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 6f3a0785bSWarner Losh20000107: 7f3a0785bSWarner Losh chown & chgrp moved again 8f3a0785bSWarner Losh 9f3a0785bSWarner Losh This is a heads up to let you know that you need to 10f6517190SWarner Losh rm -f /sbin/chown /bin/chgrp 11f3a0785bSWarner Losh after your next `make world'. Additionally you need to install 12f3a0785bSWarner Losh a new /dev/MAKEDEV (mergmaster(8) will assist you in this). 13f3a0785bSWarner Losh 14f3a0785bSWarner Losh20000107: 15f3a0785bSWarner Losh SHA-1 password support gone 16f3a0785bSWarner Losh 17f3a0785bSWarner Losh As warned yesterday, I've just removed the ability for 18f3a0785bSWarner Losh libcrypt to understand SHA-1 passwords. This was present but 19f3a0785bSWarner Losh undocumented in the tree for the past few months and was 20f3a0785bSWarner Losh removed so it can be reimplemented properly as part of a 21f3a0785bSWarner Losh revamped libcrypt at a later date. Anyone who was actually 22f3a0785bSWarner Losh making use of the feature will have to update their passwords 23f3a0785bSWarner Losh back to MD5 before they reinstall the library. 24f3a0785bSWarner Losh 25f3a0785bSWarner Losh20000106: 26f3a0785bSWarner Losh ioctl numbers changed for dvdio ioctls. You will need to recompile 27f3a0785bSWarner Losh anything that uses them. wormcontrol has been depreicated in 28f3a0785bSWarner Losh favor of burncd. 29f3a0785bSWarner Losh 300a3f3aa2SWarner Losh19991223: 310a3f3aa2SWarner Losh Building linux and svr4 compatibility into the kernel now 320a3f3aa2SWarner Losh requires /usr/bin/genassym. Go to /usr/src/usr.bin/genassym, 330a3f3aa2SWarner Losh do "make obj ; make clean depend all install" before building 340a3f3aa2SWarner Losh your kernel. 350a3f3aa2SWarner Losh 365525aae6SWarner Losh19991218: 375525aae6SWarner Losh sendmail.cf has moved from /etc/sendmail.cf to 380a3f3aa2SWarner Losh /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. You may need to adjust /etc/rc.conf 390a3f3aa2SWarner Losh and /etc/rc to cope as well as moving sendmail.cf. 405525aae6SWarner Losh 415525aae6SWarner Losh19991216: 420a3f3aa2SWarner Losh ntp 4.0.98 has replaced the ancient xntpd. The daemon name 435525aae6SWarner Losh changed from xntpd to ntpd, so you may need to update your 445525aae6SWarner Losh /etc/rc.conf file. The ntp.conf files are compatible with the 455525aae6SWarner Losh old release, unless you are using a local reference clock. 465525aae6SWarner Losh Details about ntp4 can be found at http://www.ntp.org/. 475525aae6SWarner Losh 485525aae6SWarner Losh xntpd will be cvs removed from the repo in about a week. 495525aae6SWarner Losh 50fda36f2fSWarner Losh19991213: 51fda36f2fSWarner Losh Soren updated the ata driver. Please update to at least this 52fda36f2fSWarner Losh version before submitting bug reports. 53fda36f2fSWarner Losh 54fda36f2fSWarner Losh19991210: 55fda36f2fSWarner Losh The ata driver has become the primary ata/ide/atapi driver in 56fda36f2fSWarner Losh the kernel. The wd driver is obsolete. You should upgrade your 57fda36f2fSWarner Losh machine to the new ata driver. You will need to follow the 58fda36f2fSWarner Losh directions for updating the devices in the 19991205 entry. You 59fda36f2fSWarner Losh will need to update all occurances of wd to ad in your config files 60fda36f2fSWarner Losh (/etc/rc.conf, /etc/fstab, etc). A compatibility device exists 61fda36f2fSWarner Losh for wd for the time being, but once you have determined that 62fda36f2fSWarner Losh ata is working for you, transition to the new ad devices. 63fda36f2fSWarner Losh 64e306923fSPoul-Henning Kamp19991205: 65eeef0dd1SWarner Losh Block devices are going away. You will need to update your /dev 66a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh tree with a fresh copy of MAKEDEV for things to always work in 67a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh the future. fsck is unable to cope with dirty file systems 68a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh after this change, so it may work for you or it may not. 69a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh 70a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh MAKEDEV should be copied from src/etc/MAKEDEV to /dev before 71a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh starting the following: 72a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh 73a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh For N in the list of disks 74fda36f2fSWarner Losh MAKEDEV N # eg ad0 75a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh for M in the list of slices 76fda36f2fSWarner Losh MAKEDEV NsMa # eg ad0s1a 77a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh 78a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh *** All uses of block devices must be converted to char devices. 