1 Updating Information for FreeBSD stable/13 users. 2 3This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh <[email protected]>. 4See end of file for further details. For commonly done items, please see the 5COMMON ITEMS: section later in the file. These instructions assume that you 6basically know what you are doing. If not, then please consult the FreeBSD 7handbook: 8 9 https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html 10 11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in 12/usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before updating system packages 13and/or ports. 14 1520211124: 16 Commit 6e8e261f0d4e changed the internal KAPI between the NFS 17 modules. As such, all the modules must be rebuilt from sources. 18 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped to 1300522. 19 2020211119: 21 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300521 after merging LinuxKPI and 22 net80211 changes in order to support building various wireless 23 drivers. This is to help other external consumers of LinuxKPI 24 and net80211 to deal accordingly. 25 2620211003: 27 Commit a599f9f7620b deleted the variable called nfs_maxcopyrange 28 from nfscommon.ko, since it no longer needs to be global. As such, 29 the other nfs modules must be rebuilt from up to date sources. 30 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300516 for this. 31 3220210823: 33 As of commit 622809b0868f OpenSSL no longer enables kernel TLS 34 by default. Users can enable kernel TLS via the "KTLS" SSL 35 option. This can be enabled globally by using a custom 36 OpenSSL config file via OPENSSL_CONF or via an 37 application-specific configuration option for applications 38 which permit setting SSL options via SSL_CONF_cmd(3). 39 4020210803: 41 Commits 9fb6e613373c and 9ec7dbf46b0a both changed the internal 42 KAPI between the NFS modules. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300514. 43 All NFS modules must be rebuilt from sources. 44 4520210730: 46 Commit b69019c14cd8 removes pf's DIOCGETSTATESNV ioctl. 47 As of be70c7a50d32 it is no longer used by userspace, but it does mean 48 users may not be able to enumerate pf states if they update the kernel 49 past c021ff986e2b without first updating userspace past be70c7a50d32. 50 5120210718: 52 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300512 after merging LinuxKPI, OFED, 53 net80211, and driver changes in order to support building 54 Intel wireless iwlwifi drivers. This is especially needed for 55 drm-kmod which needs updates after this. 56 5720210715: 58 The 20210707 awk update brought in a change in behavior. This has 59 been corrected as of d4d252c49976. Between these dates, if you 60 installed a new awk binary, you may not be able to build a new 61 kernel because the change in behavior affected the genoffset 62 script used to build the kernel. If you did update, the fix is 63 to update your sources past the above hash and do 64 % cd usr.bin/awk 65 % make clean all 66 % sudo -E make install 67 to enable building kernels again. 68 6920210711: 70 Commit 8a04edfdcbd2 changes the default minor version 71 used for NFSv4 mounts to the highest minor version supported 72 by the NFSv4 server. This default can be overridden by using 73 the "minorversion" mount option. 74 The consensus of a discussion on freebsd-current@ indicated 75 that this would be acceptable to do and would not be considered 76 a POLA violation. 77 7820210710: 79 awk has been updated to the latest one-true-awk version 20210215. 80 This contains a number of minor bug fixes. 81 8220210630: 83 Commit ca179c4d74f2/632e3f2f3a66 changed the package in which 84 the OpenSSL libraries and utilities are packaged. 85 It is recommended for pkgbase user to do: 86 pkg install -f FreeBSD-openssl 87 before pkg upgrade otherwise some dependencies might not be met 88 and pkg will stop working as libssl will not be present anymore 89 on the system. 90 9120210626: 92 Commit 841006678745 changed the internal KAPI between the krpc 93 and nfsd modules. As such, they must both be rebuilt from 94 sources. 95 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1300510. 96 9720210510: 98 Commit 272f39942254 changed the internal KAPI between the 99 nscl.ko and nfscommon.ko modules, so they both need to be 100 rebuilt from sources. 101 10220210429: 103 Commit 5a45802b3c8c changed the internal KAPI between 104 the krpc and NFS. As such, the krpc, nfscommon and 105 nfscl modules must all be rebuilt from sources. 106 Without this patch, NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts should not 107 be done with the nfscbd(8) daemon running, to avoid 108 needing a working back channel for server->client RPCs. 109 11020210202: 111 Various LinuxKPI functionality was added which conflicts with DRM. 112 Please update your drm-kmod port to after the __FreeBSD_verison 1300139 113 update. 114 11520210122: 116 The stable/13 branch has been created from main. 117 11820210108: 119 PC Card attachments for all devices have been removed. In the case of 120 wi and cmx, the entire drivers were removed because they were only 121 PC Card devices. FreeBSD_version 1300134 should be used for this 122 since it was bumped so recently. 123 12420210107: 125 Transport-independent parts of HID support have been split off the USB 126 code in to separate subsystem. Kernel configs which include one of 127 ums, ukbd, uhid, atp, wsp, wmt, uaudio, ugold or ucycom drivers should 128 be updated with adding of "device hid" line. 129 13020210105: 131 ncurses installation has been modified to only keep the widechar 132 enabled version. Incremental build is broken for that change, so it 133 requires a clean build. 134 13520201223: 136 The FreeBSD project has migrated from Subversion to Git. Temporary 137 instructions can be found at 138 https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/src-cvt.md 139 and other documents in that repo. 140 14120201216: 142 The services database has been updated to cover more of the basic 143 services expected in a modern system. The database is big enough 144 that it will cause issues in mergemaster in Releases previous to 145 12.2 and 11.3, or in very old current systems from before r358154. 146 14720201215: 148 Obsolete in-tree GDB 6.1.1 has been removed. GDB (including kgdb) 149 may be installed from ports or packages. 150 15120201124: 152 ping6 has been merged into ping. It can now be called as "ping -6". 153 See ping(8) for details. 154 15520201108: 156 Default value of net.add_addr_allfibs has been changed to 0. 157 If you have multi-fib configuration and rely on existence of all 158 interface routes in every fib, you need to set the above sysctl to 1. 15920201030: 160 The internal pre-processor in the calendar(1) program has been 161 extended to support more C pre-processor commands (e.g. #ifdef, #else, 162 and #undef) and to detect unbalanced conditional statements. 163 Error messages have been extended to include the filename and line 164 number if processing stops to help fixing malformed data files. 165 16620201026: 167 All the data files for the calendar(1) program, except calendar.freebsd, 168 have been moved to the deskutils/calendar-data port, much like the 169 jewish calendar entries were moved to deskutils/hebcal years ago. After 170 make delete-old-files, you need to install it to retain full 171 functionality. calendar(1) will issue a reminder for files it can't 172 find. 173 17420200923: 175 LINT files are no longer generated. We now include the relevant NOTES 176 files. Note: This may cause conflicts with updating in some cases. 177 find sys -name LINT\* -delete 178 is suggested across this commit to remove the generated LINT files. 179 180 If you have tried to update with generated files there, the svn 181 command you want to un-auger the tree is 182 cd sys/amd64/conf 183 svn revert -R . 184 and then do the above find from the top level. Substitute 'amd64' 185 above with where the error message indicates a conflict. 186 18720200824: 188 OpenZFS support has been integrated. Do not upgrade root pools until 189 the loader is updated to support zstd. Furthermore, we caution against 190 'zpool upgrade' for the next few weeks. The change should be transparent 191 unless you want to use new features. 192 193 Not all "NO_CLEAN" build scenarios work across these changes. Many 194 scenarios have been tested and fixed, but rebuilding kernels without 195 rebuilding world may fail. 196 197 The ZFS cache file has moved from /boot to /etc to match the OpenZFS 198 upstream default. A fallback to /boot has been added for mountroot. 199 200 Pool auto import behavior at boot has been moved from the kernel module 201 to an explicit "zpool import -a" in one of the rc scripts enabled by 202 zfs_enable=YES. This means your non-root zpools won't auto import until 203 you upgrade your /etc/rc.d files. 204 20520200824: 206 The resume code now notifies devd with the 'kernel' system 207 rather than the old 'kern' subsystem to be consistent with 208 other use. The old notification will be created as well, but 209 will be removed prior to FreeBSD 14.0. 210 21120200821: 212 r362275 changed the internal API between the kernel RPC and the 213 NFS modules. As such, all the modules must be recompiled from 214 sources. 215 21620200817: 217 r364330 modified the internal API used between the NFS modules. 218 As such, all the NFS modules must be re-compiled from sources. 219 22020200816: 221 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 222 been upgraded to 11.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 223 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 224 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 225 22620200810: 227 r364092 modified the internal ABI used between the kernel NFS 228 modules. As such, all of these modules need to be rebuilt 229 from sources, so a version bump was done. 230 23120200807: 232 Makefile.inc has been updated to work around the issue documented in 233 20200729. It was a case where the optimization of using symbolic links 234 to point to binaries created a situation where we'd run new binaries 235 with old libraries starting midway through the installworld process. 236 23720200729: 238 r363679 has redefined some undefined behavior in regcomp(3); notably, 239 extraneous escapes of most ordinary characters will no longer be 240 accepted. An exp-run has identified all of the problems with this in 241 ports, but other non-ports software may need extra escapes removed to 242 continue to function. 243 244 Because of this change, installworld may encounter the following error 245 from rtld: Undefined symbol "regcomp@FBSD_1.6" -- It is imperative that 246 you do not halt installworld. Instead, let it run to completion (whether 247 successful or not) and run installworld once more. 248 24920200627: 250 A new implementation of bc and dc has been imported in r362681. This 251 implementation corrects non-conformant behavior of the previous bc 252 and adds GNU bc compatible options. It offers a number of extensions, 253 is much faster on large values, and has support for message catalogs 254 (a number of languages are already supported, contributions of further 255 languages welcome). The option WITHOUT_GH_BC can be used to build the 256 world with the previous versions of bc and dc. 257 25820200625: 259 r362639 changed the internal API used between the NFS kernel modules. 260 As such, they all need to be rebuilt from sources. 261 26220200613: 263 r362158 changed the arguments for VFS_CHECKEXP(). As such, any 264 out of tree file systems need to be modified and rebuilt. 265 Also, any file systems that are modules must be rebuilt. 266 26720200604: 268 read(2) of a directory fd is now rejected by default. root may 269 re-enable it for system root only on non-ZFS filesystems with the 270 security.bsd.allow_read_dir sysctl(8) MIB if 271 security.bsd.suser_enabled=1. 272 273 It may be advised to setup aliases for grep to default to `-d skip` if 274 commonly non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and 275 the potential for the resulting stderr output is not tolerable. Example 276 aliases are now installed, commented out, in /root/.cshrc and 277 /root/.shrc. 278 27920200523: 280 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 281 been upgraded to 10.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 282 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 283 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 284 28520200512: 286 Support for obsolete compilers has been removed from the build system. 