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1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users.
2
3This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>.
4See end of file for further details.  For commonly done items, please see the
5COMMON ITEMS: section later in the file.  These instructions assume that you
6basically know what you are doing.  If not, then please consult the FreeBSD
7handbook:
8
9    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
10
11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
12/usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before running portupgrade.
13
14NOTE: FreeBSD has switched from gcc to clang. If you have trouble bootstrapping
15from older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG and WITH_GCC to bootstrap to
16the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process
17from older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile.
18
19NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW:
20	FreeBSD 12.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel
21	and userland.  These features attempt to detect incorrect use of
22	system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity
23	checking and fail stop semantics.  They also substantially impact
24	system performance.  If you want to do performance measurement,
25	benchmarking, and optimization, you'll want to turn them off.  This
26	includes various WITNESS- related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc
27	debugging flags in userland, and various verbose features in the
28	kernel.  Many developers choose to disable these features on build
29	machines to maximize performance.  (To completely disable malloc
30	debugging, define MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/make.conf, or to merely
31	disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
32	"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
33
3420160908:
35	The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into
36	two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and
37	QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH.  Define both for the original
38	QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior.
39
4020160824:
41	r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace
42	programs and the kernel.  ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be
43	rebuilt to work with new kernels.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped
44	to 1200005.
45
4620160818:
47	The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP
48	packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3
49	broadcast packets.  It is not expected that this will affect any
50	standards-conforming UDP application.  The new behaviour can be
51	disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to
52	0.
53
5420160818:
55	Remove the openbsd_poll system call.
56        __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
57
5820160622:
59	The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with
60	a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2)
61	system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include
62	"options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the
63	default).  Users should ensure that this option is enabled in
64	their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their
65	kernel.
66
6720160527:
68	CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers.
69	This will effect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using
70	those disk's diskid device nodes.  For example, if /etc/fstab
71	previously contained a line like
72	"/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should
73	change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456".  Users of geom
74	transforms like gmirror may also be affected.  ZFS users should
75	generally be fine.
76
7720160523:
78	The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and
79	improved performance.  But it is binary-incompatible with the old API.
80	Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects
81	built with the old headers.
82
8320160520:
84	The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64.
85	Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these
86	functions and should be updated to the latest version before
87	installing a new libc.
88
8920160517:
90	The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support
91	for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system
92	is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT.
93	This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld
94	and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New
95	packages will be needed.
96
97	To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add
98	TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build
99	and the install steps.
100
10120160510:
102	Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to
103	installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel.  Many kernel
104	modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode
105	KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules.  However,
106	manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will
107	now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel.
108
10920160414:
110	The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be
111	no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the
112	list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt
113	data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data
114	corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete:
115
116		o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware.
117		o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware.
118		o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware
119		o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares
120		o FCCT M500 all firmwares
121
122	Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware
123	with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for
124	updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these
125	drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given
126	this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no
127	other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above
128	vendors work.
129
130	To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your
131	drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting:
132		kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2"
133	in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the
134	quirks entry to 0x3.
135
13620160330:
137	The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is
138	now the one true way.  The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has
139	been removed.  See 20160311 for further details.
140
14120160317:
142	Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t.  All
143	drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled.
144
14520160311:
146	WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree
147	builds.  It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the
148	'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran
149	when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before
150	building anything else.  Dependencies are gathered at compile time with
151	-MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file.  Users should
152	run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older
153	stale .depend files.
154
15520160306:
156	On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into
157	kernel modules.  Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time,
158	please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before
159	rebooting, e.g.:
160
161	make buildworld
162	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
163	make -C sys/boot install
164	<reboot in single user>
165
166	Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section,
167	below.
168
16920160305:
170	Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0.  Please
171	see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
172	upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
173
17420160301:
175	The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel.  The
176	VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed.
177	Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only
178	permitted on sockets and raw disks by default.  To enable
179	asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the
180	vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value.
181
18220160226:
183	The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the
184	ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a
185	drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The
186	(temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set
187	to obtain the GNU version if necessary.
188
18920160129:
190	Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default.  That
191	feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks.
192	Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will
193	still work, even if the guest is using ZFS.  Legacy behavior can be
194	restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1.
195
19620160119:
197	The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH.  They are
198	still available in the security/openssh-portable port.
199
20020160113:
201	With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required
202	during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user
203	prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
204
20520151216:
206	The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a
207	consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp
208	server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the
209	other loaders.
