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Date:      Tue, 9 May 2017 13:44:53 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r318028 - stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Message-ID:  <201705091344.v49DirC0066559@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: gjb
Date: Tue May  9 13:44:53 2017
New Revision: 318028
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318028

Log:
  Prune stale entries from 11.0-RELEASE.
  Bump copyright year while here.
  
  Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation

Modified:
  stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml

Modified: stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml	Tue May  9 12:56:21 2017	(r318027)
+++ stable/11/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml	Tue May  9 13:44:53 2017	(r318028)
@@ -25,8 +25,7 @@
     <!-- Last rev: 288943 -->
 
     <copyright>
-      <year>2015</year>
-      <year>2016</year>
+      <year>2017</year>
       <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
 	Project</holder>
     </copyright>
@@ -160,672 +159,51 @@
     <sect2 xml:id="userland-config">
       <title>Userland Configuration Changes</title>
 
-      <para revision="266463">The default &man.newsyslog.conf.5; now
-	includes files in the
-	<filename>/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename> and
-	<filename>/usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/</filename>
-	directories by default for &man.newsyslog.8;.</para>
-
-      <para revision="270675">The &man.mailwrapper.8; utility has been
-	updated to use &man.mailer.conf.5; from the
-	<literal>LOCALBASE</literal> environment variable, which
-	defaults to <filename class="directory">/usr/local</filename>
-	if unset.</para>
-
-      <para revision="272350">The <literal>MK_ARM_EABI</literal>
-	&man.src.conf.5; option has been removed.</para>
-
-      <para revision="302177">The <literal>WITH_SYSTEM_COMPILER</literal>
-	&man.src.conf.5; option is enabled by default.</para>
-
-      <para revision="301247">The <application>ntp</application> suite
-	has been updated to version 4.2.8p8.</para>
-
-      <para revision="301247">The
-      <filename>/etc/ntp/leap-seconds</filename>
-	has been updated to version 3676752000.</para>
+      <para>&nbsp;</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 xml:id="userland-programs">
       <title>Userland Application Changes</title>
 
