157199806SWarner LoshUpdating Information for FreeBSD current users 253dfde79SWarner Losh 3f8c77507SWarner LoshThis file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries 4ea31d04dSWarner Loshdirectly to him. See end of file for further details. 5ea31d04dSWarner Losh 6d9806965SNick Hibma19990905: 7d9806965SNick Hibma /var/cron/log has been moved to /var/log/cron to get all the 8d9806965SNick Hibma log files in one place. 930e90e8bSWarner Losh19990831: 1030e90e8bSWarner Losh tn3270 has been removed from the based system and added as a port. 1130e90e8bSWarner Losh 12f8a59eaeSWarner Losh19990830: 13f8a59eaeSWarner Losh User-visible TCP timers are now expressed in units of 1ms, instead 14f8a59eaeSWarner Losh of 500ms, so if you've customized any timer values under 15f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ``net.inet.tcp'', multiply them by 500 to preserve TCP's behavior. 16f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 1730e90e8bSWarner Losh19990828: 1830e90e8bSWarner Losh RCS Id tags changed to FreeBSD. This will cause huge cvsup 1930e90e8bSWarner Losh updates. 2030e90e8bSWarner Losh 21f8a59eaeSWarner Losh19990821: 22f8a59eaeSWarner Losh On 28-May-1999 libreadline was upgraded from readline-2.2 to 23f8a59eaeSWarner Losh readline-4.0. At that time the shared library major version 24f8a59eaeSWarner Losh number was bumped from "3" to "4". It has been deemed that 25f8a59eaeSWarner Losh the interface change between readline-2.2 and readline-4.0 was 26f8a59eaeSWarner Losh not suffient to warrant the version number bump. 27f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 28f8a59eaeSWarner Losh Thus I have reverted it back to "3". You will need to perform 29f8a59eaeSWarner Losh the below immediately before your next ``make world'': 30f8a59eaeSWarner Losh cd /usr/lib 31f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ls -l libreadline.so.4 32f8a59eaeSWarner Losh (if you have /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4) 33f8a59eaeSWarner Losh mv libreadline.so.4 libreadline.so.3 34f8a59eaeSWarner Losh rm -f libreadline.so 35f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ln -s libreadline.so.3 libreadline.so 36f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 377eedd934SWarner Losh19990801: 387eedd934SWarner Losh Changes to the pccardd kernel interface require that you recompile 397eedd934SWarner Losh pccardd for new kernel. 407eedd934SWarner Losh 41882984b3SWarner Losh19980725: 42882984b3SWarner Losh The ipfw interface to the kernel has changed. You will need to 43882984b3SWarner Losh recompile ipfw programs for the new kernel. 44882984b3SWarner Losh 45882984b3SWarner Losh19990715: 46882984b3SWarner Losh The bpfilter device has been renamed to bpf. You will need to 47882984b3SWarner Losh change your config files in order to enable this in newer kernels. 48882984b3SWarner Losh 49e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990704: 50e5bd655aSWarner Losh src/contrib/sys/softupdates is moving to 5195d18cfcSWarner Losh src/sys/contrib/softupdates. Update your symbolic links/etc. 52e5bd655aSWarner Losh 53e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990702: 54e5bd655aSWarner Losh Major changes have been made to vinum and its interface. See 55e5bd655aSWarner Losh the man page (vinum(8)) for details. Look at the concat, 56e5bd655aSWarner Losh mirror and stripe commands, as well as the SIMPLIFIED 57e5bd655aSWarner Losh CONFIGURATION section. 58e5bd655aSWarner Losh 59e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990628: 60e5bd655aSWarner Losh Newsyslog.conf has had a minor, but potentially dangerous, 61e5bd655aSWarner Losh change to its username/group syntax. The old syntax was 62e5bd655aSWarner Losh user.group, while the new syntax is user:group. 63e5bd655aSWarner Losh 64e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990627: 65e5bd655aSWarner Losh Inetd wrapping default has changed. Please see the updated 66e5bd655aSWarner Losh man page for details. 67e5bd655aSWarner Losh 68ed478e7cSWarner Losh19990623: 69ed478e7cSWarner Losh Compaq Smart Raid driver committed as ida. 70ed478e7cSWarner Losh 71075eeff2SWarner Losh19990622: 72075eeff2SWarner Losh The second phase of syscons cleanup has happened. Some 73075eeff2SWarner Losh functionality has been made optional. For details, see 74075eeff2SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update-June.txt 756ae429caSWarner Losh Everyone will need to re-config(8) their kernels, but old 766ae429caSWarner Losh binaries will work with the new kernel. 77075eeff2SWarner Losh 78a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990620: 79a883e9d3SWarner Losh IPFW uid/gid-based filtering support has been committed. This 80a883e9d3SWarner Losh breaks binary compatibility with previous copies of 81a883e9d3SWarner Losh ipfw(8). Any utilities using the ioctl()s of ipfw (especially 82a883e9d3SWarner Losh ipfw(8)) need to be recompiled with the newest headers 83a883e9d3SWarner Losh installed. 84a883e9d3SWarner Losh 85a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990618: 86a883e9d3SWarner Losh Inetd now wraps all stream-based services, including internals. 87a883e9d3SWarner Losh Syslog "severity" options are honoured. Installed syslog.conf 88a883e9d3SWarner Losh and hosts.allow should be checked. 