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1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users.
2
3This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>.
4See end of file for further details.  For commonly done items, please see the
5COMMON ITEMS: section later in the file.  These instructions assume that you
6basically know what you are doing.  If not, then please consult the FreeBSD
7handbook:
8
9    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
10
11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
12/usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before running portupgrade.
13
14NOTE: FreeBSD has switched from gcc to clang. If you have trouble bootstrapping
15from older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG and WITH_GCC to bootstrap to
16the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process
17from older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile.
18
19NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW:
20	FreeBSD 12.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel
21	and userland.  These features attempt to detect incorrect use of
22	system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity
23	checking and fail stop semantics.  They also substantially impact
24	system performance.  If you want to do performance measurement,
25	benchmarking, and optimization, you'll want to turn them off.  This
26	includes various WITNESS- related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc
27	debugging flags in userland, and various verbose features in the
28	kernel.  Many developers choose to disable these features on build
29	machines to maximize performance.  (To completely disable malloc
30	debugging, define MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/make.conf, or to merely
31	disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
32	"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
33
34
35****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ******************************
36
37	Due to a bug in some versions of clang that's very hard to workaround in
38	the upgrade process, to upgrade to -current you must first upgrade
39	either stable/9 after r286035 or stable/10 after r286033 (including
40	10.3-RELEASE) or current after r286007 (including stable/11 and
41	11.0-RELEASE). These revisions post-date the 10.2 and 9.3 releases, so
42	you'll need to take the unusual step of upgrading to the tip of the
43	stable branch before moving to 11 or -current via a source upgrade.
44	stable/11 and 11.0-RELEASE have working newer compiler. This differs
45	from the historical situation where one could upgrade from anywhere on
46	the last couple of stable branches, so be careful.
47
48	If you're running a hybrid system on 9.x or 10.x with an updated clang
49	compiler or are using an supported external toolchain, the build system
50	will allow the upgrade. Otherwise it will print a reminder.
51
52****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ******************************
53
5420170424:
55	The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and
56	patm(4) devices has been removed.  Consumers should plan a
57	migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11.
58
5920170420:
60	GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU
61	diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of
62	GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name.
63
6420170413:
65	As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when
66	keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with
67	documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state.
68	This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags
69	and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state.
70	To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with
71	keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5).
72
7320170407:
74	arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default,
75	instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be
76	installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set
77	CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin .
78
7920170405:
80	The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl
81	net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted.  L2 broadcast
82	packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets.
83
8420170331:
85	Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now
86	use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail
87	instead of using the first assigned address of the jail.
88
8920170329:
90	The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend:
91	cfiscsi.ko does instead.
92
93	If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded
94	via one of the following methods:
95	- `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5).
96	- Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5).
97	- ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support
98	  (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5))
99
100	Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details.
101
10220170316:
103	The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko.
104	Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the
105	same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was
106	missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible
107	with mmc.ko).
108
10920170315:
110	The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity.
111	If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify
112	them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must
113	be prefixed with colon.
114
11520170311:
116	The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been
117	removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version
118	(sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware.
119
12020170302:
121	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0.
122	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
123	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
124
12520170221:
126	The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality
127	has been reimplemented.  It's not possible now to create a snapshot
128	by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/.  That should be the only user visible
129	change.
130
13120170216:
132	EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer
133	valid.
134
13520170215:
136	MCA bus support has been removed.
137
13820170127:
139	The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed
140	WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC.
141
14220170112:
143	The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that
144	the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications.
145
14620170109:
147	The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via
148	IFLIB.  If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4)
149	but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom configuration.
150
15120161217:
152	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1.
153	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
154	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
155
15620161124:
157	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0.
158	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
159	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
160
16120161119:
162	The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap
163	statistics at the front for all CPU variations.  libkvm(3) and all tools
164	that link against it need to be recompiled.
165
16620161030:
167	isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver,
168	chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware.
169	On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using
170	device hints.  Please see the corresponding manual pages for details.
171
17220161017:
173	The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of
174	rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific
175	parts.
176	Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name
177	conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B))
178
17920161015:
180	GNU rcs has been removed from base.  It is available as packages:
181	- rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version.
182	- rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was
183	removed from base.
184
18520161008:
186	Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control
187	modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the
188	TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.)
189
19020161003:
191	The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired.
192	ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy.
193
19420160924:
195	Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed
196	to use an extension of .pico instead.  The purpose of this change is
197	to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file
198	systems.  On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so.
