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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
34
35****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ******************************
36
37	Due to a bug in some versions of clang that's very hard to workaround in
38	the upgrade process, to upgrade to -current you must first upgrade
39	either stable/9 after r286035 or stable/10 after r286033 (including
40	10.3-RELEASE) or current after r286007 (including stable/11 and
41	11.0-RELEASE). These revisions post-date the 10.2 and 9.3 releases, so
42	you'll need to take the unusual step of upgrading to the tip of the
43	stable branch before moving to 11 or -current via a source upgrade.
44	stable/11 and 11.0-RELEASE have working newer compiler. This differs
45	from the historical situation where one could upgrade from anywhere on
46	the last couple of stable branches, so be careful.
47
48	If you're running a hybrid system on 9.x or 10.x with an updated clang
49	compiler or are using an supported external toolchain, the build system
50	will allow the upgrade. Otherwise it will print a reminder.
51
52****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ******************************
53
5420170424:
55	The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and
56	patm(4) devices has been removed.  Consumers should plan a
57	migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11.
58
5920170420:
60	GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU
61	diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of
62	GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name.
63
6420170413:
65	As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when
66	keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with
67	documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state.
68	This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags
69	and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state.
70	To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with
71	keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5).
72
7320170407:
74	arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default,
75	instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be
76	installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set
77	CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin .
78
7920170331:
80	Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now
81	use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail
82	instead of using the first assigned address of the jail.
83
8420170329:
85	The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend:
86	cfiscsi.ko does instead.
87
88	If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded
89	via one of the following methods:
90	- `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5).
91	- Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5).
92	- ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support
93	  (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5))
94
95	Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details.
96
9720170316:
98	The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko.
99	Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the
100	same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was
101	missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible
102	with mmc.ko).
103
10420170315:
105	The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity.
106	If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify
107	them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must
108	be prefixed with colon.
109
11020170311:
111	The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been
112	removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version
113	(sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware.
114
11520170302:
116	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0.
117	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
118	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
119
12020170221:
121	The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality
122	has been reimplemented.  It's not possible now to create a snapshot
123	by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/.  That should be the only user visible
124	change.
125
12620170216:
127	EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer
128	valid.
129
13020170215:
131	MCA bus support has been removed.
132
13320170127:
134	The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed
135	WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC.
136
13720170112:
138	The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that
139	the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications.
140
14120170109:
142	The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via
143	IFLIB.  If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4)
144	but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom configuration.
145
14620161217:
147	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1.
148	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
149	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
150
15120161124:
152	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0.
153	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
154	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
155
15620161119:
157	The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap
158	statistics at the front for all CPU variations.  libkvm(3) and all tools
159	that link against it need to be recompiled.
160
16120161030:
162	isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver,
163	chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware.
164	On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using
165	device hints.  Please see the corresponding manual pages for details.
166
16720161017:
168	The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of
169	rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific
170	parts.
171	Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name
172	conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B))
173
17420161015:
175	GNU rcs has been removed from base.  It is available as packages:
176	- rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version.
177	- rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was
178	removed from base.
179
18020161008:
181	Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control
182	modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the
183	TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.)
184
18520161003:
186	The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired.
187	ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy.
188
18920160924:
190	Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed
191	to use an extension of .pico instead.  The purpose of this change is
192	to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file
193	systems.  On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so.
194
19520160918:
196	GNU rcs has been turned off by default.  It can (temporarily) be built
197	again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf.
198	Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages:
199	- rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version.
200	- rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base.
201
20220160918:
203	The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr.
204
20520160908:
206	The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into
207	two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and
208	QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH.  Define both for the original
209	QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior.
210
21120160824:
212	r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace
213	programs and the kernel.  ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be
214	rebuilt to work with new kernels.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped
215	to 1200005.
216
21720160818:
218	The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP
219	packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3
220	broadcast packets.  It is not expected that this will affect any
221	standards-conforming UDP application.  The new behaviour can be
222	disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to
223	0.
224
22520160818:
226	Remove the openbsd_poll system call.
227	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
228
22920160622:
230	The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with
231	a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2)
232	system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include
233	"options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the
234	default).  Users should ensure that this option is enabled in
235	their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their
236	kernel.
