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157199806SWarner LoshUpdating Information for FreeBSD current users
253dfde79SWarner Losh
3f8c77507SWarner LoshThis file is maintained by imp@village.org.  Please send new entries
4ea31d04dSWarner Loshdirectly to him.  See end of file for further details.
5ea31d04dSWarner Losh
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$FreeBSD$
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