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157199806SWarner LoshUpdating Information for FreeBSD current users
253dfde79SWarner Losh
3456b5dd8SWarner LoshThis file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>.
4456b5dd8SWarner LoshSee end of file for further details.  For commonly done items, please see the
5456b5dd8SWarner LoshCOMMON ITEMS: section later in the file.  These instructions assume that you
6456b5dd8SWarner Loshbasically know what you are doing.  If not, then please consult the FreeBSD
7456b5dd8SWarner Loshhandbook.
8e72fd46aSWarner Losh
92c724730SWarner LoshItems affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
10456b5dd8SWarner Losh/usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before running portupgrade.
112c724730SWarner Losh
12cf48cc9fSKen SmithNOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 9.x IS SLOW:
13456b5dd8SWarner Losh	FreeBSD 9.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel
14456b5dd8SWarner Losh	and userland.  These features attempt to detect incorrect use of
15456b5dd8SWarner Losh	system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity
16456b5dd8SWarner Losh	checking and fail stop semantics.  They also substantially impact
17456b5dd8SWarner Losh	system performance.  If you want to do performance measurement,
18456b5dd8SWarner Losh	benchmarking, and optimization, you'll want to turn them off.  This
19456b5dd8SWarner Losh	includes various WITNESS- related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc
20456b5dd8SWarner Losh	debugging flags in userland, and various verbose features in the
21456b5dd8SWarner Losh	kernel.  Many developers choose to disable these features on build
22456b5dd8SWarner Losh	machines to maximize performance.  (To disable malloc debugging, run
236bea5c3cSTom Rhodes	ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.)
24efc06131SSam Leffler
25*e4f64803SWarner Losh20110103:
26*e4f64803SWarner Losh	If you are trying to run make universe on a -stable system, and you get
27*e4f64803SWarner Losh	the following warning:
28*e4f64803SWarner Losh"Makefile", line 356: "Target architecture for i386/conf/GENERIC unknown.  config(8) likely too old."
29*e4f64803SWarner Losh	or something similar to it, then you must upgrade your -stable system
30*e4f64803SWarner Losh	to 8.2-Release or newer (really, any time after r210146 7/15/2010 in
31*e4f64803SWarner Losh	stable/8) or build the config from the latest stable/8 branch and
32*e4f64803SWarner Losh	install it on your system.
33*e4f64803SWarner Losh
34*e4f64803SWarner Losh	Prior to this date, building a current universe on 8-stable system from
35*e4f64803SWarner Losh	between 7/15/2010 and 1/2/2011 would result in a weird shell parsing
36*e4f64803SWarner Losh	error in the first kernel build phase.  A new config on those old systems
37*e4f64803SWarner Losh	will fix that problem for older versions of -current.
38*e4f64803SWarner Losh
3939bc9de5SLawrence Stewart20101228:
4039bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	The TCP stack has been modified to allow Khelp modules to interact with
4139bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	it via helper hook points and store per-connection data in the TCP
4239bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	control block. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900029. User space tools that
4339bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to
4439bc9de5SLawrence Stewart	be recompiled.
4539bc9de5SLawrence Stewart
46efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl20101114:
47efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Generic IEEE 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support has been
48efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	added to mii(4) and bge(4), bce(4), msk(4), nfe(4) and stge(4) along
49efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	with brgphy(4), e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy() have been converted
50efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	to take advantage of it instead of using custom implementations.  This
51efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	means that these drivers now no longer unconditionally advertise
52efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	support for flow control but only do so if flow control is a selected
53efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	media option.  This was implemented in the generic support that way in
54efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	order to allow flow control to be switched on and off via ifconfig(8)
55efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	with the PHY specific default to typically off in order to protect
56efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	from unwanted effects.  Consequently, if you used flow control with
57efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	one of the above mentioned drivers you now need to explicitly enable
58efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	it, for example via:
59efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl		ifconfig bge0 media auto mediaopt flowcontrol
60efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
61efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Along with the above mentioned changes generic support for setting
62efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	1000baseT master mode also has been added and brgphy(4), ciphy(4),
63efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy(4) have been converted to take
64efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	advantage of it.  This means that these drivers now no longer take the
65efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	link0 parameter for selecting master mode but the master media option
66efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	has to be used instead, for example like in the following:
67efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl		ifconfig bge0 media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,master
68efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
69efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Selection of master mode now is also available with all other PHY
70efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	drivers supporting 1000baseT.
71efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
72dbc42409SLawrence Stewart20101111:
73dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	The TCP stack has received a significant update to add support for
74dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	modularised congestion control and generally improve the clarity of
75dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	congestion control decisions. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900025. User
76dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g.
77dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	sockstat) need to be recompiled.
78dbc42409SLawrence Stewart
79fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow20101002:
80fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	The man(1) utility has been replaced by a new version that no longer
81fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	uses /etc/manpath.config. Please consult man.conf(5) for how to
82fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	migrate local entries to the new format.
83fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow
84337299c6SEd Maste20100928:
85337299c6SEd Maste	The copyright strings printed by login(1) and sshd(8) at the time of a
86337299c6SEd Maste	new connection have been removed to follow other operating systems and
87337299c6SEd Maste	upstream sshd.
88337299c6SEd Maste
89f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon20100915:
90f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon	A workaround for a fixed ld bug has been removed in kernel code,
91f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon	so make sure that your system ld is built from sources after
92130a0815SAndriy Gapon	revision 210245 from 2010-07-19 (r211583 if building head kernel
93130a0815SAndriy Gapon	on stable/8, r211584 for stable/7; both from 2010-08-21).
94130a0815SAndriy Gapon	A symptom of incorrect ld version is different addresses for
95130a0815SAndriy Gapon	set_pcpu section and __start_set_pcpu symbol in kernel and/or modules.
96f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon
97d69eb520SRui Paulo20100913:
98d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ipv6_prefer variable in rc.conf(5) has been split into
99d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	$ip6addrctl_policy and $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces.
100d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
101d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ip6addrctl_policy is a variable to choose a pre-defined
102d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	address selection policy set by ip6addrctl(8).  A value
103d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	"ipv4_prefer", "ipv6_prefer" or "AUTO" can be specified.  The
104d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	default is "AUTO".
105d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
106d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces specifies whether IFDISABLED
107d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	flag (see an entry of 20090926) is set on an interface with no
108d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	corresponding $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 line.  The default is "NO" for
109d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	security reason.  If you want IPv6 link-local address on all
110d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	interfaces by default, set this to "YES".
111d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
112d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The old ipv6_prefer="YES" is equivalent to
113d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" and
114d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer".
115d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
116d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato20100913:
117d69eb520SRui Paulo	DTrace has grown support for userland tracing. Due to this, DTrace is
118d69eb520SRui Paulo	now i386 and amd64 only.
119d69eb520SRui Paulo	dtruss(1) is now installed by default on those systems and a new
120d69eb520SRui Paulo	kernel module is needed for userland tracing: fasttrap.
121d69eb520SRui Paulo	No changes to your kernel config file are necessary to enable
122d69eb520SRui Paulo	userland tracing, but you might consider adding 'STRIP=' and
123d69eb520SRui Paulo	'CFLAGS+=-fno-omit-frame-pointer' to your make.conf if you want
124d69eb520SRui Paulo	to have informative userland stack traces in DTrace (ustack).
125d69eb520SRui Paulo
12640650455SRui Paulo20100725:
12740650455SRui Paulo	The acpi_aiboost(4) driver has been removed in favor of the new
12840650455SRui Paulo	aibs(4) driver. You should update your kernel configuration file.
12940650455SRui Paulo
1304dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan20100722:
1314dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	BSD grep has been imported to the base system and it is built by
1324dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	default.  It is completely BSD licensed, highly GNU-compatible, uses
1334dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	less memory than its GNU counterpart and has a small codebase.
1344dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	However, it is slower than its GNU counterpart, which is mostly
1354dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	noticeable for larger searches, for smaller ones it is measurable
1364dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	but not significant.  The reason is complex, the most important factor
1374dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	is that we lack a modern and efficient regex library and GNU
1384dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	overcomes this by optimizing the searches internally.  Future work
1394dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	on improving the regex performance is planned, for the meantime,
1404dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	users that need better performance, can build GNU grep instead by
1414dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	setting the WITH_GNU_GREP knob.
1422965a453SKip Macy
1438fc25799SMartin Matuska20100713:
144c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	Due to the import of powerpc64 support, all existing powerpc kernel
145c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	configuration files must be updated with a machine directive like this:
146c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	    machine powerpc powerpc
147c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn
148c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	In addition, an updated config(8) is required to build powerpc kernels
149c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	after this change.
150c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn
151c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn20100713:
1528fc25799SMartin Matuska	A new version of ZFS (version 15) has been merged to -HEAD.
1538fc25799SMartin Matuska	This version uses a python library for the following subcommands:
1548fc25799SMartin Matuska	zfs allow, zfs unallow, zfs groupspace, zfs userspace.