237
23820160527:
239	CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers.
240	This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using
241	those disk's diskid device nodes.  For example, if /etc/fstab
242	previously contained a line like
243	"/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should
244	change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456".  Users of geom
245	transforms like gmirror may also be affected.  ZFS users should
246	generally be fine.
247
24820160523:
249	The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and
250	improved performance.  But it is binary-incompatible with the old API.
251	Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects
252	built with the old headers.
253
25420160520:
255	The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64.
256	Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these
257	functions and should be updated to the latest version before
258	installing a new libc.
259
26020160517:
261	The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support
262	for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system
263	is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT.
264	This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld
265	and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New
266	packages will be needed.
267
268	To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add
269	TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build
270	and the install steps.
271
27220160510:
273	Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to
274	installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel.  Many kernel
275	modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode
276	KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules.  However,
277	manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will
278	now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel.
279
28020160414:
281	The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be
282	no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the
283	list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt
284	data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data
285	corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete:
286
287		o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware.
288		o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware.
289		o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware
290		o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares
291		o FCCT M500 all firmwares
292
293	Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware
294	with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for
295	updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these
296	drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given
297	this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no
298	other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above
299	vendors work.
300
301	To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your
302	drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting:
303		kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2"
304	in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the
305	quirks entry to 0x3.
306
30720160330:
308	The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is
309	now the one true way.  The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has
310	been removed.  See 20160311 for further details.
311
31220160317:
313	Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t.  All
314	drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled.
315
31620160311:
317	WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree
318	builds.  It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the
319	'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran
320	when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before
321	building anything else.  Dependencies are gathered at compile time with
322	-MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file.  Users should
323	run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older
324	stale .depend files.
325
32620160306:
327	On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into
328	kernel modules.  Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time,
329	please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before
330	rebooting, e.g.:
331
332	make buildworld
333	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
334	make -C sys/boot install
335	<reboot in single user>
336
337	Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section,
338	below.
339
34020160305:
341	Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0.  Please
342	see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
343	upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
344
34520160301:
346	The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel.  The
347	VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed.
348	Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only
349	permitted on sockets and raw disks by default.  To enable
350	asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the
351	vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value.
352
35320160226:
354	The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the
355	ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a
356	drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The
357	(temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set
358	to obtain the GNU version if necessary.
359
36020160129:
361	Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default.  That
362	feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks.
363	Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will
364	still work, even if the guest is using ZFS.  Legacy behavior can be
365	restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1.
366
36720160119:
368	The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH.  They are
369	still available in the security/openssh-portable port.
370
37120160113:
372	With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required
373	during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user
374	prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
375
37620151216:
377	The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a
378	consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp
379	server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the
380	other loaders.
381
38220151211:
383	The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has
384	been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel,
385	a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced
386	for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild
387	the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or
388	later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding.
389
39020151207:
391	Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and
392	installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but
393	requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed
394	world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes
395	in src.conf(5).
396
39720151130:
398	r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and
399	nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether.
400	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
401
40220151108:
403	Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of
404	order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old
405	behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C".
406
407	Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given
408	collation results will be different.
409
410	Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient
411	locales before running make installworld.
412
413	rm -rf /usr/share/locale/*
414
41520151030:
416	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d.  Any binaries requiring
417	libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled.
418
41920151020:
420	Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0.
421	Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and
422	should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively.
423
42420151017:
425	The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into
426	sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and
427	'make -n -n' to recursively show commands.  Now 'make -n' will recurse
428	and 'make -N' will not.
429
43020151012:
431	If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster
432	and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now
433	updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld.  If you had
434	excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may
435	want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install".
436	/etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of
437	whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used.  If you are not using
438	SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior.
439
44020151011:
441	Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed.
442	It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases
443	and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.*
444	environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links.
445
44620151006:
447	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0.
448	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
449	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
450
45120150924:
452	Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/,
453	and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements
454	on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with
455	userland debug files.
456
457	When using the supported kernel installation method the
458	/usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old)
459	as is done with /boot/kernel.
460
461	Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing
462	debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5).
463
46420150827:
465	The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent
466	interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts
467	used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old
468	scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3)
469	or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your
470	rc.d scripts in /etc.
