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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 11.x IS SLOW:
20	FreeBSD 11.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
3420160306:
35	On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into
36	kernel modules.  Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time,
37	please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before
38	rebooting, e.g.:
39
40	make buildworld
41	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
42	make -C sys/boot install
43	<reboot in single user>
44
45	Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section,
46	below.
47
4820160305:
49	Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0.  Please
50	see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
51	upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
52
5320160301:
54	The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel.  The
55	VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed.
56	Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only
57	permitted on sockets and raw disks by default.  To enable
58	asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the
59	vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value.
60
6120160226:
62	The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the
63	ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a
64	drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The
65	(temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set
66	to obtain the GNU version if necessary.
67
6820160129:
69	Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default.  That
70	feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks.
71	Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will
72	still work, even if the guest is using ZFS.  Legacy behavior can be
73	restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1.
74
7520160119:
76	The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH.  They are
77	still available in the security/openssh-portable port.
78
7920160113:
80	With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required
81	during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user
82	prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
83
8420151216:
85	The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a
86	consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp
87	server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the
88	other loaders.
89
9020151211:
91	The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has
92	been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel,
93	a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced
94	for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild
95	the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or
96	later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding.
97
9820151207:
99	Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and
100	installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but
101	requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed
102	world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes
103	in src.conf(5).
104
10520151130:
106	r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and
107	nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether.
108	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
109
11020151108:
111	Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of
112	order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old
113	behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C".
114
115	Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given
116	collation results will be different.
117
118	Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient
119	locales before running make installworld.
120
121	rm -rf /usr/share/locale/*
122
12320151030:
124	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d.  Any binaries requiring
125	libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled.
126
12720151020:
128	Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0.
129	Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and
130	should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively.
131
13220151017:
133	The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into
134	sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and
135	'make -n -n' to recursively show commands.  Now 'make -n' will recurse
136	and 'make -N' will not.
137
13820151012:
139	If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster
140	and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now
141	updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld.  If you had
142	excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may
143	want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install".
144	/etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of
145	whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used.  If you are not using
146	SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior.
147
14820151011:
149	Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed.
150	It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases
151	and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.*
152	environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links.
153
15420151006:
155	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0.
156	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
157	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
158
15920150924:
160	Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/,
161	and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements
162	on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with
163	userland debug files.
164
165	When using the supported kernel installation method the
166	/usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old)
167	as is done with /boot/kernel.
168
169	Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing
170	debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5).
171
17220150827:
173	The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent
174	interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts
175	used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old
176	scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3)
177	or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your
178	rc.d scripts in /etc.
179
18020150827:
181	pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl'
182	These configurations are now automatically interpreted as
183	'scrub fragment reassemble'.
184
18520150817:
186	Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use
187	them, the kernel must have
188
189	device	random
190	options	RANDOM_LOADABLE
191
192	kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko
193	or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect
194	function calls that the loadable modules need to provide,
195	the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient.
196
197	The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to
198	unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway.
199
20020150813:
201	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired.
202	Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by
203	the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob.
204
20520150810:
206	The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the
207	uart(4) driver has been corrected.  Prior to this change the PPS
208	"assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS
209	pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse.
210
211	As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the
212	order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant
213	difference with this change.
214
215	Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by
216	configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to
217	remove that workaround.
218
21920150809:
220	The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed
221	from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have
222	access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group
223	with:
224
225	# pw groupmod video -m $USER
226
22720150806:
228	The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during
229	upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and
230	loader.rc.local instead.
231
23220150805:
233	GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size,
234	strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob
235	WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools.
236
23720150728:
238	As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some
239	architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than
240	ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing).
241
242	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater
243	than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations.
244
24520150706:
246	sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2.  Starting with FreeBSD 11.0
247	and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by
248	default, i.e., they will not contain "::".  For example, instead
249	of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1.  This permits a zero subnet
250	to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for
251	IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0.  This change requires that configuration
252	data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must
253	use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is
254	upgrading.  As a very simple check search for patterns like
255	'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'.  To return to the old
256	behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or
257	the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses.
