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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
6e306923fSPoul-Henning Kamp19991205:
7eeef0dd1SWarner Losh	Block devices are going away.  You will need to update your /dev
8a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	tree with a fresh copy of MAKEDEV for things to always work in
9a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	the future.  fsck is unable to cope with dirty file systems
10a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	after this change, so it may work for you or it may not.
11a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh
12a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	MAKEDEV should be copied from src/etc/MAKEDEV to /dev before
13a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	starting the following:
14a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh
15a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh		For N in the list of disks
16a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh			MAKEDEV N			# eg wd0
17a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh			for M in the list of slices
18a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh				MAKEDEV NsMa		# eg wd0s1a
19a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh
20a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	*** All uses of block devices must be converted to char devices.
21a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	*** Likely the only thing impacted is dumpdev in /etc/rc.conf
22a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh
23a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh19991204:
24a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	Support for the old 'sd' device names has been removed in
25a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	favor of 'da'.  Please update your /etc/fstab, /etc/rc.conf
26a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	and any other places you might have sd names cached.
27a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	Generally these changes are as simple as s=/dev/sd=/dev/da=g,
28a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	but be careful to make sure that things are really that
29a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	simple.  You may also need to create /dev entries for the da
30a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	devices as well.
31a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh
32a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	MAKEDEV should be copied from src/etc/MAKEDEV to /dev before
33a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	starting the following:
34a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh
35a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh		For N in the list of da disks on your system
36a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh			MAKEDEV daN
37a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh			for M in the list of slices
38a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh				MAKEDEV daNsMa
39a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh19991203:
40a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh	BAD144 support has been removed.  Cope or replace the hardware.
41e306923fSPoul-Henning Kamp
427a92b31cSWarner Losh19991126:
437a92b31cSWarner Losh	MFS_ROOT and MFS_ROOT_SIZE are gone, replaced by MD_ROOT and
447a92b31cSWarner Losh	MD_ROOT_SIZE options in the md driver.  md driver now deals with
457a92b31cSWarner Losh	the hacks.  You should add md driver to kerneles that have
467a92b31cSWarner Losh	MFS_ROOT, et al.  See GENERIC or LINT for details.
477a92b31cSWarner Losh
4863f52da7SWarner Losh19991125:
4963f52da7SWarner Losh	The ep changed a while ago and can no longer be used with hard
5063f52da7SWarner Losh	wired addresses in the config file.
5163f52da7SWarner Losh
521a50e0c7SWarner Losh19991113:
531a50e0c7SWarner Losh	Gcc 2.95.2 is now the default compiler.
541a50e0c7SWarner Losh
5525c3f405SWarner Losh19991015:
5625c3f405SWarner Losh	PCCARD has been updated to attach pcic to the isa bus.  Therefore
5725c3f405SWarner Losh	you will need to modify kernel config files that have pcic/card
5825c3f405SWarner Losh	in them as follows:
5925c3f405SWarner Losh		controller	pcic0	at isa?
6025c3f405SWarner Losh		controller	pcic1	at isa?
6125c3f405SWarner Losh		controller	card0
6225c3f405SWarner Losh
6373c86a1fSWarner Losh19990929:
6473c86a1fSWarner Losh	The sigset_t datatype has been changed from an integral type
6573c86a1fSWarner Losh	to a compound type and can hold 128 signals. Syscalls directly
6673c86a1fSWarner Losh	or indirectly using the new sigset_t have been added as to
6720d1019bSChris Costello	maintain compatibility with existing binaries. A new kernel must
6873c86a1fSWarner Losh	be made and installed and booted with before a make world can
6973c86a1fSWarner Losh	be done.
7073c86a1fSWarner Losh
7160dbe536SWarner Losh19990919:
7260dbe536SWarner Losh	New jail syscall format requires recompilation of jail(8) with
7360dbe536SWarner Losh	fresh headers installed (or a make world will do it for you).
7460dbe536SWarner Losh
7560dbe536SWarner Losh19990914:
7660dbe536SWarner Losh	Matt Dillon checked in many vm related things and sent a heads up
7760dbe536SWarner Losh	to -current urging caution and to report vm problems to him.
