: Given that the OUI bit reversion problem
4924a58ecccSMarius Strobl	was fixed as part of these changes all mii(4) commits related to OUIs,
4934a58ecccSMarius Strobl	i.e. to sys/dev/mii/miidevs, PHY driver probing and vendor specific
4944a58ecccSMarius Strobl	handling, no longer can be merged verbatim to stable/8 and previous
4954a58ecccSMarius Strobl	branches.
4964a58ecccSMarius Strobl
497f9dfbfa1SAdrian Chadd20110430:
498f9dfbfa1SAdrian Chadd	Users of the Atheros AR71xx SoC code now need to add 'device ar71xx_pci'
499f9dfbfa1SAdrian Chadd	into their kernel configurations along with 'device pci'.
500f9dfbfa1SAdrian Chadd
5014309e17aSRick Macklem20110427:
5024309e17aSRick Macklem	The default NFS client is now the new NFS client, so fstype "newnfs"
5034309e17aSRick Macklem	is now "nfs" and the regular/old NFS client is now fstype "oldnfs".
5044309e17aSRick Macklem	Although mounts via fstype "nfs" will usually work without userland
5054309e17aSRick Macklem	changes, it is recommended that the mount(8) and mount_nfs(8)
5064309e17aSRick Macklem	commands be rebuilt from sources and that a link to mount_nfs called
5074309e17aSRick Macklem	mount_oldnfs be created. The new client is compiled into the
5084309e17aSRick Macklem	kernel with "options NFSCL" and this is needed for diskless root
5094309e17aSRick Macklem	file systems. The GENERIC kernel configs have been changed to use
5104309e17aSRick Macklem	NFSCL and NFSD (the new server) instead of NFSCLIENT and NFSSERVER.
5114309e17aSRick Macklem	To use the regular/old client, you can "mount -t oldnfs ...". For
5124309e17aSRick Macklem	a diskless root file system, you must also include a line like:
5134309e17aSRick Macklem
5144309e17aSRick Macklem	vfs.root.mountfrom="oldnfs:"
5154309e17aSRick Macklem
5164309e17aSRick Macklem	in the boot/loader.conf on the root fs on the NFS server to make
5174309e17aSRick Macklem	a diskless root fs use the old client.
5184309e17aSRick Macklem
51997b53e36SAlexander Motin20110424:
52097b53e36SAlexander Motin	The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new
52197b53e36SAlexander Motin	CAM-based ATA stack. It means that all legacy ATA drivers were
52297b53e36SAlexander Motin	removed and replaced by respective CAM drivers. If you are using
52397b53e36SAlexander Motin	ATA device names in /etc/fstab or other places, make sure to update
52497b53e36SAlexander Motin	them respectively (adX -> adaY, acdX -> cdY, afdX -> daY, astX -> saY,
525ddfddf12SAlexander Motin	where 'Y's are the sequential numbers starting from zero for each type
526ddfddf12SAlexander Motin	in order of detection, unless configured otherwise with tunables,
5270d307e09SAlexander Motin	see cam(4)). There will be symbolic links created in /dev/ to map
5280d307e09SAlexander Motin	old adX devices to the respective adaY. They should provide basic
5290d307e09SAlexander Motin	compatibility for file systems mounting in most cases, but they do
5300d307e09SAlexander Motin	not support old user-level APIs and do not have respective providers
5310d307e09SAlexander Motin	in GEOM. Consider using updated management tools with new device names.
5320d307e09SAlexander Motin
5330d307e09SAlexander Motin	It is possible to load devices ahci, ata, siis and mvs as modules,
5340d307e09SAlexander Motin	but option ATA_CAM should remain in kernel configuration to make ata
5350d307e09SAlexander Motin	module work as CAM driver supporting legacy ATA controllers. Device ata
5360d307e09SAlexander Motin	still can be used in modular fashion (atacore + ...). Modules atadisk
5370d307e09SAlexander Motin	and atapi* are not used and won't affect operation in ATA_CAM mode.
5385d4ac622SAlexander Motin	Note that to use CAM-based ATA kernel should include CAM devices
5395d4ac622SAlexander Motin	scbus, pass, da (or explicitly ada), cd and optionally others. All of
5405d4ac622SAlexander Motin	them are parts of the cam module.
54197b53e36SAlexander Motin
54297b53e36SAlexander Motin	ataraid(4) functionality is now supported by the RAID GEOM class.
54397b53e36SAlexander Motin	To use it you can load geom_raid kernel module and use graid(8) tool
54497b53e36SAlexander Motin	for management. Instead of /dev/arX device names, use /dev/raid/rX.
54597b53e36SAlexander Motin
54697b53e36SAlexander Motin	No kernel config options or code have been removed, so if a problem
54797b53e36SAlexander Motin	arises, please report it and optionally revert to the old ATA stack.
54897b53e36SAlexander Motin	In order to do it you can remove from the kernel config:
54997b53e36SAlexander Motin	    options        ATA_CAM
55097b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         ahci
55197b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         mvs
55297b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         siis
55397b53e36SAlexander Motin	, and instead add back:
55497b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         atadisk         # ATA disk drives
55597b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         ataraid         # ATA RAID drives
55697b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         atapicd         # ATAPI CDROM drives
55797b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         atapifd         # ATAPI floppy drives
55897b53e36SAlexander Motin	    device         atapist         # ATAPI tape drives
55997b53e36SAlexander Motin
5602a85df8cSRick Macklem20110423:
5612a85df8cSRick Macklem	The default NFS server has been changed to the new server, which
5622a85df8cSRick Macklem	was referred to as the experimental server. If you need to switch
5632a85df8cSRick Macklem	back to the old NFS server, you must now put the "-o" option on
5642a85df8cSRick Macklem	both the mountd and nfsd commands. This can be done using the
5652a85df8cSRick Macklem	mountd_flags and nfs_server_flags rc.conf variables until an
5662a85df8cSRick Macklem	update to the rc scripts is committed, which is coming soon.
5672a85df8cSRick Macklem
56866f3a31fSDimitry Andric20110418:
56966f3a31fSDimitry Andric	The GNU Objective-C runtime library (libobjc), and other Objective-C
57066f3a31fSDimitry Andric	related components have been removed from the base system.  If you
57166f3a31fSDimitry Andric	require an Objective-C library, please use one of the available ports.
57266f3a31fSDimitry Andric
5731c62cc63SAdrian Chadd20110331:
5741c62cc63SAdrian Chadd	ath(4) has been split into bus- and device- modules. if_ath contains
5751c62cc63SAdrian Chadd	the HAL, the TX rate control and the network device code. if_ath_pci
5761c62cc63SAdrian Chadd	contains the PCI bus glue. For Atheros MIPS embedded systems, if_ath_ahb
5771c62cc63SAdrian Chadd	contains the AHB glue. Users need to load both if_ath_pci and if_ath
5781c62cc63SAdrian Chadd	in order to use ath on everything else.
5791c62cc63SAdrian Chadd
5801c62cc63SAdrian Chadd	TO REPEAT: if_ath_ahb is not needed for normal users. Normal users only
5811c62cc63SAdrian Chadd	need to load if_ath and if_ath_pci for ath(4) operation.
5821c62cc63SAdrian Chadd
5830a4b5285SNathan Whitehorn20110314:
5840a4b5285SNathan Whitehorn	As part of the replacement of sysinstall, the process of building
5850a4b5285SNathan Whitehorn	release media has changed significantly. For details, please re-read
5860a4b5285SNathan Whitehorn	release(7), which has been updated to reflect the new build process.
5870a4b5285SNathan Whitehorn
58876f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan20110218:
589ce8fb931SDimitry Andric	GNU binutils 2.17.50 (as of 2007-07-03) has been merged to -HEAD.  This
590ce8fb931SDimitry Andric	is the last available version under GPLv2.  It brings a number of new
591ce8fb931SDimitry Andric	features, such as support for newer x86 CPU's (with SSE-3, SSSE-3, SSE
592ce8fb931SDimitry Andric	4.1 and SSE 4.2), better support for powerpc64, a number of new
593ce8fb931SDimitry Andric	directives, and lots of other small improvements.  See the ChangeLog
594ce8fb931SDimitry Andric	file in contrib/binutils for the full details.
595ce8fb931SDimitry Andric
596ce8fb931SDimitry Andric20110218:
59776f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	IPsec's HMAC_SHA256-512 support has been fixed to be RFC4868
59876f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	compliant, and will now use half of hash for authentication.
59976f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	This will break interoperability with all stacks (including all
60076f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	actual FreeBSD versions) who implement
60176f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-sha-256-00 (they use 96 bits of hash for
60276f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	authentication).
60376f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	The only workaround with such peers is to use another HMAC
60476f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan	algorithm for IPsec ("phase 2") authentication.
60576f9415bSVANHULLEBUS Yvan
60613434232SMatthew D Fleming20110207:
60713434232SMatthew D Fleming	Remove the uio_yield prototype and symbol.  This function has
60813434232SMatthew D Fleming	been misnamed since it was introduced and should not be
60913434232SMatthew D Fleming	globally exposed with this name.  The equivalent functionality
61013434232SMatthew D Fleming	is now available using kern_yield(curthread->td_user_pri).
61113434232SMatthew D Fleming	The function remains undocumented.
61213434232SMatthew D Fleming
6134c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn20110112:
6141eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	A SYSCTL_[ADD_]UQUAD was added for unsigned uint64_t pointers,
6151eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	symmetric with the existing SYSCTL_[ADD_]QUAD.  Type checking
6161eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	for scalar sysctls is defined but disabled.  Code that needs
6171eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	UQUAD to pass the type checking that must compile on older
6181eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	systems where the define is not present can check against
6191eae8811SMatthew D Fleming	__FreeBSD_version >= 900030.
6201eae8811SMatthew D Fleming
6214c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	The system dialog(1) has been replaced with a new version previously
6224c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	in ports as devel/cdialog. dialog(1) is mostly command-line compatible
6234c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	with the previous version, but the libdialog associated with it has
6244c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	a largely incompatible API. As such, the original version of libdialog
6254c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	will be kept temporarily as libodialog, until its base system consumers
6264c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn	are replaced or updated. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900030.