-      <para revision="260594">When unable to load a kernel module with
-	&man.kldload.8;, a message informing to view output of
-	&man.dmesg.8; is now printed, opposed to the previous output
-	<quote>Exec format error.</quote>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="260910">Allow &man.pciconf.8; to identify PCI
-	devices that are attached to a driver to be identified by
-	their device name instead of just the selector.  Additionally,
-	an optional device argument to the <literal>-l</literal> flag
-	to restrict the output to only listing details about a single
-	device.</para>
-
-      <para revision="260926">Support for displaying VPD for PCI
-	devices via &man.pciconf.8; has been added.</para>
-
-      <para revision="270745">The &man.ps.1; utility has been updated
-	to include a new keyword, <quote>tracer</quote>, which
-	displays the <acronym>PID</acronym> of the tracing
-	process.</para>
-
-      <para revision="271482">Support for adding empty partitions has
-	been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility.</para>
-
-      <para revision="272166">The &man.primes.6; utility has been
-	updated to correctly enumerate prime numbers between
-	<literal>4295098369</literal> and
-	<literal>3825123056546413050</literal>, which prior to this
-	change, it would be possible for returned values to be
-	incorrectly identified as prime numbers.</para>
-
-      <para revision="272198">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been
-	updated to include three options used to print information
-	about &man.mkimg.1; itself:</para>
-
-      <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0">
-	<tgroup cols="2">
-	  <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
-	  <colspec colwidth="1*"/>
-	  <thead>
-	    <row>
-	      <entry>Option</entry>
-	      <entry>Output</entry>
-	    </row>
-	  </thead>
-
-	  <tbody>
-	    <row>
-	      <entry><literal>--version</literal></entry>
-	      <entry>The current version of the &man.mkimg.1;
-		utility</entry>
-	    </row>
-
-	    <row>
-	      <entry><literal>--formats</literal></entry>
-	      <entry>The disk image file formats supported by
-		&man.mkimg.1;</entry>
-	    </row>
-
-	    <row>
-	      <entry><literal>--schemes</literal></entry>
-	      <entry>The partition schemes supported by
-		&man.mkimg.1;</entry>
-	    </row>
-	  </tbody>
-	</tgroup>
-      </informaltable>
-
-      <para revision="272488">Userland &man.ctf.5; support in
-	&man.dtrace.1; has been added.  With this change,
-	&man.dtrace.1; is able to resolve type info for function and
-	<acronym>USDT</acronym> probe arguments, and function return
-	values.</para>
-
-      <para revision="274960">The &man.elfdump.1; utility has been
-	updated to support capability mode provided by
-	&man.capsicum.4;.</para>
-
-      <para revision="275680" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
-	&man.fstyp.8; utility has been added, which is used to
-	determine the filesystem on a specified device.</para>
-
-      <para revision="276881">The <literal>libedit</literal> library
-	has been updated to support <acronym>UTF</acronym>-8, which
-	additionally provides unicode support to &man.sh.1;.</para>
-
-      <para revision="276893" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
-	&man.mkimg.1; utility has been updated to support the
-	<acronym>MBR</acronym> <acronym>EFI</acronym> partition
-	type.</para>
-
-      <para revision="277166" arch="powerpc">The &man.ptrace.2; system
-	call has been updated include support for Altivec registers on
-	&os;/&arch.powerpc;.</para>
-
-      <para revision="278320">A new device control utility,
-	&man.devctl.8; has been added, which allows making
-	administrative changes to individual devices, such as
-	attaching and detaching drivers, and enabling and disabling
-	devices.  The &man.devctl.8; utility uses the new
-	&man.devctl.3; library.</para>
-
-      <para revision="279122" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&juniper;">The &man.netstat.1; utility has been
-	updated to link against the &man.libxo.3; shared
-	library.</para>
-
-      <para revision="279139">A new flag, <literal>-c</literal>, has
-	been added to the &man.mkimg.1; utility, which allows
-	specifying the capacity of the target disk image.</para>
-
-      <para revision="279315" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
-	&man.uefisign.8; utility has been added.</para>
-
-      <para revision="279571" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility has
-	been updated to prevent fetching updated binary patches when
-	a previous upgrade has not been thoroughly completed.</para>
-
-      <para revision="280870">A regression in the &man.libarchive.3;
-	library that would prevent a directory from being included in
-	the archive when <literal>--one-file-system</literal> is used
-	has been fixed.</para>
-
-      <para revision="281311" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
-	&man.ar.1; utility has been updated to set
-	<literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS</literal> and
-	<literal>ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT</literal> to disallow
-	directory traversal when extracting an archive, similar to
-	&man.tar.1;.</para>
-
-      <para revision="281617">A race condition in &man.wc.1; that
-	would cause final results to be sent to &man.stderr.4; when
-	receiving the <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal has been
-	fixed.</para>
-
-      <para revision="282208" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.chflags.1;, &man.chgrp.1;,
-	&man.chmod.1;, and &man.chown.8; utilities now affect symbolic
-	links when the <literal>-R</literal> flag is specified, as
-	documented in &man.symlink.7;.</para>
-
-      <para revision="282608">The &man.date.1; utility has been
-	updated to print the modification time of the file passed as
-	an argument to the <literal>-r</literal> flag, improving
-	compatibility with the <acronym>GNU</acronym> &man.date.1;
-	utility behavior.</para>
-
-      <para revision="283961">The &man.pw.8; utility has been updated
-	with a new flag, <literal>-R</literal>, that sets the root
-	directory within which the utility will operate.</para>
-
-      <para revision="284297" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&clusterhq;">The &man.lockstat.1; utility has been
-	updated with several improvements:</para>
-
-      <itemizedlist>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Spin locks are now reported as the amount of time
-	    spinning, instead of loop iterations.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Reader locks are now recognized as adaptive that can
-	    spin on &os;.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Lock aquisition events for successful reader try-lock
-	    events are now reported.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Spin and block events are now reported before lock
-	    acquisition events.</para>
-	</listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-
-      <para revision="284589" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.fstyp.8; utility has been
-	updated to be able to detect &man.zfs.8; and &man.geli.8;
-	filesystems.</para>
-
-      <para revision="284883">The &man.mkimg.1; utility has been
-	updated to include support for <literal>NTFS</literal>
-	filesystems in both <acronym>MBR</acronym> and
-	<acronym>GPT</acronym> partitioning schemes.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285253">The &man.quota.1; utility has been
-	updated to include support for <acronym>IPv6</acronym>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285420">The &man.jexec.8; utility has been
-	updated to include a new flag, <literal>-l</literal>, which
-	ensures a clean environment in the target jail when used.
-	Additionally, &man.jexec.8; will run a shell within the target
-	jail when run no commands are specified.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285550">The &man.w.1; utility has been updated
-	to display the full IPv6 remote address of the host from which
-	a user is connected.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285685">The &man.jail.8; framework has been
-	updated to allow mounting &man.linprocfs.5; and
-	&man.linsysfs.5; within a jail.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285772" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&emcisilon;">The &man.patch.1; utility has been
-	updated to include a new option to the <literal>-V</literal>
-	flag, <literal>none</literal>, which disables backup file
-	creation when applying a patch.</para>
-
-      <para revision="286010" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
-	&man.ar.1; utility now enables deterministic mode
-	(<literal>-D</literal>) by default.  This behavior can be
-	disabled by specifying the <literal>-U</literal> flag.</para>
-
-      <para revision="286289" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.xargs.1; utility has been
-	updated to allow specifying <literal>0</literal> as an
-	argument to the <literal>-P</literal> (parallel mode) flag,
-	which allows creating as many concurrent processes as
-	possible.</para>
-
-      <para revision="286795">The &man.patch.1; utility has been
-	updated to remove the automatic checkout feature.</para>
-
-      <para revision="287473" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&gandi;">A
-	new utility, &man.sesutil.8;, has been added, which is used
-	to manage &man.ses.4; devices.</para>
-
-      <para revision="287522">The &man.pciconf.8; utility has been
-	updated to use the PCI ID database from the <filename
-	  role="package">misc/pciids</filename> package, if present,
-	falling back to the PCI ID database in the &os; base
-	system.</para>
-
-      <para revision="287842">By default the &man.ifconfig.8; utility
-	will set the default regulatory domain to <literal>FCC</literal>
-	on wireless interfaces. As a result, newly created wireless
-	interfaces with default settings will have less chances to
-	violate country-specific regulations.</para>
+      <para>&nbsp;</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 xml:id="userland-contrib">
       <title>Contributed Software</title>
 
