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1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users.
2
3This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>.
4See end of file for further details.  For commonly done items, please see the
5COMMON ITEMS: section later in the file.  These instructions assume that you
6basically know what you are doing.  If not, then please consult the FreeBSD
7handbook:
8
9    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
10
11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
12/usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before running portupgrade.
13
14NOTE: FreeBSD has switched from gcc to clang. If you have trouble bootstrapping
15from older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG and WITH_GCC to bootstrap to
16the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process from
17older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile.
18
19NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 11.x IS SLOW:
20	FreeBSD 11.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel
21	and userland.  These features attempt to detect incorrect use of
22	system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity
23	checking and fail stop semantics.  They also substantially impact
24	system performance.  If you want to do performance measurement,
25	benchmarking, and optimization, you'll want to turn them off.  This
26	includes various WITNESS- related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc
27	debugging flags in userland, and various verbose features in the
28	kernel.  Many developers choose to disable these features on build
29	machines to maximize performance.  (To completely disable malloc
30	debugging, define MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/make.conf, or to merely
31	disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
32	"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
33
3420151011:
35	Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed.
36	It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases
37	and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.*
38	environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links.
39
4020151006:
41	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0.
42	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
43	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
44
4520150924:
46	Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/,
47	and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements
48	on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with
49	userland debug files.
50
51	When using the supported kernel installation method the
52	/usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old)
53	as is done with /boot/kernel.
54
55	Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing
56	debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5).
57
5820150827:
59	The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent
60	interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts
61	used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old
62	scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3)
63	or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your
64	rc.d scripts in /etc.
65
6620150827:
67	pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl'
68	These configurations are now automatically interpreted as
69	'scrub fragment reassemble'.
70
7120150817:
72	Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use
73	them, the kernel must have
74
75	device	random
76	options	RANDOM_LOADABLE
77
78	kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko
79	or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect
80	function calls that the loadable modules need to provide,
81	the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient.
82
83	The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to
84	unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway.
85
8620150813:
87	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired.
88	Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by
89	the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob.
90
9120150810:
92	The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the
93	uart(4) driver has been corrected.  Prior to this change the PPS
94	"assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS
95	pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse.
96
97	As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the
98	order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant
99	difference with this change.
100
101	Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by
102	configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to
103	remove that workaround.
104
10520150809:
106	The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed
107	from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have
108	access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group
109	with:
110
111	# pw groupmod video -m $USER
112
11320150806:
114	The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during
115	upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and
116	loader.rc.local instead.
117
11820150805:
119	GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size,
120	strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob
121	WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools.
122
12320150728:
124	As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some
125	architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than
126	ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing).
127
128	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater
129	than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations.
130
13120150706:
132	sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2.  Starting with FreeBSD 11.0
133	and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by
134	default, i.e., they will not contain "::".  For example, instead
135	of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1.  This permits a zero subnet
136	to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for
137	IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0.  This change requires that configuration
138	data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must
139	use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is
140	upgrading.  As a very simple check search for patterns like
141	'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'.  To return to the old
142	behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or
143	the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses.
144
14520150630:
146	The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now
147	Fortuna, replacing Yarrow.
148
149	Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config
150	file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override
151	this default. You may choose *ONE* of:
152
153	options	RANDOM_YARROW	# Legacy /dev/random algorithm.
154	options	RANDOM_DUMMY	# Blocking-only driver.
155
156	If you have neither, you get Fortuna.  For most people,
157	read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works
158	like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant.
159
160	If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed
161	entopy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building
162	embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading,
163	and it is assumed you know what you need.
164
165	*PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the
166	habit of tweeking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member
167	of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual
168	behaviour from your security subsystems.
169
170	NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device
171	random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and
172	many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH.
173	You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set
174	of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3)
175	and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND
176	sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to
177	share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this
178	will never happen.
179
18020150623:
181	An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail
182	entry below has been been committed in revision 284717.
183
18420150616:
185	FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is
186	available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake.
187
18820150615:
189	The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry
190	below has been been committed in revision 284436.  The work
191	around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the
192	default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration
193	setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file.
194
19520150614:
196	ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from
197	atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf
198	and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work
199	with Kyuafile and kyua.
200
20120150614:
202	The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl
203	security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes
204	with DH parameters below 768 bits.  sendmail releases prior
205	to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit
206	DH parameter setting for client connections.  To work around
207	this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a
208	2048 bit DH parameter by:
209
210	1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc
211	2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or
212	   exists and is set to a string beginning with '5',
213	   replace it with '2'.