6274c8945a0SNathan Whitehorn
628e4f64803SWarner Losh20110103:
629e4f64803SWarner Losh	If you are trying to run make universe on a -stable system, and you get
630e4f64803SWarner Losh	the following warning:
6317b57aa33SRebecca Cran	"Makefile", line 356: "Target architecture for i386/conf/GENERIC
6327b57aa33SRebecca Cran	unknown.  config(8) likely too old."
633e4f64803SWarner Losh	or something similar to it, then you must upgrade your -stable system
634e4f64803SWarner Losh	to 8.2-Release or newer (really, any time after r210146 7/15/2010 in
635e4f64803SWarner Losh	stable/8) or build the config from the latest stable/8 branch and
636e4f64803SWarner Losh	install it on your system.
637e4f64803SWarner Losh
638e4f64803SWarner Losh	Prior to this date, building a current universe on 8-stable system from
639e4f64803SWarner Losh	between 7/15/2010 and 1/2/2011 would result in a weird shell parsing
6407b57aa33SRebecca Cran	error in the first kernel build phase.  A new config on those old
6417b57aa33SRebecca Cran	systems will fix that problem for older versions of -current.
642e4f64803SWarner Losh
64339bc9de5SLawrence Stewart20101228:
64439bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	The TCP stack has been modified to allow Khelp modules to interact with
64539bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	it via helper hook points and store per-connection data in the TCP
64639bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	control block. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900029. User space tools that
64739bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to
64839bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	be recompiled.
64939bc9de5SLawrence Stewart
650efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl20101114:
651efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Generic IEEE 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support has been
652efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	added to mii(4) and bge(4), bce(4), msk(4), nfe(4) and stge(4) along
653efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	with brgphy(4), e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy() have been converted
654efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	to take advantage of it instead of using custom implementations.  This
655efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	means that these drivers now no longer unconditionally advertise
656efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	support for flow control but only do so if flow control is a selected
657efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	media option.  This was implemented in the generic support that way in
658efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	order to allow flow control to be switched on and off via ifconfig(8)
659efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	with the PHY specific default to typically off in order to protect
660efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	from unwanted effects.  Consequently, if you used flow control with
661efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	one of the above mentioned drivers you now need to explicitly enable
662efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	it, for example via:
663efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl		ifconfig bge0 media auto mediaopt flowcontrol
664efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
665efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Along with the above mentioned changes generic support for setting
666efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	1000baseT master mode also has been added and brgphy(4), ciphy(4),
667efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy(4) have been converted to take
668efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	advantage of it.  This means that these drivers now no longer take the
669efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	link0 parameter for selecting master mode but the master media option
670efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	has to be used instead, for example like in the following:
671efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl		ifconfig bge0 media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,master
672efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
673efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Selection of master mode now is also available with all other PHY
674efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	drivers supporting 1000baseT.
675efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
676dbc42409SLawrence Stewart20101111:
677dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	The TCP stack has received a significant update to add support for
678dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	modularised congestion control and generally improve the clarity of
679dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	congestion control decisions. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900025. User
680dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g.
681dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	sockstat) need to be recompiled.
682dbc42409SLawrence Stewart
683fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow20101002:
684fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	The man(1) utility has been replaced by a new version that no longer
685fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	uses /etc/manpath.config. Please consult man.conf(5) for how to
686fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	migrate local entries to the new format.
687fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow
688337299c6SEd Maste20100928:
689337299c6SEd Maste	The copyright strings printed by login(1) and sshd(8) at the time of a
690337299c6SEd Maste	new connection have been removed to follow other operating systems and
691337299c6SEd Maste	upstream sshd.
692337299c6SEd Maste
693f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon20100915:
694f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon	A workaround for a fixed ld bug has been removed in kernel code,
695f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon	so make sure that your system ld is built from sources after
696130a0815SAndriy Gapon	revision 210245 from 2010-07-19 (r211583 if building head kernel
697130a0815SAndriy Gapon	on stable/8, r211584 for stable/7; both from 2010-08-21).
698130a0815SAndriy Gapon	A symptom of incorrect ld version is different addresses for
699130a0815SAndriy Gapon	set_pcpu section and __start_set_pcpu symbol in kernel and/or modules.
700f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon
701d69eb520SRui Paulo20100913:
702d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ipv6_prefer variable in rc.conf(5) has been split into
703d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	$ip6addrctl_policy and $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces.
704d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
705d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ip6addrctl_policy is a variable to choose a pre-defined
706d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	address selection policy set by ip6addrctl(8).  A value
707d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	"ipv4_prefer", "ipv6_prefer" or "AUTO" can be specified.  The
708d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	default is "AUTO".
709d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
710d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces specifies whether IFDISABLED
711d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	flag (see an entry of 20090926) is set on an interface with no
712d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	corresponding $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 line.  The default is "NO" for
713d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	security reason.  If you want IPv6 link-local address on all
714d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	interfaces by default, set this to "YES".
715d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
716d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The old ipv6_prefer="YES" is equivalent to
717d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" and
718d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer".
719d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
720d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato20100913:
721d69eb520SRui Paulo	DTrace has grown support for userland tracing. Due to this, DTrace is
722d69eb520SRui Paulo	now i386 and amd64 only.
723d69eb520SRui Paulo	dtruss(1) is now installed by default on those systems and a new
724d69eb520SRui Paulo	kernel module is needed for userland tracing: fasttrap.
725d69eb520SRui Paulo	No changes to your kernel config file are necessary to enable
726d69eb520SRui Paulo	userland tracing, but you might consider adding 'STRIP=' and
727d69eb520SRui Paulo	'CFLAGS+=-fno-omit-frame-pointer' to your make.conf if you want
728d69eb520SRui Paulo	to have informative userland stack traces in DTrace (ustack).
729d69eb520SRui Paulo
73040650455SRui Paulo20100725:
73140650455SRui Paulo	The acpi_aiboost(4) driver has been removed in favor of the new
73240650455SRui Paulo	aibs(4) driver. You should update your kernel configuration file.
73340650455SRui Paulo
7344dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan20100722:
7354dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	BSD grep has been imported to the base system and it is built by
7364dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	default.  It is completely BSD licensed, highly GNU-compatible, uses
7374dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	less memory than its GNU counterpart and has a small codebase.
7384dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	However, it is slower than its GNU counterpart, which is mostly
7394dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	noticeable for larger searches, for smaller ones it is measurable
7404dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	but not significant.  The reason is complex, the most important factor
7414dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	is that we lack a modern and efficient regex library and GNU
7424dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	overcomes this by optimizing the searches internally.  Future work
7434dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	on improving the regex performance is planned, for the meantime,
7444dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	users that need better performance, can build GNU grep instead by
7454dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	setting the WITH_GNU_GREP knob.
7462965a453SKip Macy
7478fc25799SMartin Matuska20100713:
748c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	Due to the import of powerpc64 support, all existing powerpc kernel
749c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	configuration files must be updated with a machine directive like this:
750c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	    machine powerpc powerpc
751c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn
752c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	In addition, an updated config(8) is required to build powerpc kernels
753c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	after this change.
754c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn
755c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn20100713:
7568fc25799SMartin Matuska	A new version of ZFS (version 15) has been merged to -HEAD.
7578fc25799SMartin Matuska	This version uses a python library for the following subcommands:
7588fc25799SMartin Matuska	zfs allow, zfs unallow, zfs groupspace, zfs userspace.
7598fc25799SMartin Matuska	For full functionality of these commands the following port must
7608fc25799SMartin Matuska	be installed: sysutils/py-zfs
7618fc25799SMartin Matuska
7622965a453SKip Macy20100429:
7632965a453SKip Macy	'vm_page's are now hashed by physical address to an array of mutexes.
7642965a453SKip Macy	Currently this is only used to serialize access to hold_count. Over
7652965a453SKip Macy	time the page queue mutex will be peeled away. This changes the size
7662965a453SKip Macy	of pmap on every architecture. And requires all callers of vm_page_hold
7672965a453SKip Macy	and vm_page_unhold to be updated.
7682965a453SKip Macy
76921edb039SAlexander Leidinger20100402:
77021edb039SAlexander Leidinger	WITH_CTF can now be specified in src.conf (not recommended, there
77121edb039SAlexander Leidinger	are some problems with static executables), make.conf (would also
77221edb039SAlexander Leidinger	affect ports which do not use GNU make and do not override the
77321edb039SAlexander Leidinger	compile targets) or in the kernel config (via "makeoptions
77421edb039SAlexander Leidinger	WITH_CTF=yes").
77521edb039SAlexander Leidinger	When WITH_CTF was specified there before this was silently ignored,
77621edb039SAlexander Leidinger	so make sure that WITH_CTF is not used in places which could lead
77721edb039SAlexander Leidinger	to unwanted behavior.
77821edb039SAlexander Leidinger
779841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn20100311:
780841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	The kernel option COMPAT_IA32 has been replaced with COMPAT_FREEBSD32
781841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	to allow 32-bit compatibility on non-x86 platforms. All kernel
782841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	configurations on amd64 and ia64 platforms using these options must
783841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	be modified accordingly.
784841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn
785279d8efeSEd Schouten20100113:
786279d8efeSEd Schouten	The utmp user accounting database has been replaced with utmpx,
787279d8efeSEd Schouten	the user accounting interface standardized by POSIX.
788279d8efeSEd Schouten	Unfortunately the semantics of utmp and utmpx don't match,
789279d8efeSEd Schouten	making it practically impossible to support both interfaces.
790279d8efeSEd Schouten	The user accounting database is used by tools like finger(1),
791279d8efeSEd Schouten	last(1), talk(1), w(1) and ac(8).
792279d8efeSEd Schouten
793279d8efeSEd Schouten	All applications in the base system use utmpx.  This means only
794279d8efeSEd Schouten	local binaries (e.g. from the ports tree) may still use these
795279d8efeSEd Schouten	utmp database files.  These applications must be rebuilt to make
796279d8efeSEd Schouten	use of utmpx.
797279d8efeSEd Schouten
798279d8efeSEd Schouten	After the system has been upgraded, it is safe to remove the old
799279d8efeSEd Schouten	log files (/var/run/utmp, /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/wtmp*),
8005ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	assuming their contents is of no importance anymore.  Old wtmp
8015ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	databases can only be used by last(1) and ac(8) after they have
8025ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	been converted to the new format using wtmpcvt(1).
