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@@ -26,6 +26,50 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 10.x IS SLOW: disable the most expensive debugging functionality run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) +20130404: + Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since + FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources. Kernel modules + atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are + removed. Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled + and removed. + +20130319: + SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2) + and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may + automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting + binaries will not work on older kernels. + +20130308: + CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further + information, see the respective 20130304 entry). + +20130304: + Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout, + so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions + in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced + by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild + is requested. + + The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64, + but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE + option) to save memory. To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE + option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 + in /boot/loader.conf. + +20130301: + The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64. + This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system + initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if + a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system + unusable on 128MB or less of RAM. + +20130208: + A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please + refer to zpool-features(7) for more information. + + Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information + on upgrading boot ZFS pools. + 20130129: A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch. @@ -39,8 +83,8 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 10.x IS SLOW: unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line and the command line contained at least two files and a target directory the first file will have logs appended to it. The -M - option served little practical purpose in the last decade so it's - used expected to be extremely rare. + option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its + use is expected to be extremely rare. 20121223: After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS |
