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1Updating Information for users of FreeBSD-CURRENT.
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    https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#makeworld
10
11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
12/usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before updating system packages
13and/or ports.
14
15NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW:
16	FreeBSD 15.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel
17	and userland.  These features attempt to detect incorrect use of
18	system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity
19	checking and fail stop semantics.  They also substantially impact
20	system performance.  If you want to do performance measurement,
21	benchmarking, and optimization, you'll want to turn them off.  This
22	includes various WITNESS- related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc
23	debugging flags in userland, and various verbose features in the
24	kernel.  Many developers choose to disable these features on build
25	machines to maximize performance.  (To completely disable malloc
26	debugging, define WITH_MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/src.conf and rebuild
27	world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
28	at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
29
3020250827:
31	The names of pkg repositories defined in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf have
32	changed: "FreeBSD" is now "FreeBSD-ports", and "FreeBSD-kmods" is now
33	"FreeBSD-ports-kmods".  Users with /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos files
34	which override these will need to adjust their configuration to match
35	the new names.
36
3720250823:
38	The set of pkgbase packages for Kerberos and OpenSSL has changed.
39	After updating past 250e77d4f0a5, you should check 'pkg orphans'
40	and remove any orphaned packages, then examine the output of
41	'pkg install -r base -g FreeBSD-openssl\* FreeBSD-kerberos\*'
42	and install any new packages you need.
43
4420250823:
45	To restore bridge(4)'s ABI compatibility with ifconfig from 14.x or
46	earlier, the size of struct ifbreq has changed, so you must update
47	the kernel and /sbin/ifconfig at the same time or you will not be
48	able to add interfaces to bridge.  This is particularly important
49	if you require bridge for network access during boot, in which case
50	you should install the new kernel and the new /sbin/ifconfig prior
51	to rebooting.
52
5320250820:
54	The WITHOUT_GSSAPI src.conf knob has been removed.  This was already
55	a no-op for MIT Kerberos, so this only affects builds which set
56	WITHOUT_MITKRB5=1, in which case you now always get libgssapi.
57
58	Also, Heimdal's compile_et and libcom_err are now controlled by
59	WITHOUT_KERBEROS, not WITHOUT_KERBEROS_SUPPORT.  This matches
60	the behaviour of the MIT Kerberos versions.
61
6220250820:
63	Commits 08c7dd2fbe4f and a4197ea47777 have changed the ABI between
64	libvmmapi and the vmm device. If using a custom kernel configuration,
65	please ensure that the COMPAT_FREEBSD14 option is included so older
66	versions of libvmmapi continue working as expected.
67
6820250819:
69	The CLEAN option has been switched back from default-on to default-off.
70	This reverts the 20250808 change below, which had reverted the 20240729
71	change before it.  Note that some src.conf(5) options are known to break
72	ABI or compatibility in ways that may require a clean build initially
73	when switched.
74
7520250816:
76	Sendmail's libmilter has been moved to its own package.  If you want
77	to compile applications that use libmilter, you should install the
78	FreeBSD-libmilter* packages.
79
80	If you only have FreeBSD-sendmail installed for applications that
81	require libmilter, you can now remove it.
82
8320250815:
84	The [gs]etgroups(2)syscalls have changed. To maintain backwards
85	compatibility with existing programs, you need COMPAT_FREEBSD14 in
86	your kernel config until all applications which use this are
87	rebuild/reinstalled.
88
8920250815:
90	jemalloc 5.3.0 has been committed to the tree.
91
9220250815:
93	The removal of Secure RPC DES authentication noted in 20250810
94	has been reverted.  (However, it is still non-functional.)
95
9620250813:
97	Commit cce64f2e6851 changed the internal KAPI between the NFS
98	modules.  As such, all of them need to be rebuilt from sources.
99	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped to 1500060 already today,
100	 so I will not bump it again for this.
101
10220250813:
103	The gpiobus_attach_bus() function has been removed. Drivers should now
104	use the gpiobus_add_bus() function instead. The difference being that
105	gpiobus_add_bus() doesn't call bus_attach_children(), calling it will
106	be the responsibility of the caller now.
107
10820250810:
109	Support for Secure RPC DES authentication has been removed.
110	The keyserv(8) daemon was already removed, but support for it in libc
111	has also been removed, so if you somehow still had keyserv installed,
112	it will now stop working.  There is no workaround for this.  Removing
113	DES is considered a feature.
114
11520250808:
116	The CLEAN option has been switched back from default-off to
117	default-on.  This reverts the 20240729 change below.
118
11920250807:
120	routed(8) and route6d(8) have moved to the FreeBSD-rip package.
121	If you use either of these, you should install the new package.
122
12320250806:
124	if_epair(4) now uses ether_gen_addr(9) to generate a stable MAC
125	address.
126	To keep using the random address, set the loader tunable
127	net.link.epair.ether_gen_addr=0.
128
12920250804:
130	bsdconfig (including sysrc(8)) has moved to the new bsdconfig
131	package.  If you use pkgbase and wish to use bsdconfig, you should
132	install FreeBSD-bsdconfig.
133
13420250730:
135	The usbhid(4) USB HID driver is now enabled by default, and will be
136	used in preference to other USB HID drivers like ukbd(4), ums(4), and
137	uhid(4).  Work on a FIDO/U2F driver and moused(8) is in progress.
138	The default is being switched now so that we can find and fix any
139	additional issues prior to FreeBSD 15.0.
140
141	To revert to the previous USB HID driver behavior, set the loader
142	tunable hw.usb.usbhid.enable=0.
143
14420250727:
145	bmake (i.e., /usr/bin/make and /usr/share/mk) has moved to a new
146	package, FreeBSD-bmake.  If you use pkgbase and you need make, you
147	should install this package.
148
14920250726:
150	amd64 kernel configurations must contain "options SMP".
151
15220250725:
153	gssd(8) has been moved to a new package, FreeBSD-gssd.  If you use
154	pkgbase and you need gssd, you should install this package.
155
15620250724:
157	The Kerberos packages which are built when WITH_MITKRB5 is enabled
158	have been renamed from FreeBSD-krb5* to FreeBSD-kerberos*.  This
159	affects pkgbase users who manually enabled WITH_MITKRB5, *or* use
160	the default value of WITH_MITKRB5 and updated past c7da9fb90b0b
161	(20250721) which made WITH_MITKRB5 the default.
162
163	In either case, if you have FreeBSD-krb5* packages installed, you
164	should remove them and (re)install the equivalent FreeBSD-kerberos*
165	packages instead.
166
16720250721:
168	WITH_MITKRB5 is now enabled by default. MIT KRB5 has replaced
169	Heimdal in base. Ports that use USES=gssapi must be rebuilt.
170	A clean buildworld is required.
171
17220250719:
173	Commits 392a82b225 and c00baac0ab both changed the
174	internal API between the NFS modules.  As such, all
175	these modules need to be rebuilt from sources.
176	__FreeBSD_version was bumped to 1500053 for this.
177
17820250710:
179	The shar(1) utility has been removed from base.  The
180	sysutils/freebsd-shar port was created to maintain this version of
181	shar(1) past its removal from base.
182
18320250704:
184	LinuxKPI device.h and acpi changes effecting drivers and drm-kmod.
185	Bump __FreeBSD_version 1500050 to be able to detect these changes.
186
18720250630:
188	Commits 171f66b0c2ca and 8e2a90ac8089 changed the internal
189	api between nfscommon.ko and the other nfs modules.
190	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1500049 for this.
191	All NFS related modules must be rebuilt from up-to-date
192	sources.
193
19420250625:
195	"make delete-old" will now remove the Forth bootloader entirely
196	if the system is built with WITHOUT_FORTH.
197
19820250614:
199	MIT KRB5 (MIT Kerberos5) has been imported into 15-CURRENT. To
200	and install MIT KRB5, add WITH_MITKRB5=yes to /etc/src.conf. This
201	will build and install MIT KRB5 1.21.3. And it will remove Heimdal
202	1.5.2 when delete-old and delete-old-libs are run. To revert back
203	simply buildworld/installworld again with delete-old-libs and
204	delete-old.
205
206	At the moment we only know of a couple of ports that might be
207	affected. Adjusting libmap.conf does not circumvent runtime issues.
208	The few affected ports must be rebuilt. A successful exp-run will be
209	run before MIT KRB5 becomes default.
210
211	Those using the KDC in FreeBSD base may wish to wait. The Heimdal
212	HDB is incompatible with the MIT KRB5 KDC. The migration procedure
213	is a little involved.
214
21520250603:
216	LinuxKPI dma-mapping.h were pulled into the tree from drm-kmod.
217	Bump _FreeBSD_version to 1500045 to be able to detect this change.
218
21920250527:
220	pf changed extension header handling. It now treats AH headers on IPv4 just
221	like AH headers on IPv6 and skips over them, allowing filtering on the inner
222	protocol.
223
22420250527:
225	pf now blocks IPv6 packets with a hop-by-hop or destination options header by
226	default. Such packets can be passed by adding "allow-opts" to the rule. IPv6
227	options are now handled just like their IPv4 counterparts.
228
22920250527:
230	The CAM target layer userland, i.e. ctld(8), ctladm(8) and ctlstat(8),
231	has moved to the new FreeBSD-ctl package.  If you use pkgbase and you
232	need the CAM Target Layer, you should install the new package.
233
234	Development-related tools (e.g. ar and nm) have moved to the new
235	"FreeBSD-toolchain" package, which subsumes and obsoletes the
236	existing "FreeBSD-elftoolchain" package.  If you use pkgbase and
237	need to compile software, you should install the new package and
238	ensure the old FreeBSD-elftoolchain* packages are completely removed.
239
24020250521:
241	Commit e64fe5ad3a23 removed in6_maxmtu and its setter in6_setmaxmtu().
242	in6_maxmtu is used to store the max IPv6 MTU of all interfaces,
243	however it does not have any in-tree consumers since the introduction
244	from the KAME project. The removal should have little impact, and the
245	max IPv6 MTU can be easily retrieved by iterating over all the attached
246	interface if 3rd party modules need it.
247
24820250515:
249	Commit 772258c89f28 changed the internal API between the nfscommon
250	and nfscl modules.  Both need to be built from updated sources.
251
25220250513:
253	The bridge(4) sysctl net.link.bridge.member_ifaddrs now defaults to 0,
254	meaning that interfaces added to a bridge may not have IP addresses
255	assigned.  Refer to bridge(4) for more information.
256
25720250507:
258	UMASS quirks and auto-quirk probing has been overhauled. CAM now won't
259	send SYNCHRONIZE CACHE unless MODE PAGE 8 is present and valid. This
260	should allow more devices to work (since the auto quirk code was updated
261	in 14 and broke several e-readers and the like). Please send imp@freebsd.org
262	any regression reports.
263
26420250504:
265	Commit 9419e086e1a3 changed the internal API between the nfscommon
266	and nfscl modules.  Both need to be built from updated sources.
267
26820250412:
269	LinuxKPI alloc routines were changed to return physically contiguous
270	memory where expected. These changes may require out-of-tree drivers
271	to be recompiled.
272	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1500037 to be able to detect this change.
273
27420250409:
275	Intel iwlwifi firmware has been removed from the src repository.
276	Before updating their system, users of iwlwifi(4) or iwx(4) must
277	install the appropriate firmware for their chipset using fwget(8) or
278	building it from ports.
279
28020250314:
281	We now use LLVM's binary utilities (nm, objcopy, etc.) by default.
282	The WITHOUT_LLVM_BINUTILS src.conf(5) knob can be used to revert to
283	ELF Tool Chain tools if desired.
284
28520250303:
286	Commit 4a77657cbc01 changed the ABI between ipfw(8) and ipfw(4).
287	Please note that the old ipfw(8) binary will not work with the new
288	ipfw(4) module. Therefore, it is recommended to disable ipfw during
289	the upgrade, otherwise the host system may become inaccessible because
290	ipfw rules cannot be installed with the old binary.
291
29220250214:
293	Commit 4517fbfd4251 modified the internal API between the
294	nfscommon and nfscl modules.  As such, both of these modules
295	need to be rebuilt from sources.