79a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh *** Likely the only thing impacted is dumpdev in /etc/rc.conf 80a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh 81a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh19991204: 82fda36f2fSWarner Losh The dc interface has replaced al, ax, dm, pn and mx. The former 83fda36f2fSWarner Losh have been removed. 84fda36f2fSWarner Losh 85fda36f2fSWarner Losh19991204: 86a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh Support for the old 'sd' device names has been removed in 87a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh favor of 'da'. Please update your /etc/fstab, /etc/rc.conf 88a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh and any other places you might have sd names cached. 89a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh Generally these changes are as simple as s=/dev/sd=/dev/da=g, 90a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh but be careful to make sure that things are really that 91a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh simple. You may also need to create /dev entries for the da 92a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh devices as well. 93a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh 94a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh MAKEDEV should be copied from src/etc/MAKEDEV to /dev before 95a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh starting the following: 96a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh 97a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh For N in the list of da disks on your system 98a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh MAKEDEV daN 99a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh for M in the list of slices 100a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh MAKEDEV daNsMa 101a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh19991203: 102a2e7fb9fSWarner Losh BAD144 support has been removed. Cope or replace the hardware. 103e306923fSPoul-Henning Kamp 104fda36f2fSWarner Losh19991129: 105fda36f2fSWarner Losh ALPHA users take note. All klds will need to be recompiled for 106fda36f2fSWarner Losh kernels build after this date. It is a good time to update since 107fda36f2fSWarner Losh pal.s will be going away soon. 108fda36f2fSWarner Losh 1097a92b31cSWarner Losh19991126: 1107a92b31cSWarner Losh MFS_ROOT and MFS_ROOT_SIZE are gone, replaced by MD_ROOT and 1117a92b31cSWarner Losh MD_ROOT_SIZE options in the md driver. md driver now deals with 1127a92b31cSWarner Losh the hacks. You should add md driver to kerneles that have 1137a92b31cSWarner Losh MFS_ROOT, et al. See GENERIC or LINT for details. 1147a92b31cSWarner Losh 11563f52da7SWarner Losh19991125: 11663f52da7SWarner Losh The ep changed a while ago and can no longer be used with hard 11763f52da7SWarner Losh wired addresses in the config file. 11863f52da7SWarner Losh 119fda36f2fSWarner Losh19991122: 120fda36f2fSWarner Losh The bridge drivers for sound cards have been committed. Please 121fda36f2fSWarner Losh see LINT for instructions for your card, if it still works at 122fda36f2fSWarner Losh all. 123fda36f2fSWarner Losh 1241a50e0c7SWarner Losh19991113: 1251a50e0c7SWarner Losh Gcc 2.95.2 is now the default compiler. 1261a50e0c7SWarner Losh 1270a3f3aa2SWarner Losh19991030: 1280a3f3aa2SWarner Losh /etc/radius.conf file format has changed.The format change is 1290a3f3aa2SWarner Losh as follows. Each server line in the file should now begin 1300a3f3aa2SWarner Losh with a new field containing either "auth" for RADIUS 1310a3f3aa2SWarner Losh authentication, or "acct" for RADIUS accounting. Formerly 1320a3f3aa2SWarner Losh only authentication was supported. If the first field isn't 1330a3f3aa2SWarner Losh "auth" or "acct" then the code assumes that "auth" is 1340a3f3aa2SWarner Losh intended. (That's the compatibility hack.) 1350a3f3aa2SWarner Losh 13625c3f405SWarner Losh19991015: 13725c3f405SWarner Losh PCCARD has been updated to attach pcic to the isa bus. Therefore 13825c3f405SWarner Losh you will need to modify kernel config files that have pcic/card 13925c3f405SWarner Losh in them as follows: 14025c3f405SWarner Losh controller pcic0 at isa? 14125c3f405SWarner Losh