-      <para revision="260445">&man.byacc.1; has been updated to
-	version 20140101.</para>
-
-      <para revision="296633"><application>OpenSSH</application> has
-	been updated to 7.2p2.</para>
-
-      <para revision="303716">SSHv1 support has been removed from
-	<application>OpenSSH</application>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="303719">Support for DSA is disabled by default in
-	<application>OpenSSH</application>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="261344"><application>mdocml</application> has
-	been updated to version 1.12.3.</para>
-
-      <para revision="275718">The <application>binutils</application>
-	suite of utilities has been updated to include upstream
-	patches that add new relocations for &arch.powerpc;
-	support.</para>
-
-      <para revision="292120" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
-	<application>ELF Tool Chain</application> has been updated to
-	upstream revision r3272.</para>
-
-      <para revision="276551">The <application>texinfo</application>
-	utility and <literal>info</literal> pages were removed from
-	the base system.  The <filename
-	  role="package">print/texinfo</filename> port should be
-	installed on systems where <literal>info</literal> pages are
-	needed.</para>
-
-      <para revision="276796" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The ELF
-	object manipulation tools
-	<application>addr2line</application>,
-	<application>elfcopy (strip)</application>,
-	<application>nm</application>,
-	<application>readelf</application>,
-	<application>size</application>, and
-	<application>strings</application> were switched to the
-	versions from the ELF Tool Chain project.</para>
-
-      <para revision="276881">The <literal>libedit</literal> library
-	has been updated to include <acronym>UTF-8</acronym> support,
-	adding <acronym>UTF-8</acronym> support to the &man.sh.1;
-	shell.</para>
-
-      <para revision="278433">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
-	to support multi-threaded compression.</para>
-
-      <para revision="280932" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
-	<application>elftoolchain</application> utilities have been
-	updated to version 3179.</para>
-
-      <para revision="291125">The &man.xz.1; utility has been updated
-	to version 5.2.2.</para>
-
-      <para revision="281373">The &man.nvi.1; utility has been updated
-	to version 2.1.3.</para>
-
-      <para revision="281806">The &man.wpa.supplicant.8; and
-	&man.hostapd.8; utilities have been updated to version
-	2.4.</para>
-
-      <para revision="296190" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
-	&man.resolvconf.8; utility has been updated to version
-	3.7.3.</para>
-
-      <para revision="284254"><application>bmake</application> has
-	been updated to version 20150606.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285229"><application>sendmail</application> has
-	been updated to 8.15.2.  Starting with &os;&nbsp;11.0 and
-	sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by
-	default, i.e., they will not contain <quote>::</quote>.  For
-	example, instead of <quote>::1</quote>, it will be
-	<quote>0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1</quote>.  This permits a zero subnet to
-	have a more specific match, such as different map entries for
-	IPv6:0:0 versus IPv6:0.  This change requires that
-	configuration data (including maps, files, classes, custom
-	ruleset, etc.) must use the same format, so make certain such
-	configuration data is upgrading.  As a very simple check
-	search for patterns like 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'.
-	To return to the old behavior, set the m4 option
-	<literal>confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES</literal> or the cf
-	option <literal>UseCompressedIPv6Addresses</literal>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285275">The &man.tcpdump.1; utility has been
-	updated to version 4.7.4.</para>
-
-      <para revision="298998"><application>OpenSSL</application> has
-	been updated to version 1.0.2h.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285642" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&dell;">The
-	&man.ssh.1; utility has been updated to re-implement hostname
-	canonicalization before locating the host in
-	<filename>known_hosts</filename>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285972">The &man.libarchive.3; library has been
-	updated to properly skip a sparse file entry in a &man.tar.1;
-	file, which would previously produce errors.</para>
-
-      <para revision="286503">The <application>apr</application>
-	library used by &man.svnlite.1; has been updated to version
-	1.5.2.</para>
-
-      <para revision="286505">The <application>serf</application>
-	library used by &man.svnlite.1; has been updated to version
-	1.3.8.</para>
-
-      <para revision="286505">The &man.svnlite.1; utility has been
-	updated to version 1.8.14.</para>
-
-      <para revision="298161">The <application>sqlite3</application>
-	library used by &man.svnlite.1; and &man.kerberos.8; has been
-	updated to version 3.12.1.</para>
-
-      <para revision="286750">Timezone data files have been updated to
-	version 2015f.</para>
-
-      <para revision="287168">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been
-	updated to version 20150818.</para>
-
-      <para revision="287917">The &man.unbound.8; utility has been
-	updated to version 1.5.4.</para>
-
-      <para revision="288090">&man.jemalloc.3; has been updated to
-	version 4.0.2.</para>
-
-      <para revision="302221">The &man.file.1; utility has been
-	updated to version 5.28.</para>
-
-      <para revision="288303">The &man.nc.1; utility has been updated
-	to the OpenBSD 5.8 version.</para>
-
-      <para revision="296417"><application>Clang</application> has
-	been updated to version 3.8.0.</para>
-
-      <para revision="296417"><application>LLVM</application> has
-	been updated to version 3.8.0.</para>
-
-      <para revision="296417"><application>LLDB</application> has
-	been updated to version 3.8.0.</para>
-
-      <para revision="296417"><application>libc++</application> has
-	been updated to version 3.8.0.</para>
-
-      <para revision="296417">The
-	<application>compiler_rt</application> utility has been
-	updated to version 3.8.0.</para>
-
-      <para revision="300879"><application>ACPICA</application> has been
-	updated to version 20160527.</para>
-
-      <para revision="292432"><application>OpenBSM</application> has been
-	updated to version 1.2 alpha 4.</para>
-
-      <para revision="298166"><application>libucl</application> has
-	been updated to version 0.8.0.</para>
-
-      <para revision="301169" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The NetBSD
-	Project's &man.libblacklist.3; library and applications
-	have been ported and integrated into the system.  Packet
-	filtering support for the &man.pf.4; packet filtering systems
-	has been implemented.  The <application>blacklist</application>
-	system provides the <application>blacklistd</application>
-	daemon, the helper script
-	<application>blacklistd-helper</application> to make changes
-	to the running packet filter system and the
-	<application>blacklistctl</application> control program.
-	A selection of system daemons, including:
-	<application>fingerd</application>,
-	<application>ftpd</application>,
-	<application>rlogind</application>, and
-	<application>rshd</application> have been modified to support
-	sending notifications to the <application>blacklistd</application>
-	daemon.</para>
-
-      <para revision="301736" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Support for
-	the &man.ipfw.4; packet filter has been added to the
-	<application>blacklistd-helper</application> script.</para>
-
-      <para revision="301843" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Support for
-	the &man.ipfilter.4; packet filter has been added to the
-	<application>blacklistd-helper</application> script.</para>
+      <para>&nbsp;</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 xml:id="userland-installer">
       <title>Installation and Configuration Tools</title>
 