296
29720250201:
298	The NFS related daemons, that provide RPC services to the kernel:
299	gssd(8), rpcbind(8), rpc.tlsservd(8) and rpc.tlsclntd(8), now use a
300	different transport - netlink(4) socket instead of unix(4).  Users of
301	NFS need to upgrade both kernel and world (binaries and libc) at once.
302	Also, any revision between 88cd1e17a7d8 and 99e5a70046da should be
303	avoided.
304
30520250129:
306	Defer the January 19, 2038 date limit in UFS1 filesystems to
307	February 7, 2106. This affects only UFS1 format filesystems.
308	See commit message 1111a44301da for details.
309
31020250127:
311	The Allwinner a10_timer driver has been renamed to aw_driver. If you
312	have a custom kernel configuration including the line 'device
313	a10_timer', it must be adjusted to 'device aw_timer'. The same applies
314	for device exclusions with 'nodevice'.
315
31620250106:
317	A new SOC_ROCKCHIP options appeared, so if you have a custom kernel configuration
318	targetting Rockchip SoC you need to add it so shared and mandatory drivers for
319	this SoC familly will be selected.
320	Also a new rk8xx device was added, this select the base driver for Rockchip PMIC.
321
32220241223:
323	The layout of NFS file handles for the tarfs, tmpfs, cd9660, and ext2fs
324	file systems has changed.  An NFS server that exports any of these file
325	systems will need its clients to unmount and remount the exports.
326
32720241216:
328	The iwm(4) firmwares are no longer compiled as kernel modules but instead
329	shipped as raw files. For pkgbase users if you use iwm(4) you will need
330	to install the FreeBSD-firmware-iwm package.
331
33220241124:
333	The OpenBSD derived bc and dc implementations and the WITHOUT_GH_BC
334	option that allowed building them instead of the advanced version
335	imported more than 4 years ago have been removed.
336
33720241107:
338	The ng_ubt(4) driver now requires firmwares to be loaded on Realtek
339	adaptors with rtlbtfw(8) utility. It no longer attaches to devices
340	standing in bootloader mode. Firmware files are available in the
341	comms/rtlbt-firmware port.
342
34320241025:
344	The support for the rc_fast_and_loose variable has been removed from
345	rc.subr(8). Users setting rc_fast_and_loose on their systems are
346	advised to make sure their customizations to rc service scripts
347	do not depend on having a single shell environment shared across
348	all the rc service scripts during booting and shutdown.
349
35020241013:
351	The ciss driver was updated to cope better with hotplug events that
352	caused it to panic before, and to support more than 48 drives attached
353	to the card. These changes were made w/o benefit of hardware for testing
354	and ciss(4) users should be on the lookout for regressions.
355
35620240729:
357	The build now defaults to WITHOUT_CLEAN - i.e., no automatic clean
358	is performed at the beginning of buildworld or buildkernel.  The
359	WITH_CLEAN src.conf(5) knob can be used to restore the previous
360	behaviour.
361
362	If you encounter incremental build issues, please report them to the
363	freebsd-current mailing list so that a special-case dependency can be
364	added, if necessary.
365
36620240715:
367	We now lean more heavily on ACPI enumeration for some traditional
368	devices. uart has moved from isa to acpi so the hints act as wiring
369	instead of device enumeration. Hints for parallel port, floppy, etc
370	have been removed.  Before upgrading, grep your dmesg for lines like:
371		uart1: non-PNP ISA device will be removed from GENERIC in FreeBSD 15.
372	to see if you need to start including hints for the device on isa
373	in your loader.conf or device.hints file. APU1 (but not APU2) boards
374	are known to be affected, but there may be others.
375
37620240712:
377	Support for armv6 has been disconnected and is being removed.
378
37920240617:
380	ifconfig now treats IPv4 addresses without a width or mask as an error.
381	Specify the desired mask or width along with the IP address on the
382	ifconfig command line and in rc.conf.
383
38420240428:
385	OpenBSM auditing runtime (auditd, etc.) has been moved into the new
386	package FreeBSD-audit.  If you use OpenBSM auditing and pkgbase, you
387	should install FreeBSD-audit.
388
38920240424:
390	cron, lpr, and ntpd have been moved from FreeBSD-utilities into their
391	own packages.  If you use pkgbase, you should install the relevant
392	packages: FreeBSD-cron, FreeBSD-lp, or FreeBSD-ntp.
393
39420240406:
395	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
396	been upgraded to 18.1.6. It is important that you run `make delete-old`
397	as described in the COMMON ITEMS section, otherwise several libc++
398	headers that are obsolete and need to be removed can cause compilation
399	errors in C++ programs.
400
40120240205:
402	For dynamically linked programs, system calls are now made from
403	libsys rather than libc.  No change in linkage is required as
404	libsys is an auxiliary filter for libc.  People building custom
405	images must ensure that libsys.so.7 is included.
406
40720240202:
408	Loader now also read configuration files listed in local_loader_conf_files.
409	Files listed here are the last ones read. And /boot/loader.conf.local was
410	moved from loader_conf_files to local_loader_conf_files leaving only
411	loader.conf and device.hints in loader_conf_files by default.
412
413	The following sequencing is applied:
414
415	1. Bootstrap:
416	    /boot/defaults/loader.conf
417
418	2. Read loader_conf_files files:
419	    /boot/device.hints
420	    /boot/loader.conf
421
422	3. Read loader_conf_dirs files:
423	    /boot/loader.conf.d/*.conf
424
425	4. And finally, rread local_loader_conf_files files:
426	    /boot/loader.conf.local
427
42820240201:
429	sendmail 8.18.1 has been imported and merged.  This version enforces
430	stricter RFC compliance by default, especially with respect to line
431	endings.  This may cause issues with receiving messages from
432	non-compliant MTAs; please see the first 8.18.1 release note in
433	contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES for mitigations.
434
43520240111:
436	Commit cc760de2183f changed the internal interface between
437	the nfscommon and nfscl modules.  As such, both need to be
438	rebuilt from sources.  Therefore, __FreeBSD_version was
439	bumped to 1500010.
440
44120231120:
442	If you have an arm64 system that uses ACPI, you will need to update your
443	loader.efi in the ESP when you update past this point.  Detection of ACPI
444	was moved earlier in the binary so the scripts could use it, but old
445	binaries don't have this, so we default to 'no ACPI' in this case. You can
446	undisable ACPI by doing
447		OK unset hint.acpi.0.disabled
448	This can also be used to recover any other system that was updated in the
449	small window where amd64 was also broken.
450
45120231113:
452	The WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD option has been removed.  When LLD is enabled
453	it is always installed as /usr/bin/ld.
454
45520231027:
456	Forward compatibility (running the new code on old kernels) for the
457	"ino64" project have been removed. The need for it has passed long ago.
458
45920231018:
460	Commit 57ce37f9dcd0 changed the internal KAPI between the
461	nfscommon and nfscl modules.  Both must be rebuilt from sources.
462
46320231010:
464	dialog(1) has been replaced in base by bsddialog(1), while most of the
465	time replacing a dialog(1) call by a bsddialog(1) call works out of the
466	box, bsddialog(1) is not considered as a drop-in replacement for
467	dialog(1).
468
469	If you do depend on dialog(1) functionality, please install cdialog
470	from ports:
471
472	pkg install cdialog
473
47420230927:
475	The EARLY_AP_STARTUP kernel option is mandatory on x86.  The option
476	has been added to DEFAULTS, so it should automatically be included in
477	custom kernel configurations without any additional change.
478
47920230922:
480	A new loader tunable net.pf.default_to_drop allows pf(4)’s default
481	behaviour to be changed from pass to drop. Previously this required
482	recompiling the kernel with the option PF_DEFAULT_TO_DROP.
483
48420230914:
485	Enable splitting out pkgbase manpages into separate packages by
486	default. To disable this, set WITHOUT_MANSPLITPKG=yes in src.conf.
487
48820230911:
489	Move standard include files to the clibs-dev package and move clang
490	internal libraries and headers to clang and clang-dev. Upgrading systems
491	installed using pkgbase past this change involves extra steps to allow
492	for these file moves:
493
494		pkg upgrade -y FreeBSD-utilities
495		pkg upgrade -y FreeBSD-utilities-dev
496		pkg upgrade -y
497
49820230909:
499	Enable vnet sysctl variables to be loader tunable. SYSCTLs which
500	belongs to VNETs can be initialized during early boot or module
501	loading if they are marked with CTLFLAG_TUN and there are
502	corresponding kernel environment variables.
503
50420230901:
505	The WITH_INIT_ALL_PATTERN and WITH_INIT_ALL_ZERO build options have
506	been replaced by INIT_ALL=pattern and INIT_ALL=zero respectively.
507
50820230824:
509	FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT.
510
51120230817:
512	Serial communication (in boot loaders, kernel, and userland) has
513	been changed to default to 115200 bps, in line with common industry
514	practice and typcial firmware serial console redirection
515	configuration.
516
517	Note that the early x86 BIOS bootloader (i.e., boot0sio) does not
518	support rates above 9600 bps and is not changed. boot0sio users may
519	set BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=9600 to use 9600 for all of the boot
520	components, or use the standard boot0 and have the boot2 stage start
521	with the serial port at 115200.
522
52320230807:
524	Following the general removal of MIPS support, the ath(4) AHB bus-
525	frontend has been removed, too, and building of the PCI support is
526	integrated with the ath(4) main module again. As a result, there's
527	no longer a need for if_ath_pci_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf or
528	"device ath_pci" in the kernel configuration.
529
53020230803:
531	MAXCPU has been increased to 1024 in the amd64 GENERIC kernel config.
532	Out-of-tree kernel modules will need to be rebuilt.
533
53420230724:
535	CAM has been mechanically updated s/u_int(64|32|16|8)_t/uint\1_t/g
536	to move to the standard uintXX_t types from the old, traditional
537	BSD u_intXX_t types. This should be a NOP, but may cause problems
538	for out of tree changes. The SIMs were not updated since most of
539	the old u_intXX_t uses weren't due to CAM interfaces.
540
54120230713:
542	stable/14 branch created.
543
54420230629:
545	The heuristic for detecting old chromebooks with an EC bug that requires
546	atkbdc driver workarounds has changed. There should be no functional
547	change, but if your old chromebook's keyboard stops working, please
548	file a PR and assign it to imp.
549
55020230623:
551	OpenSSL has been updated to version 3.0, including changes throughout
552	the base system.  It is important to rebuild third-party software
553	after upgrading.
554
55520230619:
556	To enable pf rdr rules for connections initiated from the host, pf
557	filter rules can be optionally enabled for packets delivered
558	locally. This can change the behavior of rules which match packets
559	delivered to lo0. To enable this feature:
560
561		sysctl net.pf.filter_local=1
562		service pf restart
563
564	When enabled, its best to ensure that packets delivered locally are not
565	filtered, e.g. by adding a 'skip on lo' rule.
566
56720230613:
568	Improvements to libtacplus(8) mean that tacplus.conf(5) now
569	follows POSIX shell syntax rules. This may cause TACACS+
570	authentication to fail if the shared secret contains a single
571	quote, double quote, or backslash character which isn't
572	already properly quoted or escaped.
573
57420230612:
575	Belatedly switch the default nvme block device on x86 from nvd to nda.
576	nda created nvd compatibility links by default, so this should be a
577	nop. If this causes problems for your application, set hw.nvme.use_nvd=1
578	in your loader.conf or add `options NVME_USE_NVD=1` to your kernel
579	config. To disable the nvd compatibility aliases, add
580	kern.cam.nda.nvd_compat=0 to loader.conf.  The default has been nda on
581	all non-x86 platforms for some time now. If you need to fall back,
582	please email imp@freebsd.org about why.
583
584	Encrypted swap partitions need to be changed from nvd to nda if you
585	migrate, or you need to use the above to switch back to nvd.
586
58720230422:
588	Remove portsnap(8).  Users are encouraged to obtain the ports tree
589	using git instead.
590
59120230420:
592	Add jobs.mk to save typing. Enables -j${JOB_MAX} and logging
593	eg.
