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1 Updating Information for users of FreeBSD stable/13.
2
3This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>.
4See end of file for further details.  For commonly done items, please see the
5COMMON ITEMS: section later in the file.  These instructions assume that you
6basically know what you are doing.  If not, then please consult the FreeBSD
7handbook:
8
9    https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#makeworld
10
11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
12/usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before updating system packages
13and/or ports.
14
1520240305:
16	13.3-RELEASE.
17
1820240218:
19	Change 9b998db87c28 changed 'struct ieee80211vap' internals in net80211.
20	Given we do not have enough spares and the struct is allocated by
21	drivers, all wireless drivers have to be recompiled.
22	__FreeBSD_version is updated to 1303001 to track this change.
23
2420240207:
25	sendmail 8.18.1 has been imported and merged.  This version enforces
26	stricter RFC compliance by default, especially with respect to line
27	endings.  This may cause issues with receiving messages from
28	non-compliant MTAs; please see the first 8.18.1 release note in
29	contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES for mitigations.
30
3120230913:
32	Improvements to libtacplus(8) mean that tacplus.conf(5) now
33	follows POSIX shell syntax rules. This may cause TACACS+
34	authentication to fail if the shared secret contains a single
35	quote, double quote, or backslash character which isn't
36	already properly quoted or escaped.
37
3820230619:
39	To enable pf rdr rules for connections initiated from the host, pf
40	filter rules can be optionally enabled for packets delivered
41	locally. This can change the behavior of rules which match packets
42	delivered to lo0. To enable this feature:
43
44		sysctl net.pf.filter_local=1
45		service pf restart
46
47	When enabled, its best to ensure that packets delivered locally are not
48	filtered, e.g. by adding a 'skip on lo' rule.
49
5020230404:
51	llvm-objump is now always installed as objdump.  Previously there was
52	no /usr/bin/objdump unless the WITH_LLVM_BINUTILS knob was used.
53
54	Some LLVM objdump options have a different output format compared to
55	GNU objdump; readelf is available for inspecting ELF files, and GNU
56	objdump is available from the devel/binutils port or package.
57
5820230217:
59	Bump __FreeBSD_verion after various changes to LinuxKPI pci and 802.11
60	in order to help out-of-tree consumers to deal accordingly.
61
6220220701:
63	LinuxKPI pm.h changes require an update to the latest drm-kmod version
64	before re-compiling to avoid errors.
65
6620220327:
67	Bump __FreeBSD_verion to 1301501 after merging LinuxKPI and
68	net80211 changes in order to help out-of-tree consumers to deal
69	accordingly.
70
7120220123:
72	For 64-bit architectures the base system is now built with Position
73	Independent Executable (PIE) support enabled by default.  It may be
74	disabled using the WITHOUT_PIE knob.  A clean build is required.
75
7620220114:
77	The macros provided for the manipulation of CPU sets (e.g. CPU_AND)
78	have been modified to take 2 source arguments instead of only 1.
79	Externally maintained sources that use these macros will have to
80	be adapted. The FreeBSD version has been bumped to 1300524 to
81	reflect this change.
82
8320211218:
84	Commit 18f5b477ee66 adds two arguments to VOP_ALLOCATE().
85	Normally changes to VOP calls are not MFC'd, but a
86	discussion on freebsd-current@ seemed to agree that
87	it was acceptable in this case, to fix the NFSv4.2 server.
88	Any out of source tree file system with a custom
89	VOP_ALLOCATE() call will need to be modified.
90	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300523 since the NFS modules need
91	to be rebuilt from sources.
92
9320211124:
94	Commit 6e8e261f0d4e changed the internal KAPI between the NFS
95	modules.  As such, all the modules must be rebuilt from sources.
96	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped to 1300522.
97
9820211119:
99	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300521 after merging LinuxKPI and
100	net80211 changes in order to support building various wireless
101	drivers.  This is to help other external consumers of LinuxKPI
102	and net80211 to deal accordingly.
103
10420211003:
105	Commit a599f9f7620b deleted the variable called nfs_maxcopyrange
106	from nfscommon.ko, since it no longer needs to be global.  As such,
107	the other nfs modules must be rebuilt from up to date sources.
108	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300516 for this.
109
11020210823:
111	As of commit 622809b0868f OpenSSL no longer enables kernel TLS
112	by default.  Users can enable kernel TLS via the "KTLS" SSL
113	option.  This can be enabled globally by using a custom
114	OpenSSL config file via OPENSSL_CONF or via an
115	application-specific configuration option for applications
116	which permit setting SSL options via SSL_CONF_cmd(3).
117
11820210803:
119	Commits 9fb6e613373c and 9ec7dbf46b0a both changed the internal
120	KAPI between the NFS modules.  Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300514.
121	All NFS modules must be rebuilt from sources.
122
12320210730:
124	Commit b69019c14cd8 removes pf's DIOCGETSTATESNV ioctl.
125	As of be70c7a50d32 it is no longer used by userspace, but it does mean
126	users may not be able to enumerate pf states if they update the kernel
127	past c021ff986e2b without first updating userspace past be70c7a50d32.
128
12920210718:
130	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300512 after merging LinuxKPI, OFED,
131	net80211, and driver changes in order to support building
132	Intel wireless iwlwifi drivers.  This is especially needed for
133	drm-kmod which needs updates after this.
134
13520210715:
136	The 20210707 awk update brought in a change in behavior. This has
137	been corrected as of d4d252c49976. Between these dates, if you
138	installed a new awk binary, you may not be able to build a new
139	kernel because the change in behavior affected the genoffset
140	script used to build the kernel. If you did update, the fix is
141	to update your sources past the above hash and do
142		% cd usr.bin/awk
143		% make clean all
144		% sudo -E make install
145	to enable building kernels again.
146
14720210711:
148	Commit 8a04edfdcbd2 changes the default minor version
149	used for NFSv4 mounts to the highest minor version supported
150	by the NFSv4 server.  This default can be overridden by using
151	the "minorversion" mount option.
152	The consensus of a discussion on freebsd-current@ indicated
153	that this would be acceptable to do and would not be considered
154	a POLA violation.
155
15620210710:
157	awk has been updated to the latest one-true-awk version 20210215.
158	This contains a number of minor bug fixes.
159
16020210630:
161        Commit ca179c4d74f2/632e3f2f3a66 changed the package in which
162	the OpenSSL libraries and utilities are packaged.
163        It is recommended for pkgbase user to do:
164        pkg install -f FreeBSD-openssl
165        before pkg upgrade otherwise some dependencies might not be met
166        and pkg will stop working as libssl will not be present anymore
167        on the system.
168
16920210626:
170	Commit 841006678745 changed the internal KAPI between the krpc
171	and nfsd modules.  As such, they must both be rebuilt from
172	sources.
173	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1300510.
174
17520210510:
176	Commit 272f39942254 changed the internal KAPI between the
177	nscl.ko and nfscommon.ko modules, so they both need to be
178	rebuilt from sources.
179
18020210429:
181	Commit 5a45802b3c8c changed the internal KAPI between
182	the krpc and NFS.  As such, the krpc, nfscommon and
183	nfscl modules must all be rebuilt from sources.
184	Without this patch, NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts should not
185	be done with the nfscbd(8) daemon running, to avoid
186	needing a working back channel for server->client RPCs.
187
18820210202:
189	Various LinuxKPI functionality was added which conflicts with DRM.
190	Please update your drm-kmod port to after the __FreeBSD_verison 1300139
191	update.
192
19320210122:
194	The stable/13 branch has been created from main.
195
19620210108:
197	PC Card attachments for all devices have been removed. In the case of
198	wi and cmx, the entire drivers were removed because they were only
199	PC Card devices. FreeBSD_version 1300134 should be used for this
200	since it was bumped so recently.
201
20220210107:
203	Transport-independent parts of HID support have been split off the USB
204	code in to separate subsystem.  Kernel configs which include one of
205	ums, ukbd, uhid, atp, wsp, wmt, uaudio, ugold or ucycom drivers should
206	be updated with adding of "device hid" line.
207
20820210105:
209	ncurses installation has been modified to only keep the widechar
210	enabled version.  Incremental build is broken for that change, so it
211	requires a clean build.
212
21320201223:
214	The FreeBSD project has migrated from Subversion to Git. Temporary
215	instructions can be found at
216	https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/src-cvt.md
217	and other documents in that repo.
218
21920201216:
220	The services database has been updated to cover more of the basic
221	services expected in a modern system. The database is big enough
222	that it will cause issues in mergemaster in Releases previous to
223	12.2 and 11.3, or in very old current systems from before r358154.
224
22520201215:
226	Obsolete in-tree GDB 6.1.1 has been removed.  GDB (including kgdb)
227	may be installed from ports or packages.
228
22920201124:
230	ping6 has been merged into ping.  It can now be called as "ping -6".
231	See ping(8) for details.
232
23320201108:
234	Default value of net.add_addr_allfibs has been changed to 0.
235	If you have multi-fib configuration and rely on existence of all
236	interface routes in every fib, you need to set the above sysctl to 1.
23720201030:
238	The internal pre-processor in the calendar(1) program has been
239	extended to support more C pre-processor commands (e.g. #ifdef, #else,
240	and #undef) and to detect unbalanced conditional statements.
241	Error messages have been extended to include the filename and line
242	number if processing stops to help fixing malformed data files.
243
24420201026:
245	All the data files for the calendar(1) program, except calendar.freebsd,
246	have been moved to the deskutils/calendar-data port, much like the
247	jewish calendar entries were moved to deskutils/hebcal years ago. After
248	make delete-old-files, you need to install it to retain full
249	functionality. calendar(1) will issue a reminder for files it can't
250	find.
251
25220200923:
253	LINT files are no longer generated. We now include the relevant NOTES
254	files. Note: This may cause conflicts with updating in some cases.
255	        find sys -name LINT\* -delete
256	is suggested across this commit	to remove the generated	LINT files.
257
258	If you have tried to update with generated files there, the svn
259	command you want to un-auger the tree is
260		cd sys/amd64/conf
261		svn revert -R .
262	and then do the above find from the top level. Substitute 'amd64'
263	above with where the error message indicates a conflict.