1558fc25799SMartin Matuska	For full functionality of these commands the following port must
1568fc25799SMartin Matuska	be installed: sysutils/py-zfs
1578fc25799SMartin Matuska
1582965a453SKip Macy20100429:
1592965a453SKip Macy	'vm_page's are now hashed by physical address to an array of mutexes.
1602965a453SKip Macy	Currently this is only used to serialize access to hold_count. Over
1612965a453SKip Macy	time the page queue mutex will be peeled away. This changes the size
1622965a453SKip Macy	of pmap on every architecture. And requires all callers of vm_page_hold
1632965a453SKip Macy	and vm_page_unhold to be updated.
1642965a453SKip Macy
16521edb039SAlexander Leidinger20100402:
16621edb039SAlexander Leidinger	WITH_CTF can now be specified in src.conf (not recommended, there
16721edb039SAlexander Leidinger	are some problems with static executables), make.conf (would also
16821edb039SAlexander Leidinger	affect ports which do not use GNU make and do not override the
16921edb039SAlexander Leidinger	compile targets) or in the kernel config (via "makeoptions
17021edb039SAlexander Leidinger	WITH_CTF=yes").
17121edb039SAlexander Leidinger	When WITH_CTF was specified there before this was silently ignored,
17221edb039SAlexander Leidinger	so make sure that WITH_CTF is not used in places which could lead
17321edb039SAlexander Leidinger	to unwanted behavior.
17421edb039SAlexander Leidinger
175841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn20100311:
176841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	The kernel option COMPAT_IA32 has been replaced with COMPAT_FREEBSD32
177841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	to allow 32-bit compatibility on non-x86 platforms. All kernel
178841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	configurations on amd64 and ia64 platforms using these options must
179841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	be modified accordingly.
180841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn
181279d8efeSEd Schouten20100113:
182279d8efeSEd Schouten	The utmp user accounting database has been replaced with utmpx,
183279d8efeSEd Schouten	the user accounting interface standardized by POSIX.
184279d8efeSEd Schouten	Unfortunately the semantics of utmp and utmpx don't match,
185279d8efeSEd Schouten	making it practically impossible to support both interfaces.
186279d8efeSEd Schouten	The user accounting database is used by tools like finger(1),
187279d8efeSEd Schouten	last(1), talk(1), w(1) and ac(8).
188279d8efeSEd Schouten
189279d8efeSEd Schouten	All applications in the base system use utmpx.  This means only
190279d8efeSEd Schouten	local binaries (e.g. from the ports tree) may still use these
191279d8efeSEd Schouten	utmp database files.  These applications must be rebuilt to make
192279d8efeSEd Schouten	use of utmpx.
193279d8efeSEd Schouten
194279d8efeSEd Schouten	After the system has been upgraded, it is safe to remove the old
195279d8efeSEd Schouten	log files (/var/run/utmp, /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/wtmp*),
1965ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	assuming their contents is of no importance anymore.  Old wtmp
1975ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	databases can only be used by last(1) and ac(8) after they have
1985ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	been converted to the new format using wtmpcvt(1).
199279d8efeSEd Schouten
200f7829d0dSAttilio Rao20100108:
201f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	Introduce the kernel thread "deadlock resolver" (which can be enabled
202f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	via the DEADLKRES option, see NOTES for more details) and the
203f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	sleepq_type() function for sleepqueues.
204f7829d0dSAttilio Rao
205f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO20091202:
206f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	The rc.firewall and rc.firewall6 were unified, and
207f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	rc.firewall6 and rc.d/ip6fw were removed.
208f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	According to the removal of rc.d/ip6fw, ipv6_firewall_* rc
209f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	variables are obsoleted.  Instead, the following new rc
210f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	variables are added to rc.d/ipfw:
211f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
212f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_client_net_ipv6, firewall_simple_iif_ipv6,
213f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_simple_inet_ipv6, firewall_simple_oif_ipv6,
214f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_simple_onet_ipv6, firewall_trusted_ipv6
215f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
216f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	The meanings correspond to the relevant IPv4 variables.
217f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
218e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer20091125:
219e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer	8.0-RELEASE.
220e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer
221e42fc368SEd Schouten20091113:
222e42fc368SEd Schouten	The default terminal emulation for syscons(4) has been changed
2234b2361f8SEd Schouten	from cons25 to xterm on all platforms except pc98.  This means
2244b2361f8SEd Schouten	that the /etc/ttys file needs to be updated to ensure correct
2254b2361f8SEd Schouten	operation of applications on the console.
226e42fc368SEd Schouten
227e42fc368SEd Schouten	The terminal emulation style can be toggled per window by using
2284b2361f8SEd Schouten	vidcontrol(1)'s -T flag.  The TEKEN_CONS25 kernel configuration
2294b2361f8SEd Schouten	options can be used to change the compile-time default back to
2304b2361f8SEd Schouten	cons25.
231e42fc368SEd Schouten
232e42fc368SEd Schouten	To prevent graphical artifacts, make sure the TERM environment
233e42fc368SEd Schouten	variable is set to match the terminal emulation that is being
234e42fc368SEd Schouten	performed by syscons(4).
235e42fc368SEd Schouten
23607ddebb5SRui Paulo20091109:
23707ddebb5SRui Paulo	The layout of the structure ieee80211req_scan_result has changed.
23807ddebb5SRui Paulo	Applications that require wireless scan results (e.g. ifconfig(8))
23907ddebb5SRui Paulo	from net80211 need to be recompiled.
24007ddebb5SRui Paulo
24196b4300cSDoug Barton	Applications such as wpa_supplicant(8) may require a full world
24296b4300cSDoug Barton	build without using NO_CLEAN in order to get synchronized with the
24396b4300cSDoug Barton	new structure.
24496b4300cSDoug Barton
24563b49c2bSRui Paulo20091025:
24663b49c2bSRui Paulo	The iwn(4) driver has been updated to support the 5000 and 5150 series.
24763b49c2bSRui Paulo	There's one kernel module for each firmware. Adding "device iwnfw"
24863b49c2bSRui Paulo	to the kernel configuration file means including all three firmware
24963b49c2bSRui Paulo	images inside the kernel. If you want to include just the one for
25063b49c2bSRui Paulo	your wireless card, use the the devices iwn4965fw, iwn5000fw or
25163b49c2bSRui Paulo	iwn5150fw.
25263b49c2bSRui Paulo
2532e77c5abSHiroki Sato20090926:
2542e77c5abSHiroki Sato	The rc.d/network_ipv6, IPv6 configuration script has been integrated
2552e77c5abSHiroki Sato	into rc.d/netif.  The changes are the following:
2562e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2572e77c5abSHiroki Sato	1. To use IPv6, simply define $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 like $ifconfig_IF
2582e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   for IPv4.  For aliases, $ifconfig_IF_aliasN should be used.
2592e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Note that both variables need the "inet6" keyword at the head.
2602e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2612e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Do not set $ipv6_network_interfaces manually if you do not
2622e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   understand what you are doing.  It is not needed in most cases.
2632e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2642e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ipv6_ifconfig_IF and $ipv6_ifconfig_IF_aliasN still work, but
2652e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   they are obsolete.
2662e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2672e77c5abSHiroki Sato	2. $ipv6_enable is obsolete.  Use $ipv6_prefer and
2682e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   "inet6 accept_rtadv" keyword in ifconfig(8) instead.
2692e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2702e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   If you define $ipv6_enable=YES, it means $ipv6_prefer=YES and
2712e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   all configured interfaces have "inet6 accept_rtadv" in the
2722e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  These are for backward compatibility.
2732e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2742e77c5abSHiroki Sato	3. A new variable $ipv6_prefer has been added.  If NO, IPv6
2752e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   functionality of interfaces with no corresponding
2762e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 is disabled by using "inet6 ifdisabled" flag,
2772e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   and the default address selection policy of ip6addrctl(8)
2782e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   is the IPv4-preferred one (see rc.d/ip6addrctl for more details).
2792e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Note that if you want to configure IPv6 functionality on the
2802e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   disabled interfaces after boot, first you need to clear the flag by
2812e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   using ifconfig(8) like:
2822e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2832e77c5abSHiroki Sato		ifconfig em0 inet6 -ifdisabled
2842e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2852e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   If YES, the default address selection policy is set as
2862e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   IPv6-preferred.
2872e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2882e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   The default value of $ipv6_prefer is NO.
2892e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2902e77c5abSHiroki Sato	4. If your system need to receive Router Advertisement messages,
2912e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   define "inet6 accept_rtadv" in $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  The rc(8)
2922e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   scripts automatically invoke rtsol(8) when the interface becomes
2932e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   UP.  The Router Advertisement messages are used for SLAAC
2942e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   (State-Less Address AutoConfiguration).
2952e77c5abSHiroki Sato
296350036a0SRui Paulo20090922:
297350036a0SRui Paulo	802.11s D3.03 support was committed. This is incompatible with the
298350036a0SRui Paulo	previous code, which was based on D3.0.