210
21120151211:
212	The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has
213	been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel,
214	a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced
215	for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild
216	the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or
217	later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding.
218
21920151207:
220	Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and
221	installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but
222	requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed
223	world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes
224	in src.conf(5).
225
22620151130:
227	r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and
228	nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether.
229	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
230
23120151108:
232	Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of
233	order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old
234	behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C".
235
236	Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given
237	collation results will be different.
238
239	Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient
240	locales before running make installworld.
241
242	rm -rf /usr/share/locale/*
243
24420151030:
245	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d.  Any binaries requiring
246	libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled.
247
24820151020:
249	Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0.
250	Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and
251	should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively.
252
25320151017:
254	The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into
255	sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and
256	'make -n -n' to recursively show commands.  Now 'make -n' will recurse
257	and 'make -N' will not.
258
25920151012:
260	If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster
261	and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now
262	updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld.  If you had
263	excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may
264	want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install".
265	/etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of
266	whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used.  If you are not using
267	SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior.
268
26920151011:
270	Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed.
271	It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases
272	and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.*
273	environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links.
274
27520151006:
276	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0.
277	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
278	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
279
28020150924:
281	Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/,
282	and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements
283	on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with
284	userland debug files.
285
286	When using the supported kernel installation method the
287	/usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old)
288	as is done with /boot/kernel.
289
290	Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing
291	debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5).
292
29320150827:
294	The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent
295	interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts
296	used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old
297	scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3)
298	or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your
299	rc.d scripts in /etc.
300
30120150827:
302	pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl'
303	These configurations are now automatically interpreted as
304	'scrub fragment reassemble'.
305
30620150817:
307	Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use
308	them, the kernel must have
309
310	device	random
311	options	RANDOM_LOADABLE
312
313	kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko
314	or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect
315	function calls that the loadable modules need to provide,
316	the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient.
317
318	The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to
319	unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway.
320
32120150813:
322	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired.
323	Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by
324	the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob.
325
32620150810:
327	The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the
328	uart(4) driver has been corrected.  Prior to this change the PPS
329	"assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS
330	pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse.
331
332	As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the
333	order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant
334	difference with this change.
335
336	Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by
337	configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to
338	remove that workaround.
339
34020150809:
341	The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed
342	from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have
343	access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group
344	with:
345
346	# pw groupmod video -m $USER
347
34820150806:
349	The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during
350	upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and
351	loader.rc.local instead.
352
35320150805:
354	GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size,
355	strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob
356	WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools.
357
35820150728:
359	As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some
360	architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than
361	ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing).
362
363	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater
364	than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations.
365
36620150706:
367	sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2.  Starting with FreeBSD 11.0
368	and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by
369	default, i.e., they will not contain "::".  For example, instead
370	of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1.  This permits a zero subnet
371	to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for
372	IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0.  This change requires that configuration
373	data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must
374	use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is
375	upgrading.  As a very simple check search for patterns like
376	'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'.  To return to the old
377	behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or
378	the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses.
379
38020150630:
381	The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now
382	Fortuna, replacing Yarrow.
383
384	Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config
385	file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override
386	this default. You may choose *ONE* of:
387
388	options	RANDOM_YARROW	# Legacy /dev/random algorithm.
389	options	RANDOM_DUMMY	# Blocking-only driver.
390
391	If you have neither, you get Fortuna.  For most people,
392	read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works
393	like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant.
394
395	If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed
396	entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building
397	embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading,
398	and it is assumed you know what you need.
399
400	*PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the
401	habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member
402	of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual
403	behaviour from your security subsystems.
404
405	NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device
406	random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and
407	many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH.
408	You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set
409	of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3)
410	and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND
411	sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to
412	share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this
413	will never happen.
414
41520150623:
416	An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail
417	entry below has been been committed in revision 284717.
418
41920150616:
420	FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is
421	available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake.
422
42320150615:
424	The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry
425	below has been been committed in revision 284436.  The work
426	around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the
427	default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration
428	setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file.
429
43020150614:
431	ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from
432	atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf
433	and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work
434	with Kyuafile and kyua.
435
43620150614:
437	The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl
438	security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes
439	with DH parameters below 768 bits.  sendmail releases prior
440	to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit
441	DH parameter setting for client connections.  To work around
442	this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a
443	2048 bit DH parameter by:
444
445	1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc
446	2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or
447	   exists and is set to a string beginning with '5',
448	   replace it with '2'.
