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Changes from NetBSD 10.0 to NetBSD 11.0:
	amdsmn(4): added trivial power management support [reinoud 20221218]
	amdccp(4): added trivial power management support [reinoud 20221218]
	ppp(4): Remove several non-functioning ioctls. [chs 20221221]
	dse(4): Added Dayna SCSI/Link ethernet driver. [nat 20221222]
	binutils: Updated to FSF binutils 2.39. [christos 20221224]
	cribbage(6): Add -y option to keep playing without asking
		(from Greywolf in PR 57164) [christos 20230106]
	x86: Enable the -z separate-code security feature by default in
		ld(1). Reduces the default max page size from 2M to
		4K on amd64. [christos 20230106]
	bind: Import version 9.16.37. [christos 20230125]
	xfwp(1): remove. [wiz 20230204]
	wscons(4): Ignore nonsense tab stops in vt100 emulation.
		[riastradh 20230223]
	nvmm(4): Filter CR4 bits on x86 SVM (AMD). In particular,
		prohibit PKE, Protection Key Enable, which requires
		some additional management of CPU state by nvmm. 
		[riastradh 20230223]
	aarch64: Audit use of curcpu(9). [riastradh 20230225]
	xen: Memory barrier audit. Reduce unnecessary membars.
		[riastradh 20230225]
	x86: Mitigate MXCSR Configuration Dependent Timing CPU security
		flaw in kernel FPU use. [riastradh 20230225]
	kernel: Optimization: Omit needless membar when triggering softint
		in various ports. [riastradh 20230301]
	sh(1): Adjust tilde expansion to comply with upcoming POSIX
		Issue 8 requirements. [kre 20230306]
	libm: Add more long double transcendental functions (as aliases of
		double functions) from C99. [riastradh 20230313]
	xen: Allow a PVH dom0 to use VGA as console. [bouyer 20230324]
	vioscsi(4), viornd(4), viomb(4): Mark VirtIO drivers as MPSAFE.
		[mlelstv 20230325]
	amiga: Fix bootblocks for Kickstart 3.2. [abs 20230325]
	libc: Add __atomic_is_lock_free to help stdatomic.h usage with
		GCC. [riastradh 20230330]
	vacation(1): Check 'Auto-Submitted:' header in addition to
		'Precedence:', and set 'Precedence:' in addition to
		'Auto-Submitted:'.  [hauke 20230411]
	ichsmb(4), tco(4): Add support for TCO on newer Intel chipsets.
		[riastradh 20230412]
	audiorecord(1): Add support for recording 24-bit wav files.
		[mlelstv 20230415]
	evbarm: Install a boot.cfg file for the EFI bootloader by default.
		[brook 20230419]
	dhcpcd: Import version 10.0.1. [roy 20230421]
	evbarm: Enable rkv1crypto driver on Rock64. [mrg 20230424]
	worms(6): Add a little bit of optional colour, code and
		ideas from RVP. [kre 20230426]
	amiga: Add driver for the MNT ZZ9000 Zorro board - submitted by
		Alain Runa. [phx 20230503]
	evbarm: Experimental IMX6SX support - tested on the UDOO Neo Full board.
		[bouyer 20230504]
	chown(8): Add a -d flag to avoid changing a file's owner/group to the
		current value.  This avoids some unnecessary operations on the
		file. [pgoyette 20230504]
	riscv: Add RISC-V support that works on QEMU with a single hart.
		[skrll 20230507]
	riscv: Add Google Goldfish RTC driver. [skrll 20230508]
	make(1): Make :mtime operate on each word in variable
		value. [sjg 20230510]
	worms(6): When using -H, make the appearance of the worm head
		depend upon the body (more than it did before). [kre 20230512]
	amiga: Update loadbsd source and distribution binary to version 3.3.
		[phx 20230514]
	i386: Add /dev/efi device. [riastradh 20230522]
	efi(4): Add EFIIOC_GET_TABLE ioctl support on x86. [riastradh 20230522]
	ctfmerge(1): Add error handling to pthread APIs.
		Fix semaphores for macOS host tool.  [lukem 20230523]
	share/mk: Deprecate non-functional SHAREDSTRINGS. [lukem 20230524]
	mkstr(1), xstr(1): Obsolete unused PDP-11-era tools. [lukem 20230524]
	pthread(3): Reduce power consumption when spinning for a lock on
		arm. [riastradh 20230525]
	pax(1): Exit 0 if stdin filelist is used and no files are supplied.
		Don't overwrite existing destination files if -r -w copy
		fails for any reason. [lukem 20230528]
	date(1): Add -R option for displaying time in RFC 5322 format,
		similar to GNU date. [kim 20230531]
	mk.conf(5): Obsolete non-MK variants MANZ UNPRIVED UPDATE
		[lukem 20230602]
	build.sh: Add show-params operation [lukem 20230602]
	kerberos(8): Update to Heimdal-7.8.0 [christos 20230619]
	patch(1): Add --backup-if-mismatch and --no-backup-if-mismatch for
		GNU patch compatibility. These options only make sense in
		POSIX mode, patch(1) has --backup enabled by default and
		GNU patch doesn't. [wiz 20230616]
	indent(1): Remove support for handling ASCII backspace characters
		in C code. [rillig 20230618]
	make(1): Recognize include guards. [rillig 20230619]
	editline(3): Install pkg-config files, same as the portable version.