214	3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to
215	   a file path, create a new file with:
216		openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048
217	4. Rebuild the .cf file:
218		cd /etc/mail/; make; make install
219	5. Restart sendmail:
220		cd /etc/mail/; make restart
221
222	A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be
223	updated.
224
22520150604:
226	Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default
227	in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted
228	entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new,
229	machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD
230	5.x.
231
232	Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details.
233
23420150525:
235	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release.  Please see the
236	20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading,
237	if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
238
23920150521:
240	TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update
241	may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black,
242	and Pandaboard:
243
244	- dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the
245	  same but content is different now
246	- GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank)
247	  has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old
248	  addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3.
249	- Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is
250	  now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0
251
25220150501:
253	soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim.
254	If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff
255	from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff.
256
25720150423:
258	chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as
259	defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored.
260
26120150415:
262	The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with
263	POSIX.  The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards.
264
26520150416:
266	Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding
267	DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies.  This is now
268	enforced in src.libnames.mk.
269
27020150324:
271	From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers
272	supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4).
273	Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely,
274	replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively.
275
27620150315:
277	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release.  Please see
278	the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
279	upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
280
28120150307:
282	The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent
283	executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8)
284	newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and
285	kernel before rebooting.
286
28720150217:
288	If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014),
289	but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly.  Immediately
290	upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g.
291	ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that
292	range.  This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random
293	or /dev/urandom.  All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected.
294
29520150210:
296	The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility
297	with 10.1-RELEASE.  The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work
298	with the new kernel.
299
30020150131:
301	The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent
302	executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8),
303	so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting.
304
30520150118:
306	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release.  This is a bugfix
307	only release, no new features have been added.  Please see the 20141231
308	entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you
309	are not already using 3.5.0.
310
31120150107:
312	ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now
313	taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They
314	should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support.
315	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the
316	binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information.
317
31820150105:
319	The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control
320	using a local socket.  Users who have already enabled the
321	local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration
322	by running "service local_unbound setup" as root.
323
32420150102:
325	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed.
326	To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports.
327
32820141231:
329	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release.
330
331	As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is
332	a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library.  This means that to
333	be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with
334	clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler
335	should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your
336	system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or
337	later.
338
339	On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and
340	libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out
341	of the box.
342
343	On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and
344	powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be
345	built (with clang) and installed first.  If both clang and libc++ are
346	missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++.
347
348	On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow
349	the instructions for 9.x above.
350
351	Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by
352	default, and do not build clang.
353
354	Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to
355	build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all.  In those
356	cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround.
357
358	This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which
359	the following are most likely to appear:
360
361	-Wabsolute-value
362
363	This warns in two cases, for both C and C++:
364	* When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned
365	  quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was
366	  intended.  The code should be fixed, if at all possible.  If you are
367	  sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without
368	  loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit
369	  cast, or disable the warning.
370
371	* When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called
372	  abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation.
373	  If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please
374	  make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted
375	  side-effects.
376
377	-Wtautological-undefined-compare and
378	-Wundefined-bool-conversion
379
380	These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while
381	'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code.  However, there is
382	some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this
383	feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions.
384
385	Squid and openjdk do this, for example.  The warning can be turned off
386	for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result
387	in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are
388	unreachable could be optimized away.
389
39020141222:
391	The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER)
392	kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some
393	utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later.
394	If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail.
395	If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used,
396	the utilities will report errors.
397
39820141121:
399	The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of
400	directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent
401	directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS.  Users with build systems with
402	such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent
403	directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to
404	LOCAL_DIRS.
405
40620141109:
407	faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith
408	has been obsolete for a very long time.
409
41020141104:
411	vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings
412	support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as
413	support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video
414	drivers.
415
416	You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf,
417	most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will
418	indicate what you need to do.
419
420	vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to
421	syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information:
422	  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
423
424	If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding
425	the following line to /boot/loader.conf:
426	  kern.vty=sc
427
42820141102:
429	pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite.
430	Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to
431	execute it.
432
43320141009:
434	gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures
435	that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the
436	devel/gperf port.
437
43820140923:
439	pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to
440	contrib/pjdfstest .