449	3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to
450	   a file path, create a new file with:
451		openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048
452	4. Rebuild the .cf file:
453		cd /etc/mail/; make; make install
454	5. Restart sendmail:
455		cd /etc/mail/; make restart
456
457	A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be
458	updated.
459
46020150604:
461	Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default
462	in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted
463	entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new,
464	machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD
465	5.x.
466
467	Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details.
468
46920150525:
470	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release.  Please see the
471	20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading,
472	if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
473
47420150521:
475	TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update
476	may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black,
477	and Pandaboard:
478
479	- dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the
480	  same but content is different now
481	- GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank)
482	  has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old
483	  addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3.
484	- Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is
485	  now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0
486
48720150501:
488	soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim.
489	If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff
490	from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff.
491
49220150423:
493	chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as
494	defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored.
495
49620150415:
497	The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with
498	POSIX.  The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards.
499
50020150416:
501	Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding
502	DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies.  This is now
503	enforced in src.libnames.mk.
504
50520150324:
506	From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers
507	supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4).
508	Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely,
509	replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively.
510
51120150315:
512	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release.  Please see
513	the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
514	upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
515
51620150307:
517	The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent
518	executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8)
519	newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and
520	kernel before rebooting.
521
52220150217:
523	If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014),
524	but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly.  Immediately
525	upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g.
526	ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that
527	range.  This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random
528	or /dev/urandom.  All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected.
529
53020150210:
531	The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility
532	with 10.1-RELEASE.  The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work
533	with the new kernel.
534
53520150131:
536	The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent
537	executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8),
538	so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting.
539
54020150118:
541	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release.  This is a bugfix
542	only release, no new features have been added.  Please see the 20141231
543	entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you
544	are not already using 3.5.0.
545
54620150107:
547	ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now
548	taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They
549	should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support.
550	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the
551	binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information.
552
55320150105:
554	The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control
555	using a local socket.  Users who have already enabled the
556	local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration
557	by running "service local_unbound setup" as root.
558
55920150102:
560	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed.
561	To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports.
562
56320141231:
564	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release.
565
566	As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is
567	a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library.  This means that to
568	be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with
569	clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler
570	should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your
571	system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or
572	later.
573
574	On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and
575	libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out
576	of the box.
577
578	On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and
579	powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be
580	built (with clang) and installed first.  If both clang and libc++ are
581	missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++.
582
583	On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow
584	the instructions for 9.x above.
585
586	Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by
587	default, and do not build clang.
588
589	Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to
590	build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all.  In those
591	cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround.
592
593	This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which
594	the following are most likely to appear:
595
596	-Wabsolute-value
597
598	This warns in two cases, for both C and C++:
599	* When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned
600	  quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was
601	  intended.  The code should be fixed, if at all possible.  If you are
602	  sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without
603	  loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit
604	  cast, or disable the warning.
605
606	* When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called
607	  abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation.
608	  If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please
609	  make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted
610	  side-effects.
611
612	-Wtautological-undefined-compare and
613	-Wundefined-bool-conversion
614
615	These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while
616	'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code.  However, there is
617	some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this
618	feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions.
619
620	Squid and openjdk do this, for example.  The warning can be turned off
621	for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result
622	in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are
623	unreachable could be optimized away.
624
62520141222:
626	The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER)
627	kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some
628	utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later.
629	If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail.
630	If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used,
631	the utilities will report errors.
632
63320141121:
634	The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of
635	directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent
636	directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS.  Users with build systems with
637	such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent
638	directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to
639	LOCAL_DIRS.
640
64120141109:
642	faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith
643	has been obsolete for a very long time.
644
64520141104:
646	vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings
647	support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as
648	support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video
649	drivers.
650
651	You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf,
652	most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will
653	indicate what you need to do.
654
655	vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to
656	syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information:
657	  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
658
659	If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding
660	the following line to /boot/loader.conf:
661	  kern.vty=sc
662
66320141102:
664	pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite.
665	Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to
666	execute it.
667
66820141009:
669	gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures
670	that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the
671	devel/gperf port.
672
67320140923:
674	pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to
675	contrib/pjdfstest .
676
67720140922:
678	At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted
679	to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure
680	update.  If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports,
681	add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf.  Users are
682	encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during
683	their next update cycle.