-      <para revision="271539">The &man.bsdinstall.8; partition editor
-	and &man.sade.8; utility have been updated to include native
-	<acronym>ZFS</acronym> support.</para>
-
-      <para revision="272274">The &os; installation utility,
-	&man.bsdinstall.8;, has been updated to set the
-	<literal>canmount</literal> &man.zfs.8; property to
-	<literal>off</literal> for the <filename
-	  class="directory">/var</filename> dataset, preventing the
-	contents of directories within <filename
-	  class="directory">/var</filename> from conflicting when
-	using multiple boot environments, such as that provided by
-	<filename role="package">sysutils/beadm</filename>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="274394">The &man.bsdconfig.8; utility has been
-	updated to skip the initial &man.tzsetup.8;
-	<acronym>UTC</acronym> versus wall-clock time prompt when run
-	in a virtual machine, determined when the
-	<literal>kern.vm_guest</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is set to
-	<literal>1</literal>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="275874">The &man.bsdinstall.8; utility has been
-	updated to use the new &man.dpv.3; library to display progress
-	when extracting the &os; distributions.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285557" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&scaleengine;">Support for detecting and implementing
-	aligning partitions on 1Mb boundaries has been added to
-	&man.bsdinstall.8;.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285679" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&scaleengine;">Support for detecting and implementing
-	a workaround for various laptops and motherboards that do not
-	boot properly from <acronym>GPT</acronym>-partitioned disks
-	has been added to &man.bsdinstall.8;.  Additionally, the
-	<literal>active</literal> flag will be set on the partition
-	when needed.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285679" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&scaleengine;">Support for selecting the partitioning
-	scheme when installing on the <acronym>UFS</acronym>
-	filesystem has been added to &man.bsdinstall.8;.</para>
+      <para>&nbsp;</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 xml:id="userland-rc">
       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/rc.d</filename>
 	Scripts</title>
 