264
26520200824:
266	OpenZFS support has been integrated. Do not upgrade root pools until
267	the loader is updated to support zstd. Furthermore, we caution against
268	'zpool upgrade' for the next few weeks. The change should be transparent
269	unless you  want to use new features.
270
271	Not all "NO_CLEAN" build scenarios work across these changes. Many
272	scenarios have been tested and fixed, but rebuilding kernels without
273	rebuilding world may fail.
274
275	The ZFS cache file has moved from /boot to /etc to match the OpenZFS
276	upstream default. A fallback to /boot has been added for mountroot.
277
278	Pool auto import behavior at boot has been moved from the kernel module
279	to an explicit "zpool import -a" in one of the rc scripts enabled by
280	zfs_enable=YES. This means your non-root zpools won't auto import until
281	you upgrade your /etc/rc.d files.
282
28320200824:
284	The resume code now notifies devd with the 'kernel' system
285	rather than the old 'kern' subsystem to be consistent with
286	other use. The old notification will be created as well, but
287	will be removed prior to FreeBSD 14.0.
288
28920200821:
290	r362275 changed the internal API between the kernel RPC and the
291	NFS modules. As such, all the modules must be recompiled from
292	sources.
293
29420200817:
295	r364330 modified the internal API used between the NFS modules.
296	As such, all the NFS modules must be re-compiled from sources.
297
29820200816:
299	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
300	been upgraded to 11.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
301	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
302	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
303
30420200810:
305	r364092 modified the internal ABI used between the kernel NFS
306	modules.  As such, all of these modules need to be rebuilt
307	from sources, so a version bump was done.
308
30920200807:
310	Makefile.inc has been updated to work around the issue documented in
311	20200729. It was a case where the optimization of using symbolic links
312	to point to binaries created a situation where we'd run new binaries
313	with old libraries starting midway through the installworld process.
314
31520200729:
316	r363679 has redefined some undefined behavior in regcomp(3); notably,
317	extraneous escapes of most ordinary characters will no longer be
318	accepted.  An exp-run has identified all of the problems with this in
319	ports, but other non-ports software may need extra escapes removed to
320	continue to function.
321
322	Because of this change, installworld may encounter the following error
323	from rtld: Undefined symbol "regcomp@FBSD_1.6" -- It is imperative that
324	you do not halt installworld. Instead, let it run to completion (whether
325	successful or not) and run installworld once more.
326
32720200627:
328	A new implementation of bc and dc has been imported in r362681. This
329	implementation corrects non-conformant behavior of the previous bc
330	and adds GNU bc compatible options. It offers a number of extensions,
331	is much faster on large values, and has support for message catalogs
332	(a number of languages are already supported, contributions of further
333	languages welcome). The option WITHOUT_GH_BC can be used to build the
334	world with the previous versions of bc and dc.
335
33620200625:
337	r362639 changed the internal API used between the NFS kernel modules.
338	As such, they all need to be rebuilt from sources.
339
34020200613:
341	r362158 changed the arguments for VFS_CHECKEXP().  As such, any
342	out of tree file systems need to be modified and rebuilt.
343	Also, any file systems that are modules must be rebuilt.
344
34520200604:
346	read(2) of a directory fd is now rejected by default.  root may
347	re-enable it for system root only on non-ZFS filesystems with the
348	security.bsd.allow_read_dir sysctl(8) MIB if
349	security.bsd.suser_enabled=1.
350
351	It may be advised to setup aliases for grep to default to `-d skip` if
352	commonly non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and
353	the potential for the resulting stderr output is not tolerable.  Example
354	aliases are now installed, commented out, in /root/.cshrc and
355	/root/.shrc.
356
35720200523:
358	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
359	been upgraded to 10.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
360	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
361	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
362
36320200512:
364	Support for obsolete compilers has been removed from the build system.
365	Clang 6 and GCC 6.4 are the minimum supported versions.
366
36720200424:
368	closefrom(2) has been moved under COMPAT12, and replaced in libc with a
369	stub that calls close_range(2).  If using a custom kernel configuration,
370	you may want to ensure that the COMPAT_FREEBSD12 option is included, as
371	a slightly older -CURRENT userland and older FreeBSD userlands may not
372	be functional without closefrom(2).
373
37420200414:
375	Upstream DTS from Linux 5.6 was merged and they now have the SID
376	and THS (Secure ID controller and THermal Sensor) node present.
377	The DTB overlays have now been removed from the tree for the H3/H5 and
378	A64 SoCs and the aw_sid and aw_thermal driver have been updated to
379	deal with upstream DTS. If you are using those overlays you need to
380	remove them from loader.conf and update the DTBs on the FAT partition.
381
38220200310:
383	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
384	been upgraded to 10.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
385	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
386	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
387
38820200309:
389	The amd(8) automount daemon has been removed from the source tree.
390	As of FreeBSD 10.1 autofs(5) is the preferred tool for automounting.
391	amd is still available in the sysutils/am-utils port.
392
39320200301:
394	Removed brooktree driver (bktr.4) from the tree.
395
39620200229:
397	The WITH_GPL_DTC option has been removed.  The BSD-licenced device tree
398	compiler in usr.bin/dtc is used on all architectures which use dtc, and
399	the GPL dtc is available (if needed) from the sysutils/dtc port.
400
40120200229:
402	The WITHOUT_LLVM_LIBUNWIND option has been removed.  LLVM's libunwind
403	is used by all supported CPU architectures.
404
40520200229:
406	GCC 4.2.1 has been removed from the tree.  The WITH_GCC,
407	WITH_GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and WITH_GNUCXX options are no longer available.
408	Users who wish to build FreeBSD with GCC must use the external toolchain
409	ports or packages.
410
41120200220:
412	ncurses has been updated to a newer version (6.2-20200215). Given the ABI
413	has changed, users will have to rebuild all the ports that are linked to
414	ncurses.
415
41620200217:
417	The size of struct vnet and the magic cookie have changed.
418	Users need to recompile libkvm and all modules using VIMAGE
419	together with their new kernel.
420
42120200212:
422	Defining the long deprecated NO_CTF, NO_DEBUG_FILES, NO_INSTALLLIB,
423	NO_MAN, NO_PROFILE, and NO_WARNS variables is now an error.  Update
424	your Makefiles and scripts to define MK_<var>=no instead as required.
425
426	One exception to this is that program or library Makefiles should
427	define MAN to empty rather than setting MK_MAN=no.
428
42920200108:
430	Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler and LLD the default
431	linker for riscv64.
432
43320200107:
434	make universe no longer uses GCC 4.2.1 on any architectures.
435	Architectures not supported by in-tree Clang/LLVM require an
436	external toolchain package.
437
43820200104:
439	GCC 4.2.1 is now not built by default, as part of the GCC 4.2.1
440	retirement plan.  Specifically, the GCC, GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and GNUCXX
441	options default to off for all supported CPU architectures.  As a
442	short-term transition aid they may be enabled via WITH_* options.
443	GCC 4.2.1 is expected to be removed from the tree on 2020-03-31.
444
44520200102:
446	Support for armv5 has been disconnected and is being removed. The
447	machine combination MACHINE=arm MACHINE_ARCH=arm is no longer valid.
448	You must now use a MACHINE_ARCH of armv6 or armv7. The default
449	MACHINE_ARCH for MACHINE=arm is now armv7.
450
45120191226:
452	Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler for all powerpc architectures.
453	LLD is now the default linker for powerpc64.  The change for powerpc64
454	also includes a change to the ELFv2 ABI, incompatible with the existing
455	ABI.
456
45720191226:
458	Kernel-loadable random(4) modules are no longer unloadable.
459
46020191222:
461	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
462	been upgraded to 9.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
463	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
464	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
465
46620191212:
467	r355677 has modified the internal interface used between the
468	NFS modules in the kernel. As such, they must all be upgraded
469	simultaneously. I will do a version bump for this.
470
47120191205:
472	The root certificates of the Mozilla CA Certificate Store have been
473	imported into the base system and can be managed with the certctl(8)
474	utility.  If you have installed the security/ca_root_nss port or package
475	with the ETCSYMLINK option (the default), be advised that there may be
476	differences between those included in the port and those included in
477	base due to differences in nss branch used as well as general update
478	frequency.  Note also that certctl(8) cannot manage certs in the
479	format used by the security/ca_root_nss port.
480
48120191120:
482	The amd(8) automount daemon has been disabled by default, and will be
483	removed in the future.  As of FreeBSD 10.1 the autofs(5) is available
484	for automounting.
485
48620191107:
487	The nctgpio and wbwd drivers have been moved to the superio bus.
488	If you have one of these drivers in a kernel configuration, then
489	you should add device superio to it.  If you use one of these drivers
490	as a module and you compile a custom set of modules, then you should
491	add superio to the set.
492
49320191021:
494	KPIs for network drivers to access interface addresses have changed.
495	Users need to recompile NIC driver modules together with kernel.
496
49720191021:
498	The net.link.tap.user_open sysctl no longer prevents user opening of
499	already created /dev/tapNN devices.  Access is still controlled by
500	node permissions, just like tun devices.  The net.link.tap.user_open
501	sysctl is now used only to allow users to perform devfs cloning of
502	tap devices, and the subsequent open may not succeed if the user is not
503	in the appropriate group.  This sysctl may be deprecated/removed
504	completely in the future.
505
50620191009:
507	mips, powerpc, and sparc64 are no longer built as part of
508	universe / tinderbox unless MAKE_OBSOLETE_GCC is defined. If
509	not defined, mips, powerpc, and sparc64 builds will look for
510	the xtoolchain binaries and if installed use them for universe
511	builds. As llvm 9.0 becomes vetted for these architectures, they
512	will be removed from the list.
513
51420191009:
515	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
516	been upgraded to 9.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
517	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
518	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
519
52020191003:
521	The hpt27xx, hptmv, hptnr, and hptrr drivers have been removed from
522	GENERIC.  They are available as modules and can be loaded by adding
523	to /boot/loader.conf hpt27xx_load="YES", hptmv_load="YES",
524	hptnr_load="YES", or hptrr_load="YES", respectively.
525
52620190913:
527	ntpd no longer by default locks its pages in memory, allowing them
528	to be paged out by the kernel. Use rlimit memlock to restore
529	historic BSD behaviour. For example, add "rlimit memlock 32"
530	to ntp.conf to lock up to 32 MB of ntpd address space in memory.
531
53220190823:
533	Several of ping6's options have been renamed for better consistency
534	with ping.  If you use any of -ARWXaghmrtwx, you must update your
535	scripts.  See ping6(8) for details.
536
53720190727:
538	The vfs.fusefs.sync_unmount and vfs.fusefs.init_backgrounded sysctls
539	and the "-o sync_unmount" and "-o init_backgrounded" mount options have
540	been removed from mount_fusefs(8).  You can safely remove them from
541	your scripts, because they had no effect.
542
543	The vfs.fusefs.fix_broken_io, vfs.fusefs.sync_resize,
544	vfs.fusefs.refresh_size, vfs.fusefs.mmap_enable,
545	vfs.fusefs.reclaim_revoked, and vfs.fusefs.data_cache_invalidate
546	sysctls have been removed.  If you felt the need to set any of them to
547	a non-default value, please tell asomers@FreeBSD.org why.
548
54920190713:
550	Default permissions on the /var/account/acct file (and copies of it
551	rotated by periodic daily scripts) are changed from 0644 to 0640
552	because the file contains sensitive information that should not be
553	world-readable.  If the /var/account directory must be created by
554	rc.d/accounting, the mode used is now 0750.  Admins who use the
555	accounting feature are encouraged to change the mode of an existing
556	/var/account directory to 0750 or 0700.
557
55820190620:
559	Entropy collection and the /dev/random device are no longer optional
560	components.  The "device random" option has been removed.
561	Implementations of distilling algorithms can still be made loadable
562	with "options RANDOM_LOADABLE" (e.g., random_fortuna.ko).
563
56420190612:
565	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
566	been upgraded to 8.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for
567	information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
568	using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
569
57020190608:
571	A fix was applied to i386 kernel modules to avoid panics with
572	dpcpu or vnet.  Users need to recompile i386 kernel modules
573	having pcpu or vnet sections or they will refuse to load.
574
57520190513:
576	User-wired pages now have their own counter,
577	vm.stats.vm.v_user_wire_count.  The vm.max_wired sysctl was renamed
578	to vm.max_user_wired and changed from an unsigned int to an unsigned
579	long.  bhyve VMs wired with the -S are now subject to the user
580	wiring limit; the vm.max_user_wired sysctl may need to be tuned to
581	avoid running into the limit.
582
58320190507:
584	The IPSEC option has been removed from GENERIC.  Users requiring
585	ipsec(4) must now load the ipsec(4) kernel module.
586
58720190507:
588	The tap(4) driver has been folded into tun(4), and the module has been
589	renamed to tuntap.  You should update any kld_list="if_tap" or
590	kld_list="if_tun" entries in /etc/rc.conf, if_tap_load="YES" or
591	if_tun_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf to load the if_tuntap
592	module instead, and "device tap" or "device tun" entries in kernel
593	config files to select the tuntap device instead.
594
59520190418:
596	The following knobs have been added related to tradeoffs between
597	safe use of the random device and availability in the absence of
598	entropy:
599
600	kern.random.initial_seeding.bypass_before_seeding: tunable; set
601	non-zero to bypass the random device prior to seeding, or zero to
602	block random requests until the random device is initially seeded.
603	For now, set to 1 (unsafe) by default to restore pre-r346250 boot
604	availability properties.
605
606	kern.random.initial_seeding.read_random_bypassed_before_seeding:
607	read-only diagnostic sysctl that is set when bypass is enabled and
608	read_random(9) is bypassed, to enable programmatic handling of this
609	initial condition, if desired.
610
611	kern.random.initial_seeding.arc4random_bypassed_before_seeding:
612	Similar to the above, but for arc4random(9) initial seeding.
613
614	kern.random.initial_seeding.disable_bypass_warnings: tunable; set
615	non-zero to disable warnings in dmesg when the same conditions are
616	met as for the diagnostic sysctls above.  Defaults to zero, i.e.,
617	produce warnings in dmesg when the conditions are met.
618
61920190416:
620	The loadable random module KPI has changed; the random_infra_init()
621	routine now requires a 3rd function pointer for a bool (*)(void)
622	method that returns true if the random device is seeded (and
623	therefore unblocked).
624
62520190404:
626	r345895 reverts r320698. This implies that an nfsuserd(8) daemon
627	built from head sources between r320757 (July 6, 2017) and
628	r338192 (Aug. 22, 2018) will not work unless the "-use-udpsock"
629	is added to the command line.
630	nfsuserd daemons built from head sources that are post-r338192 are
631	not affected and should continue to work.
632
63320190320:
634	The fuse(4) module has been renamed to fusefs(4) for consistency with
635	other filesystems.  You should update any kld_load="fuse" entries in
636	/etc/rc.conf, fuse_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf, and
637	"options FUSE" entries in kernel config files.
638
63920190304:
640	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
641	8.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
642	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
643	or higher.
644
64520190226:
646	geom_uzip(4) depends on the new module xz.  If geom_uzip is statically
647	compiled into your custom kernel, add 'device xz' statement to the
648	kernel config.
649
65020190219:
651	drm and drm2 have been removed from the tree. Please see
652	https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics for the latest information on
653	migrating to the drm ports.
654
65520190131:
656	Iflib is no longer unconditionally compiled into the kernel.  Drivers
657	using iflib and statically compiled into the kernel, now require
658	the 'device iflib' config option.  For the same drivers loaded as
659	modules on kernels not having 'device iflib', the iflib.ko module
660	is loaded automatically.
661
66220190125:
663	The IEEE80211_AMPDU_AGE and AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 kernel configuration
664	options no longer exist since r343219 and r343427 respectively;
665	nothing uses them, so they should be just removed from custom
666	kernel config files.
667
66820181230:
669	r342635 changes the way efibootmgr(8) works by requiring users to add
670	the -b (bootnum) parameter for commands where the bootnum was previously
671	specified with each option. For example 'efibootmgr -B 0001' is now
672	'efibootmgr -B -b 0001'.
673
67420181220:
675	r342286 modifies the NFSv4 server so that it obeys vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport
676	in the same as it is applied to NFSv2 and 3.  This implies that NFSv4
677	servers that have vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport set will only allow mounts
678	from clients using a reserved port#. Since both the FreeBSD and Linux
679	NFSv4 clients use reserved port#s by default, this should not affect
680	most NFSv4 mounts.
681
68220181219:
683	The XLP config has been removed. We can't support 64-bit atomics in this
684	kernel because it is running in 32-bit mode. XLP users must transition
685	to running a 64-bit kernel (XLP64 or XLPN32).
686
687	The mips GXEMUL support has been removed from FreeBSD. MALTA* + qemu is
688	the preferred emulator today and we don't need two different ones.
689
690	The old sibyte / swarm / Broadcom BCM1250 support has been
691	removed from the mips port.
692
69320181211:
694	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
695	7.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
696	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
697	or higher.
698
69920181211:
700	Remove the timed and netdate programs from the base tree.  Setting
701	the time with these daemons has been obsolete for over a decade.
702
70320181126:
704	On amd64, arm64 and armv7 (architectures that install LLVM's ld.lld
705	linker as /usr/bin/ld) GNU ld is no longer installed as ld.bfd, as
706	it produces broken binaries when ifuncs are in use.  Users needing
707	GNU ld should install the binutils port or package.
708
70920181123:
710	The BSD crtbegin and crtend code has been enabled by default. It has
711	had extensive testing on amd64, arm64, and i386. It can be disabled
712	by building a world with -DWITHOUT_BSD_CRTBEGIN.
713
71420181115:
715	The set of CTM commands (ctm, ctm_smail, ctm_rmail, ctm_dequeue)
716	has been converted to a port (misc/ctm) and will be removed from
717	FreeBSD-13.  It is available as a package (ctm) for all supported
718	FreeBSD versions.
719
72020181110:
721	The default newsyslog.conf(5) file has been changed to only include
722	files in /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ and /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ if
723	the filenames end in '.conf' and do not begin with a '.'.
724
725	You should check the configuration files in these two directories match
726	this naming convention. You can verify which configuration files are
727	being included using the command:
728		$ newsyslog -Nrv
729
73020181015:
731	Ports for the DRM modules have been simplified. Now, amd64 users should
732	just install the drm-kmod port. All others should install
733	drm-legacy-kmod.
734
735	Graphics hardware that's newer than about 2010 usually works with
736	drm-kmod.  For hardware older than 2013, however, some users will need
737	to use drm-legacy-kmod if drm-kmod doesn't work for them. Hardware older
738	than 2008 usually only works in drm-legacy-kmod. The graphics team can
739	only commit to hardware made since 2013 due to the complexity of the
740	market and difficulty to test all the older cards effectively. If you
741	have hardware supported by drm-kmod, you are strongly encouraged to use
742	that as you will get better support.
743
744	Other than KPI chasing, drm-legacy-kmod will not be updated. As outlined
745	elsewhere, the drm and drm2 modules will be eliminated from the src base
746	soon (with a limited exception for arm). Please update to the package
747	asap and report any issues to x11@freebsd.org.
748
749	Generally, anybody using the drm*-kmod packages should add
750	WITHOUT_DRM_MODULE=t and WITHOUT_DRM2_MODULE=t to avoid nasty
751	cross-threading surprises, especially with automatic driver
752	loading from X11 startup. These will become the defaults in 13-current
753	shortly.
754
75520181012:
756	The ixlv(4) driver has been renamed to iavf(4).  As a consequence,
757	custom kernel and module loading configuration files must be updated
758	accordingly.  Moreover, interfaces previous presented as ixlvN to the
759	system are now exposed as iavfN and network configuration files must
760	be adjusted as necessary.
761
76220181009:
763	OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1.  This update included
764	additional various API changes throughout the base system.  It is
765	important to rebuild third-party software after upgrading.  The value
766	of __FreeBSD_version has been bumped accordingly.
767
76820181006:
769	The legacy DRM modules and drivers have now been added to the loader's
770	module blacklist, in favor of loading them with kld_list in rc.conf(5).
771	The module blacklist may be overridden with the loader.conf(5)
772	'module_blacklist' variable, but loading them via rc.conf(5) is strongly
773	encouraged.
774
77520181002:
776	The cam(4) based nda(4) driver will be used over nvd(4) by default on
777	powerpc64. You may set 'options NVME_USE_NVD=1' in your kernel conf or
778	loader tunable 'hw.nvme.use_nvd=1' if you wish to use the existing
779	driver.  Make sure to edit /boot/etc/kboot.conf and fstab to use the
780	nda device name.
781
78220180913:
783	Reproducible build mode is now on by default, in preparation for
784	FreeBSD 12.0.  This eliminates build metadata such as the user,
785	host, and time from the kernel (and uname), unless the working tree
786	corresponds to a modified checkout from a version control system.
787	The previous behavior can be obtained by setting the /etc/src.conf
788	knob WITHOUT_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD.
789
79020180826:
791	The Yarrow CSPRNG has been removed from the kernel as it has not been
792	supported by its designers since at least 2003. Fortuna has been the
793	default since FreeBSD-11.
794
79520180822:
796	devctl freeze/thaw have gone into the tree, the rc scripts have been
797	updated to use them and devmatch has been changed.  You should update
798	kernel, userland and rc scripts all at the same time.
799
80020180818:
801	The default interpreter has been switched from 4th to Lua.
802	LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP, documented in build(7), will override the default
803	interpreter.  If you have custom FORTH code you will need to set
804	LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP=4th (valid values are 4th, lua or simp) in
805	src.conf for the build.  This will create default hard links between
806	loader and loader_4th instead of loader and loader_lua, the new default.
807	If you are using UEFI it will create the proper hard link to loader.efi.
808
809	bhyve uses userboot.so. It remains 4th-only until some issues are solved
810	regarding coexisting with multiple versions of FreeBSD are resolved.
811
81220180815:
813	ls(1) now respects the COLORTERM environment variable used in other
814	systems and software to indicate that a colored terminal is both
815	supported and desired.  If ls(1) is suddenly emitting colors, they may
816	be disabled again by either removing the unwanted COLORTERM from your
817	environment, or using `ls --color=never`.  The ls(1) specific CLICOLOR
818	may not be observed in a future release.
819
82020180808:
821	The default pager for most commands has been changed to "less".  To
822	restore the old behavior, set PAGER="more" and MANPAGER="more -s" in
823	your environment.
824
82520180731:
826	The jedec_ts(4) driver has been removed. A superset of its functionality
827	is available in the jedec_dimm(4) driver, and the manpage for that
828	driver includes migration instructions. If you have "device jedec_ts"
829	in your kernel configuration file, it must be removed.
830
83120180730:
832	amd64/GENERIC now has EFI runtime services, EFIRT, enabled by default.
833	This should have no effect if the kernel is booted via BIOS/legacy boot.
834	EFIRT may be disabled via a loader tunable, efi.rt.disabled, if a system
835	has a buggy firmware that prevents a successful boot due to use of
836	runtime services.
837
83820180727:
839	Atmel AT91RM9200 and AT91SAM9, Cavium CNS 11xx and XScale
840	support has been removed from the tree. These ports were
841	obsolete and/or known to be broken for many years.
842
84320180723:
844	loader.efi has been augmented to participate more fully in the
845	UEFI boot manager protocol. loader.efi will now look at the
846	BootXXXX environment variable to determine if a specific kernel
847	or root partition was specified. XXXX is derived from BootCurrent.
848	efibootmgr(8) manages these standard UEFI variables.
849
85020180720:
851	zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader.
852	zfsloader is no longer necessary once you've updated your
853	boot blocks. For a transition period, we will install a
854	hardlink for zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition
855	until the boot blocks can be updated (hard link because old
856	zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks).
857
85820180719:
859	ARM64 now have efifb support, if you want to have serial console
860	on your arm64 board when an screen is connected and the bootloader
861	setup a frame buffer for us to use, just add :
862	boot_serial=YES
863	boot_multicons=YES
864	in /boot/loader.conf
865	For Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI) users, this is needed even if you don't have
866	an screen connected as the firmware will setup a frame buffer are that
867	u-boot will expose as an EFI frame buffer.
868
86920180719:
870	New uid:gid added, ntpd:ntpd (123:123).  Be sure to run mergemaster
871	or take steps to update /etc/passwd before doing installworld on
872	existing systems.  Do not skip the "mergemaster -Fp" step before
873	installworld, as described in the update procedures near the bottom
874	of this document.  Also, rc.d/ntpd now starts ntpd(8) as user ntpd
875	if the new mac_ntpd(4) policy is available, unless ntpd_flags or
876	the ntp config file contain options that change file/dir locations.
877	When such options (e.g., "statsdir" or "crypto") are used, ntpd can
878	still be run as non-root by setting ntpd_user=ntpd in rc.conf, after
879	taking steps to ensure that all required files/dirs are accessible
880	by the ntpd user.
881
88220180717:
883	Big endian arm support has been removed.
884
88520180711:
886	The static environment setup in kernel configs is no longer mutually
887	exclusive with the loader(8) environment by default.  In order to
888	restore the previous default behavior of disabling the loader(8)
889	environment if a static environment is present, you must specify
890	loader_env.disabled=1 in the static environment.
891
89220180705:
893	The ABI of syscalls used by management tools like sockstat and
894	netstat has been broken to allow 32-bit binaries to work on
895	64-bit kernels without modification.  These programs will need
896	to match the kernel in order to function.  External programs may
897	require minor modifications to accommodate a change of type in
898	structures from pointers to 64-bit virtual addresses.
899
90020180702:
901	On i386 and amd64 atomics are now inlined. Out of tree modules using
902	atomics will need to be rebuilt.
903
90420180701:
905	The '%I' format in the kern.corefile sysctl limits the number of
906	core files that a process can generate to the number stored in the
907	debug.ncores sysctl. The '%I' format is replaced by the single digit
908	index. Previously, if all indexes were taken the kernel would overwrite
909	only a core file with the highest index in a filename.
910	Currently the system will create a new core file if there is a free
911	index or if all slots are taken it will overwrite the oldest one.
912
91320180630:
914	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
915	6.0.1.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
916	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
917	or higher.
918
91920180628:
920	r335753 introduced a new quoting method. However, etc/devd/devmatch.conf
921	needed to be changed to work with it. This change was made with r335763
922	and requires a mergemaster / etcupdate / etc to update the installed
923	file.
924
92520180612:
926	r334930 changed the interface between the NFS modules, so they all
927	need to be rebuilt.  r335018 did a __FreeBSD_version bump for this.
928
92920180530:
930	As of r334391 lld is the default amd64 system linker; it is installed
931	as /usr/bin/ld.  Kernel build workarounds (see 20180510 entry) are no
932	longer necessary.
933
93420180530:
935	The kernel / userland interface for devinfo changed, so you'll
936	need a new kernel and userland as a pair for it to work (rebuilding
937	lib/libdevinfo is all that's required). devinfo and devmatch will
938	not work, but everything else will when there's a mismatch.
939
94020180523:
941	The on-disk format for hwpmc callchain records has changed to include
942	threadid corresponding to a given record. This changes the field offsets
943	and thus requires that libpmcstat be rebuilt before using a kernel
944	later than r334108.
945
94620180517:
947	The vxge(4) driver has been removed.  This driver was introduced into
948	HEAD one week before the Exar left the Ethernet market and is not
949	known to be used.  If you have device vxge in your kernel config file
950	it must be removed.
951
95220180510:
953	The amd64 kernel now requires a ld that supports ifunc to produce a
954	working kernel, either lld or a newer binutils. lld is built by default
955	on amd64, and the 'buildkernel' target uses it automatically. However,
956	it is not the default linker, so building the kernel the traditional
957	way requires LD=ld.lld on the command line (or LD=/usr/local/bin/ld for
958	binutils port/package). lld will soon be default, and this requirement
959	will go away.
960
961	NOTE: As of r334391 lld is the default system linker on amd64, and no
962	workaround is necessary.
963
96420180508:
965	The nxge(4) driver has been removed.  This driver was for PCI-X 10g
966	cards made by s2io/Neterion.  The company was acquired by Exar and
967	no longer sells or supports Ethernet products.  If you have device
968	nxge in your kernel config file it must be removed.
969
97020180504:
971	The tz database (tzdb) has been updated to 2018e.  This version more
972	correctly models time stamps in time zones with negative DST such as
973	Europe/Dublin (from 1971 on), Europe/Prague (1946/7), and
974	Africa/Windhoek (1994/2017).  This does not affect the UT offsets, only
975	time zone abbreviations and the tm_isdst flag.
976
97720180502:
978	The ixgb(4) driver has been removed.  This driver was for an early and
979	uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a single ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel
980	quickly shifted to the long lived ixgbe family.  If you have device
981	ixgb in your kernel config file it must be removed.
982
98320180501:
984	The lmc(4) driver has been removed.  This was a WAN interface
985	card that was already reportedly rare in 2003, and had an ambiguous
986	license.  If you have device lmc in your kernel config file it must
987	be removed.
988
98920180413:
990	Support for Arcnet networks has been removed.  If you have device
991	arcnet or device cm in your kernel config file they must be
992	removed.
993
99420180411:
995	Support for FDDI networks has been removed.  If you have device
996	fddi or device fpa in your kernel config file they must be
997	removed.
998
99920180406:
1000	In addition to supporting RFC 3164 formatted messages, the
1001	syslogd(8) service is now capable of parsing RFC 5424 formatted
1002	log messages. The main benefit of using RFC 5424 is that clients
1003	may now send log messages with timestamps containing year numbers,
1004	microseconds and time zone offsets.
1005
1006	Similarly, the syslog(3) C library function has been altered to
1007	send RFC 5424 formatted messages to the local system logging
1008	daemon. On systems using syslogd(8), this change should have no
1009	negative impact, as long as syslogd(8) and the C library are
1010	updated at the same time. On systems using a different system
1011	logging daemon, it may be necessary to make configuration
1012	adjustments, depending on the software used.
