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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*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl20101114:
26*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Generic IEEE 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support has been
27*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	added to mii(4) and bge(4), bce(4), msk(4), nfe(4) and stge(4) along
28*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	with brgphy(4), e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy() have been converted
29*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	to take advantage of it instead of using custom implementations.  This
30*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	means that these drivers now no longer unconditionally advertise
31*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	support for flow control but only do so if flow control is a selected
32*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	media option.  This was implemented in the generic support that way in
33*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	order to allow flow control to be switched on and off via ifconfig(8)
34*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	with the PHY specific default to typically off in order to protect
35*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	from unwanted effects.  Consequently, if you used flow control with
36*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	one of the above mentioned drivers you now need to explicitly enable
37*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	it, for example via:
38*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl		ifconfig bge0 media auto mediaopt flowcontrol
39*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
40*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Along with the above mentioned changes generic support for setting
41*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	1000baseT master mode also has been added and brgphy(4), ciphy(4),
42*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy(4) have been converted to take
43*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	advantage of it.  This means that these drivers now no longer take the
44*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	link0 parameter for selecting master mode but the master media option
45*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	has to be used instead, for example like in the following:
46*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl		ifconfig bge0 media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,master
47*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
48*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	Selection of master mode now is also available with all other PHY
49*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl	drivers supporting 1000baseT.
50*efd4fc3fSMarius Strobl
51dbc42409SLawrence Stewart20101111:
52dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	The TCP stack has received a significant update to add support for
53dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	modularised congestion control and generally improve the clarity of
54dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	congestion control decisions. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900025. User
55dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g.
56dbc42409SLawrence Stewart	sockstat) need to be recompiled.
57dbc42409SLawrence Stewart
58fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow20101002:
59fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	The man(1) utility has been replaced by a new version that no longer
60fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	uses /etc/manpath.config. Please consult man.conf(5) for how to
61fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow	migrate local entries to the new format.
62fd77eab9SGordon Tetlow
63337299c6SEd Maste20100928:
64337299c6SEd Maste	The copyright strings printed by login(1) and sshd(8) at the time of a
65337299c6SEd Maste	new connection have been removed to follow other operating systems and
66337299c6SEd Maste	upstream sshd.
67337299c6SEd Maste
68f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon20100915:
69f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon	A workaround for a fixed ld bug has been removed in kernel code,
70f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon	so make sure that your system ld is built from sources after
71130a0815SAndriy Gapon	revision 210245 from 2010-07-19 (r211583 if building head kernel
72130a0815SAndriy Gapon	on stable/8, r211584 for stable/7; both from 2010-08-21).
73130a0815SAndriy Gapon	A symptom of incorrect ld version is different addresses for
74130a0815SAndriy Gapon	set_pcpu section and __start_set_pcpu symbol in kernel and/or modules.
75f8fc818bSAndriy Gapon
76d69eb520SRui Paulo20100913:
77d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ipv6_prefer variable in rc.conf(5) has been split into
78d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	$ip6addrctl_policy and $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces.
79d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
80d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ip6addrctl_policy is a variable to choose a pre-defined
81d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	address selection policy set by ip6addrctl(8).  A value
82d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	"ipv4_prefer", "ipv6_prefer" or "AUTO" can be specified.  The
83d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	default is "AUTO".
84d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
85d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces specifies whether IFDISABLED
86d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	flag (see an entry of 20090926) is set on an interface with no
87d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	corresponding $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 line.  The default is "NO" for
88d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	security reason.  If you want IPv6 link-local address on all
89d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	interfaces by default, set this to "YES".
90d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
91d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	The old ipv6_prefer="YES" is equivalent to
92d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" and
93d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato	ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer".
94d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato
95d3a8a8b9SHiroki Sato20100913:
96d69eb520SRui Paulo	DTrace has grown support for userland tracing. Due to this, DTrace is
97d69eb520SRui Paulo	now i386 and amd64 only.
98d69eb520SRui Paulo	dtruss(1) is now installed by default on those systems and a new
99d69eb520SRui Paulo	kernel module is needed for userland tracing: fasttrap.
100d69eb520SRui Paulo	No changes to your kernel config file are necessary to enable
101d69eb520SRui Paulo	userland tracing, but you might consider adding 'STRIP=' and
102d69eb520SRui Paulo	'CFLAGS+=-fno-omit-frame-pointer' to your make.conf if you want
103d69eb520SRui Paulo	to have informative userland stack traces in DTrace (ustack).
104d69eb520SRui Paulo
10540650455SRui Paulo20100725:
10640650455SRui Paulo	The acpi_aiboost(4) driver has been removed in favor of the new
10740650455SRui Paulo	aibs(4) driver. You should update your kernel configuration file.
10840650455SRui Paulo
1094dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan20100722:
1104dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	BSD grep has been imported to the base system and it is built by
1114dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	default.  It is completely BSD licensed, highly GNU-compatible, uses
1124dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	less memory than its GNU counterpart and has a small codebase.
1134dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	However, it is slower than its GNU counterpart, which is mostly
1144dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	noticeable for larger searches, for smaller ones it is measurable
1154dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	but not significant.  The reason is complex, the most important factor
1164dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	is that we lack a modern and efficient regex library and GNU
1174dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	overcomes this by optimizing the searches internally.  Future work
1184dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	on improving the regex performance is planned, for the meantime,
1194dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	users that need better performance, can build GNU grep instead by
1204dc88ebeSGabor Kovesdan	setting the WITH_GNU_GREP knob.
1212965a453SKip Macy
1228fc25799SMartin Matuska20100713:
123c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	Due to the import of powerpc64 support, all existing powerpc kernel
124c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	configuration files must be updated with a machine directive like this:
125c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	    machine powerpc powerpc
126c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn
127c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	In addition, an updated config(8) is required to build powerpc kernels
128c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn	after this change.
129c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn
130c3e289e1SNathan Whitehorn20100713:
1318fc25799SMartin Matuska	A new version of ZFS (version 15) has been merged to -HEAD.
1328fc25799SMartin Matuska	This version uses a python library for the following subcommands:
1338fc25799SMartin Matuska	zfs allow, zfs unallow, zfs groupspace, zfs userspace.
1348fc25799SMartin Matuska	For full functionality of these commands the following port must
1358fc25799SMartin Matuska	be installed: sysutils/py-zfs
1368fc25799SMartin Matuska
1372965a453SKip Macy20100429:
1382965a453SKip Macy	'vm_page's are now hashed by physical address to an array of mutexes.
1392965a453SKip Macy	Currently this is only used to serialize access to hold_count. Over
1402965a453SKip Macy	time the page queue mutex will be peeled away. This changes the size
1412965a453SKip Macy	of pmap on every architecture. And requires all callers of vm_page_hold
1422965a453SKip Macy	and vm_page_unhold to be updated.
1432965a453SKip Macy
14421edb039SAlexander Leidinger20100402:
14521edb039SAlexander Leidinger	WITH_CTF can now be specified in src.conf (not recommended, there
14621edb039SAlexander Leidinger	are some problems with static executables), make.conf (would also
14721edb039SAlexander Leidinger	affect ports which do not use GNU make and do not override the
14821edb039SAlexander Leidinger	compile targets) or in the kernel config (via "makeoptions
14921edb039SAlexander Leidinger	WITH_CTF=yes").
15021edb039SAlexander Leidinger	When WITH_CTF was specified there before this was silently ignored,
15121edb039SAlexander Leidinger	so make sure that WITH_CTF is not used in places which could lead
15221edb039SAlexander Leidinger	to unwanted behavior.
15321edb039SAlexander Leidinger
154841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn20100311:
155841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	The kernel option COMPAT_IA32 has been replaced with COMPAT_FREEBSD32
156841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	to allow 32-bit compatibility on non-x86 platforms. All kernel
157841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	configurations on amd64 and ia64 platforms using these options must
158841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn	be modified accordingly.
159841c0c7eSNathan Whitehorn
160279d8efeSEd Schouten20100113:
161279d8efeSEd Schouten	The utmp user accounting database has been replaced with utmpx,
162279d8efeSEd Schouten	the user accounting interface standardized by POSIX.
163279d8efeSEd Schouten	Unfortunately the semantics of utmp and utmpx don't match,
164279d8efeSEd Schouten	making it practically impossible to support both interfaces.
165279d8efeSEd Schouten	The user accounting database is used by tools like finger(1),
166279d8efeSEd Schouten	last(1), talk(1), w(1) and ac(8).
167279d8efeSEd Schouten
168279d8efeSEd Schouten	All applications in the base system use utmpx.  This means only
169279d8efeSEd Schouten	local binaries (e.g. from the ports tree) may still use these
170279d8efeSEd Schouten	utmp database files.  These applications must be rebuilt to make
171279d8efeSEd Schouten	use of utmpx.