803279d8efeSEd Schouten
804f7829d0dSAttilio Rao20100108:
805f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	Introduce the kernel thread "deadlock resolver" (which can be enabled
806f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	via the DEADLKRES option, see NOTES for more details) and the
807f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	sleepq_type() function for sleepqueues.
808f7829d0dSAttilio Rao
809f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO20091202:
810f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	The rc.firewall and rc.firewall6 were unified, and
811f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	rc.firewall6 and rc.d/ip6fw were removed.
812f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	According to the removal of rc.d/ip6fw, ipv6_firewall_* rc
813f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	variables are obsoleted.  Instead, the following new rc
814f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	variables are added to rc.d/ipfw:
815f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
816f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_client_net_ipv6, firewall_simple_iif_ipv6,
817f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_simple_inet_ipv6, firewall_simple_oif_ipv6,
818f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_simple_onet_ipv6, firewall_trusted_ipv6
819f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
820f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	The meanings correspond to the relevant IPv4 variables.
821f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
822e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer20091125:
823e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer	8.0-RELEASE.
824e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer
825e42fc368SEd Schouten20091113:
826e42fc368SEd Schouten	The default terminal emulation for syscons(4) has been changed
8274b2361f8SEd Schouten	from cons25 to xterm on all platforms except pc98.  This means
8284b2361f8SEd Schouten	that the /etc/ttys file needs to be updated to ensure correct
8294b2361f8SEd Schouten	operation of applications on the console.
830e42fc368SEd Schouten
831e42fc368SEd Schouten	The terminal emulation style can be toggled per window by using
8324b2361f8SEd Schouten	vidcontrol(1)'s -T flag.  The TEKEN_CONS25 kernel configuration
8334b2361f8SEd Schouten	options can be used to change the compile-time default back to
8344b2361f8SEd Schouten	cons25.
835e42fc368SEd Schouten
836e42fc368SEd Schouten	To prevent graphical artifacts, make sure the TERM environment
837e42fc368SEd Schouten	variable is set to match the terminal emulation that is being
838e42fc368SEd Schouten	performed by syscons(4).
839e42fc368SEd Schouten
84007ddebb5SRui Paulo20091109:
84107ddebb5SRui Paulo	The layout of the structure ieee80211req_scan_result has changed.
84207ddebb5SRui Paulo	Applications that require wireless scan results (e.g. ifconfig(8))
84307ddebb5SRui Paulo	from net80211 need to be recompiled.
84407ddebb5SRui Paulo
84596b4300cSDoug Barton	Applications such as wpa_supplicant(8) may require a full world
84696b4300cSDoug Barton	build without using NO_CLEAN in order to get synchronized with the
84796b4300cSDoug Barton	new structure.
84896b4300cSDoug Barton
84963b49c2bSRui Paulo20091025:
85063b49c2bSRui Paulo	The iwn(4) driver has been updated to support the 5000 and 5150 series.
85163b49c2bSRui Paulo	There's one kernel module for each firmware. Adding "device iwnfw"
85263b49c2bSRui Paulo	to the kernel configuration file means including all three firmware
85363b49c2bSRui Paulo	images inside the kernel. If you want to include just the one for
85436daf049SEitan Adler	your wireless card, use the devices iwn4965fw, iwn5000fw or
85563b49c2bSRui Paulo	iwn5150fw.
85663b49c2bSRui Paulo
8572e77c5abSHiroki Sato20090926:
8582e77c5abSHiroki Sato	The rc.d/network_ipv6, IPv6 configuration script has been integrated
8592e77c5abSHiroki Sato	into rc.d/netif.  The changes are the following:
8602e77c5abSHiroki Sato
8612e77c5abSHiroki Sato	1. To use IPv6, simply define $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 like $ifconfig_IF
8622e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   for IPv4.  For aliases, $ifconfig_IF_aliasN should be used.
8632e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Note that both variables need the "inet6" keyword at the head.
8642e77c5abSHiroki Sato
8652e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Do not set $ipv6_network_interfaces manually if you do not
8662e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   understand what you are doing.  It is not needed in most cases.
8672e77c5abSHiroki Sato
8682e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ipv6_ifconfig_IF and $ipv6_ifconfig_IF_aliasN still work, but
8692e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   they are obsolete.
8702e77c5abSHiroki Sato
8712e77c5abSHiroki Sato	2. $ipv6_enable is obsolete.  Use $ipv6_prefer and
8722e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   "inet6 accept_rtadv" keyword in ifconfig(8) instead.
8732e77c5abSHiroki Sato
8742e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   If you define $ipv6_enable=YES, it means $ipv6_prefer=YES and
8752e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   all configured interfaces have "inet6 accept_rtadv" in the
8762e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  These are for backward compatibility.
8772e77c5abSHiroki Sato
8782e77c5abSHiroki Sato	3. A new variable $ipv6_prefer has been added.  If NO, IPv6
8792e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   functionality of interfaces with no corresponding
8802e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 is disabled by using "inet6 ifdisabled" flag,
8812e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   and the default address selection policy of ip6addrctl(8)
8822e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   is the IPv4-preferred one (see rc.d/ip6addrctl for more details).
8832e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Note that if you want to configure IPv6 functionality on the
8842e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   disabled interfaces after boot, first you need to clear the flag by
8852e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   using ifconfig(8) like:
8862e77c5abSHiroki Sato
8872e77c5abSHiroki Sato		ifconfig em0 inet6 -ifdisabled
8882e77c5abSHiroki Sato
8892e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   If YES, the default address selection policy is set as
8902e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   IPv6-preferred.
8912e77c5abSHiroki Sato
8922e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   The default value of $ipv6_prefer is NO.
8932e77c5abSHiroki Sato
8942e77c5abSHiroki Sato	4. If your system need to receive Router Advertisement messages,
8952e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   define "inet6 accept_rtadv" in $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  The rc(8)
8962e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   scripts automatically invoke rtsol(8) when the interface becomes
8972e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   UP.  The Router Advertisement messages are used for SLAAC
8982e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   (State-Less Address AutoConfiguration).
8992e77c5abSHiroki Sato
900350036a0SRui Paulo20090922:
901350036a0SRui Paulo	802.11s D3.03 support was committed. This is incompatible with the
902350036a0SRui Paulo	previous code, which was based on D3.0.
903350036a0SRui Paulo
9042e77c5abSHiroki Sato20090912:
9052e77c5abSHiroki Sato	A sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv now sets the default value
9062e77c5abSHiroki Sato	of a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV, not a global knob to
9072e77c5abSHiroki Sato	control whether accepting Router Advertisement messages or not.
9082e77c5abSHiroki Sato	Also, a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_AUTO_LINKLOCAL has been added and
9092e77c5abSHiroki Sato	a sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal is its default value.
9102e77c5abSHiroki Sato	The ifconfig(8) utility now supports these flags.
9112e77c5abSHiroki Sato
91263e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek20090910:
91363e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek	ZFS snapshots are now mounted with MNT_IGNORE flag. Use -v option for
91463e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek	mount(8) and -a option for df(1) to see them.
91563e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek
916411c7658SWarner Losh20090825:
917411c7658SWarner Losh	The old tunable hw.bus.devctl_disable has been superseded by
918411c7658SWarner Losh	hw.bus.devctl_queue.  hw.bus.devctl_disable=1 in loader.conf should be
919411c7658SWarner Losh	replaced by hw.bus.devctl_queue=0.  The default for this new tunable
920411c7658SWarner Losh	is 1000.
921411c7658SWarner Losh
922dc6fbf65SAttilio Rao20090813:
923456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Remove the option STOP_NMI.  The default action is now to use NMI only
924456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for KDB via the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and
925456b5dd8SWarner Losh	maintain stop_cpus() to just use a normal IPI_STOP on ia32 and amd64.
926456b5dd8SWarner Losh
927456b5dd8SWarner Losh20090803:
928f6a4f4b5SWarner Losh	The stable/8 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
929f6a4f4b5SWarner Losh	RELENG_8 branch in CVS.
930dc6fbf65SAttilio Rao
9313ca3047aSKen Smith20090719:
932456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Bump the shared library version numbers for all libraries that do not
933456b5dd8SWarner Losh	use symbol versioning as part of the 8.0-RELEASE cycle.  Bump
934456b5dd8SWarner Losh	__FreeBSD_version to 800105.
9353ca3047aSKen Smith
936eddfbb76SRobert Watson20090714:
937456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Due to changes in the implementation of virtual network stack support,
938456b5dd8SWarner Losh	all network-related kernel modules must be recompiled.  As this change
939456b5dd8SWarner Losh	breaks the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800104.
940eddfbb76SRobert Watson
941237fbe0aSLawrence Stewart20090713:
942456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The TOE interface to the TCP syncache has been modified to remove
943456b5dd8SWarner Losh	struct tcpopt (<netinet/tcp_var.h>) from the ABI of the network stack.
944456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The cxgb driver is the only TOE consumer affected by this change, and
945456b5dd8SWarner Losh	needs to be recompiled along with the kernel. As this change breaks
946456b5dd8SWarner Losh	the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800103.
947237fbe0aSLawrence Stewart
948962ebef8SLawrence Stewart20090712:
949962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	Padding has been added to struct tcpcb, sackhint and tcpstat in
950962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	<netinet/tcp_var.h> to facilitate future MFCs and bug fixes whilst
9511733d35cSRuslan Ermilov	maintaining the ABI. However, this change breaks the ABI, so bump
952962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	__FreeBSD_version to 800102. User space tools that rely on the size of
953962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	any of these structs (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
954962ebef8SLawrence Stewart
955bab42aadSDoug Rabson20090630:
956456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The NFS_LEGACYRPC option has been removed along with the old kernel
957456b5dd8SWarner Losh	RPC implementation that this option selected. Kernel configurations
958456b5dd8SWarner Losh	may need to be adjusted.
959bab42aadSDoug Rabson
9606cb7f168SBrooks Davis20090629:
961456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The network interface device nodes at /dev/net/<interface> have been
962456b5dd8SWarner Losh	removed.  All ioctl operations can be performed the normal way using
963456b5dd8SWarner Losh	routing sockets.  The kqueue functionality can generally be replaced
964456b5dd8SWarner Losh	with routing sockets.