1013
1014	When using syslog-ng, add the 'syslog-protocol' flag to local
1015	input sources to enable parsing of RFC 5424 formatted messages:
1016
1017		source src {
1018			unix-dgram("/var/run/log" flags(syslog-protocol));
1019		}
1020
1021	When using rsyslog, disable the 'SysSock.UseSpecialParser' option
1022	of the 'imuxsock' module to let messages be processed by the
1023	regular RFC 3164/5424 parsing pipeline:
1024
1025		module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.UseSpecialParser="off")
1026
1027	Do note that these changes only affect communication between local
1028	applications and syslogd(8). The format that syslogd(8) uses to
1029	store messages on disk or forward messages to other systems
1030	remains unchanged. syslogd(8) still uses RFC 3164 for these
1031	purposes. Options to customize this behaviour will be added in the
1032	future. Utilities that process log files stored in /var/log are
1033	thus expected to continue to function as before.
1034
1035	__FreeBSD_version has been incremented to 1200061 to denote this
1036	change.
1037
103820180328:
1039	Support for token ring networks has been removed. If you
1040	have "device token" in your kernel config you should remove
1041	it. No device drivers supported token ring.
1042
104320180323:
1044	makefs was modified to be able to tag ISO9660 El Torito boot catalog
1045	entries as EFI instead of overloading the i386 tag as done previously.
1046	The amd64 mkisoimages.sh script used to build amd64 ISO images for
1047	release was updated to use this. This may mean that makefs must be
1048	updated before "make cdrom" can be run in the release directory. This
1049	should be as simple as:
1050
1051		$ cd $SRCDIR/usr.sbin/makefs
1052		$ make depend all install
1053
105420180212:
1055	FreeBSD boot loader enhanced with Lua scripting. It's purely opt-in for
1056	now by building WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH in /etc/src.conf.
1057	Co-existence for the transition period will come shortly. Booting is a
1058	complex environment and test coverage for Lua-enabled loaders has been
1059	thin, so it would be prudent to assume it might not work and make
1060	provisions for backup boot methods.
1061
106220180211:
1063	devmatch functionality has been turned on in devd. It will automatically
1064	load drivers for unattached devices. This may cause unexpected drivers
1065	to be loaded. Please report any problems to current@ and
1066	imp@freebsd.org.
1067
106820180114:
1069	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
1070	6.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
1071	prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
1072	or higher.
1073
107420180110:
1075	LLVM's lld linker is now used as the FreeBSD/amd64 bootstrap linker.
1076	This means it is used to link the kernel and userland libraries and
1077	executables, but is not yet installed as /usr/bin/ld by default.
1078
1079	To revert to ld.bfd as the bootstrap linker, in /etc/src.conf set
1080	WITHOUT_LLD_BOOTSTRAP=yes
1081
108220180110:
1083	On i386, pmtimer has been removed. Its functionality has been folded
1084	into apm. It was a no-op on ACPI in current for a while now (but was
1085	still needed on i386 in FreeBSD 11 and earlier). Users may need to
1086	remove it from kernel config files.
1087
108820180104:
1089	The use of RSS hash from the network card aka flowid has been
1090	disabled by default for lagg(4) as it's currently incompatible with
1091	the lacp and loadbalance protocols.
1092
1093	This can be re-enabled by setting the following in loader.conf:
1094	net.link.lagg.default_use_flowid="1"
1095
109620180102:
1097	The SW_WATCHDOG option is no longer necessary to enable the
1098	hardclock-based software watchdog if no hardware watchdog is
1099	configured. As before, SW_WATCHDOG will cause the software
1100	watchdog to be enabled even if a hardware watchdog is configured.
1101
110220171215:
1103	r326887 fixes the issue described in the 20171214 UPDATING entry.
1104	r326888 flips the switch back to building GELI support always.
1105
110620171214:
1107	r362593 broke ZFS + GELI support for reasons unknown. However,
1108	it also broke ZFS support generally, so GELI has been turned off
1109	by default as the lesser evil in r326857. If you boot off ZFS and/or
1110	GELI, it might not be a good time to update.
1111
111220171125:
1113	PowerPC users must update loader(8) by rebuilding world before
1114	installing a new kernel, as the protocol connecting them has
1115	changed. Without the update, loader metadata will not be passed
1116	successfully to the kernel and users will have to enter their
1117	root partition at the kernel mountroot prompt to continue booting.
1118	Newer versions of loader can boot old kernels without issue.
1119
112020171110:
1121	The LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT build variable as been renamed to
1122	WITH/OUT_LOADER_FIREWIRE. LOADER_{NO_,}GELI_SUPPORT has been renamed
1123	to WITH/OUT_LOADER_GELI.
1124
112520171106:
1126	The naive and non-compliant support of posix_fallocate(2) in ZFS
1127	has been removed as of r325320.  The system call now returns EINVAL
1128	when used on a ZFS file.  Although the new behavior complies with the
1129	standard, some consumers are not prepared to cope with it.
1130	One known victim is lld prior to r325420.
1131
113220171102:
1133	Building in a FreeBSD src checkout will automatically create object
1134	directories now rather than store files in the current directory if
1135	'make obj' was not ran.  Calling 'make obj' is no longer necessary.
1136	This feature can be disabled by setting WITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ=yes in
1137	/etc/src-env.conf (not /etc/src.conf), or passing the option in the
1138	environment.
1139
114020171101:
1141	The default MAKEOBJDIR has changed from /usr/obj/<srcdir> for native
1142	builds, and /usr/obj/<arch>/<srcdir> for cross-builds, to a unified
1143	/usr/obj/<srcdir>/<arch>.  This behavior can be changed to the old
1144	format by setting WITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR=yes in /etc/src-env.conf,
1145	the environment, or with -DWITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR when building.
1146	The UNIFIED_OBJDIR option is a transitional feature that will be
1147	removed for 12.0 release; please migrate to the new format for any
1148	tools by looking up the OBJDIR used by 'make -V .OBJDIR' means rather
1149	than hardcoding paths.
1150
115120171028:
1152	The native-xtools target no longer installs the files by default to the
1153	OBJDIR.  Use the native-xtools-install target with a DESTDIR to install
1154	to ${DESTDIR}/${NXTP} where NXTP defaults to /nxb-bin.
1155
115620171021:
1157	As part of the boot loader infrastructure cleanup, LOADER_*_SUPPORT
1158	options are changing from controlling the build if defined / undefined
1159	to controlling the build with explicit 'yes' or 'no' values. They will
1160	shift to WITH/WITHOUT options to match other options in the system.
1161
116220171010:
1163	libstand has turned into a private library for sys/boot use only.
1164	It is no longer supported as a public interface outside of sys/boot.
1165
116620171005:
1167	The arm port has split armv6 into armv6 and armv7. armv7 is now
1168	a valid TARGET_ARCH/MACHINE_ARCH setting. If you have an armv7 system
1169	and are running a kernel from before r324363, you will need to add
1170	MACHINE_ARCH=armv7 to 'make buildworld' to do a native build.
1171
117220171003:
1173	When building multiple kernels using KERNCONF, non-existent KERNCONF
1174	files will produce an error and buildkernel will fail. Previously
1175	missing KERNCONF files silently failed giving no indication as to
1176	why, only to subsequently discover during installkernel that the
1177	desired kernel was never built in the first place.
1178
117920170912:
1180	The default serial number format for CTL LUNs has changed.  This will
1181	affect users who use /dev/diskid/* device nodes, or whose FibreChannel
1182	or iSCSI clients care about their LUNs' serial numbers.  Users who
1183	require serial number stability should hardcode serial numbers in
1184	/etc/ctl.conf .
1185
118620170912:
1187	For 32-bit arm compiled for hard-float support, soft-floating point
1188	binaries now always get their shared libraries from
1189	LD_SOFT_LIBRARY_PATH (in the past, this was only used if
1190	/usr/libsoft also existed). Only users with a hard-float ld.so, but
1191	soft-float everything else should be affected.
1192
119320170826:
1194	The geli password typed at boot is now hidden.  To restore the previous
1195	behavior, see geli(8) for configuration options.
1196
119720170825:
1198	Move PMTUD blackhole counters to TCPSTATS and remove them from bare
1199	sysctl values.  Minor nit, but requires a rebuild of both world/kernel
1200	to complete.
1201
120220170814:
1203	"make check" behavior (made in ^/head@r295380) has been changed to
1204	execute from a limited sandbox, as opposed to executing from
1205	${TESTSDIR}.
1206
1207	Behavioral changes:
1208	- The "beforecheck" and "aftercheck" targets are now specified.
1209	- ${CHECKDIR} (added in commit noted above) has been removed.
1210	- Legacy behavior can be enabled by setting
1211	  WITHOUT_MAKE_CHECK_USE_SANDBOX in src.conf(5) or the environment.
1212
1213	If the limited sandbox mode is enabled, "make check" will execute
1214	"make distribution", then install, execute the tests, and clean up the
1215	sandbox if successful.
1216
1217	The "make distribution" and "make install" targets are typically run as
1218	root to set appropriate permissions and ownership at installation time.
1219	The end-user should set "WITH_INSTALL_AS_USER" in src.conf(5) or the
1220	environment if executing "make check" with limited sandbox mode using
1221	an unprivileged user.
1222
122320170808:
1224	Since the switch to GPT disk labels, fsck for UFS/FFS has been
1225	unable to automatically find alternate superblocks. As of r322297,
1226	the information needed to find alternate superblocks has been
1227	moved to the end of the area reserved for the boot block.
1228	Filesystems created with a newfs of this vintage or later
1229	will create the recovery information. If you have a filesystem
1230	created prior to this change and wish to have a recovery block
1231	created for your filesystem, you can do so by running fsck in
1232	foreground mode (i.e., do not use the -p or -y options). As it
1233	starts, fsck will ask ``SAVE DATA TO FIND ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS''
1234	to which you should answer yes.
1235
123620170728:
1237	As of r321665, an NFSv4 server configuration that services
1238	Kerberos mounts or clients that do not support the uid/gid in
1239	owner/owner_group string capability, must explicitly enable
1240	the nfsuserd daemon by adding nfsuserd_enable="YES" to the
1241	machine's /etc/rc.conf file.
1242
124320170722:
1244	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 5.0.0.
1245	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
1246	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1247
124820170701:
1249	WITHOUT_RCMDS is now the default. Set WITH_RCMDS if you need the
1250	r-commands (rlogin, rsh, etc.) to be built with the base system.