89a883e9d3SWarner Losh 9007b72539SWarner Losh19990509: 9107b72539SWarner Losh Most of the problems with newbus have been corrected, but 9207b72539SWarner Losh it is still current and evolving. 9307b72539SWarner Losh 9407b72539SWarner Losh libcam's ABI has changed. You must recompile the world and 9507b72539SWarner Losh any ports that use it. 9607b72539SWarner Losh 9709fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990427: 9809fcf3f9SWarner Losh Massive changes to SMP went into the tree that should speed 9909fcf3f9SWarner Losh things up. However, if you experience problems with SMP 10009fcf3f9SWarner Losh machines, you can back off to the PRE_SMP_VMSHARE tag in the 10109fcf3f9SWarner Losh CVS repository (or run an MP kernel). 10209fcf3f9SWarner Losh 10309fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990420: 10409fcf3f9SWarner Losh Pccardd and the pccard bus in general seem to be broken or 10509fcf3f9SWarner Losh most people. Soren has patches to make it better for some, 10609fcf3f9SWarner Losh but not all people. Work is underway to make it better for 10709fcf3f9SWarner Losh all people. 10809fcf3f9SWarner Losh 109ea31d04dSWarner Losh19990416: 110ea31d04dSWarner Losh new bus changes integrated into -current. Many problems were 111ea31d04dSWarner Losh initially reported, but most have been fixed. You'll need a 112ea31d04dSWarner Losh new config and to tweak your kernel config file the way that 113ea31d04dSWarner Losh GENERIC was tweaked. Keep a copy of your old kernel when 114ea31d04dSWarner Losh upgrading in case your new kernel doesn't work (and report the 115ea31d04dSWarner Losh breakage to current@freebsd.org). 116ea31d04dSWarner Losh 117ea31d04dSWarner Losh As of 19990421 the remaining problems/quirks are 118ea31d04dSWarner Losh 119ea31d04dSWarner Losh o sio no longer supports pnp nor pccard. This will be corrected, 120ea31d04dSWarner Losh but the new pccard code needs to be completed. 121ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Some of the sound drivers broke for some people. It seems 122ea31d04dSWarner Losh inconsistant as to who/what/when/where things broke. 123ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Duplicate device entries in your config do not work. Previously 124ea31d04dSWarner Losh they were silently ignored. psm0 seems to be the most common 125ea31d04dSWarner Losh duplicate choice, although some reports have come in from people 126ea31d04dSWarner Losh that wired their scsi disk entries. 127ea31d04dSWarner Losh o You must move the keyboard and mouse attachments from the 128ea31d04dSWarner Losh isa bus to the atkbdc bus. See GENERIC for details. 129ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Machines with multiple host-pci bridges (Intel 450NX) will not 130ea31d04dSWarner Losh probe the second pci bus. 131ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Some probe ordering may have changed, so device naming may change 132ea31d04dSWarner Losh with the new kernel. If you have multiple devices, please double 133ea31d04dSWarner Losh check to make sure they didn't move. This is especially true 134ea31d04dSWarner Losh for cards on different buses. 135ea31d04dSWarner Losh o The bus attachment for vga0 is always isa0 and never pci0 when 136ea31d04dSWarner Losh it is in fact a pci card. It is safe to ignore this. 137ea31d04dSWarner Losh o The format of the boot messages has changed (and is not 138ea31d04dSWarner Losh guaranteed to be constant for a while) so you may see this 139ea31d04dSWarner Losh in some shell scripts that diff dmesg from day to day as well 140ea31d04dSWarner Losh as scripts that parse dmesg output. 141f8c77507SWarner Losh 142d24adca8SWarner Losh19990414: 143d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout sometimes has problems compiling with -g, remove -g 144d24adca8SWarner Losh from those compilation units affected until this is corrected. 145d24adca8SWarner Losh 146d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout has problems with producing some threaded libraries, 147d24adca8SWarner Losh so make world -DWANT_AOUT is not functional at this time. 148d24adca8SWarner Losh 149ea31d04dSWarner Losh Since make world for a.out isn't functional, you cannot do 150ea31d04dSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf from a pre-egcs a.out system. To work around 151ea31d04dSWarner Losh this problem, make aout-to-elf using 3.1-stable first (or a 152ea31d04dSWarner Losh pre egcs -current) and then a simple make world will take you 153ea31d04dSWarner Losh the rest of the way with a -current source base. 154ea31d04dSWarner Losh 155d5ca0636SWarner Losh19990413: 156d24adca8SWarner Losh Make -j works again for make world. As always, use it with 157d24adca8SWarner Losh care, and be sure to try a make world w/o -j before reporting 158d24adca8SWarner Losh problems (that is, know if the problem exists w/o -j before 159d24adca8SWarner Losh reporting the problem with -j). 160d24adca8SWarner Losh 161d24adca8SWarner Losh19990413: 162d24adca8SWarner Losh Note cc -aout, which had been broken since the conversion to 163ea31d04dSWarner Losh egcs, now supposedly works. If you have rebuilt things like 164d24adca8SWarner Losh XFree86 a.out libraries, you should rebuild them again or 165ea31d04dSWarner Losh progams that use them, including netscape, will fail to work. 166d5ca0636SWarner Losh 1671f692d40SWarner Losh19990409: 1681f692d40SWarner Losh NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from 1691f692d40SWarner Losh the old compiler and vice versa. 