9656cb7f168SBrooks Davis
966944bc81dSMarc Fonvieille20090628:
967456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The documentation from the FreeBSD Documentation Project (Handbook,
968456b5dd8SWarner Losh	FAQ, etc.) is now installed via packages by sysinstall(8) and under
969456b5dd8SWarner Losh	the /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd directory instead of /usr/share/doc.
970944bc81dSMarc Fonvieille
971f5e4c105SJohn Baldwin20090624:
972456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The ABI of various structures related to the SYSV IPC API have been
973456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed.  As a result, the COMPAT_FREEBSD[456] and COMPAT_43 kernel
974456b5dd8SWarner Losh	options now all require COMPAT_FREEBSD7.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to
975456b5dd8SWarner Losh	800100.
976f5e4c105SJohn Baldwin
977b58ea5f3SBjoern A. Zeeb20090622:
978456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Layout of struct vnet has changed as routing related variables were
979456b5dd8SWarner Losh	moved to their own Vimage module. Modules need to be recompiled.  Bump
980456b5dd8SWarner Losh	__FreeBSD_version to 800099.
981b58ea5f3SBjoern A. Zeeb
982838d9858SBrooks Davis20090619:
983456b5dd8SWarner Losh	NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS have been increased from 16 to 1023 and 1024
984456b5dd8SWarner Losh	respectively.  As long as no more than 16 groups per process are used,
985456b5dd8SWarner Losh	no changes should be visible.  When more than 16 groups are used, old
986456b5dd8SWarner Losh	binaries may fail if they call getgroups() or getgrouplist() with
987456b5dd8SWarner Losh	statically sized storage.  Recompiling will work around this, but
988456b5dd8SWarner Losh	applications should be modified to use dynamically allocated storage
989456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for group arrays as POSIX.1-2008 does not cap an implementation's
990456b5dd8SWarner Losh	number of supported groups at NGROUPS_MAX+1 as previous versions did.
991838d9858SBrooks Davis
992456b5dd8SWarner Losh	NFS and portalfs mounts may also be affected as the list of groups is
993456b5dd8SWarner Losh	truncated to 16.  Users of NFS who use more than 16 groups, should
994456b5dd8SWarner Losh	take care that negative group permissions are not used on the exported
995456b5dd8SWarner Losh	file systems as they will not be reliable unless a GSSAPI based
996456b5dd8SWarner Losh	authentication method is used.
997838d9858SBrooks Davis
998651175c9SAttilio Rao20090616:
999456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_LOCKMGRS has been introduced.  This
1000456b5dd8SWarner Losh	option compiles in the support for adaptive spinning for lockmgrs
1001456b5dd8SWarner Losh	which want to enable it.  The lockinit() function now accepts the flag
1002456b5dd8SWarner Losh	LK_ADAPTIVE in order to make the lock object subject to adaptive
1003456b5dd8SWarner Losh	spinning when both held in write and read mode.
1004651175c9SAttilio Rao
10052c727cb9SSam Leffler20090613:
1006456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of the structure returned by IEEE80211_IOC_STA_INFO has
1007456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed.  User applications that use this ioctl need to be rebuilt.
10082c727cb9SSam Leffler
1009f089869fSMarko Zec20090611:
1010456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of struct thread has changed.  Kernel and modules need to
1011456b5dd8SWarner Losh	be rebuilt.
1012f089869fSMarko Zec
1013bc29160dSMarko Zec20090608:
1014456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of structs ifnet, domain, protosw and vnet_net has changed.
1015456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Kernel modules need to be rebuilt.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097.
1016bc29160dSMarko Zec
101789f98d57SEd Schouten20090602:
101889f98d57SEd Schouten	window(1) has been removed from the base system. It can now be
101989f98d57SEd Schouten	installed from ports. The port is called misc/window.
102089f98d57SEd Schouten
1021c2c2a7c1SBjoern A. Zeeb20090601:
1022456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The way we are storing and accessing `routing table' entries has
1023456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed. Programs reading the FIB, like netstat, need to be
1024456b5dd8SWarner Losh	re-compiled.
1025c2c2a7c1SBjoern A. Zeeb
1026529cb8e3SRobert Watson20090601:
1027529cb8e3SRobert Watson	A new netisr implementation has been added for FreeBSD 8.  Network
1028529cb8e3SRobert Watson	file system modules, such as igmp, ipdivert, and others, should be
1029529cb8e3SRobert Watson	rebuilt.
1030529cb8e3SRobert Watson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800096.
1031529cb8e3SRobert Watson
10322a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala20090530:
1033456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Remove the tunable/sysctl debug.mpsafevfs as its initial purpose is no
1034456b5dd8SWarner Losh	more valid.
1035faef64ccSAttilio Rao
1036faef64ccSAttilio Rao20090530:
10372a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Add VOP_ACCESSX(9).  File system modules need to be rebuilt.
10382a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800094.
10392a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala
1040b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala20090529:
1041456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Add mnt_xflag field to 'struct mount'.  File system modules need to be
1042456b5dd8SWarner Losh	rebuilt.
1043b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800093.
1044b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala
10451ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao20090528:
10461ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_SX has been retired while it has been
10471ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	introduced the option NO_ADAPTIVE_SX which handles the reversed logic.
10481ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	The KPI for sx_init_flags() changes as accepting flags:
1049456b5dd8SWarner Losh	SX_ADAPTIVESPIN flag has been retired while the SX_NOADAPTIVE flag has
1050456b5dd8SWarner Losh	been introduced in order to handle the reversed logic.
10511ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800092.
10521ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao
10530304c731SJamie Gritton20090527:
10540304c731SJamie Gritton	Add support for hierarchical jails.  Remove global securelevel.
10550304c731SJamie Gritton	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800091.
10560304c731SJamie Gritton
1057dfc79e89SEdwin Groothuis20090523:
105837f17770SMarko Zec	The layout of struct vnet_net has changed, therefore modules
105937f17770SMarko Zec	need to be rebuilt.
106037f17770SMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800090.
106137f17770SMarko Zec
106237f17770SMarko Zec20090523:
1063456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The newly imported zic(8) produces a new format in the output. Please
1064456b5dd8SWarner Losh	run tzsetup(8) to install the newly created data to /etc/localtime.
1065dfc79e89SEdwin Groothuis
106623790ac0SSam Leffler20090520:
10679360ae40SAndrew Thompson	The sysctl tree for the usb stack has renamed from hw.usb2.* to
10689360ae40SAndrew Thompson	hw.usb.* and is now consistent again with previous releases.
10699360ae40SAndrew Thompson
10709360ae40SAndrew Thompson20090520:
1071456b5dd8SWarner Losh	802.11 monitor mode support was revised and driver api's were changed.
1072456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Drivers dependent on net80211 now support DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO instead
1073456b5dd8SWarner Losh	of DLT_IEEE802_11.  No user-visible data structures were changed but
1074456b5dd8SWarner Losh	applications that use DLT_IEEE802_11 may require changes.
107523790ac0SSam Leffler	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800088.
107623790ac0SSam Leffler
1077f6dfe47aSMarko Zec20090430:
1078f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	The layout of the following structs has changed: sysctl_oid,
1079f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	socket, ifnet, inpcbinfo, tcpcb, syncache_head, vnet_inet,
1080f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	vnet_inet6 and vnet_ipfw.  Most modules need to be rebuild or
1081f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	panics may be experienced.  World rebuild is required for
1082f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	correctly checking networking state from userland.
1083f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800085.
1084f6dfe47aSMarko Zec
108533cde130SBruce M Simpson20090429:
108633cde130SBruce M Simpson	MLDv2 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
108733cde130SBruce M Simpson	to the IPv6 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
108833cde130SBruce M Simpson	The implementation of SSM within FreeBSD's IPv6 stack closely
108933cde130SBruce M Simpson	follows the IPv4 implementation.
109033cde130SBruce M Simpson
109133cde130SBruce M Simpson	For kernel developers:
109233cde130SBruce M Simpson
109333cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The most important changes are that the ip6_output() and
109433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  ip6_input() paths no longer take the IN6_MULTI_LOCK,
109533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
109633cde130SBruce M Simpson
109733cde130SBruce M Simpson	* As with the changes to the IPv4 stack to support SSM, filtering
109833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  of inbound multicast traffic must now be performed by transport
109933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  protocols within the IPv6 stack. This does not apply to TCP and
110033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  SCTP, however, it does apply to UDP in IPv6 and raw IPv6.
110133cde130SBruce M Simpson
110233cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The KPIs used by IPv6 multicast are similar to those used by
110333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  the IPv4 stack, with the following differences:
110433cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * im6o_mc_filter() is analogous to imo_multicast_filter().
110533cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * The legacy KAME entry points in6_joingroup and in6_leavegroup()
110633cde130SBruce M Simpson	     are shimmed to in6_mc_join() and in6_mc_leave() respectively.
110733cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * IN6_LOOKUP_MULTI() has been deprecated and removed.
110833cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * IPv6 relies on MLD for the DAD mechanism. KAME's internal KPIs
110933cde130SBruce M Simpson	     for MLDv1 have an additional 'timer' argument which is used to
111033cde130SBruce M Simpson	     jitter the initial membership report for the solicited-node
111133cde130SBruce M Simpson	     multicast membership on-link.
111233cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * This is not strictly needed for MLDv2, which already jitters
111333cde130SBruce M Simpson	     its report transmissions.  However, the 'timer' argument is
111433cde130SBruce M Simpson	     preserved in case MLDv1 is active on the interface.
111533cde130SBruce M Simpson
111633cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The KAME linked-list based IPv6 membership implementation has
111733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  been refactored to use a vector similar to that used by the IPv4
111833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  stack.
111933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Code which maintains a list of its own multicast memberships
112033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  internally, e.g. carp, has been updated to reflect the new
112133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  semantics.
112233cde130SBruce M Simpson
112333cde130SBruce M Simpson	* There is a known Lock Order Reversal (LOR) due to in6_setscope()
112433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  acquiring the IF_AFDATA_LOCK and being called within ip6_output().
112533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Whilst MLDv2 tries to avoid this otherwise benign LOR, it is an
112633cde130SBruce M Simpson	  implementation constraint which needs to be addressed in HEAD.