172279d8efeSEd Schouten
173279d8efeSEd Schouten	After the system has been upgraded, it is safe to remove the old
174279d8efeSEd Schouten	log files (/var/run/utmp, /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/wtmp*),
1755ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	assuming their contents is of no importance anymore.  Old wtmp
1765ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	databases can only be used by last(1) and ac(8) after they have
1775ab7f1fcSEd Schouten	been converted to the new format using wtmpcvt(1).
178279d8efeSEd Schouten
179f7829d0dSAttilio Rao20100108:
180f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	Introduce the kernel thread "deadlock resolver" (which can be enabled
181f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	via the DEADLKRES option, see NOTES for more details) and the
182f7829d0dSAttilio Rao	sleepq_type() function for sleepqueues.
183f7829d0dSAttilio Rao
184f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO20091202:
185f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	The rc.firewall and rc.firewall6 were unified, and
186f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	rc.firewall6 and rc.d/ip6fw were removed.
187f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	According to the removal of rc.d/ip6fw, ipv6_firewall_* rc
188f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	variables are obsoleted.  Instead, the following new rc
189f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	variables are added to rc.d/ipfw:
190f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
191f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_client_net_ipv6, firewall_simple_iif_ipv6,
192f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_simple_inet_ipv6, firewall_simple_oif_ipv6,
193f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO		firewall_simple_onet_ipv6, firewall_trusted_ipv6
194f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
195f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO	The meanings correspond to the relevant IPv4 variables.
196f2cb5f03SHajimu UMEMOTO
197e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer20091125:
198e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer	8.0-RELEASE.
199e409c5c8SChristian Brueffer
200e42fc368SEd Schouten20091113:
201e42fc368SEd Schouten	The default terminal emulation for syscons(4) has been changed
2024b2361f8SEd Schouten	from cons25 to xterm on all platforms except pc98.  This means
2034b2361f8SEd Schouten	that the /etc/ttys file needs to be updated to ensure correct
2044b2361f8SEd Schouten	operation of applications on the console.
205e42fc368SEd Schouten
206e42fc368SEd Schouten	The terminal emulation style can be toggled per window by using
2074b2361f8SEd Schouten	vidcontrol(1)'s -T flag.  The TEKEN_CONS25 kernel configuration
2084b2361f8SEd Schouten	options can be used to change the compile-time default back to
2094b2361f8SEd Schouten	cons25.
210e42fc368SEd Schouten
211e42fc368SEd Schouten	To prevent graphical artifacts, make sure the TERM environment
212e42fc368SEd Schouten	variable is set to match the terminal emulation that is being
213e42fc368SEd Schouten	performed by syscons(4).
214e42fc368SEd Schouten
21507ddebb5SRui Paulo20091109:
21607ddebb5SRui Paulo	The layout of the structure ieee80211req_scan_result has changed.
21707ddebb5SRui Paulo	Applications that require wireless scan results (e.g. ifconfig(8))
21807ddebb5SRui Paulo	from net80211 need to be recompiled.
21907ddebb5SRui Paulo
22096b4300cSDoug Barton	Applications such as wpa_supplicant(8) may require a full world
22196b4300cSDoug Barton	build without using NO_CLEAN in order to get synchronized with the
22296b4300cSDoug Barton	new structure.
22396b4300cSDoug Barton
22463b49c2bSRui Paulo20091025:
22563b49c2bSRui Paulo	The iwn(4) driver has been updated to support the 5000 and 5150 series.
22663b49c2bSRui Paulo	There's one kernel module for each firmware. Adding "device iwnfw"
22763b49c2bSRui Paulo	to the kernel configuration file means including all three firmware
22863b49c2bSRui Paulo	images inside the kernel. If you want to include just the one for
22963b49c2bSRui Paulo	your wireless card, use the the devices iwn4965fw, iwn5000fw or
23063b49c2bSRui Paulo	iwn5150fw.
23163b49c2bSRui Paulo
2322e77c5abSHiroki Sato20090926:
2332e77c5abSHiroki Sato	The rc.d/network_ipv6, IPv6 configuration script has been integrated
2342e77c5abSHiroki Sato	into rc.d/netif.  The changes are the following:
2352e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2362e77c5abSHiroki Sato	1. To use IPv6, simply define $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 like $ifconfig_IF
2372e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   for IPv4.  For aliases, $ifconfig_IF_aliasN should be used.
2382e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Note that both variables need the "inet6" keyword at the head.
2392e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2402e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Do not set $ipv6_network_interfaces manually if you do not
2412e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   understand what you are doing.  It is not needed in most cases.
2422e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2432e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ipv6_ifconfig_IF and $ipv6_ifconfig_IF_aliasN still work, but
2442e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   they are obsolete.
2452e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2462e77c5abSHiroki Sato	2. $ipv6_enable is obsolete.  Use $ipv6_prefer and
2472e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   "inet6 accept_rtadv" keyword in ifconfig(8) instead.
2482e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2492e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   If you define $ipv6_enable=YES, it means $ipv6_prefer=YES and
2502e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   all configured interfaces have "inet6 accept_rtadv" in the
2512e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  These are for backward compatibility.
2522e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2532e77c5abSHiroki Sato	3. A new variable $ipv6_prefer has been added.  If NO, IPv6
2542e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   functionality of interfaces with no corresponding
2552e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 is disabled by using "inet6 ifdisabled" flag,
2562e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   and the default address selection policy of ip6addrctl(8)
2572e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   is the IPv4-preferred one (see rc.d/ip6addrctl for more details).
2582e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   Note that if you want to configure IPv6 functionality on the
2592e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   disabled interfaces after boot, first you need to clear the flag by
2602e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   using ifconfig(8) like:
2612e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2622e77c5abSHiroki Sato		ifconfig em0 inet6 -ifdisabled
2632e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2642e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   If YES, the default address selection policy is set as
2652e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   IPv6-preferred.
2662e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2672e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   The default value of $ipv6_prefer is NO.
2682e77c5abSHiroki Sato
2692e77c5abSHiroki Sato	4. If your system need to receive Router Advertisement messages,
2702e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   define "inet6 accept_rtadv" in $ifconfig_IF_ipv6.  The rc(8)
2712e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   scripts automatically invoke rtsol(8) when the interface becomes
2722e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   UP.  The Router Advertisement messages are used for SLAAC
2732e77c5abSHiroki Sato	   (State-Less Address AutoConfiguration).
2742e77c5abSHiroki Sato
275350036a0SRui Paulo20090922:
276350036a0SRui Paulo	802.11s D3.03 support was committed. This is incompatible with the
277350036a0SRui Paulo	previous code, which was based on D3.0.
278350036a0SRui Paulo
2792e77c5abSHiroki Sato20090912:
2802e77c5abSHiroki Sato	A sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv now sets the default value
2812e77c5abSHiroki Sato	of a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV, not a global knob to
2822e77c5abSHiroki Sato	control whether accepting Router Advertisement messages or not.
2832e77c5abSHiroki Sato	Also, a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_AUTO_LINKLOCAL has been added and
2842e77c5abSHiroki Sato	a sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal is its default value.
2852e77c5abSHiroki Sato	The ifconfig(8) utility now supports these flags.
2862e77c5abSHiroki Sato
28763e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek20090910:
28863e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek	ZFS snapshots are now mounted with MNT_IGNORE flag. Use -v option for
28963e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek	mount(8) and -a option for df(1) to see them.
29063e1d3dfSPawel Jakub Dawidek
291411c7658SWarner Losh20090825:
292411c7658SWarner Losh	The old tunable hw.bus.devctl_disable has been superseded by
293411c7658SWarner Losh	hw.bus.devctl_queue.  hw.bus.devctl_disable=1 in loader.conf should be
294411c7658SWarner Losh	replaced by hw.bus.devctl_queue=0.  The default for this new tunable
295411c7658SWarner Losh	is 1000.
296411c7658SWarner Losh
297dc6fbf65SAttilio Rao20090813:
298456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Remove the option STOP_NMI.  The default action is now to use NMI only
299456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for KDB via the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and
300456b5dd8SWarner Losh	maintain stop_cpus() to just use a normal IPI_STOP on ia32 and amd64.
301456b5dd8SWarner Losh
302456b5dd8SWarner Losh20090803:
303f6a4f4b5SWarner Losh	The stable/8 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
304f6a4f4b5SWarner Losh	RELENG_8 branch in CVS.
305dc6fbf65SAttilio Rao
3063ca3047aSKen Smith20090719:
307456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Bump the shared library version numbers for all libraries that do not
308456b5dd8SWarner Losh	use symbol versioning as part of the 8.0-RELEASE cycle.  Bump
309456b5dd8SWarner Losh	__FreeBSD_version to 800105.
3103ca3047aSKen Smith
311eddfbb76SRobert Watson20090714:
312456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Due to changes in the implementation of virtual network stack support,
313456b5dd8SWarner Losh	all network-related kernel modules must be recompiled.  As this change
314456b5dd8SWarner Losh	breaks the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800104.