471
47220150827:
473	pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl'
474	These configurations are now automatically interpreted as
475	'scrub fragment reassemble'.
476
47720150817:
478	Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use
479	them, the kernel must have
480
481	device	random
482	options	RANDOM_LOADABLE
483
484	kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko
485	or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect
486	function calls that the loadable modules need to provide,
487	the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient.
488
489	The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to
490	unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway.
491
49220150813:
493	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired.
494	Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by
495	the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob.
496
49720150810:
498	The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the
499	uart(4) driver has been corrected.  Prior to this change the PPS
500	"assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS
501	pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse.
502
503	As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the
504	order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant
505	difference with this change.
506
507	Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by
508	configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to
509	remove that workaround.
510
51120150809:
512	The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed
513	from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have
514	access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group
515	with:
516
517	# pw groupmod video -m $USER
518
51920150806:
520	The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during
521	upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and
522	loader.rc.local instead.
523
52420150805:
525	GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size,
526	strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob
527	WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools.
528
52920150728:
530	As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some
531	architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than
532	ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing).
533
534	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater
535	than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations.
536
53720150706:
538	sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2.  Starting with FreeBSD 11.0
539	and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by
540	default, i.e., they will not contain "::".  For example, instead
541	of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1.  This permits a zero subnet
542	to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for
543	IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0.  This change requires that configuration
544	data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must
545	use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is
546	upgrading.  As a very simple check search for patterns like
547	'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'.  To return to the old
548	behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or
549	the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses.
550
55120150630:
552	The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now
553	Fortuna, replacing Yarrow.
554
555	Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config
556	file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override
557	this default. You may choose *ONE* of:
558
559	options	RANDOM_YARROW	# Legacy /dev/random algorithm.
560	options	RANDOM_DUMMY	# Blocking-only driver.
561
562	If you have neither, you get Fortuna.  For most people,
563	read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works
564	like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant.
565
566	If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed
567	entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building
568	embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading,
569	and it is assumed you know what you need.
570
571	*PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the
572	habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member
573	of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual
574	behaviour from your security subsystems.
575
576	NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device
577	random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and
578	many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH.
579	You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set
580	of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3)
581	and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND
582	sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to
583	share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this
584	will never happen.
585
58620150623:
587	An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail
588	entry below has been been committed in revision 284717.
589
59020150616:
591	FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is
592	available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake.
593
59420150615:
595	The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry
596	below has been been committed in revision 284436.  The work
597	around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the
598	default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration
599	setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file.
600
60120150614:
602	ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from
603	atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf
604	and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work
605	with Kyuafile and kyua.
606
60720150614:
608	The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl
609	security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes
610	with DH parameters below 768 bits.  sendmail releases prior
611	to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit
612	DH parameter setting for client connections.  To work around
613	this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a
614	2048 bit DH parameter by:
615
616	1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc
617	2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or
618	   exists and is set to a string beginning with '5',
619	   replace it with '2'.
620	3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to
621	   a file path, create a new file with:
622		openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048
623	4. Rebuild the .cf file:
624		cd /etc/mail/; make; make install
625	5. Restart sendmail:
626		cd /etc/mail/; make restart
627
628	A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be
629	updated.
630
63120150604:
632	Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default
633	in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted
634	entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new,
635	machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD
636	5.x.
637
638	Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details.
639
64020150525:
641	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release.  Please see the
642	20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading,
643	if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
644
64520150521:
646	TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update
647	may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black,
648	and Pandaboard:
649
650	- dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the
651	  same but content is different now
652	- GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank)
653	  has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old
654	  addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3.
655	- Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is
656	  now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0
657
65820150501:
659	soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim.
660	If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff
661	from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff.
662
66320150423:
664	chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as
665	defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored.
666
66720150415:
668	The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with
669	POSIX.  The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards.
670
67120150416:
672	Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding
673	DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies.  This is now
674	enforced in src.libnames.mk.
675
67620150324:
677	From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers
678	supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4).
679	Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely,
680	replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively.
681
68220150315:
683	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release.  Please see
684	the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
685	upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
686
68720150307:
688	The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent
689	executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8)
690	newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and
691	kernel before rebooting.
692
69320150217:
694	If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014),
695	but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly.  Immediately
696	upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g.