112733cde130SBruce M Simpson
112833cde130SBruce M Simpson	For application developers:
112933cde130SBruce M Simpson
113033cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The changes are broadly similar to those made for the IPv4
113133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  stack.
113233cde130SBruce M Simpson
113333cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The use of IPv4 and IPv6 multicast socket options on the same
113433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  socket, using mapped addresses, HAS NOT been tested or supported.
113533cde130SBruce M Simpson
113633cde130SBruce M Simpson	* There are a number of issues with the implementation of various
113733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  IPv6 multicast APIs which need to be resolved in the API surface
113833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  before the implementation is fully compatible with KAME userland
113933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  use, and these are mostly to do with interface index treatment.
114033cde130SBruce M Simpson
114133cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The literature available discusses the use of either the delta / ASM
114233cde130SBruce M Simpson	  API with setsockopt(2)/getsockopt(2), or the full-state / ASM API
114333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  using setsourcefilter(3)/getsourcefilter(3). For more information
114433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  please refer to RFC 3768, 'Socket Interface Extensions for
114533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Multicast Source Filters'.
114633cde130SBruce M Simpson
114733cde130SBruce M Simpson	* Applications which use the published RFC 3678 APIs should be fine.
114833cde130SBruce M Simpson
114933cde130SBruce M Simpson	For systems administrators:
115033cde130SBruce M Simpson
115133cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The mtest(8) utility has been refactored to support IPv6, in
115233cde130SBruce M Simpson	  addition to IPv4. Interface addresses are no longer accepted
115333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  as arguments, their names must be used instead. The utility
115433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  will map the interface name to its first IPv4 address as
115533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  returned by getifaddrs(3).
115633cde130SBruce M Simpson
115733cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The ifmcstat(8) utility has also been updated to print the MLDv2
115833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  endpoint state and source filter lists via sysctl(3).
115933cde130SBruce M Simpson
116033cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The net.inet6.ip6.mcast.loop sysctl may be tuned to 0 to disable
116133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  loopback of IPv6 multicast datagrams by default; it defaults to 1
116233cde130SBruce M Simpson	  to preserve the existing behaviour. Disabling multicast loopback is
116333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  recommended for optimal system performance.
116433cde130SBruce M Simpson
116533cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The IPv6 MROUTING code has been changed to examine this sysctl
116633cde130SBruce M Simpson	  instead of attempting to perform a group lookup before looping
116733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  back forwarded datagrams.
116833cde130SBruce M Simpson
116933cde130SBruce M Simpson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800084.
117033cde130SBruce M Simpson
11718b8bf775SRobert Watson20090422:
1172131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin	Implement low-level Bluetooth HCI API.
1173131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800083.
1174131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin
11758b8bf775SRobert Watson20090419:
11768b8bf775SRobert Watson	The layout of struct malloc_type, used by modules to register new
11778b8bf775SRobert Watson	memory allocation types, has changed.  Most modules will need to
11788b8bf775SRobert Watson	be rebuilt or panics may be experienced.
11798b8bf775SRobert Watson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800081.
11808b8bf775SRobert Watson
1181de4ab55eSKip Macy20090415:
1182773b573aSKip Macy	Anticipate overflowing inp_flags - add inp_flags2.
1183773b573aSKip Macy	This changes most offsets in inpcb, so checking v4 connection
1184773b573aSKip Macy	state will require a world rebuild.
1185773b573aSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800080.
1186f146c211SXin LI
1187773b573aSKip Macy20090415:
1188de4ab55eSKip Macy	Add an llentry to struct route and struct route_in6. Modules
1189de4ab55eSKip Macy	embedding a struct route will need to be recompiled.
1190de4ab55eSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800079.
1191de4ab55eSKip Macy
1192427ac07fSKip Macy20090414:
1193427ac07fSKip Macy	The size of rt_metrics_lite and by extension rtentry has changed.
1194427ac07fSKip Macy	Networking administration apps will need to be recompiled.
1195427ac07fSKip Macy	The route command now supports show as an alias for get, weighting
1196427ac07fSKip Macy	of routes, sticky and nostick flags to alter the behavior of stateful
1197427ac07fSKip Macy	load balancing.
1198427ac07fSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800078.
11998713ec3dSRenato Botelho
120087437955SMaksim Yevmenkin20090408:
120187437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	Do not use Giant for kbdmux(4) locking. This is wrong and
120287437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	apparently causing more problems than it solves. This will
120387437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	re-open the issue where interrupt handlers may race with
120487437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	kbdmux(4) in polling mode. Typical symptoms include (but
120587437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	not limited to) duplicated and/or missing characters when
120687437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	low level console functions (such as gets) are used while
120787437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	interrupts are enabled (for example geli password prompt,
120887437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	mountroot prompt etc.). Disabling kbdmux(4) may help.
120987437955SMaksim Yevmenkin
12102f6a1858SMarko Zec20090407:
12112f6a1858SMarko Zec	The size of structs vnet_net, vnet_inet and vnet_ipfw has changed;
12122f6a1858SMarko Zec	kernel modules referencing any of the above need to be recompiled.
12132f6a1858SMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800075.
12142f6a1858SMarko Zec
1215781d043cSIvan Voras20090320:
1216781d043cSIvan Voras	GEOM_PART has become the default partition slicer for storage devices,
1217781d043cSIvan Voras	replacing GEOM_MBR, GEOM_BSD, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_GPT slicers. It
12189a07b548SIvan Voras	introduces some changes:
12199a07b548SIvan Voras
12209a07b548SIvan Voras	MSDOS/EBR: the devices created from MSDOS extended partition entries
12219a07b548SIvan Voras	(EBR) can be named differently than with GEOM_MBR and are now symlinks
12229a07b548SIvan Voras	to devices with offset-based names. fstabs may need to be modified.
12239a07b548SIvan Voras
12249a07b548SIvan Voras	BSD: the "geometry does not match label" warning is harmless in most
12259a07b548SIvan Voras	cases but it points to problems in file system misalignment with
12269a07b548SIvan Voras	disk geometry. The "c" partition is now implicit, covers the whole
12279a07b548SIvan Voras	top-level drive and cannot be (mis)used by users.
12289a07b548SIvan Voras
12299a07b548SIvan Voras	General: Kernel dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices
12309a07b548SIvan Voras	whose partition types indicate they are meant to be used for file
12319a07b548SIvan Voras	systems (or, in case of MSDOS partitions, as something else than
12329a07b548SIvan Voras	the "386BSD" type).
12339a07b548SIvan Voras
12349a07b548SIvan Voras	Most of these changes date approximately from 200812.
1235781d043cSIvan Voras
1236443fc317SBruce M Simpson20090319:
12372b78d306SAndrew Thompson	The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows
12382b78d306SAndrew Thompson	Linux removing theirs in 2.6 and making libusb the default interface
12392b78d306SAndrew Thompson	(supported by sane).
12402b78d306SAndrew Thompson
12412b78d306SAndrew Thompson20090319:
1242443fc317SBruce M Simpson	The multicast forwarding code has been cleaned up. netstat(1)
1243443fc317SBruce M Simpson	only relies on KVM now for printing bandwidth upcall meters.
1244443fc317SBruce M Simpson	The IPv4 and IPv6 modules are split into ip_mroute_mod and
1245443fc317SBruce M Simpson	ip6_mroute_mod respectively. The config(5) options for statically
1246443fc317SBruce M Simpson	compiling this code remain the same, i.e. 'options MROUTING'.
1247443fc317SBruce M Simpson
12481df14375SRobert Watson20090315:
12491df14375SRobert Watson	Support for the IFF_NEEDSGIANT network interface flag has been
12501df14375SRobert Watson	removed, which means that non-MPSAFE network device drivers are no
12511df14375SRobert Watson	longer supported.  In particular, if_ar, if_sr, and network device
12521df14375SRobert Watson	drivers from the old (legacy) USB stack can no longer be built or
12531df14375SRobert Watson	used.
12541df14375SRobert Watson
1255e667034dSRui Paulo20090313:
12567e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	POSIX.1 Native Language Support (NLS) has been enabled in libc and
12577e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	a bunch of new language catalog files have also been added.
12587e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	This means that some common libc messages are now localized and
12597e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	they depend on the LC_MESSAGES environmental variable.
12607e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan
12617e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan20090313:
1262e667034dSRui Paulo	The k8temp(4) driver has been renamed to amdtemp(4) since
12638fb1e038SDavid E. O'Brien	support for Family 10 and Family 11 CPU families was added.
1264e667034dSRui Paulo
1265a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson20090309:
1266d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	IGMPv3 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
1267d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to the IPv4 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
1268d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
1269d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For kernel developers, the most important changes are that the
1270d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	ip_output() and ip_input() paths no longer take the IN_MULTI_LOCK(),
1271d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
1272d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
1273d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Transport protocols (UDP, Raw IP) are now responsible for filtering
1274d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	inbound multicast traffic according to group membership and source
1275d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	filters. The imo_multicast_filter() KPI exists for this purpose.
1276d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Transports which do not use multicast (SCTP, TCP) already reject
1277d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast by default. Forwarding and receive performance may improve
1278d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	as a mutex acquisition is no longer needed in the ip_input()
1279d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	low-level input path.  in_addmulti() and in_delmulti() are shimmed
1280d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to new KPIs which exist to support SSM in-kernel.
1281d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
1282d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For application developers, it is recommended that loopback of
1283d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast datagrams be disabled for best performance, as this
1284d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	will still cause the lock to be taken for each looped-back
1285d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	datagram transmission. The net.inet.ip.mcast.loop sysctl may
1286d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	be tuned to 0 to disable loopback by default; it defaults to 1
1287d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to preserve the existing behaviour.
1288d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
1289d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For systems administrators, to obtain best performance with
1290d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast reception and multiple groups, it is always recommended
1291d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	that a card with a suitably precise hash filter is used. Hash
1292d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	collisions will still result in the lock being taken within the
1293d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	transport protocol input path to check group membership.
1294d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
1295d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	If deploying FreeBSD in an environment with IGMP snooping switches,
1296d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	it is recommended that the net.inet.igmp.sendlocal sysctl remain
1297d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	enabled; this forces 224.0.0.0/24 group membership to be announced
1298d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	via IGMP.