315eddfbb76SRobert Watson
316237fbe0aSLawrence Stewart20090713:
317456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The TOE interface to the TCP syncache has been modified to remove
318456b5dd8SWarner Losh	struct tcpopt (<netinet/tcp_var.h>) from the ABI of the network stack.
319456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The cxgb driver is the only TOE consumer affected by this change, and
320456b5dd8SWarner Losh	needs to be recompiled along with the kernel. As this change breaks
321456b5dd8SWarner Losh	the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800103.
322237fbe0aSLawrence Stewart
323962ebef8SLawrence Stewart20090712:
324962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	Padding has been added to struct tcpcb, sackhint and tcpstat in
325962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	<netinet/tcp_var.h> to facilitate future MFCs and bug fixes whilst
3261733d35cSRuslan Ermilov	maintaining the ABI. However, this change breaks the ABI, so bump
327962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	__FreeBSD_version to 800102. User space tools that rely on the size of
328962ebef8SLawrence Stewart	any of these structs (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
329962ebef8SLawrence Stewart
330bab42aadSDoug Rabson20090630:
331456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The NFS_LEGACYRPC option has been removed along with the old kernel
332456b5dd8SWarner Losh	RPC implementation that this option selected. Kernel configurations
333456b5dd8SWarner Losh	may need to be adjusted.
334bab42aadSDoug Rabson
3356cb7f168SBrooks Davis20090629:
336456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The network interface device nodes at /dev/net/<interface> have been
337456b5dd8SWarner Losh	removed.  All ioctl operations can be performed the normal way using
338456b5dd8SWarner Losh	routing sockets.  The kqueue functionality can generally be replaced
339456b5dd8SWarner Losh	with routing sockets.
3406cb7f168SBrooks Davis
341944bc81dSMarc Fonvieille20090628:
342456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The documentation from the FreeBSD Documentation Project (Handbook,
343456b5dd8SWarner Losh	FAQ, etc.) is now installed via packages by sysinstall(8) and under
344456b5dd8SWarner Losh	the /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd directory instead of /usr/share/doc.
345944bc81dSMarc Fonvieille
346f5e4c105SJohn Baldwin20090624:
347456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The ABI of various structures related to the SYSV IPC API have been
348456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed.  As a result, the COMPAT_FREEBSD[456] and COMPAT_43 kernel
349456b5dd8SWarner Losh	options now all require COMPAT_FREEBSD7.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to
350456b5dd8SWarner Losh	800100.
351f5e4c105SJohn Baldwin
352b58ea5f3SBjoern A. Zeeb20090622:
353456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Layout of struct vnet has changed as routing related variables were
354456b5dd8SWarner Losh	moved to their own Vimage module. Modules need to be recompiled.  Bump
355456b5dd8SWarner Losh	__FreeBSD_version to 800099.
356b58ea5f3SBjoern A. Zeeb
357838d9858SBrooks Davis20090619:
358456b5dd8SWarner Losh	NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS have been increased from 16 to 1023 and 1024
359456b5dd8SWarner Losh	respectively.  As long as no more than 16 groups per process are used,
360456b5dd8SWarner Losh	no changes should be visible.  When more than 16 groups are used, old
361456b5dd8SWarner Losh	binaries may fail if they call getgroups() or getgrouplist() with
362456b5dd8SWarner Losh	statically sized storage.  Recompiling will work around this, but
363456b5dd8SWarner Losh	applications should be modified to use dynamically allocated storage
364456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for group arrays as POSIX.1-2008 does not cap an implementation's
365456b5dd8SWarner Losh	number of supported groups at NGROUPS_MAX+1 as previous versions did.
366838d9858SBrooks Davis
367456b5dd8SWarner Losh	NFS and portalfs mounts may also be affected as the list of groups is
368456b5dd8SWarner Losh	truncated to 16.  Users of NFS who use more than 16 groups, should
369456b5dd8SWarner Losh	take care that negative group permissions are not used on the exported
370456b5dd8SWarner Losh	file systems as they will not be reliable unless a GSSAPI based
371456b5dd8SWarner Losh	authentication method is used.
372838d9858SBrooks Davis
373651175c9SAttilio Rao20090616:
374456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_LOCKMGRS has been introduced.  This
375456b5dd8SWarner Losh	option compiles in the support for adaptive spinning for lockmgrs
376456b5dd8SWarner Losh	which want to enable it.  The lockinit() function now accepts the flag
377456b5dd8SWarner Losh	LK_ADAPTIVE in order to make the lock object subject to adaptive
378456b5dd8SWarner Losh	spinning when both held in write and read mode.
379651175c9SAttilio Rao
3802c727cb9SSam Leffler20090613:
381456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of the structure returned by IEEE80211_IOC_STA_INFO has
382456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed.  User applications that use this ioctl need to be rebuilt.
3832c727cb9SSam Leffler
384f089869fSMarko Zec20090611:
385456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of struct thread has changed.  Kernel and modules need to
386456b5dd8SWarner Losh	be rebuilt.
387f089869fSMarko Zec
388bc29160dSMarko Zec20090608:
389456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The layout of structs ifnet, domain, protosw and vnet_net has changed.
390456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Kernel modules need to be rebuilt.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097.
391bc29160dSMarko Zec
39289f98d57SEd Schouten20090602:
39389f98d57SEd Schouten	window(1) has been removed from the base system. It can now be
39489f98d57SEd Schouten	installed from ports. The port is called misc/window.
39589f98d57SEd Schouten
396c2c2a7c1SBjoern A. Zeeb20090601:
397456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The way we are storing and accessing `routing table' entries has
398456b5dd8SWarner Losh	changed. Programs reading the FIB, like netstat, need to be
399456b5dd8SWarner Losh	re-compiled.
400c2c2a7c1SBjoern A. Zeeb
401529cb8e3SRobert Watson20090601:
402529cb8e3SRobert Watson	A new netisr implementation has been added for FreeBSD 8.  Network
403529cb8e3SRobert Watson	file system modules, such as igmp, ipdivert, and others, should be
404529cb8e3SRobert Watson	rebuilt.
405529cb8e3SRobert Watson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800096.
406529cb8e3SRobert Watson
4072a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala20090530:
408456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Remove the tunable/sysctl debug.mpsafevfs as its initial purpose is no
409456b5dd8SWarner Losh	more valid.
410faef64ccSAttilio Rao
411faef64ccSAttilio Rao20090530:
4122a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Add VOP_ACCESSX(9).  File system modules need to be rebuilt.
4132a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800094.
4142a61ba47SEdward Tomasz Napierala
415b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala20090529:
416456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Add mnt_xflag field to 'struct mount'.  File system modules need to be
417456b5dd8SWarner Losh	rebuilt.
418b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800093.
419b89fed67SEdward Tomasz Napierala
4201ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao20090528:
4211ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	The compiling option ADAPTIVE_SX has been retired while it has been
4221ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	introduced the option NO_ADAPTIVE_SX which handles the reversed logic.
4231ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	The KPI for sx_init_flags() changes as accepting flags:
424456b5dd8SWarner Losh	SX_ADAPTIVESPIN flag has been retired while the SX_NOADAPTIVE flag has
425456b5dd8SWarner Losh	been introduced in order to handle the reversed logic.
4261ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800092.
4271ae1c2a3SAttilio Rao
4280304c731SJamie Gritton20090527:
4290304c731SJamie Gritton	Add support for hierarchical jails.  Remove global securelevel.
4300304c731SJamie Gritton	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800091.
4310304c731SJamie Gritton
432dfc79e89SEdwin Groothuis20090523:
43337f17770SMarko Zec	The layout of struct vnet_net has changed, therefore modules
43437f17770SMarko Zec	need to be rebuilt.
43537f17770SMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800090.
43637f17770SMarko Zec
43737f17770SMarko Zec20090523:
438456b5dd8SWarner Losh	The newly imported zic(8) produces a new format in the output. Please
439456b5dd8SWarner Losh	run tzsetup(8) to install the newly created data to /etc/localtime.
440dfc79e89SEdwin Groothuis
44123790ac0SSam Leffler20090520:
4429360ae40SAndrew Thompson	The sysctl tree for the usb stack has renamed from hw.usb2.* to
4439360ae40SAndrew Thompson	hw.usb.* and is now consistent again with previous releases.
4449360ae40SAndrew Thompson
4459360ae40SAndrew Thompson20090520:
446456b5dd8SWarner Losh	802.11 monitor mode support was revised and driver api's were changed.
447456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Drivers dependent on net80211 now support DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO instead
448456b5dd8SWarner Losh	of DLT_IEEE802_11.  No user-visible data structures were changed but
449456b5dd8SWarner Losh	applications that use DLT_IEEE802_11 may require changes.
45023790ac0SSam Leffler	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800088.
45123790ac0SSam Leffler
452f6dfe47aSMarko Zec20090430:
453f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	The layout of the following structs has changed: sysctl_oid,
454f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	socket, ifnet, inpcbinfo, tcpcb, syncache_head, vnet_inet,
455f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	vnet_inet6 and vnet_ipfw.  Most modules need to be rebuild or
456f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	panics may be experienced.  World rebuild is required for
457f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	correctly checking networking state from userland.