697	ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that
698	range.  This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random
699	or /dev/urandom.  All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected.
700
70120150210:
702	The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility
703	with 10.1-RELEASE.  The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work
704	with the new kernel.
705
70620150131:
707	The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent
708	executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8),
709	so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting.
710
71120150118:
712	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release.  This is a bugfix
713	only release, no new features have been added.  Please see the 20141231
714	entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you
715	are not already using 3.5.0.
716
71720150107:
718	ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now
719	taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They
720	should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support.
721	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the
722	binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information.
723
72420150105:
725	The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control
726	using a local socket.  Users who have already enabled the
727	local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration
728	by running "service local_unbound setup" as root.
729
73020150102:
731	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed.
732	To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports.
733
73420141231:
735	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release.
736
737	As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is
738	a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library.  This means that to
739	be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with
740	clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler
741	should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your
742	system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or
743	later.
744
745	On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and
746	libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out
747	of the box.
748
749	On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and
750	powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be
751	built (with clang) and installed first.  If both clang and libc++ are
752	missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++.
753
754	On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow
755	the instructions for 9.x above.
756
757	Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by
758	default, and do not build clang.
759
760	Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to
761	build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all.  In those
762	cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround.
763
764	This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which
765	the following are most likely to appear:
766
767	-Wabsolute-value
768
769	This warns in two cases, for both C and C++:
770	* When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned
771	  quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was
772	  intended.  The code should be fixed, if at all possible.  If you are
773	  sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without
774	  loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit
775	  cast, or disable the warning.
776
777	* When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called
778	  abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation.
779	  If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please
780	  make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted
781	  side-effects.
782
783	-Wtautological-undefined-compare and
784	-Wundefined-bool-conversion
785
786	These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while
787	'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code.  However, there is
788	some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this
789	feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions.
790
791	Squid and openjdk do this, for example.  The warning can be turned off
792	for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result
793	in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are
794	unreachable could be optimized away.
795
79620141222:
797	The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER)
798	kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some
799	utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later.
800	If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail.
801	If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used,
802	the utilities will report errors.
803
80420141121:
805	The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of
806	directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent
807	directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS.  Users with build systems with
808	such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent
809	directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to
810	LOCAL_DIRS.
811
81220141109:
813	faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith
814	has been obsolete for a very long time.
815
81620141104:
817	vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings
818	support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as
819	support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video
820	drivers.
821
822	You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf,
823	most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will
824	indicate what you need to do.
825
826	vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to
827	syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information:
828	  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
829
830	If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding
831	the following line to /boot/loader.conf:
832	  kern.vty=sc
833
83420141102:
835	pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite.
836	Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to
837	execute it.
838
83920141009:
840	gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures
841	that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the
842	devel/gperf port.
843
84420140923:
845	pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to
846	contrib/pjdfstest .
847
84820140922:
849	At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted
850	to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure
851	update.  If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports,
852	add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf.  Users are
853	encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during
854	their next update cycle.
855
85620140729:
857	The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when
858	using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This
859	will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from
860	initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to
861	1.12.4_8 or newer.
862
86320140723:
864	The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and
865	TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH.
866
86720140719:
868	The default unbound configuration has been modified to address
869	issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private
870	address ranges.  If you use the local_unbound service, run
871	"service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your
872	configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the
873	new configuration.
874
87520140709:
876	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed
877	anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install
878	them again.
879	UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal
880
88120140708:
882	The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is
883	statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base
884	system, and the shared library is no longer installed.  The
885	devel/readline port is available for third party software that
886	requires readline.
887
88820140702:
889	The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of
890	known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the
891	architecture.
892
89320140701:
894	Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from
895	projects/nfsv4.1-server.  Since this includes changes to the
896	internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full
897	build of the kernel and modules will be necessary.
898	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
899
90020140629:
901	The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed
902	WITHOUT_VT.  (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning
903	which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.)
904
90520140619:
906	Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to
907	64 chars, that breaks ABI.  All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm
908	and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
909
91020140606:
911	The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and
912	1 respectively to match the upstream numbers.  They were out of
913	sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the
914	upstream versions were not respected.  These libraries are private
915	and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a
916	non-issue.  However, unclean source trees will yield broken test
917	programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a
918	"make installworld".