258
25920150630:
260	The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now
261	Fortuna, replacing Yarrow.
262
263	Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config
264	file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override
265	this default. You may choose *ONE* of:
266
267	options	RANDOM_YARROW	# Legacy /dev/random algorithm.
268	options	RANDOM_DUMMY	# Blocking-only driver.
269
270	If you have neither, you get Fortuna.  For most people,
271	read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works
272	like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant.
273
274	If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed
275	entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building
276	embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading,
277	and it is assumed you know what you need.
278
279	*PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the
280	habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member
281	of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual
282	behaviour from your security subsystems.
283
284	NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device
285	random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and
286	many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH.
287	You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set
288	of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3)
289	and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND
290	sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to
291	share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this
292	will never happen.
293
29420150623:
295	An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail
296	entry below has been been committed in revision 284717.
297
29820150616:
299	FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is
300	available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake.
301
30220150615:
303	The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry
304	below has been been committed in revision 284436.  The work
305	around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the
306	default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration
307	setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file.
308
30920150614:
310	ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from
311	atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf
312	and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work
313	with Kyuafile and kyua.
314
31520150614:
316	The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl
317	security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes
318	with DH parameters below 768 bits.  sendmail releases prior
319	to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit
320	DH parameter setting for client connections.  To work around
321	this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a
322	2048 bit DH parameter by:
323
324	1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc
325	2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or
326	   exists and is set to a string beginning with '5',
327	   replace it with '2'.
328	3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to
329	   a file path, create a new file with:
330		openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048
331	4. Rebuild the .cf file:
332		cd /etc/mail/; make; make install
333	5. Restart sendmail:
334		cd /etc/mail/; make restart
335
336	A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be
337	updated.
338
33920150604:
340	Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default
341	in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted
342	entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new,
343	machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD
344	5.x.
345
346	Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details.
347
34820150525:
349	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release.  Please see the
350	20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading,
351	if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
352
35320150521:
354	TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update
355	may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black,
356	and Pandaboard:
357
358	- dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the
359	  same but content is different now
360	- GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank)
361	  has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old
362	  addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3.
363	- Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is
364	  now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0
365
36620150501:
367	soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim.
368	If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff
369	from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff.
370
37120150423:
372	chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as
373	defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored.
374
37520150415:
376	The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with
377	POSIX.  The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards.
378
37920150416:
380	Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding
381	DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies.  This is now
382	enforced in src.libnames.mk.
383
38420150324:
385	From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers
386	supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4).
387	Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely,
388	replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively.
389
39020150315:
391	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release.  Please see
392	the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
393	upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
394
39520150307:
396	The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent
397	executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8)
398	newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and
399	kernel before rebooting.
400
40120150217:
402	If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014),
403	but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly.  Immediately
404	upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g.
405	ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that
406	range.  This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random
407	or /dev/urandom.  All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected.
408
40920150210:
410	The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility
411	with 10.1-RELEASE.  The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work
412	with the new kernel.
413
41420150131:
415	The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent
416	executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8),
417	so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting.
418
41920150118:
420	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release.  This is a bugfix
421	only release, no new features have been added.  Please see the 20141231
422	entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you
423	are not already using 3.5.0.
424
42520150107:
426	ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now
427	taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They
428	should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support.
429	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the
430	binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information.
431
43220150105:
433	The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control
434	using a local socket.  Users who have already enabled the
435	local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration
436	by running "service local_unbound setup" as root.
437
43820150102:
439	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed.
440	To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports.
441
44220141231:
443	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release.
444
445	As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is
446	a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library.  This means that to
447	be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with
448	clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler
449	should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your
450	system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or
451	later.
452
453	On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and
454	libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out
455	of the box.