684
68520140729:
686	The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when
687	using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This
688	will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from
689	initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to
690	1.12.4_8 or newer.
691
69220140723:
693	The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and
694	TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH.
695
69620140719:
697	The default unbound configuration has been modified to address
698	issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private
699	address ranges.  If you use the local_unbound service, run
700	"service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your
701	configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the
702	new configuration.
703
70420140709:
705	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed
706	anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install
707	them again.
708	UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal
709
71020140708:
711	The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is
712	statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base
713	system, and the shared library is no longer installed.  The
714	devel/readline port is available for third party software that
715	requires readline.
716
71720140702:
718	The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of
719	known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the
720	architecture.
721
72220140701:
723	Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from
724	projects/nfsv4.1-server.  Since this includes changes to the
725	internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full
726	build of the kernel and modules will be necessary.
727	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
728
72920140629:
730	The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed
731	WITHOUT_VT.  (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning
732	which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.)
733
73420140619:
735	Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to
736	64 chars, that breaks ABI.  All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm
737	and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
738
73920140606:
740	The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and
741	1 respectively to match the upstream numbers.  They were out of
742	sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the
743	upstream versions were not respected.  These libraries are private
744	and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a
745	non-issue.  However, unclean source trees will yield broken test
746	programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a
747	"make installworld".
748
749	Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into
750	/usr/libexec/.  Already-built shell test programs will keep the
751	path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old"
752	is run.
753
754	If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object
755	tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures.
756	This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced
757	binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will
758	be removed during a clean upgrade.
759
76020140512:
761	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release.
762
76320140508:
764	We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should
765	be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to
766	ObsoleteFiles.inc).
767
76820140505:
769	/etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the
770	past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old
771	behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this
772	behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf
773	(which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the
774	behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual
775	directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that.
776	Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios,
777	other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of
778	temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld
779	as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this
780	setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree.
781
782	One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk
783	is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to
784	use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk
785	as well.
786
78720140430:
788	The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a
789	standard device.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
790
79120140424:
792	The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls
793	building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1)
794	in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a
795	build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for
796	build hosts for older releases.
797
798	This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and
799	r276991, respectively.
800
80120140418:
802	The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for
803	a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds
804	will silently lack HESIOD.
805
80620140405:
807	The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling
808	of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented
809	any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL
810	control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make
811	changes to the serial console port without having to reboot.
812	However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is
813	associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal
814	line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact.
815	Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the
816	serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to
817	preserve the previous behaviour. E.g:
818	    ttyu0  "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire"  vt100  on  secure
819
82020140306:
821	Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default
822	to improve performance.  To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind
823	with command line option -W.
824
82520140226:
826	Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream
827	dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need
828	to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps
829	may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail
830	to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler.
831
83220140216:
833	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release.
834
83520140216:
836	The nve(4) driver has been removed.  Please use the nfe(4) driver
837	for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead.
838
83920140212:
840	An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283.
841	This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built
842	against the previous version of libc++ to crash.  The incompatibility
843	has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built
844	between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled.
845
84620140204:
847	OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum
848	capability mode support.  Please note that enabling the feature in
849	kernel is still highly recommended.
850
85120140131:
852	OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as
853	the default privilege separation method.  This requires Capsicum
854	capability mode support in kernel.
855
85620140128:
857	The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer
858	versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for
859	these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries
860	requiring these two libraries should be recompiled.
861	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006.
862
86320140110:
864	If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile
865	instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such
866	Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during
867	NO_CLEAN builds.  This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual
868	intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN:
869	  # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f
870
87120131213:
872	The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism
873	has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string
874	than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function.
875	In particular, the random string produced from a session key of
876	enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will
877	be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change.
878	The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a
879	big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402.
880	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004.
881
88220131108:
883	The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality
884	has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS.  If you were
885	using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you
886	should change your settings to use the latter.
887
88820131025:
889	The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from
890	NetBSD.  The output is generally the same, but may vary
891	slightly.  If you found you need identical output adding
892	"-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick.  For the
893	time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree.
894
89520131014:
896	libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private.
897	This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg
898	1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make
899	delete-old-libs":
900	  # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean
901	  or
902	  # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml
903
90420131010:
905	The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head
906	revision r256279.
907
90820131010:
909	The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8)
910	configuration file.  The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables
911	for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to
912	/var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked.
913	This is transparently backward compatible.  See below about some
914	incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details.