287 Clang 6 and GCC 6.4 are the minimum supported versions. 288 28920200424: 290 closefrom(2) has been moved under COMPAT12, and replaced in libc with a 291 stub that calls close_range(2). If using a custom kernel configuration, 292 you may want to ensure that the COMPAT_FREEBSD12 option is included, as 293 a slightly older -CURRENT userland and older FreeBSD userlands may not 294 be functional without closefrom(2). 295 29620200414: 297 Upstream DTS from Linux 5.6 was merged and they now have the SID 298 and THS (Secure ID controller and THermal Sensor) node present. 299 The DTB overlays have now been removed from the tree for the H3/H5 and 300 A64 SoCs and the aw_sid and aw_thermal driver have been updated to 301 deal with upstream DTS. If you are using those overlays you need to 302 remove them from loader.conf and update the DTBs on the FAT partition. 303 30420200310: 305 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 306 been upgraded to 10.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 307 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 308 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 309 31020200309: 311 The amd(8) automount daemon has been removed from the source tree. 312 As of FreeBSD 10.1 autofs(5) is the preferred tool for automounting. 313 amd is still available in the sysutils/am-utils port. 314 31520200301: 316 Removed brooktree driver (bktr.4) from the tree. 317 31820200229: 319 The WITH_GPL_DTC option has been removed. The BSD-licenced device tree 320 compiler in usr.bin/dtc is used on all architectures which use dtc, and 321 the GPL dtc is available (if needed) from the sysutils/dtc port. 322 32320200229: 324 The WITHOUT_LLVM_LIBUNWIND option has been removed. LLVM's libunwind 325 is used by all supported CPU architectures. 326 32720200229: 328 GCC 4.2.1 has been removed from the tree. The WITH_GCC, 329 WITH_GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and WITH_GNUCXX options are no longer available. 330 Users who wish to build FreeBSD with GCC must use the external toolchain 331 ports or packages. 332 33320200220: 334 ncurses has been updated to a newer version (6.2-20200215). Given the ABI 335 has changed, users will have to rebuild all the ports that are linked to 336 ncurses. 337 33820200217: 339 The size of struct vnet and the magic cookie have changed. 340 Users need to recompile libkvm and all modules using VIMAGE 341 together with their new kernel. 342 34320200212: 344 Defining the long deprecated NO_CTF, NO_DEBUG_FILES, NO_INSTALLLIB, 345 NO_MAN, NO_PROFILE, and NO_WARNS variables is now an error. Update 346 your Makefiles and scripts to define MK_<var>=no instead as required. 347 348 One exception to this is that program or library Makefiles should 349 define MAN to empty rather than setting MK_MAN=no. 350 35120200108: 352 Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler and LLD the default 353 linker for riscv64. 354 35520200107: 356 make universe no longer uses GCC 4.2.1 on any architectures. 357 Architectures not supported by in-tree Clang/LLVM require an 358 external toolchain package. 359 36020200104: 361 GCC 4.2.1 is now not built by default, as part of the GCC 4.2.1 362 retirement plan. Specifically, the GCC, GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and GNUCXX 363 options default to off for all supported CPU architectures. As a 364 short-term transition aid they may be enabled via WITH_* options. 365 GCC 4.2.1 is expected to be removed from the tree on 2020-03-31. 366 36720200102: 368 Support for armv5 has been disconnected and is being removed. The 369 machine combination MACHINE=arm MACHINE_ARCH=arm is no longer valid. 370 You must now use a MACHINE_ARCH of armv6 or armv7. The default 371 MACHINE_ARCH for MACHINE=arm is now armv7. 372 37320191226: 374 Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler for all powerpc architectures. 375 LLD is now the default linker for powerpc64. The change for powerpc64 376 also includes a change to the ELFv2 ABI, incompatible with the existing 377 ABI. 378 37920191226: 380 Kernel-loadable random(4) modules are no longer unloadable. 381 38220191222: 383 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 384 been upgraded to 9.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 385 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 386 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 387 38820191212: 389 r355677 has modified the internal interface used between the 390 NFS modules in the kernel. As such, they must all be upgraded 391 simultaneously. I will do a version bump for this. 392 39320191205: 394 The root certificates of the Mozilla CA Certificate Store have been 395 imported into the base system and can be managed with the certctl(8) 396 utility. If you have installed the security/ca_root_nss port or package 397 with the ETCSYMLINK option (the default), be advised that there may be 398 differences between those included in the port and those included in 399 base due to differences in nss branch used as well as general update 400 frequency. Note also that certctl(8) cannot manage certs in the 401 format used by the security/ca_root_nss port. 402 40320191120: 404 The amd(8) automount daemon has been disabled by default, and will be 405 removed in the future. As of FreeBSD 10.1 the autofs(5) is available 406 for automounting. 407 40820191107: 409 The nctgpio and wbwd drivers have been moved to the superio bus. 410 If you have one of these drivers in a kernel configuration, then 411 you should add device superio to it. If you use one of these drivers 412 as a module and you compile a custom set of modules, then you should 413 add superio to the set. 414 41520191021: 416 KPIs for network drivers to access interface addresses have changed. 417 Users need to recompile NIC driver modules together with kernel. 418 41920191021: 420 The net.link.tap.user_open sysctl no longer prevents user opening of 421 already created /dev/tapNN devices. Access is still controlled by 422 node permissions, just like tun devices. The net.link.tap.user_open 423 sysctl is now used only to allow users to perform devfs cloning of 424 tap devices, and the subsequent open may not succeed if the user is not 425 in the appropriate group. This sysctl may be deprecated/removed 426 completely in the future. 427 42820191009: 429 mips, powerpc, and sparc64 are no longer built as part of 430 universe / tinderbox unless MAKE_OBSOLETE_GCC is defined. If 431 not defined, mips, powerpc, and sparc64 builds will look for 432 the xtoolchain binaries and if installed use them for universe 433 builds. As llvm 9.0 becomes vetted for these architectures, they 434 will be removed from the list. 435 43620191009: 437 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 438 been upgraded to 9.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 439 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 440 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 441 44220191003: 443 The hpt27xx, hptmv, hptnr, and hptrr drivers have been removed from 444 GENERIC. They are available as modules and can be loaded by adding 445 to /boot/loader.conf hpt27xx_load="YES", hptmv_load="YES", 446 hptnr_load="YES", or hptrr_load="YES", respectively. 447 44820190913: 449 ntpd no longer by default locks its pages in memory, allowing them 450 to be paged out by the kernel. Use rlimit memlock to restore 451 historic BSD behaviour. For example, add "rlimit memlock 32" 452 to ntp.conf to lock up to 32 MB of ntpd address space in memory. 453 45420190823: 455 Several of ping6's options have been renamed for better consistency 456 with ping. If you use any of -ARWXaghmrtwx, you must update your 457 scripts. See ping6(8) for details. 458 45920190727: 460 The vfs.fusefs.sync_unmount and vfs.fusefs.init_backgrounded sysctls 461 and the "-o sync_unmount" and "-o init_backgrounded" mount options have 462 been removed from mount_fusefs(8). You can safely remove them from 463 your scripts, because they had no effect. 464 465 The vfs.fusefs.fix_broken_io, vfs.fusefs.sync_resize, 466 vfs.fusefs.refresh_size, vfs.fusefs.mmap_enable, 467 vfs.fusefs.reclaim_revoked, and vfs.fusefs.data_cache_invalidate 468 sysctls have been removed. If you felt the need to set any of them to 469 a non-default value, please tell [email protected] why. 470 47120190713: 472 Default permissions on the /var/account/acct file (and copies of it 473 rotated by periodic daily scripts) are changed from 0644 to 0640 474 because the file contains sensitive information that should not be 475 world-readable. If the /var/account directory must be created by 476 rc.d/accounting, the mode used is now 0750. Admins who use the 477 accounting feature are encouraged to change the mode of an existing 478 /var/account directory to 0750 or 0700. 479 48020190620: 481 Entropy collection and the /dev/random device are no longer optional 482 components. The "device random" option has been removed. 483 Implementations of distilling algorithms can still be made loadable 484 with "options RANDOM_LOADABLE" (e.g., random_fortuna.ko). 485 48620190612: 487 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 488 been upgraded to 8.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 489 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 490 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 491 49220190608: 493 A fix was applied to i386 kernel modules to avoid panics with 494 dpcpu or vnet. Users need to recompile i386 kernel modules 495 having pcpu or vnet sections or they will refuse to load. 496 49720190513: 498 User-wired pages now have their own counter, 499 vm.stats.vm.v_user_wire_count. The vm.max_wired sysctl was renamed 500 to vm.max_user_wired and changed from an unsigned int to an unsigned 501 long. bhyve VMs wired with the -S are now subject to the user 502 wiring limit; the vm.max_user_wired sysctl may need to be tuned to 503 avoid running into the limit. 504 50520190507: 506 The IPSEC option has been removed from GENERIC. Users requiring 507 ipsec(4) must now load the ipsec(4) kernel module. 508 50920190507: 510 The tap(4) driver has been folded into tun(4), and the module has been 511 renamed to tuntap. You should update any kld_list="if_tap" or 512 kld_list="if_tun" entries in /etc/rc.conf, if_tap_load="YES" or 513 if_tun_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf to load the if_tuntap 514 module instead, and "device tap" or "device tun" entries in kernel 515 config files to select the tuntap device instead. 516 51720190418: 518 The following knobs have been added related to tradeoffs between 519 safe use of the random device and availability in the absence of 520 entropy: 521 522 kern.random.initial_seeding.bypass_before_seeding: tunable; set 523 non-zero to bypass the random device prior to seeding, or zero to 524 block random requests until the random device is initially seeded. 525 For now, set to 1 (unsafe) by default to restore pre-r346250 boot 526 availability properties. 527 528 kern.random.initial_seeding.read_random_bypassed_before_seeding: 529 read-only diagnostic sysctl that is set when bypass is enabled and 530 read_random(9) is bypassed, to enable programmatic handling of this 531 initial condition, if desired. 532 533 kern.random.initial_seeding.arc4random_bypassed_before_seeding: 534 Similar to the above, but for for arc4random(9) initial seeding. 535 536 kern.random.initial_seeding.disable_bypass_warnings: tunable; set 537 non-zero to disable warnings in dmesg when the same conditions are 538 met as for the diagnostic sysctls above. Defaults to zero, i.e., 539 produce warnings in dmesg when the conditions are met. 540 54120190416: 542 The loadable random module KPI has changed; the random_infra_init() 543 routine now requires a 3rd function pointer for a bool (*)(void) 544 method that returns true if the random device is seeded (and 545 therefore unblocked). 546 54720190404: 548 r345895 reverts r320698. This implies that an nfsuserd(8) daemon 549 built from head sources between r320757 (July 6, 2017) and 550 r338192 (Aug. 22, 2018) will not work unless the "-use-udpsock" 551 is added to the command line. 552 nfsuserd daemons built from head sources that are post-r338192 are 553 not affected and should continue to work. 554 55520190320: 556 The fuse(4) module has been renamed to fusefs(4) for consistency with 557 other filesystems. You should update any kld_load="fuse" entries in 558 /etc/rc.conf, fuse_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf, and 559 "options FUSE" entries in kernel config files. 560 56120190304: 562 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 563 8.