458f6dfe47aSMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800085.
459f6dfe47aSMarko Zec
46033cde130SBruce M Simpson20090429:
46133cde130SBruce M Simpson	MLDv2 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
46233cde130SBruce M Simpson	to the IPv6 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
46333cde130SBruce M Simpson	The implementation of SSM within FreeBSD's IPv6 stack closely
46433cde130SBruce M Simpson	follows the IPv4 implementation.
46533cde130SBruce M Simpson
46633cde130SBruce M Simpson	For kernel developers:
46733cde130SBruce M Simpson
46833cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The most important changes are that the ip6_output() and
46933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  ip6_input() paths no longer take the IN6_MULTI_LOCK,
47033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
47133cde130SBruce M Simpson
47233cde130SBruce M Simpson	* As with the changes to the IPv4 stack to support SSM, filtering
47333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  of inbound multicast traffic must now be performed by transport
47433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  protocols within the IPv6 stack. This does not apply to TCP and
47533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  SCTP, however, it does apply to UDP in IPv6 and raw IPv6.
47633cde130SBruce M Simpson
47733cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The KPIs used by IPv6 multicast are similar to those used by
47833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  the IPv4 stack, with the following differences:
47933cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * im6o_mc_filter() is analogous to imo_multicast_filter().
48033cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * The legacy KAME entry points in6_joingroup and in6_leavegroup()
48133cde130SBruce M Simpson	     are shimmed to in6_mc_join() and in6_mc_leave() respectively.
48233cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * IN6_LOOKUP_MULTI() has been deprecated and removed.
48333cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * IPv6 relies on MLD for the DAD mechanism. KAME's internal KPIs
48433cde130SBruce M Simpson	     for MLDv1 have an additional 'timer' argument which is used to
48533cde130SBruce M Simpson	     jitter the initial membership report for the solicited-node
48633cde130SBruce M Simpson	     multicast membership on-link.
48733cde130SBruce M Simpson	   * This is not strictly needed for MLDv2, which already jitters
48833cde130SBruce M Simpson	     its report transmissions.  However, the 'timer' argument is
48933cde130SBruce M Simpson	     preserved in case MLDv1 is active on the interface.
49033cde130SBruce M Simpson
49133cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The KAME linked-list based IPv6 membership implementation has
49233cde130SBruce M Simpson	  been refactored to use a vector similar to that used by the IPv4
49333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  stack.
49433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Code which maintains a list of its own multicast memberships
49533cde130SBruce M Simpson	  internally, e.g. carp, has been updated to reflect the new
49633cde130SBruce M Simpson	  semantics.
49733cde130SBruce M Simpson
49833cde130SBruce M Simpson	* There is a known Lock Order Reversal (LOR) due to in6_setscope()
49933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  acquiring the IF_AFDATA_LOCK and being called within ip6_output().
50033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Whilst MLDv2 tries to avoid this otherwise benign LOR, it is an
50133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  implementation constraint which needs to be addressed in HEAD.
50233cde130SBruce M Simpson
50333cde130SBruce M Simpson	For application developers:
50433cde130SBruce M Simpson
50533cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The changes are broadly similar to those made for the IPv4
50633cde130SBruce M Simpson	  stack.
50733cde130SBruce M Simpson
50833cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The use of IPv4 and IPv6 multicast socket options on the same
50933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  socket, using mapped addresses, HAS NOT been tested or supported.
51033cde130SBruce M Simpson
51133cde130SBruce M Simpson	* There are a number of issues with the implementation of various
51233cde130SBruce M Simpson	  IPv6 multicast APIs which need to be resolved in the API surface
51333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  before the implementation is fully compatible with KAME userland
51433cde130SBruce M Simpson	  use, and these are mostly to do with interface index treatment.
51533cde130SBruce M Simpson
51633cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The literature available discusses the use of either the delta / ASM
51733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  API with setsockopt(2)/getsockopt(2), or the full-state / ASM API
51833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  using setsourcefilter(3)/getsourcefilter(3). For more information
51933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  please refer to RFC 3768, 'Socket Interface Extensions for
52033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  Multicast Source Filters'.
52133cde130SBruce M Simpson
52233cde130SBruce M Simpson	* Applications which use the published RFC 3678 APIs should be fine.
52333cde130SBruce M Simpson
52433cde130SBruce M Simpson	For systems administrators:
52533cde130SBruce M Simpson
52633cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The mtest(8) utility has been refactored to support IPv6, in
52733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  addition to IPv4. Interface addresses are no longer accepted
52833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  as arguments, their names must be used instead. The utility
52933cde130SBruce M Simpson	  will map the interface name to its first IPv4 address as
53033cde130SBruce M Simpson	  returned by getifaddrs(3).
53133cde130SBruce M Simpson
53233cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The ifmcstat(8) utility has also been updated to print the MLDv2
53333cde130SBruce M Simpson	  endpoint state and source filter lists via sysctl(3).
53433cde130SBruce M Simpson
53533cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The net.inet6.ip6.mcast.loop sysctl may be tuned to 0 to disable
53633cde130SBruce M Simpson	  loopback of IPv6 multicast datagrams by default; it defaults to 1
53733cde130SBruce M Simpson	  to preserve the existing behaviour. Disabling multicast loopback is
53833cde130SBruce M Simpson	  recommended for optimal system performance.
53933cde130SBruce M Simpson
54033cde130SBruce M Simpson	* The IPv6 MROUTING code has been changed to examine this sysctl
54133cde130SBruce M Simpson	  instead of attempting to perform a group lookup before looping
54233cde130SBruce M Simpson	  back forwarded datagrams.
54333cde130SBruce M Simpson
54433cde130SBruce M Simpson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800084.
54533cde130SBruce M Simpson
5468b8bf775SRobert Watson20090422:
547131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin	Implement low-level Bluetooth HCI API.
548131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800083.
549131cdffbSMaksim Yevmenkin
5508b8bf775SRobert Watson20090419:
5518b8bf775SRobert Watson	The layout of struct malloc_type, used by modules to register new
5528b8bf775SRobert Watson	memory allocation types, has changed.  Most modules will need to
5538b8bf775SRobert Watson	be rebuilt or panics may be experienced.
5548b8bf775SRobert Watson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800081.
5558b8bf775SRobert Watson
556de4ab55eSKip Macy20090415:
557773b573aSKip Macy	Anticipate overflowing inp_flags - add inp_flags2.
558773b573aSKip Macy	This changes most offsets in inpcb, so checking v4 connection
559773b573aSKip Macy	state will require a world rebuild.
560773b573aSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800080.
561f146c211SXin LI
562773b573aSKip Macy20090415:
563de4ab55eSKip Macy	Add an llentry to struct route and struct route_in6. Modules
564de4ab55eSKip Macy	embedding a struct route will need to be recompiled.
565de4ab55eSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800079.
566de4ab55eSKip Macy
567427ac07fSKip Macy20090414:
568427ac07fSKip Macy	The size of rt_metrics_lite and by extension rtentry has changed.
569427ac07fSKip Macy	Networking administration apps will need to be recompiled.
570427ac07fSKip Macy	The route command now supports show as an alias for get, weighting
571427ac07fSKip Macy	of routes, sticky and nostick flags to alter the behavior of stateful
572427ac07fSKip Macy	load balancing.
573427ac07fSKip Macy	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800078.
5748713ec3dSRenato Botelho
57587437955SMaksim Yevmenkin20090408:
57687437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	Do not use Giant for kbdmux(4) locking. This is wrong and
57787437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	apparently causing more problems than it solves. This will
57887437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	re-open the issue where interrupt handlers may race with
57987437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	kbdmux(4) in polling mode. Typical symptoms include (but
58087437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	not limited to) duplicated and/or missing characters when
58187437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	low level console functions (such as gets) are used while
58287437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	interrupts are enabled (for example geli password prompt,
58387437955SMaksim Yevmenkin	mountroot prompt etc.). Disabling kbdmux(4) may help.
58487437955SMaksim Yevmenkin
5852f6a1858SMarko Zec20090407:
5862f6a1858SMarko Zec	The size of structs vnet_net, vnet_inet and vnet_ipfw has changed;
5872f6a1858SMarko Zec	kernel modules referencing any of the above need to be recompiled.
5882f6a1858SMarko Zec	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800075.
5892f6a1858SMarko Zec
590781d043cSIvan Voras20090320:
591781d043cSIvan Voras	GEOM_PART has become the default partition slicer for storage devices,
592781d043cSIvan Voras	replacing GEOM_MBR, GEOM_BSD, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_GPT slicers. It
5939a07b548SIvan Voras	introduces some changes:
5949a07b548SIvan Voras
5959a07b548SIvan Voras	MSDOS/EBR: the devices created from MSDOS extended partition entries
5969a07b548SIvan Voras	(EBR) can be named differently than with GEOM_MBR and are now symlinks
5979a07b548SIvan Voras	to devices with offset-based names. fstabs may need to be modified.