199
20020160918:
201	GNU rcs has been turned off by default.  It can (temporarily) be built
202	again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf.
203	Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages:
204	- rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version.
205	- rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base.
206
20720160918:
208	The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr.
209
21020160908:
211	The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into
212	two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and
213	QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH.  Define both for the original
214	QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior.
215
21620160824:
217	r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace
218	programs and the kernel.  ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be
219	rebuilt to work with new kernels.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped
220	to 1200005.
221
22220160818:
223	The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP
224	packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3
225	broadcast packets.  It is not expected that this will affect any
226	standards-conforming UDP application.  The new behaviour can be
227	disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to
228	0.
229
23020160818:
231	Remove the openbsd_poll system call.
232	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
233
23420160622:
235	The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with
236	a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2)
237	system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include
238	"options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the
239	default).  Users should ensure that this option is enabled in
240	their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their
241	kernel.
242
24320160527:
244	CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers.
245	This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using
246	those disk's diskid device nodes.  For example, if /etc/fstab
247	previously contained a line like
248	"/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should
249	change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456".  Users of geom
250	transforms like gmirror may also be affected.  ZFS users should
251	generally be fine.
252
25320160523:
254	The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and
255	improved performance.  But it is binary-incompatible with the old API.
256	Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects
257	built with the old headers.
258
25920160520:
260	The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64.
261	Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these
262	functions and should be updated to the latest version before
263	installing a new libc.
264
26520160517:
266	The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support
267	for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system
268	is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT.
269	This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld
270	and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New
271	packages will be needed.
272
273	To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add
274	TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build
275	and the install steps.
276
27720160510:
278	Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to
279	installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel.  Many kernel
280	modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode
281	KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules.  However,
282	manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will
283	now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel.
284
28520160414:
286	The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be
287	no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the
288	list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt
289	data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data
290	corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete:
291
292		o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware.
293		o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware.
294		o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware
295		o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares
296		o FCCT M500 all firmwares
297
298	Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware
299	with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for
300	updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these
301	drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given
302	this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no
303	other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above
304	vendors work.
305
306	To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your
307	drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting:
308		kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2"
309	in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the
310	quirks entry to 0x3.
311
31220160330:
313	The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is
314	now the one true way.  The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has
315	been removed.  See 20160311 for further details.
316
31720160317:
318	Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t.  All
319	drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled.
320
32120160311:
322	WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree
323	builds.  It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the
324	'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran
325	when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before
326	building anything else.  Dependencies are gathered at compile time with
327	-MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file.  Users should
328	run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older
329	stale .depend files.
330
33120160306:
332	On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into
333	kernel modules.  Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time,
334	please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before
335	rebooting, e.g.:
336
337	make buildworld
338	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
339	make -C sys/boot install
340	<reboot in single user>
341
342	Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section,
343	below.
344
34520160305:
346	Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0.  Please
347	see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
348	upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
349
35020160301:
351	The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel.  The
352	VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed.
353	Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only
354	permitted on sockets and raw disks by default.  To enable
355	asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the
356	vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value.
357
35820160226:
359	The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the
360	ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a
361	drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The
362	(temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set
363	to obtain the GNU version if necessary.
364
36520160129:
366	Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default.  That
367	feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks.
368	Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will
369	still work, even if the guest is using ZFS.  Legacy behavior can be
370	restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1.
371
37220160119:
373	The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH.  They are
374	still available in the security/openssh-portable port.
375
37620160113:
377	With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required
378	during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user
379	prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
380
38120151216:
382	The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a
383	consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp
384	server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the
385	other loaders.
386
38720151211:
388	The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has
389	been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel,
390	a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced
391	for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild
392	the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or
393	later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding.
394
39520151207:
396	Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and
397	installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but
398	requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed
399	world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes
400	in src.conf(5).
401
40220151130:
403	r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and
404	nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether.
405	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
406
40720151108:
408	Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of
409	order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old
410	behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C".
411
412	Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given
413	collation results will be different.
414
415	Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient
416	locales before running make installworld.
417
418	rm -rf /usr/share/locale/*
419
42020151030:
421	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d.  Any binaries requiring
422	libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled.
423
42420151020:
425	Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0.
426	Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and
427	should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively.
428
42920151017:
430	The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into
431	sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and
432	'make -n -n' to recursively show commands.  Now 'make -n' will recurse
433	and 'make -N' will not.
434
43520151012:
436	If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster
437	and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now
438	updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld.  If you had
439	excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may
440	want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install".
441	/etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of
442	whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used.  If you are not using
443	SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior.
444
44520151011:
446	Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed.
447	It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases
448	and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.*
449	environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links.
450
45120151006:
452	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0.
453	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
454	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
455
45620150924:
457	Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/,
458	and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements
459	on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with
460	userland debug files.
461
462	When using the supported kernel installation method the
463	/usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old)
464	as is done with /boot/kernel.
465
466	Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing
467	debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5).
468
46920150827:
470	The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent
471	interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts
472	used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old
473	scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3)
474	or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your
475	rc.d scripts in /etc.
476
47720150827:
478	pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl'
479	These configurations are now automatically interpreted as
480	'scrub fragment reassemble'.
481
48220150817:
483	Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use
484	them, the kernel must have
485
486	device	random
487	options	RANDOM_LOADABLE
488
489	kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko
490	or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect
491	function calls that the loadable modules need to provide,
492	the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient.
493
494	The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to
495	unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway.
496
49720150813:
498	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired.
499	Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by
500	the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob.
501
50220150810:
503	The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the
504	uart(4) driver has been corrected.  Prior to this change the PPS
505	"assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS
506	pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse.
507
508	As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the
509	order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant
510	difference with this change.
511
512	Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by
513	configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to
514	remove that workaround.
515
51620150809:
517	The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed
518	from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have
519	access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group
520	with:
521
522	# pw groupmod video -m $USER
523
52420150806:
525	The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during
526	upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and
527	loader.rc.local instead.
528
52920150805:
530	GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size,
531	strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob
532	WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools.
533
53420150728:
535	As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some
536	architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than
537	ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing).
538
539	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater
540	than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations.
541
54220150706:
543	sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2.  Starting with FreeBSD 11.0
544	and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by
545	default, i.e., they will not contain "::".  For example, instead
546	of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1.  This permits a zero subnet
547	to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for
548	IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0.  This change requires that configuration
549	data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must
550	use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is
551	upgrading.  As a very simple check search for patterns like
552	'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'.  To return to the old
553	behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or
554	the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses.
555
55620150630:
557	The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now
558	Fortuna, replacing Yarrow.
559
560	Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config
561	file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override
562	this default. You may choose *ONE* of:
563
564	options	RANDOM_YARROW	# Legacy /dev/random algorithm.
565	options	RANDOM_DUMMY	# Blocking-only driver.
566
567	If you have neither, you get Fortuna.  For most people,
568	read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works
569	like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant.
570
571	If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed
572	entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building
573	embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading,
574	and it is assumed you know what you need.
575
576	*PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the
577	habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member
578	of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual
579	behaviour from your security subsystems.
580
581	NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device
582	random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and
583	many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH.
584	You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set
585	of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3)
586	and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND
587	sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to
588	share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this
589	will never happen.
590
59120150623:
592	An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail
593	entry below has been been committed in revision 284717.
594
59520150616:
596	FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is
597	available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake.
598
59920150615:
600	The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry
601	below has been been committed in revision 284436.  The work
602	around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the
603	default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration
604	setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file.
605
60620150614:
607	ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from
608	atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf
609	and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work
610	with Kyuafile and kyua.
611
61220150614:
613	The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl
614	security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes
615	with DH parameters below 768 bits.  sendmail releases prior
616	to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit
617	DH parameter setting for client connections.  To work around
618	this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a
619	2048 bit DH parameter by:
620
621	1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc
622	2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or
623	   exists and is set to a string beginning with '5',
624	   replace it with '2'.
625	3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to
626	   a file path, create a new file with:
627		openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048
628	4. Rebuild the .cf file:
629		cd /etc/mail/; make; make install
630	5. Restart sendmail:
631		cd /etc/mail/; make restart
632
633	A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be
634	updated.
635
63620150604:
637	Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default
638	in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted
639	entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new,
640	machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD
641	5.x.
642
643	Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details.
644
64520150525:
646	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release.  Please see the
647	20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading,
648	if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
649
65020150521:
651	TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update
652	may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black,
653	and Pandaboard:
654
655	- dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the
656	  same but content is different now
657	- GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank)
658	  has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old
659	  addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3.
660	- Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is
661	  now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0
662
66320150501:
664	soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim.
665	If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff
666	from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff.
667
66820150423:
669	chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as
670	defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored.