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 564 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 565 or higher. 566 56720190226: 568 geom_uzip(4) depends on the new module xz. If geom_uzip is statically 569 compiled into your custom kernel, add 'device xz' statement to the 570 kernel config. 571 57220190219: 573 drm and drm2 have been removed from the tree. Please see 574 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics for the latest information on 575 migrating to the drm ports. 576 57720190131: 578 Iflib is no longer unconditionally compiled into the kernel. Drivers 579 using iflib and statically compiled into the kernel, now require 580 the 'device iflib' config option. For the same drivers loaded as 581 modules on kernels not having 'device iflib', the iflib.ko module 582 is loaded automatically. 583 58420190125: 585 The IEEE80211_AMPDU_AGE and AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 kernel configuration 586 options no longer exist since r343219 and r343427 respectively; 587 nothing uses them, so they should be just removed from custom 588 kernel config files. 589 59020181230: 591 r342635 changes the way efibootmgr(8) works by requiring users to add 592 the -b (bootnum) parameter for commands where the bootnum was previously 593 specified with each option. For example 'efibootmgr -B 0001' is now 594 'efibootmgr -B -b 0001'. 595 59620181220: 597 r342286 modifies the NFSv4 server so that it obeys vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport 598 in the same as it is applied to NFSv2 and 3. This implies that NFSv4 599 servers that have vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport set will only allow mounts 600 from clients using a reserved port#. Since both the FreeBSD and Linux 601 NFSv4 clients use reserved port#s by default, this should not affect 602 most NFSv4 mounts. 603 60420181219: 605 The XLP config has been removed. We can't support 64-bit atomics in this 606 kernel because it is running in 32-bit mode. XLP users must transition 607 to running a 64-bit kernel (XLP64 or XLPN32). 608 609 The mips GXEMUL support has been removed from FreeBSD. MALTA* + qemu is 610 the preferred emulator today and we don't need two different ones. 611 612 The old sibyte / swarm / Broadcom BCM1250 support has been 613 removed from the mips port. 614 61520181211: 616 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 617 7.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 618 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 619 or higher. 620 62120181211: 622 Remove the timed and netdate programs from the base tree. Setting 623 the time with these daemons has been obsolete for over a decade. 624 62520181126: 626 On amd64, arm64 and armv7 (architectures that install LLVM's ld.lld 627 linker as /usr/bin/ld) GNU ld is no longer installed as ld.bfd, as 628 it produces broken binaries when ifuncs are in use. Users needing 629 GNU ld should install the binutils port or package. 630 63120181123: 632 The BSD crtbegin and crtend code has been enabled by default. It has 633 had extensive testing on amd64, arm64, and i386. It can be disabled 634 by building a world with -DWITHOUT_BSD_CRTBEGIN. 635 63620181115: 637 The set of CTM commands (ctm, ctm_smail, ctm_rmail, ctm_dequeue) 638 has been converted to a port (misc/ctm) and will be removed from 639 FreeBSD-13. It is available as a package (ctm) for all supported 640 FreeBSD versions. 641 64220181110: 643 The default newsyslog.conf(5) file has been changed to only include 644 files in /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ and /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ if 645 the filenames end in '.conf' and do not begin with a '.'. 646 647 You should check the configuration files in these two directories match 648 this naming convention. You can verify which configuration files are 649 being included using the command: 650 $ newsyslog -Nrv 651 65220181015: 653 Ports for the DRM modules have been simplified. Now, amd64 users should 654 just install the drm-kmod port. All others should install 655 drm-legacy-kmod. 656 657 Graphics hardware that's newer than about 2010 usually works with 658 drm-kmod. For hardware older than 2013, however, some users will need 659 to use drm-legacy-kmod if drm-kmod doesn't work for them. Hardware older 660 than 2008 usually only works in drm-legacy-kmod. The graphics team can 661 only commit to hardware made since 2013 due to the complexity of the 662 market and difficulty to test all the older cards effectively. If you 663 have hardware supported by drm-kmod, you are strongly encouraged to use 664 that as you will get better support. 665 666 Other than KPI chasing, drm-legacy-kmod will not be updated. As outlined 667 elsewhere, the drm and drm2 modules will be eliminated from the src base 668 soon (with a limited exception for arm). Please update to the package 669 asap and report any issues to [email protected]. 670 671 Generally, anybody using the drm*-kmod packages should add 672 WITHOUT_DRM_MODULE=t and WITHOUT_DRM2_MODULE=t to avoid nasty 673 cross-threading surprises, especially with automatic driver 674 loading from X11 startup. These will become the defaults in 13-current 675 shortly. 676 67720181012: 678 The ixlv(4) driver has been renamed to iavf(4). As a consequence, 679 custom kernel and module loading configuration files must be updated 680 accordingly. Moreover, interfaces previous presented as ixlvN to the 681 system are now exposed as iavfN and network configuration files must 682 be adjusted as necessary. 683 68420181009: 685 OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1. This update included 686 additional various API changes throughout the base system. It is 687 important to rebuild third-party software after upgrading. The value 688 of __FreeBSD_version has been bumped accordingly. 689 69020181006: 691 The legacy DRM modules and drivers have now been added to the loader's 692 module blacklist, in favor of loading them with kld_list in rc.conf(5). 693 The module blacklist may be overridden with the loader.conf(5) 694 'module_blacklist' variable, but loading them via rc.conf(5) is strongly 695 encouraged. 696 69720181002: 698 The cam(4) based nda(4) driver will be used over nvd(4) by default on 699 powerpc64. You may set 'options NVME_USE_NVD=1' in your kernel conf or 700 loader tunable 'hw.nvme.use_nvd=1' if you wish to use the existing 701 driver. Make sure to edit /boot/etc/kboot.conf and fstab to use the 702 nda device name. 703 70420180913: 705 Reproducible build mode is now on by default, in preparation for 706 FreeBSD 12.0. This eliminates build metadata such as the user, 707 host, and time from the kernel (and uname), unless the working tree 708 corresponds to a modified checkout from a version control system. 709 The previous behavior can be obtained by setting the /etc/src.conf 710 knob WITHOUT_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD. 711 71220180826: 713 The Yarrow CSPRNG has been removed from the kernel as it has not been 714 supported by its designers since at least 2003. Fortuna has been the 715 default since FreeBSD-11. 716 71720180822: 718 devctl freeze/thaw have gone into the tree, the rc scripts have been 719 updated to use them and devmatch has been changed. You should update 720 kernel, userland and rc scripts all at the same time. 721 72220180818: 723 The default interpreter has been switched from 4th to Lua. 724 LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP, documented in build(7), will override the default 725 interpreter. If you have custom FORTH code you will need to set 726 LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP=4th (valid values are 4th, lua or simp) in 727 src.conf for the build. This will create default hard links between 728 loader and loader_4th instead of loader and loader_lua, the new default. 729 If you are using UEFI it will create the proper hard link to loader.efi. 730 731 bhyve uses userboot.so. It remains 4th-only until some issues are solved 732 regarding coexisting with multiple versions of FreeBSD are resolved. 733 73420180815: 735 ls(1) now respects the COLORTERM environment variable used in other 736 systems and software to indicate that a colored terminal is both 737 supported and desired. If ls(1) is suddenly emitting colors, they may 738 be disabled again by either removing the unwanted COLORTERM from your 739 environment, or using `ls --color=never`. The ls(1) specific CLICOLOR 740 may not be observed in a future release. 741 74220180808: 743 The default pager for most commands has been changed to "less". To 744 restore the old behavior, set PAGER="more" and MANPAGER="more -s" in 745 your environment. 746 74720180731: 748 The jedec_ts(4) driver has been removed. A superset of its functionality 749 is available in the jedec_dimm(4) driver, and the manpage for that 750 driver includes migration instructions. If you have "device jedec_ts" 751 in your kernel configuration file, it must be removed. 752 75320180730: 754 amd64/GENERIC now has EFI runtime services, EFIRT, enabled by default. 755 This should have no effect if the kernel is booted via BIOS/legacy boot. 756 EFIRT may be disabled via a loader tunable, efi.rt.disabled, if a system 757 has a buggy firmware that prevents a successful boot due to use of 758 runtime services. 759 76020180727: 761 Atmel AT91RM9200 and AT91SAM9, Cavium CNS 11xx and XScale 762 support has been removed from the tree. These ports were 763 obsolete and/or known to be broken for many years. 764 76520180723: 766 loader.efi has been augmented to participate more fully in the 767 UEFI boot manager protocol. loader.efi will now look at the 768 BootXXXX environment variable to determine if a specific kernel 769 or root partition was specified. XXXX is derived from BootCurrent. 770 efibootmgr(8) manages these standard UEFI variables. 771 77220180720: 773 zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader. 774 zfsloader is no longer necessary once you've updated your 775 boot blocks. For a transition period, we will install a 776 hardlink for zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition 777 until the boot blocks can be updated (hard link because old 778 zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks). 779 78020180719: 781 ARM64 now have efifb support, if you want to have serial console 782 on your arm64 board when an screen is connected and the bootloader 783 setup a frame buffer for us to use, just add : 784 boot_serial=YES 785 boot_multicons=YES 786 in /boot/loader.conf 787 For Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI) users, this is needed even if you don't have 788 an screen connected as the firmware will setup a frame buffer are that 789 u-boot will expose as an EFI frame buffer. 790 79120180719: 792 New uid:gid added, ntpd:ntpd (123:123). Be sure to run mergemaster 793 or take steps to update /etc/passwd before doing installworld on 794 existing systems. Do not skip the "mergemaster -Fp" step before 795 installworld, as described in the update procedures near the bottom 796 of this document. Also, rc.d/ntpd now starts ntpd(8) as user ntpd 797 if the new mac_ntpd(4) policy is available, unless ntpd_flags or 798 the ntp config file contain options that change file/dir locations. 799 When such options (e.g., "statsdir" or "crypto") are used, ntpd can 800 still be run as non-root by setting ntpd_user=ntpd in rc.conf, after 801 taking steps to ensure that all required files/dirs are accessible 802 by the ntpd user. 803 80420180717: 805 Big endian arm support has been removed. 806 80720180711: 808 The static environment setup in kernel configs is no longer mutually 809 exclusive with the loader(8) environment by default. In order to 810 restore the previous default behavior of disabling the loader(8) 811 environment if a static environment is present, you must specify 812 loader_env.disabled=1 in the static environment. 813 81420180705: 815 The ABI of syscalls used by management tools like sockstat and 816 netstat has been broken to allow 32-bit binaries to work on 817 64-bit kernels without modification. These programs will need 818 to match the kernel in order to function. External programs may 819 require minor modifications to accommodate a change of type in 820 structures from pointers to 64-bit virtual addresses. 821 82220180702: 823 On i386 and amd64 atomics are now inlined. Out of tree modules using 824 atomics will need to be rebuilt. 