441
44220140922:
443	At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted
444	to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure
445	update.  If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports,
446	add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf.  Users are
447	encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during
448	their next update cycle.
449
45020140729:
451	The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when
452	using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This
453	will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from
454	initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to
455	1.12.4_8 or newer.
456
45720140723:
458	The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and
459	TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH.
460
46120140719:
462	The default unbound configuration has been modified to address
463	issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private
464	address ranges.  If you use the local_unbound service, run
465	"service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your
466	configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the
467	new configuration.
468
46920140709:
470	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed
471	anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install
472	them again.
473	UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal
474
47520140708:
476	The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is
477	statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base
478	system, and the shared library is no longer installed.  The
479	devel/readline port is available for third party software that
480	requires readline.
481
48220140702:
483	The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of
484	known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the
485	architecture.
486
48720140701:
488	Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from
489	projects/nfsv4.1-server.  Since this includes changes to the
490	internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full
491	build of the kernel and modules will be necessary.
492	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
493
49420140629:
495	The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed
496	WITHOUT_VT.  (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning
497	which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.)
498
49920140619:
500	Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to
501	64 chars, that breaks ABI.  All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm
502	and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
503
50420140606:
505	The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and
506	1 respectively to match the upstream numbers.  They were out of
507	sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the
508	upstream versions were not respected.  These libraries are private
509	and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a
510	non-issue.  However, unclean source trees will yield broken test
511	programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a
512	"make installworld".
513
514	Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into
515	/usr/libexec/.  Already-built shell test programs will keep the
516	path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old"
517	is run.
518
519	If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object
520	tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures.
521	This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced
522	binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will
523	be removed during a clean upgrade.
524
52520140512:
526	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release.
527
52820140508:
529	We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should
530	be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to
531	ObsoleteFiles.inc).
532
53320140505:
534	/etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the
535	past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old
536	behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this
537	behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf
538	(which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the
539	behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual
540	directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that.
541	Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios,
542	other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of
543	temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld
544	as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this
545	setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree.
546
547	One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk
548	is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to
549	use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk
550	as well.
551
55220140430:
553	The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a
554	standard device.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
555
55620140424:
557	The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls
558	building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1)
559	in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a
560	build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for
561	build hosts for older releases.
562
563	This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and
564	r276991, respectively.
565
56620140418:
567	The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for
568	a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds
569	will silently lack HESIOD.
570
57120140405:
572	The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling
573	of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented
574	any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL
575	control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make
576	changes to the serial console port without having to reboot.
577	However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is
578	associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal
579	line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact.
580	Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the
581	serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to
582	preserve the previous behaviour. E.g:
583	    ttyu0  "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire"  vt100  on  secure
584
58520140306:
586	Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default
587	to improve performance.  To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind
588	with command line option -W.
589
59020140226:
591	Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream
592	dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need
593	to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps
594	may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail
595	to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler.
596
59720140216:
598	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release.
599
60020140216:
601	The nve(4) driver has been removed.  Please use the nfe(4) driver
602	for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead.
603
60420140212:
605	An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283.
606	This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built
607	against the previous version of libc++ to crash.  The incompatibility
608	has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built
609	between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled.
610
61120140204:
612	OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum
613	capability mode support.  Please note that enabling the feature in
614	kernel is still highly recommended.
615
61620140131:
617	OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as
618	the default privilege separation method.  This requires Capsicum
619	capability mode support in kernel.
620
62120140128:
622	The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer
623	versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for
624	these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries
625	requiring these two libraries should be recompiled.
626	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006.
627
62820140110:
629	If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile
630	instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such
631	Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during
632	NO_CLEAN builds.  This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual
633	intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN:
634	  # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f
635
63620131213:
637	The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism
638	has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string
639	than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function.
640	In particular, the random string produced from a session key of
641	enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will
642	be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change.
643	The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a
644	big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402.
645	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004.
646
64720131108:
648	The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality
649	has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS.  If you were
650	using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you
651	should change your settings to use the latter.
652
65320131025:
654	The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from
655	NetBSD.  The output is generally the same, but may vary
656	slightly.  If you found you need identical output adding
657	"-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick.  For the
658	time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree.
659
66020131014:
661	libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private.
662	This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg
663	1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make
664	delete-old-libs":
665	  # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean
666	  or
667	  # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml
668
66920131010:
670	The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head
671	revision r256279.