456
457	On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and
458	powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be
459	built (with clang) and installed first.  If both clang and libc++ are
460	missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++.
461
462	On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow
463	the instructions for 9.x above.
464
465	Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by
466	default, and do not build clang.
467
468	Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to
469	build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all.  In those
470	cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround.
471
472	This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which
473	the following are most likely to appear:
474
475	-Wabsolute-value
476
477	This warns in two cases, for both C and C++:
478	* When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned
479	  quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was
480	  intended.  The code should be fixed, if at all possible.  If you are
481	  sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without
482	  loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit
483	  cast, or disable the warning.
484
485	* When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called
486	  abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation.
487	  If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please
488	  make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted
489	  side-effects.
490
491	-Wtautological-undefined-compare and
492	-Wundefined-bool-conversion
493
494	These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while
495	'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code.  However, there is
496	some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this
497	feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions.
498
499	Squid and openjdk do this, for example.  The warning can be turned off
500	for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result
501	in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are
502	unreachable could be optimized away.
503
50420141222:
505	The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER)
506	kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some
507	utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later.
508	If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail.
509	If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used,
510	the utilities will report errors.
511
51220141121:
513	The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of
514	directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent
515	directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS.  Users with build systems with
516	such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent
517	directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to
518	LOCAL_DIRS.
519
52020141109:
521	faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith
522	has been obsolete for a very long time.
523
52420141104:
525	vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings
526	support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as
527	support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video
528	drivers.
529
530	You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf,
531	most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will
532	indicate what you need to do.
533
534	vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to
535	syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information:
536	  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
537
538	If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding
539	the following line to /boot/loader.conf:
540	  kern.vty=sc
541
54220141102:
543	pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite.
544	Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to
545	execute it.
546
54720141009:
548	gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures
549	that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the
550	devel/gperf port.
551
55220140923:
553	pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to
554	contrib/pjdfstest .
555
55620140922:
557	At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted
558	to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure
559	update.  If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports,
560	add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf.  Users are
561	encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during
562	their next update cycle.
563
56420140729:
565	The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when
566	using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This
567	will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from
568	initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to
569	1.12.4_8 or newer.
570
57120140723:
572	The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and
573	TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH.
574
57520140719:
576	The default unbound configuration has been modified to address
577	issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private
578	address ranges.  If you use the local_unbound service, run
579	"service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your
580	configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the
581	new configuration.
582
58320140709:
584	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed
585	anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install
586	them again.
587	UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal
588
58920140708:
590	The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is
591	statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base
592	system, and the shared library is no longer installed.  The
593	devel/readline port is available for third party software that
594	requires readline.
595
59620140702:
597	The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of
598	known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the
599	architecture.
600
60120140701:
602	Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from
603	projects/nfsv4.1-server.  Since this includes changes to the
604	internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full
605	build of the kernel and modules will be necessary.
606	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
607
60820140629:
609	The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed
610	WITHOUT_VT.  (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning
611	which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.)
612
61320140619:
614	Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to
615	64 chars, that breaks ABI.  All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm
616	and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
617
61820140606:
619	The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and
620	1 respectively to match the upstream numbers.  They were out of
621	sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the
622	upstream versions were not respected.  These libraries are private
623	and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a
624	non-issue.  However, unclean source trees will yield broken test
625	programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a
626	"make installworld".
627
628	Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into
629	/usr/libexec/.  Already-built shell test programs will keep the
630	path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old"
631	is run.
632
633	If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object
634	tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures.
635	This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced
636	binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will
637	be removed during a clean upgrade.
638
63920140512:
640	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release.
641
64220140508:
643	We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should
644	be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to
645	ObsoleteFiles.inc).
646
64720140505:
648	/etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the
649	past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old
650	behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this
651	behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf
652	(which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the
653	behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual
654	directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that.