299350036a0SRui Paulo
3002e77c5abSHiroki Sato20090912:
3012e77c5abSHiroki Sato	A sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv now sets the default value
3022e77c5abSHiroki Sato	of a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV, not a global knob to
3032e77c5abSHiroki Sato	control whether accepting Router Advertisement messages or not.
3042e77c5abSHiroki Sato	Also, a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_AUTO_LINKLOCAL has been added and
3052e77c5abSHiroki Sato	a sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal is its default value.
3062e77c5abSHiroki Sato	The ifconfig(8) utility now supports these flags.
3072e77c5abSHiroki Sato
30863e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek20090910:
30963e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek	ZFS snapshots are now mounted with MNT_IGNORE flag. Use -v option for
31063e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek	mount(8) and -a option for df(1) to see them.
31163e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek
312411c7658SWarner Losh20090825:
313411c7658SWarner Losh	The old tunable hw.bus.devctl_disable has been superseded by
314411c7658SWarner Losh	hw.bus.devctl_queue.  hw.bus.devctl_disable=1 in loader.conf should be
315411c7658SWarner Losh	replaced by hw.bus.devctl_queue=0.  The default for this new tunable
316411c7658SWarner Losh	is 1000.
317411c7658SWarner Losh
318dc6fbf65SAttilio Rao20090813:
319456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Remove the option STOP_NMI.  The default action is now to use NMI only
320456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for KDB via the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and
321456b5dd8SWarner Losh	maintain stop_cpus() to just use a normal IPI_STOP on ia32 and amd64.
322456b5dd8SWarner Losh
323456b5dd8SWarner Losh20090803:
324f6a4f4b5SWarner Losh	The stable/8 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
325f6a4f4b5SWarner Losh	RELENG_8 branch in CVS.
326dc6fbf65SAttilio Rao
3273ca3047aSKen Smith20090719:
328456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Bump the shared library version numbers for all libraries that do not
329456b5dd8SWarner Losh	use symbol versioning as part of the 8.0-RELEASE cycle.  Bump
330456b5dd8SWarner Losh	__FreeBSD_version to 800105.
3313ca3047aSKen Smith
332eddfbb76SRobert Watson20090714:
333456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Due to changes in the implementation of virtual network stack support,
334456b5dd8SWarner Losh	all network-related kernel modules must be recompiled.  As this change
335456b5dd8SWarner Losh	breaks the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800104.
336eddfbb76SRobert Watson
337237fbe0aSLawrence Stewart20090713:
338456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The TOE interface to the TCP syncache has been modified to remove
339456b5dd8SWarner Losh	struct tcpopt (<netinet/tcp_var.h>) from the ABI of the network stack.
340456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The cxgb driver is the only TOE consumer affected by this change, and
341456b5dd8SWarner Losh	needs to be recompiled along with the kernel. As this change breaks
342456b5dd8SWarner Losh	the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800103.
343237fbe0aSLawrence Stewart
344962ebef8SLawrence Stewart20090712:
345962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	Padding has been added to struct tcpcb, sackhint and tcpstat in
346962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	<netinet/tcp_var.h> to facilitate future MFCs and bug fixes whilst
3471733d35cSRuslan Ermilov	maintaining the ABI. However, this change breaks the ABI, so bump
348962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	__FreeBSD_version to 800102. User space tools that rely on the size of
349962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	any of these structs (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
350962ebef8SLawrence Stewart
351bab42aadSDoug Rabson20090630:
352456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The NFS_LEGACYRPC option has been removed along with the old kernel
353456b5dd8SWarner Losh	RPC implementation that this option selected. Kernel configurations
354456b5dd8SWarner Losh	may need to be adjusted.
355bab42aadSDoug Rabson
3566cb7f168SBrooks Davis20090629:
357456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The network interface device nodes at /dev/net/<interface> have been
358456b5dd8SWarner Losh	removed.  All ioctl operations can be performed the normal way using
359456b5dd8SWarner Losh	routing sockets.  The kqueue functionality can generally be replaced
360456b5dd8SWarner Losh	with routing sockets.
3616cb7f168SBrooks Davis
362944bc81dSMarc Fonvieille20090628:
363456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The documentation from the FreeBSD Documentation Project (Handbook,
364456b5dd8SWarner Losh	FAQ, etc.) is now installed via packages by sysinstall(8) and under
365456b5dd8SWarner Losh	the /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd directory instead of /usr/share/doc.
366944bc81dSMarc Fonvieille
367f5e4c105SJohn Baldwin20090624:
368456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The ABI of various structures related to the SYSV IPC API have been
369456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed.  As a result, the COMPAT_FREEBSD[456] and COMPAT_43 kernel
370456b5dd8SWarner Losh	options now all require COMPAT_FREEBSD7.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to
371456b5dd8SWarner Losh	800100.
372f5e4c105SJohn Baldwin
373b58ea5f3SBjoern A. Zeeb20090622:
374456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Layout of struct vnet has changed as routing related variables were
375456b5dd8SWarner Losh	moved to their own Vimage module. Modules need to be recompiled.  Bump
376456b5dd8SWarner Losh	__FreeBSD_version to 800099.
377b58ea5f3SBjoern A. Zeeb
378838d9858SBrooks Davis20090619:
379456b5dd8SWarner Losh	NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS have been increased from 16 to 1023 and 1024
380456b5dd8SWarner Losh	respectively.  As long as no more than 16 groups per process are used,
381456b5dd8SWarner Losh	no changes should be visible.  When more than 16 groups are used, old
382456b5dd8SWarner Losh	binaries may fail if they call getgroups() or getgrouplist() with
383456b5dd8SWarner Losh	statically sized storage.  Recompiling will work around this, but
384456b5dd8SWarner Losh	applications should be modified to use dynamically allocated storage
385456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for group arrays as POSIX.1-2008 does not cap an implementation's
386456b5dd8SWarner Losh	number of supported groups at NGROUPS_MAX+1 as previous versions did.
387838d9858SBrooks Davis
388456b5dd8SWarner Losh	NFS and portalfs mounts may also be affected as the list of groups is
389456b5dd8SWarner Losh	truncated to 16.  Users of NFS who use more than 16 groups, should
390456b5dd8SWarner Losh	take care that negative group permissions are not used on the exported
391456b5dd8SWarner Losh	file systems as they will not be reliable unless a GSSAPI based
392456b5dd8SWarner Losh	authentication method is used.
393838d9858SBrooks Davis
394651175c9SAttilio Rao20090616:
395456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_LOCKMGRS has been introduced.  This
396456b5dd8SWarner Losh	option compiles in the support for adaptive spinning for lockmgrs
397456b5dd8SWarner Losh	which want to enable it.  The lockinit() function now accepts the flag
398456b5dd8SWarner Losh	LK_ADAPTIVE in order to make the lock object subject to adaptive
399456b5dd8SWarner Losh	spinning when both held in write and read mode.
400651175c9SAttilio Rao
4012c727cb9SSam Leffler20090613:
402456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of the structure returned by IEEE80211_IOC_STA_INFO has
403456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed.  User applications that use this ioctl need to be rebuilt.
4042c727cb9SSam Leffler
405f089869fSMarko Zec20090611:
406456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of struct thread has changed.  Kernel and modules need to
407456b5dd8SWarner Losh	be rebuilt.
408f089869fSMarko Zec
409bc29160dSMarko Zec20090608:
410456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of structs ifnet, domain, protosw and vnet_net has changed.
411456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Kernel modules need to be rebuilt.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097.
412bc29160dSMarko Zec
41389f98d57SEd Schouten20090602:
41489f98d57SEd Schouten	window(1) has been removed from the base system. It can now be
41589f98d57SEd Schouten	installed from ports. The port is called misc/window.
41689f98d57SEd Schouten
417c2c2a7c1SBjoern A. Zeeb20090601:
418456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The way we are storing and accessing `routing table' entries has
419456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed. Programs reading the FIB, like netstat, need to be
420456b5dd8SWarner Losh	re-compiled.
421c2c2a7c1SBjoern A. Zeeb
422529cb8e3SRobert Watson20090601:
423529cb8e3SRobert Watson	A new netisr implementation has been added for FreeBSD 8.  Network
424529cb8e3SRobert Watson	file system modules, such as igmp, ipdivert, and others, should be
425529cb8e3SRobert Watson	rebuilt.
426529cb8e3SRobert Watson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800096.
427529cb8e3SRobert Watson
4282a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala20090530:
429456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Remove the tunable/sysctl debug.mpsafevfs as its initial purpose is no
430456b5dd8SWarner Losh	more valid.
431faef64ccSAttilio Rao
432faef64ccSAttilio Rao20090530:
4332a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Add VOP_ACCESSX(9).  File system modules need to be rebuilt.
4342a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800094.
4352a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala
436b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala20090529:
437456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Add mnt_xflag field to 'struct mount'.  File system modules need to be
438456b5dd8SWarner Losh	rebuilt.
439b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800093.
440b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala
4411ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao20090528:
4421ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_SX has been retired while it has been
4431ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	introduced the option NO_ADAPTIVE_SX which handles the reversed logic.
