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Introduction

This document is for people who wish to follow -current. It contains information about changes from 5.2-release to -current, and should NOT be used by anyone upgrading from 5.1 or earlier, or people wishing to follow -stable.

If you wish to update to 5.2-release or 5.2-stable from previous versions, see the upgrade guide.

Make sure you have read and understood FAQ 5 - Building the System from Source before using -current and the instructions below.

You should ALWAYS use a snapshot as the starting point for running -current. Upgrading by compiling your own source code is not supported.

Most of these changes will have to be performed as root.

2013/03/10 - fontconfig update

Fontconfig in xenocara has been updated to version 2.10.91 and has switched to a BSD make build system. This new version of fontconfig deprecates the use of ~/.fonts.conf for local configuration. Make sure the users who have created this file move it to its new location: 

    mkdir -p ~/.config/fontconfig
    mv ~/.fonts.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
Until all ports have been updated to use the new fontconfig, expect some (mostly harmless) warnings about syntax of some of the new files in /etc/fonts/conf.d.

2013/03/11 - pf translation counter added

A separate "translation" counter was added to identify when NAT has failed due to a lack of ports in the range configured in the rule. Packages using PFIOCGETSTATUS (e.g. symon and pfstat) need to be updated to current versions (and as usual kernel and userland must be in sync). Package version numbers have been bumped so pkg_add -u will update them when new packages are available.

2013/03/25 - Perl update

Perl has been updated to 5.16.3. Please note that any packages using XS modules will need to be updated. If you are updating close to the time of this being committed and rely on such packages, you might like to wait for updated packages to become available to save the trouble of building them yourself.

2013/04/04 - com(4) devices on amd64 and i386

Device configuration lines for all four standard isa(4) serial ports have been added to the GENERIC kernel configuration on these platforms. As a result the numbering of com(4) devices may change on your system. Serial ports provided by puc(4) or other multi-port serial cards will now start at com4. If you are using any of these devices as serial console or in a console server setup, please review the appropriate configuration files.

2013/04/15 - struct statfs change

In order to complete the support for DUIDs, struct statfs and the system calls that use it have changed. To upgrade across this change, you must either The support is enabled by default, but you MUST run config(8) and build a clean kernel for it to be enabled. The manual upgrade steps are: Failure to do so may result in a system that cannot boot.

2013/04/16 - Ports: mail/roundcubemail update

Roundcube now uses PDO for database access. Be sure to follow the update instructions in /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/roundcubemail*.

2013/04/19 - struct swdevt change

Cleanup of diskless(8) code in the kernel moved sw_vp from struct swdevt to struct nfs_diskless.
An up to date config(8) is needed to build ramdisk kernels. Following release(8) takes care of this.

2013/04/29 - rc.conf(8) pre-rc.d(8) backward compatibility removed

As of today, rc.conf.local(8) only supports rc.d(8) variables to control daemons startup.

The following variables have been renamed to their _flags counterpart: amd inetd portmap rwhod. 
    amd=YES becomes amd_flags=
    inetd=YES becomes inetd_flags=
    portmap=YES becomes portmap_flags=
    rwhod=YES becomes rwhod_flags=
The lockd variable has been removed. Similar functionality can be achieved by setting: 

    lockd_flags=
    statd_flags=
The aucat_flags variable has been renamed to sndiod_flags. 
    aucat_flags=NO becomes sndiod_flags=NO

2013/05/01 - Packages: sysutils/cfengine update

CFEngine has been updated to version 3.4; this is a major upgrade and is not a drop-in replacement for CFEngine 2. Existing users should see upstream's upgrade documentation for further information.
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