655	Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios,
656	other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of
657	temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld
658	as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this
659	setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree.
660
661	One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk
662	is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to
663	use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk
664	as well.
665
66620140430:
667	The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a
668	standard device.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
669
67020140424:
671	The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls
672	building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1)
673	in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a
674	build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for
675	build hosts for older releases.
676
677	This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and
678	r276991, respectively.
679
68020140418:
681	The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for
682	a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds
683	will silently lack HESIOD.
684
68520140405:
686	The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling
687	of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented
688	any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL
689	control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make
690	changes to the serial console port without having to reboot.
691	However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is
692	associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal
693	line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact.
694	Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the
695	serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to
696	preserve the previous behaviour. E.g:
697	    ttyu0  "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire"  vt100  on  secure
698
69920140306:
700	Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default
701	to improve performance.  To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind
702	with command line option -W.
703
70420140226:
705	Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream
706	dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need
707	to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps
708	may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail
709	to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler.
710
71120140216:
712	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release.
713
71420140216:
715	The nve(4) driver has been removed.  Please use the nfe(4) driver
716	for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead.
717
71820140212:
719	An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283.
720	This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built
721	against the previous version of libc++ to crash.  The incompatibility
722	has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built
723	between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled.
724
72520140204:
726	OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum
727	capability mode support.  Please note that enabling the feature in
728	kernel is still highly recommended.
729
73020140131:
731	OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as
732	the default privilege separation method.  This requires Capsicum
733	capability mode support in kernel.
734
73520140128:
736	The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer
737	versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for
738	these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries
739	requiring these two libraries should be recompiled.
740	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006.
741
74220140110:
743	If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile
744	instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such
745	Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during
746	NO_CLEAN builds.  This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual
747	intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN:
748	  # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f
749
75020131213:
751	The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism
752	has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string
753	than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function.
754	In particular, the random string produced from a session key of
755	enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will
756	be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change.
757	The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a
758	big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402.
759	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004.
760
76120131108:
762	The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality
763	has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS.  If you were
764	using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you
765	should change your settings to use the latter.
766
76720131025:
768	The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from
769	NetBSD.  The output is generally the same, but may vary
770	slightly.  If you found you need identical output adding
771	"-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick.  For the
772	time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree.
773
77420131014:
775	libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private.
776	This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg
777	1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make
778	delete-old-libs":
779	  # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean
780	  or
781	  # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml
782
78320131010:
784	The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head
785	revision r256279.
786
78720131010:
788	The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8)
789	configuration file.  The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables
790	for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to
791	/var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked.
792	This is transparently backward compatible.  See below about some
793	incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details.
794
795	These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration
796	file.  One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate
797	a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without
798	running the jail(8) utility.   The default pathname of the
799	configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by
800	using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables.
801
802	Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at
803	this moment.  Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name
804	with an integer.
805
80620130930:
807	BIND has been removed from the base system.  If all you need
808	is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound
809	service instead.  Otherwise, several versions of BIND are
810	available in the ports tree.   The dns/bind99 port is one example.
811
812	With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base
813	system.  Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are
814	in the base system.  Alternatively, nslookup and dig can
815	be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port.
816
81720130916:
818	With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now
819	required during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
820	add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
821
82220130911:
823	OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default
824	silently trust signed SSHFP records.  This can be controlled with
825	the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting.  DNSSEC support
826	can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf.
827
82820130906:
829	The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++)
830	are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system
831	compiler.  You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX
832	options in src.conf.
833
83420130905:
835	The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel
836	configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work.
837	If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include
838	'options PROCDESC'.
839
84020130905:
841	The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified
842	in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs
843	have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the
844	following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is
845	advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl,
846	kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq.
847
84820130903:
849	AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc.  The AES-NI module
850	has been updated to use this support.  A new gcc is required to build
851	the aesni module on both i386 and amd64.
852
85320130821:
854	The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices.
855	Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be
856	used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG".