915
916	These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration
917	file.  One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate
918	a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without
919	running the jail(8) utility.   The default pathname of the
920	configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by
921	using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables.
922
923	Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at
924	this moment.  Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name
925	with an integer.
926
92720130930:
928	BIND has been removed from the base system.  If all you need
929	is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound
930	service instead.  Otherwise, several versions of BIND are
931	available in the ports tree.   The dns/bind99 port is one example.
932
933	With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base
934	system.  Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are
935	in the base system.  Alternatively, nslookup and dig can
936	be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port.
937
93820130916:
939	With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now
940	required during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
941	add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
942
94320130911:
944	OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default
945	silently trust signed SSHFP records.  This can be controlled with
946	the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting.  DNSSEC support
947	can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf.
948
94920130906:
950	The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++)
951	are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system
952	compiler.  You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX
953	options in src.conf.
954
95520130905:
956	The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel
957	configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work.
958	If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include
959	'options PROCDESC'.
960
96120130905:
962	The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified
963	in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs
964	have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the
965	following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is
966	advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl,
967	kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq.
968
96920130903:
970	AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc.  The AES-NI module
971	has been updated to use this support.  A new gcc is required to build
972	the aesni module on both i386 and amd64.
973
97420130821:
975	The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices.
976	Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be
977	used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG".
978
97920130813:
980	WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets.  WITH_ICONV now
981	enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default.
982	WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time
983	compatibility.  Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way.
984	If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely
985	need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT.
986
98720130806:
988	INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and
989	Illumos origin, including ZFS.  If you have INVARIANTS in your
990	kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG
991	explicitly.
992	DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS)
993	locks if WITNESS option was set.  Because that generated a lot of
994	witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false
995	positives, this is no longer done.  New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS
996	can be used to achieve the previous behavior.
997
99820130806:
999	Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead
1000	of time_second.  Although this is not a user-visible functional
1001	change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8),
1002	rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated
1003	to r253970 or later.
1004
100520130802:
1006	find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments,
1007	instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did
1008	not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message
1009	would result:
1010
1011	find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe
1012
1013	Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented
1014	without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing
1015	directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the
1016	old as well as the new version of find.
1017
101820130726:
1019	Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed.
1020	Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs
1021	path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by
1022	slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs
1023	subdirectories must be reviewed.
1024
102520130716:
1026	The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is
1027	incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will
1028	need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
1029
1030	To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set.
1031
1032	NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and
1033	users are advised to upgrade.
1034
103520130709:
1036	pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it
1037	you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5).
1038
103920130709:
1040	Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able
1041	keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking
1042	statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.)
1043
104420130618:
1045	Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write
1046	to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space
1047	even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had
1048	write access to that file.
1049
105020130615:
1051	CVS has been removed from the base system.  An exact copy
1052	of the code is available from the devel/cvs port.
1053
105420130613:
1055	Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake:
1056
1057		make: illegal option -- J
1058		usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable]
1059			...
1060		*** [buildworld] Error code 2
1061
1062	this likely due to an old instance of make in
1063	${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE})
1064	which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if
1065	you see the above error:
1066
1067		rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH`
1068
1069	should resolve it.
1070
107120130516:
1072	Use bmake by default.
1073	Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via
1074	-DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old
1075	make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE.
1076
1077	It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command
1078	line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the
1079	command line.  Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer
1080	than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent
1081	behavior in parallel build.
1082
108320130429:
1084        Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files.
1085
108620130426:
1087	The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because
1088	the IDEA patent expired.
1089
109020130426:
1091	The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed
1092	from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been
1093	enabled by default.
1094
109520130425:
1096	The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
1097	rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in
1098	order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as
1099	install and mtree.  When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where
1100	the install command does not support -l, you will need to
1101	install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required.
1102	This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
1103	&& make install).
1104
110520130404:
1106	Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since
1107	FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources.  Kernel modules
1108	atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are
1109	removed.  Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled
1110	and removed.
1111
111220130319:
1113	SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2)
1114	and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may
1115	automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting
1116	binaries will not work on older kernels.
1117
111820130308:
1119	CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further
1120	information, see the respective 20130304 entry).
1121
112220130304:
1123	Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout,
1124	so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions
1125	in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced
1126	by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild
1127	is requested.
1128
1129	The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64,
1130	but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE
1131	option) to save memory.  To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE
1132	option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0
1133	in /boot/loader.conf.