-      <para revision="270676">The &man.rc.8; subsystem has been
-	updated to allow configuring services in <filename
-	  class="directory">&dollar;{LOCALBASE}/etc/rc.conf.d/</filename>.
-	If <literal>LOCALBASE</literal> is unset, it defaults to
-	<filename class="directory">/usr/local</filename>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="273955">A new &man.rc.8; script,
-	<filename>growfs</filename>, has been added, which will resize
-	the root filesystem on boot if <filename>/firstboot</filename>
-	exists.</para>
-
-      <para revision="275299">The <filename>mrouted</filename>
-	&man.rc.8; script has been removed from the base system.  An
-	equivalent script is available from the <filename
-	  role="package">net/mrouted</filename> port.</para>
-
-      <para revision="279463" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&sandvine;">A new &man.rc.8; script,
-	<filename>iovctl</filename>, has been added, which allows
-	automatically starting the &man.iovctl.8; utility at
-	boot.</para>
-
-      <para revision="287576" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&scaleengine;">The &man.service.8; utility has been
-	updated to honor entries within <filename
-	  class="directory">/etc/rc.conf.d/</filename>.</para>
-
+      <para>&nbsp;</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 xml:id="userland-periodic">
       <title><filename class="directory">/etc/periodic</filename>
 	Scripts</title>
 
-      <para revision="271321">The daily &man.periodic.8; script
-	<filename>110.clean-tmps</filename> has been updated to avoid
-	crossing filesystem mount boundaries when cleaning files in
-	<filename class="directory">/tmp</filename>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="277216" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
-	&man.periodic.8; script,
-	<filename>510.status-world-kernel</filename>, has been added,
-	which evaluates the running userland and kernel versions from
-	the &man.uname.1; <literal>-U</literal> and
-	<literal>-K</literal> arguments, and prints an error if the
-	system userland and kernel are not in sync.</para>
+      <para>&nbsp;</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 xml:id="userland-libraries">
       <title>Runtime Libraries and API</title>
 
-      <para revision="265995">The Blowfish &man.crypt.3; default
-	format has been changed to
-	<literal>&dollar;2b&dollar;</literal>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="268461">The &man.readline.3; library is now
-	statically linked in software within the base system, and the
-	shared library is no longer installed, allowing the Ports
-	Collection to use a modern version of the library.</para>
-
-      <para revision="272273">The &man.strptime.3; library has been
-	updated to add support for <acronym>POSIX</acronym>-2001
-	features <literal>%U</literal> and
-	<literal>%W</literal>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="272842,272848" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&ff;">The &man.dl.iterate.phdr.3; library has been
-	changed to always return the path name of the
-	<acronym>ELF</acronym> object in the
-	<literal>dlpi_name</literal> structure member.</para>
-
-      <para revision="273562" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&juniper;">The &man.libxo.3; library has been
-	imported to the base system.</para>
-
-      <para revision="273806" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&chelsio;">A
-	userland library for Chelsio Terminator 5 based iWARP cards
-	has been added, allowing userland <acronym>RDMA</acronym>
-	applications to work over compatible
-	<acronym>NIC</acronym>s.</para>
-
-      <para revision="274987">The &man.gpio.3; library has been added,
-	providing a wrapper around the &man.gpio.4; kernel
-	interface.</para>
-
-      <para revision="275800" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
-	&man.procctl.2; system call has been updated to include
-	a facility for non-&man.init.8; processes to be declared as
-	the reaper of child processes and their decendants.</para>
-
-      <para revision="277610">The <literal>futimens()</literal> and
-	<literal>utimensat()</literal> system calls have been
-	added.  See &man.utimensat.2; for more information.</para>
-
-      <para revision="278934">The &man.elf.3; compile-time dependency
-	has been removed from <filename>dtri.o</filename>, which
-	allows adding <application>DTrace</application> probes to
-	userland applications and libraries without also linking
-	against &man.elf.3;.</para>
-
-      <para revision="279186">The &man.setmode.3; function has been
-	updated to consistently set <literal>errno</literal> on
-	failure.</para>
-
-      <para revision="279663">The &man.qsort.3; functions have been
-	updated to be able to handle 32-bit aligned data on 64-bit
-	platforms, also providing a significant improvement in 32-bit
-	workloads.</para>
-
-      <para revision="281130">Several standard include headers have
-	been updated to use of <application>gcc</application>
-	attributes, such as <literal>__result_use_check()</literal>,
-	<literal>__alloc_size()</literal>, and
-	<literal>__nonnull()</literal>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="281845">Support for file verification in
-	<acronym>MAC</acronym> has been added.</para>
-
-      <para revision="282973" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
-	<literal>libgomp</literal> library is now only built when
-	building <acronym>GCC</acronym> from the base system.  An
-	up-to-date version is available in the Ports Collection as
-	<filename
-	  role="package">devel/libiomp5-devel</filename>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="282988">The <filename>stdlib.h</filename> and
-	<filename>malloc.h</filename> headers have been updated to
-	make use of the <application>gcc</application>
-	<literal>alloc_align()</literal> attribute.</para>
-
-      <para revision="284483" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&scaleengine;">The Blowfish &man.crypt.3; library
-	has been updated to support &dollar;2y&dollar; hashes.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285277">The &man.execl.3; and &man.execlp.3;
-	library functions have been updated to use the
-	<literal>__sentinel</literal> <application>gcc</application>
-	attribute.</para>
+      <para>&nbsp;</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 xml:id="userland-abi">
       <title>ABI Compatibility</title>
 
