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@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW:
 
 ****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ******************************
 
+20170311:
+	GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU
+	diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of
+	GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name.
+
 20170302:
 	Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0.
 	Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites