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 6f8a59eaeSWarner Losh19990830: 7f8a59eaeSWarner Losh User-visible TCP timers are now expressed in units of 1ms, instead 8f8a59eaeSWarner Losh of 500ms, so if you've customized any timer values under 9f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ``net.inet.tcp'', multiply them by 500 to preserve TCP's behavior. 10f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 11f8a59eaeSWarner Losh19990821: 12f8a59eaeSWarner Losh On 28-May-1999 libreadline was upgraded from readline-2.2 to 13f8a59eaeSWarner Losh readline-4.0. At that time the shared library major version 14f8a59eaeSWarner Losh number was bumped from "3" to "4". It has been deemed that 15f8a59eaeSWarner Losh the interface change between readline-2.2 and readline-4.0 was 16f8a59eaeSWarner Losh not suffient to warrant the version number bump. 17f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 18f8a59eaeSWarner Losh Thus I have reverted it back to "3". You will need to perform 19f8a59eaeSWarner Losh the below immediately before your next ``make world'': 20f8a59eaeSWarner Losh cd /usr/lib 21f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ls -l libreadline.so.4 22f8a59eaeSWarner Losh (if you have /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4) 23f8a59eaeSWarner Losh mv libreadline.so.4 libreadline.so.3 24f8a59eaeSWarner Losh rm -f libreadline.so 25f8a59eaeSWarner Losh ln -s libreadline.so.3 libreadline.so 26f8a59eaeSWarner Losh 277eedd934SWarner Losh19990801: 287eedd934SWarner Losh Changes to the pccardd kernel interface require that you recompile 297eedd934SWarner Losh pccardd for new kernel. 307eedd934SWarner Losh 31882984b3SWarner Losh19980725: 32882984b3SWarner Losh The ipfw interface to the kernel has changed. You will need to 33882984b3SWarner Losh recompile ipfw programs for the new kernel. 34882984b3SWarner Losh 35882984b3SWarner Losh19990715: 36882984b3SWarner Losh The bpfilter device has been renamed to bpf. You will need to 37882984b3SWarner Losh change your config files in order to enable this in newer kernels. 38882984b3SWarner Losh 39e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990704: 40e5bd655aSWarner Losh src/contrib/sys/softupdates is moving to 4195d18cfcSWarner Losh src/sys/contrib/softupdates. Update your symbolic links/etc. 42e5bd655aSWarner Losh 43e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990702: 44e5bd655aSWarner Losh Major changes have been made to vinum and its interface. See 45e5bd655aSWarner Losh the man page (vinum(8)) for details. Look at the concat, 46e5bd655aSWarner Losh mirror and stripe commands, as well as the SIMPLIFIED 47e5bd655aSWarner Losh CONFIGURATION section. 48e5bd655aSWarner Losh 49e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990628: 50e5bd655aSWarner Losh Newsyslog.conf has had a minor, but potentially dangerous, 51e5bd655aSWarner Losh change to its username/group syntax. The old syntax was 52e5bd655aSWarner Losh user.group, while the new syntax is user:group. 53e5bd655aSWarner Losh 54e5bd655aSWarner Losh19990627: 55e5bd655aSWarner Losh Inetd wrapping default has changed. Please see the updated 56e5bd655aSWarner Losh man page for details. 57e5bd655aSWarner Losh 58ed478e7cSWarner Losh19990623: 59ed478e7cSWarner Losh Compaq Smart Raid driver committed as ida. 60ed478e7cSWarner Losh 61075eeff2SWarner Losh19990622: 62075eeff2SWarner Losh The second phase of syscons cleanup has happened. Some 63075eeff2SWarner Losh functionality has been made optional. For details, see 64075eeff2SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update-June.txt 656ae429caSWarner Losh Everyone will need to re-config(8) their kernels, but old 666ae429caSWarner Losh binaries will work with the new kernel. 67075eeff2SWarner Losh 68a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990620: 69a883e9d3SWarner Losh IPFW uid/gid-based filtering support has been committed. This 70a883e9d3SWarner Losh breaks binary compatibility with previous copies of 71a883e9d3SWarner Losh ipfw(8). Any utilities using the ioctl()s of ipfw (especially 72a883e9d3SWarner Losh ipfw(8)) need to be recompiled with the newest headers 73a883e9d3SWarner Losh installed. 74a883e9d3SWarner Losh 75a883e9d3SWarner Losh19990618: 76a883e9d3SWarner Losh Inetd now wraps all stream-based services, including internals. 77a883e9d3SWarner Losh Syslog "severity" options are honoured. Installed syslog.conf 78a883e9d3SWarner Losh and hosts.allow should be checked. 79a883e9d3SWarner Losh 8007b72539SWarner Losh19990509: 8107b72539SWarner Losh Most of the problems with newbus have been corrected, but 8207b72539SWarner Losh it is still current and evolving. 8307b72539SWarner Losh 8407b72539SWarner Losh libcam's ABI has changed. You must recompile the world and 8507b72539SWarner Losh any ports that use it. 8607b72539SWarner Losh 8709fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990427: 8809fcf3f9SWarner Losh Massive changes to SMP went into the tree that should speed 8909fcf3f9SWarner Losh things up. However, if you experience problems with SMP 9009fcf3f9SWarner Losh machines, you can back off to the PRE_SMP_VMSHARE tag in the 9109fcf3f9SWarner Losh CVS repository (or run an MP kernel). 