5989a07b548SIvan Voras
5999a07b548SIvan Voras	BSD: the "geometry does not match label" warning is harmless in most
6009a07b548SIvan Voras	cases but it points to problems in file system misalignment with
6019a07b548SIvan Voras	disk geometry. The "c" partition is now implicit, covers the whole
6029a07b548SIvan Voras	top-level drive and cannot be (mis)used by users.
6039a07b548SIvan Voras
6049a07b548SIvan Voras	General: Kernel dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices
6059a07b548SIvan Voras	whose partition types indicate they are meant to be used for file
6069a07b548SIvan Voras	systems (or, in case of MSDOS partitions, as something else than
6079a07b548SIvan Voras	the "386BSD" type).
6089a07b548SIvan Voras
6099a07b548SIvan Voras	Most of these changes date approximately from 200812.
610781d043cSIvan Voras
611443fc317SBruce M Simpson20090319:
6122b78d306SAndrew Thompson	The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows
6132b78d306SAndrew Thompson	Linux removing theirs in 2.6 and making libusb the default interface
6142b78d306SAndrew Thompson	(supported by sane).
6152b78d306SAndrew Thompson
6162b78d306SAndrew Thompson20090319:
617443fc317SBruce M Simpson	The multicast forwarding code has been cleaned up. netstat(1)
618443fc317SBruce M Simpson	only relies on KVM now for printing bandwidth upcall meters.
619443fc317SBruce M Simpson	The IPv4 and IPv6 modules are split into ip_mroute_mod and
620443fc317SBruce M Simpson	ip6_mroute_mod respectively. The config(5) options for statically
621443fc317SBruce M Simpson	compiling this code remain the same, i.e. 'options MROUTING'.
622443fc317SBruce M Simpson
6231df14375SRobert Watson20090315:
6241df14375SRobert Watson	Support for the IFF_NEEDSGIANT network interface flag has been
6251df14375SRobert Watson	removed, which means that non-MPSAFE network device drivers are no
6261df14375SRobert Watson	longer supported.  In particular, if_ar, if_sr, and network device
6271df14375SRobert Watson	drivers from the old (legacy) USB stack can no longer be built or
6281df14375SRobert Watson	used.
6291df14375SRobert Watson
630e667034dSRui Paulo20090313:
6317e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	POSIX.1 Native Language Support (NLS) has been enabled in libc and
6327e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	a bunch of new language catalog files have also been added.
6337e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	This means that some common libc messages are now localized and
6347e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan	they depend on the LC_MESSAGES environmental variable.
6357e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan
6367e06afcaSGabor Kovesdan20090313:
637e667034dSRui Paulo	The k8temp(4) driver has been renamed to amdtemp(4) since
6388fb1e038SDavid E. O'Brien	support for Family 10 and Family 11 CPU families was added.
639e667034dSRui Paulo
640a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson20090309:
641d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	IGMPv3 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged
642d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to the IPv4 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used.
643d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
644d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For kernel developers, the most important changes are that the
645d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	ip_output() and ip_input() paths no longer take the IN_MULTI_LOCK(),
646d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex.
647d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
648d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Transport protocols (UDP, Raw IP) are now responsible for filtering
649d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	inbound multicast traffic according to group membership and source
650d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	filters. The imo_multicast_filter() KPI exists for this purpose.
651d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Transports which do not use multicast (SCTP, TCP) already reject
652d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast by default. Forwarding and receive performance may improve
653d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	as a mutex acquisition is no longer needed in the ip_input()
654d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	low-level input path.  in_addmulti() and in_delmulti() are shimmed
655d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to new KPIs which exist to support SSM in-kernel.
656d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
657d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For application developers, it is recommended that loopback of
658d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast datagrams be disabled for best performance, as this
659d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	will still cause the lock to be taken for each looped-back
660d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	datagram transmission. The net.inet.ip.mcast.loop sysctl may
661d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	be tuned to 0 to disable loopback by default; it defaults to 1
662d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	to preserve the existing behaviour.
663d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
664d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	For systems administrators, to obtain best performance with
665d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	multicast reception and multiple groups, it is always recommended
666d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	that a card with a suitably precise hash filter is used. Hash
667d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	collisions will still result in the lock being taken within the
668d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	transport protocol input path to check group membership.
669d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
670d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	If deploying FreeBSD in an environment with IGMP snooping switches,
671d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	it is recommended that the net.inet.igmp.sendlocal sysctl remain
672d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	enabled; this forces 224.0.0.0/24 group membership to be announced
673d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	via IGMP.
674d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
675d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	The size of 'struct igmpstat' has changed; netstat needs to be
676d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	recompiled to reflect this.
677d10910e6SBruce M Simpson	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800070.
678d10910e6SBruce M Simpson
679d10910e6SBruce M Simpson20090309:
680a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	libusb20.so.1 is now installed as libusb.so.1 and the ports system
681a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	updated to use it. This requires a buildworld/installworld in order to
682a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson	update the library and dependencies (usbconfig, etc). Its advisable to
683cb2fe9b1SStanislav Sedov	rebuild all ports which uses libusb. More specific directions are given
6840ee5826eSAndrew Thompson	in the ports collection UPDATING file. Any /etc/libmap.conf entries for
6853296f80dSAndrew Thompson	libusb are no longer required and can be removed.
686a091d2a5SAndrew Thompson
68765067cc8SKonstantin Belousov20090302:
6889f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	A workaround is committed to allow the creation of System V shared
6899f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	memory segment of size > 2 GB on the 64-bit architectures.
6909f960e98SKonstantin Belousov	Due to a limitation of the existing ABI, the shm_segsz member
69165067cc8SKonstantin Belousov	of the struct shmid_ds, returned by shmctl(IPC_STAT) call is
692813bb2c9SJoel Dahl	wrong for large segments. Note that limits must be explicitly
69365067cc8SKonstantin Belousov	raised to allow such segments to be created.
69465067cc8SKonstantin Belousov
695176273eaSRobert Watson20090301:
696176273eaSRobert Watson	The layout of struct ifnet has changed, requiring a rebuild of all
697176273eaSRobert Watson	network device driver modules.
698176273eaSRobert Watson
699a13a5664SAndrew Thompson20090227:
700a13a5664SAndrew Thompson	The /dev handling for the new USB stack has changed, a
701a13a5664SAndrew Thompson	buildworld/installworld is required for libusb20.
702a13a5664SAndrew Thompson
70371e9286cSAndrew Thompson20090223:
70471e9286cSAndrew Thompson	The new USB2 stack has now been permanently moved in and all kernel and
705200dcf9aSAndrew Thompson	module names reverted to their previous values (eg, usb, ehci, ohci,
7069c1e15b5SAndrew Thompson	ums, ...).  The old usb stack can be compiled in by prefixing the name
70771e9286cSAndrew Thompson	with the letter 'o', the old usb modules have been removed.
708a709c9a6SWarner Losh	Updating entry 20090216 for xorg and 20090215 for libmap may still
709a709c9a6SWarner Losh	apply.
71071e9286cSAndrew Thompson
711553bf6a4SMike Makonnen20090217:
712553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	The rc.conf(5) option if_up_delay has been renamed to
713553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	defaultroute_delay to better reflect its purpose. If you have
714553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	customized this setting in /etc/rc.conf you need to update it to
715553bf6a4SMike Makonnen	use the new name.
716553bf6a4SMike Makonnen
717bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson20090216:
718bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	xorg 7.4 wants to configure its input devices via hald which does not
719bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	yet work with USB2. If the keyboard/mouse does not work in xorg then
720bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	add
721bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson		Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
722bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson	to your ServerLayout section.  This will cause X to use the configured
723cbb9c89eSMaxim Konovalov	kbd and mouse sections from your xorg.conf.
724bb71e4b6SAndrew Thompson
725e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson20090215:
726e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new USB2
727e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	stack. No kernel config options or code have been removed so if a
728e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	problem arises please report it and optionally revert to the old USB
729e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	stack. If you are loading USB kernel modules or have a custom kernel
730e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson	that includes GENERIC then ensure that usb names are also changed over,
731cbb9c89eSMaxim Konovalov	eg uftdi -> usb2_serial_ftdi.
732e4edc14eSAndrew Thompson
733a709c9a6SWarner Losh	Older programs linked against the ports libusb 0.1 need to be
734a709c9a6SWarner Losh	redirected to the new stack's libusb20.  /etc/libmap.conf can
735a709c9a6SWarner Losh	be used for this:
736a709c9a6SWarner Losh		# Map old usb library to new one for usb2 stack
737a709c9a6SWarner Losh		libusb-0.1.so.8	libusb20.so.1
738a709c9a6SWarner Losh
73921293e70SAndrew Thompson20090209:
74021293e70SAndrew Thompson	All USB ethernet devices now attach as interfaces under the name ueN
74121293e70SAndrew Thompson	(eg. ue0). This is to provide a predictable name as vendors often
74221293e70SAndrew Thompson	change usb chipsets in a product without notice.