594		make buildworld-jobs
595	runs
596		make -j${JOB_MAX} buildworld > ../buildworld.log 2>&1
597
598	where JOB_MAX is derrived from ncpus in local.sys.mk if not set in env.
599
60020230316:
601	Video related devices for some arm devices have been renamed.
602	If you have a custom kernel config and want to use hdmi output on
603	IMX6 board you need to add "device dwc_hdmi" "device imx6_hdmi" and
604	"device imx6_ipu" to it.
605	If you have a custom kernel config and want to use hdmi output on
606	TI AM335X board you need to add "device tda19988" to it.
607	If you add "device hdmi" in it you need to remove it as it doesn't
608	exist anymore.
609
61020230221:
611	Introduce new kernel options KBD_DELAY1 and KBD_DELAY2. See atkbdc(4)
612	for details.
613
61420230206:
615	sshd now defaults to having X11Forwarding disabled, following upstream.
616	Administrators who wish to enable X11Forwarding should add
617	`X11Forwarding yes` to /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
618
61920230204:
620	Since commit 75d41cb6967 Huawei 3G/4G LTE Mobile Devices do not default
621	to ECM, but NCM mode and need u3g and ucom modules loaded. See cdce(4).
622
62320230130:
624	As of commit 7c40e2d5f685, the dependency on netlink(4) has been added
625	to the linux_common(4) module. Users relying on linux_common may need
626	to complile netlink(4) module if it is not present in their kernel.
627
62820230126:
629	The WITHOUT_CXX option has been removed. C++ components in the base
630	system are now built unconditionally.
631
63220230113:
633	LinuxKPI pci.h changes may require out-of-tree drivers to be recompiled.
634	Bump _FreeBSD_version to 1400078 to be able to detect this change.
635
63620221212:
637	llvm-objump is now always installed as objdump.  Previously there was
638	no /usr/bin/objdump unless the WITH_LLVM_BINUTILS knob was used.
639
640	Some LLVM objdump options have a different output format compared to
641	GNU objdump; readelf is available for inspecting ELF files, and GNU
642	objdump is available from the devel/binutils port or package.
643
64420221205:
645	dma(8) has replaced sendmail(8) as the default mta.  For people willing
646	to reenable sendmail(8):
647
648	$ cp /usr/share/examples/sendmail/mailer.conf /etc/mail/mailer.conf
649
650	and add sendmail_enable="YES" to rc.conf.
651
65220221204:
653	hw.bus.disable_failed_devices has changed from 'false' to 'true' by
654	default. Now if newbus succeeds in probing a device, but fails to attach
655	the device, we'll disable the device. In the past, we'd keep retrying
656	the device on each new driver loaded. To get that behavior now, one
657	needs to use devctl to re-enable the device, and reprobe it (or set
658	the sysctl/tunable hw.bus.disable_failed_devices=false).
659
660	NOTE: This was reverted 20221205 due to unexpected compatibility issues
661
66220221122:
663	pf no longer accepts 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl'.
664	These configurations are no longer automatically reinterpreted as
665	'scrub fragment reassemble'.
666
66720221121:
668	The WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC option has been removed.  When Clang is enabled
669	it is always installed as /usr/bin/cc (and c++, cpp).
670
67120221026:
672	Some programs have been moved into separate packages. It is recommended
673	for pkgbase users to do:
674
675	pkg install FreeBSD-dhclient FreeBSD-geom FreeBSD-resolvconf \
676	  FreeBSD-devd FreeBSD-devmatch
677
678	after upgrading to restore all the component that were previously
679	installed.
680
68120221002:
682	OPIE has been removed from the base system.  If needed, it can
683	be installed from ports (security/opie) or packages (opie).
684	Otherwise, make sure that your PAM policies do not reference
685	pam_opie or pam_opieaccess.
686
68720220610:
688	LinuxKPI pm.h changes require an update to the latest drm-kmod version
689	before re-compiling to avoid errors.
690
69120211230:
692	The macros provided for the manipulation of CPU sets (e.g. CPU_AND)
693	have been modified to take 2 source arguments instead of only 1.
694	Externally maintained sources that use these macros will have to
695	be adapted. The FreeBSD version has been bumped to 1400046 to
696	reflect this change.
697
69820211214:
699	A number of the kernel include files are able to be included by
700	themselves.  A test has been added to buildworld to enforce this.
701
70220211209:
703	Remove mips as a recognized target. This starts the decommissioning of
704	mips support in FreeBSD. mips related items will be removed wholesale in
705	the coming days and weeks.
706
707	This broke the NO_CLEAN build for some people. Either do a clean build
708	or touch
709		lib/clang/include/llvm/Config/Targets.def
710		lib/clang/include/llvm/Config/AsmParsers.def
711		lib/clang/include/llvm/Config/Disassemblers.def
712		lib/clang/include/llvm/Config/AsmPrinters.def
713	before the build to force everything to rebuild that needs to.
714
71520211202:
716	Unbound support for RFC8375: The special-use domain 'home.arpa' is
717	by default blocked. To unblock it use a local-zone nodefault
718	statement in unbound.conf:
719		local-zone: "home.arpa." nodefault
720
721	Or use another type of local-zone to override with your choice.
722
723	The reason for this is discussed in Section 6.1 of RFC8375:
724	Because 'home.arpa.' is not globally scoped and cannot be secured
725	using DNSSEC based on the root domain's trust anchor, there is no way
726	to tell, using a standard DNS query, in which homenet scope an answer
727	belongs.  Consequently, users may experience surprising results with
728	such names when roaming to different homenets.
729
73020211110:
731	Commit b8d60729deef changed the TCP congestion control framework so
732	that any of the included congestion control modules could be
733	the single module built into the kernel. Previously newreno
734	was automatically built in through direct reference. As of
735	this commit you are required to declare at least one congestion
736	control module (e.g. 'options CC_NEWRENO') and to also declare a
737	default using the CC_DEFAULT option (e.g. options CC_DEFAULT="newreno\").
738	The GENERIC configuration includes CC_NEWRENO and defines newreno
739	as the default. If no congestion control option is built into the
740	kernel and you are including networking, the kernel compile will
741	fail. Also if no default is declared the kernel compile will fail.
742
74320211118:
744	Mips has been removed from universe builds. It will be removed from the
745	tree shortly.
746
74720211106:
748	Commit f0c9847a6c47 changed the arguments for VOP_ALLOCATE.
749	The NFS modules must be rebuilt from sources and any out
750	of tree file systems that implement their own VOP_ALLOCATE
751	may need to be modified.
752
75320211022:
754	The synchronous PPP kernel driver sppp(4) has been removed.
755	The cp(4) and ce(4) drivers are now always compiled with netgraph(4)
756	support, formerly enabled by NETGRAPH_CRONYX option.
757
75820211020:
759	sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user.  To force root to use
760	the csh shell, please run the following command as root:
761
762	# chsh -s csh
763
76420211004:
765	Ncurses distribution has been split between libtinfow and libncurses
766	with libncurses.so becoming a linker (ld) script to seamlessly link
767	to libtinfow as needed. Bump _FreeBSD_version to 1400035 to reflect
768	this change.
769
77020210923:
771	As of commit 8160a0f62be6, the dummynet module no longer depends on the
772	ipfw module. Dummynet can now be used by pf as well as ipfw. As such
773	users who relied on this dependency may need to include ipfw in the
774	list of modules to load on their systems.
775
77620210922:
777	As of commit 903873ce1560, the mixer(8) utility has got a slightly
778	new syntax. Please refer to the mixer(8) manual page for more
779	information. The old mixer utility can be installed from ports:
780	audio/freebsd-13-mixer
781
78220210911:
783	As of commit 55089ef4f8bb, the global variable nfs_maxcopyrange has
784	been deleted from the nfscommon.ko.  As such, nfsd.ko must be built
785	from up to date sources to avoid an undefined reference when
786	being loaded.
787
78820210817:
789	As of commit 62ca9fc1ad56 OpenSSL no longer enables kernel TLS
790	by default.  Users can enable kernel TLS via the "KTLS" SSL
791	option.  This can be enabled globally by using a custom
792	OpenSSL config file via OPENSSL_CONF or via an
793	application-specific configuration option for applications
794	which permit setting SSL options via SSL_CONF_cmd(3).
795
79620210811:
797	Commit 3ad1e1c1ce20 changed the internal KAPI between the NFS
798	modules. Therefore, all need to be rebuilt from sources.
799
80020210730:
801	Commit b69019c14cd8 removes pf's DIOCGETSTATESNV ioctl.
802	As of be70c7a50d32 it is no longer used by userspace, but it does mean
803	users may not be able to enumerate pf states if they update the kernel
804	past b69019c14cd8 without first updating userspace past be70c7a50d32.
805
80620210729:
807	As of commit 01ad0c007964 if_bridge member interfaces can no longer
808	change their MTU. Changing the MTU of the bridge itself will change the
809	MTU on all member interfaces instead.
810
81120210716:
812	Commit ee29e6f31111 changed the internal KAPI between the nfscommon
813	and nfsd modules. Therefore, both need to be rebuilt from sources.
814	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1400026 for this KAPI change.
815
81620210715:
817	The 20210707 awk update brought in a change in behavior. This has
818	been corrected as of d4d252c49976. Between these dates, if you
819	installed a new awk binary, you may not be able to build a new
820	kernel because the change in behavior affected the genoffset
821	script used to build the kernel. If you did update, the fix is
822	to update your sources past the above hash and do
823		% cd usr.bin/awk
824		% make clean all
825		% sudo -E make install
826	to enable building kernels again.
827
82820210708:
829	Commit 1e0a518d6548 changed the internal KAPI between the NFS
830	modules. They all need to be rebuilt from sources.  I did not
831	bump __FreeBSD_version, since it was bumped recently.
832
83320210707:
834	awk has been updated to the latest one-true-awk version 20210215.
835	This contains a number of minor bug fixes.
836
83720210624:
838	The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
839	supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
840	for NFSv4 mounts.
841	The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.
842
84320210618:
844	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1400024 for LinuxKPI changes.
845	Most notably netdev.h can change now as the (last) dependencies
846	(mlx4/ofed) are now using struct ifnet directly, but also for PCI
847	additions and others.
848
84920210618:
850	The directory "blacklisted" under /usr/share/certs/ has been
851	renamed to "untrusted".
852
85320210611:
854	svnlite has been removed from base. Should you need svn for any reason
855	please install the svn package or port.
856
85720210611:
858	Commit e1a907a25cfa changed the internal KAPI between the krpc
859	and nfsserver.  As such, both modules must be rebuilt from
860	sources.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1400022.
861
86220210610:
863	The an(4) driver has been removed from FreeBSD.
864
86520210608:
866	The vendor/openzfs branch was renamed to vendor/openzfs/legacy to
867	start tracking OpenZFS upstream more closely. Please see
868https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2021-June/000153.html
869	for details on how to correct any errors that might result. The
870	short version is that you need to remove the old branch locally:
871	    git update-ref -d refs/remotes/freebsd/vendor/openzfs
872	(assuming your upstream origin is named 'freebsd').
873
87420210525:
875	Commits 17accc08ae15 and de102f870501 add new files to LinuxKPI
876	which break drm-kmod.  In addition various other additions where
877	committed. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1400015 to be able to
878	detect this.
879
88020210513:
881	Commit ca179c4d74f2 changed the package in which the OpenSSL
882	libraries and utilities are packaged.
883	It is recommended for pkgbase user to do:
884	pkg install -f FreeBSD-openssl
885	before pkg upgrade otherwise some dependencies might not be met
886	and pkg will stop working as libssl will not be present anymore
887	on the system.
888
88920210426:
890	Commit 875977314881 changed the internal KAPI between
891	the nfsd and nfscommon modules.  As such these modules
892	need to be rebuilt from sources.
893	Without this patch in your NFSv4.1/4.2 server, enabling
894	delegations by setting vfs.nfsd.issue_delegations non-zero
895	is not recommended.
896
89720210411:
898	Commit 7763814fc9c2 changed the internal KAPI between
899	the krpc and NFS.  As such, the krpc, nfscommon and
900	nfscl modules must all be rebuilt from sources.