1251
125220170625:
1253	The FreeBSD/powerpc platform now uses a 64-bit type for time_t.  This is
1254	a very major ABI incompatible change, so users of FreeBSD/powerpc must
1255	be careful when performing source upgrades.  It is best to run
1256	'make installworld' from an alternate root system, either a live
1257	CD/memory stick, or a temporary root partition.  Additionally, all ports
1258	must be recompiled.  powerpc64 is largely unaffected, except in the case
1259	of 32-bit compatibility.  All 32-bit binaries will be affected.
1260
126120170623:
1262	Forward compatibility for the "ino64" project have been committed. This
1263	will allow most new binaries to run on older kernels in a limited
1264	fashion.  This prevents many of the common foot-shooting actions in the
1265	upgrade as well as the limited ability to roll back the kernel across
1266	the ino64 upgrade. Complicated use cases may not work properly, though
1267	enough simpler ones work to allow recovery in most situations.
1268
126920170620:
1270	Switch back to the BSDL dtc (Device Tree Compiler). Set WITH_GPL_DTC
1271	if you require the GPL compiler.
1272
127320170618:
1274	The internal ABI used for communication between the NFS kernel modules
1275	was changed by r320085, so __FreeBSD_version was bumped to
1276	ensure all the NFS related modules are updated together.
1277
127820170617:
1279	The ABI of struct event was changed by extending the data
1280	member to 64bit and adding ext fields.  For upgrade, same
1281	precautions as for the entry 20170523 "ino64" must be
1282	followed.
1283
128420170531:
1285	The GNU roff toolchain has been removed from base. To render manpages
1286	which are not supported by mandoc(1), man(1) can fallback on GNU roff
1287	from ports (and recommends to install it).
1288	To render roff(7) documents, consider using GNU roff from ports or the
1289	heirloom doctools roff toolchain from ports via pkg install groff or
1290	via pkg install heirloom-doctools.
1291
129220170524:
1293	The ath(4) and ath_hal(4) modules now build piecemeal to allow for
1294	smaller runtime footprint builds.  This is useful for embedded systems
1295	which only require one chipset support.
1296
1297	If you load it as a module, make sure this is in /boot/loader.conf:
1298
1299	if_ath_load="YES"
1300
1301	This will load the HAL, all chip/RF backends and if_ath_pci.
1302	If you have if_ath_pci in /boot/loader.conf, ensure it is after
1303	if_ath or it will not load any HAL chipset support.
1304
1305	If you want to selectively load things (eg on ye cheape ARM/MIPS
1306	platforms where RAM is at a premium) you should:
1307
1308	* load ath_hal
1309	* load the chip modules in question
1310	* load ath_rate, ath_dfs
1311	* load ath_main
1312	* load if_ath_pci and/or if_ath_ahb depending upon your particular
1313	  bus bind type - this is where probe/attach is done.
1314
1315	For further comments/feedback, poke adrian@ .
1316
131720170523:
1318	The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends
1319	a number of types to 64 bits.  Upgrading in place requires care and
1320	adherence to the documented upgrade procedure.
1321
1322	If using a custom kernel configuration ensure that the
1323	COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option is included (as during the upgrade the
1324	system will be running the ino64 kernel with the existing world).
1325
1326	For the safest in-place upgrade begin by removing previous build
1327	artifacts via "rm -rf /usr/obj/*".  Then, carefully follow the full
1328	procedure documented below under the heading "To rebuild everything and
1329	install it on the current system."  Specifically, a reboot is required
1330	after installing the new kernel before installing world. While an
1331	installworld normally works by accident from multiuser after rebooting
1332	the proper kernel, there are many cases where this will fail across this
1333	upgrade and installworld from single user is required.
1334
133520170424:
1336	The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and
1337	patm(4) devices has been removed.  Consumers should plan a
1338	migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11.
1339
134020170420:
1341	GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU
1342	diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of
1343	GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name.
1344
134520170413:
1346	As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when
1347	keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with
1348	documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state.
1349	This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags
1350	and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state.
1351	To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with
1352	keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5).
1353
135420170407:
1355	arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default,
1356	instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be
1357	installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set
1358	CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin .
1359
136020170405:
1361	The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl
1362	net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted.  L2 broadcast
1363	packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets.
1364
136520170331:
1366	Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now
1367	use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail
1368	instead of using the first assigned address of the jail.
1369
137020170329:
1371	The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend:
1372	cfiscsi.ko does instead.
1373
1374	If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded
1375	via one of the following methods:
1376	- `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5).
1377	- Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5).
1378	- ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support
1379	  (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5))
1380
1381	Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details.
1382
138320170316:
1384	The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko.
1385	Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the
1386	same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was
1387	missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible
1388	with mmc.ko).
1389
139020170315:
1391	The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity.
1392	If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify
1393	them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must
1394	be prefixed with colon.
1395
139620170311:
1397	The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been
1398	removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version
1399	(sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware.
1400
140120170302:
1402	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0.
1403	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
1404	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1405
140620170221:
1407	The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality
1408	has been reimplemented.  It's not possible now to create a snapshot
1409	by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/.  That should be the only user visible
1410	change.
1411
141220170216:
1413	EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer
1414	valid.
1415
141620170215:
1417	MCA bus support has been removed.
1418
141920170127:
1420	The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed
1421	WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC.
1422
142320170112:
1424	The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that
1425	the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications.
1426
142720170109:
1428	The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via
1429	IFLIB.  If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4)
1430	but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom
1431	configuration.
1432
143320161217:
1434	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1.
1435	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
1436	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1437
143820161124:
1439	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0.
1440	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
1441	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1442
144320161119:
1444	The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap
1445	statistics at the front for all CPU variations.  libkvm(3) and all tools
1446	that link against it need to be recompiled.
1447
144820161030:
1449	isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver,
1450	chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware.
1451	On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using
1452	device hints.  Please see the corresponding manual pages for details.
1453
145420161017:
1455	The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of
1456	rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific
1457	parts.
1458	Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name
1459	conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B))
1460
146120161015:
1462	GNU rcs has been removed from base.  It is available as packages:
1463	- rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version.
1464	- rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was
1465	removed from base.
1466
146720161008:
1468	Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control
1469	modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the
1470	TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.)
1471
147220161003:
1473	The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired.
1474	ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy.
1475
147620160924:
1477	Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed
1478	to use an extension of .pico instead.  The purpose of this change is
1479	to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file
1480	systems.  On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so.
1481
148220160918:
1483	GNU rcs has been turned off by default.  It can (temporarily) be built
1484	again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf.
1485	Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages:
1486	- rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version.
1487	- rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base.
1488
148920160918:
1490	The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr.
1491
149220160908:
1493	The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into
1494	two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and
1495	QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH.  Define both for the original
1496	QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior.
1497
149820160824:
1499	r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace
1500	programs and the kernel.  ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be
1501	rebuilt to work with new kernels.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped
1502	to 1200005.
1503
150420160818:
1505	The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP
1506	packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3
1507	broadcast packets.  It is not expected that this will affect any
1508	standards-conforming UDP application.  The new behaviour can be
1509	disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to
1510	0.
1511
151220160818:
1513	Remove the openbsd_poll system call.
1514	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
1515
151620160708:
1517	The stable/11 branch has been created from head@r302406.
1518
151920160622:
1520	The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with
1521	a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2)
1522	system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include
1523	"options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the
1524	default).  Users should ensure that this option is enabled in
1525	their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their
1526	kernel.
1527
152820160527:
1529	CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers.
1530	This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using
1531	those disk's diskid device nodes.  For example, if /etc/fstab
1532	previously contained a line like
1533	"/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should
1534	change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456".  Users of geom
1535	transforms like gmirror may also be affected.  ZFS users should
1536	generally be fine.
1537
153820160523:
1539	The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and
1540	improved performance.  But it is binary-incompatible with the old API.
1541	Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects
1542	built with the old headers.
1543
154420160520:
1545	The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64.
1546	Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these
1547	functions and should be updated to the latest version before
1548	installing a new libc.
1549
155020160517:
1551	The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support
1552	for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system
1553	is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT.
1554	This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld
1555	and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New
1556	packages will be needed.
1557
1558	To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add
1559	TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build
1560	and the install steps.
1561
156220160510:
1563	Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to
1564	installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel.  Many kernel
1565	modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode
1566	KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules.  However,
1567	manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will
1568	now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel.
1569
157020160414:
1571	The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be
1572	no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the
1573	list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt
1574	data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data
1575	corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete:
1576
1577		o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware.
1578		o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware.
1579		o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware
1580		o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares
1581		o FCCT M500 all firmwares
1582
1583	Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware
1584	with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for
1585	updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these
1586	drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given
1587	this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no
1588	other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above
1589	vendors work.
1590
1591	To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your
1592	drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting:
1593		kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2"
1594	in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the
1595	quirks entry to 0x3.
1596
159720160330:
1598	The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is
1599	now the one true way.  The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has
1600	been removed.  See 20160311 for further details.
1601
160220160317:
1603	Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t.  All
1604	drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled.
1605
160620160311:
1607	WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree
1608	builds.  It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the
1609	'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran
1610	when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before
1611	building anything else.  Dependencies are gathered at compile time with
1612	-MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file.  Users should
1613	run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older
1614	stale .depend files.
1615
161620160306:
1617	On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into
1618	kernel modules.  Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time,
1619	please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before
1620	rebooting, e.g.:
1621
1622	make buildworld
1623	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1624	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
1625	make -C sys/boot install
1626	<reboot in single user>
1627
1628	Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section,
1629	below.
1630
163120160305:
1632	Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0.  Please
1633	see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
1634	upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1635
163620160301:
1637	The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel.  The
1638	VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed.
1639	Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only
1640	permitted on sockets and raw disks by default.  To enable
1641	asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the
1642	vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value.
1643
164420160226:
1645	The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the
1646	ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a
1647	drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The
1648	(temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set
1649	to obtain the GNU version if necessary.
1650
165120160129:
1652	Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default.  That
1653	feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks.
1654	Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will
1655	still work, even if the guest is using ZFS.  Legacy behavior can be
1656	restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1.
1657
165820160119:
1659	The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH.  They are
1660	still available in the security/openssh-portable port.
