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Date:      Sat, 24 May 2025 18:21:43 GMT
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: b6dd8c5ee3c0 - main - RELNOTES: Add note for INADDR_ANY change
Message-ID:  <202505241821.54OILhi8039834@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by emaste:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=b6dd8c5ee3c0b0e906b350401754589972c76a6e

commit b6dd8c5ee3c0b0e906b350401754589972c76a6e
Author:     Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-05-24 18:20:17 +0000
Commit:     Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-05-24 18:21:22 +0000

    RELNOTES: Add note for INADDR_ANY change
    
    Ref commit cd240957d7ba ("netinet: Disallow connections to INADDR_ANY")
---
 RELNOTES | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES
index 19e2c07b1c4b..efac884e45f5 100644
--- a/RELNOTES
+++ b/RELNOTES
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ newline.  Entries should be separated by a newline.
 
 Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
 
+cd240957d7ba
+	Making a connection to INADDR_ANY (i.e., using INADDR_ANY as an alias
+	for localhost) is now disabled by default.  This functionality can be
+	re-enabled by setting the net.inet.ip.connect_inaddr_wild sysctl to 1.
+
 4d618f6ced86
 	The bridge(4) sysctl net.link.bridge.member_ifaddrs now defaults to 0,
 	meaning that interfaces added to a bridge may not have IP addresses



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