74321293e70SAndrew Thompson
74414943437SJohn Baldwin20090203:
74514943437SJohn Baldwin	The ichsmb(4) driver has been changed to require SMBus slave
74614943437SJohn Baldwin	addresses be left-justified (xxxxxxx0b) rather than right-justified.
74714943437SJohn Baldwin	All of the other SMBus controller drivers require left-justified
74814943437SJohn Baldwin	slave addresses, so this change makes all the drivers provide the
74914943437SJohn Baldwin	same interface.
75014943437SJohn Baldwin
75109f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb20090201:
75209f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb	INET6 statistics (struct ip6stat) was updated.
75309f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb	netstat(1) needs to be recompiled.
75409f8c3ffSBjoern A. Zeeb
75574f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev20090119:
75674f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	NTFS has been removed from GENERIC kernel on amd64 to match
75774f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	GENERIC on i386. Should not cause any issues since mount_ntfs(8)
75874f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	will load ntfs.ko module automatically when NTFS support is
75974f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	actually needed, unless ntfs.ko is not installed or security
76074f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	level prohibits loading kernel modules. If either is the case,
76174f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev	"options NTFS" has to be added into kernel config.
76274f91fb9SMaxim Sobolev
76324cb0f22SLawrence Stewart20090115:
76424cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	TCP Appropriate Byte Counting (RFC 3465) support added to kernel.
76524cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	New field in struct tcpcb breaks ABI, so bump __FreeBSD_version to
76624cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	800061. User space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in
76724cb0f22SLawrence Stewart	tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
76824cb0f22SLawrence Stewart
7695d55747eSAlexander Motin20081225:
7705d55747eSAlexander Motin	ng_tty(4) module updated to match the new TTY subsystem.
7715d55747eSAlexander Motin	Due to API change, user-level applications must be updated.
7725d55747eSAlexander Motin	New API support added to mpd5 CVS and expected to be present
7735d55747eSAlexander Motin	in next mpd5.3 release.
7745d55747eSAlexander Motin
775efc06131SSam Leffler20081219:
776a1c64cafSSam Leffler	With __FreeBSD_version 800060 the makefs tool is part of
777a1c64cafSSam Leffler	the base system (it was a port).
778efc06131SSam Leffler
779991f8615SKip Macy20081216:
780991f8615SKip Macy	The afdata and ifnet locks have been changed from mutexes to
781991f8615SKip Macy	rwlocks, network modules will need to be re-compiled.
7821d7e99caSJohn Baldwin
7836e6b3f7cSQing Li20081214:
7846e6b3f7cSQing Li	__FreeBSD_version 800059 incorporates the new arp-v2 rewrite.
7856e6b3f7cSQing Li	RTF_CLONING, RTF_LLINFO and RTF_WASCLONED flags are eliminated.
7866e6b3f7cSQing Li	The new code reduced struct rtentry{} by 16 bytes on 32-bit
7876e6b3f7cSQing Li	architecture and 40 bytes on 64-bit architecture. The userland
7886e6b3f7cSQing Li	applications "arp" and "ndp" have been updated accordingly.
7896e6b3f7cSQing Li	The output from "netstat -r" shows only routing entries and
7906e6b3f7cSQing Li	none of the L2 information.
7916e6b3f7cSQing Li
79233644623SSam Leffler20081130:
79333644623SSam Leffler	__FreeBSD_version 800057 marks the switchover from the
79433644623SSam Leffler	binary ath hal to source code. Users must add the line:
79533644623SSam Leffler
796c60b227cSSam Leffler	options	AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
79733644623SSam Leffler
79833644623SSam Leffler	to their kernel config files when specifying:
79933644623SSam Leffler
80033644623SSam Leffler	device	ath_hal
80133644623SSam Leffler
80233644623SSam Leffler	The ath_hal module no longer exists; the code is now compiled
80333644623SSam Leffler	together with the driver in the ath module.  It is now
80433644623SSam Leffler	possible to tailor chip support (i.e. reduce the set of chips
80533644623SSam Leffler	and thereby the code size); consult ath_hal(4) for details.
80633644623SSam Leffler
807db7f0b97SKip Macy20081121:
808db7f0b97SKip Macy	__FreeBSD_version 800054 adds memory barriers to
809db7f0b97SKip Macy	<machine/atomic.h>, new interfaces to ifnet to facilitate
810db7f0b97SKip Macy	multiple hardware transmit queues for cards that support
811db7f0b97SKip Macy	them, and a lock-less ring-buffer implementation to
812db7f0b97SKip Macy	enable drivers to more efficiently manage queueing of
813db7f0b97SKip Macy	packets.
814db7f0b97SKip Macy
815de2e1b35SXin LI20081117:
816de2e1b35SXin LI	A new version of ZFS (version 13) has been merged to -HEAD.
817de3a91a0SXin LI	This version has zpool attribute "listsnapshots" off by
818de3a91a0SXin LI	default, which means "zfs list" does not show snapshots,
819de2e1b35SXin LI	and is the same as Solaris behavior.
820de2e1b35SXin LI
82102d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin20081028:
82202d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin	dummynet(4) ABI has changed. ipfw(8) needs to be recompiled.
82302d09f79SOleg Bulyzhin
824e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy20081009:
825d8135f4aSNick Hibma	The uhci, ohci, ehci and slhci USB Host controller drivers have
826d8135f4aSNick Hibma	been put into separate modules. If you load the usb module
827d8135f4aSNick Hibma	separately through loader.conf you will need to load the
828d8135f4aSNick Hibma	appropriate *hci module as well. E.g. for a UHCI-based USB 2.0
829d8135f4aSNick Hibma	controller add the following to loader.conf:
830d8135f4aSNick Hibma
831d8135f4aSNick Hibma		uhci_load="YES"
832d8135f4aSNick Hibma		ehci_load="YES"
833d8135f4aSNick Hibma
834d8135f4aSNick Hibma20081009:
835e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	The ABI used by the PMC toolset has changed.  Please keep
836e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	userland (libpmc(3)) and the kernel module (hwpmc(4)) in
837e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy	sync.
838e91c7c81SJoseph Koshy
839b868265dSAlexander Motin20081009:
840b868265dSAlexander Motin	atapci kernel module now includes only generic PCI ATA
841b868265dSAlexander Motin	driver. AHCI driver moved to ataahci kernel module.
842b868265dSAlexander Motin	All vendor-specific code moved into separate kernel modules:
843b868265dSAlexander Motin	ataacard, ataacerlabs, ataadaptec, ataamd, ataati, atacenatek,
844b868265dSAlexander Motin	atacypress, atacyrix, atahighpoint, ataintel, ataite, atajmicron,
845b868265dSAlexander Motin	atamarvell, atamicron, atanational, atanetcell, atanvidia,
846b868265dSAlexander Motin	atapromise, ataserverworks, atasiliconimage, atasis, atavia
847b868265dSAlexander Motin
848bc093719SEd Schouten20080820:
849bc093719SEd Schouten	The TTY subsystem of the kernel has been replaced by a new
850bc093719SEd Schouten	implementation, which provides better scalability and an
851bc093719SEd Schouten	improved driver model. Most common drivers have been migrated to
852bc093719SEd Schouten	the new TTY subsystem, while others have not. The following
853bc093719SEd Schouten	drivers have not yet been ported to the new TTY layer:
854bc093719SEd Schouten
855bc093719SEd Schouten	PCI/ISA:
85666e7dc38SEd Schouten		cy, digi, rc, rp, sio
857bc093719SEd Schouten
858bc093719SEd Schouten	USB:
85966e7dc38SEd Schouten		ubser, ucycom
860bc093719SEd Schouten
861bc093719SEd Schouten	Line disciplines:
862bc093719SEd Schouten		ng_h4, ng_tty, ppp, sl, snp
863bc093719SEd Schouten
864bc093719SEd Schouten	Adding these drivers to your kernel configuration file shall
865bc093719SEd Schouten	cause compilation to fail.
866bc093719SEd Schouten
8679d965219SOllivier Robert20080818:
8689d965219SOllivier Robert	ntpd has been upgraded to 4.2.4p5.
8699d965219SOllivier Robert
870eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav20080801:
871eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	OpenSSH has been upgraded to 5.1p1.
872eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
873eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	For many years, FreeBSD's version of OpenSSH preferred DSA
874eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	over RSA for host and user authentication keys.  With this
875eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	upgrade, we've switched to the vendor's default of RSA over
876eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	DSA.  This may cause upgraded clients to warn about unknown
877eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	host keys even for previously known hosts.  Users should
878eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	follow the usual procedure for verifying host keys before
879eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	accepting the RSA key.
880eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
881eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	This can be circumvented by setting the "HostKeyAlgorithms"
882eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	option to "ssh-dss,ssh-rsa" in ~/.ssh/config or on the ssh
883eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav	command line.