671
67220150415:
673	The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with
674	POSIX.  The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards.
675
67620150416:
677	Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding
678	DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies.  This is now
679	enforced in src.libnames.mk.
680
68120150324:
682	From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers
683	supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4).
684	Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely,
685	replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively.
686
68720150315:
688	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release.  Please see
689	the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
690	upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
691
69220150307:
693	The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent
694	executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8)
695	newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and
696	kernel before rebooting.
697
69820150217:
699	If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014),
700	but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly.  Immediately
701	upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g.
702	ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that
703	range.  This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random
704	or /dev/urandom.  All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected.
705
70620150210:
707	The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility
708	with 10.1-RELEASE.  The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work
709	with the new kernel.
710
71120150131:
712	The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent
713	executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8),
714	so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting.
715
71620150118:
717	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release.  This is a bugfix
718	only release, no new features have been added.  Please see the 20141231
719	entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you
720	are not already using 3.5.0.
721
72220150107:
723	ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now
724	taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They
725	should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support.
726	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the
727	binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information.
728
72920150105:
730	The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control
731	using a local socket.  Users who have already enabled the
732	local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration
733	by running "service local_unbound setup" as root.
734
73520150102:
736	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed.
737	To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports.
738
73920141231:
740	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release.
741
742	As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is
743	a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library.  This means that to
744	be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with
745	clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler
746	should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your
747	system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or
748	later.
749
750	On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and
751	libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out
752	of the box.
753
754	On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and
755	powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be
756	built (with clang) and installed first.  If both clang and libc++ are
757	missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++.
758
759	On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow
760	the instructions for 9.x above.
761
762	Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by
763	default, and do not build clang.
764
765	Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to
766	build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all.  In those
767	cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround.
768
769	This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which
770	the following are most likely to appear:
771
772	-Wabsolute-value
773
774	This warns in two cases, for both C and C++:
775	* When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned
776	  quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was
777	  intended.  The code should be fixed, if at all possible.  If you are
778	  sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without
779	  loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit
780	  cast, or disable the warning.
781
782	* When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called
783	  abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation.
784	  If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please
785	  make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted
786	  side-effects.
787
788	-Wtautological-undefined-compare and
789	-Wundefined-bool-conversion
790
791	These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while
792	'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code.  However, there is
793	some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this
794	feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions.
795
796	Squid and openjdk do this, for example.  The warning can be turned off
797	for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result
798	in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are
799	unreachable could be optimized away.
800
80120141222:
802	The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER)
803	kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some
804	utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later.
805	If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail.
806	If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used,
807	the utilities will report errors.
808
80920141121:
810	The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of
811	directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent
812	directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS.  Users with build systems with
813	such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent
814	directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to
815	LOCAL_DIRS.
816
81720141109:
818	faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith
819	has been obsolete for a very long time.
820
82120141104:
822	vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings
823	support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as
824	support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video
825	drivers.
826
827	You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf,
828	most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will
829	indicate what you need to do.
830
831	vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to
832	syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information:
833	  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
834
835	If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding
836	the following line to /boot/loader.conf:
837	  kern.vty=sc
838
83920141102:
840	pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite.
841	Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to
842	execute it.
843
84420141009:
845	gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures
846	that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the
847	devel/gperf port.
848
84920140923:
850	pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to
851	contrib/pjdfstest .
852
85320140922:
854	At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted
855	to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure
856	update.  If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports,
857	add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf.  Users are
858	encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during
859	their next update cycle.
860
86120140729:
862	The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when
863	using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This
864	will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from
865	initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to
866	1.12.4_8 or newer.
867
86820140723:
869	The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and
870	TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH.
871
87220140719:
873	The default unbound configuration has been modified to address
874	issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private
875	address ranges.  If you use the local_unbound service, run
876	"service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your
877	configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the
878	new configuration.
879
88020140709:
881	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed
882	anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install
883	them again.
884	UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal
885
88620140708:
887	The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is
888	statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base
889	system, and the shared library is no longer installed.  The
890	devel/readline port is available for third party software that
891	requires readline.
892
89320140702:
894	The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of
895	known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the
896	architecture.
897
89820140701:
899	Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from
900	projects/nfsv4.1-server.  Since this includes changes to the
901	internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full
902	build of the kernel and modules will be necessary.
903	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
904
90520140629:
906	The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed
907	WITHOUT_VT.  (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning
908	which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.)