857
85820130813:
859	WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets.  WITH_ICONV now
860	enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default.
861	WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time
862	compatability.  Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way.
863	If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely
864	need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT.
865
86620130806:
867	INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and
868	Illumos origin, including ZFS.  If you have INVARIANTS in your
869	kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG
870	explicitly.
871	DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS)
872	locks if WITNESS option was set.  Because that generated a lot of
873	witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false
874	positives, this is no longer done.  New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS
875	can be used to achieve the previous behavior.
876
87720130806:
878	Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead
879	of time_second.  Although this is not a user-visible functional
880	change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8),
881	rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated
882	to r253970 or later.
883
88420130802:
885	find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments,
886	instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did
887	not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message
888	would result:
889
890	find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe
891
892	Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented
893	without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing
894	directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the
895	old as well as the new version of find.
896
89720130726:
898	Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed.
899	Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs
900	path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by
901	slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs
902	subdirectories must be reviewed.
903
90420130716:
905	The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is
906	incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will
907	need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
908
909	To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set.
910
911	NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and
912	users are advised to upgrade.
913
91420130709:
915	pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it
916	you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5).
917
91820130709:
919	Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able
920	keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking
921	statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.)
922
92320130618:
924	Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write
925	to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space
926	even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had
927	write access to that file.
928
92920130615:
930	CVS has been removed from the base system.  An exact copy
931	of the code is available from the devel/cvs port.
932
93320130613:
934	Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake:
935
936		make: illegal option -- J
937		usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable]
938			...
939		*** [buildworld] Error code 2
940
941	this likely due to an old instance of make in
942	${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE})
943	which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if
944	you see the above error:
945
946		rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH`
947
948	should resolve it.
949
95020130516:
951	Use bmake by default.
952	Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via
953	-DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old
954	make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE.
955
956	It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command
957	line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the
958	command line.  Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer
959	than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent
960	behavior in parallel build.
961
96220130429:
963        Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files.
964
96520130426:
966	The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because
967	the IDEA patent expired.
968
96920130426:
970	The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed
971	from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been
972	enabled by default.
973
97420130425:
975	The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
976	rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in
977	order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as
978	install and mtree.  When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where
979	the install command does not support -l, you will need to
980	install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required.
981	This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
982	&& make install).
983
98420130404:
985	Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since
986	FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources.  Kernel modules
987	atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are
988	removed.  Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled
989	and removed.
990
99120130319:
992	SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2)
993	and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may
994	automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting
995	binaries will not work on older kernels.
996
99720130308:
998	CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further
999	information, see the respective 20130304 entry).
1000
100120130304:
1002	Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout,
1003	so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions
1004	in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced
1005	by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild
1006	is requested.
1007
1008	The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64,
1009	but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE
1010	option) to save memory.  To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE
1011	option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0
1012	in /boot/loader.conf.
1013
101420130301:
1015	The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64.
1016	This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system
1017	initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if
1018	a CAM target device was created.  This makes a FreeBSD system
1019	unusable on 128MB or less of RAM.
1020
102120130208:
1022	A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD.  Please
1023	refer to zpool-features(7) for more information.
1024
1025	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
1026	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
1027
102820130129:
1029	A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed
1030	as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch.
1031	To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default,
1032	while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild
1033	and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set.
1034
103520130121:
1036	Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build
1037	and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL
1038	make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the
1039	command line.  If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs
1040	you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or
1041	/etc/src.conf.
1042
104320130118:
1044	The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an
1045	argument that is a file or path to append logs to.  In the
1046	unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line
1047	and the command line contained at least two files and a target
1048	directory the first file will have logs appended to it.  The -M
1049	option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its
1050	use is expected to be extremely rare.
1051
105220121223:
1053	After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS
1054	on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics.
1055	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations.
1056
105720121222:
1058	GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata.
1059	Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters,
1060	'%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to
1061	be updated.
