maybe merged "to 13.1 or 13.2"?

Also, should this be first or last? I think first, but I thought I'd ask. It should be after the sample entry.

One line per sentence.

One line per sentence.

One line per sentence.

I don't know where to find information about copying/noncopying mode, or growing the staging area. Any man page refs? Also, one sentence per line.

One sentence per line.

I think netlink is in GENERIC in 14.0, or maybe it is automatically loaded?

these were all just copy-pasted (and edited) from the 13.1/13.2 notes. will reformat.

I can find and add the commit in a moment. I'm not sure if there's documentation in a man page though. @kib?

It is yes -- 3091d980f581753f86df4155057b4ef23eb3ad27 netlink: add NETLINK to the DEFAULTS for each architecture. Will update, and this item then doesn't belong in the "already merged" section. Might mention in the description, but I don't think we want two separate notes (one for Netlink as already merged, one for enabling by default as new for 14)

Highlight of changes merged to stable/13 after 13.0?

Highlight of changes since 13.0 in stable/13?

We always copy on other architectures (since we don't have the legacy kernel problem there, or we've chosen to ignore it). 99.99% of the time this change is invisble. Systems that worked before work no. Many systems that had memory in the wrong places now work w/o problems.

@kib might know for sure, but I'm not aware of anybody needing to change this since the earliest days of it being in the tree...

nvme is also more robust in the face of errors than it was in 13.0. Some of these changes are in stable/13, but they are all in stable/14 and 14.0R. This is a different bullet point, though. The performance improvements at boot time... There's other performance improvements at run time as well, though those are harder to quantify.

Likewise, a number of robustness changes for EFI booting have been merged since 13.0.... Everything up to when I started working on kboot in earnest.

There was a 14.0 generic item for "additions and improvements" to netlink. I've been asking melifaro@ for any more info, but haven't received anything yet. I don't think the 13.x section here adds much, though. Could add the "now in GENERIC" mention.

The release notes should only be about releases, not the stable branch. For example, something that was merged to stable/13 after 13.2 should already be in the 14.0 section.

I mainly used this as a placeholder, as I wasn't sure if we'd rather mix these into the individual sections, or have them all in one (and then in that section have userland, drivers, subsections etc.)

Maybe
Significant Changes since 13.0
and then some commentary like
FreeBSD 14.0 includes over two and a half years of development since the release of FreeBSD 13.0. Some of this work was cherry-picked into older development branches, and was included in FreeBSD 13.x minor releases.

I think the short version is in general you don't have to do anything; systems that previously failed EFI booting now work.

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=loader.efi&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-release (at a glance) at/around Staging Slop

Thanks, updated.

This XXX needs to be removed before publication.

This sentence has no remaining kernel bits, but maybe it is still best to keep it with the rest of this paragraph rather than moving to userland. What do you think?

Yes I think it makes sense to keep with networking.

Or just list 13.1 and 13.2. I'm not fond of 13.x, in part because it includes 13.0 (but that's not a minor release).