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Introduction

This document is for people who wish to follow -current. It contains information about changes from 4.3-release to -current, and should NOT be used by anyone upgrading from 4.2 or earlier, or people wishing to follow -stable.

If you wish to update to 4.3-release or 4.3-stable from previous versions, see the upgrade guide.

Make sure you have read and understood FAQ 5 - Building the System from Source before using -current and the instructions below.

You should ALWAYS use a snapshot as the starting point for running -current. Upgrading by compiling your own source code is not supported.

If you wish to see upgrade information for earlier versions of OpenBSD, see upgrade-old.html. This is provided as a historical record -- it should NOT be used as an upgrade procedure guide.

2008/03/23 - cwm configuration and command line options changed

The cwm(1) window manager got a new config parser, so the configuration needs to be changed according to cwmrc(5). The command line option "-f" (font) and "-s" (sticky) were replaced by config directives. Remove these options from your .xsession, or your xdm(1) login will fail!

2008/03/28 - landisk shared libraries enabled

To switch from static build on landisk to shared it is necessary to first build and install gcc and ld.so before building the rest of the system: 
# cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc
# make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper obj
# make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper depend
# make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper 
# make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper install
# cd /usr/src/share/mk
# make install
# cd /usr/src/libexec/ld.so
# make obj
# make depend
# make 
# make install
Then follow the release(8): directions to build the full system.

2008/04/21 - command line options for rtadvd changed

The rtadvd(8) ipv6 router advertisement daemon had the command line options "-f"(foreground), "-d"(debug) and "-D" (even more debug). This options were merged to -d which does the same now as the combination of the three old options and is more OpenBSD like.

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