825 82620180701: 827 The '%I' format in the kern.corefile sysctl limits the number of 828 core files that a process can generate to the number stored in the 829 debug.ncores sysctl. The '%I' format is replaced by the single digit 830 index. Previously, if all indexes were taken the kernel would overwrite 831 only a core file with the highest index in a filename. 832 Currently the system will create a new core file if there is a free 833 index or if all slots are taken it will overwrite the oldest one. 834 83520180630: 836 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 837 6.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 838 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 839 or higher. 840 84120180628: 842 r335753 introduced a new quoting method. However, etc/devd/devmatch.conf 843 needed to be changed to work with it. This change was made with r335763 844 and requires a mergemaster / etcupdate / etc to update the installed 845 file. 846 84720180612: 848 r334930 changed the interface between the NFS modules, so they all 849 need to be rebuilt. r335018 did a __FreeBSD_version bump for this. 850 85120180530: 852 As of r334391 lld is the default amd64 system linker; it is installed 853 as /usr/bin/ld. Kernel build workarounds (see 20180510 entry) are no 854 longer necessary. 855 85620180530: 857 The kernel / userland interface for devinfo changed, so you'll 858 need a new kernel and userland as a pair for it to work (rebuilding 859 lib/libdevinfo is all that's required). devinfo and devmatch will 860 not work, but everything else will when there's a mismatch. 861 86220180523: 863 The on-disk format for hwpmc callchain records has changed to include 864 threadid corresponding to a given record. This changes the field offsets 865 and thus requires that libpmcstat be rebuilt before using a kernel 866 later than r334108. 867 86820180517: 869 The vxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was introduced into 870 HEAD one week before the Exar left the Ethernet market and is not 871 known to be used. If you have device vxge in your kernel config file 872 it must be removed. 873 87420180510: 875 The amd64 kernel now requires a ld that supports ifunc to produce a 876 working kernel, either lld or a newer binutils. lld is built by default 877 on amd64, and the 'buildkernel' target uses it automatically. However, 878 it is not the default linker, so building the kernel the traditional 879 way requires LD=ld.lld on the command line (or LD=/usr/local/bin/ld for 880 binutils port/package). lld will soon be default, and this requirement 881 will go away. 882 883 NOTE: As of r334391 lld is the default system linker on amd64, and no 884 workaround is necessary. 885 88620180508: 887 The nxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for PCI-X 10g 888 cards made by s2io/Neterion. The company was acquired by Exar and 889 no longer sells or supports Ethernet products. If you have device 890 nxge in your kernel config file it must be removed. 891 89220180504: 893 The tz database (tzdb) has been updated to 2018e. This version more 894 correctly models time stamps in time zones with negative DST such as 895 Europe/Dublin (from 1971 on), Europe/Prague (1946/7), and 896 Africa/Windhoek (1994/2017). This does not affect the UT offsets, only 897 time zone abbreviations and the tm_isdst flag. 898 89920180502: 900 The ixgb(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for an early and 901 uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a single ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel 902 quickly shifted to the long lived ixgbe family. If you have device 903 ixgb in your kernel config file it must be removed. 904 90520180501: 906 The lmc(4) driver has been removed. This was a WAN interface 907 card that was already reportedly rare in 2003, and had an ambiguous 908 license. If you have device lmc in your kernel config file it must 909 be removed. 910 91120180413: 912 Support for Arcnet networks has been removed. If you have device 913 arcnet or device cm in your kernel config file they must be 914 removed. 915 91620180411: 917 Support for FDDI networks has been removed. If you have device 918 fddi or device fpa in your kernel config file they must be 919 removed. 920 92120180406: 922 In addition to supporting RFC 3164 formatted messages, the 923 syslogd(8) service is now capable of parsing RFC 5424 formatted 924 log messages. The main benefit of using RFC 5424 is that clients 925 may now send log messages with timestamps containing year numbers, 926 microseconds and time zone offsets. 927 928 Similarly, the syslog(3) C library function has been altered to 929 send RFC 5424 formatted messages to the local system logging 930 daemon. On systems using syslogd(8), this change should have no 931 negative impact, as long as syslogd(8) and the C library are 932 updated at the same time. On systems using a different system 933 logging daemon, it may be necessary to make configuration 934 adjustments, depending on the software used. 935 936 When using syslog-ng, add the 'syslog-protocol' flag to local 937 input sources to enable parsing of RFC 5424 formatted messages: 938 939 source src { 940 unix-dgram("/var/run/log" flags(syslog-protocol)); 941 } 942 943 When using rsyslog, disable the 'SysSock.UseSpecialParser' option 944 of the 'imuxsock' module to let messages be processed by the 945 regular RFC 3164/5424 parsing pipeline: 946 947 module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.UseSpecialParser="off") 948 949 Do note that these changes only affect communication between local 950 applications and syslogd(8). The format that syslogd(8) uses to 951 store messages on disk or forward messages to other systems 952 remains unchanged. syslogd(8) still uses RFC 3164 for these 953 purposes. Options to customize this behaviour will be added in the 954 future. Utilities that process log files stored in /var/log are 955 thus expected to continue to function as before. 956 957 __FreeBSD_version has been incremented to 1200061 to denote this 958 change. 959 96020180328: 961 Support for token ring networks has been removed. If you 962 have "device token" in your kernel config you should remove 963 it. No device drivers supported token ring. 964 96520180323: 966 makefs was modified to be able to tag ISO9660 El Torito boot catalog 967 entries as EFI instead of overloading the i386 tag as done previously. 968 The amd64 mkisoimages.sh script used to build amd64 ISO images for 969 release was updated to use this. This may mean that makefs must be 970 updated before "make cdrom" can be run in the release directory. This 971 should be as simple as: 972 973 $ cd $SRCDIR/usr.sbin/makefs 974 $ make depend all install 975 97620180212: 977 FreeBSD boot loader enhanced with Lua scripting. It's purely opt-in for 978 now by building WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH in /etc/src.conf. 979 Co-existence for the transition period will come shortly. Booting is a 980 complex environment and test coverage for Lua-enabled loaders has been 981 thin, so it would be prudent to assume it might not work and make 982 provisions for backup boot methods. 983 98420180211: 985 devmatch functionality has been turned on in devd. It will automatically 986 load drivers for unattached devices. This may cause unexpected drivers 987 to be loaded. Please report any problems to current@ and 988 [email protected]. 989 99020180114: 991 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 992 6.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 993 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 994 or higher. 995 99620180110: 997 LLVM's lld linker is now used as the FreeBSD/amd64 bootstrap linker. 998 This means it is used to link the kernel and userland libraries and 999 executables, but is not yet installed as /usr/bin/ld by default. 1000 1001 To revert to ld.bfd as the bootstrap linker, in /etc/src.conf set 1002 WITHOUT_LLD_BOOTSTRAP=yes 1003 100420180110: 1005 On i386, pmtimer has been removed. Its functionality has been folded 1006 into apm. It was a no-op on ACPI in current for a while now (but was 1007 still needed on i386 in FreeBSD 11 and earlier). Users may need to 1008 remove it from kernel config files. 1009 101020180104: 1011 The use of RSS hash from the network card aka flowid has been 1012 disabled by default for lagg(4) as it's currently incompatible with 1013 the lacp and loadbalance protocols. 1014 1015 This can be re-enabled by setting the following in loader.conf: 1016 net.link.lagg.default_use_flowid="1" 1017 101820180102: 1019 The SW_WATCHDOG option is no longer necessary to enable the 1020 hardclock-based software watchdog if no hardware watchdog is 1021 configured. As before, SW_WATCHDOG will cause the software 1022 watchdog to be enabled even if a hardware watchdog is configured. 1023 102420171215: 1025 r326887 fixes the issue described in the 20171214 UPDATING entry. 1026 r326888 flips the switch back to building GELI support always. 1027 102820171214: 1029 r362593 broke ZFS + GELI support for reasons unknown. However, 1030 it also broke ZFS support generally, so GELI has been turned off 1031 by default as the lesser evil in r326857. If you boot off ZFS and/or 1032 GELI, it might not be a good time to update. 1033 103420171125: 1035 PowerPC users must update loader(8) by rebuilding world before 1036 installing a new kernel, as the protocol connecting them has 1037 changed. Without the update, loader metadata will not be passed 1038 successfully to the kernel and users will have to enter their 1039 root partition at the kernel mountroot prompt to continue booting. 1040 Newer versions of loader can boot old kernels without issue. 1041 104220171110: 1043 The LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT build variable as been renamed to 1044 WITH/OUT_LOADER_FIREWIRE. LOADER_{NO_,}GELI_SUPPORT has been renamed 1045 to WITH/OUT_LOADER_GELI. 1046 104720171106: 1048 The naive and non-compliant support of posix_fallocate(2) in ZFS 1049 has been removed as of r325320. The system call now returns EINVAL 1050 when used on a ZFS file. Although the new behavior complies with the 1051 standard, some consumers are not prepared to cope with it. 1052 One known victim is lld prior to r325420. 1053 105420171102: 1055 Building in a FreeBSD src checkout will automatically create object 1056 directories now rather than store files in the current directory if 1057 'make obj' was not ran. Calling 'make obj' is no longer necessary. 1058 This feature can be disabled by setting WITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ=yes in 1059 /etc/src-env.conf (not /etc/src.conf), or passing the option in the 1060 environment. 1061 106220171101: 1063 The default MAKEOBJDIR has changed from /usr/obj/<srcdir> for native 1064 builds, and /usr/obj/<arch>/<srcdir> for cross-builds, to a unified 1065 /usr/obj/<srcdir>/<arch>. This behavior can be changed to the old 1066 format by setting WITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR=yes in /etc/src-env.conf, 1067 the environment, or with -DWITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR when building. 1068 The UNIFIED_OBJDIR option is a transitional feature that will be 1069 removed for 12.0 release; please migrate to the new format for any 1070 tools by looking up the OBJDIR used by 'make -V .OBJDIR' means rather 1071 than hardcoding paths. 1072 107320171028: 1074 The native-xtools target no longer installs the files by default to the 1075 OBJDIR. Use the native-xtools-install target with a DESTDIR to install 1076 to ${DESTDIR}/${NXTP} where NXTP defaults to /nxb-bin. 1077 107820171021: 1079 As part of the boot loader infrastructure cleanup, LOADER_*_SUPPORT 1080 options are changing from controlling the build if defined / undefined 1081 to controlling the build with explicit 'yes' or 'no' values. They will 1082 shift to WITH/WITHOUT options to match other options in the system. 1083 108420171010: 1085 libstand has turned into a private library for sys/boot use only. 1086 It is no longer supported as a public interface outside of sys/boot. 1087 108820171005: 1089 The arm port has split armv6 into armv6 and armv7. armv7 is now 1090 a valid TARGET_ARCH/MACHINE_ARCH setting. If you have an armv7 system 1091 and are running a kernel from before r324363, you will need to add 1092 MACHINE_ARCH=armv7 to 'make buildworld' to do a native build. 1093 109420171003: 1095 When building multiple kernels using KERNCONF, non-existent KERNCONF 1096 files will produce an error and buildkernel will fail. Previously 1097 missing KERNCONF files silently failed giving no indication as to 1098 why, only to subsequently discover during installkernel that the 1099 desired kernel was never built in the first place. 