controller pcic1 at isa? 14225c3f405SWarner Losh controller card0 14325c3f405SWarner Losh 14473c86a1fSWarner Losh19990929: 14573c86a1fSWarner Losh The sigset_t datatype has been changed from an integral type 14673c86a1fSWarner Losh to a compound type and can hold 128 signals. Syscalls directly 14773c86a1fSWarner Losh or indirectly using the new sigset_t have been added as to 14820d1019bSChris Costello maintain compatibility with existing binaries. A new kernel must 14973c86a1fSWarner Losh be made and installed and booted with before a make world can 15073c86a1fSWarner Losh be done. 15173c86a1fSWarner Losh 15260dbe536SWarner Losh19990919: 15360dbe536SWarner Losh New jail syscall format requires recompilation of jail(8) with 15460dbe536SWarner Losh fresh headers installed (or a make world will do it for you). 15560dbe536SWarner Losh 15660dbe536SWarner Losh19990914: 15760dbe536SWarner Losh Matt Dillon checked in many vm related things and sent a heads up 15860dbe536SWarner Losh to -current urging caution and to report vm problems to him. 15960dbe536SWarner Losh As of the 19th, no killer problems have been reported, but you 16060dbe536SWarner Losh have been warned. 16160dbe536SWarner Losh 1625f83e348SWarner Losh19990908: 1635f83e348SWarner Losh The new miibus has been added to the system. If you are using 1645f83e348SWarner Losh the dm, rl, sf, sis, ste, tl, wb or xl drivers, you need to 1655f83e348SWarner Losh add "controller miibus0" to your config file. 1665f83e348SWarner Losh 167d9806965SNick Hibma19990905: 168d9806965SNick Hibma /var/cron/log has been moved to /var/log/cron to get all the 169d9806965SNick Hibma log files in one place. 1705f83e348SWarner Losh 17130e90e8bSWarner Losh19990831: 17263f52da7SWarner Losh tn3270 has been removed from the base system and added as a port. 17330e90e8bSWarner Losh 174f8a59eaeSWarner Losh19990830: 175f8a59eaeSWarner Losh User-visible TCP timers are now expressed in units of 1ms, instead 176f8a59eaeSWarner Losh of 500ms, so if you've customized any timer values under 177f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ``net.inet.tcp'', multiply them by 500 to preserve TCP's behavior. 178f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 17930e90e8bSWarner Losh19990828: 18030e90e8bSWarner Losh RCS Id tags changed to FreeBSD. This will cause huge cvsup 18130e90e8bSWarner Losh updates. 18230e90e8bSWarner Losh 183f8a59eaeSWarner Losh19990821: 184f8a59eaeSWarner Losh On 28-May-1999 libreadline was upgraded from readline-2.2 to 185f8a59eaeSWarner Losh readline-4.0. At that time the shared library major version 186f8a59eaeSWarner Losh number was bumped from "3" to "4". It has been deemed that 187f8a59eaeSWarner Losh the interface change between readline-2.2 and readline-4.0 was 18878bcb44aSBill Fumerola not sufficient to warrant the version number bump. 189f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 190f8a59eaeSWarner Losh Thus I have reverted it back to "3". You will need to perform 191f8a59eaeSWarner Losh the below immediately before your next ``make world'': 192f8a59eaeSWarner Losh cd /usr/lib 193f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ls -l libreadline.so.4 194f8a59eaeSWarner Losh (if you have /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4) 195f8a59eaeSWarner Losh mv libreadline.so.4 libreadline.so.3 196f8a59eaeSWarner Losh rm -f libreadline.so 197f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ln -s libreadline.so.3 libreadline.so 198f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 1997eedd934SWarner Losh19990801: 2007eedd934SWarner Losh Changes to the pccardd kernel interface require that you recompile 2017eedd934SWarner Losh pccardd for new kernel. 2027eedd934SWarner Losh 203882984b3SWarner Losh19980725: 204882984b3SWarner Losh The ipfw interface to the kernel has changed. You will need to 205882984b3SWarner Losh recompile ipfw programs for the new kernel. 206882984b3SWarner Losh 207882984b3SWarner Losh19990715: 208882984b3SWarner Losh The bpfilter device has been renamed to bpf. You will need to 209882984b3SWarner Losh change your config files in order to enable this in newer kernels. 210882984b3SWarner Losh 211e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990704: 212e5bd655aSWarner Losh src/contrib/sys/softupdates is moving to 21395d18cfcSWarner Losh src/sys/contrib/softupdates. Update your symbolic links/etc. 214e5bd655aSWarner Losh 215e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990702: 216e5bd655aSWarner Losh Major changes have been made to vinum and its interface. See 217e5bd655aSWarner Losh the man page (vinum(8)) for details. Look at the concat, 218e5bd655aSWarner Losh mirror and stripe commands, as well as the SIMPLIFIED 219e5bd655aSWarner Losh CONFIGURATION section. 