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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V4.1-Based Extension//EN" [ <!ENTITY % articles.ent PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook FreeBSD Articles Entity Set//EN"> %articles.ent; <!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN"> %release; ]> <article> <articleinfo> <title>&os; &release.current; Release Notes</title> <corpauthor>The &os; Project</corpauthor> <pubdate>$FreeBSD: release/9.1.0/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml 243705 2012-11-30 16:15:35Z hrs $</pubdate> <copyright> <year>2012</year> <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> &tm-attrib.freebsd; &tm-attrib.ibm; &tm-attrib.ieee; &tm-attrib.intel; &tm-attrib.sparc; &tm-attrib.general; </legalnotice> <abstract> <para>The release notes for &os; &release.current; contain a summary of the changes made to the &os; base system on the &release.branch; development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the &os; kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</para> </abstract> </articleinfo> <sect1 id="intro"> <title>Introduction</title> <para>This document contains the release notes for &os; &release.current;. It describes recently added, changed, or deleted features of &os;. It also provides some notes on upgrading from previous versions of &os;.</para> <para>This distribution of &os; &release.current; is a &release.type; distribution. It can be found at <ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink> or any of its mirrors. More information on obtaining this (or other) &release.type; distributions of &os; can be found in the <ulink url="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining &os;</quote> appendix</ulink> to the <ulink url="&url.books.handbook;/">&os; Handbook</ulink>.</para> <para>All users are encouraged to consult the release errata before installing &os;. The errata document is updated with <quote>late-breaking</quote> information discovered late in the release cycle or after the release. Typically, it contains information on known bugs, security advisories, and corrections to documentation. An up-to-date copy of the errata for &os; &release.current; can be found on the &os; Web site.</para> </sect1> <sect1 id="new"> <title>What's New</title> <para>The changes since the previous release can be found at <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.1R/relnotes.html"></ulink>.</para> </sect1> <sect1 id="upgrade"> <title>Upgrading from previous releases of &os;</title> <sect2> <title>Upgrading using freebsd-update(8) or a source-based procedure</title> <para arch="amd64,i386">Beginning with &os; 6.2-RELEASE, binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility. The binary upgrade procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as a unmodified GENERIC kernel distributed as a part of an official &os; release. The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet connectivity.</para> <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os; base system from source code) from previous versions are supported, according to the instructions in <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para> <para>For more specific information about upgrading instructions, see <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.1R/installation.html"></ulink>.</para> <important> <para>Upgrading &os; should, of course, only be attempted after backing up <emphasis>all</emphasis> data and configuration files.</para> </important> </sect2> <sect2> <title id="upgrade-pitfalls">User-visible incompatibilities</title> <para>FreeBSD 9.0 and later have several incompatiblities in system configuration which you might want to know before upgrading your system. <emphasis>Please read this section and the <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#UPGRADE">Upgrading Section in 9.0-RELEASE Release Notes</ulink> carefully before submitting a problem report and/or posting a question to the FreeBSD mailing lists.</emphasis></para> </sect2> </sect1> </article>