4441ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	The KPI for sx_init_flags() changes as accepting flags:
445456b5dd8SWarner Losh	SX_ADAPTIVESPIN flag has been retired while the SX_NOADAPTIVE flag has
446456b5dd8SWarner Losh	been introduced in order to handle the reversed logic.
4471ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800092.
4481ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao
4490304c731SJamie Gritton20090527:
4500304c731SJamie Gritton	Add support for hierarchical jails.  Remove global securelevel.
4510304c731SJamie Gritton	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800091.
4520304c731SJamie Gritton
453dfc79e89SEdwin Groothuis20090523:
45437f17770SMarko Zec	The layout of struct vnet_net has changed, therefore modules
45537f17770SMarko Zec	need to be rebuilt.
45637f17770SMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800090.
45737f17770SMarko Zec
45837f17770SMarko Zec20090523:
459456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The newly imported zic(8) produces a new format in the output. Please
460456b5dd8SWarner Losh	run tzsetup(8) to install the newly created data to /etc/localtime.
461dfc79e89SEdwin Groothuis
46223790ac0SSam Leffler20090520:
4639360ae40SAndrew Thompson	The sysctl tree for the usb stack has renamed from hw.usb2.* to
4649360ae40SAndrew Thompson	hw.usb.* and is now consistent again with previous releases.
4659360ae40SAndrew Thompson
4669360ae40SAndrew Thompson20090520:
467456b5dd8SWarner Losh	802.11 monitor mode support was revised and driver api's were changed.
468456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Drivers dependent on net80211 now support DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO instead
469456b5dd8SWarner Losh	of DLT_IEEE802_11.  No user-visible data structures were changed but
470456b5dd8SWarner Losh	applications that use DLT_IEEE802_11 may require changes.
47123790ac0SSam Leffler	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800088.
47223790ac0SSam Leffler
473f6dfe47aSMarko Zec20090430:
474f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	The layout of the following structs has changed: sysctl_oid,
475f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	socket, ifnet, inpcbinfo, tcpcb, syncache_head, vnet_inet,
476f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	vnet_inet6 and vnet_ipfw.  Most modules need to be rebuild or
477f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	panics may be experienced.  World rebuild is required for
478f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	correctly checking networking state from userland.
479f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800085.
480f6dfe47aSMarko Zec
48133cde130SBruce M Simpson20090429:
48233cde130SBruce M Simpson	MLDv2 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
48333cde130SBruce M Simpson	to the IPv6 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
48433cde130SBruce M Simpson	The implementation of SSM within FreeBSD's IPv6 stack closely
48533cde130SBruce M Simpson	follows the IPv4 implementation.
48633cde130SBruce M Simpson
48733cde130SBruce M Simpson	For kernel developers:
48833cde130SBruce M Simpson
48933cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The most important changes are that the ip6_output() and
49033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  ip6_input() paths no longer take the IN6_MULTI_LOCK,
49133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
49233cde130SBruce M Simpson
49333cde130SBruce M Simpson	* As with the changes to the IPv4 stack to support SSM, filtering
49433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  of inbound multicast traffic must now be performed by transport
49533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  protocols within the IPv6 stack. This does not apply to TCP and
49633cde130SBruce M Simpson	  SCTP, however, it does apply to UDP in IPv6 and raw IPv6.
49733cde130SBruce M Simpson
49833cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The KPIs used by IPv6 multicast are similar to those used by
49933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  the IPv4 stack, with the following differences:
50033cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * im6o_mc_filter() is analogous to imo_multicast_filter().
50133cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * The legacy KAME entry points in6_joingroup and in6_leavegroup()
50233cde130SBruce M Simpson	     are shimmed to in6_mc_join() and in6_mc_leave() respectively.
50333cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * IN6_LOOKUP_MULTI() has been deprecated and removed.
50433cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * IPv6 relies on MLD for the DAD mechanism. KAME's internal KPIs
50533cde130SBruce M Simpson	     for MLDv1 have an additional 'timer' argument which is used to
50633cde130SBruce M Simpson	     jitter the initial membership report for the solicited-node
50733cde130SBruce M Simpson	     multicast membership on-link.
50833cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * This is not strictly needed for MLDv2, which already jitters
50933cde130SBruce M Simpson	     its report transmissions.  However, the 'timer' argument is
51033cde130SBruce M Simpson	     preserved in case MLDv1 is active on the interface.
51133cde130SBruce M Simpson
51233cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The KAME linked-list based IPv6 membership implementation has
51333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  been refactored to use a vector similar to that used by the IPv4
51433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  stack.
51533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Code which maintains a list of its own multicast memberships
51633cde130SBruce M Simpson	  internally, e.g. carp, has been updated to reflect the new
51733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  semantics.
51833cde130SBruce M Simpson
51933cde130SBruce M Simpson	* There is a known Lock Order Reversal (LOR) due to in6_setscope()
52033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  acquiring the IF_AFDATA_LOCK and being called within ip6_output().
52133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Whilst MLDv2 tries to avoid this otherwise benign LOR, it is an
52233cde130SBruce M Simpson	  implementation constraint which needs to be addressed in HEAD.
52333cde130SBruce M Simpson
52433cde130SBruce M Simpson	For application developers:
52533cde130SBruce M Simpson
52633cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The changes are broadly similar to those made for the IPv4
52733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  stack.
52833cde130SBruce M Simpson
52933cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The use of IPv4 and IPv6 multicast socket options on the same
53033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  socket, using mapped addresses, HAS NOT been tested or supported.
53133cde130SBruce M Simpson
53233cde130SBruce M Simpson	* There are a number of issues with the implementation of various
53333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  IPv6 multicast APIs which need to be resolved in the API surface
53433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  before the implementation is fully compatible with KAME userland
53533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  use, and these are mostly to do with interface index treatment.
53633cde130SBruce M Simpson
53733cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The literature available discusses the use of either the delta / ASM
53833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  API with setsockopt(2)/getsockopt(2), or the full-state / ASM API
53933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  using setsourcefilter(3)/getsourcefilter(3). For more information
54033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  please refer to RFC 3768, 'Socket Interface Extensions for
54133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Multicast Source Filters'.
54233cde130SBruce M Simpson
54333cde130SBruce M Simpson	* Applications which use the published RFC 3678 APIs should be fine.
54433cde130SBruce M Simpson
54533cde130SBruce M Simpson	For systems administrators:
54633cde130SBruce M Simpson
54733cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The mtest(8) utility has been refactored to support IPv6, in
54833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  addition to IPv4. Interface addresses are no longer accepted
54933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  as arguments, their names must be used instead. The utility
55033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  will map the interface name to its first IPv4 address as
55133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  returned by getifaddrs(3).
55233cde130SBruce M Simpson
55333cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The ifmcstat(8) utility has also been updated to print the MLDv2
55433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  endpoint state and source filter lists via sysctl(3).
55533cde130SBruce M Simpson
55633cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The net.inet6.ip6.mcast.loop sysctl may be tuned to 0 to disable
55733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  loopback of IPv6 multicast datagrams by default; it defaults to 1
55833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  to preserve the existing behaviour. Disabling multicast loopback is
55933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  recommended for optimal system performance.
56033cde130SBruce M Simpson
56133cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The IPv6 MROUTING code has been changed to examine this sysctl
56233cde130SBruce M Simpson	  instead of attempting to perform a group lookup before looping
56333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  back forwarded datagrams.
56433cde130SBruce M Simpson
56533cde130SBruce M Simpson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800084.
56633cde130SBruce M Simpson
5678b8bf775SRobert Watson20090422:
568131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin	Implement low-level Bluetooth HCI API.
569131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800083.
570131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin
5718b8bf775SRobert Watson20090419:
5728b8bf775SRobert Watson	The layout of struct malloc_type, used by modules to register new
5738b8bf775SRobert Watson	memory allocation types, has changed.  Most modules will need to
5748b8bf775SRobert Watson	be rebuilt or panics may be experienced.
5758b8bf775SRobert Watson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800081.
5768b8bf775SRobert Watson
577de4ab55eSKip Macy20090415:
578773b573aSKip Macy	Anticipate overflowing inp_flags - add inp_flags2.
579773b573aSKip Macy	This changes most offsets in inpcb, so checking v4 connection
580773b573aSKip Macy	state will require a world rebuild.
581773b573aSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800080.
582f146c211SXin LI
583773b573aSKip Macy20090415:
584de4ab55eSKip Macy	Add an llentry to struct route and struct route_in6. Modules
585de4ab55eSKip Macy	embedding a struct route will need to be recompiled.
586de4ab55eSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800079.
587de4ab55eSKip Macy
588427ac07fSKip Macy20090414:
589427ac07fSKip Macy	The size of rt_metrics_lite and by extension rtentry has changed.
590427ac07fSKip Macy	Networking administration apps will need to be recompiled.
591427ac07fSKip Macy	The route command now supports show as an alias for get, weighting
592427ac07fSKip Macy	of routes, sticky and nostick flags to alter the behavior of stateful
593427ac07fSKip Macy	load balancing.
594427ac07fSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800078.