220e5bd655aSWarner Losh 221e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990628: 222e5bd655aSWarner Losh Newsyslog.conf has had a minor, but potentially dangerous, 223e5bd655aSWarner Losh change to its username/group syntax. The old syntax was 224e5bd655aSWarner Losh user.group, while the new syntax is user:group. 225e5bd655aSWarner Losh 226e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990627: 227e5bd655aSWarner Losh Inetd wrapping default has changed. Please see the updated 228e5bd655aSWarner Losh man page for details. 229e5bd655aSWarner Losh 230ed478e7cSWarner Losh19990623: 231ed478e7cSWarner Losh Compaq Smart Raid driver committed as ida. 232ed478e7cSWarner Losh 233075eeff2SWarner Losh19990622: 234075eeff2SWarner Losh The second phase of syscons cleanup has happened. Some 235075eeff2SWarner Losh functionality has been made optional. For details, see 236075eeff2SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update-June.txt 2376ae429caSWarner Losh Everyone will need to re-config(8) their kernels, but old 2386ae429caSWarner Losh binaries will work with the new kernel. 239075eeff2SWarner Losh 240a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990620: 241a883e9d3SWarner Losh IPFW uid/gid-based filtering support has been committed. This 242a883e9d3SWarner Losh breaks binary compatibility with previous copies of 243a883e9d3SWarner Losh ipfw(8). Any utilities using the ioctl()s of ipfw (especially 244a883e9d3SWarner Losh ipfw(8)) need to be recompiled with the newest headers 245a883e9d3SWarner Losh installed. 246a883e9d3SWarner Losh 247a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990618: 248a883e9d3SWarner Losh Inetd now wraps all stream-based services, including internals. 249a883e9d3SWarner Losh Syslog "severity" options are honoured. Installed syslog.conf 250a883e9d3SWarner Losh and hosts.allow should be checked. 251a883e9d3SWarner Losh 25207b72539SWarner Losh19990509: 25307b72539SWarner Losh Most of the problems with newbus have been corrected, but 25407b72539SWarner Losh it is still current and evolving. 25507b72539SWarner Losh 25607b72539SWarner Losh libcam's ABI has changed. You must recompile the world and 25707b72539SWarner Losh any ports that use it. 25807b72539SWarner Losh 25909fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990427: 26009fcf3f9SWarner Losh Massive changes to SMP went into the tree that should speed 26109fcf3f9SWarner Losh things up. However, if you experience problems with SMP 26209fcf3f9SWarner Losh machines, you can back off to the PRE_SMP_VMSHARE tag in the 26309fcf3f9SWarner Losh CVS repository (or run an MP kernel). 26409fcf3f9SWarner Losh 26509fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990420: 26609fcf3f9SWarner Losh Pccardd and the pccard bus in general seem to be broken or 26709fcf3f9SWarner Losh most people. Soren has patches to make it better for some, 26809fcf3f9SWarner Losh but not all people. Work is underway to make it better for 26909fcf3f9SWarner Losh all people. 27009fcf3f9SWarner Losh 271ea31d04dSWarner Losh19990416: 272ea31d04dSWarner Losh new bus changes integrated into -current. Many problems were 273ea31d04dSWarner Losh initially reported, but most have been fixed. You'll need a 274ea31d04dSWarner Losh new config and to tweak your kernel config file the way that 275ea31d04dSWarner Losh GENERIC was tweaked. Keep a copy of your old kernel when 276ea31d04dSWarner Losh upgrading in case your new kernel doesn't work (and report the 277ea31d04dSWarner Losh breakage to current@freebsd.org). 278ea31d04dSWarner Losh 279ea31d04dSWarner Losh As of 19990421 the remaining problems/quirks are 280ea31d04dSWarner Losh 281ea31d04dSWarner Losh o sio no longer supports pnp nor pccard. This will be corrected, 282ea31d04dSWarner Losh but the new pccard code needs to be completed. 283ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Some of the sound drivers broke for some people. It seems 284ea31d04dSWarner Losh inconsistant as to who/what/when/where things broke. 285ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Duplicate device entries in your config do not work. Previously 286ea31d04dSWarner Losh they were silently ignored. psm0 seems to be the most common 287ea31d04dSWarner Losh duplicate choice, although some reports have come in from people 288ea31d04dSWarner Losh that wired their scsi disk entries. 