884eaeb50d4SDag-Erling Smørgrav
885737d990aSXin LI	Please note that the sequence of keys offered for
886737d990aSXin LI	authentication has been changed as well.  You may want to
887737d990aSXin LI	specify IdentityFile in a different order to revert this
888737d990aSXin LI	behavior.
889737d990aSXin LI
890f4d811f0SEd Schouten20080713:
891f4d811f0SEd Schouten	The sio(4) driver has been removed from the i386 and amd64
892f4d811f0SEd Schouten	kernel configuration files. This means uart(4) is now the
893f4d811f0SEd Schouten	default serial port driver on those platforms as well.
894f4d811f0SEd Schouten
895f4d811f0SEd Schouten	To prevent collisions with the sio(4) driver, the uart(4) driver
896f4d811f0SEd Schouten	uses different names for its device nodes. This means the
897f4d811f0SEd Schouten	onboard serial port will now most likely be called "ttyu0"
898f4d811f0SEd Schouten	instead of "ttyd0". You may need to reconfigure applications to
899f4d811f0SEd Schouten	use the new device names.
900f4d811f0SEd Schouten
901db96ec0bSEd Schouten	When using the serial port as a boot console, be sure to update
902db96ec0bSEd Schouten	/boot/device.hints and /etc/ttys before booting the new kernel.
903db96ec0bSEd Schouten	If you forget to do so, you can still manually specify the hints
904db96ec0bSEd Schouten	at the loader prompt:
905db96ec0bSEd Schouten
906db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.at="isa"
907db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8"
908db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.flags="0x10"
909db96ec0bSEd Schouten		set hint.uart.0.irq="4"
910db96ec0bSEd Schouten		boot -s
911db96ec0bSEd Schouten
912bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar20080609:
913bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar	The gpt(8) utility has been removed. Use gpart(8) to partition
914bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar	disks instead.
915bdc03b37SMarcel Moolenaar
91627f7c387SRoman Divacky20080603:
917a47444d5SRoman Divacky	The version that Linuxulator emulates was changed from 2.4.2
918a47444d5SRoman Divacky	to 2.6.16. If you experience any problems with Linux binaries
919a47444d5SRoman Divacky	please try to set sysctl compat.linux.osrelease to 2.4.2 and
920a47444d5SRoman Divacky	if it fixes the problem contact emulation mailing list.
921a47444d5SRoman Divacky
9222e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb20080525:
9232e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb	ISDN4BSD (I4B) was removed from the src tree. You may need to
9242e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb	update a your kernel configuration and remove relevant entries.
9252e598474SBjoern A. Zeeb
9264dcedde3SJulian Elischer20080509:
9274dcedde3SJulian Elischer	I have checked in code to support multiple routing tables.
928032e0bf8SMaxim Konovalov	See the man pages setfib(1) and setfib(2).
9294dcedde3SJulian Elischer	This is a hopefully backwards compatible version,
9304dcedde3SJulian Elischer	but to make use of it you need to compile your kernel
9314dcedde3SJulian Elischer	with options ROUTETABLES=2 (or more up to 16).
9324dcedde3SJulian Elischer
933de570baaSSam Leffler20080420:
934de570baaSSam Leffler	The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss
935de570baaSSam Leffler	operation on devices that are capable.  The underlying device
936de570baaSSam Leffler	is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are
937de570baaSSam Leffler	cloned with ifconfig.  This requires changes to rc.conf files.
9385318f840SWarner Losh	For example, change:
9395318f840SWarner Losh		ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP"
9405318f840SWarner Losh	to
9415318f840SWarner Losh		wlans_ath0=wlan0
9425318f840SWarner Losh		ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
9430f95e625SWarner Losh	see rc.conf(5) for more details.  In addition, mergemaster of
9440f95e625SWarner Losh	/etc/rc.d is highly recommended.  Simultaneous update of userland
9450f95e625SWarner Losh	and kernel wouldn't hurt either.
946de570baaSSam Leffler
947de570baaSSam Leffler	As part of the multi-bss changes the wlan_scan_ap and wlan_scan_sta
948de570baaSSam Leffler	modules were merged into the base wlan module.  All references
949de570baaSSam Leffler	to these modules (e.g. in kernel config files) must be removed.
950de570baaSSam Leffler
951ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim20080408:
952ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	psm(4) has gained write(2) support in native operation level.
953ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	Arbitrary commands can be written to /dev/psm%d and status can
954ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	be read back from it.  Therefore, an application is responsible
955ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	for status validation and error recovery.  It is a no-op in
956ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim	other operation levels.
957ff0af72cSJung-uk Kim
958e4c67b94SJeff Roberson20080312:
959e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	Support for KSE threading has been removed from the kernel.  To
960e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	run legacy applications linked against KSE libmap.conf may
961e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	be used.  The following libmap.conf may be used to ensure
962e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	compatibility with any prior release:
963e4c67b94SJeff Roberson
964e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libpthread.so.1 libthr.so.1
965e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2
966e4c67b94SJeff Roberson	libkse.so.3 libthr.so.3
967e4c67b94SJeff Roberson
9688775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar20080301:
9698775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	The layout of struct vmspace has changed. This affects libkvm
9708775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	and any executables that link against libkvm and use the
9718775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	kvm_getprocs() function. In particular, but not exclusively,
9728775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	it affects ps(1), fstat(1), pkill(1), systat(1), top(1) and w(1).
9738775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	The effects are minimal, but it's advisable to upgrade world
9748775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar	nonetheless.
9758775db6fSMarcel Moolenaar
976df09ebc0SJack F Vogel20080229:
977df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	The latest em driver no longer has support in it for the
978df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	82575 adapter, this is now moved to the igb driver. The
979df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	split was done to make new features that are incompatible
980df09ebc0SJack F Vogel	with older hardware easier to do.
981df09ebc0SJack F Vogel
9821669d8afSAndrew Thompson20080220:
9831669d8afSAndrew Thompson	The new geom_lvm(4) geom class has been renamed to geom_linux_lvm(4),
9841669d8afSAndrew Thompson	likewise the kernel option is now GEOM_LINUX_LVM.
9851669d8afSAndrew Thompson
9862427fa19SKris Kennaway20080211:
9872427fa19SKris Kennaway	The default NFS mount mode has changed from UDP to TCP for
9882427fa19SKris Kennaway	increased reliability.  If you rely on (insecurely) NFS
9892427fa19SKris Kennaway	mounting across a firewall you may need to update your
9902427fa19SKris Kennaway	firewall rules.
9912427fa19SKris Kennaway
9925e9f6b73SSam Leffler20080208:
9935e9f6b73SSam Leffler	Belatedly note the addition of m_collapse for compacting
9945e9f6b73SSam Leffler	mbuf chains.
9955e9f6b73SSam Leffler
99648aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy20080126:
99748aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	The fts(3) structures have been changed to use adequate
99848aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	integer types for their members and so to be able to cope
99948aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	with huge file trees.  The old fts(3) ABI is preserved
100048aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	through symbol versioning in libc, so third-party binaries
100148aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	using fts(3) should still work, although they will not take
100248aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	advantage of the extended types.  At the same time, some
100348aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	third-party software might fail to build after this change
100448aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	due to unportable assumptions made in its source code about
100548aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	fts(3) structure members.  Such software should be fixed
100648aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	by its vendor or, in the worst case, in the ports tree.
100748aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	FreeBSD_version 800015 marks this change for the unlikely
100848aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy	case that a portable fix is impossible.
100948aaad5fSYaroslav Tykhiy
101051dc1e12SRuslan Ermilov20080123:
10118015f45cSWarner Losh	To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running
101251dc1e12SRuslan Ermilov	FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE.  Upgrading to -current
10138015f45cSWarner Losh	from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems.
10148015f45cSWarner Losh
1015ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato20071128:
1016ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato	The ADAPTIVE_GIANT kernel option has been retired because its
1017ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato	functionality is the default now.
1018ab4a2c41SMatteo Riondato
1019e393af84SMarius Strobl20071118:
1020e393af84SMarius Strobl	The AT keyboard emulation of sunkbd(4) has been turned on
1021e393af84SMarius Strobl	by default. In order to make the special symbols of the Sun
1022e393af84SMarius Strobl	keyboards driven by sunkbd(4) work under X these now have
1023e393af84SMarius Strobl	to be configured the same way as Sun USB keyboards driven
1024e393af84SMarius Strobl	by ukbd(4) (which also does AT keyboard emulation), f.e.:
1025e393af84SMarius Strobl
1026e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbLayout" "us"
1027e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbRules" "xorg"
1028e393af84SMarius Strobl	Option	"XkbSymbols" "pc(pc105)+sun_vndr/usb(sun_usb)+us"
1029e393af84SMarius Strobl
103033d3fffaSMarius Strobl20071024:
103133d3fffaSMarius Strobl	It has been decided that it is desirable to provide ABI
103233d3fffaSMarius Strobl	backwards compatibility to the FreeBSD 4/5/6 versions of the
103333d3fffaSMarius Strobl	PCIOCGETCONF, PCIOCREAD and PCIOCWRITE IOCTLs, which was
103433d3fffaSMarius Strobl	broken with the introduction of PCI domain support (see the
103533d3fffaSMarius Strobl	20070930 entry). Unfortunately, this required the ABI of
103633d3fffaSMarius Strobl	PCIOCGETCONF to be broken again in order to be able to
103733d3fffaSMarius Strobl	provide backwards compatibility to the old version of that
103833d3fffaSMarius Strobl	IOCTL. Thus consumers of PCIOCGETCONF have to be recompiled
103933d3fffaSMarius Strobl	again. As for prominent ports this affects neither pciutils
104033d3fffaSMarius Strobl	nor xorg-server this time, the hal port needs to be rebuilt
104133d3fffaSMarius Strobl	however.