901	Without this patch, NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts should not
902	be done with the nfscbd(8) daemon running, to avoid
903	needing a working back channel for server->client RPCs.
904
90520210330:
906	Commit 01ae8969a9ee fixed the NFSv4.1/4.2 server so that it
907	handles binding of the back channel as required by RFC5661.
908	Until this patch is in your server, avoid use of the "nconnects"
909	mount option for Linux NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts.
910
91120210225:
912	For 64-bit architectures the base system is now built with Position
913	Independent Executable (PIE) support enabled by default.  It may be
914	disabled using the WITHOUT_PIE knob.  A clean build is required.
915
91620210128:
917	Various LinuxKPI functionality was added which conflicts with DRM.
918	Please update your drm-kmod port to after the __FreeBSD_version 1400003
919	update.
920
92120210121:
922	stable/13 branch created.
923
92420210108:
925	PC Card attachments for all devices have been removed. In the case of
926	wi and cmx, the entire drivers were removed because they were only
927	PC Card devices. FreeBSD_version 1300134 should be used for this
928	since it was bumped so recently.
929
93020210107:
931	Transport-independent parts of HID support have been split off the USB
932	code in to separate subsystem.  Kernel configs which include one of
933	ums, ukbd, uhid, atp, wsp, wmt, uaudio, ugold or ucycom drivers should
934	be updated with adding of "device hid" line.
935
93620210105:
937	ncurses installation has been modified to only keep the widechar
938	enabled version.  Incremental build is broken for that change, so it
939	requires a clean build.
940
94120201223:
942	The FreeBSD project has migrated from Subversion to Git. Temporary
943	instructions can be found at
944	https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/src-cvt.md
945	and other documents in that repo.
946
94720201216:
948	The services database has been updated to cover more of the basic
949	services expected in a modern system. The database is big enough
950	that it will cause issues in mergemaster in Releases previous to
951	12.2 and 11.3, or in very old current systems from before r358154.
952
95320201215:
954	Obsolete in-tree GDB 6.1.1 has been removed.  GDB (including kgdb)
955	may be installed from ports or packages.
956
95720201124:
958	ping6 has been merged into ping.  It can now be called as "ping -6".
959	See ping(8) for details.
960
96120201108:
962	Default value of net.add_addr_allfibs has been changed to 0.
963	If you have multi-fib configuration and rely on existence of all
964	interface routes in every fib, you need to set the above sysctl to 1.
965
96620201030:
967	The internal pre-processor in the calendar(1) program has been
968	extended to support more C pre-processor commands (e.g. #ifdef, #else,
969	and #undef) and to detect unbalanced conditional statements.
970	Error messages have been extended to include the filename and line
971	number if processing stops to help fixing malformed data files.
972
97320201026:
974	All the data files for the calendar(1) program, except calendar.freebsd,
975	have been moved to the deskutils/calendar-data port, much like the
976	jewish calendar entries were moved to deskutils/hebcal years ago. After
977	make delete-old-files, you need to install it to retain full
978	functionality. calendar(1) will issue a reminder for files it can't
979	find.
980
98120200923:
982	LINT files are no longer generated. We now include the relevant NOTES
983	files. Note: This may cause conflicts with updating in some cases.
984	        find sys -name LINT\* -delete
985	is suggested across this commit	to remove the generated	LINT files.
986
987	If you have tried to update with generated files there, the svn
988	command you want to un-auger the tree is
989		cd sys/amd64/conf
990		svn revert -R .
991	and then do the above find from the top level. Substitute 'amd64'
992	above with where the error message indicates a conflict.
993
99420200824:
995	OpenZFS support has been integrated. Do not upgrade root pools until
996	the loader is updated to support zstd. Furthermore, we caution against
997	'zpool upgrade' for the next few weeks. The change should be transparent
998	unless you  want to use new features.
999
1000	Not all "NO_CLEAN" build scenarios work across these changes. Many
1001	scenarios have been tested and fixed, but rebuilding kernels without
1002	rebuilding world may fail.
1003
1004	The ZFS cache file has moved from /boot to /etc to match the OpenZFS
1005	upstream default. A fallback to /boot has been added for mountroot.
1006
1007	Pool auto import behavior at boot has been moved from the kernel module
1008	to an explicit "zpool import -a" in one of the rc scripts enabled by
1009	zfs_enable=YES. This means your non-root zpools won't auto import until
1010	you upgrade your /etc/rc.d files.
1011
101220200824:
1013	The resume code now notifies devd with the 'kernel' system
1014	rather than the old 'kern' subsystem to be consistent with
1015	other use. The old notification will be created as well, but
1016	will be removed prior to FreeBSD 14.0.
1017
101820200821:
1019	r362275 changed the internal API between the kernel RPC and the
1020	NFS modules. As such, all the modules must be recompiled from
1021	sources.
1022
102320200817:
1024	r364330 modified the internal API used between the NFS modules.
1025	As such, all the NFS modules must be re-compiled from sources.
1026
102720200816:
1028	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
1029	been upgraded to 11.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
1030	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
1031	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1032
103320200810:
1034	r364092 modified the internal ABI used between the kernel NFS
1035	modules.  As such, all of these modules need to be rebuilt
1036	from sources, so a version bump was done.
1037
103820200807:
1039	Makefile.inc has been updated to work around the issue documented in
1040	20200729. It was a case where the optimization of using symbolic links
1041	to point to binaries created a situation where we'd run new binaries
1042	with old libraries starting midway through the installworld process.
1043
104420200729:
1045	r363679 has redefined some undefined behavior in regcomp(3); notably,
1046	extraneous escapes of most ordinary characters will no longer be
1047	accepted.  An exp-run has identified all of the problems with this in
1048	ports, but other non-ports software may need extra escapes removed to
1049	continue to function.
1050
1051	Because of this change, installworld may encounter the following error
1052	from rtld: Undefined symbol "regcomp@FBSD_1.6" -- It is imperative that
1053	you do not halt installworld. Instead, let it run to completion (whether
1054	successful or not) and run installworld once more.
1055
105620200627:
1057	A new implementation of bc and dc has been imported in r362681. This
1058	implementation corrects non-conformant behavior of the previous bc
1059	and adds GNU bc compatible options. It offers a number of extensions,
1060	is much faster on large values, and has support for message catalogs
1061	(a number of languages are already supported, contributions of further
1062	languages welcome). The option WITHOUT_GH_BC can be used to build the
1063	world with the previous versions of bc and dc.
1064
106520200625:
1066	r362639 changed the internal API used between the NFS kernel modules.
1067	As such, they all need to be rebuilt from sources.
1068
106920200613:
1070	r362158 changed the arguments for VFS_CHECKEXP().  As such, any
1071	out of tree file systems need to be modified and rebuilt.
1072	Also, any file systems that are modules must be rebuilt.
1073
107420200604:
1075	read(2) of a directory fd is now rejected by default.  root may
1076	re-enable it for system root only on non-ZFS filesystems with the
1077	security.bsd.allow_read_dir sysctl(8) MIB if
1078	security.bsd.suser_enabled=1.
1079
1080	It may be advised to setup aliases for grep to default to `-d skip` if
1081	commonly non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and
1082	the potential for the resulting stderr output is not tolerable.  Example
1083	aliases are now installed, commented out, in /root/.cshrc and
1084	/root/.shrc.
1085
108620200523:
1087	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
1088	been upgraded to 10.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
1089	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
1090	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1091
109220200512:
1093	Support for obsolete compilers has been removed from the build system.
1094	Clang 6 and GCC 6.4 are the minimum supported versions.
1095
109620200424:
1097	closefrom(2) has been moved under COMPAT12, and replaced in libc with a
1098	stub that calls close_range(2).  If using a custom kernel configuration,
1099	you may want to ensure that the COMPAT_FREEBSD12 option is included, as
1100	a slightly older -CURRENT userland and older FreeBSD userlands may not
1101	be functional without closefrom(2).
1102
110320200414:
1104	Upstream DTS from Linux 5.6 was merged and they now have the SID
1105	and THS (Secure ID controller and THermal Sensor) node present.
1106	The DTB overlays have now been removed from the tree for the H3/H5 and
1107	A64 SoCs and the aw_sid and aw_thermal driver have been updated to
1108	deal with upstream DTS. If you are using those overlays you need to
1109	remove them from loader.conf and update the DTBs on the FAT partition.
1110
111120200310:
1112	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
1113	been upgraded to 10.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
1114	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
1115	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1116
111720200309:
1118	The amd(8) automount daemon has been removed from the source tree.
1119	As of FreeBSD 10.1 autofs(5) is the preferred tool for automounting.
1120	amd is still available in the sysutils/am-utils port.
1121
112220200301:
1123	Removed brooktree driver (bktr.4) from the tree.
1124
112520200229:
1126	The WITH_GPL_DTC option has been removed.  The BSD-licenced device tree
1127	compiler in usr.bin/dtc is used on all architectures which use dtc, and
1128	the GPL dtc is available (if needed) from the sysutils/dtc port.
1129
113020200229:
1131	The WITHOUT_LLVM_LIBUNWIND option has been removed.  LLVM's libunwind
1132	is used by all supported CPU architectures.
1133
113420200229:
1135	GCC 4.2.1 has been removed from the tree.  The WITH_GCC,
1136	WITH_GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and WITH_GNUCXX options are no longer available.
1137	Users who wish to build FreeBSD with GCC must use the external toolchain
1138	ports or packages.
1139
114020200220:
1141	ncurses has been updated to a newer version (6.2-20200215). Given the ABI
1142	has changed, users will have to rebuild all the ports that are linked to
1143	ncurses.
1144
114520200217:
1146	The size of struct vnet and the magic cookie have changed.
1147	Users need to recompile libkvm and all modules using VIMAGE
1148	together with their new kernel.
1149
115020200212:
1151	Defining the long deprecated NO_CTF, NO_DEBUG_FILES, NO_INSTALLLIB,
1152	NO_MAN, NO_PROFILE, and NO_WARNS variables is now an error.  Update
1153	your Makefiles and scripts to define MK_<var>=no instead as required.
1154
1155	One exception to this is that program or library Makefiles should
1156	define MAN to empty rather than setting MK_MAN=no.
1157
115820200108:
1159	Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler and LLD the default
1160	linker for riscv64.
1161
116220200107:
1163	make universe no longer uses GCC 4.2.1 on any architectures.
1164	Architectures not supported by in-tree Clang/LLVM require an
1165	external toolchain package.
1166
116720200104:
1168	GCC 4.2.1 is now not built by default, as part of the GCC 4.2.1
1169	retirement plan.  Specifically, the GCC, GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and GNUCXX
1170	options default to off for all supported CPU architectures.  As a
1171	short-term transition aid they may be enabled via WITH_* options.
1172	GCC 4.2.1 is expected to be removed from the tree on 2020-03-31.
1173
117420200102:
1175	Support for armv5 has been disconnected and is being removed. The
1176	machine combination MACHINE=arm MACHINE_ARCH=arm is no longer valid.
1177	You must now use a MACHINE_ARCH of armv6 or armv7. The default
1178	MACHINE_ARCH for MACHINE=arm is now armv7.
1179
118020191226:
1181	Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler for all powerpc architectures.
1182	LLD is now the default linker for powerpc64.  The change for powerpc64
1183	also includes a change to the ELFv2 ABI, incompatible with the existing
1184	ABI.
1185
118620191226:
1187	Kernel-loadable random(4) modules are no longer unloadable.
1188
118920191222:
1190	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
1191	been upgraded to 9.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
1192	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
1193	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1194
119520191212:
1196	r355677 has modified the internal interface used between the
1197	NFS modules in the kernel. As such, they must all be upgraded
1198	simultaneously. I will do a version bump for this.
1199
120020191205:
1201	The root certificates of the Mozilla CA Certificate Store have been
1202	imported into the base system and can be managed with the certctl(8)
1203	utility.  If you have installed the security/ca_root_nss port or package
1204	with the ETCSYMLINK option (the default), be advised that there may be
1205	differences between those included in the port and those included in
1206	base due to differences in nss branch used as well as general update
1207	frequency.  Note also that certctl(8) cannot manage certs in the
1208	format used by the security/ca_root_nss port.