1134
113520130301:
1136	The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64.
1137	This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system
1138	initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if
1139	a CAM target device was created.  This makes a FreeBSD system
1140	unusable on 128MB or less of RAM.
1141
114220130208:
1143	A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD.  Please
1144	refer to zpool-features(7) for more information.
1145
1146	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
1147	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
1148
114920130129:
1150	A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed
1151	as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch.
1152	To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default,
1153	while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild
1154	and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set.
1155
115620130121:
1157	Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build
1158	and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL
1159	make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the
1160	command line.  If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs
1161	you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or
1162	/etc/src.conf.
1163
116420130118:
1165	The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an
1166	argument that is a file or path to append logs to.  In the
1167	unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line
1168	and the command line contained at least two files and a target
1169	directory the first file will have logs appended to it.  The -M
1170	option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its
1171	use is expected to be extremely rare.
1172
117320121223:
1174	After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS
1175	on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics.
1176	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations.
1177
117820121222:
1179	GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata.
1180	Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters,
1181	'%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to
1182	be updated.
1183
118420121217:
1185	By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved.  To
1186	restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps
1187	stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
1188
1189		savecore_flags=""
1190
119120121201:
1192	With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now
1193	required during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
1194	add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
1195
119620121117:
1197	The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now
1198	filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via
1199	sysctl or routing socket.  This means the KAME-specific embedded scope
1200	id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application.
1201	This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid.
1202	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025.
1203
120420121105:
1205	On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default.
1206	This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang
1207	and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++,
1208	and /usr/bin/cpp.  To disable this behavior and revert to building
1209	with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions
1210	of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang
1211	build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable
1212	branch point).
1213
121420121102:
1215	The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its
1216	functionality now turned on by default.
1217
121820121023:
1219	The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and
1220	split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP.
1221	NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write
1222	mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes.
1223	NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current
1224	driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage.
1225	Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under
1226	consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal
1227	of the two kernel options.
1228
122920121023:
1230	The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte
1231	order. The following modules need to be recompiled together
1232	with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4),
1233	pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4).
1234
123520121022:
1236	Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The
1237	VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be
1238	recompiled.
1239
124020121018:
1241	All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from
1242	the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs,
1243	portalfs, smbfs, xfs.
1244
124520121016:
1246	The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following
1247	modules need to be recompiled together with kernel:
1248	ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4),
1249	vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4),
1250	faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4).
1251
125220121015:
1253	The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host
1254	Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver).
1255	No kernel config modifications are required, but if you
1256	load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead.
1257
125820121014:
1259	Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system.
1260
126120121013:
1262	The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed
1263	sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious
1264	problems have been reported.  The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT
1265	knob has also gone.
1266
126720121006:
1268	The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet
1269	filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled
1270	with new kernel.
1271
127220121001:
1273	The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver
1274	PS-POLL and power-save support.  All wireless drivers need to be
1275	recompiled to work with the new kernel.
1276
127720120913:
1278	The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number
1279	generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally.
1280	Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if
1281	needed.  The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the
1282	device, so the change only affects the custom kernel
1283	configurations.
1284
128520120908:
1286	The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and
1287	snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel.
1288
128920120828:
1290	A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged
1291	to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be
1292	imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support
1293	this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5)
1294	manual page.
1295
129620120727:
1297	The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto-
1298	detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these
1299	to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable.
1300
130120120712:
1302	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c.  Any binaries requiring
1303	libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled.  Also, there are
1304	configuration changes.  Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf.
1305
130620120712:
1307	The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency
1308	with other variables:
1309	  kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered   -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered
1310	  kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered
1311
131220120628:
1313	The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort.  For now, GNU sort
1314	is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to
1315	GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT.  In this case, BSD sort will be
1316	installed as "bsdsort".
1317
131820120611:
1319	A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD.
1320	Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning
1321	is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward
1322	compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS
1323	pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools
1324	is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information
1325	read the new zpool-features(5) manual page.
1326	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
1327	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
1328
132920120417:
1330	The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported
1331	as contrib/jemalloc.  The most disruptive API change is to
1332	/etc/malloc.conf.  If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf,
1333	delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the
1334	new format after rebooting.  See malloc.conf(5) for details
1335	(specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL
1336	NAMESPACE section).
1337
133820120328:
1339	Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb".  mips64eb
1340	is now spelled mips64.  mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32.  mipseb is
1341	now spelled mips.  This is to aid compatibility with third-party
1342	software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3).  Little-endian
1343	settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine
1344	from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in
1345	your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine.