1100 110120170912: 1102 The default serial number format for CTL LUNs has changed. This will 1103 affect users who use /dev/diskid/* device nodes, or whose FibreChannel 1104 or iSCSI clients care about their LUNs' serial numbers. Users who 1105 require serial number stability should hardcode serial numbers in 1106 /etc/ctl.conf . 1107 110820170912: 1109 For 32-bit arm compiled for hard-float support, soft-floating point 1110 binaries now always get their shared libraries from 1111 LD_SOFT_LIBRARY_PATH (in the past, this was only used if 1112 /usr/libsoft also existed). Only users with a hard-float ld.so, but 1113 soft-float everything else should be affected. 1114 111520170826: 1116 The geli password typed at boot is now hidden. To restore the previous 1117 behavior, see geli(8) for configuration options. 1118 111920170825: 1120 Move PMTUD blackhole counters to TCPSTATS and remove them from bare 1121 sysctl values. Minor nit, but requires a rebuild of both world/kernel 1122 to complete. 1123 112420170814: 1125 "make check" behavior (made in ^/head@r295380) has been changed to 1126 execute from a limited sandbox, as opposed to executing from 1127 ${TESTSDIR}. 1128 1129 Behavioral changes: 1130 - The "beforecheck" and "aftercheck" targets are now specified. 1131 - ${CHECKDIR} (added in commit noted above) has been removed. 1132 - Legacy behavior can be enabled by setting 1133 WITHOUT_MAKE_CHECK_USE_SANDBOX in src.conf(5) or the environment. 1134 1135 If the limited sandbox mode is enabled, "make check" will execute 1136 "make distribution", then install, execute the tests, and clean up the 1137 sandbox if successful. 1138 1139 The "make distribution" and "make install" targets are typically run as 1140 root to set appropriate permissions and ownership at installation time. 1141 The end-user should set "WITH_INSTALL_AS_USER" in src.conf(5) or the 1142 environment if executing "make check" with limited sandbox mode using 1143 an unprivileged user. 1144 114520170808: 1146 Since the switch to GPT disk labels, fsck for UFS/FFS has been 1147 unable to automatically find alternate superblocks. As of r322297, 1148 the information needed to find alternate superblocks has been 1149 moved to the end of the area reserved for the boot block. 1150 Filesystems created with a newfs of this vintage or later 1151 will create the recovery information. If you have a filesystem 1152 created prior to this change and wish to have a recovery block 1153 created for your filesystem, you can do so by running fsck in 1154 foreground mode (i.e., do not use the -p or -y options). As it 1155 starts, fsck will ask ``SAVE DATA TO FIND ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS'' 1156 to which you should answer yes. 1157 115820170728: 1159 As of r321665, an NFSv4 server configuration that services 1160 Kerberos mounts or clients that do not support the uid/gid in 1161 owner/owner_group string capability, must explicitly enable 1162 the nfsuserd daemon by adding nfsuserd_enable="YES" to the 1163 machine's /etc/rc.conf file. 1164 116520170722: 1166 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 5.0.0. 1167 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1168 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1169 117020170701: 1171 WITHOUT_RCMDS is now the default. Set WITH_RCMDS if you need the 1172 r-commands (rlogin, rsh, etc.) to be built with the base system. 1173 117420170625: 1175 The FreeBSD/powerpc platform now uses a 64-bit type for time_t. This is 1176 a very major ABI incompatible change, so users of FreeBSD/powerpc must 1177 be careful when performing source upgrades. It is best to run 1178 'make installworld' from an alternate root system, either a live 1179 CD/memory stick, or a temporary root partition. Additionally, all ports 1180 must be recompiled. powerpc64 is largely unaffected, except in the case 1181 of 32-bit compatibility. All 32-bit binaries will be affected. 1182 118320170623: 1184 Forward compatibility for the "ino64" project have been committed. This 1185 will allow most new binaries to run on older kernels in a limited 1186 fashion. This prevents many of the common foot-shooting actions in the 1187 upgrade as well as the limited ability to roll back the kernel across 1188 the ino64 upgrade. Complicated use cases may not work properly, though 1189 enough simpler ones work to allow recovery in most situations. 1190 119120170620: 1192 Switch back to the BSDL dtc (Device Tree Compiler). Set WITH_GPL_DTC 1193 if you require the GPL compiler. 1194 119520170618: 1196 The internal ABI used for communication between the NFS kernel modules 1197 was changed by r320085, so __FreeBSD_version was bumped to 1198 ensure all the NFS related modules are updated together. 1199 120020170617: 1201 The ABI of struct event was changed by extending the data 1202 member to 64bit and adding ext fields. For upgrade, same 1203 precautions as for the entry 20170523 "ino64" must be 1204 followed. 1205 120620170531: 1207 The GNU roff toolchain has been removed from base. To render manpages 1208 which are not supported by mandoc(1), man(1) can fallback on GNU roff 1209 from ports (and recommends to install it). 1210 To render roff(7) documents, consider using GNU roff from ports or the 1211 heirloom doctools roff toolchain from ports via pkg install groff or 1212 via pkg install heirloom-doctools. 1213 121420170524: 1215 The ath(4) and ath_hal(4) modules now build piecemeal to allow for 1216 smaller runtime footprint builds. This is useful for embedded systems 1217 which only require one chipset support. 1218 1219 If you load it as a module, make sure this is in /boot/loader.conf: 1220 1221 if_ath_load="YES" 1222 1223 This will load the HAL, all chip/RF backends and if_ath_pci. 1224 If you have if_ath_pci in /boot/loader.conf, ensure it is after 1225 if_ath or it will not load any HAL chipset support. 1226 1227 If you want to selectively load things (eg on ye cheape ARM/MIPS 1228 platforms where RAM is at a premium) you should: 1229 1230 * load ath_hal 1231 * load the chip modules in question 1232 * load ath_rate, ath_dfs 1233 * load ath_main 1234 * load if_ath_pci and/or if_ath_ahb depending upon your particular 1235 bus bind type - this is where probe/attach is done. 1236 1237 For further comments/feedback, poke adrian@ . 1238 123920170523: 1240 The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends 1241 a number of types to 64 bits. Upgrading in place requires care and 1242 adherence to the documented upgrade procedure. 1243 1244 If using a custom kernel configuration ensure that the 1245 COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option is included (as during the upgrade the 1246 system will be running the ino64 kernel with the existing world). 1247 1248 For the safest in-place upgrade begin by removing previous build 1249 artifacts via "rm -rf /usr/obj/*". Then, carefully follow the full 1250 procedure documented below under the heading "To rebuild everything and 1251 install it on the current system." Specifically, a reboot is required 1252 after installing the new kernel before installing world. While an 1253 installworld normally works by accident from multiuser after rebooting 1254 the proper kernel, there are many cases where this will fail across this 1255 upgrade and installworld from single user is required. 1256 125720170424: 1258 The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and 1259 patm(4) devices has been removed. Consumers should plan a 1260 migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11. 1261 126220170420: 1263 GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU 1264 diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of 1265 GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name. 1266 126720170413: 1268 As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when 1269 keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with 1270 documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state. 1271 This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags 1272 and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state. 1273 To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with 1274 keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5). 1275 127620170407: 1277 arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default, 1278 instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be 1279 installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set 1280 CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin . 1281 128220170405: 1283 The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl 1284 net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted. L2 broadcast 1285 packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets. 1286 128720170331: 1288 Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now 1289 use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail 1290 instead of using the first assigned address of the jail. 1291 129220170329: 1293 The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend: 1294 cfiscsi.ko does instead. 1295 1296 If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded 1297 via one of the following methods: 1298 - `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5). 1299 - Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5). 1300 - ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support 1301 (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5)) 1302 1303 Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details. 1304 130520170316: 1306 The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko. 1307 Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the 1308 same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was 1309 missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible 1310 with mmc.ko). 1311 131220170315: 1313 The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity. 1314 If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify 1315 them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must 1316 be prefixed with colon. 1317 131820170311: 1319 The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been 1320 removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version 1321 (sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware. 1322 132320170302: 1324 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0. 1325 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1326 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1327 132820170221: 1329 The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality 1330 has been reimplemented. It's not possible now to create a snapshot 1331 by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/. That should be the only user visible 1332 change. 1333 133420170216: 1335 EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer 1336 valid. 1337 133820170215: 1339 MCA bus support has been removed. 1340 134120170127: 1342 The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed 1343 WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC. 1344 134520170112: 1346 The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that 1347 the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications. 1348 134920170109: 1350 The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via 1351 IFLIB. If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4) 1352 but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom 1353 configuration. 1354 135520161217: 1356 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1. 1357 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1358 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1359 136020161124: 1361 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0. 1362 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1363 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1364 136520161119: 1366 The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap 1367 statistics at the front for all CPU variations. libkvm(3) and all tools 1368 that link against it need to be recompiled. 1369 137020161030: 1371 isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver, 1372 chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware. 1373 On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using 1374 device hints. Please see the corresponding manual pages for details. 1375 137620161017: 1377 The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of 1378 rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific 1379 parts. 1380 Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name 1381 conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B)) 1382 138320161015: 1384 GNU rcs has been removed from base. It is available as packages: 1385 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 1386 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was 1387 removed from base. 1388 138920161008: 1390 Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control 1391 modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the 1392 TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.) 1393 139420161003: 1395 The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 1396 ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy. 1397 139820160924: 1399 Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed 1400 to use an extension of .pico instead. The purpose of this change is 1401 to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file 1402 systems. On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so. 1403 140420160918: 1405 GNU rcs has been turned off by default. It can (temporarily) be built 1406 again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf. 1407 Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages: 1408 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 1409 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base. 1410 141120160918: 1412 The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr. 1413 141420160908: 1415 The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into 1416 two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and 1417 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH. Define both for the original 1418 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior. 1419 142020160824: 1421 r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace 1422 programs and the kernel. ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be 1423 rebuilt to work with new kernels. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped 1424 to 1200005. 1425 142620160818: 1427 The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP 1428 packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3 1429 broadcast packets. It is not expected that this will affect any 1430 standards-conforming UDP application. The new behaviour can be 1431 disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to 1432 0. 1433 143420160818: 1435 Remove the openbsd_poll system call. 1436 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 1437 143820160708: 1439 The stable/11 branch has been created from head@r302406. 1440 144120160622: 1442 The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with 1443 a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2) 1444 system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include 1445 "options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the 1446 default). Users should ensure that this option is enabled in 1447 their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their 1448 kernel. 1449 145020160527: 1451 CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers. 1452 This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using 1453 those disk's diskid device nodes. For example, if /etc/fstab 1454 previously contained a line like 1455 "/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should 1456 change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456". Users of geom 1457 transforms like gmirror may also be affected. ZFS users should 1458 generally be fine. 1459 146020160523: 1461 The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and 1462 improved performance. But it is binary-incompatible with the old API. 1463 Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects 1464 built with the old headers. 1465 146620160520: 1467 The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64. 1468 Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these 1469 functions and should be updated to the latest version before 1470 installing a new libc. 1471 147220160517: 1473 The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support 1474 for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system 1475 is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT. 1476 This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld 1477 and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New 1478 packages will be needed. 1479 1480 To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add 1481 TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 1482 and the install steps. 1483 148420160510: 1485 Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to 1486 installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. Many kernel 1487 modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode 1488 KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules. However, 1489 manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will 1490 now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. 1491 149220160414: 1493 The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be 1494 no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the 1495 list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt 1496 data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data 1497 corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete: 1498 1499 o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 1500 o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 1501 o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware 1502 o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares 1503 o FCCT M500 all firmwares 1504 1505 Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware 1506 with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for 1507 updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these 1508 drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given 1509 this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no 1510 other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above 1511 vendors work. 1512 1513 To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your 1514 drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting: 1515 kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2" 1516 in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the 1517 quirks entry to 0x3. 1518 151920160330: 1520 The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is 1521 now the one true way. The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has 1522 been removed. See 20160311 for further details. 1523 152420160317: 1525 Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t. All 1526 drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled. 1527 152820160311: 1529 WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree 1530 builds. It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the 1531 'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran 1532 when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before 1533 building anything else. Dependencies are gathered at compile time with 1534 -MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file. Users should 1535 run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older 1536 stale .depend files. 1537 153820160306: 1539 On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into 1540 kernel modules. Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time, 1541 please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before 1542 rebooting, e.g.: 1543 1544 make buildworld 1545 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1546 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1547 make -C sys/boot install 1548 <reboot in single user> 1549 1550 Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section, 1551 below. 1552 155320160305: 1554 Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0. Please 1555 see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 1556 upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1557 155820160301: 1559 The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The 1560 VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed. 1561 Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only 1562 permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable 1563 asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the 1564 vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value. 1565 156620160226: 1567 The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the 1568 ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a 1569 drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The 1570 (temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set 1571 to obtain the GNU version if necessary. 1572 157320160129: 1574 Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default. That 1575 feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks. 1576 Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will 1577 still work, even if the guest is using ZFS. Legacy behavior can be 1578 restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1. 1579 158020160119: 1581 The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH. They are 1582 still available in the security/openssh-portable port. 1583 158420160113: 1585 With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required 1586 during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user 1587 prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1588 158920151216: 1590 The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a 1591 consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp 1592 server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the 1593 other loaders. 1594 159520151211: 1596 The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has 1597 been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel, 1598 a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced 1599 for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild 1600 the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or 1601 later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding. 1602 160320151207: 1604 Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and 1605 installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but 1606 requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed 1607 world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes 1608 in src.conf(5). 1609 161020151130: 1611 r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and 1612 nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether. 1613 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 1614 161520151108: 1616 Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of 1617 order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old 1618 behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C". 1619 1620 Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given 1621 collation results will be different. 1622 1623 Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient 1624 locales before running make installworld. 1625 1626 rm -rf /usr/share/locale/* 1627 162820151030: 1629 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d. Any binaries requiring 1630 libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled. 1631 163220151020: 1633 Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0. 1634 Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and 1635 should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively. 1636 163720151017: 1638 The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into 1639 sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and 1640 'make -n -n' to recursively show commands. Now 'make -n' will recurse 1641 and 'make -N' will not. 1642 164320151012: 1644 If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster 1645 and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now 1646 updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld. If you had 1647 excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may 1648 want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install". 1649 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of 1650 whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used. If you are not using 1651 SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior. 1652 165320151011: 1654 Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. 1655 It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases 1656 and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.* 1657 environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links. 