		[wiz 20230620]
	make(1): Speed up pattern matching in the ':M' and ':N' modifiers.
		[rillig 20230622]
	paxctl(8): Introduce -0 option to clear all PaX flag bits in ELF note.
		[rin 20230623]
	crunchgen(1): Clear PaX flags instead of removing its ELF note section.
		[rin 20230623]
	make(1): Warn about malformed patterns in ':M', ':N' and
		'.if make(...)'  [rillig 20230623]
	bind: Import version 9.16.42. [christos 20230626]
	openresolv: Import version 3.13.2 [roy 20230627]
	tmux(1): Import version 3.3a [wiz 20230628]
	x86: Primary bootstrap is now enable to read a GPT
		partition table inside a software raid(4).
		[manu 20230629]
	aiomixer(1): Support for the NO_COLOR environment variable.
		[nia 20230629]
	openpam(3): update to 20230627 (ximenia) [christos 20230630]
	entropy(9): Reintroduce netbsd<=9 time-delta estimator for unblocking.
		[riastradh 20230630]
	mdnsd(8): Restore NetBSD logging additions lost in merges.
		[gutteridge 20230630]
	tetris(6): Support the informal standard of allowing setting NO_COLOR
		in the environment to disable the use of color. [nia 20230701]
	lint(1): Initial support for C23. [rilling 20230702]
	heartbeat(9): New mechanism to check progress of kernel.  This uses
		hard interrupts to check progress of low-priority soft
		interrupts, and one CPU to check progress of another CPU.
		[riastradh 20230707].
	crashme(9): New crash methods with raised ipl or kpreempt disabled.
		[riastradh 20230707].
	versioningsyscalls(9): Document how system call versioning is done.
		From this summer's compat-linux GSoC, by Theodore Preduta.
		[christos 20230708].
	clock_gettime(2): Take greater care to ensure
		CLOCK_PROCESS/THREAD_CPUTIME_ID do not go backwards.
		[riastradh 20230708].
	riscv: Add FDT-based initrd, rndseed, and efirng support.
		[rin 20230710]
	kern: Add memfd_create(2) system call from GSoC 2023 by
		Theodore Preduta.  [christos 20230710]
	refuse(3): Allow programs using the 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7 FUSE APIs
		to function at runtime. [pho 20230714]
	pckbd(4): Work around buggy Chromebook PS/2 keyboard firmware.
		(from Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko). [christos 20230716]
	acpiec(4): New ACPIEC_DEBUG option. [riastradh 20230718]
	dhcpcd: Import version 10.0.2. [roy 20230719]
	bta2dpd(8): Add throttle when playing from file. [nat 20230720]
	xen: Enable MKCTF=yes by default. [riastradh 20230721]
	x86: Turn off Zenbleed chicken bit on Zen2 CPUs. [mrg 20230725]
	evbmips: Allow ramdisk to handle GPT wedges. [gutteridge 20230725]
	xbd(4): Properly handle 4k sector size backends. [bouyer 20230725]
	iostat(8): Add -X option, limited alternative statistics.
		This is like the "-D" option, except it skips the xfers/s, and
		reports MB/s instead of KB/s.  Allows for ~50% more devices to
		be displayed per line by default.  [mrg 20230728]
	compat_linux(8): Add epoll system calls implemented around kqueue(2),
		contributed by Theodore Preduta as part of GSoC 2023.
		[christos 20230728]
	compat_linux(8): Add/fix statx, readahead, close_range. From GSoC 2023
		by Theodore Preduta. [christos 20230729]
	libc: Add wmempcpy(3).  [christos 20230731]
	libc: Add companion mempcpy(3) to wmempcpy(3).
		[christos 20230801]
	all: Fix many small bugs found by GCC 12. [mrg 20230810]
	gdb(1): Updated to 13.2. [christos 20230811]
	vis(3): Fixed many implementation issues, expand tests.
		[riastradh 20230812]
	libpcap: Import 1.10.4. [christos 20230817]
	tcpdump(8): Import 4.99.4. [christos 20230817]
	file(1): Upgraded to 5.45. [christos 20230818]
	make(1): Show more detail in "invalid line" error messages.
		[rillig 20230819]
	compat_linux(8): Add support for Linux waitid syscall.
		 Contributed by Theodore Preduta. [christos 20230818]
	compat_linux(8): Add support for Linux inotify syscalls,
		implemented around kqueue(2). Contributed by
		Theodore Preduta. [christos 20230819]
	acpi(4): Updated ACPICA to 20230628. [christos 20230901] 
	sqlite3(1): Import 3.34.0. [christos 20230904]
	namecache: Tune the namecache for 32-bit systems [ad 20230909]
	mips: Add initial support for n64 userland to gprof(1).