919
920	Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into
921	/usr/libexec/.  Already-built shell test programs will keep the
922	path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old"
923	is run.
924
925	If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object
926	tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures.
927	This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced
928	binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will
929	be removed during a clean upgrade.
930
93120140512:
932	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release.
933
93420140508:
935	We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should
936	be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to
937	ObsoleteFiles.inc).
938
93920140505:
940	/etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the
941	past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old
942	behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this
943	behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf
944	(which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the
945	behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual
946	directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that.
947	Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios,
948	other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of
949	temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld
950	as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this
951	setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree.
952
953	One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk
954	is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to
955	use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk
956	as well.
957
95820140430:
959	The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a
960	standard device.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
961
96220140424:
963	The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls
964	building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1)
965	in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a
966	build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for
967	build hosts for older releases.
968
969	This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and
970	r276991, respectively.
971
97220140418:
973	The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for
974	a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds
975	will silently lack HESIOD.
976
97720140405:
978	The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling
979	of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented
980	any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL
981	control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make
982	changes to the serial console port without having to reboot.
983	However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is
984	associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal
985	line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact.
986	Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the
987	serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to
988	preserve the previous behaviour. E.g:
989	    ttyu0  "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire"  vt100  on  secure
990
99120140306:
992	Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default
993	to improve performance.  To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind
994	with command line option -W.
995
99620140226:
997	Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream
998	dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need
999	to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps
1000	may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail
1001	to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler.
1002
100320140216:
1004	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release.
1005
100620140216:
1007	The nve(4) driver has been removed.  Please use the nfe(4) driver
1008	for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead.
1009
101020140212:
1011	An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283.
1012	This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built
1013	against the previous version of libc++ to crash.  The incompatibility
1014	has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built
1015	between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled.
1016
101720140204:
1018	OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum
1019	capability mode support.  Please note that enabling the feature in
1020	kernel is still highly recommended.
1021
102220140131:
1023	OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as
1024	the default privilege separation method.  This requires Capsicum
1025	capability mode support in kernel.
1026
102720140128:
1028	The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer
1029	versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for
1030	these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries
1031	requiring these two libraries should be recompiled.
1032	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006.
1033
103420140110:
1035	If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile
1036	instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such
1037	Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during
1038	NO_CLEAN builds.  This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual
1039	intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN:
1040	  # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f
1041
104220131213:
1043	The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism
1044	has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string
1045	than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function.
1046	In particular, the random string produced from a session key of
1047	enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will
1048	be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change.
1049	The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a
1050	big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402.
1051	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004.
1052
105320131108:
1054	The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality
1055	has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS.  If you were
1056	using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you
1057	should change your settings to use the latter.
1058
105920131025:
1060	The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from
1061	NetBSD.  The output is generally the same, but may vary
1062	slightly.  If you found you need identical output adding
1063	"-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick.  For the
1064	time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree.
1065
106620131014:
1067	libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private.
1068	This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg
1069	1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make
1070	delete-old-libs":
1071	  # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean
1072	  or
1073	  # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml
1074
107520131010:
1076	The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head
1077	revision r256279.
1078
107920131010:
1080	The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8)
1081	configuration file.  The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables
1082	for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to
1083	/var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked.
1084	This is transparently backward compatible.  See below about some
1085	incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details.
1086
1087	These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration
1088	file.  One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate
1089	a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without
1090	running the jail(8) utility.   The default pathname of the
1091	configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by
1092	using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables.
1093
1094	Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at
1095	this moment.  Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name
1096	with an integer.
1097
109820130930:
1099	BIND has been removed from the base system.  If all you need
1100	is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound
1101	service instead.  Otherwise, several versions of BIND are
1102	available in the ports tree.   The dns/bind99 port is one example.
1103
1104	With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base
1105	system.  Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are
1106	in the base system.  Alternatively, nslookup and dig can
1107	be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port.
1108
110920130916:
1110	With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now
1111	required during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
1112	add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
1113
111420130911:
1115	OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default
1116	silently trust signed SSHFP records.  This can be controlled with
1117	the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting.  DNSSEC support
1118	can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf.
1119
112020130906:
1121	The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++)
1122	are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system
1123	compiler.  You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX
1124	options in src.conf.
1125
112620130905:
1127	The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel
1128	configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work.
1129	If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include
1130	'options PROCDESC'.
1131
113220130905:
1133	The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified
1134	in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs
1135	have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the
1136	following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is
1137	advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl,
1138	kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq.
1139
114020130903:
1141	AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc.  The AES-NI module
1142	has been updated to use this support.  A new gcc is required to build
1143	the aesni module on both i386 and amd64.
1144
114520130821:
1146	The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices.
1147	Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be
1148	used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG".
1149
115020130813:
1151	WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets.  WITH_ICONV now
1152	enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default.
1153	WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time
1154	compatibility.  Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way.
1155	If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely
1156	need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT.
1157
115820130806:
1159	INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and
1160	Illumos origin, including ZFS.  If you have INVARIANTS in your
1161	kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG
1162	explicitly.
1163	DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS)
1164	locks if WITNESS option was set.  Because that generated a lot of
1165	witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false
1166	positives, this is no longer done.  New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS
1167	can be used to achieve the previous behavior.
1168
116920130806:
1170	Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead
1171	of time_second.  Although this is not a user-visible functional
1172	change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8),
1173	rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated
1174	to r253970 or later.
1175
117620130802:
1177	find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments,
1178	instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did
1179	not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message
1180	would result:
1181
1182	find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe
1183
1184	Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented
1185	without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing
1186	directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the
1187	old as well as the new version of find.
1188
118920130726:
1190	Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed.
1191	Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs
1192	path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by
1193	slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs
1194	subdirectories must be reviewed.
1195
119620130716:
1197	The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is
1198	incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will
1199	need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
1200
1201	To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set.
1202
1203	NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and
1204	users are advised to upgrade.
1205
120620130709:
1207	pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it
1208	you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5).
1209
121020130709:
1211	Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able
1212	keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking
1213	statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.)
1214
121520130618:
1216	Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write
1217	to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space
1218	even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had
1219	write access to that file.
1220
122120130615:
1222	CVS has been removed from the base system.  An exact copy
1223	of the code is available from the devel/cvs port.
1224
122520130613:
1226	Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake:
1227
1228		make: illegal option -- J
1229		usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable]
1230			...
1231		*** [buildworld] Error code 2
1232
1233	this likely due to an old instance of make in
1234	${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE})
1235	which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if
1236	you see the above error:
1237
1238		rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH`
1239
1240	should resolve it.
1241
124220130516:
1243	Use bmake by default.
1244	Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via
1245	-DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old
1246	make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE.
1247
1248	It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command
1249	line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the
1250	command line.  Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer
1251	than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent
1252	behavior in parallel build.
1253
125420130429:
1255	Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files.
1256
125720130426:
1258	The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because
1259	the IDEA patent expired.
1260
126120130426:
1262	The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed
1263	from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been
1264	enabled by default.
1265
126620130425:
1267	The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
1268	rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in
1269	order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as
1270	install and mtree.  When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where
1271	the install command does not support -l, you will need to
1272	install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required.
1273	This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
1274	&& make install).
1275
127620130404:
1277	Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since
1278	FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources.  Kernel modules
1279	atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are
1280	removed.  Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled
1281	and removed.
1282
128320130319:
1284	SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2)
1285	and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may
1286	automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting
1287	binaries will not work on older kernels.
1288
128920130308:
1290	CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further
1291	information, see the respective 20130304 entry).
1292
129320130304:
1294	Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout,
1295	so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions
1296	in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced
1297	by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild
1298	is requested.
1299
1300	The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64,
1301	but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE
1302	option) to save memory.  To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE
1303	option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0
1304	in /boot/loader.conf.
1305
130620130301:
1307	The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64.
1308	This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system
1309	initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if
1310	a CAM target device was created.  This makes a FreeBSD system
1311	unusable on 128MB or less of RAM.
1312
131320130208:
1314	A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD.  Please
1315	refer to zpool-features(7) for more information.
1316
1317	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
1318	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
1319
132020130129:
1321	A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed
1322	as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch.
1323	To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default,
1324	while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild
1325	and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set.
1326
132720130121:
1328	Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build
1329	and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL
1330	make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the
1331	command line.  If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs
1332	you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or
1333	/etc/src.conf.
1334
133520130118:
1336	The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an
1337	argument that is a file or path to append logs to.  In the
1338	unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line
1339	and the command line contained at least two files and a target
1340	directory the first file will have logs appended to it.  The -M
1341	option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its
1342	use is expected to be extremely rare.
1343
134420121223:
1345	After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS
1346	on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics.
1347	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations.
1348
134920121222:
1350	GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata.
1351	Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters,
1352	'%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to
1353	be updated.
1354
135520121217:
1356	By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved.  To
1357	restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps
1358	stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
1359
1360		savecore_flags=""
1361
136220121201:
1363	With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now
1364	required during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
1365	add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
1366
136720121117:
1368	The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now
1369	filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via
1370	sysctl or routing socket.  This means the KAME-specific embedded scope
1371	id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application.
1372	This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid.
1373	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025.
1374
137520121105:
1376	On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default.
1377	This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang
1378	and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++,
1379	and /usr/bin/cpp.  To disable this behavior and revert to building
1380	with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions
1381	of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang
1382	build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable
1383	branch point).
1384
138520121102:
1386	The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its
1387	functionality now turned on by default.
1388
138920121023:
1390	The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and
1391	split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP.
1392	NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write
1393	mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes.
1394	NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current
1395	driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage.
1396	Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under
1397	consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal
1398	of the two kernel options.
1399
140020121023:
1401	The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte
1402	order. The following modules need to be recompiled together
1403	with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4),
1404	pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4).
1405
140620121022:
1407	Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The
1408	VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be
1409	recompiled.
1410
141120121018:
1412	All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from
1413	the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs,
1414	portalfs, smbfs, xfs.
1415
141620121016:
1417	The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following
1418	modules need to be recompiled together with kernel:
1419	ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4),
1420	vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4),
1421	faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4).
1422
142320121015:
1424	The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host
1425	Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver).
1426	No kernel config modifications are required, but if you
1427	load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead.
1428
142920121014:
1430	Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system.
1431
143220121013:
1433	The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed
1434	sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious
1435	problems have been reported.  The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT
1436	knob has also gone.
1437
143820121006:
1439	The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet
1440	filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled
1441	with new kernel.
1442
144320121001:
1444	The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver
1445	PS-POLL and power-save support.  All wireless drivers need to be
1446	recompiled to work with the new kernel.
1447
144820120913:
1449	The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number
1450	generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally.
1451	Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if
1452	needed.  The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the
1453	device, so the change only affects the custom kernel
1454	configurations.
1455
145620120908:
1457	The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and
1458	snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel.
1459
146020120828:
1461	A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged
1462	to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be
1463	imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support
1464	this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5)
1465	manual page.
1466
146720120727:
1468	The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto-
1469	detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these
1470	to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable.
1471
147220120712:
1473	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c.  Any binaries requiring
1474	libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled.  Also, there are
1475	configuration changes.  Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf.
1476
147720120712:
1478	The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency
1479	with other variables:
1480	  kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered   -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered
1481	  kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered
1482
148320120628:
1484	The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort.  For now, GNU sort
1485	is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to
1486	GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT.  In this case, BSD sort will be
1487	installed as "bsdsort".
1488
148920120611:
1490	A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD.
1491	Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning
1492	is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward
1493	compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS
1494	pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools
1495	is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information
1496	read the new zpool-features(5) manual page.
1497	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
1498	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
1499
150020120417:
1501	The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported
1502	as contrib/jemalloc.  The most disruptive API change is to
1503	/etc/malloc.conf.  If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf,
1504	delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the
1505	new format after rebooting.  See malloc.conf(5) for details
1506	(specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL
1507	NAMESPACE section).
1508
150920120328:
1510	Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb".  mips64eb
1511	is now spelled mips64.  mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32.  mipseb is
1512	now spelled mips.  This is to aid compatibility with third-party
1513	software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3).  Little-endian
1514	settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine
1515	from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in
1516	your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine.
1517
151820120306:
1519	Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported
1520	platforms.
1521
152220120229:
1523	Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on	nullfs(5). Previously
1524	nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer,
1525	as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect
1526	only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect
1527	only to	the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the
1528	lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to.