5958713ec3dSRenato Botelho
59687437955SMaksim Yevmenkin20090408:
59787437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	Do not use Giant for kbdmux(4) locking. This is wrong and
59887437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	apparently causing more problems than it solves. This will
59987437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	re-open the issue where interrupt handlers may race with
60087437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	kbdmux(4) in polling mode. Typical symptoms include (but
60187437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	not limited to) duplicated and/or missing characters when
60287437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	low level console functions (such as gets) are used while
60387437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	interrupts are enabled (for example geli password prompt,
60487437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	mountroot prompt etc.). Disabling kbdmux(4) may help.
60587437955SMaksim Yevmenkin
6062f6a1858SMarko Zec20090407:
6072f6a1858SMarko Zec	The size of structs vnet_net, vnet_inet and vnet_ipfw has changed;
6082f6a1858SMarko Zec	kernel modules referencing any of the above need to be recompiled.
6092f6a1858SMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800075.
6102f6a1858SMarko Zec
611781d043cSIvan Voras20090320:
612781d043cSIvan Voras	GEOM_PART has become the default partition slicer for storage devices,
613781d043cSIvan Voras	replacing GEOM_MBR, GEOM_BSD, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_GPT slicers. It
6149a07b548SIvan Voras	introduces some changes:
6159a07b548SIvan Voras
6169a07b548SIvan Voras	MSDOS/EBR: the devices created from MSDOS extended partition entries
6179a07b548SIvan Voras	(EBR) can be named differently than with GEOM_MBR and are now symlinks
6189a07b548SIvan Voras	to devices with offset-based names. fstabs may need to be modified.
6199a07b548SIvan Voras
6209a07b548SIvan Voras	BSD: the "geometry does not match label" warning is harmless in most
6219a07b548SIvan Voras	cases but it points to problems in file system misalignment with
6229a07b548SIvan Voras	disk geometry. The "c" partition is now implicit, covers the whole
6239a07b548SIvan Voras	top-level drive and cannot be (mis)used by users.
6249a07b548SIvan Voras
6259a07b548SIvan Voras	General: Kernel dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices
6269a07b548SIvan Voras	whose partition types indicate they are meant to be used for file
6279a07b548SIvan Voras	systems (or, in case of MSDOS partitions, as something else than
6289a07b548SIvan Voras	the "386BSD" type).
6299a07b548SIvan Voras
6309a07b548SIvan Voras	Most of these changes date approximately from 200812.
631781d043cSIvan Voras
632443fc317SBruce M Simpson20090319:
6332b78d306SAndrew Thompson	The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows
6342b78d306SAndrew Thompson	Linux removing theirs in 2.6 and making libusb the default interface
6352b78d306SAndrew Thompson	(supported by sane).
6362b78d306SAndrew Thompson
6372b78d306SAndrew Thompson20090319:
638443fc317SBruce M Simpson	The multicast forwarding code has been cleaned up. netstat(1)
639443fc317SBruce M Simpson	only relies on KVM now for printing bandwidth upcall meters.
640443fc317SBruce M Simpson	The IPv4 and IPv6 modules are split into ip_mroute_mod and
641443fc317SBruce M Simpson	ip6_mroute_mod respectively. The config(5) options for statically
642443fc317SBruce M Simpson	compiling this code remain the same, i.e. 'options MROUTING'.
643443fc317SBruce M Simpson
6441df14375SRobert Watson20090315:
6451df14375SRobert Watson	Support for the IFF_NEEDSGIANT network interface flag has been
6461df14375SRobert Watson	removed, which means that non-MPSAFE network device drivers are no
6471df14375SRobert Watson	longer supported.  In particular, if_ar, if_sr, and network device
6481df14375SRobert Watson	drivers from the old (legacy) USB stack can no longer be built or
6491df14375SRobert Watson	used.
6501df14375SRobert Watson
651e667034dSRui Paulo20090313:
6527e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	POSIX.1 Native Language Support (NLS) has been enabled in libc and
6537e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	a bunch of new language catalog files have also been added.
6547e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	This means that some common libc messages are now localized and
6557e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	they depend on the LC_MESSAGES environmental variable.
6567e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan
6577e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan20090313:
658e667034dSRui Paulo	The k8temp(4) driver has been renamed to amdtemp(4) since
6598fb1e038SDavid E. O'Brien	support for Family 10 and Family 11 CPU families was added.
660e667034dSRui Paulo
661a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson20090309:
662d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	IGMPv3 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
663d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to the IPv4 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
664d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
665d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For kernel developers, the most important changes are that the
666d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	ip_output() and ip_input() paths no longer take the IN_MULTI_LOCK(),
667d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
668d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
669d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Transport protocols (UDP, Raw IP) are now responsible for filtering
670d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	inbound multicast traffic according to group membership and source
671d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	filters. The imo_multicast_filter() KPI exists for this purpose.
672d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Transports which do not use multicast (SCTP, TCP) already reject
673d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast by default. Forwarding and receive performance may improve
674d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	as a mutex acquisition is no longer needed in the ip_input()
675d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	low-level input path.  in_addmulti() and in_delmulti() are shimmed
676d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to new KPIs which exist to support SSM in-kernel.
677d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
678d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For application developers, it is recommended that loopback of
679d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast datagrams be disabled for best performance, as this
680d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	will still cause the lock to be taken for each looped-back
681d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	datagram transmission. The net.inet.ip.mcast.loop sysctl may
682d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	be tuned to 0 to disable loopback by default; it defaults to 1
683d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to preserve the existing behaviour.
684d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
685d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For systems administrators, to obtain best performance with
686d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast reception and multiple groups, it is always recommended
687d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	that a card with a suitably precise hash filter is used. Hash
688d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	collisions will still result in the lock being taken within the
689d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	transport protocol input path to check group membership.
690d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
691d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	If deploying FreeBSD in an environment with IGMP snooping switches,
692d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	it is recommended that the net.inet.igmp.sendlocal sysctl remain
693d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	enabled; this forces 224.0.0.0/24 group membership to be announced
694d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	via IGMP.
695d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
696d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	The size of 'struct igmpstat' has changed; netstat needs to be
697d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	recompiled to reflect this.
698d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800070.
699d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
700d10910e6SBruce M Simpson20090309:
701a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	libusb20.so.1 is now installed as libusb.so.1 and the ports system
702a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	updated to use it. This requires a buildworld/installworld in order to
703a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	update the library and dependencies (usbconfig, etc). Its advisable to
704cb2fe9b1SStanislav Sedov	rebuild all ports which uses libusb. More specific directions are given
7050ee5826eSAndrew Thompson	in the ports collection UPDATING file. Any /etc/libmap.conf entries for
7063296f80dSAndrew Thompson	libusb are no longer required and can be removed.
707a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson
70865067cc8SKonstantin Belousov20090302:
7099f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	A workaround is committed to allow the creation of System V shared
7109f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	memory segment of size > 2 GB on the 64-bit architectures.
7119f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	Due to a limitation of the existing ABI, the shm_segsz member
71265067cc8SKonstantin Belousov	of the struct shmid_ds, returned by shmctl(IPC_STAT) call is
713813bb2c9SJoel Dahl	wrong for large segments. Note that limits must be explicitly
71465067cc8SKonstantin Belousov	raised to allow such segments to be created.
71565067cc8SKonstantin Belousov
716176273eaSRobert Watson20090301:
717176273eaSRobert Watson	The layout of struct ifnet has changed, requiring a rebuild of all
718176273eaSRobert Watson	network device driver modules.
719176273eaSRobert Watson
720a13a5664SAndrew Thompson20090227:
721a13a5664SAndrew Thompson	The /dev handling for the new USB stack has changed, a
722a13a5664SAndrew Thompson	buildworld/installworld is required for libusb20.
723a13a5664SAndrew Thompson
72471e9286cSAndrew Thompson20090223:
72571e9286cSAndrew Thompson	The new USB2 stack has now been permanently moved in and all kernel and
726200dcf9aSAndrew Thompson	module names reverted to their previous values (eg, usb, ehci, ohci,
7279c1e15b5SAndrew Thompson	ums, ...).  The old usb stack can be compiled in by prefixing the name
72871e9286cSAndrew Thompson	with the letter 'o', the old usb modules have been removed.
729a709c9a6SWarner Losh	Updating entry 20090216 for xorg and 20090215 for libmap may still
730a709c9a6SWarner Losh	apply.
73171e9286cSAndrew Thompson
732553bf6a4SMike Makonnen20090217:
733553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	The rc.conf(5) option if_up_delay has been renamed to
734553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	defaultroute_delay to better reflect its purpose. If you have
735553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	customized this setting in /etc/rc.conf you need to update it to
736553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	use the new name.
737553bf6a4SMike Makonnen
738bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson20090216:
739bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	xorg 7.4 wants to configure its input devices via hald which does not
740bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	yet work with USB2. If the keyboard/mouse does not work in xorg then
741bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	add
742bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson		Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
743bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	to your ServerLayout section.  This will cause X to use the configured
744cbb9c89eSMaxim Konovalov	kbd and mouse sections from your xorg.conf.
745bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson
746e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson20090215:
747e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new USB2
748e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	stack. No kernel config options or code have been removed so if a
749e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	problem arises please report it and optionally revert to the old USB
750e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	stack. If you are loading USB kernel modules or have a custom kernel
751e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	that includes GENERIC then ensure that usb names are also changed over,
752cbb9c89eSMaxim Konovalov	eg uftdi -> usb2_serial_ftdi.
753e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson
754a709c9a6SWarner Losh	Older programs linked against the ports libusb 0.1 need to be
755a709c9a6SWarner Losh	redirected to the new stack's libusb20.  /etc/libmap.conf can
756a709c9a6SWarner Losh	be used for this:
757a709c9a6SWarner Losh		# Map old usb library to new one for usb2 stack
758a709c9a6SWarner Losh		libusb-0.1.so.8	libusb20.so.1
759a709c9a6SWarner Losh
76021293e70SAndrew Thompson20090209:
76121293e70SAndrew Thompson	All USB ethernet devices now attach as interfaces under the name ueN
76221293e70SAndrew Thompson	(eg. ue0). This is to provide a predictable name as vendors often
76321293e70SAndrew Thompson	change usb chipsets in a product without notice.
76421293e70SAndrew Thompson
76514943437SJohn Baldwin20090203:
76614943437SJohn Baldwin	The ichsmb(4) driver has been changed to require SMBus slave
76714943437SJohn Baldwin	addresses be left-justified (xxxxxxx0b) rather than right-justified.
76814943437SJohn Baldwin	All of the other SMBus controller drivers require left-justified
76914943437SJohn Baldwin	slave addresses, so this change makes all the drivers provide the
77014943437SJohn Baldwin	same interface.
77114943437SJohn Baldwin
77209f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb20090201:
77309f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb	INET6 statistics (struct ip6stat) was updated.
77409f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb	netstat(1) needs to be recompiled.
77509f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb
77674f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev20090119:
77774f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	NTFS has been removed from GENERIC kernel on amd64 to match
77874f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	GENERIC on i386. Should not cause any issues since mount_ntfs(8)
77974f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	will load ntfs.ko module automatically when NTFS support is
78074f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	actually needed, unless ntfs.ko is not installed or security
78174f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	level prohibits loading kernel modules. If either is the case,
78274f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	"options NTFS" has to be added into kernel config.
78374f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev
78424cb0f22SLawrence Stewart20090115:
78524cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	TCP Appropriate Byte Counting (RFC 3465) support added to kernel.
78624cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	New field in struct tcpcb breaks ABI, so bump __FreeBSD_version to
78724cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	800061. User space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in
78824cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
78924cb0f22SLawrence Stewart
7905d55747eSAlexander Motin20081225:
7915d55747eSAlexander Motin	ng_tty(4) module updated to match the new TTY subsystem.
7925d55747eSAlexander Motin	Due to API change, user-level applications must be updated.
7935d55747eSAlexander Motin	New API support added to mpd5 CVS and expected to be present
7945d55747eSAlexander Motin	in next mpd5.3 release.
7955d55747eSAlexander Motin
796efc06131SSam Leffler20081219:
797a1c64cafSSam Leffler	With __FreeBSD_version 800060 the makefs tool is part of
798a1c64cafSSam Leffler	the base system (it was a port).
799efc06131SSam Leffler
800991f8615SKip Macy20081216:
801991f8615SKip Macy	The afdata and ifnet locks have been changed from mutexes to
802991f8615SKip Macy	rwlocks, network modules will need to be re-compiled.
8031d7e99caSJohn Baldwin
8046e6b3f7cSQing Li20081214:
8056e6b3f7cSQing Li	__FreeBSD_version 800059 incorporates the new arp-v2 rewrite.
8066e6b3f7cSQing Li	RTF_CLONING, RTF_LLINFO and RTF_WASCLONED flags are eliminated.
8076e6b3f7cSQing Li	The new code reduced struct rtentry{} by 16 bytes on 32-bit
8086e6b3f7cSQing Li	architecture and 40 bytes on 64-bit architecture. The userland
8096e6b3f7cSQing Li	applications "arp" and "ndp" have been updated accordingly.
8106e6b3f7cSQing Li	The output from "netstat -r" shows only routing entries and
8116e6b3f7cSQing Li	none of the L2 information.
8126e6b3f7cSQing Li
81333644623SSam Leffler20081130:
81433644623SSam Leffler	__FreeBSD_version 800057 marks the switchover from the
81533644623SSam Leffler	binary ath hal to source code. Users must add the line:
81633644623SSam Leffler
817c60b227cSSam Leffler	options	AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
81833644623SSam Leffler
81933644623SSam Leffler	to their kernel config files when specifying:
82033644623SSam Leffler
82133644623SSam Leffler	device	ath_hal
82233644623SSam Leffler
82333644623SSam Leffler	The ath_hal module no longer exists; the code is now compiled
82433644623SSam Leffler	together with the driver in the ath module.  It is now
82533644623SSam Leffler	possible to tailor chip support (i.e. reduce the set of chips
82633644623SSam Leffler	and thereby the code size); consult ath_hal(4) for details.
82733644623SSam Leffler
828db7f0b97SKip Macy20081121:
829db7f0b97SKip Macy	__FreeBSD_version 800054 adds memory barriers to
830db7f0b97SKip Macy	<machine/atomic.h>, new interfaces to ifnet to facilitate
831db7f0b97SKip Macy	multiple hardware transmit queues for cards that support
832db7f0b97SKip Macy	them, and a lock-less ring-buffer implementation to
833db7f0b97SKip Macy	enable drivers to more efficiently manage queueing of
834db7f0b97SKip Macy	packets.
835db7f0b97SKip Macy
836de2e1b35SXin LI20081117:
837de2e1b35SXin LI	A new version of ZFS (version 13) has been merged to -HEAD.
838de3a91a0SXin LI	This version has zpool attribute "listsnapshots" off by
839de3a91a0SXin LI	default, which means "zfs list" does not show snapshots,
840de2e1b35SXin LI	and is the same as Solaris behavior.
841de2e1b35SXin LI
84202d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin20081028:
84302d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin	dummynet(4) ABI has changed. ipfw(8) needs to be recompiled.
84402d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin
845e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy20081009:
846d8135f4aSNick Hibma	The uhci, ohci, ehci and slhci USB Host controller drivers have
847d8135f4aSNick Hibma	been put into separate modules. If you load the usb module
848d8135f4aSNick Hibma	separately through loader.conf you will need to load the
849d8135f4aSNick Hibma	appropriate *hci module as well. E.g. for a UHCI-based USB 2.0
850d8135f4aSNick Hibma	controller add the following to loader.conf:
851d8135f4aSNick Hibma
852d8135f4aSNick Hibma		uhci_load="YES"
853d8135f4aSNick Hibma		ehci_load="YES"
854d8135f4aSNick Hibma
855d8135f4aSNick Hibma20081009:
856e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	The ABI used by the PMC toolset has changed.  Please keep
857e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	userland (libpmc(3)) and the kernel module (hwpmc(4)) in
858e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	sync.
859e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy
860b868265dSAlexander Motin20081009:
861b868265dSAlexander Motin	atapci kernel module now includes only generic PCI ATA
862b868265dSAlexander Motin	driver. AHCI driver moved to ataahci kernel module.
863b868265dSAlexander Motin	All vendor-specific code moved into separate kernel modules:
864b868265dSAlexander Motin	ataacard, ataacerlabs, ataadaptec, ataamd, ataati, atacenatek,
865b868265dSAlexander Motin	atacypress, atacyrix, atahighpoint, ataintel, ataite, atajmicron,
866b868265dSAlexander Motin	atamarvell, atamicron, atanational, atanetcell, atanvidia,
867b868265dSAlexander Motin	atapromise, ataserverworks, atasiliconimage, atasis, atavia
868b868265dSAlexander Motin
869bc093719SEd Schouten20080820:
870bc093719SEd Schouten	The TTY subsystem of the kernel has been replaced by a new
871bc093719SEd Schouten	implementation, which provides better scalability and an
872bc093719SEd Schouten	improved driver model. Most common drivers have been migrated to
873bc093719SEd Schouten	the new TTY subsystem, while others have not. The following
874bc093719SEd Schouten	drivers have not yet been ported to the new TTY layer:
875bc093719SEd Schouten
876bc093719SEd Schouten	PCI/ISA:
87766e7dc38SEd Schouten		cy, digi, rc, rp, sio
878bc093719SEd Schouten
879bc093719SEd Schouten	USB:
88066e7dc38SEd Schouten		ubser, ucycom
881bc093719SEd Schouten
882bc093719SEd Schouten	Line disciplines:
883bc093719SEd Schouten		ng_h4, ng_tty, ppp, sl, snp
884bc093719SEd Schouten
885bc093719SEd Schouten	Adding these drivers to your kernel configuration file shall
886bc093719SEd Schouten	cause compilation to fail.
887bc093719SEd Schouten
8889d965219SOllivier Robert20080818:
8899d965219SOllivier Robert	ntpd has been upgraded to 4.2.4p5.