9209fcf3f9SWarner Losh 9309fcf3f9SWarner Losh19990420: 9409fcf3f9SWarner Losh Pccardd and the pccard bus in general seem to be broken or 9509fcf3f9SWarner Losh most people. Soren has patches to make it better for some, 9609fcf3f9SWarner Losh but not all people. Work is underway to make it better for 9709fcf3f9SWarner Losh all people. 9809fcf3f9SWarner Losh 99ea31d04dSWarner Losh19990416: 100ea31d04dSWarner Losh new bus changes integrated into -current. Many problems were 101ea31d04dSWarner Losh initially reported, but most have been fixed. You'll need a 102ea31d04dSWarner Losh new config and to tweak your kernel config file the way that 103ea31d04dSWarner Losh GENERIC was tweaked. Keep a copy of your old kernel when 104ea31d04dSWarner Losh upgrading in case your new kernel doesn't work (and report the 105ea31d04dSWarner Losh breakage to current@freebsd.org). 106ea31d04dSWarner Losh 107ea31d04dSWarner Losh As of 19990421 the remaining problems/quirks are 108ea31d04dSWarner Losh 109ea31d04dSWarner Losh o sio no longer supports pnp nor pccard. This will be corrected, 110ea31d04dSWarner Losh but the new pccard code needs to be completed. 111ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Some of the sound drivers broke for some people. It seems 112ea31d04dSWarner Losh inconsistant as to who/what/when/where things broke. 113ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Duplicate device entries in your config do not work. Previously 114ea31d04dSWarner Losh they were silently ignored. psm0 seems to be the most common 115ea31d04dSWarner Losh duplicate choice, although some reports have come in from people 116ea31d04dSWarner Losh that wired their scsi disk entries. 117ea31d04dSWarner Losh o You must move the keyboard and mouse attachments from the 118ea31d04dSWarner Losh isa bus to the atkbdc bus. See GENERIC for details. 119ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Machines with multiple host-pci bridges (Intel 450NX) will not 120ea31d04dSWarner Losh probe the second pci bus. 121ea31d04dSWarner Losh o Some probe ordering may have changed, so device naming may change 122ea31d04dSWarner Losh with the new kernel. If you have multiple devices, please double 123ea31d04dSWarner Losh check to make sure they didn't move. This is especially true 124ea31d04dSWarner Losh for cards on different buses. 125ea31d04dSWarner Losh o The bus attachment for vga0 is always isa0 and never pci0 when 126ea31d04dSWarner Losh it is in fact a pci card. It is safe to ignore this. 127ea31d04dSWarner Losh o The format of the boot messages has changed (and is not 128ea31d04dSWarner Losh guaranteed to be constant for a while) so you may see this 129ea31d04dSWarner Losh in some shell scripts that diff dmesg from day to day as well 130ea31d04dSWarner Losh as scripts that parse dmesg output. 131f8c77507SWarner Losh 132d24adca8SWarner Losh19990414: 133d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout sometimes has problems compiling with -g, remove -g 134d24adca8SWarner Losh from those compilation units affected until this is corrected. 135d24adca8SWarner Losh 136d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout has problems with producing some threaded libraries, 137d24adca8SWarner Losh so make world -DWANT_AOUT is not functional at this time. 138d24adca8SWarner Losh 139ea31d04dSWarner Losh Since make world for a.out isn't functional, you cannot do 140ea31d04dSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf from a pre-egcs a.out system. To work around 141ea31d04dSWarner Losh this problem, make aout-to-elf using 3.1-stable first (or a 142ea31d04dSWarner Losh pre egcs -current) and then a simple make world will take you 143ea31d04dSWarner Losh the rest of the way with a -current source base. 144ea31d04dSWarner Losh 145d5ca0636SWarner Losh19990413: 146d24adca8SWarner Losh Make -j works again for make world. As always, use it with 147d24adca8SWarner Losh care, and be sure to try a make world w/o -j before reporting 148d24adca8SWarner Losh problems (that is, know if the problem exists w/o -j before 149d24adca8SWarner Losh reporting the problem with -j). 150d24adca8SWarner Losh 151d24adca8SWarner Losh19990413: 152d24adca8SWarner Losh Note cc -aout, which had been broken since the conversion to 153ea31d04dSWarner Losh egcs, now supposedly works. If you have rebuilt things like 154d24adca8SWarner Losh XFree86 a.out libraries, you should rebuild them again or 155ea31d04dSWarner Losh progams that use them, including netscape, will fail to work. 156d5ca0636SWarner Losh 1571f692d40SWarner Losh19990409: 1581f692d40SWarner Losh NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from 1591f692d40SWarner Losh the old compiler and vice versa. 