909
91020140619:
911	Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to
912	64 chars, that breaks ABI.  All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm
913	and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
914
91520140606:
916	The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and
917	1 respectively to match the upstream numbers.  They were out of
918	sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the
919	upstream versions were not respected.  These libraries are private
920	and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a
921	non-issue.  However, unclean source trees will yield broken test
922	programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a
923	"make installworld".
924
925	Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into
926	/usr/libexec/.  Already-built shell test programs will keep the
927	path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old"
928	is run.
929
930	If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object
931	tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures.
932	This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced
933	binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will
934	be removed during a clean upgrade.
935
93620140512:
937	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release.
938
93920140508:
940	We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should
941	be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to
942	ObsoleteFiles.inc).
943
94420140505:
945	/etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the
946	past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old
947	behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this
948	behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf
949	(which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the
950	behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual
951	directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that.
952	Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios,
953	other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of
954	temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld
955	as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this
956	setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree.
957
958	One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk
959	is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to
960	use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk
961	as well.
962
96320140430:
964	The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a
965	standard device.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
966
96720140424:
968	The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls
969	building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1)
970	in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a
971	build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for
972	build hosts for older releases.
973
974	This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and
975	r276991, respectively.
976
97720140418:
978	The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for
979	a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds
980	will silently lack HESIOD.
981
98220140405:
983	The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling
984	of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented
985	any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL
986	control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make
987	changes to the serial console port without having to reboot.
988	However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is
989	associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal
990	line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact.
991	Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the
992	serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to
993	preserve the previous behaviour. E.g:
994	    ttyu0  "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire"  vt100  on  secure
995
99620140306:
997	Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default
998	to improve performance.  To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind
999	with command line option -W.
1000
100120140226:
1002	Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream
1003	dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need
1004	to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps
1005	may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail
1006	to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler.
1007
100820140216:
1009	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release.
1010
101120140216:
1012	The nve(4) driver has been removed.  Please use the nfe(4) driver
1013	for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead.
1014
101520140212:
1016	An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283.
1017	This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built
1018	against the previous version of libc++ to crash.  The incompatibility
1019	has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built
1020	between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled.
1021
102220140204:
1023	OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum
1024	capability mode support.  Please note that enabling the feature in
1025	kernel is still highly recommended.
1026
102720140131:
1028	OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as
1029	the default privilege separation method.  This requires Capsicum
1030	capability mode support in kernel.
1031
103220140128:
1033	The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer
1034	versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for
1035	these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries
1036	requiring these two libraries should be recompiled.
1037	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006.
1038
103920140110:
1040	If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile
1041	instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such
1042	Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during
1043	NO_CLEAN builds.  This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual
1044	intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN:
1045	  # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f
1046
104720131213:
1048	The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism
1049	has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string
1050	than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function.
1051	In particular, the random string produced from a session key of
1052	enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will
1053	be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change.
1054	The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a
1055	big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402.
1056	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004.
1057
105820131108:
1059	The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality
1060	has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS.  If you were
1061	using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you
1062	should change your settings to use the latter.
1063
106420131025:
1065	The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from
1066	NetBSD.  The output is generally the same, but may vary
1067	slightly.  If you found you need identical output adding
1068	"-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick.  For the
1069	time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree.
1070
107120131014:
1072	libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private.
1073	This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg
1074	1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make
1075	delete-old-libs":
1076	  # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean
1077	  or
1078	  # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml
1079
108020131010:
1081	The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head
1082	revision r256279.
1083
108420131010:
1085	The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8)
1086	configuration file.  The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables
1087	for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to
1088	/var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked.
1089	This is transparently backward compatible.  See below about some
1090	incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details.
1091
1092	These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration
1093	file.  One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate
1094	a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without
1095	running the jail(8) utility.   The default pathname of the
1096	configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by
1097	using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables.
1098
1099	Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at
1100	this moment.  Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name
1101	with an integer.
1102
110320130930:
1104	BIND has been removed from the base system.  If all you need
1105	is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound
1106	service instead.  Otherwise, several versions of BIND are
1107	available in the ports tree.   The dns/bind99 port is one example.
1108
1109	With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base
1110	system.  Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are
1111	in the base system.  Alternatively, nslookup and dig can
1112	be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port.
1113
111420130916:
1115	With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now
1116	required during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
1117	add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
1118
111920130911:
1120	OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default
1121	silently trust signed SSHFP records.  This can be controlled with
1122	the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting.  DNSSEC support
1123	can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf.
1124
112520130906:
1126	The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++)
1127	are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system
1128	compiler.  You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX
1129	options in src.conf.
1130
113120130905:
1132	The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel
1133	configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work.
1134	If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include
1135	'options PROCDESC'.
1136
113720130905:
1138	The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified
1139	in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs
1140	have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the
1141	following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is
1142	advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl,
1143	kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq.
1144
114520130903:
1146	AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc.  The AES-NI module
1147	has been updated to use this support.  A new gcc is required to build
1148	the aesni module on both i386 and amd64.
1149
115020130821:
1151	The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices.
1152	Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be
1153	used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG".
1154
115520130813:
1156	WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets.  WITH_ICONV now
1157	enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default.
1158	WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time
1159	compatibility.  Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way.
1160	If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely
1161	need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT.
1162
116320130806:
1164	INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and
1165	Illumos origin, including ZFS.  If you have INVARIANTS in your
1166	kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG
1167	explicitly.
1168	DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS)
1169	locks if WITNESS option was set.  Because that generated a lot of
1170	witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false
1171	positives, this is no longer done.  New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS
1172	can be used to achieve the previous behavior.
1173
117420130806:
1175	Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead
1176	of time_second.  Although this is not a user-visible functional
1177	change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8),
1178	rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated
1179	to r253970 or later.
1180
118120130802:
1182	find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments,
1183	instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did
1184	not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message
1185	would result:
1186
1187	find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe
1188
1189	Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented
1190	without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing
1191	directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the
1192	old as well as the new version of find.
1193
119420130726:
1195	Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed.
1196	Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs
1197	path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by
1198	slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs
1199	subdirectories must be reviewed.
1200
120120130716:
1202	The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is
1203	incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will
1204	need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
1205
1206	To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set.
1207
1208	NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and
1209	users are advised to upgrade.
1210
121120130709:
1212	pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it
1213	you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5).
1214
121520130709:
1216	Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able
1217	keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking
1218	statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.)
1219
122020130618:
1221	Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write
1222	to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space
1223	even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had
1224	write access to that file.
1225
122620130615:
1227	CVS has been removed from the base system.  An exact copy
1228	of the code is available from the devel/cvs port.
1229
123020130613:
1231	Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake:
1232
1233		make: illegal option -- J
1234		usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable]
1235			...
1236		*** [buildworld] Error code 2
1237
1238	this likely due to an old instance of make in
1239	${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE})
1240	which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if
1241	you see the above error:
1242
1243		rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH`
1244
1245	should resolve it.
1246
124720130516:
1248	Use bmake by default.
1249	Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via
1250	-DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old
1251	make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE.
1252
1253	It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command
1254	line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the
1255	command line.  Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer
1256	than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent
1257	behavior in parallel build.
1258
125920130429:
1260	Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files.
1261
126220130426:
1263	The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because
1264	the IDEA patent expired.
1265
126620130426:
1267	The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed
1268	from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been
1269	enabled by default.
1270
127120130425:
1272	The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
1273	rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in
1274	order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as
1275	install and mtree.  When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where
1276	the install command does not support -l, you will need to
1277	install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required.
1278	This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
1279	&& make install).
1280
128120130404:
1282	Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since
1283	FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources.  Kernel modules
1284	atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are
1285	removed.  Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled
1286	and removed.
1287
128820130319:
1289	SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2)
1290	and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may
1291	automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting
1292	binaries will not work on older kernels.
1293
129420130308:
1295	CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further
1296	information, see the respective 20130304 entry).
1297
129820130304:
1299	Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout,
1300	so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions
1301	in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced
1302	by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild
1303	is requested.
1304
1305	The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64,
1306	but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE
1307	option) to save memory.  To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE
1308	option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0
1309	in /boot/loader.conf.
1310
131120130301:
1312	The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64.
1313	This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system
1314	initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if
1315	a CAM target device was created.  This makes a FreeBSD system
1316	unusable on 128MB or less of RAM.
1317
131820130208:
1319	A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD.  Please
1320	refer to zpool-features(7) for more information.
1321
1322	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
1323	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
1324
132520130129:
1326	A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed
1327	as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch.
1328	To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default,
1329	while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild
1330	and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set.
1331
133220130121:
1333	Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build
1334	and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL
1335	make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the
1336	command line.  If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs
1337	you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or
1338	/etc/src.conf.