1701f692d40SWarner Losh 1711f692d40SWarner Losh19990408: 17281725689SWarner Losh In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree. A number 17381725689SWarner Losh of problems have been discussed in -current. Here is a highlight 17481725689SWarner Losh of a few of the more common ones. With the exception of make 17581725689SWarner Losh -j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed. 17681725689SWarner Losh 17781725689SWarner Losh c++ is broken after make world: This is correct. Because we 17881725689SWarner Losh changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++ 17981725689SWarner Losh working again. The code generated by the old compiler and new 18081725689SWarner Losh compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being 18181725689SWarner Losh undefined. 18281725689SWarner Losh 18381725689SWarner Losh cpp is broken in make world: There was a window where cpp 18481725689SWarner Losh would be built incorrectly. The fix for this is 185420d4744SMasafumi Max NAKANE cd src/gnu/usr.bin/cc 18681725689SWarner Losh make clean 18781725689SWarner Losh make all 18881725689SWarner Losh make install 18981725689SWarner Losh and this should correct your problems. See the -current 19081725689SWarner Losh archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning. 19181725689SWarner Losh 19281725689SWarner Losh Make -j n doesn't work. Work contiunes to make this work, 19381725689SWarner Losh I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th. 19481725689SWarner Losh 195ff5e1f79SWarner Losh19990329: 196ff5e1f79SWarner Losh Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building 197ff5e1f79SWarner Losh the legacy a.out bits. Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to 198ff5e1f79SWarner Losh build them. 199ff5e1f79SWarner Losh 200fe9af953SWarner Losh19990316: 201fe9af953SWarner Losh The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 202fe9af953SWarner Losh been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 203fe9af953SWarner Losh "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 204fe9af953SWarner Losh 205fe9af953SWarner Losh19990314: 206fe9af953SWarner Losh For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 207fe9af953SWarner Losh please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 208fe9af953SWarner Losh -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 209fe9af953SWarner Losh be fixed in the future. 210fe9af953SWarner Losh 211ce32355fSWarner Losh19990309: 212fe9af953SWarner Losh New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 213fe9af953SWarner Losh details. 214ce32355fSWarner Losh 215f8c77507SWarner Losh19990225: 216f8c77507SWarner Losh struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 217f8c77507SWarner Losh usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 2181fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 2190edeb9e7SWarner Losh19990214: 2200edeb9e7SWarner Losh The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 2217dd38e55SWarner Losh See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 2227dd38e55SWarner Losh for proper configuration details. 2230edeb9e7SWarner Losh 2241fc1a0dcSWarner Losh19990210: 2251fc1a0dcSWarner Losh The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 2260edeb9e7SWarner Losh driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 22757199806SWarner Losh 2287dd38e55SWarner Losh19990209: 2297dd38e55SWarner Losh New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 2307dd38e55SWarner Losh iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 2317dd38e55SWarner Losh make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 2327dd38e55SWarner Losh ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 2337dd38e55SWarner Losh 2349a3105eeSWarner Losh19990125: 2359a3105eeSWarner Losh Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 2369a3105eeSWarner Losh the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 2379a3105eeSWarner Losh is in order (or better yet a make world). 2389a3105eeSWarner Losh 2399a3105eeSWarner Losh19990122: 2409a3105eeSWarner Losh On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 2419a3105eeSWarner Losh blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 2429a3105eeSWarner Losh edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 2439a3105eeSWarner Losh problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 2449a3105eeSWarner Losh 2459a3105eeSWarner Losh19990121: 2468cd37f69SWarner Losh Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 2478cd37f69SWarner Losh updates, please see 2483652181cSWarner Losh 2498cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 2503652181cSWarner Losh 2518cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. 