672
67320131010:
674	The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8)
675	configuration file.  The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables
676	for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to
677	/var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked.
678	This is transparently backward compatible.  See below about some
679	incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details.
680
681	These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration
682	file.  One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate
683	a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without
684	running the jail(8) utility.   The default pathname of the
685	configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by
686	using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables.
687
688	Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at
689	this moment.  Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name
690	with an integer.
691
69220130930:
693	BIND has been removed from the base system.  If all you need
694	is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound
695	service instead.  Otherwise, several versions of BIND are
696	available in the ports tree.   The dns/bind99 port is one example.
697
698	With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base
699	system.  Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are
700	in the base system.  Alternatively, nslookup and dig can
701	be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port.
702
70320130916:
704	With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now
705	required during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
706	add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
707
70820130911:
709	OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default
710	silently trust signed SSHFP records.  This can be controlled with
711	the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting.  DNSSEC support
712	can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf.
713
71420130906:
715	The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++)
716	are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system
717	compiler.  You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX
718	options in src.conf.
719
72020130905:
721	The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel
722	configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work.
723	If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include
724	'options PROCDESC'.
725
72620130905:
727	The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified
728	in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs
729	have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the
730	following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is
731	advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl,
732	kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq.
733
73420130903:
735	AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc.  The AES-NI module
736	has been updated to use this support.  A new gcc is required to build
737	the aesni module on both i386 and amd64.
738
73920130821:
740	The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices.
741	Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be
742	used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG".
743
74420130813:
745	WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets.  WITH_ICONV now
746	enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default.
747	WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time
748	compatability.  Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way.
749	If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely
750	need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT.
751
75220130806:
753	INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and
754	Illumos origin, including ZFS.  If you have INVARIANTS in your
755	kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG
756	explicitly.
757	DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS)
758	locks if WITNESS option was set.  Because that generated a lot of
759	witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false
760	positives, this is no longer done.  New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS
761	can be used to achieve the previous behavior.
762
76320130806:
764	Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead
765	of time_second.  Although this is not a user-visible functional
766	change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8),
767	rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated
768	to r253970 or later.
769
77020130802:
771	find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments,
772	instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did
773	not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message
774	would result:
775
776	find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe
777
778	Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented
779	without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing
780	directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the
781	old as well as the new version of find.
782
78320130726:
784	Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed.
785	Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs
786	path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by
787	slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs
788	subdirectories must be reviewed.
789
79020130716:
791	The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is
792	incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will
793	need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
794
795	To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set.
796
797	NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and
798	users are advised to upgrade.
799
80020130709:
801	pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it
802	you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5).
803
80420130709:
805	Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able
806	keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking
807	statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.)
808
80920130629:
810	Fix targets that run multiple make's to use && rather than ;
811	so that subsequent steps depend on success of previous.
812
813	NOTE: if building 'universe' with -j* on stable/8 or stable/9
814	it would be better to start the build using bmake, to avoid
815	overloading the machine.
816
81720130618:
818	Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write
819	to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space
820	even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had
821	write access to that file.
822
82320130615:
824	CVS has been removed from the base system.  An exact copy
825	of the code is available from the devel/cvs port.
826
82720130613:
828	Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake:
829
830		make: illegal option -- J
831		usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable]
832			...
833		*** [buildworld] Error code 2
834
835	this likely due to an old instance of make in
836	${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE})
837	which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if
838	you see the above error:
839
840		rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH`
841
842	should resolve it.
843
84420130516:
845	Use bmake by default.
846	Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via
847	-DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old
848	make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE.
849
850	It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command
851	line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the
852	command line.  Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer
853	than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent
854	behavior in parallel build.
855
85620130429:
857        Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files.
858
85920130426:
860	The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because
861	the IDEA patent expired.
862
86320130426:
864	The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed
865	from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been
866	enabled by default.
867
86820130425:
869	The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
870	rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in
871	order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as
872	install and mtree.  When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where
873	the install command does not support -l, you will need to
874	install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required.
875	This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
876	&& make install).
877
87820130404:
879	Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since
880	FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources.  Kernel modules
881	atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are
882	removed.  Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled
883	and removed.
884
88520130319:
886	SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2)
887	and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may
888	automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting
889	binaries will not work on older kernels.
890
89120130308:
892	CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further
893	information, see the respective 20130304 entry).
894
89520130304:
896	Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout,
897	so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions
898	in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced
899	by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild
900	is requested.