1661
166220160113:
1663	With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required
1664	during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user
1665	prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook.
1666
166720151216:
1668	The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a
1669	consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp
1670	server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the
1671	other loaders.
1672
167320151211:
1674	The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has
1675	been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel,
1676	a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced
1677	for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild
1678	the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or
1679	later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding.
1680
168120151207:
1682	Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and
1683	installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but
1684	requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed
1685	world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes
1686	in src.conf(5).
1687
168820151130:
1689	r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and
1690	nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether.
1691	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this.
1692
169320151108:
1694	Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of
1695	order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old
1696	behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C".
1697
1698	Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given
1699	collation results will be different.
1700
1701	Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient
1702	locales before running make installworld.
1703
1704	rm -rf /usr/share/locale/*
1705
170620151030:
1707	The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d.  Any binaries requiring
1708	libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled.
1709
171020151020:
1711	Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0.
1712	Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and
1713	should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively.
1714
171520151017:
1716	The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into
1717	sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and
1718	'make -n -n' to recursively show commands.  Now 'make -n' will recurse
1719	and 'make -N' will not.
1720
172120151012:
1722	If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster
1723	and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now
1724	updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld.  If you had
1725	excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may
1726	want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install".
1727	/etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of
1728	whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used.  If you are not using
1729	SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior.
1730
173120151011:
1732	Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed.
1733	It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases
1734	and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.*
1735	environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links.
1736
173720151006:
1738	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0.
1739	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites
1740	and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
1741
174220150924:
1743	Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/,
1744	and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements
1745	on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with
1746	userland debug files.
1747
1748	When using the supported kernel installation method the
1749	/usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old)
1750	as is done with /boot/kernel.
1751
1752	Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing
1753	debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5).
1754
175520150827:
1756	The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent
1757	interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts
1758	used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old
1759	scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3)
1760	or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your
1761	rc.d scripts in /etc.
1762
176320150827:
1764	pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl'
1765	These configurations are now automatically interpreted as
1766	'scrub fragment reassemble'.
1767
176820150817:
1769	Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use
1770	them, the kernel must have
1771
1772	device	random
1773	options	RANDOM_LOADABLE
1774
1775	kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko
1776	or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect
1777	function calls that the loadable modules need to provide,
1778	the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient.
1779
1780	The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to
1781	unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway.
1782
178320150813:
1784	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired.
1785	Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by
1786	the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob.
1787
178820150810:
1789	The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the
1790	uart(4) driver has been corrected.  Prior to this change the PPS
1791	"assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS
1792	pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse.
1793
1794	As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the
1795	order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant
1796	difference with this change.
1797
1798	Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by
1799	configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to
1800	remove that workaround.
1801
180220150809:
1803	The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed
1804	from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have
1805	access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group
1806	with:
1807
1808	# pw groupmod video -m $USER
1809
181020150806:
1811	The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during
1812	upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and
1813	loader.rc.local instead.
1814
181520150805:
1816	GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size,
1817	strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob
1818	WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools.
1819
182020150728:
1821	As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some
1822	architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than
1823	ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing).
1824
1825	Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater
1826	than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations.
1827
182820150706:
1829	sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2.  Starting with FreeBSD 11.0
1830	and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by
1831	default, i.e., they will not contain "::".  For example, instead
1832	of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1.  This permits a zero subnet
1833	to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for
1834	IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0.  This change requires that configuration
1835	data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must
1836	use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is
1837	upgrading.  As a very simple check search for patterns like
1838	'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'.  To return to the old
1839	behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or
1840	the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses.
1841
184220150630:
1843	The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now
1844	Fortuna, replacing Yarrow.
1845
1846	Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config
1847	file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override
1848	this default. You may choose *ONE* of:
1849
1850	options	RANDOM_YARROW	# Legacy /dev/random algorithm.
1851	options	RANDOM_DUMMY	# Blocking-only driver.
1852
1853	If you have neither, you get Fortuna.  For most people,
1854	read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works
1855	like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant.
1856
1857	If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed
1858	entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building
1859	embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading,
1860	and it is assumed you know what you need.
1861
1862	*PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the
1863	habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member
1864	of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual
1865	behaviour from your security subsystems.
1866
1867	NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device
1868	random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and
1869	many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH.
1870	You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set
1871	of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3)
1872	and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND
1873	sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to
1874	share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this
1875	will never happen.
1876
187720150623:
1878	An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail
1879	entry below has been committed in revision 284717.
1880
188120150616:
1882	FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is
1883	available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake.
1884
188520150615:
1886	The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry
1887	below has been committed in revision 284436.  The work
1888	around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the
1889	default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration
1890	setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file.
1891
189220150614:
1893	ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from
1894	atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf
1895	and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work
1896	with Kyuafile and kyua.
1897
189820150614:
1899	The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl
1900	security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes
1901	with DH parameters below 768 bits.  sendmail releases prior
1902	to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit
1903	DH parameter setting for client connections.  To work around
1904	this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a
1905	2048 bit DH parameter by:
1906
1907	1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc
1908	2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or
1909	   exists and is set to a string beginning with '5',
1910	   replace it with '2'.
1911	3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to
1912	   a file path, create a new file with:
1913		openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048
1914	4. Rebuild the .cf file:
1915		cd /etc/mail/; make; make install
1916	5. Restart sendmail:
1917		cd /etc/mail/; make restart
1918
1919	A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be
1920	updated.
1921
192220150604:
1923	Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default
1924	in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted
1925	entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new,
1926	machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD
1927	5.x.
1928
1929	Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details.
1930
193120150525:
1932	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release.  Please see the
1933	20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading,
1934	if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
1935
193620150521:
1937	TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update
1938	may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black,
1939	and Pandaboard:
1940
1941	- dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the
1942	  same but content is different now
1943	- GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank)
1944	  has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old
1945	  addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3.
1946	- Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is
1947	  now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0
1948
194920150501:
1950	soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim.
1951	If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff
1952	from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff.
1953
195420150423:
1955	chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as
1956	defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored.
1957
195820150415:
1959	The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with
1960	POSIX.  The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards.
1961
196220150416:
1963	Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding
1964	DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies.  This is now
1965	enforced in src.libnames.mk.
1966
196720150324:
1968	From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers
1969	supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4).
1970	Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely,
1971	replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively.
1972
197320150315:
1974	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release.  Please see
1975	the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and
1976	upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher.
1977
197820150307:
1979	The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent
1980	executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8)
1981	newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and
1982	kernel before rebooting.
1983
198420150217:
1985	If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014),
1986	but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly.  Immediately
1987	upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g.
1988	ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that
1989	range.  This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random
1990	or /dev/urandom.  All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected.
1991
199220150210:
1993	The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility
1994	with 10.1-RELEASE.  The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work
1995	with the new kernel.
1996
199720150131:
1998	The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent
1999	executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8),
2000	so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting.
2001
200220150118:
2003	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release.  This is a bugfix
2004	only release, no new features have been added.  Please see the 20141231
2005	entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you
2006	are not already using 3.5.0.
2007
200820150107:
2009	ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now
2010	taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They
2011	should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support.
2012	The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the
2013	binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information.
2014
201520150105:
2016	The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control
2017	using a local socket.  Users who have already enabled the
2018	local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration
2019	by running "service local_unbound setup" as root.
2020
202120150102:
2022	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed.
2023	To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports.
2024
202520141231:
2026	Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release.
2027
2028	As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is
2029	a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library.  This means that to
2030	be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with
2031	clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler
2032	should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your
2033	system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or
2034	later.
2035
2036	On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and
2037	libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out
2038	of the box.
2039
2040	On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and
2041	powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be
2042	built (with clang) and installed first.  If both clang and libc++ are
2043	missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++.
2044
2045	On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow
2046	the instructions for 9.x above.
2047
2048	Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by
2049	default, and do not build clang.
2050
2051	Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to
2052	build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all.  In those
2053	cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround.
2054
2055	This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which
2056	the following are most likely to appear:
2057
2058	-Wabsolute-value
2059
2060	This warns in two cases, for both C and C++:
2061	* When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned
2062	  quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was
2063	  intended.  The code should be fixed, if at all possible.  If you are
2064	  sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without
2065	  loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit
2066	  cast, or disable the warning.
2067
2068	* When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called
2069	  abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation.
2070	  If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please
2071	  make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted
2072	  side-effects.
2073
2074	-Wtautological-undefined-compare and
2075	-Wundefined-bool-conversion
2076
2077	These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while
2078	'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code.  However, there is
2079	some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this
2080	feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions.
2081
2082	Squid and openjdk do this, for example.  The warning can be turned off
2083	for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result
2084	in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are
2085	unreachable could be optimized away.
2086
208720141222:
2088	The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER)
2089	kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some
2090	utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later.
2091	If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail.
2092	If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used,
2093	the utilities will report errors.
2094
209520141121:
2096	The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of
2097	directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent
2098	directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS.  Users with build systems with
2099	such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent
2100	directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to
2101	LOCAL_DIRS.
2102
210320141109:
2104	faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith
2105	has been obsolete for a very long time.
2106
210720141104:
2108	vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings
2109	support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as
2110	support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video
2111	drivers.
2112
2113	You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf,
2114	most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will
2115	indicate what you need to do.
2116
2117	vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to
2118	syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information:
2119	  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
2120
2121	If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding
2122	the following line to /boot/loader.conf:
2123	  kern.vty=sc
2124
212520141102:
2126	pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite.
2127	Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to
2128	execute it.
2129
213020141009:
2131	gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures
2132	that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the
2133	devel/gperf port.
2134
213520140923:
2136	pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to
2137	contrib/pjdfstest .
2138
213920140922:
2140	At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted
2141	to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure
2142	update.  If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports,
2143	add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf.  Users are
2144	encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during
2145	their next update cycle.
2146
214720140729:
2148	The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when
2149	using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This
2150	will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from
2151	initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to
2152	1.12.4_8 or newer.
2153
215420140723:
2155	The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and
2156	TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH.
2157
215820140719:
2159	The default unbound configuration has been modified to address
2160	issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private
2161	address ranges.  If you use the local_unbound service, run
2162	"service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your
2163	configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the
2164	new configuration.
