FreeBSD 13.1 release notes: draft: flesh on the skeleton #58
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First flesh on the skeleton, plus a little tidying. Lowercase t for the FreeBSD Foundation.
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| [[future-releases]] | ||
| == General Notes Regarding Future FreeBSD Releases | ||
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| [[future-releases-cputype]] | ||
| === Default `CPUTYPE` Change | ||
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| Starting with FreeBSD-13.0, the default `CPUTYPE` for the i386 architecture will change from `486` to `686`. | ||
| With FreeBSD-13.0, the default `CPUTYPE` for the i386 architecture changed from `486` to `686`. | ||
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| This means that, by default, binaries produced will require a 686-class CPU, including but not limited to binaries provided by the FreeBSD Release Engineering team. FreeBSD 13.0 will continue to support older CPUs, however users needing this functionality will need to build their own releases for official support. |
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Consider pruning these four paragraphs, which appeared in notes for 13.0; add the final single sentence-paragraph (currently line 182) to the first single sentence paragraph; prune the IMPORTANT note; add "For further details, please see https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/relnotes/#future-releases-cputype" (words to that effect).
| * include recent security advisories issued after {releasePrev}, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades | ||
| * may also include changes to major ports/packages or release engineering practices. | ||
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| Release note documents such as this do not list every change between releases. This document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements. |
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This is the fourth mention of security advisories.
Deduplication of things such as this might yield a much more concise abstract and introduction.
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Stack address randomization reimplementation – https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/557777
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https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/567106 leads indirectly to freebsd/freebsd-src@5fa005e
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Closed FIXED, so I'll close this PR. |
First flesh on the skeleton. Discussed in principle with
gjb@(Glen Barber).A little tidying.
Lowercase t for the FreeBSD Foundation.