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@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW:
disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
+20180705:
+ The ABI of syscalls used by management tools like sockstat and
+ netstat has been broken to allow 32-bit binaries to work on
+ 64-bit kernels without modification. These programs will need
+ to match the kernel in order to function. External programs may
+ require minor modifications to accommodate a change of type in
+ structures from pointers to 64-bit virtual addresses.
+
20180702:
On i386 and amd64 atomics are now inlined. Out of tree modules using
atomics will need to be rebuilt.