New release notes: ports/UPDATING and ports/CHANGES.

MF4S:  GNOME 2.6, KDE 3.2.1.
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useful on old &os; versions which didn't have &man.fetch.1;
support for this, and for some FTP proxies which always
report incorrect or bogus sizes.</para>
<para>Two new files have been added to the ports tree to track
note-worthy changes: <filename>ports/CHANGES</filename> lists
major changes to the Ports Collection and its infrastructure.
<filename>ports/UPDATING</filename> describes some potential
pitfalls that can be encountered when updating certain ports,
analogous to <filename>src/UPDATING</filename> for the base
system.</para>
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<filename>driver.flp</filename> images are also obsolete and no
longer built.</para>
<para>The supported release of <application>GNOME</application>
has been updated from 2.4 to 2.6.
<note>
<para>If you are using the older <application>GNOME</application>
desktop itself (<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>), simply upgrading it from the &os; Ports Collection
with
&man.portupgrade.1;
(<filename role="package">sysutils/portupgrade</filename>)
will cause serious problems.
If you are a <application>GNOME</application> desktop user,
please read the instructions carefully at
<ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq26.html"></ulink>,
and use the <filename>gnome_upgrade.sh</filename> script to
properly upgrade to <application>GNOME</application> 2.6.</para>
<para>Note that if you are just a casual user of some of the
<application>GNOME</application> libraries,
&man.portupgrade.1; should be sufficient
to update your ports.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>The supported release of <application>KDE</application>
has been updated from 3.1.4 to 3.2.1.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="doc">

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useful on old &os; versions which didn't have &man.fetch.1;
support for this, and for some FTP proxies which always
report incorrect or bogus sizes.</para>
<para>Two new files have been added to the ports tree to track
note-worthy changes: <filename>ports/CHANGES</filename> lists
major changes to the Ports Collection and its infrastructure.
<filename>ports/UPDATING</filename> describes some potential
pitfalls that can be encountered when updating certain ports,
analogous to <filename>src/UPDATING</filename> for the base
system.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="releng">
@ -860,6 +869,31 @@
<filename>driver.flp</filename> images are also obsolete and no
longer built.</para>
<para>The supported release of <application>GNOME</application>
has been updated from 2.4 to 2.6.
<note>
<para>If you are using the older <application>GNOME</application>
desktop itself (<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>), simply upgrading it from the &os; Ports Collection
with
&man.portupgrade.1;
(<filename role="package">sysutils/portupgrade</filename>)
will cause serious problems.
If you are a <application>GNOME</application> desktop user,
please read the instructions carefully at
<ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq26.html"></ulink>,
and use the <filename>gnome_upgrade.sh</filename> script to
properly upgrade to <application>GNOME</application> 2.6.</para>
<para>Note that if you are just a casual user of some of the
<application>GNOME</application> libraries,
&man.portupgrade.1; should be sufficient
to update your ports.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>The supported release of <application>KDE</application>
has been updated from 3.1.4 to 3.2.1.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="doc">