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Introduction

This document is for people who wish to follow -current. It contains information about changes from 4.3-release to -current, and should NOT be used by anyone upgrading from 4.2 or earlier, or people wishing to follow -stable.

If you wish to update to 4.3-release or 4.3-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.

If you wish to see upgrade information for earlier versions of OpenBSD, see upgrade-old.html. This is provided as a historical record -- it should NOT be used as an upgrade procedure guide.

2008/03/23 - cwm configuration and command line options changed

The cwm(1) window manager got a new config parser, so the configuration needs to be changed according to cwmrc(5). The command line option "-f" (font) and "-s" (sticky) were replaced by config directives. Remove these options from your .xsession, or your xdm(1) login will fail!

2008/03/28 - landisk shared libraries enabled

To switch from static build on landisk to shared it is necessary to first build and install gcc and ld.so before building the rest of the system: 
# cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc
# make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper obj
# make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper depend
# make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper
# make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper install
# cd /usr/src/share/mk
# make install
# cd /usr/src/libexec/ld.so
# make obj
# make depend
# make
# make install
Then follow the release(8): directions to build the full system.

2008/04/21 - command line options for rtadvd(8) changed

The rtadvd(8) IPv6 router advertisement daemon had the command line options "-f" (foreground), "-d" (debug) and "-D" (even more debug). These options were merged to -d which does the same now as the combination of the three old options and is more OpenBSD-like.

2008/05/08 - file(1) updated, needs new /etc/magic

file(1) has been updated to a newer version which requires a new magic(5) file to be installed: 
# cd /tmp
# ftp ftp://mirror/path/to/snapshots/arch/etc43.tgz
# tar xzpf etc43.tgz ./etc/magic
# mv etc/magic /etc

2008/05/22 - spamd(8) sync mode protocol version changed

The protocol that spamd(8) uses when run in sync mode was changed to fix a number of bugs and the protocol version was incremented. Because of this, new versions of spamd can not sync with old versions (they will skip packets from one another). Therefore all instances in a spamd sync group must be upgraded at the same time.

2008/06/06 - httpd(8) manual moved

The Apache manual for httpd(8) has been moved out of /var/www/htdocs/manual/ to /usr/share/doc/html/httpd/. It has also been moved from the etcXX set to the miscXX file set.

2008/06/07 - support for dhcpd.interfaces removed

Support for /etc/dhcpd.interfaces has been removed. The file has been deprecated in favor of the dhcpd_flags setting in /etc/rc.conf.local.

2008/06/09 - nmeaattach(8) removed

The nmeaattach(8) command and the nmeaattach_flags option in /etc/rc.conf have been removed in -current. Use ldattach(8) instead. It has a slightly different synopsis than nmeaattach(8): nmeaattach cuaU0 becomes ldattach nmea cuaU0.

2008/06/09 New user and group _rtadvd

rtadvd(8) daemon now drops privileges after initialization to a new user and group _rtadvd. As root, add the user and group using useradd(8): 
useradd -u92 -g=uid -c"IPv6 Router Advertisement Daemon" -d/var/empty -s/sbin/nologin _rtadvd

2008/06/10 - per-address counters off by default on pf(4) tables

pf(4) tables now require the counters option in order to enable per-address byte and packet counters, eg:
table <webservers> counters { 192.168.33.4, 192.168.33.16/29 }
See pf.conf(5) for details.

2008/06/13 - mailmode in mg(1) removed

Because mail-mode in mg(1) was merely a buggy reimplementation of auto-fill-mode it has been removed. If you are using this please change your commands accordingly:
mail-mode => auto-fill-mode
mail-set-margin => set-fill-column
Don't forget to change your .mg file as well.

2008/06/16 - pfsync(4) version number incremented

Due to changes in the pf(4) state table, the pfsync(4) protocol version number has been incremented; firewalls with differing version numbers will be unable to synchronise state tables, and existing connections will be terminated on failover.

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