8909d965219SOllivier Robert
891eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav20080801:
892eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	OpenSSH has been upgraded to 5.1p1.
893eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
894eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	For many years, FreeBSD's version of OpenSSH preferred DSA
895eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	over RSA for host and user authentication keys.  With this
896eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	upgrade, we've switched to the vendor's default of RSA over
897eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	DSA.  This may cause upgraded clients to warn about unknown
898eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	host keys even for previously known hosts.  Users should
899eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	follow the usual procedure for verifying host keys before
900eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	accepting the RSA key.
901eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
902eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	This can be circumvented by setting the "HostKeyAlgorithms"
903eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	option to "ssh-dss,ssh-rsa" in ~/.ssh/config or on the ssh
904eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	command line.
905eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
906737d990aSXin LI	Please note that the sequence of keys offered for
907737d990aSXin LI	authentication has been changed as well.  You may want to
908737d990aSXin LI	specify IdentityFile in a different order to revert this
909737d990aSXin LI	behavior.
910737d990aSXin LI
911f4d811f0SEd Schouten20080713:
912f4d811f0SEd Schouten	The sio(4) driver has been removed from the i386 and amd64
913f4d811f0SEd Schouten	kernel configuration files. This means uart(4) is now the
914f4d811f0SEd Schouten	default serial port driver on those platforms as well.
915f4d811f0SEd Schouten
916f4d811f0SEd Schouten	To prevent collisions with the sio(4) driver, the uart(4) driver
917f4d811f0SEd Schouten	uses different names for its device nodes. This means the
918f4d811f0SEd Schouten	onboard serial port will now most likely be called "ttyu0"
919f4d811f0SEd Schouten	instead of "ttyd0". You may need to reconfigure applications to
920f4d811f0SEd Schouten	use the new device names.
921f4d811f0SEd Schouten
922db96ec0bSEd Schouten	When using the serial port as a boot console, be sure to update
923db96ec0bSEd Schouten	/boot/device.hints and /etc/ttys before booting the new kernel.
924db96ec0bSEd Schouten	If you forget to do so, you can still manually specify the hints
925db96ec0bSEd Schouten	at the loader prompt:
926db96ec0bSEd Schouten
927db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.at="isa"
928db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8"
929db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.flags="0x10"
930db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.irq="4"
931db96ec0bSEd Schouten		boot -s
932db96ec0bSEd Schouten
933bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar20080609:
934bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar	The gpt(8) utility has been removed. Use gpart(8) to partition
935bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar	disks instead.
936bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar
93727f7c387SRoman Divacky20080603:
938a47444d5SRoman Divacky	The version that Linuxulator emulates was changed from 2.4.2
939a47444d5SRoman Divacky	to 2.6.16. If you experience any problems with Linux binaries
940a47444d5SRoman Divacky	please try to set sysctl compat.linux.osrelease to 2.4.2 and
941a47444d5SRoman Divacky	if it fixes the problem contact emulation mailing list.
942a47444d5SRoman Divacky
9432e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb20080525:
9442e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb	ISDN4BSD (I4B) was removed from the src tree. You may need to
9452e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb	update a your kernel configuration and remove relevant entries.
9462e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb
9474dcedde3SJulian Elischer20080509:
9484dcedde3SJulian Elischer	I have checked in code to support multiple routing tables.
949032e0bf8SMaxim Konovalov	See the man pages setfib(1) and setfib(2).
9504dcedde3SJulian Elischer	This is a hopefully backwards compatible version,
9514dcedde3SJulian Elischer	but to make use of it you need to compile your kernel
9524dcedde3SJulian Elischer	with options ROUTETABLES=2 (or more up to 16).
9534dcedde3SJulian Elischer
954de570baaSSam Leffler20080420:
955de570baaSSam Leffler	The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss
956de570baaSSam Leffler	operation on devices that are capable.  The underlying device
957de570baaSSam Leffler	is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are
958de570baaSSam Leffler	cloned with ifconfig.  This requires changes to rc.conf files.
9595318f840SWarner Losh	For example, change:
9605318f840SWarner Losh		ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP"
9615318f840SWarner Losh	to
9625318f840SWarner Losh		wlans_ath0=wlan0
9635318f840SWarner Losh		ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
9640f95e625SWarner Losh	see rc.conf(5) for more details.  In addition, mergemaster of
9650f95e625SWarner Losh	/etc/rc.d is highly recommended.  Simultaneous update of userland
9660f95e625SWarner Losh	and kernel wouldn't hurt either.
967de570baaSSam Leffler
968de570baaSSam Leffler	As part of the multi-bss changes the wlan_scan_ap and wlan_scan_sta
969de570baaSSam Leffler	modules were merged into the base wlan module.  All references
970de570baaSSam Leffler	to these modules (e.g. in kernel config files) must be removed.
971de570baaSSam Leffler
972ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim20080408:
973ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	psm(4) has gained write(2) support in native operation level.
974ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	Arbitrary commands can be written to /dev/psm%d and status can
975ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	be read back from it.  Therefore, an application is responsible
976ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	for status validation and error recovery.  It is a no-op in
977ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	other operation levels.
978ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim
979e4c67b94SJeff Roberson20080312:
980e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	Support for KSE threading has been removed from the kernel.  To
981e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	run legacy applications linked against KSE libmap.conf may
982e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	be used.  The following libmap.conf may be used to ensure
983e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	compatibility with any prior release:
984e4c67b94SJeff Roberson
985e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libpthread.so.1 libthr.so.1
986e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2
987e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libkse.so.3 libthr.so.3
988e4c67b94SJeff Roberson
9898775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar20080301:
9908775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	The layout of struct vmspace has changed. This affects libkvm
9918775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	and any executables that link against libkvm and use the
9928775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	kvm_getprocs() function. In particular, but not exclusively,
9938775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	it affects ps(1), fstat(1), pkill(1), systat(1), top(1) and w(1).
9948775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	The effects are minimal, but it's advisable to upgrade world
9958775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	nonetheless.
9968775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar
997df09ebc0SJack F Vogel20080229:
998df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	The latest em driver no longer has support in it for the
999df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	82575 adapter, this is now moved to the igb driver. The
1000df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	split was done to make new features that are incompatible
1001df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	with older hardware easier to do.
1002df09ebc0SJack F Vogel
10031669d8afSAndrew Thompson20080220:
10041669d8afSAndrew Thompson	The new geom_lvm(4) geom class has been renamed to geom_linux_lvm(4),
10051669d8afSAndrew Thompson	likewise the kernel option is now GEOM_LINUX_LVM.
10061669d8afSAndrew Thompson
10072427fa19SKris Kennaway20080211:
10082427fa19SKris Kennaway	The default NFS mount mode has changed from UDP to TCP for
10092427fa19SKris Kennaway	increased reliability.  If you rely on (insecurely) NFS
10102427fa19SKris Kennaway	mounting across a firewall you may need to update your
10112427fa19SKris Kennaway	firewall rules.
10122427fa19SKris Kennaway
10135e9f6b73SSam Leffler20080208:
10145e9f6b73SSam Leffler	Belatedly note the addition of m_collapse for compacting
10155e9f6b73SSam Leffler	mbuf chains.
10165e9f6b73SSam Leffler
101748aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy20080126:
101848aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	The fts(3) structures have been changed to use adequate
101948aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	integer types for their members and so to be able to cope
102048aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	with huge file trees.  The old fts(3) ABI is preserved
102148aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	through symbol versioning in libc, so third-party binaries
102248aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	using fts(3) should still work, although they will not take
102348aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	advantage of the extended types.  At the same time, some
102448aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	third-party software might fail to build after this change
102548aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	due to unportable assumptions made in its source code about
102648aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	fts(3) structure members.  Such software should be fixed
102748aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	by its vendor or, in the worst case, in the ports tree.
102848aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	FreeBSD_version 800015 marks this change for the unlikely
102948aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	case that a portable fix is impossible.
103048aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy
103151dc1e12SRuslan Ermilov20080123:
10328015f45cSWarner Losh	To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running
103351dc1e12SRuslan Ermilov	FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE.  Upgrading to -current
10348015f45cSWarner Losh	from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems.
10358015f45cSWarner Losh
1036ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato20071128:
1037ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato	The ADAPTIVE_GIANT kernel option has been retired because its
1038ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato	functionality is the default now.