1062
106320121217:
1064	By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved.  To
1065	restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps
1066	stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
1067
1068		savecore_flags=""
1069
107020121201:
1071	With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now
1072	required during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
1073	add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
1074
107520121117:
1076	The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now
1077	filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via
1078	sysctl or routing socket.  This means the KAME-specific embedded scope
1079	id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application.
1080	This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid.
1081	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025.
1082
108320121105:
1084	On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default.
1085	This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang
1086	and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++,
1087	and /usr/bin/cpp.  To disable this behavior and revert to building
1088	with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions
1089	of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang
1090	build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable
1091	branch point).
1092
109320121102:
1094	The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its
1095	functionality now turned on by default.
1096
109720121023:
1098	The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and
1099	split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP.
1100	NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write
1101	mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes.
1102	NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current
1103	driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage.
1104	Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under
1105	consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal
1106	of the two kernel options.
1107
110820121023:
1109	The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte
1110	order. The following modules need to be recompiled together
1111	with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4),
1112	pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4).
1113
111420121022:
1115	Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The
1116	VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be
1117	recompiled.
1118
111920121018:
1120	All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from
1121	the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs,
1122	portalfs, smbfs, xfs.
1123
112420121016:
1125	The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following
1126	modules need to be recompiled together with kernel:
1127	ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4),
1128	vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4),
1129	faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4).
1130
113120121015:
1132	The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host
1133	Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver).
1134	No kernel config modifications are required, but if you
1135	load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead.
1136
113720121014:
1138	Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system.
1139
114020121013:
1141	The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed
1142	sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious
1143	problems have been reported.  The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT
1144	knob has also gone.
1145
114620121006:
1147	The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet
1148	filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled
1149	with new kernel.
1150
115120121001:
1152	The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver
1153	PS-POLL and power-save support.  All wireless drivers need to be
1154	recompiled to work with the new kernel.
1155
115620120913:
1157	The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number
1158	generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally.
1159	Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if
1160	needed.  The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the
1161	device, so the change only affects the custom kernel
1162	configurations.
1163
116420120908:
1165	The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and
1166	snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel.
1167
116820120828:
1169	A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged
1170	to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be
1171	imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support
1172	this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5)
1173	manual page.
1174
117520120727:
1176	The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto-
1177	detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these
1178	to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable.
1179
118020120712:
1181	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c.  Any binaries requiring
1182	libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled.  Also, there are
1183	configuration changes.  Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf.
1184
118520120712:
1186	The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency
1187	with other variables:
1188	  kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered   -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered
1189	  kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered
1190
119120120628:
1192	The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort.  For now, GNU sort
1193	is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to
1194	GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT.  In this case, BSD sort will be
1195	installed as "bsdsort".
1196
119720120611:
1198	A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD.
1199	Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning
1200	is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward
1201	compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS
1202	pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools
1203	is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information
1204	read the new zpool-features(5) manual page.
1205	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
1206	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
1207
120820120417:
1209	The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported
1210	as contrib/jemalloc.  The most disruptive API change is to
1211	/etc/malloc.conf.  If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf,
1212	delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the
1213	new format after rebooting.  See malloc.conf(5) for details
1214	(specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL
1215	NAMESPACE section).
1216
121720120328:
1218	Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb".  mips64eb
1219	is now spelled mips64.  mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32.  mipseb is
1220	now spelled mips.  This is to aid compatibility with third-party
1221	software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3).  Little-endian
1222	settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine
1223	from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in
1224	your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine.
1225
122620120306:
1227	Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported
1228	platforms.
1229
123020120229:
1231	Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on	nullfs(5). Previously
1232	nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer,
1233	as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect
1234	only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect
1235	only to	the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the
1236	lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to.
1237
123820120211:
1239	The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored.
1240	If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to
1241	recompile libc again with your kernel.  You still need to recompile
1242	world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already
1243	comes from 20111215.
