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@@ -246,6 +246,13 @@ See condvar(9) for more details.
A bug in FFS that could cause superblock corruption on very large
filesystems has been corrected. [MERGED]
+The "make buildkernel" target now gets the name of the
+configuration(s) to build from the KERNCONF variable, not KERNEL. It
+is no longer required, in some cases, for a "buildworld" to precede a
+"buildkernel". (The buildworld is still required when upgrading across
+major releases, across binutil upgrades and when config changes
+version.)
+
1.2. SECURITY FIXES
-------------------
@@ -637,6 +644,9 @@ have been errors into actual fatal errors with an exit code. This
ensures that that 'make buildkernel' doesn't quitely ignore them and
build a bogus kernel without a human to read the errors. [MERGED]
+pkg_create(1) and pkg_install(1) can now work with packages that have
+been compressed using bzip2(1).
+
2. Supported Configurations
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