1209
121020191120:
1211	The amd(8) automount daemon has been disabled by default, and will be
1212	removed in the future.  As of FreeBSD 10.1 the autofs(5) is available
1213	for automounting.
1214
121520191107:
1216	The nctgpio and wbwd drivers have been moved to the superio bus.
1217	If you have one of these drivers in a kernel configuration, then
1218	you should add device superio to it.  If you use one of these drivers
1219	as a module and you compile a custom set of modules, then you should
1220	add superio to the set.
1221
122220191021:
1223	KPIs for network drivers to access interface addresses have changed.
1224	Users need to recompile NIC driver modules together with kernel.
1225
122620191021:
1227	The net.link.tap.user_open sysctl no longer prevents user opening of
1228	already created /dev/tapNN devices.  Access is still controlled by
1229	node permissions, just like tun devices.  The net.link.tap.user_open
1230	sysctl is now used only to allow users to perform devfs cloning of
1231	tap devices, and the subsequent open may not succeed if the user is not
1232	in the appropriate group.  This sysctl may be deprecated/removed
1233	completely in the future.
1234
123520191009:
1236	mips, powerpc, and sparc64 are no longer built as part of
1237	universe / tinderbox unless MAKE_OBSOLETE_GCC is defined. If
1238	not defined, mips, powerpc, and sparc64 builds will look for
1239	the xtoolchain binaries and if installed use them for universe
1240	builds. As llvm 9.0 becomes vetted for these architectures, they
1241	will be removed from the list.
1242
124320191009:
1244	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
1245	been upgraded to 9.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
1246	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
1247	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1248
124920191003:
1250	The hpt27xx, hptmv, hptnr, and hptrr drivers have been removed from
1251	GENERIC.  They are available as modules and can be loaded by adding
1252	to /boot/loader.conf hpt27xx_load="YES", hptmv_load="YES",
1253	hptnr_load="YES", or hptrr_load="YES", respectively.
1254
125520190913:
1256	ntpd no longer by default locks its pages in memory, allowing them
1257	to be paged out by the kernel. Use rlimit memlock to restore
1258	historic BSD behaviour. For example, add "rlimit memlock 32"
1259	to ntp.conf to lock up to 32 MB of ntpd address space in memory.
1260
126120190823:
1262	Several of ping6's options have been renamed for better consistency
1263	with ping.  If you use any of -ARWXaghmrtwx, you must update your
1264	scripts.  See ping6(8) for details.
1265
126620190727:
1267	The vfs.fusefs.sync_unmount and vfs.fusefs.init_backgrounded sysctls
1268	and the "-o sync_unmount" and "-o init_backgrounded" mount options have
1269	been removed from mount_fusefs(8).  You can safely remove them from
1270	your scripts, because they had no effect.
1271
1272	The vfs.fusefs.fix_broken_io, vfs.fusefs.sync_resize,
1273	vfs.fusefs.refresh_size, vfs.fusefs.mmap_enable,
1274	vfs.fusefs.reclaim_revoked, and vfs.fusefs.data_cache_invalidate
1275	sysctls have been removed.  If you felt the need to set any of them to
1276	a non-default value, please tell asomers@FreeBSD.org why.
1277
127820190713:
1279	Default permissions on the /var/account/acct file (and copies of it
1280	rotated by periodic daily scripts) are changed from 0644 to 0640
1281	because the file contains sensitive information that should not be
1282	world-readable.  If the /var/account directory must be created by
1283	rc.d/accounting, the mode used is now 0750.  Admins who use the
1284	accounting feature are encouraged to change the mode of an existing
1285	/var/account directory to 0750 or 0700.
1286
128720190620:
1288	Entropy collection and the /dev/random device are no longer optional
1289	components.  The "device random" option has been removed.
1290	Implementations of distilling algorithms can still be made loadable
1291	with "options RANDOM_LOADABLE" (e.g., random_fortuna.ko).
1292
129320190612:
1294	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
1295	been upgraded to 8.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
1296	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
1297	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1298
129920190608:
1300	A fix was applied to i386 kernel modules to avoid panics with
1301	dpcpu or vnet.  Users need to recompile i386 kernel modules
1302	having pcpu or vnet sections or they will refuse to load.
1303
130420190513:
1305	User-wired pages now have their own counter,
1306	vm.stats.vm.v_user_wire_count.  The vm.max_wired sysctl was renamed
1307	to vm.max_user_wired and changed from an unsigned int to an unsigned
1308	long.  bhyve VMs wired with the -S are now subject to the user
1309	wiring limit; the vm.max_user_wired sysctl may need to be tuned to
1310	avoid running into the limit.
1311
131220190507:
1313	The IPSEC option has been removed from GENERIC.  Users requiring
1314	ipsec(4) must now load the ipsec(4) kernel module.
1315
131620190507:
1317	The tap(4) driver has been folded into tun(4), and the module has been
1318	renamed to tuntap.  You should update any kld_list="if_tap" or
1319	kld_list="if_tun" entries in /etc/rc.conf, if_tap_load="YES" or
1320	if_tun_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf to load the if_tuntap
1321	module instead, and "device tap" or "device tun" entries in kernel
1322	config files to select the tuntap device instead.
1323
132420190418:
1325	The following knobs have been added related to tradeoffs between
1326	safe use of the random device and availability in the absence of
1327	entropy:
1328
1329	kern.random.initial_seeding.bypass_before_seeding: tunable; set
1330	non-zero to bypass the random device prior to seeding, or zero to
1331	block random requests until the random device is initially seeded.
1332	For now, set to 1 (unsafe) by default to restore pre-r346250 boot
1333	availability properties.
1334
1335	kern.random.initial_seeding.read_random_bypassed_before_seeding:
1336	read-only diagnostic sysctl that is set when bypass is enabled and
1337	read_random(9) is bypassed, to enable programmatic handling of this
1338	initial condition, if desired.
1339
1340	kern.random.initial_seeding.arc4random_bypassed_before_seeding:
1341	Similar to the above, but for arc4random(9) initial seeding.
1342
1343	kern.random.initial_seeding.disable_bypass_warnings: tunable; set
1344	non-zero to disable warnings in dmesg when the same conditions are
1345	met as for the diagnostic sysctls above.  Defaults to zero, i.e.,
1346	produce warnings in dmesg when the conditions are met.
1347
134820190416:
1349	The loadable random module KPI has changed; the random_infra_init()
1350	routine now requires a 3rd function pointer for a bool (*)(void)
1351	method that returns true if the random device is seeded (and
1352	therefore unblocked).
1353
135420190404:
1355	r345895 reverts r320698. This implies that an nfsuserd(8) daemon
1356	built from head sources between r320757 (July 6, 2017) and
1357	r338192 (Aug. 22, 2018) will not work unless the "-use-udpsock"
1358	is added to the command line.
1359	nfsuserd daemons built from head sources that are post-r338192 are
1360	not affected and should continue to work.
1361
136220190320:
1363	The fuse(4) module has been renamed to fusefs(4) for consistency with
1364	other filesystems.  You should update any kld_load="fuse" entries in
1365	/etc/rc.conf, fuse_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf, and
1366	"options FUSE" entries in kernel config files.
1367
136820190304:
1369	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
1370	8.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
1371	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
1372	or higher.
1373
137420190226:
1375	geom_uzip(4) depends on the new module xz.  If geom_uzip is statically
1376	compiled into your custom kernel, add 'device xz' statement to the
1377	kernel config.
1378
137920190219:
1380	drm and drm2 have been removed from the tree. Please see
1381	https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics for the latest information on
1382	migrating to the drm ports.
1383
138420190131:
1385	Iflib is no longer unconditionally compiled into the kernel.  Drivers
1386	using iflib and statically compiled into the kernel, now require
1387	the 'device iflib' config option.  For the same drivers loaded as
1388	modules on kernels not having 'device iflib', the iflib.ko module
1389	is loaded automatically.
1390
139120190125:
1392	The IEEE80211_AMPDU_AGE and AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 kernel configuration
1393	options no longer exist since r343219 and r343427 respectively;
1394	nothing uses them, so they should be just removed from custom
1395	kernel config files.
1396
139720181230:
1398	r342635 changes the way efibootmgr(8) works by requiring users to add
1399	the -b (bootnum) parameter for commands where the bootnum was previously
1400	specified with each option. For example 'efibootmgr -B 0001' is now
1401	'efibootmgr -B -b 0001'.
1402
140320181220:
1404	r342286 modifies the NFSv4 server so that it obeys vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport
1405	in the same as it is applied to NFSv2 and 3.  This implies that NFSv4
1406	servers that have vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport set will only allow mounts
1407	from clients using a reserved port. Since both the FreeBSD and Linux
1408	NFSv4 clients use reserved ports by default, this should not affect
1409	most NFSv4 mounts.
1410
141120181219:
1412	The XLP config has been removed. We can't support 64-bit atomics in this
1413	kernel because it is running in 32-bit mode. XLP users must transition
1414	to running a 64-bit kernel (XLP64 or XLPN32).
1415
1416	The mips GXEMUL support has been removed from FreeBSD. MALTA* + qemu is
1417	the preferred emulator today and we don't need two different ones.
1418
1419	The old sibyte / swarm / Broadcom BCM1250 support has been
1420	removed from the mips port.
1421
142220181211:
1423	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
1424	7.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
1425	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
1426	or higher.
1427
142820181211:
1429	Remove the timed and netdate programs from the base tree.  Setting
1430	the time with these daemons has been obsolete for over a decade.
1431
143220181126:
1433	On amd64, arm64 and armv7 (architectures that install LLVM's ld.lld
1434	linker as /usr/bin/ld) GNU ld is no longer installed as ld.bfd, as
1435	it produces broken binaries when ifuncs are in use.  Users needing
1436	GNU ld should install the binutils port or package.
1437
143820181123:
1439	The BSD crtbegin and crtend code has been enabled by default. It has
1440	had extensive testing on amd64, arm64, and i386. It can be disabled
1441	by building a world with -DWITHOUT_BSD_CRTBEGIN.
1442
144320181115:
1444	The set of CTM commands (ctm, ctm_smail, ctm_rmail, ctm_dequeue)
1445	has been converted to a port (misc/ctm) and will be removed from
1446	FreeBSD-13.  It is available as a package (ctm) for all supported
1447	FreeBSD versions.
1448
144920181110:
1450	The default newsyslog.conf(5) file has been changed to only include
1451	files in /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ and /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ if
1452	the filenames end in '.conf' and do not begin with a '.'.
1453
1454	You should check the configuration files in these two directories match
1455	this naming convention. You can verify which configuration files are
1456	being included using the command:
1457		$ newsyslog -Nrv
1458
145920181019:
1460	Stable/12 was branched created.
1461
146220181015:
1463	Ports for the DRM modules have been simplified. Now, amd64 users should
1464	just install the drm-kmod port. All others should install
1465	drm-legacy-kmod.
1466
1467	Graphics hardware that's newer than about 2010 usually works with
1468	drm-kmod.  For hardware older than 2013, however, some users will need
1469	to use drm-legacy-kmod if drm-kmod doesn't work for them. Hardware older
1470	than 2008 usually only works in drm-legacy-kmod. The graphics team can
1471	only commit to hardware made since 2013 due to the complexity of the
1472	market and difficulty to test all the older cards effectively. If you
1473	have hardware supported by drm-kmod, you are strongly encouraged to use
1474	that as you will get better support.
1475
1476	Other than KPI chasing, drm-legacy-kmod will not be updated. As outlined
1477	elsewhere, the drm and drm2 modules will be eliminated from the src base
1478	soon (with a limited exception for arm). Please update to the package
1479	asap and report any issues to x11@freebsd.org.
1480
1481	Generally, anybody using the drm*-kmod packages should add
1482	WITHOUT_DRM_MODULE=t and WITHOUT_DRM2_MODULE=t to avoid nasty
1483	cross-threading surprises, especially with automatic driver
1484	loading from X11 startup. These will become the defaults in 13-current
1485	shortly.