1601f692d40SWarner Losh 1611f692d40SWarner Losh19990408: 16281725689SWarner Losh In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree. A number 16381725689SWarner Losh of problems have been discussed in -current. Here is a highlight 16481725689SWarner Losh of a few of the more common ones. With the exception of make 16581725689SWarner Losh -j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed. 16681725689SWarner Losh 16781725689SWarner Losh c++ is broken after make world: This is correct. Because we 16881725689SWarner Losh changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++ 16981725689SWarner Losh working again. The code generated by the old compiler and new 17081725689SWarner Losh compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being 17181725689SWarner Losh undefined. 17281725689SWarner Losh 17381725689SWarner Losh cpp is broken in make world: There was a window where cpp 17481725689SWarner Losh would be built incorrectly. The fix for this is 175420d4744SMasafumi Max NAKANE cd src/gnu/usr.bin/cc 17681725689SWarner Losh make clean 17781725689SWarner Losh make all 17881725689SWarner Losh make install 17981725689SWarner Losh and this should correct your problems. See the -current 18081725689SWarner Losh archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning. 18181725689SWarner Losh 18281725689SWarner Losh Make -j n doesn't work. Work contiunes to make this work, 18381725689SWarner Losh I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th. 18481725689SWarner Losh 185ff5e1f79SWarner Losh19990329: 186ff5e1f79SWarner Losh Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building 187ff5e1f79SWarner Losh the legacy a.out bits. Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to 188ff5e1f79SWarner Losh build them. 189ff5e1f79SWarner Losh 190fe9af953SWarner Losh19990316: 191fe9af953SWarner Losh The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 192fe9af953SWarner Losh been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 193fe9af953SWarner Losh "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 194fe9af953SWarner Losh 195fe9af953SWarner Losh19990314: 196fe9af953SWarner Losh For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 197fe9af953SWarner Losh please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 198fe9af953SWarner Losh -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 199fe9af953SWarner Losh be fixed in the future. 200fe9af953SWarner Losh 201ce32355fSWarner Losh19990309: 202fe9af953SWarner Losh New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 203fe9af953SWarner Losh details. 204ce32355fSWarner Losh 205f8c77507SWarner Losh19990225: 206f8c77507SWarner Losh struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 207f8c77507SWarner Losh usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 2081fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 2090edeb9e7SWarner Losh19990214: 2100edeb9e7SWarner Losh The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 2117dd38e55SWarner Losh See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 2127dd38e55SWarner Losh for proper configuration details. 2130edeb9e7SWarner Losh 2141fc1a0dcSWarner Losh19990210: 2151fc1a0dcSWarner Losh The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 2160edeb9e7SWarner Losh driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 21757199806SWarner Losh 2187dd38e55SWarner Losh19990209: 2197dd38e55SWarner Losh New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 2207dd38e55SWarner Losh iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 2217dd38e55SWarner Losh make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 2227dd38e55SWarner Losh ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 2237dd38e55SWarner Losh 2249a3105eeSWarner Losh19990125: 2259a3105eeSWarner Losh Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 2269a3105eeSWarner Losh the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 2279a3105eeSWarner Losh is in order (or better yet a make world). 2289a3105eeSWarner Losh 2299a3105eeSWarner Losh19990122: 2309a3105eeSWarner Losh On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 2319a3105eeSWarner Losh blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 2329a3105eeSWarner Losh edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 2339a3105eeSWarner Losh problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 2349a3105eeSWarner Losh 2359a3105eeSWarner Losh19990121: 2368cd37f69SWarner Losh Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 2378cd37f69SWarner Losh updates, please see 2383652181cSWarner Losh 2398cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 2403652181cSWarner Losh 2418cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. 2428cd37f69SWarner Losh 2438cd37f69SWarner Losh Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 2448cd37f69SWarner Losh information please see 2453652181cSWarner Losh 2468cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 2478cd37f69SWarner Losh or 2488cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 2493652181cSWarner Losh 2508cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 2518cd37f69SWarner Losh but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 2528cd37f69SWarner Losh 2538cd37f69SWarner Losh19990120: 2548cd37f69SWarner Losh Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 2558cd37f69SWarner Losh branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 2568cd37f69SWarner Losh 257ad56ea87SWarner Losh19990119: 258ad56ea87SWarner Losh More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 259ad56ea87SWarner Losh files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 260ad56ea87SWarner Losh and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 261ad56ea87SWarner Losh config file changes are needed. 