2528cd37f69SWarner Losh 2538cd37f69SWarner Losh Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 2548cd37f69SWarner Losh information please see 2553652181cSWarner Losh 2568cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 2578cd37f69SWarner Losh or 2588cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 2593652181cSWarner Losh 2608cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 2618cd37f69SWarner Losh but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 2628cd37f69SWarner Losh 2638cd37f69SWarner Losh19990120: 2648cd37f69SWarner Losh Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 2658cd37f69SWarner Losh branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 2668cd37f69SWarner Losh 267ad56ea87SWarner Losh19990119: 268ad56ea87SWarner Losh More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 269ad56ea87SWarner Losh files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 270ad56ea87SWarner Losh and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 271ad56ea87SWarner Losh config file changes are needed. 272ad56ea87SWarner Losh 27357199806SWarner Losh19990111: 274a85c0f55SWarner Losh New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 275a85c0f55SWarner Losh stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 276a85c0f55SWarner Losh update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 277a85c0f55SWarner Losh kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 278a85c0f55SWarner Losh The instruction can be found in 27957199806SWarner Losh 2807dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 28157199806SWarner Losh 282a85c0f55SWarner Losh It has notes on splash screen too. 28357199806SWarner Losh 28457199806SWarner Losh19990106: 2859857e582SWarner Losh Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 286db23c94fSWarner Losh install the new bootblocks: 28757199806SWarner Losh 2887dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 28957199806SWarner Losh 2909ba54ae0SWarner Losh When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 2919ba54ae0SWarner Losh /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 2929ba54ae0SWarner Losh elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 2939857e582SWarner Losh messages about being unable to find library files. The 2949857e582SWarner Losh mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 2959857e582SWarner Losh keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 2969857e582SWarner Losh recommended. 29757199806SWarner Losh 29857199806SWarner Losh19990104: 2992c558794SWarner Losh Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 30057199806SWarner Losh 3017dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 30257199806SWarner Losh 3032c558794SWarner Losh about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 3042c558794SWarner Losh for doing the upgrade. 30557199806SWarner Losh 30657199806SWarner Losh19981230: 307d5513f53SWarner Losh You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 308e363c17bSWarner Losh become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 309e363c17bSWarner Losh your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 310e363c17bSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 311e363c17bSWarner Losh a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 312e363c17bSWarner Losh continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 313e363c17bSWarner Losh for more details. 31457199806SWarner Losh 31557199806SWarner Losh19981224: 316355edc3eSWarner Losh The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 317355edc3eSWarner Losh driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 318355edc3eSWarner Losh this in your configuration files. 31957199806SWarner Losh 320355edc3eSWarner Losh Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 321355edc3eSWarner Losh configured" at boot time. 32257199806SWarner Losh 323355edc3eSWarner Losh The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 324355edc3eSWarner Losh with no replacement driver. 32557199806SWarner Losh 32657199806SWarner Losh19981202: 327ab308df6SWarner Losh New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 328ab308df6SWarner Losh aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 32957199806SWarner Losh 33057199806SWarner Losh19981201: 331ab308df6SWarner Losh New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 332ab308df6SWarner Losh src/etc/group: 333ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 334ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53: 335ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 336ab308df6SWarner Losh tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 337ab308df6SWarner Losh kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 338ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 33957199806SWarner Losh 34057199806SWarner Losh19981118: 34153dfde79SWarner Losh PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 34253dfde79SWarner Losh to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 34353dfde79SWarner Losh See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 34457199806SWarner Losh 3451fc1a0dcSWarner LoshThis file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 3461fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 3471fc1a0dcSWarner Loshand it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 3481fc1a0dcSWarner Loshversion of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 3491fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 350f8c77507SWarner LoshPlease filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 351f8c77507SWarner Loshthe style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 352f8c77507SWarner Losh 35397d92980SPeter Wemm$FreeBSD$ 354