901
902	The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64,
903	but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE
904	option) to save memory.  To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE
905	option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0
906	in /boot/loader.conf.
907
90820130301:
909	The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64.
910	This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system
911	initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if
912	a CAM target device was created.  This makes a FreeBSD system
913	unusable on 128MB or less of RAM.
914
91520130208:
916	A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD.  Please
917	refer to zpool-features(7) for more information.
918
919	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
920	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
921
92220130129:
923	A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed
924	as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch.
925	To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default,
926	while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild
927	and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set.
928
92920130121:
930	Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build
931	and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL
932	make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the
933	command line.  If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs
934	you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or
935	/etc/src.conf.
936
93720130118:
938	The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an
939	argument that is a file or path to append logs to.  In the
940	unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line
941	and the command line contained at least two files and a target
942	directory the first file will have logs appended to it.  The -M
943	option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its
944	use is expected to be extremely rare.
945
94620121223:
947	After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS
948	on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics.
949	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations.
950
95120121222:
952	GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata.
953	Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters,
954	'%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to
955	be updated.
956
95720121217:
958	By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved.  To
959	restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps
960	stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
961
962		savecore_flags=""
963
96420121201:
965	With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now
966	required during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
967	add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
968
96920121117:
970	The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now
971	filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via
972	sysctl or routing socket.  This means the KAME-specific embedded scope
973	id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application.
974	This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid.
975	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025.
976
97720121105:
978	On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default.
979	This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang
980	and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++,
981	and /usr/bin/cpp.  To disable this behavior and revert to building
982	with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions
983	of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang
984	build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable
985	branch point).
986
98720121102:
988	The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its
989	functionality now turned on by default.
990
99120121023:
992	The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and
993	split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP.
994	NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write
995	mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes.
996	NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current
997	driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage.
998	Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under
999	consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal
1000	of the two kernel options.
1001
100220121023:
1003	The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte
1004	order. The following modules need to be recompiled together
1005	with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4),
1006	pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4).
1007
100820121022:
1009	Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The
1010	VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be
1011	recompiled.
1012
101320121018:
1014	All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from
1015	the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs,
1016	portalfs, smbfs, xfs.
1017
101820121016:
1019	The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following
1020	modules need to be recompiled together with kernel:
1021	ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4),
1022	vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4),
1023	faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4).
1024
102520121015:
1026	The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host
1027	Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver).
1028	No kernel config modifications are required, but if you
1029	load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead.
1030
103120121014:
1032	Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system.
1033
103420121013:
1035	The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed
1036	sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious
1037	problems have been reported.  The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT
1038	knob has also gone.
1039
104020121006:
1041	The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet
1042	filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled
1043	with new kernel.
1044
104520121001:
1046	The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver
1047	PS-POLL and power-save support.  All wireless drivers need to be
1048	recompiled to work with the new kernel.
1049
105020120913:
1051	The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number
1052	generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally.
1053	Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if
1054	needed.  The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the
1055	device, so the change only affects the custom kernel
1056	configurations.
1057
105820120908:
1059	The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and
1060	snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel.
1061
106220120828:
1063	A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged
1064	to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be
1065	imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support
1066	this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5)
1067	manual page.
1068
106920120727:
1070	The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto-
1071	detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these
1072	to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable.
1073
107420120712:
1075	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c.  Any binaries requiring
1076	libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled.  Also, there are
1077	configuration changes.  Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf.
1078
107920120712:
1080	The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency
1081	with other variables:
1082	  kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered   -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered
1083	  kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered
1084
108520120628:
1086	The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort.  For now, GNU sort
1087	is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to
1088	GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT.  In this case, BSD sort will be
1089	installed as "bsdsort".
1090
109120120611:
1092	A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD.
1093	Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning
1094	is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward
1095	compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS
1096	pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools
1097	is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information
1098	read the new zpool-features(5) manual page.
1099	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
1100	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
1101
110220120417:
1103	The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported
1104	as contrib/jemalloc.  The most disruptive API change is to
1105	/etc/malloc.conf.  If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf,
1106	delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the
1107	new format after rebooting.  See malloc.conf(5) for details
1108	(specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL
1109	NAMESPACE section).
1110
111120120328:
1112	Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb".  mips64eb
1113	is now spelled mips64.  mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32.  mipseb is
1114	now spelled mips.  This is to aid compatibility with third-party
1115	software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3).  Little-endian
1116	settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine
1117	from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in
1118	your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine.