1299d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
1300d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	The size of 'struct igmpstat' has changed; netstat needs to be
1301d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	recompiled to reflect this.
1302d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800070.
1303d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
1304d10910e6SBruce M Simpson20090309:
1305a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	libusb20.so.1 is now installed as libusb.so.1 and the ports system
1306a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	updated to use it. This requires a buildworld/installworld in order to
1307a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	update the library and dependencies (usbconfig, etc). Its advisable to
1308cb2fe9b1SStanislav Sedov	rebuild all ports which uses libusb. More specific directions are given
13090ee5826eSAndrew Thompson	in the ports collection UPDATING file. Any /etc/libmap.conf entries for
13103296f80dSAndrew Thompson	libusb are no longer required and can be removed.
1311a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson
131265067cc8SKonstantin Belousov20090302:
13139f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	A workaround is committed to allow the creation of System V shared
13149f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	memory segment of size > 2 GB on the 64-bit architectures.
13159f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	Due to a limitation of the existing ABI, the shm_segsz member
131665067cc8SKonstantin Belousov	of the struct shmid_ds, returned by shmctl(IPC_STAT) call is
1317813bb2c9SJoel Dahl	wrong for large segments. Note that limits must be explicitly
131865067cc8SKonstantin Belousov	raised to allow such segments to be created.
131965067cc8SKonstantin Belousov
1320176273eaSRobert Watson20090301:
1321176273eaSRobert Watson	The layout of struct ifnet has changed, requiring a rebuild of all
1322176273eaSRobert Watson	network device driver modules.
1323176273eaSRobert Watson
1324a13a5664SAndrew Thompson20090227:
1325a13a5664SAndrew Thompson	The /dev handling for the new USB stack has changed, a
1326a13a5664SAndrew Thompson	buildworld/installworld is required for libusb20.
1327a13a5664SAndrew Thompson
132871e9286cSAndrew Thompson20090223:
132971e9286cSAndrew Thompson	The new USB2 stack has now been permanently moved in and all kernel and
1330200dcf9aSAndrew Thompson	module names reverted to their previous values (eg, usb, ehci, ohci,
13319c1e15b5SAndrew Thompson	ums, ...).  The old usb stack can be compiled in by prefixing the name
133271e9286cSAndrew Thompson	with the letter 'o', the old usb modules have been removed.
1333a709c9a6SWarner Losh	Updating entry 20090216 for xorg and 20090215 for libmap may still
1334a709c9a6SWarner Losh	apply.
133571e9286cSAndrew Thompson
1336553bf6a4SMike Makonnen20090217:
1337553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	The rc.conf(5) option if_up_delay has been renamed to
1338553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	defaultroute_delay to better reflect its purpose. If you have
1339553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	customized this setting in /etc/rc.conf you need to update it to
1340553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	use the new name.
1341553bf6a4SMike Makonnen
1342bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson20090216:
1343bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	xorg 7.4 wants to configure its input devices via hald which does not
1344bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	yet work with USB2. If the keyboard/mouse does not work in xorg then
1345bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	add
1346bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson		Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
1347bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	to your ServerLayout section.  This will cause X to use the configured
1348cbb9c89eSMaxim Konovalov	kbd and mouse sections from your xorg.conf.
1349bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson
1350e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson20090215:
1351e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new USB2
1352e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	stack. No kernel config options or code have been removed so if a
1353e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	problem arises please report it and optionally revert to the old USB
1354e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	stack. If you are loading USB kernel modules or have a custom kernel
1355e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	that includes GENERIC then ensure that usb names are also changed over,
1356cbb9c89eSMaxim Konovalov	eg uftdi -> usb2_serial_ftdi.
1357e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson
1358a709c9a6SWarner Losh	Older programs linked against the ports libusb 0.1 need to be
1359a709c9a6SWarner Losh	redirected to the new stack's libusb20.  /etc/libmap.conf can
1360a709c9a6SWarner Losh	be used for this:
1361a709c9a6SWarner Losh		# Map old usb library to new one for usb2 stack
1362a709c9a6SWarner Losh		libusb-0.1.so.8	libusb20.so.1
1363a709c9a6SWarner Losh
136421293e70SAndrew Thompson20090209:
136521293e70SAndrew Thompson	All USB ethernet devices now attach as interfaces under the name ueN
136621293e70SAndrew Thompson	(eg. ue0). This is to provide a predictable name as vendors often
136721293e70SAndrew Thompson	change usb chipsets in a product without notice.
136821293e70SAndrew Thompson
136914943437SJohn Baldwin20090203:
137014943437SJohn Baldwin	The ichsmb(4) driver has been changed to require SMBus slave
137114943437SJohn Baldwin	addresses be left-justified (xxxxxxx0b) rather than right-justified.
137214943437SJohn Baldwin	All of the other SMBus controller drivers require left-justified
137314943437SJohn Baldwin	slave addresses, so this change makes all the drivers provide the
137414943437SJohn Baldwin	same interface.
137514943437SJohn Baldwin
137609f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb20090201:
137709f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb	INET6 statistics (struct ip6stat) was updated.
137809f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb	netstat(1) needs to be recompiled.
137909f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb
138074f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev20090119:
138174f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	NTFS has been removed from GENERIC kernel on amd64 to match
138274f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	GENERIC on i386. Should not cause any issues since mount_ntfs(8)
138374f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	will load ntfs.ko module automatically when NTFS support is
138474f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	actually needed, unless ntfs.ko is not installed or security
138574f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	level prohibits loading kernel modules. If either is the case,
138674f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	"options NTFS" has to be added into kernel config.
138774f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev
138824cb0f22SLawrence Stewart20090115:
138924cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	TCP Appropriate Byte Counting (RFC 3465) support added to kernel.
139024cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	New field in struct tcpcb breaks ABI, so bump __FreeBSD_version to
139124cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	800061. User space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in
139224cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
139324cb0f22SLawrence Stewart
13945d55747eSAlexander Motin20081225:
13955d55747eSAlexander Motin	ng_tty(4) module updated to match the new TTY subsystem.
13965d55747eSAlexander Motin	Due to API change, user-level applications must be updated.
13975d55747eSAlexander Motin	New API support added to mpd5 CVS and expected to be present
13985d55747eSAlexander Motin	in next mpd5.3 release.
13995d55747eSAlexander Motin
1400efc06131SSam Leffler20081219:
1401a1c64cafSSam Leffler	With __FreeBSD_version 800060 the makefs tool is part of
1402a1c64cafSSam Leffler	the base system (it was a port).
1403efc06131SSam Leffler
1404991f8615SKip Macy20081216:
1405991f8615SKip Macy	The afdata and ifnet locks have been changed from mutexes to
1406991f8615SKip Macy	rwlocks, network modules will need to be re-compiled.
14071d7e99caSJohn Baldwin
14086e6b3f7cSQing Li20081214:
14096e6b3f7cSQing Li	__FreeBSD_version 800059 incorporates the new arp-v2 rewrite.
14106e6b3f7cSQing Li	RTF_CLONING, RTF_LLINFO and RTF_WASCLONED flags are eliminated.
14116e6b3f7cSQing Li	The new code reduced struct rtentry{} by 16 bytes on 32-bit
14126e6b3f7cSQing Li	architecture and 40 bytes on 64-bit architecture. The userland
14136e6b3f7cSQing Li	applications "arp" and "ndp" have been updated accordingly.
14146e6b3f7cSQing Li	The output from "netstat -r" shows only routing entries and
14156e6b3f7cSQing Li	none of the L2 information.
14166e6b3f7cSQing Li
141733644623SSam Leffler20081130:
141833644623SSam Leffler	__FreeBSD_version 800057 marks the switchover from the
141933644623SSam Leffler	binary ath hal to source code. Users must add the line:
142033644623SSam Leffler
1421c60b227cSSam Leffler	options	AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
142233644623SSam Leffler
142333644623SSam Leffler	to their kernel config files when specifying:
142433644623SSam Leffler
142533644623SSam Leffler	device	ath_hal
142633644623SSam Leffler
142733644623SSam Leffler	The ath_hal module no longer exists; the code is now compiled
142833644623SSam Leffler	together with the driver in the ath module.  It is now
142933644623SSam Leffler	possible to tailor chip support (i.e. reduce the set of chips
143033644623SSam Leffler	and thereby the code size); consult ath_hal(4) for details.
143133644623SSam Leffler
1432db7f0b97SKip Macy20081121:
1433db7f0b97SKip Macy	__FreeBSD_version 800054 adds memory barriers to
1434db7f0b97SKip Macy	<machine/atomic.h>, new interfaces to ifnet to facilitate
1435db7f0b97SKip Macy	multiple hardware transmit queues for cards that support
1436db7f0b97SKip Macy	them, and a lock-less ring-buffer implementation to
1437db7f0b97SKip Macy	enable drivers to more efficiently manage queueing of
1438db7f0b97SKip Macy	packets.
1439db7f0b97SKip Macy
1440de2e1b35SXin LI20081117:
1441de2e1b35SXin LI	A new version of ZFS (version 13) has been merged to -HEAD.
1442de3a91a0SXin LI	This version has zpool attribute "listsnapshots" off by
1443de3a91a0SXin LI	default, which means "zfs list" does not show snapshots,
1444de2e1b35SXin LI	and is the same as Solaris behavior.
1445de2e1b35SXin LI
144602d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin20081028:
144702d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin	dummynet(4) ABI has changed. ipfw(8) needs to be recompiled.
144802d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin
1449e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy20081009:
1450d8135f4aSNick Hibma	The uhci, ohci, ehci and slhci USB Host controller drivers have
1451d8135f4aSNick Hibma	been put into separate modules. If you load the usb module
1452d8135f4aSNick Hibma	separately through loader.conf you will need to load the
1453d8135f4aSNick Hibma	appropriate *hci module as well. E.g. for a UHCI-based USB 2.0
1454d8135f4aSNick Hibma	controller add the following to loader.conf:
1455d8135f4aSNick Hibma
1456d8135f4aSNick Hibma		uhci_load="YES"
1457d8135f4aSNick Hibma		ehci_load="YES"
1458d8135f4aSNick Hibma
1459d8135f4aSNick Hibma20081009:
1460e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	The ABI used by the PMC toolset has changed.  Please keep
1461e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	userland (libpmc(3)) and the kernel module (hwpmc(4)) in
1462e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	sync.