1486
148720181012:
1488	The ixlv(4) driver has been renamed to iavf(4).  As a consequence,
1489	custom kernel and module loading configuration files must be updated
1490	accordingly.  Moreover, interfaces previous presented as ixlvN to the
1491	system are now exposed as iavfN and network configuration files must
1492	be adjusted as necessary.
1493
149420181009:
1495	OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1.  This update included
1496	additional various API changes throughout the base system.  It is
1497	important to rebuild third-party software after upgrading.  The value
1498	of __FreeBSD_version has been bumped accordingly.
1499
150020181006:
1501	The legacy DRM modules and drivers have now been added to the loader's
1502	module blacklist, in favor of loading them with kld_list in rc.conf(5).
1503	The module blacklist may be overridden with the loader.conf(5)
1504	'module_blacklist' variable, but loading them via rc.conf(5) is strongly
1505	encouraged.
1506
150720181002:
1508	The cam(4) based nda(4) driver will be used over nvd(4) by default on
1509	powerpc64. You may set 'options NVME_USE_NVD=1' in your kernel conf or
1510	loader tunable 'hw.nvme.use_nvd=1' if you wish to use the existing
1511	driver.  Make sure to edit /boot/etc/kboot.conf and fstab to use the
1512	nda device name.
1513
151420180913:
1515	Reproducible build mode is now on by default, in preparation for
1516	FreeBSD 12.0.  This eliminates build metadata such as the user,
1517	host, and time from the kernel (and uname), unless the working tree
1518	corresponds to a modified checkout from a version control system.
1519	The previous behavior can be obtained by setting the /etc/src.conf
1520	knob WITHOUT_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD.
1521
152220180826:
1523	The Yarrow CSPRNG has been removed from the kernel as it has not been
1524	supported by its designers since at least 2003. Fortuna has been the
1525	default since FreeBSD-11.
1526
152720180822:
1528	devctl freeze/thaw have gone into the tree, the rc scripts have been
1529	updated to use them and devmatch has been changed.  You should update
1530	kernel, userland and rc scripts all at the same time.
1531
153220180818:
1533	The default interpreter has been switched from 4th to Lua.
1534	LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP, documented in build(7), will override the default
1535	interpreter.  If you have custom FORTH code you will need to set
1536	LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP=4th (valid values are 4th, lua or simp) in
1537	src.conf for the build.  This will create default hard links between
1538	loader and loader_4th instead of loader and loader_lua, the new default.
1539	If you are using UEFI it will create the proper hard link to loader.efi.
1540
1541	bhyve uses userboot.so. It remains 4th-only until some issues are solved
1542	regarding coexisting with multiple versions of FreeBSD are resolved.
1543
154420180815:
1545	ls(1) now respects the COLORTERM environment variable used in other
1546	systems and software to indicate that a colored terminal is both
1547	supported and desired.  If ls(1) is suddenly emitting colors, they may
1548	be disabled again by either removing the unwanted COLORTERM from your
1549	environment, or using `ls --color=never`.  The ls(1) specific CLICOLOR
1550	may not be observed in a future release.
1551
155220180808:
1553	The default pager for most commands has been changed to "less".  To
1554	restore the old behavior, set PAGER="more" and MANPAGER="more -s" in
1555	your environment.
1556
155720180731:
1558	The jedec_ts(4) driver has been removed. A superset of its functionality
1559	is available in the jedec_dimm(4) driver, and the manpage for that
1560	driver includes migration instructions. If you have "device jedec_ts"
1561	in your kernel configuration file, it must be removed.
1562
156320180730:
1564	amd64/GENERIC now has EFI runtime services, EFIRT, enabled by default.
1565	This should have no effect if the kernel is booted via BIOS/legacy boot.
1566	EFIRT may be disabled via a loader tunable, efi.rt.disabled, if a system
1567	has a buggy firmware that prevents a successful boot due to use of
1568	runtime services.
1569
157020180727:
1571	Atmel AT91RM9200 and AT91SAM9, Cavium CNS 11xx and XScale
1572	support has been removed from the tree. These ports were
1573	obsolete and/or known to be broken for many years.
1574
157520180723:
1576	loader.efi has been augmented to participate more fully in the
1577	UEFI boot manager protocol. loader.efi will now look at the
1578	BootXXXX environment variable to determine if a specific kernel
1579	or root partition was specified. XXXX is derived from BootCurrent.
1580	efibootmgr(8) manages these standard UEFI variables.
1581
158220180720:
1583	zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader.
1584	zfsloader is no longer necessary once you've updated your
1585	boot blocks. For a transition period, we will install a
1586	hardlink for zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition
1587	until the boot blocks can be updated (hard link because old
1588	zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks).
1589
159020180719:
1591	ARM64 now have efifb support, if you want to have serial console
1592	on your arm64 board when an screen is connected and the bootloader
1593	setup a frame buffer for us to use, just add :
1594	boot_serial=YES
1595	boot_multicons=YES
1596	in /boot/loader.conf
1597	For Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI) users, this is needed even if you don't have
1598	an screen connected as the firmware will setup a frame buffer are that
1599	u-boot will expose as an EFI frame buffer.
1600
160120180719:
1602	New uid:gid added, ntpd:ntpd (123:123).  Be sure to run mergemaster
1603	or take steps to update /etc/passwd before doing installworld on
1604	existing systems.  Do not skip the "mergemaster -Fp" step before
1605	installworld, as described in the update procedures near the bottom
1606	of this document.  Also, rc.d/ntpd now starts ntpd(8) as user ntpd
1607	if the new mac_ntpd(4) policy is available, unless ntpd_flags or
1608	the ntp config file contain options that change file/dir locations.
1609	When such options (e.g., "statsdir" or "crypto") are used, ntpd can
1610	still be run as non-root by setting ntpd_user=ntpd in rc.conf, after
1611	taking steps to ensure that all required files/dirs are accessible
1612	by the ntpd user.
1613
161420180717:
1615	Big endian arm support has been removed.
1616
161720180711:
1618	The static environment setup in kernel configs is no longer mutually
1619	exclusive with the loader(8) environment by default.  In order to
1620	restore the previous default behavior of disabling the loader(8)
1621	environment if a static environment is present, you must specify
1622	loader_env.disabled=1 in the static environment.
1623
162420180705:
1625	The ABI of syscalls used by management tools like sockstat and
1626	netstat has been broken to allow 32-bit binaries to work on
1627	64-bit kernels without modification.  These programs will need
1628	to match the kernel in order to function.  External programs may
1629	require minor modifications to accommodate a change of type in
1630	structures from pointers to 64-bit virtual addresses.
1631
163220180702:
1633	On i386 and amd64 atomics are now inlined. Out of tree modules using
1634	atomics will need to be rebuilt.
1635
163620180701:
1637	The '%I' format in the kern.corefile sysctl limits the number of
1638	core files that a process can generate to the number stored in the
1639	debug.ncores sysctl. The '%I' format is replaced by the single digit
1640	index. Previously, if all indexes were taken the kernel would overwrite
1641	only a core file with the highest index in a filename.
1642	Currently the system will create a new core file if there is a free
1643	index or if all slots are taken it will overwrite the oldest one.
1644
164520180630:
1646	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
1647	6.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
1648	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
1649	or higher.
1650
165120180628:
1652	r335753 introduced a new quoting method. However, etc/devd/devmatch.conf
1653	needed to be changed to work with it. This change was made with r335763
1654	and requires a mergemaster / etcupdate / etc to update the installed
1655	file.
1656
165720180612:
1658	r334930 changed the interface between the NFS modules, so they all
1659	need to be rebuilt.  r335018 did a __FreeBSD_version bump for this.
1660
166120180530:
1662	As of r334391 lld is the default amd64 system linker; it is installed
1663	as /usr/bin/ld.  Kernel build workarounds (see 20180510 entry) are no
1664	longer necessary.
1665
166620180530:
1667	The kernel / userland interface for devinfo changed, so you'll
1668	need a new kernel and userland as a pair for it to work (rebuilding
1669	lib/libdevinfo is all that's required). devinfo and devmatch will
1670	not work, but everything else will when there's a mismatch.
1671
167220180523:
1673	The on-disk format for hwpmc callchain records has changed to include
1674	threadid corresponding to a given record. This changes the field offsets
1675	and thus requires that libpmcstat be rebuilt before using a kernel
1676	later than r334108.
1677
167820180517:
1679	The vxge(4) driver has been removed.  This driver was introduced into
1680	HEAD one week before the Exar left the Ethernet market and is not
1681	known to be used.  If you have device vxge in your kernel config file
1682	it must be removed.
1683
168420180510:
1685	The amd64 kernel now requires a ld that supports ifunc to produce a
1686	working kernel, either lld or a newer binutils. lld is built by default
1687	on amd64, and the 'buildkernel' target uses it automatically. However,
1688	it is not the default linker, so building the kernel the traditional
1689	way requires LD=ld.lld on the command line (or LD=/usr/local/bin/ld for
1690	binutils port/package). lld will soon be default, and this requirement
1691	will go away.
1692
1693	NOTE: As of r334391 lld is the default system linker on amd64, and no
1694	workaround is necessary.
1695
169620180508:
1697	The nxge(4) driver has been removed.  This driver was for PCI-X 10g
1698	cards made by s2io/Neterion.  The company was acquired by Exar and
1699	no longer sells or supports Ethernet products.  If you have device
1700	nxge in your kernel config file it must be removed.
1701
170220180504:
1703	The tz database (tzdb) has been updated to 2018e.  This version more
1704	correctly models time stamps in time zones with negative DST such as
1705	Europe/Dublin (from 1971 on), Europe/Prague (1946/7), and
1706	Africa/Windhoek (1994/2017).  This does not affect the UT offsets, only
1707	time zone abbreviations and the tm_isdst flag.
1708
170920180502:
1710	The ixgb(4) driver has been removed.  This driver was for an early and
1711	uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a single ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel
1712	quickly shifted to the long lived ixgbe family.  If you have device
1713	ixgb in your kernel config file it must be removed.
1714
171520180501:
1716	The lmc(4) driver has been removed.  This was a WAN interface
1717	card that was already reportedly rare in 2003, and had an ambiguous
1718	license.  If you have device lmc in your kernel config file it must
1719	be removed.
1720
172120180413:
1722	Support for Arcnet networks has been removed.  If you have device
1723	arcnet or device cm in your kernel config file they must be
1724	removed.
1725
172620180411:
1727	Support for FDDI networks has been removed.  If you have device
1728	fddi or device fpa in your kernel config file they must be
1729	removed.
1730
173120180406:
1732	In addition to supporting RFC 3164 formatted messages, the
1733	syslogd(8) service is now capable of parsing RFC 5424 formatted
1734	log messages. The main benefit of using RFC 5424 is that clients
1735	may now send log messages with timestamps containing year numbers,
1736	microseconds and time zone offsets.
1737
1738	Similarly, the syslog(3) C library function has been altered to
1739	send RFC 5424 formatted messages to the local system logging
1740	daemon. On systems using syslogd(8), this change should have no
1741	negative impact, as long as syslogd(8) and the C library are
1742	updated at the same time. On systems using a different system
1743	logging daemon, it may be necessary to make configuration
1744	adjustments, depending on the software used.
1745
1746	When using syslog-ng, add the 'syslog-protocol' flag to local
1747	input sources to enable parsing of RFC 5424 formatted messages:
1748
1749		source src {
1750			unix-dgram("/var/run/log" flags(syslog-protocol));
1751		}
1752
1753	When using rsyslog, disable the 'SysSock.UseSpecialParser' option
1754	of the 'imuxsock' module to let messages be processed by the
1755	regular RFC 3164/5424 parsing pipeline:
1756
1757		module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.UseSpecialParser="off")
1758
1759	Do note that these changes only affect communication between local
1760	applications and syslogd(8). The format that syslogd(8) uses to
1761	store messages on disk or forward messages to other systems
1762	remains unchanged. syslogd(8) still uses RFC 3164 for these
1763	purposes. Options to customize this behaviour will be added in the
1764	future. Utilities that process log files stored in /var/log are
1765	thus expected to continue to function as before.
1766
1767	__FreeBSD_version has been incremented to 1200061 to denote this
1768	change.