-      <para revision="271982">The &linux; compatibility version has
-	been updated to <literal>2.6.18</literal>.  The
-	<literal>compat.linux.osrelease</literal> &man.sysctl.8; is
-	evaluated when building the <filename
-	  role="package">emulators/linux-c6</filename> and related
-	ports.</para>
-
-      <para revision="288669">The stack protector has been upgraded to
-	the "strong" level, elevating the protection against buffer
-	overflows.  While this significantly improves the security of
-	the system, extensive testing was done to ensure there are no
-	measurable side effects in performance or
-	functionality.</para>
+      <para>&nbsp;</para>
     </sect2>
   </sect1>
 
@@ -839,246 +217,19 @@
     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-bugfix">
       <title>Kernel Bug Fixes</title>
 
-      <para revision="265876">A kernel bug that inhibited proper
-	functionality of the <literal>dev.cpu.0.freq</literal>
-	&man.sysctl.8; on &intel; processors with Turbo
-	Boost&nbsp;&trade; enabled has been fixed.</para>
-
-      <para revision="271697" arch="powerpc">Support for
-	&man.dtrace.1; stack tracing has been fixed for
-	&os;/&arch.powerpc;, using the <literal>trapexit()</literal>
-	and <literal>asttrapexit()</literal> functions instead of
-	checking within addressed kernel space.</para>
-
-      <para revision="271917">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
-	a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gif.4; has
-	been fixed.</para>
-
-      <para revision="271918">A kernel panic triggered when destroying
-	a &man.vnet.9; &man.jail.8; configured with &man.gre.4; has
-	been fixed.</para>
-
-      <para revision="272089">A bug in &man.ipfw.4; that could
-	potentially lead to a kernel panic when using &man.dummynet.4;
-	at layer 2 has been fixed.</para>
-
-      <para revision="280930" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&mitail;">The
-	kernel <acronym>RPC</acronym> has been updated to include
-	several enhancements:</para>
-
-      <itemizedlist>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>The 45 MiB limit on requests queued for
-	    &man.nfsd.8; threads has been removed.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Avoids unnecessary throttling by not deferring
-	    accounting for completed requests.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Fixes an integer overflow and signedness bugs.</para>
-	</listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-
-      <para revision="281261" arch="powerpc">Support for
-	&man.dtrace.1; has been added for the
-	Book-E&nbsp;&trade;.</para>
-
-      <para revision="287886" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&multiplay;">The &man.kqueue.2; system call has been
-	updated to handle write events to files larger than 2
-	gigabytes.</para>
+      <para>&nbsp;</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-config">
       <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
 