2165
216620140709:
2167	The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed
2168	anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install
2169	them again.
2170	UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal
2171
217220140708:
2173	The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is
2174	statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base
2175	system, and the shared library is no longer installed.  The
2176	devel/readline port is available for third party software that
2177	requires readline.
2178
217920140702:
2180	The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of
2181	known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the
2182	architecture.
2183
218420140701:
2185	Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from
2186	projects/nfsv4.1-server.  Since this includes changes to the
2187	internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full
2188	build of the kernel and modules will be necessary.
2189	__FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
2190
219120140629:
2192	The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed
2193	WITHOUT_VT.  (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning
2194	which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.)
2195
219620140619:
2197	Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to
2198	64 chars, that breaks ABI.  All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm
2199	and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel.
2200
220120140606:
2202	The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and
2203	1 respectively to match the upstream numbers.  They were out of
2204	sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the
2205	upstream versions were not respected.  These libraries are private
2206	and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a
2207	non-issue.  However, unclean source trees will yield broken test
2208	programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a
2209	"make installworld".
2210
2211	Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into
2212	/usr/libexec/.  Already-built shell test programs will keep the
2213	path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old"
2214	is run.
2215
2216	If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object
2217	tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures.
2218	This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced
2219	binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will
2220	be removed during a clean upgrade.
2221
222220140512:
2223	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release.
2224
222520140508:
2226	We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should
2227	be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to
2228	ObsoleteFiles.inc).
2229
223020140505:
2231	/etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the
2232	past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old
2233	behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this
2234	behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf
2235	(which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the
2236	behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual
2237	directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that.
2238	Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios,
2239	other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of
2240	temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld
2241	as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this
2242	setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree.
2243
2244	One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk
2245	is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to
2246	use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk
2247	as well.
2248
224920140430:
2250	The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a
2251	standard device.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
2252
225320140424:
2254	The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls
2255	building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1)
2256	in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a
2257	build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for
2258	build hosts for older releases.
2259
2260	This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and
2261	r276991, respectively.
2262
226320140418:
2264	The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for
2265	a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds
2266	will silently lack HESIOD.
2267
226820140405:
2269	The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling
2270	of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented
2271	any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL
2272	control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make
2273	changes to the serial console port without having to reboot.
2274	However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is
2275	associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal
2276	line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact.
2277	Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the
2278	serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to
2279	preserve the previous behaviour. E.g:
2280	    ttyu0  "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire"  vt100  on  secure
2281
228220140306:
2283	Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default
2284	to improve performance.  To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind
2285	with command line option -W.
2286
228720140226:
2288	Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream
2289	dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need
2290	to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps
2291	may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail
2292	to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler.
2293
229420140216:
2295	Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release.
2296
229720140216:
2298	The nve(4) driver has been removed.  Please use the nfe(4) driver
2299	for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead.
2300
230120140212:
2302	An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283.
2303	This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built
2304	against the previous version of libc++ to crash.  The incompatibility
2305	has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built
2306	between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled.
2307
230820140204:
2309	OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum
2310	capability mode support.  Please note that enabling the feature in
2311	kernel is still highly recommended.
2312
231320140131:
2314	OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as
2315	the default privilege separation method.  This requires Capsicum
2316	capability mode support in kernel.
2317
231820140128:
2319	The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer
2320	versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for
2321	these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries
2322	requiring these two libraries should be recompiled.
2323	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006.
2324
232520140110:
2326	If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile
2327	instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such
2328	Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during
2329	NO_CLEAN builds.  This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual
2330	intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN:
2331	  # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f
2332
233320131213:
2334	The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism
2335	has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string
2336	than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function.
2337	In particular, the random string produced from a session key of
2338	enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will
2339	be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change.
2340	The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a
2341	big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402.
2342	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004.
2343
234420131108:
2345	The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality
2346	has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS.  If you were
2347	using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you
2348	should change your settings to use the latter.
2349
235020131025:
2351	The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from
2352	NetBSD.  The output is generally the same, but may vary
2353	slightly.  If you found you need identical output adding
2354	"-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick.  For the
2355	time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree.
2356
235720131014:
2358	libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private.
2359	This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg
2360	1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make
2361	delete-old-libs":
2362	  # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean
2363	  or
2364	  # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml
2365
236620131010:
2367	The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head
2368	revision r256279.
2369
2370COMMON ITEMS:
2371
2372	General Notes
2373	-------------
2374	Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
2375	poisoning.  This can happen because the make utility reads its
2376	environment when searching for values for global variables.  To run
2377	your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make
2378	commands with 'env -i '.  See the env(1) manual page for more details.
2379	Occasionally a build failure will occur with "make -j" due to a race
2380	condition.  If this happens try building again without -j, and please
2381	report a bug if it happens consistently.
2382
2383	When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to
2384	upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then
2385	do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path,
2386	and has the highest probability of being successful.  Please try this
2387	approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade.  Since
2388	the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgrade from
2389	anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the
2390	last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's
2391	an exception.
2392
2393	The update process will emit an error on an attempt to perform a build
2394	or install from a FreeBSD version below the earliest supported version.
2395	When updating from an older version the update should be performed one
2396	major release at a time, including running `make delete-old` at each
2397	step.
2398
2399	When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before
2400	installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell
2401	around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your
2402	starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade.
2403
2404	This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes
2405	information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted.
2406	Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be
2407	placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check
2408	older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries
2409	should write them with this in mind.
2410
2411	ZFS notes
2412	---------
2413	When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow
2414	these two steps:
2415
2416	1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block
2417	(this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld")
2418
2419	2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
2420
2421	The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the
2422	freebsd-boot partition of a GPT partitioned drive ada0:
2423	"gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i $N ada0"
2424	The value $N will typically be 1 (if booting from BIOS) or 2 (if
2425	booting from EFI).
2426
2427	Non-boot pools do not need these updates.
2428
2429	To build a kernel
2430	-----------------
2431	If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
2432	a few days old), you should follow this procedure.  It is the most
2433	failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld,
2434
2435	make kernel-toolchain
2436	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2437	make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2438
2439	To test a kernel once
2440	---------------------
2441	If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure
2442	if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide
2443	debugging information) run
2444	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel
2445	nextboot -k testkernel
2446
2447	To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
2448	-----------------------------------------------------------
2449	# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
2450	# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
2451
2452	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
2453	make buildworld
2454	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2455	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2456							[1]
2457	<reboot in single user>				[3]
2458	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
2459	make installworld
2460	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
2461	make delete-old					[6]
2462	<reboot>
2463
2464	To cross-install current onto a separate partition
2465	--------------------------------------------------
2466	# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
2467	# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories.   A partition
2468	# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
2469	# size.
2470
2471	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
2472	<boot into -stable>
2473	make buildworld
2474	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2475	<maybe newfs current's root partition>
2476	<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
2477	make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC
2478	make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
2479	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
2480	cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab 		   # if newfs'd
2481	<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
2482	<reboot into current>
2483	<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
2484	<maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*>
2485	<reboot>
2486
2487
2488	To upgrade in-place from stable to current
2489	----------------------------------------------
2490	<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
2491	make buildworld					[9]
2492	make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE	[8]
2493	make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
2494							[1]
2495	<reboot in single user>				[3]
2496	mergemaster -Fp					[5]
2497	make installworld
2498	mergemaster -Fi					[4]
2499	make delete-old					[6]
2500	<reboot>
2501
2502	Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
2503	tweaks to various things you need.  At this point in the life
2504	cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
2505	to cope.  The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
2506	the UPDATING entries.
2507
2508	Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
2509	freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
2510	your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
2511	messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
2512	much fewer pitfalls.
2513
2514	[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you should disable
2515	them at this point so they don't crash your system on
2516	reboot. Alternatively, you should rebuild all the modules you have in
2517	your system and install them as well.  If you are running -current, you
2518	should seriously consider placing all sources to all the modules for
2519	your system (or symlinks to them) in /usr/local/sys/modules so this
2520	happens automatically. If all your modules come from ports, then adding
2521	the port origin directories to PORTS_MODULES instead is also automatic
2522	and effective, eg:
2523	     PORTS_MODULES+=x11/nvidia-driver
2524
2525	[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
2526		fsck -p
2527		mount -u /
2528		mount -a
2529		sh /etc/rc.d/zfs start	# mount zfs filesystem, if needed
2530		cd src			# full path to source
2531		adjkerntz -i		# if CMOS is wall time
2532	Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that you boot
2533	into single user mode to do the installworld.
2534
2535	[4] Note: This step is non-optional.  Failure to do this step
2536	can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
2537	system.  Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
2538	that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
2539	as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
2540	for potential gotchas.  The -U option is also useful to consider.
2541	See mergemaster(8) for more information.
2542
2543	[5] Usually this step is a no-op.  However, from time to time
2544	you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
2545	step.  It never hurts to do it all the time.  You may need to
2546	install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
2547	install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
2548	from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430.
2549
2550	[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
2551	can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
2552	sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
2553
2554	[8] The new kernel must be able to run existing binaries used by an
2555	installworld.  When upgrading across major versions, the new kernel's
2556	configuration must include the correct COMPAT_FREEBSD<n> option for
2557	existing binaries (e.g. COMPAT_FREEBSD11 to run 11.x binaries).  Failure
2558	to do so may leave you with a system that is hard to boot to recover. A
2559	GENERIC kernel will include suitable compatibility options to run
2560	binaries from older branches.  Note that the ability to run binaries
2561	from unsupported branches is not guaranteed.
2562
2563	Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
2564	last time you updated your kernel config file. Options also
2565	change over time, so you may need to adjust your custom kernels
2566	for these as well.
2567
2568	[9] If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
2569	"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
2570	override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
2571
2572	MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
2573	not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf.  buildworld will
2574	warn if it is improperly defined.
2575FORMAT:
2576
2577This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
2578breakages in tracking -current.  It is not guaranteed to be a complete
2579list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011.
2580If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need
2581to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release.
2582
2583Copyright information:
2584
2585Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
2586
2587Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without
2588modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this
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