262ad56ea87SWarner Losh 26357199806SWarner Losh19990111: 264a85c0f55SWarner Losh New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 265a85c0f55SWarner Losh stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 266a85c0f55SWarner Losh update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 267a85c0f55SWarner Losh kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 268a85c0f55SWarner Losh The instruction can be found in 26957199806SWarner Losh 2707dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 27157199806SWarner Losh 272a85c0f55SWarner Losh It has notes on splash screen too. 27357199806SWarner Losh 27457199806SWarner Losh19990106: 2759857e582SWarner Losh Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 276db23c94fSWarner Losh install the new bootblocks: 27757199806SWarner Losh 2787dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 27957199806SWarner Losh 2809ba54ae0SWarner Losh When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 2819ba54ae0SWarner Losh /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 2829ba54ae0SWarner Losh elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 2839857e582SWarner Losh messages about being unable to find library files. The 2849857e582SWarner Losh mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 2859857e582SWarner Losh keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 2869857e582SWarner Losh recommended. 28757199806SWarner Losh 28857199806SWarner Losh19990104: 2892c558794SWarner Losh Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 29057199806SWarner Losh 2917dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 29257199806SWarner Losh 2932c558794SWarner Losh about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 2942c558794SWarner Losh for doing the upgrade. 29557199806SWarner Losh 29657199806SWarner Losh19981230: 297d5513f53SWarner Losh You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 298e363c17bSWarner Losh become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 299e363c17bSWarner Losh your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 300e363c17bSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 301e363c17bSWarner Losh a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 302e363c17bSWarner Losh continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 303e363c17bSWarner Losh for more details. 30457199806SWarner Losh 30557199806SWarner Losh19981224: 306355edc3eSWarner Losh The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 307355edc3eSWarner Losh driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 308355edc3eSWarner Losh this in your configuration files. 30957199806SWarner Losh 310355edc3eSWarner Losh Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 311355edc3eSWarner Losh configured" at boot time. 31257199806SWarner Losh 313355edc3eSWarner Losh The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 314355edc3eSWarner Losh with no replacement driver. 31557199806SWarner Losh 31657199806SWarner Losh19981202: 317ab308df6SWarner Losh New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 318ab308df6SWarner Losh aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 31957199806SWarner Losh 32057199806SWarner Losh19981201: 321ab308df6SWarner Losh New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 322ab308df6SWarner Losh src/etc/group: 323ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 324ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53: 325ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 326ab308df6SWarner Losh tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 327ab308df6SWarner Losh kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 328ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 32957199806SWarner Losh 33057199806SWarner Losh19981118: 33153dfde79SWarner Losh PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 33253dfde79SWarner Losh to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 33353dfde79SWarner Losh See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 33457199806SWarner Losh 3351fc1a0dcSWarner LoshThis file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 3361fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 3371fc1a0dcSWarner Loshand it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 3381fc1a0dcSWarner Loshversion of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 3391fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 340f8c77507SWarner LoshPlease filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 341f8c77507SWarner Loshthe style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 342f8c77507SWarner Losh 34397d92980SPeter Wemm$FreeBSD$ 344