1658 165920151006: 1660 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 1661 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1662 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1663 166420150924: 1665 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 1666 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 1667 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 1668 userland debug files. 1669 1670 When using the supported kernel installation method the 1671 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 1672 as is done with /boot/kernel. 1673 1674 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 1675 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 1676 167720150827: 1678 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 1679 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 1680 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 1681 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 1682 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 1683 rc.d scripts in /etc. 1684 168520150827: 1686 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 1687 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 1688 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 1689 169020150817: 1691 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 1692 them, the kernel must have 1693 1694 device random 1695 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 1696 1697 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 1698 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 1699 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 1700 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 1701 1702 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 1703 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 1704 170520150813: 1706 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 1707 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 1708 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 1709 171020150810: 1711 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 1712 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 1713 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 1714 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 1715 1716 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 1717 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 1718 difference with this change. 1719 1720 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 1721 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 1722 remove that workaround. 1723 172420150809: 1725 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 1726 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 1727 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 1728 with: 1729 1730 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 1731 173220150806: 1733 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 1734 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 1735 loader.rc.local instead. 1736 173720150805: 1738 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 1739 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 1740 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 1741 174220150728: 1743 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 1744 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 1745 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 1746 1747 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 1748 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 1749 175020150706: 1751 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 1752 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 1753 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 1754 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 1755 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 1756 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 1757 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 1758 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 1759 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 1760 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 1761 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 1762 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 1763 176420150630: 1765 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 1766 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 1767 1768 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 1769 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 1770 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 1771 1772 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 1773 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 1774 1775 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 1776 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 1777 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 1778 1779 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 1780 entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 1781 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 1782 and it is assumed you know what you need. 1783 1784 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 1785 habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 1786 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 1787 behaviour from your security subsystems. 1788 1789 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 1790 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 1791 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 1792 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 1793 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 1794 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 1795 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 1796 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 1797 will never happen. 1798 179920150623: 1800 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 1801 entry below has been committed in revision 284717. 1802 180320150616: 1804 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 1805 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 1806 180720150615: 1808 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 1809 below has been committed in revision 284436. The work 1810 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 1811 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 1812 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 1813 181420150614: 1815 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 1816 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 1817 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 1818 with Kyuafile and kyua. 1819 182020150614: 1821 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 1822 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 1823 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 1824 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 1825 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 1826 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 1827 2048 bit DH parameter by: 1828 1829 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 1830 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 1831 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 1832 replace it with '2'. 1833 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 1834 a file path, create a new file with: 1835 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 1836 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 1837 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 1838 5. Restart sendmail: 1839 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 1840 1841 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 1842 updated. 1843 184420150604: 1845 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 1846 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 1847 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 1848 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 1849 5.x. 1850 1851 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 1852 185320150525: 1854 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 1855 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 1856 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 1857 185820150521: 1859 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 1860 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 1861 and Pandaboard: 1862 1863 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 1864 same but content is different now 1865 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 1866 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 1867 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 1868 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 1869 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 1870 187120150501: 1872 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 1873 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 1874 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 1875 187620150423: 1877 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 1878 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 1879 188020150415: 1881 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 1882 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 1883 188420150416: 1885 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 1886 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 1887 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 1888 188920150324: 1890 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 1891 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 1892 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 1893 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 1894 189520150315: 1896 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 1897 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 1898 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 1899 190020150307: 1901 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 1902 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 1903 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 1904 kernel before rebooting. 1905 190620150217: 1907 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 1908 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 1909 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 1910 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 1911 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 1912 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 1913 191420150210: 1915 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 1916 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 1917 with the new kernel. 1918 191920150131: 1920 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 1921 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 1922 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 1923 192420150118: 1925 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 1926 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 1927 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 1928 are not already using 3.5.0. 1929 193020150107: 1931 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 1932 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 1933 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 1934 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 1935 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 1936 193720150105: 1938 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 1939 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 1940 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 1941 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 1942 194320150102: 1944 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 1945 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 1946 194720141231: 1948 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 1949 1950 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 1951 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 1952 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 1953 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 1954 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 1955 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 1956 later. 1957 1958 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 1959 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 1960 of the box. 1961 1962 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 1963 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 1964 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 1965 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 1966 1967 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 1968 the instructions for 9.x above. 1969 1970 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 1971 default, and do not build clang. 