1769
177020180328:
1771	Support for token ring networks has been removed. If you
1772	have "device token" in your kernel config you should remove
1773	it. No device drivers supported token ring.
1774
177520180323:
1776	makefs was modified to be able to tag ISO9660 El Torito boot catalog
1777	entries as EFI instead of overloading the i386 tag as done previously.
1778	The amd64 mkisoimages.sh script used to build amd64 ISO images for
1779	release was updated to use this. This may mean that makefs must be
1780	updated before "make cdrom" can be run in the release directory. This
1781	should be as simple as:
1782
1783		$ cd $SRCDIR/usr.sbin/makefs
1784		$ make depend all install
1785
178620180212:
1787	FreeBSD boot loader enhanced with Lua scripting. It's purely opt-in for
1788	now by building WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH in /etc/src.conf.
1789	Co-existence for the transition period will come shortly. Booting is a
1790	complex environment and test coverage for Lua-enabled loaders has been
1791	thin, so it would be prudent to assume it might not work and make
1792	provisions for backup boot methods.
1793
179420180211:
1795	devmatch functionality has been turned on in devd. It will automatically
1796	load drivers for unattached devices. This may cause unexpected drivers
1797	to be loaded. Please report any problems to current@ and
1798	imp@freebsd.org.
1799
180020180114:
1801	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
1802	6.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
1803	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
1804	or higher.
1805
180620180110:
1807	LLVM's lld linker is now used as the FreeBSD/amd64 bootstrap linker.
1808	This means it is used to link the kernel and userland libraries and
1809	executables, but is not yet installed as /usr/bin/ld by default.
1810
1811	To revert to ld.bfd as the bootstrap linker, in /etc/src.conf set
1812	WITHOUT_LLD_BOOTSTRAP=yes
1813
181420180110:
1815	On i386, pmtimer has been removed. Its functionality has been folded
1816	into apm. It was a no-op on ACPI in current for a while now (but was
1817	still needed on i386 in FreeBSD 11 and earlier). Users may need to
1818	remove it from kernel config files.
1819
182020180104:
1821	The use of RSS hash from the network card aka flowid has been
1822	disabled by default for lagg(4) as it's currently incompatible with
1823	the lacp and loadbalance protocols.
1824
1825	This can be re-enabled by setting the following in loader.conf:
1826	net.link.lagg.default_use_flowid="1"
1827
182820180102:
1829	The SW_WATCHDOG option is no longer necessary to enable the
1830	hardclock-based software watchdog if no hardware watchdog is
1831	configured. As before, SW_WATCHDOG will cause the software
1832	watchdog to be enabled even if a hardware watchdog is configured.
1833
183420171215:
1835	r326887 fixes the issue described in the 20171214 UPDATING entry.
1836	r326888 flips the switch back to building GELI support always.
1837
183820171214:
1839	r362593 broke ZFS + GELI support for reasons unknown. However,
1840	it also broke ZFS support generally, so GELI has been turned off
1841	by default as the lesser evil in r326857. If you boot off ZFS and/or
1842	GELI, it might not be a good time to update.
1843
184420171125:
1845	PowerPC users must update loader(8) by rebuilding world before
1846	installing a new kernel, as the protocol connecting them has
1847	changed. Without the update, loader metadata will not be passed
1848	successfully to the kernel and users will have to enter their
1849	root partition at the kernel mountroot prompt to continue booting.
1850	Newer versions of loader can boot old kernels without issue.
1851
185220171110:
1853	The LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT build variable has been renamed to
1854	WITH/OUT_LOADER_FIREWIRE. LOADER_{NO_,}GELI_SUPPORT has been renamed
1855	to WITH/OUT_LOADER_GELI.
1856
185720171106:
1858	The naive and non-compliant support of posix_fallocate(2) in ZFS
1859	has been removed as of r325320.  The system call now returns EINVAL
1860	when used on a ZFS file.  Although the new behavior complies with the
1861	standard, some consumers are not prepared to cope with it.
1862	One known victim is lld prior to r325420.
1863
186420171102:
1865	Building in a FreeBSD src checkout will automatically create object
1866	directories now rather than store files in the current directory if
1867	'make obj' was not ran.  Calling 'make obj' is no longer necessary.
1868	This feature can be disabled by setting WITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ=yes in
1869	/etc/src-env.conf (not /etc/src.conf), or passing the option in the
1870	environment.
1871
187220171101:
1873	The default MAKEOBJDIR has changed from /usr/obj/<srcdir> for native
1874	builds, and /usr/obj/<arch>/<srcdir> for cross-builds, to a unified
1875	/usr/obj/<srcdir>/<arch>.  This behavior can be changed to the old
1876	format by setting WITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR=yes in /etc/src-env.conf,
1877	the environment, or with -DWITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR when building.
1878	The UNIFIED_OBJDIR option is a transitional feature that will be
1879	removed for 12.0 release; please migrate to the new format for any
1880	tools by looking up the OBJDIR used by 'make -V .OBJDIR' means rather
1881	than hardcoding paths.
1882
188320171028:
1884	The native-xtools target no longer installs the files by default to the
1885	OBJDIR.  Use the native-xtools-install target with a DESTDIR to install
1886	to ${DESTDIR}/${NXTP} where NXTP defaults to /nxb-bin.
1887
188820171021:
1889	As part of the boot loader infrastructure cleanup, LOADER_*_SUPPORT
1890	options are changing from controlling the build if defined / undefined
1891	to controlling the build with explicit 'yes' or 'no' values. They will
1892	shift to WITH/WITHOUT options to match other options in the system.
1893
189420171010:
1895	libstand has turned into a private library for sys/boot use only.
1896	It is no longer supported as a public interface outside of sys/boot.
1897
189820171005:
1899	The arm port has split armv6 into armv6 and armv7. armv7 is now
1900	a valid TARGET_ARCH/MACHINE_ARCH setting. If you have an armv7 system
1901	and are running a kernel from before r324363, you will need to add
1902	MACHINE_ARCH=armv7 to 'make buildworld' to do a native build.
1903
190420171003:
1905	When building multiple kernels using KERNCONF, non-existent KERNCONF
1906	files will produce an error and buildkernel will fail. Previously
1907	missing KERNCONF files silently failed giving no indication as to
1908	why, only to subsequently discover during installkernel that the
1909	desired kernel was never built in the first place.
1910
191120170912:
1912	The default serial number format for CTL LUNs has changed.  This will
1913	affect users who use /dev/diskid/* device nodes, or whose FibreChannel
1914	or iSCSI clients care about their LUNs' serial numbers.  Users who
1915	require serial number stability should hardcode serial numbers in
1916	/etc/ctl.conf .
1917
191820170912:
1919	For 32-bit arm compiled for hard-float support, soft-floating point
1920	binaries now always get their shared libraries from
1921	LD_SOFT_LIBRARY_PATH (in the past, this was only used if
1922	/usr/libsoft also existed). Only users with a hard-float ld.so, but
1923	soft-float everything else should be affected.
1924
192520170826:
1926	The geli password typed at boot is now hidden.  To restore the previous
1927	behavior, see geli(8) for configuration options.
1928
192920170825:
1930	Move PMTUD blackhole counters to TCPSTATS and remove them from bare
1931	sysctl values.  Minor nit, but requires a rebuild of both world/kernel
1932	to complete.
1933
193420170814:
1935	"make check" behavior (made in ^/head@r295380) has been changed to
1936	execute from a limited sandbox, as opposed to executing from
1937	${TESTSDIR}.
1938
1939	Behavioral changes:
1940	- The "beforecheck" and "aftercheck" targets are now specified.
1941	- ${CHECKDIR} (added in commit noted above) has been removed.
1942	- Legacy behavior can be enabled by setting
1943	  WITHOUT_MAKE_CHECK_USE_SANDBOX in src.conf(5) or the environment.
1944
1945	If the limited sandbox mode is enabled, "make check" will execute
1946	"make distribution", then install, execute the tests, and clean up the
1947	sandbox if successful.
1948
1949	The "make distribution" and "make install" targets are typically run as
1950	root to set appropriate permissions and ownership at installation time.
1951	The end-user should set "WITH_INSTALL_AS_USER" in src.conf(5) or the
1952	environment if executing "make check" with limited sandbox mode using
1953	an unprivileged user.
1954
195520170808:
1956	Since the switch to GPT disk labels, fsck for UFS/FFS has been
1957	unable to automatically find alternate superblocks. As of r322297,
1958	the information needed to find alternate superblocks has been
1959	moved to the end of the area reserved for the boot block.
1960	Filesystems created with a newfs of this vintage or later
1961	will create the recovery information. If you have a filesystem
1962	created prior to this change and wish to have a recovery block
1963	created for your filesystem, you can do so by running fsck in
1964	foreground mode (i.e., do not use the -p or -y options). As it
1965	starts, fsck will ask ``SAVE DATA TO FIND ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS''
1966	to which you should answer yes.
1967
196820170728:
1969	As of r321665, an NFSv4 server configuration that services
1970	Kerberos mounts or clients that do not support the uid/gid in
1971	owner/owner_group string capability, must explicitly enable
1972	the nfsuserd daemon by adding nfsuserd_enable="YES" to the
1973	machine's /etc/rc.conf file.
1974
197520170722:
1976	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 5.0.0.
1977	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
1978	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1979
198020170701:
1981	WITHOUT_RCMDS is now the default. Set WITH_RCMDS if you need the
1982	r-commands (rlogin, rsh, etc.) to be built with the base system.
1983
198420170625:
1985	The FreeBSD/powerpc platform now uses a 64-bit type for time_t.  This is
1986	a very major ABI incompatible change, so users of FreeBSD/powerpc must
1987	be careful when performing source upgrades.  It is best to run
1988	'make installworld' from an alternate root system, either a live
1989	CD/memory stick, or a temporary root partition.  Additionally, all ports
1990	must be recompiled.  powerpc64 is largely unaffected, except in the case
1991	of 32-bit compatibility.  All 32-bit binaries will be affected.
1992
199320170623:
1994	Forward compatibility for the "ino64" project have been committed. This
1995	will allow most new binaries to run on older kernels in a limited
1996	fashion.  This prevents many of the common foot-shooting actions in the
1997	upgrade as well as the limited ability to roll back the kernel across
1998	the ino64 upgrade. Complicated use cases may not work properly, though
1999	enough simpler ones work to allow recovery in most situations.
2000
200120170620:
2002	Switch back to the BSDL dtc (Device Tree Compiler). Set WITH_GPL_DTC
2003	if you require the GPL compiler.
2004
200520170619:
2006	Forward compatibility for the "ino64" project have been committed. This
2007	will allow most new binaries to run on older kernels in a limited
2008	fashion.  This prevents many of the common foot-shooting actions in the
2009	upgrade as well as the limited ability to roll back the kernel across
2010	the ino64 upgrade. Complicated use cases may not work properly, though
2011	enough simpler ones work to allow recovery in most situations.
2012
201320170618:
2014	The internal ABI used for communication between the NFS kernel modules
2015	was changed by r320085, so __FreeBSD_version was bumped to
2016	ensure all the NFS related modules are updated together.
2017
201820170617:
2019	The ABI of struct event was changed by extending the data
2020	member to 64bit and adding ext fields.  For upgrade, same
2021	precautions as for the entry 20170523 "ino64" must be
2022	followed.
2023
202420170531:
2025	The GNU roff toolchain has been removed from base. To render manpages
2026	which are not supported by mandoc(1), man(1) can fallback on GNU roff
2027	from ports (and recommends to install it).
2028	To render roff(7) documents, consider using GNU roff from ports or the
2029	heirloom doctools roff toolchain from ports via pkg install groff or
2030	via pkg install heirloom-doctools.
2031
203220170524:
2033	The ath(4) and ath_hal(4) modules now build piecemeal to allow for
2034	smaller runtime footprint builds.  This is useful for embedded systems
2035	which only require one chipset support.
2036
2037	If you load it as a module, make sure this is in /boot/loader.conf:
2038
2039	if_ath_load="YES"
2040
2041	This will load the HAL, all chip/RF backends and if_ath_pci.
2042	If you have if_ath_pci in /boot/loader.conf, ensure it is after
2043	if_ath or it will not load any HAL chipset support.
2044
2045	If you want to selectively load things (eg on cheaper ARM/MIPS
2046	platforms where RAM is at a premium) you should:
2047
2048	* load ath_hal
2049	* load the chip modules in question
2050	* load ath_rate, ath_dfs
2051	* load ath_main
2052	* load if_ath_pci and/or if_ath_ahb depending upon your particular
2053	  bus bind type - this is where probe/attach is done.
2054
2055	For further comments/feedback, poke adrian@ .
2056
205720170523:
2058	The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends
2059	a number of types to 64 bits.  Upgrading in place requires care and
2060	adherence to the documented upgrade procedure.
2061
2062	If using a custom kernel configuration ensure that the
2063	COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option is included (as during the upgrade the
2064	system will be running the ino64 kernel with the existing world).
2065
2066	For the safest in-place upgrade begin by removing previous build
2067	artifacts via "rm -rf /usr/obj/*".  Then, carefully follow the full
2068	procedure documented below under the heading "To rebuild everything and
2069	install it on the current system."  Specifically, a reboot is required
2070	after installing the new kernel before installing world. While an
2071	installworld normally works by accident from multiuser after rebooting
2072	the proper kernel, there are many cases where this will fail across this
2073	upgrade and installworld from single user is required.
2074
207520170424:
2076	The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and
2077	patm(4) devices has been removed.  Consumers should plan a
2078	migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11.
2079
208020170420:
2081	GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU
2082	diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of
2083	GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name.
2084
208520170413:
2086	As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when
2087	keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with
2088	documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state.
2089	This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags
2090	and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state.
2091	To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with
2092	keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5).
2093
209420170407:
2095	arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default,
2096	instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be
2097	installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set
2098	CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin .
2099
210020170405:
2101	The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl
2102	net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted.  L2 broadcast
2103	packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets.
2104
210520170331:
2106	Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now
2107	use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail
2108	instead of using the first assigned address of the jail.
2109
211020170329:
2111	The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend:
2112	cfiscsi.ko does instead.
2113
2114	If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded
2115	via one of the following methods:
2116	- `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5).
2117	- Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5).
2118	- ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support
2119	  (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5))
2120
2121	Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details.
2122
212320170316:
2124	The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko.
2125	Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the
2126	same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was
2127	missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible
2128	with mmc.ko).
2129
213020170315:
2131	The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity.
2132	If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify
2133	them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must
2134	be prefixed with colon.
2135
213620170311:
2137	The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been
2138	removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version
2139	(sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware.
2140
214120170302:
2142	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0.
2143	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
2144	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
2145
214620170221:
2147	The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality
2148	has been reimplemented.  It's not possible now to create a snapshot
2149	by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/.  That should be the only user visible
2150	change.
2151
215220170216:
2153	EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer
2154	valid.
2155
215620170215:
2157	MCA bus support has been removed.
2158
215920170127:
2160	The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed
2161	WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC.
2162
216320170112:
2164	The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that
2165	the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications.
2166
216720170109:
2168	The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via
2169	IFLIB.  If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4)
2170	but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom
2171	configuration.
2172
217320161217:
2174	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1.
2175	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
2176	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
2177
217820161124:
2179	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0.
2180	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
2181	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
2182
218320161119:
2184	The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap
2185	statistics at the front for all CPU variations.  libkvm(3) and all tools
2186	that link against it need to be recompiled.
2187
218820161030:
2189	isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver,
2190	chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware.
2191	On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using
2192	device hints.  Please see the corresponding manual pages for details.
2193
219420161017:
2195	The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of
2196	rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific
2197	parts.
2198	Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name
2199	conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B))
2200
220120161015:
2202	GNU rcs has been removed from base.  It is available as packages:
2203	- rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version.
2204	- rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was
2205	removed from base.
2206
220720161008:
2208	Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control
2209	modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the
2210	TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.)
2211
221220161003:
2213	The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired.
2214	ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy.
2215
221620160924:
2217	Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed
2218	to use an extension of .pico instead.  The purpose of this change is
2219	to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file
2220	systems.  On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so.
2221
222220160918:
2223	GNU rcs has been turned off by default.  It can (temporarily) be built
2224	again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf.
2225	Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages:
2226	- rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version.
2227	- rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base.
2228
222920160918:
2230	The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr.
2231
223220160908:
2233	The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into
2234	two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and
2235	QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH.  Define both for the original
2236	QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior.
2237
223820160824:
2239	r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace
2240	programs and the kernel.  ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be
2241	rebuilt to work with new kernels.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped
2242	to 1200005.
2243
224420160818:
2245	The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP
2246	packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3
2247	broadcast packets.  It is not expected that this will affect any
2248	standards-conforming UDP application.  The new behaviour can be
2249	disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to
2250	0.
2251
225220160818:
2253	Remove the openbsd_poll system call.
2254	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
2255
225620160708:
2257	The stable/11 branch has been created from head@r302406.
2258
2259After branch N is created, entries older than the N-2 branch point are removed
2260from this file. After stable/14 is branched and current becomes FreeBSD 15,
2261entries older than stable/12 branch point will be removed from current's
2262UPDATING file.
2263
2264COMMON ITEMS:
2265
2266	General Notes
2267	-------------
2268	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
2269	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
2270	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
2271	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
2272	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
2273	Occasionally a build failure will occur with "make -j" due to a race
2274	condition.  If this happens try building again without -j, and please
2275	report a bug if it happens consistently.
2276
2277	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to
2278	upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then
2279	do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path,
2280	and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try this
2281	approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade.  Since
2282	the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgrade from
2283	anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the
2284	last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's
2285	an exception.
2286
2287	The update process will emit an error on an attempt to perform a build
2288	or install from a FreeBSD version below the earliest supported version.
2289	When updating from an older version the update should be performed one
2290	major release at a time, including running `make delete-old` at each
2291	step.
2292
2293	When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before
2294	installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell
2295	around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your
2296	starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade.
2297
2298	This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes
2299	information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted.
2300	Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be
2301	placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check
2302	older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries
2303	should write them with this in mind.
2304
2305	ZFS notes
2306	---------
2307	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version (via zpool upgrade),
2308	always follow these three steps:
2309
2310	1) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
2311	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
2312
2313	2) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive (only required when
2314	doing a zpool upgrade):
2315
2316	When booting on x86 via BIOS, use the following to update the ZFS boot
2317	block on the freebsd-boot partition of a GPT partitioned drive ada0:
2318		gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i $N ada0
2319	The value $N will typically be 1.  For EFI booting, see EFI notes.
2320
2321	3) zpool upgrade the root pool. New bootblocks will work with old
2322	pools, but not vice versa, so they need to be updated before any
2323	zpool upgrade.
2324
2325	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
2326
2327	EFI notes
2328	---------
2329
2330	There are two locations the boot loader can be installed into. The
2331	current location (and the default) is \efi\freebsd\loader.efi and using
2332	efibootmgr(8) to configure it. The old location, that must be used on
2333	deficient systems that don't honor efibootmgr(8) protocols, is the
2334	fallback location of \EFI\BOOT\BOOTxxx.EFI. Generally, you will copy
2335	/boot/loader.efi to this location, but on systems installed a long time
2336	ago the ESP may be too small and /boot/boot1.efi may be needed unless
2337	the ESP has been expanded in the meantime.
2338
2339	Recent systems will have the ESP mounted on /boot/efi, but older ones
2340	may not have it mounted at all, or mounted in a different
2341	location. Older arm SD images with MBR used /boot/msdos as the
2342	mountpoint. The ESP is a MSDOS filesystem.
2343
2344	The EFI boot loader rarely needs to be updated. For ZFS booting,
2345	however, you must update loader.efi before you do 'zpool upgrade' the
2346	root zpool, otherwise the old loader.efi may reject the upgraded zpool
2347	since it does not automatically understand some new features.
2348
2349	See loader.efi(8) and uefi(8) for more details.
2350
2351	To build a kernel
2352	-----------------
2353	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
2354	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
2355	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
2356
2357	make kernel-toolchain
2358	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2359	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2360
2361	If you are running kernel modules from ports, see FOOTNOTE [1].
2362
2363	To test a kernel once
2364	---------------------
2365	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
2366	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
2367	debugging information) run
2368	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
2369	nextboot -k testkernel
2370
2371	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
2372	-----------------------------------------------------------
2373	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
2374	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
2375
2376	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>		[2]
2377	make buildworld
2378	<make sure any needed PORTS_MODULES are set>	[1]
2379	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2380	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2381	<reboot in single user>				[3]
2382	etcupdate -p					[5]
2383	make installworld
2384	etcupdate -B					[4]
2385	make delete-old					[6]
2386	<reboot>
2387
2388	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
2389	--------------------------------------------------
2390	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
2391	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
2392	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
2393	# size.
2394
2395	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
2396	<boot into -stable>
2397	make buildworld
2398	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE	[1]
2399	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
2400	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
2401	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC
2402	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
2403	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
2404	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
2405	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
2406	<reboot into current>
2407	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
2408	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
2409	<reboot>
2410
2411
2412	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
2413	----------------------------------------------
2414	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>		[2]
2415	make buildworld					[9]
2416	<make sure any needed PORTS_MODULES are set>	[1]
2417	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE	[8]
2418	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2419	<reboot in single user>				[3]
2420	etcupdate -p					[5]
2421	make installworld
2422	etcupdate -B					[4]
2423	make delete-old					[6]
2424	<reboot>
2425
2426	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
2427	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
2428	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
2429	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
2430	the UPDATING entries.
2431
2432	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
2433	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
2434	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
2435	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
2436	much fewer pitfalls.
2437
2438FOOTNOTES:
2439
2440	[1] If you have third party modules, such as drm-kmod or vmware, you
2441	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your system on
2442	reboot. Alternatively, you should rebuild all the modules you have in
2443	your system and install them as well.  If you are running -current, you
2444	should seriously consider placing all sources to all the modules for
2445	your system (or symlinks to them) in /usr/local/sys/modules so this
2446	happens automatically. If all your modules come from ports, then adding
2447	the port origin directories to PORTS_MODULES instead is also automatic
2448	and effective, eg:
2449	     PORTS_MODULES+=graphics/drm-kmod graphics/nvidia-drm-kmod
2450
2451	[2] To make complete dumps on zfs(4), use bectl(8), which
2452	creates bootable snapshots of configurable depth that are
2453	selectable via the bootloader. For ufs(4), use dump(8) and
2454	restore(8).
2455
2456	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
2457		fsck -p
2458		mount -u /
2459		mount -a
2460		sh /etc/rc.d/zfs start	# mount zfs filesystem, if needed
2461		cd src			# full path to source
2462		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
2463	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that you boot
2464	into single user mode to do the installworld.
2465
2466	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
2467	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
2468	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
2469	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
2470	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
2471	for potential gotchas.  See etcupdate(8) for more information.
2472
2473	[5] Usually this step is a no-op.  However, from time to time
2474	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
2475	step.
2476
2477	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
2478	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
2479	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
2480
2481	[8] The new kernel must be able to run existing binaries used by an
2482	installworld.  When upgrading across major versions, the new kernel's
2483	configuration must include the correct COMPAT_FREEBSD<n> option for
2484	existing binaries (e.g. COMPAT_FREEBSD11 to run 11.x binaries).  Failure
2485	to do so may leave you with a system that is hard to boot to recover. A
2486	GENERIC kernel will include suitable compatibility options to run
2487	binaries from older branches.  Note that the ability to run binaries
2488	from unsupported branches is not guaranteed.
2489
2490	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
2491	last time you updated your kernel config file. Options also
2492	change over time, so you may need to adjust your custom kernels
2493	for these as well.
2494
2495	[9] If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
2496	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
2497	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
2498
2499	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
2500	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
2501	warn if it is improperly defined.
2502FORMAT:
2503
2504This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
2505breakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
2506list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011.
2507If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
2508to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
2509
2510Copyright information:
2511
2512Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
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