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diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -27,6 +27,21 @@
world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
+20250504:
+ newsyslog(8) will no longer compress rotated log files by default.
+ The J, X, Y, and Z flags in newsyslog.conf(5) now indicate that a
+ file may be compressed, rather than specifying a particular
+ compression method.
+
+ To restore the previous default behavior of automatic compression,
+ remove the line:
+
+ <compress> none
+
+ from /etc/newsyslog.conf.
+
+ For more details, refer to the newsyslog(8) manual page.
+
20250412:
LinuxKPI alloc routines were changed to return physically contiguous
memory where expected. These changes may require out-of-tree drivers
diff --git a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.conf b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.conf
--- a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.conf
+++ b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
# configuration file for newsyslog
#
+# Global compress method for files tagged as compressible.
+<compress> none
# Entries which do not specify the '/pid_file' field will cause the
# syslogd process to be signalled when that log file is rotated. This
# action is only appropriate for log files which are written to by the
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