1339
134020130118:
1341	The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an
1342	argument that is a file or path to append logs to.  In the
1343	unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line
1344	and the command line contained at least two files and a target
1345	directory the first file will have logs appended to it.  The -M
1346	option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its
1347	use is expected to be extremely rare.
1348
134920121223:
1350	After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS
1351	on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics.
1352	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations.
1353
135420121222:
1355	GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata.
1356	Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters,
1357	'%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to
1358	be updated.
1359
136020121217:
1361	By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved.  To
1362	restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps
1363	stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
1364
1365		savecore_flags=""
1366
136720121201:
1368	With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now
1369	required during installworld.  "mergemaster -p" can be used to
1370	add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
1371
137220121117:
1373	The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now
1374	filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via
1375	sysctl or routing socket.  This means the KAME-specific embedded scope
1376	id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application.
1377	This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid.
1378	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025.
1379
138020121105:
1381	On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default.
1382	This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang
1383	and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++,
1384	and /usr/bin/cpp.  To disable this behavior and revert to building
1385	with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions
1386	of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang
1387	build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable
1388	branch point).
1389
139020121102:
1391	The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its
1392	functionality now turned on by default.
1393
139420121023:
1395	The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and
1396	split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP.
1397	NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write
1398	mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes.
1399	NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current
1400	driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage.
1401	Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under
1402	consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal
1403	of the two kernel options.
1404
140520121023:
1406	The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte
1407	order. The following modules need to be recompiled together
1408	with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4),
1409	pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4).
1410
141120121022:
1412	Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The
1413	VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be
1414	recompiled.
1415
141620121018:
1417	All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from
1418	the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs,
1419	portalfs, smbfs, xfs.
1420
142120121016:
1422	The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following
1423	modules need to be recompiled together with kernel:
1424	ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4),
1425	vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4),
1426	faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4).
1427
142820121015:
1429	The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host
1430	Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver).
1431	No kernel config modifications are required, but if you
1432	load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead.
1433
143420121014:
1435	Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system.
1436
143720121013:
1438	The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed
1439	sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious
1440	problems have been reported.  The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT
1441	knob has also gone.
1442
144320121006:
1444	The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet
1445	filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled
1446	with new kernel.
1447
144820121001:
1449	The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver
1450	PS-POLL and power-save support.  All wireless drivers need to be
1451	recompiled to work with the new kernel.
1452
145320120913:
1454	The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number
1455	generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally.
1456	Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if
1457	needed.  The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the
1458	device, so the change only affects the custom kernel
1459	configurations.
1460
146120120908:
1462	The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and
1463	snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel.
1464
146520120828:
1466	A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged
1467	to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be
1468	imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support
1469	this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5)
1470	manual page.
1471
147220120727:
1473	The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto-
1474	detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these
1475	to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable.
1476
147720120712:
1478	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c.  Any binaries requiring
1479	libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled.  Also, there are
1480	configuration changes.  Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf.
1481
148220120712:
1483	The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency
1484	with other variables:
1485	  kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered   -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered
1486	  kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered
1487
148820120628:
1489	The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort.  For now, GNU sort
1490	is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to
1491	GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT.  In this case, BSD sort will be
1492	installed as "bsdsort".
1493
149420120611:
1495	A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD.
1496	Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning
1497	is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward
1498	compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS
1499	pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools
1500	is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information
1501	read the new zpool-features(5) manual page.
1502	Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
1503	on upgrading boot ZFS pools.
1504
150520120417:
1506	The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported
1507	as contrib/jemalloc.  The most disruptive API change is to
1508	/etc/malloc.conf.  If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf,
1509	delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the
1510	new format after rebooting.  See malloc.conf(5) for details
1511	(specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL
1512	NAMESPACE section).
1513
151420120328:
1515	Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb".  mips64eb
1516	is now spelled mips64.  mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32.  mipseb is
1517	now spelled mips.  This is to aid compatibility with third-party
1518	software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3).  Little-endian
1519	settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine
1520	from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in
1521	your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine.
1522
152320120306:
1524	Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported
1525	platforms.
1526
152720120229:
1528	Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on	nullfs(5). Previously
1529	nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer,
1530	as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect
1531	only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect
1532	only to	the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the
1533	lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to.
1534
153520120211:
1536	The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored.
1537	If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to
1538	recompile libc again with your kernel.  You still need to recompile
1539	world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already
1540	comes from 20111215.
1541
154220120114:
1543	The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr.  All
1544	base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a
1545	port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either
1546	hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port.