-      <para revision="266531">The <literal>IMAGACT_BINMISC</literal>
-	kernel configuration option has been enabled by default,
-	which enables application execution through emulators, such
-	as <application>Qemu</application>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="268045">The <literal>VT</literal> kernel
-	configuration file has been removed, and the &man.vt.4;
-	driver is included in the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
-	To enable &man.vt.4;, enter <literal>set kern.vty=vt</literal>
-	at the &man.loader.8; prompt during boot, or add
-	<literal>kern.vty=vt</literal> to &man.loader.conf.5; and
-	reboot the system.</para>
-
-      <para revision="277904">The &man.config.8; utility has been
-	updated to allow using a non-standard <filename
-	  class="directory">src/</filename> tree, specified as an
-	argument to the <literal>-s</literal> flag.</para>
-
-      <para revision="277990" arch="powerpc64">The
-	&os;/&arch.powerpc64; kernel now builds as
-	a position-independent executable, allowing the kernel to be
-	loaded into and run from any physical or virtual
-	address.</para>
-
-      <important>
-	<para>This change requires an update to &man.loader.8;.
-	  The userland and kernel must be updated before rebooting the
-	  system.</para>
-      </important>
-
-      <para revision="278338" arch="arm">A new module for creating
-	<filename>rpi.dtb</filename> has been added for the Raspberry
-	Pi.</para>
-
-      <para revision="278340" arch="arm">The
-	<filename>rpi.dtb</filename> module is now installed to
-	<filename class="directory">/boot/dtb/</filename> by
-	default for the Raspberry Pi system.</para>
-
-      <para revision="279189" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
-	arch="powerpc">Kernel support for Vector-Scalar eXtension
-	(<acronym>VSX</acronym>) found on POWER7 and POWER8 hardware
-	has been added.</para>
-
-      <para revision="279252" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
-	arch="powerpc">The &man.pmap.9; implementation for 64-bit
-	&powerpc; processors has been overhaulded to improve
-	concurrency.</para>
-
-      <para revision="279824" arch="arm">A new module for creating
-	the <filename>dtb</filename> module for AM335x systems has
-	been added.</para>
-
-      <para revision="281495" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
-	<literal>PAE_TABLES</literal> kernel configuration option has
-	been added for &os;/&arch.i386;, which instructs &man.pmap.9;
-	to use <acronym>PAE</acronym> format for page tables while
-	maintaining a 32-bit physical address size elsewhere in the
-	kernel.  The use of this option can enhance application-level
-	security by enabling the creation of <quote>no execute</quote>
-	mappings on modern &arch.i386; processors.  Unlike the
-	<literal>PAE</literal> option, <literal>PAE_TABLES</literal>
-	preserves kernel binary interface (<acronym>KBI</acronym>)
-	compatibility with non-<literal>PAE</literal> kernels,
-	allowing non-<literal>PAE</literal> kernel modules and drivers
-	to work with a <literal>PAE_TABLES</literal>-enabled kernel.
-	Additionally, system limits are tuned for 4GB maximum
-	<acronym>RAM</acronym>, avoiding kernel virtual address space
-	(<acronym>KVA</acronym>) exhaustion.</para>
-
-      <para revision="282215">The <literal>SIFTR</literal> kernel
-	configuration has been added, allowing building &man.siftr.4;
-	statically into the kernel.</para>
-
-      <para revision="282731" arch="arm">The &arch.arm; boot loader,
-	<filename>ubldr</filename>, is now relocatable.  In addition,
-	<filename>ubldr.bin</filename> is now created during build
-	time, which is a stripped binary with an entry point of
-	<literal>0</literal>, providing the ability to specify the
-	load address by running <literal>go
-	  &dollar;{loadaddr}</literal> in
-	<literal>u-boot</literal>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="282921" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&intelcorp;"
-	arch="amd64,i386">The &man.nvd.4; and &man.nvme.4; drivers are
-	now included in the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
-	configuration by default.</para>
-
-      <para revision="283959" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&limelight;">A new kernel configuration option,
-	<literal>EM_MULTIQUEUE</literal>, has been added which enables
-	multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver.</para>
-
-      <note>
-	<para>Multi-queue support in the &man.em.4; driver is not
-	  officially supported by &intel;.</para>
-      </note>
-
-      <para revision="285142" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&netgate;">The <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel
-	configuration has been updated to include the
-	<literal>IPSEC</literal> option by default.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285387" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&norse;, &dell;">Initial <acronym>NUMA</acronym>
-	affinity and policy configuration has been added.  See
-	&man.numactl.1;, and &man.numa.getaffinity.2;, for usage
-	details.</para>
-
-      <para revision="286231">The &man.pms.4; driver has been added
-	to the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel configuration for
-	supported architectures.</para>
-
-      <para revision="287306" arch="arm">The
-	<filename>CUBIEBOARD2</filename> kernel configuration has been
-	renamed to <filename>A20</filename>.</para>
-
-      <para revision="288176" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">Kernel
-	debugging symbols are now installed to <filename
-	  class="directory">/usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/</filename>.
-	To retain the previous behavior, add
-	<literal>KERN_DEBUGDIR=""</literal> to
-	&man.src.conf.5;.</para>
-
-      <para revision="301565" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;"
-	arch="arm64">&arch.arm64; has been switched over to using
-	<literal>INTRNG</literal> by default.</para>
+      <para>&nbsp;</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 xml:id="kernel-sysctl">
       <title>System Tuning and Controls</title>
 