1463e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy
1464b868265dSAlexander Motin20081009:
1465b868265dSAlexander Motin	atapci kernel module now includes only generic PCI ATA
1466b868265dSAlexander Motin	driver. AHCI driver moved to ataahci kernel module.
1467b868265dSAlexander Motin	All vendor-specific code moved into separate kernel modules:
1468b868265dSAlexander Motin	ataacard, ataacerlabs, ataadaptec, ataamd, ataati, atacenatek,
1469b868265dSAlexander Motin	atacypress, atacyrix, atahighpoint, ataintel, ataite, atajmicron,
1470b868265dSAlexander Motin	atamarvell, atamicron, atanational, atanetcell, atanvidia,
1471b868265dSAlexander Motin	atapromise, ataserverworks, atasiliconimage, atasis, atavia
1472b868265dSAlexander Motin
1473bc093719SEd Schouten20080820:
1474bc093719SEd Schouten	The TTY subsystem of the kernel has been replaced by a new
1475bc093719SEd Schouten	implementation, which provides better scalability and an
1476bc093719SEd Schouten	improved driver model. Most common drivers have been migrated to
1477bc093719SEd Schouten	the new TTY subsystem, while others have not. The following
1478bc093719SEd Schouten	drivers have not yet been ported to the new TTY layer:
1479bc093719SEd Schouten
1480bc093719SEd Schouten	PCI/ISA:
148166e7dc38SEd Schouten		cy, digi, rc, rp, sio
1482bc093719SEd Schouten
1483bc093719SEd Schouten	USB:
148466e7dc38SEd Schouten		ubser, ucycom
1485bc093719SEd Schouten
1486bc093719SEd Schouten	Line disciplines:
1487bc093719SEd Schouten		ng_h4, ng_tty, ppp, sl, snp
1488bc093719SEd Schouten
1489bc093719SEd Schouten	Adding these drivers to your kernel configuration file shall
1490bc093719SEd Schouten	cause compilation to fail.
1491bc093719SEd Schouten
14929d965219SOllivier Robert20080818:
14939d965219SOllivier Robert	ntpd has been upgraded to 4.2.4p5.
14949d965219SOllivier Robert
1495eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav20080801:
1496eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	OpenSSH has been upgraded to 5.1p1.
1497eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
1498eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	For many years, FreeBSD's version of OpenSSH preferred DSA
1499eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	over RSA for host and user authentication keys.  With this
1500eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	upgrade, we've switched to the vendor's default of RSA over
1501eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	DSA.  This may cause upgraded clients to warn about unknown
1502eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	host keys even for previously known hosts.  Users should
1503eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	follow the usual procedure for verifying host keys before
1504eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	accepting the RSA key.
1505eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
1506eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	This can be circumvented by setting the "HostKeyAlgorithms"
1507eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	option to "ssh-dss,ssh-rsa" in ~/.ssh/config or on the ssh
1508eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	command line.
1509eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
1510737d990aSXin LI	Please note that the sequence of keys offered for
1511737d990aSXin LI	authentication has been changed as well.  You may want to
1512737d990aSXin LI	specify IdentityFile in a different order to revert this
1513737d990aSXin LI	behavior.
1514737d990aSXin LI
1515f4d811f0SEd Schouten20080713:
1516f4d811f0SEd Schouten	The sio(4) driver has been removed from the i386 and amd64
1517f4d811f0SEd Schouten	kernel configuration files. This means uart(4) is now the
1518f4d811f0SEd Schouten	default serial port driver on those platforms as well.
1519f4d811f0SEd Schouten
1520f4d811f0SEd Schouten	To prevent collisions with the sio(4) driver, the uart(4) driver
1521f4d811f0SEd Schouten	uses different names for its device nodes. This means the
1522f4d811f0SEd Schouten	onboard serial port will now most likely be called "ttyu0"
1523f4d811f0SEd Schouten	instead of "ttyd0". You may need to reconfigure applications to
1524f4d811f0SEd Schouten	use the new device names.
1525f4d811f0SEd Schouten
1526db96ec0bSEd Schouten	When using the serial port as a boot console, be sure to update
1527db96ec0bSEd Schouten	/boot/device.hints and /etc/ttys before booting the new kernel.
1528db96ec0bSEd Schouten	If you forget to do so, you can still manually specify the hints
1529db96ec0bSEd Schouten	at the loader prompt:
1530db96ec0bSEd Schouten
1531db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.at="isa"
1532db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8"
1533db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.flags="0x10"
1534db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.irq="4"
1535db96ec0bSEd Schouten		boot -s
1536db96ec0bSEd Schouten
1537bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar20080609:
1538bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar	The gpt(8) utility has been removed. Use gpart(8) to partition
1539bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar	disks instead.
1540bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar
154127f7c387SRoman Divacky20080603:
1542a47444d5SRoman Divacky	The version that Linuxulator emulates was changed from 2.4.2
1543a47444d5SRoman Divacky	to 2.6.16. If you experience any problems with Linux binaries
1544a47444d5SRoman Divacky	please try to set sysctl compat.linux.osrelease to 2.4.2 and
1545a47444d5SRoman Divacky	if it fixes the problem contact emulation mailing list.
1546a47444d5SRoman Divacky
15472e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb20080525:
15482e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb	ISDN4BSD (I4B) was removed from the src tree. You may need to
15492e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb	update a your kernel configuration and remove relevant entries.
15502e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb
15514dcedde3SJulian Elischer20080509:
15524dcedde3SJulian Elischer	I have checked in code to support multiple routing tables.
1553032e0bf8SMaxim Konovalov	See the man pages setfib(1) and setfib(2).
15544dcedde3SJulian Elischer	This is a hopefully backwards compatible version,
15554dcedde3SJulian Elischer	but to make use of it you need to compile your kernel
15564dcedde3SJulian Elischer	with options ROUTETABLES=2 (or more up to 16).
15574dcedde3SJulian Elischer
1558de570baaSSam Leffler20080420:
1559de570baaSSam Leffler	The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss
1560de570baaSSam Leffler	operation on devices that are capable.  The underlying device
1561de570baaSSam Leffler	is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are
1562de570baaSSam Leffler	cloned with ifconfig.  This requires changes to rc.conf files.
15635318f840SWarner Losh	For example, change:
15645318f840SWarner Losh		ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP"
15655318f840SWarner Losh	to
15665318f840SWarner Losh		wlans_ath0=wlan0
15675318f840SWarner Losh		ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
15680f95e625SWarner Losh	see rc.conf(5) for more details.  In addition, mergemaster of
15690f95e625SWarner Losh	/etc/rc.d is highly recommended.  Simultaneous update of userland
15700f95e625SWarner Losh	and kernel wouldn't hurt either.
1571de570baaSSam Leffler
1572de570baaSSam Leffler	As part of the multi-bss changes the wlan_scan_ap and wlan_scan_sta
1573de570baaSSam Leffler	modules were merged into the base wlan module.  All references
1574de570baaSSam Leffler	to these modules (e.g. in kernel config files) must be removed.
1575de570baaSSam Leffler
1576ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim20080408:
1577ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	psm(4) has gained write(2) support in native operation level.
1578ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	Arbitrary commands can be written to /dev/psm%d and status can
1579ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	be read back from it.  Therefore, an application is responsible
1580ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	for status validation and error recovery.  It is a no-op in
1581ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	other operation levels.
1582ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim
1583e4c67b94SJeff Roberson20080312:
1584e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	Support for KSE threading has been removed from the kernel.  To
1585e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	run legacy applications linked against KSE libmap.conf may
1586e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	be used.  The following libmap.conf may be used to ensure
1587e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	compatibility with any prior release:
1588e4c67b94SJeff Roberson
1589e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libpthread.so.1 libthr.so.1
1590e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2
1591e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libkse.so.3 libthr.so.3
1592e4c67b94SJeff Roberson
15938775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar20080301:
15948775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	The layout of struct vmspace has changed. This affects libkvm
15958775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	and any executables that link against libkvm and use the
15968775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	kvm_getprocs() function. In particular, but not exclusively,
15978775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	it affects ps(1), fstat(1), pkill(1), systat(1), top(1) and w(1).
15988775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	The effects are minimal, but it's advisable to upgrade world
15998775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	nonetheless.
16008775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar
1601df09ebc0SJack F Vogel20080229:
1602df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	The latest em driver no longer has support in it for the
1603df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	82575 adapter, this is now moved to the igb driver. The
1604df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	split was done to make new features that are incompatible
1605df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	with older hardware easier to do.
1606df09ebc0SJack F Vogel
16071669d8afSAndrew Thompson20080220:
16081669d8afSAndrew Thompson	The new geom_lvm(4) geom class has been renamed to geom_linux_lvm(4),
16091669d8afSAndrew Thompson	likewise the kernel option is now GEOM_LINUX_LVM.
16101669d8afSAndrew Thompson
16112427fa19SKris Kennaway20080211:
16122427fa19SKris Kennaway	The default NFS mount mode has changed from UDP to TCP for
16132427fa19SKris Kennaway	increased reliability.  If you rely on (insecurely) NFS
16142427fa19SKris Kennaway	mounting across a firewall you may need to update your
16152427fa19SKris Kennaway	firewall rules.
16162427fa19SKris Kennaway
16175e9f6b73SSam Leffler20080208:
16185e9f6b73SSam Leffler	Belatedly note the addition of m_collapse for compacting
16195e9f6b73SSam Leffler	mbuf chains.
16205e9f6b73SSam Leffler
162148aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy20080126:
162248aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	The fts(3) structures have been changed to use adequate
162348aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	integer types for their members and so to be able to cope
162448aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	with huge file trees.  The old fts(3) ABI is preserved
162548aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	through symbol versioning in libc, so third-party binaries
162648aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	using fts(3) should still work, although they will not take
162748aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	advantage of the extended types.  At the same time, some
162848aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	third-party software might fail to build after this change
162948aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	due to unportable assumptions made in its source code about
163048aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	fts(3) structure members.  Such software should be fixed
163148aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	by its vendor or, in the worst case, in the ports tree.
163248aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	FreeBSD_version 800015 marks this change for the unlikely
163348aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	case that a portable fix is impossible.
163448aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy
163551dc1e12SRuslan Ermilov20080123:
16368015f45cSWarner Losh	To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running
163751dc1e12SRuslan Ermilov	FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE.  Upgrading to -current
16388015f45cSWarner Losh	from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems.
16398015f45cSWarner Losh
1640ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato20071128:
1641ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato	The ADAPTIVE_GIANT kernel option has been retired because its
1642ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato	functionality is the default now.
1643ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato
1644e393af84SMarius Strobl20071118:
1645e393af84SMarius Strobl	The AT keyboard emulation of sunkbd(4) has been turned on
1646e393af84SMarius Strobl	by default. In order to make the special symbols of the Sun
1647e393af84SMarius Strobl	keyboards driven by sunkbd(4) work under X these now have
1648e393af84SMarius Strobl	to be configured the same way as Sun USB keyboards driven
1649e393af84SMarius Strobl	by ukbd(4) (which also does AT keyboard emulation), f.e.:
1650e393af84SMarius Strobl
1651e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbLayout" "us"
1652e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbRules" "xorg"
1653e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbSymbols" "pc(pc105)+sun_vndr/usb(sun_usb)+us"
1654e393af84SMarius Strobl
165533d3fffaSMarius Strobl20071024:
165633d3fffaSMarius Strobl	It has been decided that it is desirable to provide ABI
165733d3fffaSMarius Strobl	backwards compatibility to the FreeBSD 4/5/6 versions of the
165833d3fffaSMarius Strobl	PCIOCGETCONF, PCIOCREAD and PCIOCWRITE IOCTLs, which was
165933d3fffaSMarius Strobl	broken with the introduction of PCI domain support (see the
166033d3fffaSMarius Strobl	20070930 entry). Unfortunately, this required the ABI of
166133d3fffaSMarius Strobl	PCIOCGETCONF to be broken again in order to be able to
166233d3fffaSMarius Strobl	provide backwards compatibility to the old version of that
166333d3fffaSMarius Strobl	IOCTL. Thus consumers of PCIOCGETCONF have to be recompiled
166433d3fffaSMarius Strobl	again. As for prominent ports this affects neither pciutils
166533d3fffaSMarius Strobl	nor xorg-server this time, the hal port needs to be rebuilt
166633d3fffaSMarius Strobl	however.
166733d3fffaSMarius Strobl
16683d461febSJulian Elischer20071020:
16693d461febSJulian Elischer	The misnamed kthread_create() and friends have been renamed
16703d461febSJulian Elischer	to kproc_create() etc. Many of the callers already
16713d461febSJulian Elischer	used kproc_start()..
16723d461febSJulian Elischer	I will return kthread_create() and friends in a while
16733d461febSJulian Elischer	with implementations that actually create threads, not procs.
16743d461febSJulian Elischer	Renaming corresponds with version 800002.
16753d461febSJulian Elischer
1676c15e0967SKen Smith20071010:
1677c15e0967SKen Smith	RELENG_7 branched.
1678c15e0967SKen Smith
1679dc0dbf5cSWarner LoshCOMMON ITEMS:
1680dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
1681a24eff53SWarner Losh	General Notes
1682a24eff53SWarner Losh	-------------
1683456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1684456b5dd8SWarner Losh	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
16851733d35cSRuslan Ermilov	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1686456b5dd8SWarner Losh	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1687456b5dd8SWarner Losh	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1688456b5dd8SWarner Losh	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1689456b5dd8SWarner Losh	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1690a24eff53SWarner Losh
16915780f3baSWarner Losh	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
16925780f3baSWarner Losh	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1693456b5dd8SWarner Losh	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1694456b5dd8SWarner Losh	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1695456b5dd8SWarner Losh	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
16965780f3baSWarner Losh
1697456b5dd8SWarner Losh	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best
1698456b5dd8SWarner Losh	to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first,
1699456b5dd8SWarner Losh	then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade
1700456b5dd8SWarner Losh	path, and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try
1701456b5dd8SWarner Losh	this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade.
1702081ff8acSDoug Barton
17036eeab389SWarner Losh	When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before
1704da0e842aSWarner Losh	installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell
1705da0e842aSWarner Losh	around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your
1706da0e842aSWarner Losh	starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade.
1707da0e842aSWarner Losh
17088fc25799SMartin Matuska	ZFS notes
17098fc25799SMartin Matuska	---------
17108fc25799SMartin Matuska	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
17118fc25799SMartin Matuska	these two steps:
17128fc25799SMartin Matuska
17138fc25799SMartin Matuska	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
17148fc25799SMartin Matuska	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
17158fc25799SMartin Matuska
17168fc25799SMartin Matuska	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
17178fc25799SMartin Matuska
17188fc25799SMartin Matuska	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
17198fc25799SMartin Matuska	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ad0:
17208fc25799SMartin Matuska	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0"
17218fc25799SMartin Matuska
17228fc25799SMartin Matuska	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
17238fc25799SMartin Matuska
1724dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh	To build a kernel
1725dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh	-----------------
1726ba01eb20SWarner Losh	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
17271cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
17281cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
17291cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien
17301cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	make kernel-toolchain
1731282e0f01SRuslan Ermilov	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1732282e0f01SRuslan Ermilov	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1733dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
17342e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	To test a kernel once
17352e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	---------------------
17362e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
17372e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
17382e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	debugging information) run
17392e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
17402e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	nextboot -k testkernel
17412e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger
1742ba01eb20SWarner Losh	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1743ba01eb20SWarner Losh	--------------------------------------------------------------
1744456b5dd8SWarner Losh	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
17450fbd2da9SKen Smith	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1746456b5dd8SWarner Losh	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
17470fbd2da9SKen Smith
17480fbd2da9SKen Smith	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
174947d0d01fSWarner Losh	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
17500fbd2da9SKen Smith	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1751ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make depend
1752ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make
1753ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make install
1754ba01eb20SWarner Losh
1755ba01eb20SWarner Losh	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1756ba01eb20SWarner Losh
1757ba01eb20SWarner Losh	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1758ba01eb20SWarner Losh	-----------------------------------------------------------
175963cb445eSWarner Losh	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
176063cb445eSWarner Losh	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
176163cb445eSWarner Losh
1762f643de42SWarner Losh	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
176363cb445eSWarner Losh	make buildworld
17646586253aSWarner Losh	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
176563cb445eSWarner Losh							[1]
176663cb445eSWarner Losh	<reboot in single user>				[3]
176763cb445eSWarner Losh	mergemaster -p					[5]
176863cb445eSWarner Losh	make installworld
176950e8eca6SDoug Barton	mergemaster -i					[4]
177094877c06SAlexander Leidinger	make delete-old					[6]
177163cb445eSWarner Losh	<reboot>
177263cb445eSWarner Losh
1773f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1774f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	--------------------------------------------------
1775f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1776f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1777f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1778f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# size.
1779f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
1780f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1781f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<boot into -stable>
1782f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	make buildworld
17833ecf3bddSRuslan Ermilov	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1784f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1785f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1786f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
17872d5cde04SRuslan Ermilov	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
17883ecf3bddSRuslan Ermilov	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1789f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1790f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1791f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<reboot into current>
1792f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1793737d990aSXin LI	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1794f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<reboot>
1795f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
1796f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
179715974d55SGavin Atkinson	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
1798f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	----------------------------------------------
1799f643de42SWarner Losh	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
180021c075eaSWarner Losh	make buildworld					[9]
1801e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1802fc8c157fSWarner Losh							[1]
1803fc8c157fSWarner Losh	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1804835284beSWarner Losh	mergemaster -p					[5]
1805ba26da8eSWarner Losh	make installworld
1806802fc49dSBrian Feldman	mergemaster -i					[4]
180794877c06SAlexander Leidinger	make delete-old					[6]
1808ba26da8eSWarner Losh	<reboot>
1809ba26da8eSWarner Losh
1810fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1811fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1812fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1813fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1814fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	the UPDATING entries.
1815ba26da8eSWarner Losh
18161dece4a9SWarner Losh	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
18171dece4a9SWarner Losh	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
18181dece4a9SWarner Losh	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
18191dece4a9SWarner Losh	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
18201dece4a9SWarner Losh	much fewer pitfalls.
18211dece4a9SWarner Losh
1822134d2e86SWarner Losh	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1823134d2e86SWarner Losh	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1824134d2e86SWarner Losh	system on reboot.
1825134d2e86SWarner Losh
1826ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1827ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		fsck -p
1828ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		mount -u /
1829ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		mount -a
18306586253aSWarner Losh		cd src
183147d0d01fSWarner Losh		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1832f6a0ef01SWarner Losh	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1833f6a0ef01SWarner Losh	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1834ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh
1835a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1836a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1837a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1838a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1839a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
184050e8eca6SDoug Barton	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
184150e8eca6SDoug Barton	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1842a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh
1843835284beSWarner Losh	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1844835284beSWarner Losh	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1845835284beSWarner Losh	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1846835284beSWarner Losh	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1847835284beSWarner Losh	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
184820e0cc0aSBrooks Davis	from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430.
1849835284beSWarner Losh
185094877c06SAlexander Leidinger	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
185194877c06SAlexander Leidinger	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
185294877c06SAlexander Leidinger	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
185394877c06SAlexander Leidinger
1854456b5dd8SWarner Losh	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
1855456b5dd8SWarner Losh	do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
1856456b5dd8SWarner Losh	your kernel.  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1857456b5dd8SWarner Losh	hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
1858456b5dd8SWarner Losh	required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels.  And so on
1859456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
1860c74fe6afSWarner Losh
1861e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1862e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1863e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
186421c075eaSWarner Losh	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1865e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	cvs prune empty directories.
1866e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
1867e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1868e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1869e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1870e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
1871e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1872e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1873e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	warn if it is improperly defined.
1874dc0dbf5cSWarner LoshFORMAT:
1875dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
1876f699bbbbSMark OvensThis file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
1877630f2154SGlen Barberbreakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
1878630f2154SGlen Barberlist of such breakages, and only contains entries since October 10, 2007.
1879630f2154SGlen BarberIf you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
1880630f2154SGlen Barberto fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
18811fc1a0dcSWarner Losh
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