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[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org> wrote:

>   Ravi,
>
>   this should go into Relnotes, my failure that I didn't put the tag.
>
> I don't think this deserves UPDATING entry, since it doesn't require
> any action from a person who updates from sources.
>
> I don't think this requires __FreeBSD_version bump, since the latter
> is used to assist compilation of open source application that use
> changed API. The change removed support to run binaries.
>

That is not the only use of __FreeBSD_version, which is (at least) exposed
to the ports collection and can cause conditional changes in what are
shipped by ports.
Which is not to say that any current ports ship affected binaries, of
course, but just to point out that the scope of the symbol is broader than
stated.

-Ben