1039ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato
1040e393af84SMarius Strobl20071118:
1041e393af84SMarius Strobl	The AT keyboard emulation of sunkbd(4) has been turned on
1042e393af84SMarius Strobl	by default. In order to make the special symbols of the Sun
1043e393af84SMarius Strobl	keyboards driven by sunkbd(4) work under X these now have
1044e393af84SMarius Strobl	to be configured the same way as Sun USB keyboards driven
1045e393af84SMarius Strobl	by ukbd(4) (which also does AT keyboard emulation), f.e.:
1046e393af84SMarius Strobl
1047e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbLayout" "us"
1048e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbRules" "xorg"
1049e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbSymbols" "pc(pc105)+sun_vndr/usb(sun_usb)+us"
1050e393af84SMarius Strobl
105133d3fffaSMarius Strobl20071024:
105233d3fffaSMarius Strobl	It has been decided that it is desirable to provide ABI
105333d3fffaSMarius Strobl	backwards compatibility to the FreeBSD 4/5/6 versions of the
105433d3fffaSMarius Strobl	PCIOCGETCONF, PCIOCREAD and PCIOCWRITE IOCTLs, which was
105533d3fffaSMarius Strobl	broken with the introduction of PCI domain support (see the
105633d3fffaSMarius Strobl	20070930 entry). Unfortunately, this required the ABI of
105733d3fffaSMarius Strobl	PCIOCGETCONF to be broken again in order to be able to
105833d3fffaSMarius Strobl	provide backwards compatibility to the old version of that
105933d3fffaSMarius Strobl	IOCTL. Thus consumers of PCIOCGETCONF have to be recompiled
106033d3fffaSMarius Strobl	again. As for prominent ports this affects neither pciutils
106133d3fffaSMarius Strobl	nor xorg-server this time, the hal port needs to be rebuilt
106233d3fffaSMarius Strobl	however.
106333d3fffaSMarius Strobl
10643d461febSJulian Elischer20071020:
10653d461febSJulian Elischer	The misnamed kthread_create() and friends have been renamed
10663d461febSJulian Elischer	to kproc_create() etc. Many of the callers already
10673d461febSJulian Elischer	used kproc_start()..
10683d461febSJulian Elischer	I will return kthread_create() and friends in a while
10693d461febSJulian Elischer	with implementations that actually create threads, not procs.
10703d461febSJulian Elischer	Renaming corresponds with version 800002.
10713d461febSJulian Elischer
1072c15e0967SKen Smith20071010:
1073c15e0967SKen Smith	RELENG_7 branched.
1074c15e0967SKen Smith
1075dc0dbf5cSWarner LoshCOMMON ITEMS:
1076dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
1077a24eff53SWarner Losh	General Notes
1078a24eff53SWarner Losh	-------------
1079456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1080456b5dd8SWarner Losh	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
10811733d35cSRuslan Ermilov	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1082456b5dd8SWarner Losh	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1083456b5dd8SWarner Losh	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1084456b5dd8SWarner Losh	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1085456b5dd8SWarner Losh	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1086a24eff53SWarner Losh
10875780f3baSWarner Losh	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
10885780f3baSWarner Losh	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1089456b5dd8SWarner Losh	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1090456b5dd8SWarner Losh	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1091456b5dd8SWarner Losh	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
10925780f3baSWarner Losh
1093456b5dd8SWarner Losh	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best
1094456b5dd8SWarner Losh	to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first,
1095456b5dd8SWarner Losh	then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade
1096456b5dd8SWarner Losh	path, and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try
1097456b5dd8SWarner Losh	this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade.
1098081ff8acSDoug Barton
10998fc25799SMartin Matuska	ZFS notes
11008fc25799SMartin Matuska	---------
11018fc25799SMartin Matuska	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
11028fc25799SMartin Matuska	these two steps:
11038fc25799SMartin Matuska
11048fc25799SMartin Matuska	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
11058fc25799SMartin Matuska	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
11068fc25799SMartin Matuska
11078fc25799SMartin Matuska	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
11088fc25799SMartin Matuska
11098fc25799SMartin Matuska	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
11108fc25799SMartin Matuska	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ad0:
11118fc25799SMartin Matuska	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0"
11128fc25799SMartin Matuska
11138fc25799SMartin Matuska	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
11148fc25799SMartin Matuska
1115dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh	To build a kernel
1116dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh	-----------------
1117ba01eb20SWarner Losh	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
11181cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
11191cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
11201cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien
11211cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	make kernel-toolchain
1122282e0f01SRuslan Ermilov	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1123282e0f01SRuslan Ermilov	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1124dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
11252e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	To test a kernel once
11262e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	---------------------
11272e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
11282e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
11292e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	debugging information) run
11302e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
11312e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	nextboot -k testkernel
11322e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger
1133ba01eb20SWarner Losh	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1134ba01eb20SWarner Losh	--------------------------------------------------------------
1135456b5dd8SWarner Losh	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
11360fbd2da9SKen Smith	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1137456b5dd8SWarner Losh	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
11380fbd2da9SKen Smith
11390fbd2da9SKen Smith	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
114047d0d01fSWarner Losh	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
11410fbd2da9SKen Smith	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1142ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make depend
1143ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make
1144ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make install
1145ba01eb20SWarner Losh
1146ba01eb20SWarner Losh	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1147ba01eb20SWarner Losh
1148ba01eb20SWarner Losh	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1149ba01eb20SWarner Losh	-----------------------------------------------------------
115063cb445eSWarner Losh	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
115163cb445eSWarner Losh	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
115263cb445eSWarner Losh
1153f643de42SWarner Losh	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
115463cb445eSWarner Losh	make buildworld
11556586253aSWarner Losh	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
115663cb445eSWarner Losh							[1]
115763cb445eSWarner Losh	<reboot in single user>				[3]
115863cb445eSWarner Losh	mergemaster -p					[5]
115963cb445eSWarner Losh	make installworld
116050e8eca6SDoug Barton	mergemaster -i					[4]
116194877c06SAlexander Leidinger	make delete-old					[6]
116263cb445eSWarner Losh	<reboot>
116363cb445eSWarner Losh
1164759f0aefSWarner Losh
1165f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1166f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	--------------------------------------------------
1167f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1168f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1169f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1170f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# size.
1171f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
1172f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1173f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<boot into -stable>
1174f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	make buildworld
11753ecf3bddSRuslan Ermilov	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1176f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1177f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1178f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
11792d5cde04SRuslan Ermilov	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
11803ecf3bddSRuslan Ermilov	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1181f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1182f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1183f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<reboot into current>
1184f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1185737d990aSXin LI	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1186f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<reboot>
1187f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
1188f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
1189456b5dd8SWarner Losh	To upgrade in-place from 8.x-stable to current
1190f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	----------------------------------------------
1191f643de42SWarner Losh	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
119221c075eaSWarner Losh	make buildworld					[9]
1193e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1194fc8c157fSWarner Losh							[1]
1195fc8c157fSWarner Losh	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1196835284beSWarner Losh	mergemaster -p					[5]
1197ba26da8eSWarner Losh	make installworld
1198802fc49dSBrian Feldman	mergemaster -i					[4]
119994877c06SAlexander Leidinger	make delete-old					[6]
1200ba26da8eSWarner Losh	<reboot>
1201ba26da8eSWarner Losh
1202fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1203fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1204fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1205fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1206fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	the UPDATING entries.
1207ba26da8eSWarner Losh
12081dece4a9SWarner Losh	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
12091dece4a9SWarner Losh	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
12101dece4a9SWarner Losh	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
12111dece4a9SWarner Losh	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
12121dece4a9SWarner Losh	much fewer pitfalls.
12131dece4a9SWarner Losh
1214134d2e86SWarner Losh	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1215134d2e86SWarner Losh	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1216134d2e86SWarner Losh	system on reboot.
1217134d2e86SWarner Losh
1218ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1219ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		fsck -p
1220ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		mount -u /
1221ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		mount -a
12226586253aSWarner Losh		cd src
122347d0d01fSWarner Losh		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1224f6a0ef01SWarner Losh	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1225f6a0ef01SWarner Losh	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1226ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh
1227a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1228a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1229a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1230a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1231a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
123250e8eca6SDoug Barton	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
123350e8eca6SDoug Barton	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1234a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh
1235835284beSWarner Losh	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1236835284beSWarner Losh	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1237835284beSWarner Losh	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1238835284beSWarner Losh	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1239835284beSWarner Losh	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
1240835284beSWarner Losh	from current before 20020224 or from -stable before 20020408.
1241835284beSWarner Losh
124294877c06SAlexander Leidinger	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
124394877c06SAlexander Leidinger	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
124494877c06SAlexander Leidinger	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
124594877c06SAlexander Leidinger
1246456b5dd8SWarner Losh	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
1247456b5dd8SWarner Losh	do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
1248456b5dd8SWarner Losh	your kernel.  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1249456b5dd8SWarner Losh	hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
1250456b5dd8SWarner Losh	required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels.  And so on
1251456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
1252c74fe6afSWarner Losh
1253e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1254e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1255e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
125621c075eaSWarner Losh	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1257e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	cvs prune empty directories.
1258e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
1259e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1260e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1261e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1262e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
1263e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1264e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1265e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	warn if it is improperly defined.
1266dc0dbf5cSWarner LoshFORMAT:
1267dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
1268f699bbbbSMark OvensThis file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
12691fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current.  Not all things will be listed here,
12708ce4cbbfSWarner Loshand it only starts on October 16, 2004.  Updating files can found in
1271f8ab1dd6SWarner Loshprevious releases if your system is older than this.
12721fc1a0dcSWarner Losh
1273e72fd46aSWarner LoshCopyright information:
1274e72fd46aSWarner Losh
1275456b5dd8SWarner LoshCopyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh.  All Rights Reserved.
1276e72fd46aSWarner Losh
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