1529
153020120211:
1531	The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored.
1532	If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to
1533	recompile libc again with your kernel.  You still need to recompile
1534	world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already
1535	comes from 20111215.
1536
153720120114:
1538	The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr.  All
1539	base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a
1540	port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either
1541	hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port.
1542
1543	An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d:
1544	rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i
1545
154620120109:
1547	panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts
1548	on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running.
1549	This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic
1550	tunable/sysctl.
1551	The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic.
1552
155320111215:
1554	The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration
1555	of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format
1556	of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages
1557	for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently
1558	not supported anymore.
1559
1560	Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User
1561	utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8),
1562	need to be recompiled.
1563
156420111122:
1565	The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to
1566	/dev/wmistat0.
1567
156820111108:
1569	The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to
1570	explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems.
1571	It is on by default for all supported platform at this present
1572	time.
1573
157420111101:
1575	The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64,
1576	i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files.
1577
157820110930:
1579	sysinstall has been removed
1580
158120110923:
1582	The stable/9 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
1583	RELENG_9 branch in CVS.
1584
1585COMMON ITEMS:
1586
1587	General Notes
1588	-------------
1589	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1590	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
1591	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1592	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1593	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1594	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1595	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1596
1597	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
1598	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1599	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1600	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1601	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
1602
1603	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to
1604	upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then
1605	do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path,
1606	and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try this
1607	approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade.  Since
1608	the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgade from
1609	anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the
1610	last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's
1611	an exception.
1612
1613	When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before
1614	installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell
1615	around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your
1616	starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade.
1617
1618	This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes
1619	information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted.
1620	Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be
1621	placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check
1622	older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries
1623	should write them with this in mind.
1624
1625	ZFS notes
1626	---------
1627	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
1628	these two steps:
1629
1630	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
1631	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
1632
1633	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
1634
1635	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
1636	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0:
1637	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0"
1638
1639	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
1640
1641	To build a kernel
1642	-----------------
1643	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
1644	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
1645	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
1646
1647	make kernel-toolchain
1648	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1649	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1650
1651	To test a kernel once
1652	---------------------
1653	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
1654	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
1655	debugging information) run
1656	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
1657	nextboot -k testkernel
1658
1659	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1660	--------------------------------------------------------------
1661	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
1662	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1663	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
1664
1665	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
1666	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1667	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1668	make depend
1669	make
1670	make install
1671
1672	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1673
1674	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1675	-----------------------------------------------------------
1676	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
1677	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
1678
1679	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1680	make buildworld
1681	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1682							[1]
1683	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1684	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
1685	make installworld
1686	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
1687	make delete-old					[6]
1688	<reboot>
1689
1690	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1691	--------------------------------------------------
1692	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1693	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1694	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1695	# size.
1696
1697	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1698	<boot into -stable>
1699	make buildworld
1700	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1701	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1702	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1703	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC
1704	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
1705	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1706	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1707	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1708	<reboot into current>
1709	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1710	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1711	<reboot>
1712
1713
1714	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
1715	----------------------------------------------
1716	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1717	make buildworld					[9]
1718	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1719							[1]
1720	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1721	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
1722	make installworld
1723	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
1724	make delete-old					[6]
1725	<reboot>
1726
1727	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1728	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1729	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1730	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1731	the UPDATING entries.
1732
1733	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
1734	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
1735	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
1736	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
1737	much fewer pitfalls.
1738
1739	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1740	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1741	system on reboot.
1742
1743	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1744		fsck -p
1745		mount -u /
1746		mount -a
1747		cd src
1748		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1749	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1750	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1751
1752	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1753	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1754	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1755	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1756	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
1757	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
1758	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1759
1760	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1761	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1762	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1763	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1764	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
1765	from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430.
1766
1767	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
1768	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
1769	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
1770
1771	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
1772	do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
1773	your kernel.  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1774	hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
1775	required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels.  And so on
1776	for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
1777
1778	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1779	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1780
1781	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1782	cvs prune empty directories.
1783
1784	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1785	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1786	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1787
1788	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1789	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1790	warn if it is improperly defined.
1791FORMAT:
1792
1793This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
1794breakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
1795list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011.
1796If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
1797to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
1798
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