7860dbe536SWarner Losh	As of the 19th, no killer problems have been reported, but you
7960dbe536SWarner Losh	have been warned.
8060dbe536SWarner Losh
815f83e348SWarner Losh19990908:
825f83e348SWarner Losh	The new miibus has been added to the system.  If you are using
835f83e348SWarner Losh	the dm, rl, sf, sis, ste, tl, wb or xl drivers, you need to
845f83e348SWarner Losh	add "controller miibus0" to your config file.
855f83e348SWarner Losh
86d9806965SNick Hibma19990905:
87d9806965SNick Hibma	/var/cron/log has been moved to /var/log/cron to get all the
88d9806965SNick Hibma	log files in one place.
895f83e348SWarner Losh
9030e90e8bSWarner Losh19990831:
9163f52da7SWarner Losh	tn3270 has been removed from the base system and added as a port.
9230e90e8bSWarner Losh
93f8a59eaeSWarner Losh19990830:
94f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	User-visible TCP timers are now expressed in units of 1ms, instead
95f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	of 500ms, so if you've customized any timer values under
96f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	``net.inet.tcp'', multiply them by 500 to preserve TCP's behavior.
97f8a59eaeSWarner Losh
9830e90e8bSWarner Losh19990828:
9930e90e8bSWarner Losh	RCS Id tags changed to FreeBSD.  This will cause huge cvsup
10030e90e8bSWarner Losh	updates.
10130e90e8bSWarner Losh
102f8a59eaeSWarner Losh19990821:
103f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	On 28-May-1999 libreadline was upgraded from readline-2.2 to
104f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	readline-4.0.  At that time the shared library major version
105f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	number was bumped from "3" to "4".  It has been deemed that
106f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	the interface change between readline-2.2 and readline-4.0 was
10778bcb44aSBill Fumerola	not sufficient to warrant the version number bump.
108f8a59eaeSWarner Losh
109f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	Thus I have reverted it back to "3".  You will need to perform
110f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	the below immediately before your next ``make world'':
111f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	    cd /usr/lib
112f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	    ls -l libreadline.so.4
113f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	        (if you have /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4)
114f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	    mv libreadline.so.4 libreadline.so.3
115f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	    rm -f libreadline.so
116f8a59eaeSWarner Losh	    ln -s libreadline.so.3 libreadline.so
117f8a59eaeSWarner Losh
1187eedd934SWarner Losh19990801:
1197eedd934SWarner Losh	Changes to the pccardd kernel interface require that you recompile
1207eedd934SWarner Losh	pccardd for new kernel.
1217eedd934SWarner Losh
122882984b3SWarner Losh19980725:
123882984b3SWarner Losh	The ipfw interface to the kernel has changed.  You will need to
124882984b3SWarner Losh	recompile ipfw programs for the new kernel.
125882984b3SWarner Losh
126882984b3SWarner Losh19990715:
127882984b3SWarner Losh	The bpfilter device has been renamed to bpf.  You will need to
128882984b3SWarner Losh	change your config files in order to enable this in newer kernels.
129882984b3SWarner Losh
130e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990704:
131e5bd655aSWarner Losh	src/contrib/sys/softupdates is moving to
13295d18cfcSWarner Losh	src/sys/contrib/softupdates.  Update your symbolic links/etc.
133e5bd655aSWarner Losh
134e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990702:
135e5bd655aSWarner Losh	Major changes have been made to vinum and its interface.  See
136e5bd655aSWarner Losh	the man page (vinum(8)) for details.  Look at the concat,
137e5bd655aSWarner Losh	mirror and stripe commands, as well as the SIMPLIFIED
138e5bd655aSWarner Losh	CONFIGURATION section.
139e5bd655aSWarner Losh
140e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990628:
141e5bd655aSWarner Losh	Newsyslog.conf has had a minor, but potentially dangerous,
142e5bd655aSWarner Losh	change to its username/group syntax.  The old syntax was
143e5bd655aSWarner Losh	user.group, while the new syntax is user:group.
144e5bd655aSWarner Losh
145e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990627:
146e5bd655aSWarner Losh	Inetd wrapping default has changed.  Please see the updated
147e5bd655aSWarner Losh	man page for details.