104233d3fffaSMarius Strobl
10433d461febSJulian Elischer20071020:
10443d461febSJulian Elischer	The misnamed kthread_create() and friends have been renamed
10453d461febSJulian Elischer	to kproc_create() etc. Many of the callers already
10463d461febSJulian Elischer	used kproc_start()..
10473d461febSJulian Elischer	I will return kthread_create() and friends in a while
10483d461febSJulian Elischer	with implementations that actually create threads, not procs.
10493d461febSJulian Elischer	Renaming corresponds with version 800002.
10503d461febSJulian Elischer
1051c15e0967SKen Smith20071010:
1052c15e0967SKen Smith	RELENG_7 branched.
1053c15e0967SKen Smith
1054dc0dbf5cSWarner LoshCOMMON ITEMS:
1055dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
1056a24eff53SWarner Losh	General Notes
1057a24eff53SWarner Losh	-------------
1058456b5dd8SWarner Losh	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1059456b5dd8SWarner Losh	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
10601733d35cSRuslan Ermilov	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1061456b5dd8SWarner Losh	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1062456b5dd8SWarner Losh	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1063456b5dd8SWarner Losh	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1064456b5dd8SWarner Losh	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1065a24eff53SWarner Losh
10665780f3baSWarner Losh	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
10675780f3baSWarner Losh	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1068456b5dd8SWarner Losh	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1069456b5dd8SWarner Losh	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1070456b5dd8SWarner Losh	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
10715780f3baSWarner Losh
1072456b5dd8SWarner Losh	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best
1073456b5dd8SWarner Losh	to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first,
1074456b5dd8SWarner Losh	then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade
1075456b5dd8SWarner Losh	path, and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try
1076456b5dd8SWarner Losh	this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade.
1077081ff8acSDoug Barton
10788fc25799SMartin Matuska	ZFS notes
10798fc25799SMartin Matuska	---------
10808fc25799SMartin Matuska	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
10818fc25799SMartin Matuska	these two steps:
10828fc25799SMartin Matuska
10838fc25799SMartin Matuska	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
10848fc25799SMartin Matuska	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
10858fc25799SMartin Matuska
10868fc25799SMartin Matuska	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
10878fc25799SMartin Matuska
10888fc25799SMartin Matuska	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
10898fc25799SMartin Matuska	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ad0:
10908fc25799SMartin Matuska	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0"
10918fc25799SMartin Matuska
10928fc25799SMartin Matuska	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
10938fc25799SMartin Matuska
1094dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh	To build a kernel
1095dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh	-----------------
1096ba01eb20SWarner Losh	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
10971cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
10981cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
10991cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien
11001cf0ef11SDavid E. O'Brien	make kernel-toolchain
1101282e0f01SRuslan Ermilov	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1102282e0f01SRuslan Ermilov	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1103dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
11042e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	To test a kernel once
11052e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	---------------------
11062e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
11072e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
11082e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	debugging information) run
11092e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
11102e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger	nextboot -k testkernel
11112e937dd6SAlexander Leidinger
1112ba01eb20SWarner Losh	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1113ba01eb20SWarner Losh	--------------------------------------------------------------
1114456b5dd8SWarner Losh	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
11150fbd2da9SKen Smith	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1116456b5dd8SWarner Losh	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
11170fbd2da9SKen Smith
11180fbd2da9SKen Smith	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
111947d0d01fSWarner Losh	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
11200fbd2da9SKen Smith	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1121ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make depend
1122ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make
1123ba01eb20SWarner Losh	make install
1124ba01eb20SWarner Losh
1125ba01eb20SWarner Losh	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1126ba01eb20SWarner Losh
1127ba01eb20SWarner Losh	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1128ba01eb20SWarner Losh	-----------------------------------------------------------
112963cb445eSWarner Losh	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
113063cb445eSWarner Losh	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
113163cb445eSWarner Losh
1132f643de42SWarner Losh	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
113363cb445eSWarner Losh	make buildworld
11346586253aSWarner Losh	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
113563cb445eSWarner Losh							[1]
113663cb445eSWarner Losh	<reboot in single user>				[3]
113763cb445eSWarner Losh	mergemaster -p					[5]
113863cb445eSWarner Losh	make installworld
1139e2a36081SAlexander Leidinger	make delete-old
114050e8eca6SDoug Barton	mergemaster -i					[4]
114163cb445eSWarner Losh	<reboot>
114263cb445eSWarner Losh
1143759f0aefSWarner Losh
1144f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1145f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	--------------------------------------------------
1146f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1147f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1148f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1149f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	# size.
1150f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
1151f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1152f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<boot into -stable>
1153f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	make buildworld
11543ecf3bddSRuslan Ermilov	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1155f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1156f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1157f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
11582d5cde04SRuslan Ermilov	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
11593ecf3bddSRuslan Ermilov	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1160f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1161f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1162f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<reboot into current>
1163f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1164737d990aSXin LI	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1165f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	<reboot>
1166f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
1167f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy
1168456b5dd8SWarner Losh	To upgrade in-place from 8.x-stable to current
1169f27b1fceSJoseph Koshy	----------------------------------------------
1170f643de42SWarner Losh	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
117121c075eaSWarner Losh	make buildworld					[9]
1172e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1173fc8c157fSWarner Losh							[1]
1174fc8c157fSWarner Losh	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1175835284beSWarner Losh	mergemaster -p					[5]
1176ba26da8eSWarner Losh	make installworld
1177e2a36081SAlexander Leidinger	make delete-old
1178802fc49dSBrian Feldman	mergemaster -i					[4]
1179ba26da8eSWarner Losh	<reboot>
1180ba26da8eSWarner Losh
1181fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1182fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1183fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1184fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1185fdb9f54dSWarner Losh	the UPDATING entries.
1186ba26da8eSWarner Losh
11871dece4a9SWarner Losh	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
11881dece4a9SWarner Losh	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
11891dece4a9SWarner Losh	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
11901dece4a9SWarner Losh	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
11911dece4a9SWarner Losh	much fewer pitfalls.
11921dece4a9SWarner Losh
1193134d2e86SWarner Losh	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1194134d2e86SWarner Losh	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1195134d2e86SWarner Losh	system on reboot.
1196134d2e86SWarner Losh
1197ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1198ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		fsck -p
1199ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		mount -u /
1200ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh		mount -a
12016586253aSWarner Losh		cd src
120247d0d01fSWarner Losh		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1203f6a0ef01SWarner Losh	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1204f6a0ef01SWarner Losh	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1205ee6e1fc3SWarner Losh
1206a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1207a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1208a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1209a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1210a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
121150e8eca6SDoug Barton	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
121250e8eca6SDoug Barton	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1213a6cd4f9dSWarner Losh
1214835284beSWarner Losh	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1215835284beSWarner Losh	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1216835284beSWarner Losh	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1217835284beSWarner Losh	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1218835284beSWarner Losh	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
1219835284beSWarner Losh	from current before 20020224 or from -stable before 20020408.
1220835284beSWarner Losh
1221456b5dd8SWarner Losh	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
1222456b5dd8SWarner Losh	do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
1223456b5dd8SWarner Losh	your kernel.  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1224456b5dd8SWarner Losh	hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
1225456b5dd8SWarner Losh	required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels.  And so on
1226456b5dd8SWarner Losh	for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
1227c74fe6afSWarner Losh
1228e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1229e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1230e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
123121c075eaSWarner Losh	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1232e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	cvs prune empty directories.
1233e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
1234e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1235e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1236e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1237e5dc5f61SWarner Losh
1238e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1239e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1240e5dc5f61SWarner Losh	warn if it is improperly defined.
1241dc0dbf5cSWarner LoshFORMAT:
1242dc0dbf5cSWarner Losh
1243f699bbbbSMark OvensThis file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
12441fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current.  Not all things will be listed here,
12458ce4cbbfSWarner Loshand it only starts on October 16, 2004.  Updating files can found in
1246f8ab1dd6SWarner Loshprevious releases if your system is older than this.
12471fc1a0dcSWarner Losh
1248e72fd46aSWarner LoshCopyright information:
1249e72fd46aSWarner Losh
1250456b5dd8SWarner LoshCopyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh.  All Rights Reserved.
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