1119
112020120306:
1121	Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported
1122	platforms.
1123
112420120229:
1125	Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on	nullfs(5). Previously
1126	nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer,
1127	as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect
1128	only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect
1129	only to	the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the
1130	lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to.
1131
113220120211:
1133	The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored.
1134	If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to
1135	recompile libc again with your kernel.  You still need to recompile
1136	world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already
1137	comes from 20111215.
1138
113920120114:
1140	The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr.  All
1141	base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a
1142	port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either
1143	hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port.
1144
1145	An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d:
1146	rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i
1147
114820120109:
1149	panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts
1150	on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running.
1151	This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic
1152	tunable/sysctl.
1153	The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic.
1154
115520111215:
1156	The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration
1157	of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format
1158	of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages
1159	for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently
1160	not supported anymore.
1161
1162	Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User
1163	utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8),
1164	need to be recompiled.
1165
116620111122:
1167	The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to
1168	/dev/wmistat0.
1169
117020111108:
1171	The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to
1172	explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems.
1173	It is on by default for all supported platform at this present
1174	time.
1175
117620111101:
1177	The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64,
1178	i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files.
1179
118020110930:
1181	sysinstall has been removed
1182
118320110923:
1184	The stable/9 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
1185	RELENG_9 branch in CVS.
1186
1187COMMON ITEMS:
1188
1189	General Notes
1190	-------------
1191	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1192	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
1193	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1194	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1195	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1196	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1197	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1198
1199	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
1200	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1201	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1202	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1203	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
1204
1205	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best
1206	to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first,
1207	then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade
1208	path, and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try
1209	this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade.
1210
1211	When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before
1212	installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell
1213	around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your
1214	starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade.
1215
1216	This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes
1217	information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted.
1218	Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be
1219	placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check
1220	older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries
1221	should write them with this in mind.
1222
1223	ZFS notes
1224	---------
1225	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
1226	these two steps:
1227
1228	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
1229	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
1230
1231	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
1232
1233	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
1234	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0:
1235	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0"
1236
1237	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
1238
1239	To build a kernel
1240	-----------------
1241	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
1242	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
1243	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
1244
1245	make kernel-toolchain
1246	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1247	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1248
1249	To test a kernel once
1250	---------------------
1251	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
1252	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
1253	debugging information) run
1254	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
1255	nextboot -k testkernel
1256
1257	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1258	--------------------------------------------------------------
1259	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
1260	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1261	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
1262
1263	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
1264	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1265	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1266	make depend
1267	make
1268	make install
1269
1270	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1271
1272	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1273	-----------------------------------------------------------
1274	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
1275	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
1276
1277	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1278	make buildworld
1279	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1280							[1]
1281	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1282	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
1283	make installworld
1284	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
1285	make delete-old					[6]
1286	<reboot>
1287
1288	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1289	--------------------------------------------------
1290	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1291	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1292	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1293	# size.
1294
1295	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1296	<boot into -stable>
1297	make buildworld
1298	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1299	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1300	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1301	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC
1302	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
1303	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1304	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1305	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1306	<reboot into current>
1307	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1308	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1309	<reboot>
1310
1311
1312	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
1313	----------------------------------------------
1314	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1315	make buildworld					[9]
1316	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1317							[1]
1318	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1319	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
1320	make installworld
1321	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
1322	make delete-old					[6]
1323	<reboot>
1324
1325	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1326	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1327	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1328	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1329	the UPDATING entries.
1330
1331	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
1332	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
1333	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
1334	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
1335	much fewer pitfalls.
1336
1337	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1338	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1339	system on reboot.
1340
1341	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1342		fsck -p
1343		mount -u /
1344		mount -a
1345		cd src
1346		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1347	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1348	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1349
1350	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1351	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1352	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1353	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1354	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
1355	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
1356	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1357
1358	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1359	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1360	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1361	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1362	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
1363	from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430.
1364
1365	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
1366	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
1367	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
1368
1369	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
1370	do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
1371	your kernel.  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1372	hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
1373	required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels.  And so on
1374	for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
1375
1376	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1377	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1378
1379	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1380	cvs prune empty directories.
1381
1382	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1383	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1384	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1385
1386	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1387	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1388	warn if it is improperly defined.
1389FORMAT:
1390
1391This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
1392breakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
1393list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011.
1394If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
1395to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
1396
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