148e5bd655aSWarner Losh
149ed478e7cSWarner Losh19990623:
150ed478e7cSWarner Losh	Compaq Smart Raid driver committed as ida.
151ed478e7cSWarner Losh
152075eeff2SWarner Losh19990622:
153075eeff2SWarner Losh	The second phase of syscons cleanup has happened.  Some
154075eeff2SWarner Losh	functionality has been made optional.  For details, see
155075eeff2SWarner Losh        http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update-June.txt
1566ae429caSWarner Losh	Everyone will need to re-config(8) their kernels, but old
1576ae429caSWarner Losh	binaries will work with the new kernel.
158075eeff2SWarner Losh
159a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990620:
160a883e9d3SWarner Losh	IPFW uid/gid-based filtering support has been committed. This
161a883e9d3SWarner Losh	breaks binary compatibility with previous copies of
162a883e9d3SWarner Losh	ipfw(8). Any utilities using the ioctl()s of ipfw (especially
163a883e9d3SWarner Losh	ipfw(8)) need to be recompiled with the newest headers
164a883e9d3SWarner Losh	installed.
165a883e9d3SWarner Losh
166a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990618:
167a883e9d3SWarner Losh	Inetd now wraps all stream-based services, including internals.
168a883e9d3SWarner Losh	Syslog "severity" options are honoured. Installed syslog.conf
169a883e9d3SWarner Losh	and hosts.allow should be checked.
170a883e9d3SWarner Losh
17107b72539SWarner Losh19990509:
17207b72539SWarner Losh	Most of the problems with newbus have been corrected, but
17307b72539SWarner Losh	it is still current and evolving.
17407b72539SWarner Losh
17507b72539SWarner Losh	libcam's ABI has changed.  You must recompile the world and
17607b72539SWarner Losh	any ports that use it.
17707b72539SWarner Losh
17809fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990427:
17909fcf3f9SWarner Losh	Massive changes to SMP went into the tree that should speed
18009fcf3f9SWarner Losh	things up.  However, if you experience problems with SMP
18109fcf3f9SWarner Losh	machines, you can back off to the PRE_SMP_VMSHARE tag in the
18209fcf3f9SWarner Losh	CVS repository (or run an MP kernel).
18309fcf3f9SWarner Losh
18409fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990420:
18509fcf3f9SWarner Losh	Pccardd and the pccard bus in general seem to be broken or
18609fcf3f9SWarner Losh	most people.  Soren has patches to make it better for some,
18709fcf3f9SWarner Losh	but not all people.  Work is underway to make it better for
18809fcf3f9SWarner Losh	all people.
18909fcf3f9SWarner Losh
190ea31d04dSWarner Losh19990416:
191ea31d04dSWarner Losh	new bus changes integrated into -current.  Many problems were
192ea31d04dSWarner Losh	initially reported, but most have been fixed.  You'll need a
193ea31d04dSWarner Losh	new config and to tweak your kernel config file the way that
194ea31d04dSWarner Losh	GENERIC was tweaked.  Keep a copy of your old kernel when
195ea31d04dSWarner Losh	upgrading in case your new kernel doesn't work (and report the
196ea31d04dSWarner Losh	breakage to current@freebsd.org).
197ea31d04dSWarner Losh
198ea31d04dSWarner Losh	As of 19990421 the remaining problems/quirks are
199ea31d04dSWarner Losh
200ea31d04dSWarner Losh	o sio no longer supports pnp nor pccard.  This will be corrected,
201ea31d04dSWarner Losh	  but the new pccard code needs to be completed.
202ea31d04dSWarner Losh	o Some of the sound drivers broke for some people.  It seems
203ea31d04dSWarner Losh	  inconsistant as to who/what/when/where things broke.
204ea31d04dSWarner Losh	o Duplicate device entries in your config do not work.  Previously
205ea31d04dSWarner Losh	  they were silently ignored.  psm0 seems to be the most common
206ea31d04dSWarner Losh	  duplicate choice, although some reports have come in from people
207ea31d04dSWarner Losh	  that wired their scsi disk entries.
208ea31d04dSWarner Losh	o You must move the keyboard and mouse attachments from the
209ea31d04dSWarner Losh	  isa bus to the atkbdc bus.  See GENERIC for details.
210ea31d04dSWarner Losh	o Machines with multiple host-pci bridges (Intel 450NX) will not
211ea31d04dSWarner Losh	  probe the second pci bus.
212ea31d04dSWarner Losh	o Some probe ordering may have changed, so device naming may change
213ea31d04dSWarner Losh	  with the new kernel.  If you have multiple devices, please double
214ea31d04dSWarner Losh	  check to make sure they didn't move.  This is especially true
215ea31d04dSWarner Losh	  for cards on different buses.
216ea31d04dSWarner Losh	o The bus attachment for vga0 is always isa0 and never pci0 when
217ea31d04dSWarner Losh	  it is in fact a pci card.  It is safe to ignore this.
218ea31d04dSWarner Losh	o The format of the boot messages has changed (and is not
219ea31d04dSWarner Losh	  guaranteed to be constant for a while) so you may see this
220ea31d04dSWarner Losh	  in some shell scripts that diff dmesg from day to day as well
221ea31d04dSWarner Losh	  as scripts that parse dmesg output.
222f8c77507SWarner Losh
223d24adca8SWarner Losh19990414:
224d24adca8SWarner Losh	cc -aout sometimes has problems compiling with -g, remove -g
225d24adca8SWarner Losh	from those compilation units affected until this is corrected.
226d24adca8SWarner Losh
227d24adca8SWarner Losh	cc -aout has problems with producing some threaded libraries,
228d24adca8SWarner Losh	so make world -DWANT_AOUT is not functional at this time.
229d24adca8SWarner Losh
230ea31d04dSWarner Losh	Since make world for a.out isn't functional, you cannot do
231ea31d04dSWarner Losh	make aout-to-elf from a pre-egcs a.out system.  To work around
232ea31d04dSWarner Losh	this problem, make aout-to-elf using 3.1-stable first (or a
233ea31d04dSWarner Losh	pre egcs -current) and then a simple make world will take you
234ea31d04dSWarner Losh	the rest of the way with a -current source base.
235ea31d04dSWarner Losh
236d5ca0636SWarner Losh19990413:
237d24adca8SWarner Losh	Make -j works again for make world.  As always, use it with
238d24adca8SWarner Losh	care, and be sure to try a make world w/o -j before reporting
239d24adca8SWarner Losh	problems (that is, know if the problem exists w/o -j before
240d24adca8SWarner Losh	reporting the problem with -j).
241d24adca8SWarner Losh
242d24adca8SWarner Losh19990413:
243d24adca8SWarner Losh	Note cc -aout, which had been broken since the conversion to
244ea31d04dSWarner Losh	egcs, now supposedly works.  If you have rebuilt things like
245d24adca8SWarner Losh	XFree86 a.out libraries, you should rebuild them again or
246ea31d04dSWarner Losh	progams that use them, including netscape, will fail to work.
247d5ca0636SWarner Losh
2481f692d40SWarner Losh19990409:
2491f692d40SWarner Losh	NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from
2501f692d40SWarner Losh	the old compiler and vice versa.
2511f692d40SWarner Losh
2521f692d40SWarner Losh19990408:
25381725689SWarner Losh	In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree.  A number
25481725689SWarner Losh	of problems have been discussed in -current.  Here is a highlight
25581725689SWarner Losh	of a few of the more common ones.  With the exception of make
25681725689SWarner Losh	-j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed.
25781725689SWarner Losh
25881725689SWarner Losh	c++ is broken after make world: This is correct.  Because we
25981725689SWarner Losh	changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++
26081725689SWarner Losh	working again.  The code generated by the old compiler and new
26181725689SWarner Losh	compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being
26281725689SWarner Losh	undefined.
26381725689SWarner Losh
26481725689SWarner Losh	cpp is broken in make world:  There was a window where cpp
26581725689SWarner Losh	would be built incorrectly.  The fix for this is
266420d4744SMasafumi Max NAKANE		cd src/gnu/usr.bin/cc
26781725689SWarner Losh		make clean
26881725689SWarner Losh		make all
26981725689SWarner Losh		make install
27081725689SWarner Losh	and this should correct your problems.  See the -current
27181725689SWarner Losh	archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning.