289ea31d04dSWarner Losh o You must move the keyboard and mouse attachments from the 290ea31d04dSWarner Losh isa bus to the atkbdc bus. See GENERIC for details. 291ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Machines with multiple host-pci bridges (Intel 450NX) will not 292ea31d04dSWarner Losh probe the second pci bus. 293ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Some probe ordering may have changed, so device naming may change 294ea31d04dSWarner Losh with the new kernel. If you have multiple devices, please double 295ea31d04dSWarner Losh check to make sure they didn't move. This is especially true 296ea31d04dSWarner Losh for cards on different buses. 297ea31d04dSWarner Losh o The bus attachment for vga0 is always isa0 and never pci0 when 298ea31d04dSWarner Losh it is in fact a pci card. It is safe to ignore this. 299ea31d04dSWarner Losh o The format of the boot messages has changed (and is not 300ea31d04dSWarner Losh guaranteed to be constant for a while) so you may see this 301ea31d04dSWarner Losh in some shell scripts that diff dmesg from day to day as well 302ea31d04dSWarner Losh as scripts that parse dmesg output. 303f8c77507SWarner Losh 304d24adca8SWarner Losh19990414: 305d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout sometimes has problems compiling with -g, remove -g 306d24adca8SWarner Losh from those compilation units affected until this is corrected. 307d24adca8SWarner Losh 308d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout has problems with producing some threaded libraries, 309d24adca8SWarner Losh so make world -DWANT_AOUT is not functional at this time. 310d24adca8SWarner Losh 311ea31d04dSWarner Losh Since make world for a.out isn't functional, you cannot do 312ea31d04dSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf from a pre-egcs a.out system. To work around 313ea31d04dSWarner Losh this problem, make aout-to-elf using 3.1-stable first (or a 314ea31d04dSWarner Losh pre egcs -current) and then a simple make world will take you 315ea31d04dSWarner Losh the rest of the way with a -current source base. 316ea31d04dSWarner Losh 317d5ca0636SWarner Losh19990413: 318d24adca8SWarner Losh Make -j works again for make world. As always, use it with 319d24adca8SWarner Losh care, and be sure to try a make world w/o -j before reporting 320d24adca8SWarner Losh problems (that is, know if the problem exists w/o -j before 321d24adca8SWarner Losh reporting the problem with -j). 322d24adca8SWarner Losh 323d24adca8SWarner Losh19990413: 324d24adca8SWarner Losh Note cc -aout, which had been broken since the conversion to 325ea31d04dSWarner Losh egcs, now supposedly works. If you have rebuilt things like 326d24adca8SWarner Losh XFree86 a.out libraries, you should rebuild them again or 327ea31d04dSWarner Losh progams that use them, including netscape, will fail to work. 328d5ca0636SWarner Losh 3291f692d40SWarner Losh19990409: 3301f692d40SWarner Losh NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from 3311f692d40SWarner Losh the old compiler and vice versa. 3321f692d40SWarner Losh 3331f692d40SWarner Losh19990408: 33481725689SWarner Losh In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree. A number 33581725689SWarner Losh of problems have been discussed in -current. Here is a highlight 33681725689SWarner Losh of a few of the more common ones. With the exception of make 33781725689SWarner Losh -j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed. 33881725689SWarner Losh 33981725689SWarner Losh c++ is broken after make world: This is correct. Because we 34081725689SWarner Losh changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++ 34181725689SWarner Losh working again. The code generated by the old compiler and new 34281725689SWarner Losh compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being 34381725689SWarner Losh undefined. 34481725689SWarner Losh 34581725689SWarner Losh cpp is broken in make world: There was a window where cpp 34681725689SWarner Losh would be built incorrectly. The fix for this is 347420d4744SMasafumi Max NAKANE cd src/gnu/usr.bin/cc 34881725689SWarner Losh make clean 34981725689SWarner Losh make all 35081725689SWarner Losh make install 35181725689SWarner Losh and this should correct your problems. See the -current 35281725689SWarner Losh archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning. 35381725689SWarner Losh 35481725689SWarner Losh Make -j n doesn't work. Work contiunes to make this work, 35581725689SWarner Losh I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th. 35681725689SWarner Losh 357ff5e1f79SWarner Losh19990329: 358ff5e1f79SWarner Losh Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building 359ff5e1f79SWarner Losh the legacy a.out bits. Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to 360ff5e1f79SWarner Losh build them. 361ff5e1f79SWarner Losh 362fe9af953SWarner Losh19990316: 363fe9af953SWarner Losh The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 364fe9af953SWarner Losh been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 365fe9af953SWarner Losh "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 366fe9af953SWarner Losh 367fe9af953SWarner Losh19990314: 368fe9af953SWarner Losh For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 369fe9af953SWarner Losh please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 370fe9af953SWarner Losh -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 371fe9af953SWarner Losh be fixed in the future. 372fe9af953SWarner Losh 373ce32355fSWarner Losh19990309: 374fe9af953SWarner Losh New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 375fe9af953SWarner Losh details. 376ce32355fSWarner Losh 377f8c77507SWarner Losh19990225: 378f8c77507SWarner Losh struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 379f8c77507SWarner Losh usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 3801fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 3810edeb9e7SWarner Losh19990214: 3820edeb9e7SWarner Losh The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 3837dd38e55SWarner Losh See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 3847dd38e55SWarner Losh for proper configuration details. 3850edeb9e7SWarner Losh 3861fc1a0dcSWarner Losh19990210: 3871fc1a0dcSWarner Losh The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 3880edeb9e7SWarner Losh driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 38957199806SWarner Losh 3907dd38e55SWarner Losh19990209: 3917dd38e55SWarner Losh New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 3927dd38e55SWarner Losh iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 3937dd38e55SWarner Losh make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 3947dd38e55SWarner Losh ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 3957dd38e55SWarner Losh 3969a3105eeSWarner Losh19990125: 3979a3105eeSWarner Losh Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 3989a3105eeSWarner Losh the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 3999a3105eeSWarner Losh is in order (or better yet a make world). 4009a3105eeSWarner Losh 4019a3105eeSWarner Losh19990122: 4029a3105eeSWarner Losh On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 4039a3105eeSWarner Losh blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 4049a3105eeSWarner Losh edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 4059a3105eeSWarner Losh problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 4069a3105eeSWarner Losh 4079a3105eeSWarner Losh19990121: 4088cd37f69SWarner Losh Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 4098cd37f69SWarner Losh updates, please see 4103652181cSWarner Losh 4118cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 4123652181cSWarner Losh 4138cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. 4148cd37f69SWarner Losh 4158cd37f69SWarner Losh Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 4168cd37f69SWarner Losh information please see 4173652181cSWarner Losh 4188cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 4198cd37f69SWarner Losh or 4208cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 4213652181cSWarner Losh 4228cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 4238cd37f69SWarner Losh but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 4248cd37f69SWarner Losh 4258cd37f69SWarner Losh19990120: 4268cd37f69SWarner Losh Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 4278cd37f69SWarner Losh branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 4288cd37f69SWarner Losh 429ad56ea87SWarner Losh19990119: 430ad56ea87SWarner Losh More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 431ad56ea87SWarner Losh files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 432ad56ea87SWarner Losh and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 433ad56ea87SWarner Losh config file changes are needed. 