-      <para revision="275140" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
-	&man.hwpmc.4; default and maximum callchain depths have been
-	increased.  The default has been increased from 16 to 32, and
-	the maximum increased from 32 to 128.</para>
-
-      <para revision="279361">The <literal>kern.osrelease</literal>
-	and <literal>kern.osreldate</literal> are now configurable
-	&man.jail.8; parameters.</para>
-
-      <para revision="280308,280949" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&ix;, &ff;">The &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has
-	been changed to update timestamps for read/write operations
-	using seconds precision.  A new &man.sysctl.8;,
-	<literal>vfs.devfs.dotimes</literal> has been added, which
-	when set to a non-zero value, enables default precision
-	timestamps for these operations.</para>
-
-      <para revision="282213" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">A new
-	&man.sysctl.8;, <literal>kern.racct.enable</literal>, has been
-	added, which when set to a non-zero value allows using
-	&man.rctl.8; with the <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.
-	A new kernel configuration option,
-	<literal>RACCT_DISABLED</literal> has also been added.</para>
-
-      <para revision="282901" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ff;">The
-	<literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration now includes
-	<literal>RACCT</literal> and <literal>RCTL</literal> by
-	default.</para>
-
-      <note>
-	<para>To enable <literal>RACCT</literal> and
-	  <literal>RCTL</literal> on a system using the
-	  <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel configuration, add
-	  <literal>kern.racct.enable=1</literal> to
-	  &man.loader.conf.5;, and reboot the system.</para>
-      </note>
-
-      <para revision="283136" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&limelight;">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
-	<literal>net.inet.tcp.hostcache.purgenow</literal>, has
-	been added, which when set to <literal>1</literal> during
-	runtime will flush all
-	<literal>net.inet.tcp.hostcache</literal> entries.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285524">A new &man.sysctl.8;,
-	<literal>hw.model</literal>, has been added, which displays
-	<acronym>CPU</acronym> model information.</para>
-
-      <para revision="286591">The &man.uart.4; driver has been
-	updated to allow tuning pulses per second captured in the
-	CTS line during runtime, whereas previously only the DCD line
-	could be used without rebuilding the kernel.</para>
+      <para>&nbsp;</para>
     </sect2>
   </sect1>
 
@@ -1091,206 +242,19 @@
     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-device">
       <title>Device Drivers</title>
 
-      <para revision="260903">Support for GPS ports has been added to
-	&man.uhso.4;.</para>
-
-      <para revision="265132">The &man.full.4; device has been added,
-	and the <literal>lindev(4)</literal> device has been removed.
-	Prior to this change, <literal>lindev(4)</literal> provided
-	only the <filename>/dev/full</filename> character device,
-	returning <literal>ENOSPC</literal> on write attempts.  As
-	this device is not specific to &linux;, a native &os; version
-	has been added.</para>
-
-      <para revision="271705">Hardware context support has been
-	added to the <literal>drm/i915</literal> driver, adding
-	support for <application>Mesa</application> 9.2 and
-	later.</para>
-
-      <para revision="273178">The &man.vt.4; driver has been updated,
-	replacing the bitmapped <literal>kern.vt.spclkeys</literal>
-	&man.sysctl.8; with individual
-	<literal>kern.vt.kbd_*</literal> variants.</para>
-
-      <para revision="273598">The &man.hpet.4; driver has been updated
-	to create a
-	<filename>/dev/hpet<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename>
-	device, providing access to <acronym>HPET</acronym> from
-	userspace.</para>
-
-      <para revision="280183">The <literal>drm</literal> code has
-	been updated to match &linux; version 3.8.13.</para>
-
-      <para revision="281440">The &man.psm.4; driver has been updated
-	to include improved support for newer Synaptics&nbsp;&reg;
-	touchpads and the ClickPad&nbsp;&reg; mouse on newer
-	Lenovo&nbsp;&trade; laptops.</para>
-
-      <para revision="282783" arch="powerpc">Support for the Freescale
-	<acronym>PCI</acronym> Root Complex device has been
-	added.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285876">The &man.cyapa.4; driver has been added,
-	supporting the Cypress APA I2C trackpad.</para>
-
-      <para revision="285883">The &man.isl.4; driver has been added,
-	supporting the Intersil I2C ISL29018 digital ambient light
-	sensor.</para>
+      <para>&nbsp;</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 xml:id="drivers-storage">
       <title>Storage Drivers</title>
 
-      <para revision="265236" contrib="sponsor"
-	sponsor="&lsi;, &spectralogic;" sponsorurl="">The &man.mpr.4;

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