27281725689SWarner Losh
27381725689SWarner Losh	Make -j n doesn't work.  Work contiunes to make this work,
27481725689SWarner Losh	I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th.
27581725689SWarner Losh
276ff5e1f79SWarner Losh19990329:
277ff5e1f79SWarner Losh	Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building
278ff5e1f79SWarner Losh	the legacy a.out bits.  Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to
279ff5e1f79SWarner Losh	build them.
280ff5e1f79SWarner Losh
281fe9af953SWarner Losh19990316:
282fe9af953SWarner Losh	The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has
283fe9af953SWarner Losh	been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use
284fe9af953SWarner Losh	"device wcd" instead of "device acd".
285fe9af953SWarner Losh
286fe9af953SWarner Losh19990314:
287fe9af953SWarner Losh	For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module,
288fe9af953SWarner Losh	please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to
289fe9af953SWarner Losh	-4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module.  This will
290fe9af953SWarner Losh	be fixed in the future.
291fe9af953SWarner Losh
292ce32355fSWarner Losh19990309:
293fe9af953SWarner Losh	New loader.rc mechanism.  Please see src/sys/boot/README for
294fe9af953SWarner Losh	details.
295ce32355fSWarner Losh
296f8c77507SWarner Losh19990225:
297f8c77507SWarner Losh	struct proc size changed.  Recompile kernel and the
298f8c77507SWarner Losh	usual suspects.  Make world if in doubt.
2991fc1a0dcSWarner Losh
3000edeb9e7SWarner Losh19990214:
3010edeb9e7SWarner Losh	The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver.
3027dd38e55SWarner Losh	See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html
3037dd38e55SWarner Losh	for proper configuration details.
3040edeb9e7SWarner Losh
3051fc1a0dcSWarner Losh19990210:
3061fc1a0dcSWarner Losh	The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete.  Replace it with the 'nlpt'
3070edeb9e7SWarner Losh	driver and 'ppbus' controller combination.
30857199806SWarner Losh
3097dd38e55SWarner Losh19990209:
3107dd38e55SWarner Losh	New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat,
3117dd38e55SWarner Losh	iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd.  A new kernel is also required.
3127dd38e55SWarner Losh	make world + building a kernel should do all of this.  Any
3137dd38e55SWarner Losh	ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well.
3147dd38e55SWarner Losh
3159a3105eeSWarner Losh19990125:
3169a3105eeSWarner Losh	Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in
3179a3105eeSWarner Losh	the FreeBSD kernel).  A recompile of all libkvm using programs
3189a3105eeSWarner Losh	is in order (or better yet a make world).
3199a3105eeSWarner Losh
3209a3105eeSWarner Losh19990122:
3219a3105eeSWarner Losh	On or about this date there was a small window when the boot
3229a3105eeSWarner Losh	blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to
3239a3105eeSWarner Losh	edit /etc/fstab.  This has been corrected, if you are seeing this
3249a3105eeSWarner Losh	problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks.
3259a3105eeSWarner Losh
3269a3105eeSWarner Losh19990121:
3278cd37f69SWarner Losh	Vinum has changed.  The "vinum read" command has changed.  For
3288cd37f69SWarner Losh	updates, please see
3293652181cSWarner Losh
3308cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current
3313652181cSWarner Losh
3328cd37f69SWarner Losh	for details.
3338cd37f69SWarner Losh
3348cd37f69SWarner Losh	Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for
3358cd37f69SWarner Losh	information please see
3363652181cSWarner Losh
3378cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current
3388cd37f69SWarner Losh	or
3398cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current
3403652181cSWarner Losh
3418cd37f69SWarner Losh	for details.  These changes will likely not impact anybody,
3428cd37f69SWarner Losh	but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up.
3438cd37f69SWarner Losh
3448cd37f69SWarner Losh19990120:
3458cd37f69SWarner Losh	Stable branch created.  You might want to consider using this
3468cd37f69SWarner Losh	branch.  It is tagged with RELENG_3.