		[rin 20230914]
	tzcode: Updated to 2023c. [christos 20230916]
	raidctl(8): Implement command-line configuration of simple RAID sets.
		[oster 20230921]
	rc.conf(5): Add support for npf_rules to override the default
		rules file for npf(7). [abs 20231005]
	less: Updated to version 643.  [simonb 20231006]
	ddb(4): Add some simple show commands: condvar, selinfo, sleepq
		[ad 20231007]
	mips: Add fma(3) to libm. [he 20231008]
	heimdal: Disable sqlite3 credential cache (SCC), remove sqlite3
		dependency. [riastradh 20231011]
	pipe(2): Improve performance, reduce lock contention. [ad 20231013]
	vax: Reduce the object size of the malloc(3) code by converting
		to rbtree, also improve performance and locking.
		[ad 20231013]
	uhid(4): Improve hid matching to allow better recognition of
		collections. [nat 20231017]
	xen: Support genfb(4) as a console device for dom0, necessary for
		graphical console on EFI-only hardware. [bouyer 20231017]
	lagg(4): Copy the MTU of lagg to interfaces added to lagg
		[yamaguchi 20231018]
	dhcpcd: Import version 10.0.4. [roy 20231019]
	gpioirq(4): allow multiple pins per gpioirq instance, add the ability
		to use a /dev/gpioirqN device to get pin interrupts into
		userland. [brad 20231105]
	gpiosim(4): Simulated interrupts [brad 20231108]
	sparc64: Support for virtio(4). [thorpej 20231119]
	alpha: Support for virtio(4). [thorpej 20231119]
	alpha: Support for crash(8). [thorpej 20231122]
	kernel: Replace the vdrain kernel thread with two threadpool jobs.
		[hannken 20231127]
	kernel: Replace various usage of extent(9) with vmem(9).
		[thorpej 20231201]
	indent(1): Use line number of the token start in diagnostics
		[rilling 20231203]
	vmem(9): Add the notion of "private boundary tags", allowing vmem
		to be used VERY early in boot. [thorpej 20231203]
	kernel: Modularize compat90. [pgoyette 20231209]
	libsa: Add NFSv3 support. [mlelstv 20231212]
	dhcpcd: Import version 10.0.6. [roy 20231218]
	tzcode: Updated to 2023d. [christos 20231223]
	gfpic(4): New driver for the Goldfish virtual programmable
		interrupt controller. [thorpej 20240102]
	gftty(4): New driver for the Goldfish virtual tty. [thorpej 20240102]
	virt68k: Add new port for virtual Motorola 68040 machines in
		QEMU using VirtIO devices. [thorpej 20240102]
	urtwn(4): Add Mercusys NW150US V2 USB support. [maya 20240106]
	riscv: Add a SiFive FU[57]40/ L2 Cache controller driver.
		[skrll 20240113]
	cp(1): Always copy regular files, even if they appear to be zero-sized.
		[christos 20240115]
	riscv: Add a StarTech JH7100 SoC clock driver, seen in the Beagle-V
		board. [skrll 20240116]
	cpuctl(8): Recognize Intel Meteor Lake and Emerald Rapids.
		[msaitoh 20240118]
	m68k: Made many ports share common code for interrupt dispatch
		and vector tables. [thorpej 20240118]
	libm: Import more long double functions from FreeBSD.
		[christos 20240121]
	terminfo: Import 20231209 [christos 20240127]
	evbppc: Add support for the PAL 576i video mode to wiifb(4).
		[hgutch 20240127]
	stat(1): Add symbolic flags printing from FreeBSD via Ricardo Branco.
		[christos 20240129]
	next68k: Add WSDISPLAY_GINFO, LINEBYTES, and SMODE ioctl(2)s and
		mmap(2) support to nextdisplay(4). [tsutsui 20240202]
	mount_cd9660(8): Add support for mount options mask,dirmask,uid,gid
		(from Ricardo Branco) [christos 20240202]
	tzdata: Updated to 2024a (using 2024agtz) [kre 20240205]
	riscv: Add a driver for the StarFive JH7100 pin controller.
		[skrll 20240207]
	touch(1): Properly implement the POSIX format -d option. [kre 20240208]
	touch(1): Add -R option, which is identical to -r, except that if the
		reference file is a symbolic link, the times to use are taken
		from those of the symbolic link itself. [kre 20240209]
	touch(1): Add -D option, which causes the operation to be a no-op if no
		change would be made (avoiding updating the file's ctime).
		[kre 20240210]
	hppa: Add gftfb(4), an initial driver for PCI Visualize EG cards.
		[macallan 20240213]
	bind: Apply bind security patches: CVE-2023-4408 CVE-2023-5517
		CVE-2023-5679 CVE-2023-6516 CVE-2023-50387 CVE-2023-50868
		[christos 20240213]