Rebuilding ports after minor upgrade

[circus78]

Hi,
I just upgraded from 9.2-RELEASE to 9.3-RELEASE.
According to this URL:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html

"Generally, installed applications will continue to work without problems after minor version upgrades."

is it NOT necessary to rebuild all my installed ports, right?
Or is it recommended, anyway?
Thank you

 

[kpa]

No need for rebuild unless the port installs kernel modules. The so called "stable ABI" guarantees that your old binaries will run on newer minor versions of FreeBSD. Kernel modules do not have the same guarantee however and must be recompiled when upgrading to any newer version.

 

[SirDice]

is it NOT necessary to rebuild all my installed ports, right?
Or is it recommended, anyway?

It's not necessary but it is recommended.

 

[drhowarddrfine]

I upgrade to 9.3 recently. There's a little note after doing so that ports need to be upgraded because of kernel changes.