1244
124520120114:
1246	The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr.  All
1247	base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a
1248	port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either
1249	hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port.
1250
1251	An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d:
1252	rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i
1253
125420120109:
1255	panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts
1256	on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running.
1257	This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic
1258	tunable/sysctl.
1259	The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic.
1260
126120111215:
1262	The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration
1263	of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format
1264	of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages
1265	for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently
1266	not supported anymore.
1267
1268	Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User
1269	utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8),
1270	need to be recompiled.
1271
127220111122:
1273	The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to
1274	/dev/wmistat0.
1275
127620111108:
1277	The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to
1278	explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems.
1279	It is on by default for all supported platform at this present
1280	time.
1281
128220111101:
1283	The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64,
1284	i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files.
1285
128620110930:
1287	sysinstall has been removed
1288
128920110923:
1290	The stable/9 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
1291	RELENG_9 branch in CVS.
1292
1293COMMON ITEMS:
1294
1295	General Notes
1296	-------------
1297	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1298	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
1299	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1300	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1301	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1302	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1303	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1304
1305	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
1306	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1307	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1308	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1309	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
1310
1311	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best
1312	to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first,
1313	then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade
1314	path, and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try
1315	this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade.
1316
1317	When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before
1318	installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell
1319	around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your
1320	starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade.
1321
1322	This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes
1323	information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted.
1324	Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be
1325	placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check
1326	older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries
1327	should write them with this in mind.
1328
1329	ZFS notes
1330	---------
1331	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
1332	these two steps:
1333
1334	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
1335	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
1336
1337	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
1338
1339	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
1340	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0:
1341	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0"
1342
1343	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
1344
1345	To build a kernel
1346	-----------------
1347	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
1348	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
1349	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
1350
1351	make kernel-toolchain
1352	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1353	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1354
1355	To test a kernel once
1356	---------------------
1357	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
1358	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
1359	debugging information) run
1360	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
1361	nextboot -k testkernel
1362
1363	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1364	--------------------------------------------------------------
1365	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
1366	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1367	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
1368
1369	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
1370	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1371	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1372	make depend
1373	make
1374	make install
1375
1376	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1377
1378	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1379	-----------------------------------------------------------
1380	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
1381	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
1382
1383	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1384	make buildworld
1385	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1386							[1]
1387	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1388	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
1389	make installworld
1390	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
1391	make delete-old					[6]
1392	<reboot>
1393
1394	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1395	--------------------------------------------------
1396	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1397	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1398	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1399	# size.
1400
1401	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1402	<boot into -stable>
1403	make buildworld
1404	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1405	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1406	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1407	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC
1408	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
1409	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1410	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1411	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1412	<reboot into current>
1413	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1414	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1415	<reboot>
1416
1417
1418	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
1419	----------------------------------------------
1420	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1421	make buildworld					[9]
1422	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1423							[1]
1424	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1425	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
1426	make installworld
1427	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
1428	make delete-old					[6]
1429	<reboot>
1430
1431	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1432	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1433	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1434	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1435	the UPDATING entries.
1436
1437	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
1438	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
1439	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
1440	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
1441	much fewer pitfalls.
1442
1443	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1444	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1445	system on reboot.
1446
1447	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1448		fsck -p
1449		mount -u /
1450		mount -a
1451		cd src
1452		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1453	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1454	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1455
1456	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1457	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1458	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1459	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1460	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
1461	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
1462	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1463
1464	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1465	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1466	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1467	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1468	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
1469	from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430.
1470
1471	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
1472	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
1473	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
1474
1475	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
1476	do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
1477	your kernel.  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1478	hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
1479	required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels.  And so on
1480	for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
1481
1482	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1483	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1484
1485	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1486	cvs prune empty directories.
1487
1488	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1489	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1490	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1491
1492	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1493	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1494	warn if it is improperly defined.
1495FORMAT:
1496
1497This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
1498breakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
1499list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011.
1500If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
1501to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
1502
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