git: 9cce0ef95a07 - main - UPDATING: new entry about dummynet

Kristof Provost kp at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 24 12:28:47 UTC 2021


The branch main has been updated by kp:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=9cce0ef95a07bab80e768d4dc6cf1aab8baaff70

commit 9cce0ef95a07bab80e768d4dc6cf1aab8baaff70
Author:     Kristof Provost <kp at FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-09-24 12:19:39 +0000
Commit:     Kristof Provost <kp at FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-09-24 12:21:25 +0000

    UPDATING: new entry about dummynet
    
    Dummynet now no longer requires ipfw, so any users relying on this
    dependency to load ipfw will need to explicitly load ipfw.
    
    While here fix a typo in the date of the previous entry.
    
    Sponsored by:   Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate")
---
 UPDATING | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 4b41612dfbc3..34f2a1ee145b 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -27,7 +27,13 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 14.x IS SLOW:
 	world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
 	at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
-202010922:
+20210923:
+	As of commit 8160a0f62be6, the dummynet module no longer depends on the
+	ipfw module. Dummynet can now be used by pf as well as ipfw. As such
+	users who relied on this dependency may need to include ipfw in the
+	list of modules to load on their systems.
+
+20210922:
 	As of commit 903873ce1560, the mixer(8) utility has got a slightly
 	new syntax. Please refer to the mixer(8) manual page for more
 	information.


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