1547
1548	An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d:
1549	rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i
1550
155120120109:
1552	panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts
1553	on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running.
1554	This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic
1555	tunable/sysctl.
1556	The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic.
1557
155820111215:
1559	The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration
1560	of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format
1561	of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages
1562	for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently
1563	not supported anymore.
1564
1565	Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User
1566	utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8),
1567	need to be recompiled.
1568
156920111122:
1570	The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to
1571	/dev/wmistat0.
1572
157320111108:
1574	The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to
1575	explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems.
1576	It is on by default for all supported platform at this present
1577	time.
1578
157920111101:
1580	The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64,
1581	i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files.
1582
158320110930:
1584	sysinstall has been removed
1585
158620110923:
1587	The stable/9 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
1588	RELENG_9 branch in CVS.
1589
1590COMMON ITEMS:
1591
1592	General Notes
1593	-------------
1594	Avoid using make -j when upgrading.  While generally safe, there are
1595	sometimes problems using -j to upgrade.  If your upgrade fails with
1596	-j, please try again without -j.  From time to time in the past there
1597	have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld.  This
1598	is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one
1599	that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when
1600	several months have passed on the -current branch).
1601
1602	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
1603	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
1604	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
1605	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
1606	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
1607
1608	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to
1609	upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then
1610	do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path,
1611	and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try this
1612	approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade.  Since
1613	the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgade from
1614	anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the
1615	last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's
1616	an exception.
1617
1618	When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before
1619	installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell
1620	around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your
1621	starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade.
1622
1623	This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes
1624	information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted.
1625	Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be
1626	placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check
1627	older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries
1628	should write them with this in mind.
1629
1630	ZFS notes
1631	---------
1632	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
1633	these two steps:
1634
1635	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
1636	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
1637
1638	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
1639
1640	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first
1641	partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0:
1642	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0"
1643
1644	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
1645
1646	To build a kernel
1647	-----------------
1648	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
1649	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
1650	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
1651
1652	make kernel-toolchain
1653	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1654	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1655
1656	To test a kernel once
1657	---------------------
1658	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
1659	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
1660	debugging information) run
1661	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
1662	nextboot -k testkernel
1663
1664	To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
1665	--------------------------------------------------------------
1666	This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system.  Replace
1667	${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
1668	"arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc).
1669
1670	cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
1671	config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1672	cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
1673	make depend
1674	make
1675	make install
1676
1677	If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
1678
1679	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
1680	-----------------------------------------------------------
1681	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
1682	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
1683
1684	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1685	make buildworld
1686	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1687							[1]
1688	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1689	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
1690	make installworld
1691	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
1692	make delete-old					[6]
1693	<reboot>
1694
1695	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
1696	--------------------------------------------------
1697	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
1698	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
1699	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
1700	# size.
1701
1702	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1703	<boot into -stable>
1704	make buildworld
1705	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1706	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
1707	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
1708	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC
1709	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
1710	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
1711	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
1712	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
1713	<reboot into current>
1714	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
1715	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
1716	<reboot>
1717
1718
1719	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
1720	----------------------------------------------
1721	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
1722	make buildworld					[9]
1723	make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE		[8]
1724							[1]
1725	<reboot in single user>				[3]
1726	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
1727	make installworld
1728	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
1729	make delete-old					[6]
1730	<reboot>
1731
1732	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
1733	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
1734	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
1735	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
1736	the UPDATING entries.
1737
1738	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
1739	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
1740	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
1741	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
1742	much fewer pitfalls.
1743
1744	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
1745	should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
1746	system on reboot.
1747
1748	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
1749		fsck -p
1750		mount -u /
1751		mount -a
1752		cd src
1753		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
1754	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
1755	you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
1756
1757	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
1758	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
1759	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
1760	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
1761	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
1762	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
1763	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
1764
1765	[5] Usually this step is a noop.  However, from time to time
1766	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
1767	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
1768	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
1769	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
1770	from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430.
1771
1772	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
1773	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
1774	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
1775
1776	[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
1777	do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
1778	your kernel.  Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is
1779	hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is
1780	required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels.  And so on
1781	for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7.
1782
1783	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
1784	last time you updated your kernel config file.
1785
1786	[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
1787	cvs prune empty directories.
1788
1789	If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
1790	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
1791	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
1792
1793	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
1794	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
1795	warn if it is improperly defined.
1796FORMAT:
1797
1798This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
1799breakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
1800list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011.
1801If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
1802to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
1803
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