434ad56ea87SWarner Losh 43557199806SWarner Losh19990111: 436a85c0f55SWarner Losh New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 437a85c0f55SWarner Losh stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 438a85c0f55SWarner Losh update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 439a85c0f55SWarner Losh kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 440a85c0f55SWarner Losh The instruction can be found in 44157199806SWarner Losh 4427dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 44357199806SWarner Losh 444a85c0f55SWarner Losh It has notes on splash screen too. 44557199806SWarner Losh 44657199806SWarner Losh19990106: 4479857e582SWarner Losh Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 448db23c94fSWarner Losh install the new bootblocks: 44957199806SWarner Losh 4507dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 45157199806SWarner Losh 4529ba54ae0SWarner Losh When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 4539ba54ae0SWarner Losh /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 4549ba54ae0SWarner Losh elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 4559857e582SWarner Losh messages about being unable to find library files. The 4569857e582SWarner Losh mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 4579857e582SWarner Losh keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 4589857e582SWarner Losh recommended. 45957199806SWarner Losh 46057199806SWarner Losh19990104: 4612c558794SWarner Losh Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 46257199806SWarner Losh 4637dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 46457199806SWarner Losh 4652c558794SWarner Losh about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 4662c558794SWarner Losh for doing the upgrade. 46757199806SWarner Losh 46857199806SWarner Losh19981230: 469d5513f53SWarner Losh You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 470e363c17bSWarner Losh become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 471e363c17bSWarner Losh your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 472e363c17bSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 473e363c17bSWarner Losh a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 474e363c17bSWarner Losh continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 475e363c17bSWarner Losh for more details. 47657199806SWarner Losh 47757199806SWarner Losh19981224: 478355edc3eSWarner Losh The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 479355edc3eSWarner Losh driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 480355edc3eSWarner Losh this in your configuration files. 48157199806SWarner Losh 482355edc3eSWarner Losh Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 483355edc3eSWarner Losh configured" at boot time. 48457199806SWarner Losh 485355edc3eSWarner Losh The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 486355edc3eSWarner Losh with no replacement driver. 48757199806SWarner Losh 48857199806SWarner Losh19981202: 489ab308df6SWarner Losh New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 490ab308df6SWarner Losh aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 49157199806SWarner Losh 49257199806SWarner Losh19981201: 493ab308df6SWarner Losh New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 494ab308df6SWarner Losh src/etc/group: 495ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 496ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53: 497ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 498ab308df6SWarner Losh tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 499ab308df6SWarner Losh kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 500ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 50157199806SWarner Losh 50257199806SWarner Losh19981118: 50353dfde79SWarner Losh PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 50453dfde79SWarner Losh to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 50553dfde79SWarner Losh See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 50657199806SWarner Losh 5071fc1a0dcSWarner LoshThis file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 5081fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 50960dbe536SWarner Loshand it only starts on November 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 5101fc1a0dcSWarner Loshversion of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 5111fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 512f8c77507SWarner LoshPlease filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 513f8c77507SWarner Loshthe style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 514f8c77507SWarner Losh 51597d92980SPeter Wemm$FreeBSD$ 516