1346
134720120306:
1348	Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported
1349	platforms.
1350
135120120229:
1352	Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on	nullfs(5). Previously
1353	nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer,
1354	as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect
1355	only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect
1356	only to	the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the
1357	lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to.
1358
135920120211:
1360	The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored.
1361	If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to
1362	recompile libc again with your kernel.  You still need to recompile
1363	world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already
1364	comes from 20111215.
1365
136620120114:
1367	The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr.  All
1368	base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a
1369	port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either
1370	hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port.
1371
1372	An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d:
1373	rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i
1374
137520120109:
1376	panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts
1377	on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running.
1378	This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic
1379	tunable/sysctl.
1380	The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic.
1381
138220111215:
1383	The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration
1384	of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format
1385	of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages
1386	for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently
1387	not supported anymore.
1388
1389	Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User
1390	utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8),
1391	need to be recompiled.
1392
139320111122:
1394	The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to
1395	/dev/wmistat0.
1396
139720111108:
1398	The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to
1399	explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems.
1400	It is on by default for all supported platform at this present
1401	time.
1402
140320111101:
1404	The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64,
1405	i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files.
1406
140720110930:
1408	sysinstall has been removed
1409
141020110923:
1411	The stable/9 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
1412	RELENG_9 branch in CVS.
1413
1414COMMON ITEMS:
1415
1416	General Notes
1417	-------------
1418	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1419	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
1420	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1421	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1422	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1423	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1424	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1425
1426	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
1427	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1428	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1429	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1430	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
1431
1432	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best
1433	to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first,
1434	then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade
1435	path, and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try
1436	this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade.
1437
1438	When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before
1439	installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell
1440	around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your
1441	starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade.
1442
1443	This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes
1444	information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted.
1445	Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be
1446	placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check
1447	older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries
1448	should write them with this in mind.
1449
1450	ZFS notes
1451	---------
1452	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
1453	these two steps:
1454
1455	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
1456	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
1457
1458	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
1459
1460	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
1461	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0:
1462	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0"
1463
1464	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
1465
1466	To build a kernel
1467	-----------------
1468	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
1469	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
1470	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
1471
1472	make kernel-toolchain
1473	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1474	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1475
1476	To test a kernel once
1477	---------------------
1478	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
1479	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
1480	debugging information) run
1481	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
1482	nextboot -k testkernel
1483
1484	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1485	--------------------------------------------------------------
1486	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
1487	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1488	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
1489
1490	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
1491	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1492	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1493	make depend
1494	make
1495	make install
1496
1497	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1498
1499	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1500	-----------------------------------------------------------
1501	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
1502	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
1503
1504	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1505	make buildworld
1506	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1507							[1]
1508	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1509	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
1510	make installworld
1511	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
1512	make delete-old					[6]
1513	<reboot>
1514
1515	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1516	--------------------------------------------------
1517	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1518	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1519	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1520	# size.
1521
1522	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1523	<boot into -stable>
1524	make buildworld
1525	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1526	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1527	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1528	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC
1529	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
1530	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1531	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1532	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1533	<reboot into current>
1534	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1535	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1536	<reboot>
1537
1538
1539	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
1540	----------------------------------------------
1541	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1542	make buildworld					[9]
1543	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1544							[1]
1545	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1546	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
1547	make installworld
1548	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
1549	make delete-old					[6]
1550	<reboot>
1551
1552	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1553	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1554	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1555	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1556	the UPDATING entries.
1557
1558	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
1559	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
1560	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
1561	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
1562	much fewer pitfalls.
1563
1564	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1565	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1566	system on reboot.
1567
1568	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1569		fsck -p
1570		mount -u /
1571		mount -a
1572		cd src
1573		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1574	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1575	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1576
1577	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1578	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1579	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1580	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1581	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
1582	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
1583	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1584
1585	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1586	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1587	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1588	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1589	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
1590	from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430.
1591
1592	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
1593	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
1594	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
1595
1596	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
1597	do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
1598	your kernel.  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1599	hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
1600	required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels.  And so on
1601	for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
1602
1603	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1604	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1605
1606	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1607	cvs prune empty directories.
1608
1609	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1610	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1611	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1612
1613	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1614	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1615	warn if it is improperly defined.
1616FORMAT:
1617
1618This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
1619breakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
1620list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011.
1621If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
1622to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
1623
1624Copyright information:
1625
1626Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh.  All Rights Reserved.
1627
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