3478cd37f69SWarner Losh
348ad56ea87SWarner Losh19990119:
349ad56ea87SWarner Losh	More work on the syscons driver has been committed.  Since
350ad56ea87SWarner Losh	files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel,
351ad56ea87SWarner Losh	and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel.  No
352ad56ea87SWarner Losh	config file changes are needed.
353ad56ea87SWarner Losh
35457199806SWarner Losh19990111:
355a85c0f55SWarner Losh	New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first
356a85c0f55SWarner Losh	stage of console driver reorganization.  You are required to
357a85c0f55SWarner Losh	update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel.
358a85c0f55SWarner Losh	kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation.
359a85c0f55SWarner Losh	The instruction can be found in
36057199806SWarner Losh
3617dafbc29SWarner Losh		http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt
36257199806SWarner Losh
363a85c0f55SWarner Losh	It has notes on splash screen too.
36457199806SWarner Losh
36557199806SWarner Losh19990106:
3669857e582SWarner Losh	Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to
367db23c94fSWarner Losh	install the new bootblocks:
36857199806SWarner Losh
3697dafbc29SWarner Losh		http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt
37057199806SWarner Losh
3719ba54ae0SWarner Losh	When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your
3729ba54ae0SWarner Losh	/etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for
3739ba54ae0SWarner Losh	elf and aout.  Otherwise things like X will stop working with
3749857e582SWarner Losh	messages about being unable to find library files.  The
3759857e582SWarner Losh	mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to
3769857e582SWarner Losh	keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is
3779857e582SWarner Losh	recommended.
37857199806SWarner Losh
37957199806SWarner Losh19990104:
3802c558794SWarner Losh	Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
38157199806SWarner Losh
3827dafbc29SWarner Losh		http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html
38357199806SWarner Losh
3842c558794SWarner Losh	about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
3852c558794SWarner Losh	for doing the upgrade.
38657199806SWarner Losh
38757199806SWarner Losh19981230:
388d5513f53SWarner Losh	You should install new bootblocks now.  The ELF kernel will
389e363c17bSWarner Losh	become default soon.  In addition, you'll need to upgrade
390e363c17bSWarner Losh	your userland programs to ELF before then as well.  Use
391e363c17bSWarner Losh	make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old
392e363c17bSWarner Losh	a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will
393e363c17bSWarner Losh	continue to work, even after the upgrade).  See src/Makefile
394e363c17bSWarner Losh	for more details.
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39657199806SWarner Losh19981224:
397355edc3eSWarner Losh	The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel.  The
398355edc3eSWarner Losh	driver that replaces it is named acd.  You'll need to change
399355edc3eSWarner Losh	this in your configuration files.
40057199806SWarner Losh
401355edc3eSWarner Losh	Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not
402355edc3eSWarner Losh	configured" at boot time.
40357199806SWarner Losh
404355edc3eSWarner Losh	The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel,
405355edc3eSWarner Losh	with no replacement driver.
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40757199806SWarner Losh19981202:
408ab308df6SWarner Losh	New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they
409ab308df6SWarner Losh	aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
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41157199806SWarner Losh19981201:
412ab308df6SWarner Losh	New user/group added: bind.  From src/etc/master.passwd and
413ab308df6SWarner Losh	src/etc/group:
414ab308df6SWarner Losh		% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group
415ab308df6SWarner Losh		bind:*:53:
416ab308df6SWarner Losh		% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd
417ab308df6SWarner Losh		tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
418ab308df6SWarner Losh		kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
419ab308df6SWarner Losh		bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
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42157199806SWarner Losh19981118:
42253dfde79SWarner Losh	PAM integrated into the tree.   Requires new /etc/pam.conf file
42353dfde79SWarner Losh	to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc).
42453dfde79SWarner Losh	See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.
42557199806SWarner Losh
4261fc1a0dcSWarner LoshThis file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major
4271fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current.  Not all things will be listed here,
42860dbe536SWarner Loshand it only starts on November 18, 1998.  If you have an earlier
4291fc1a0dcSWarner Loshversion of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998.
4301fc1a0dcSWarner Losh
431f8c77507SWarner LoshPlease filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that
432f8c77507SWarner Loshthe style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained.
433f8c77507SWarner Losh
43497d92980SPeter Wemm$FreeBSD$
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