1972 1973 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 1974 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 1975 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 1976 1977 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 1978 the following are most likely to appear: 1979 1980 -Wabsolute-value 1981 1982 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 1983 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 1984 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 1985 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 1986 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 1987 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 1988 cast, or disable the warning. 1989 1990 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 1991 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 1992 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 1993 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 1994 side-effects. 1995 1996 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 1997 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 1998 1999 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 2000 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 2001 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 2002 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 2003 2004 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 2005 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 2006 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 2007 unreachable could be optimized away. 2008 200920141222: 2010 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 2011 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 2012 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 2013 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 2014 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 2015 the utilities will report errors. 2016 201720141121: 2018 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 2019 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 2020 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 2021 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 2022 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 2023 LOCAL_DIRS. 2024 202520141109: 2026 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 2027 has been obsolete for a very long time. 2028 202920141104: 2030 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 2031 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 2032 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 2033 drivers. 2034 2035 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 2036 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 2037 indicate what you need to do. 2038 2039 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 2040 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 2041 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 2042 2043 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 2044 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 2045 kern.vty=sc 2046 204720141102: 2048 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 2049 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 2050 execute it. 2051 205220141009: 2053 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 2054 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 2055 devel/gperf port. 2056 205720140923: 2058 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 2059 contrib/pjdfstest . 2060 206120140922: 2062 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 2063 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 2064 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 2065 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 2066 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 2067 their next update cycle. 2068 206920140729: 2070 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 2071 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 2072 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 2073 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 2074 1.12.4_8 or newer. 2075 207620140723: 2077 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 2078 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 2079 208020140719: 2081 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 2082 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 2083 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 2084 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 2085 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 2086 new configuration. 2087 208820140709: 2089 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 2090 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 2091 them again. 2092 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 2093 209420140708: 2095 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 2096 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 2097 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 2098 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 2099 requires readline. 2100 210120140702: 2102 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 2103 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 2104 architecture. 2105 210620140701: 2107 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 2108 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 2109 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 2110 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 2111 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 2112 211320140629: 2114 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 2115 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 2116 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 2117 211820140619: 2119 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 2120 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 2121 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 2122 212320140606: 2124 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 2125 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 2126 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 2127 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 2128 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 2129 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 2130 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 2131 "make installworld". 2132 2133 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 2134 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 2135 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 2136 is run. 2137 2138 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 2139 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 2140 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 2141 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 2142 be removed during a clean upgrade. 2143 214420140512: 2145 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 2146 214720140508: 2148 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 2149 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 2150 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 2151 215220140505: 2153 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 2154 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 2155 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 2156 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 2157 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 2158 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 2159 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 2160 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 2161 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 2162 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 2163 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 2164 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 2165 2166 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 2167 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 2168 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 2169 as well. 2170 217120140430: 2172 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 2173 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 2174 217520140424: 2176 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 2177 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 2178 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 2179 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 2180 build hosts for older releases. 2181 2182 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 2183 r276991, respectively. 2184 218520140418: 2186 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 2187 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 2188 will silently lack HESIOD. 2189 219020140405: 2191 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 2192 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 2193 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 2194 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 2195 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 2196 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 2197 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 2198 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 2199 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 2200 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 2201 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 2202 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 2203 220420140306: 2205 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 2206 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 2207 with command line option -W. 2208 220920140226: 2210 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 2211 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 2212 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 2213 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 2214 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 2215 221620140216: 2217 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 2218 221920140216: 2220 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 2221 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 2222 222320140212: 2224 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 2225 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 2226 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 2227 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 2228 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 2229 223020140204: 2231 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 2232 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 2233 kernel is still highly recommended. 2234 223520140131: 2236 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 2237 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 2238 capability mode support in kernel. 2239 224020140128: 2241 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 2242 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 2243 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 2244 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 2245 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 2246 224720140110: 2248 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 2249 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 2250 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 2251 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 2252 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 2253 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 2254 225520131213: 2256 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 2257 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 2258 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 2259 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 2260 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 2261 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 2262 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 2263 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 2264 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 2265 226620131108: 2267 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 2268 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 2269 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 2270 should change your settings to use the latter. 2271 227220131025: 2273 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 2274 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 2275 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 2276 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 2277 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 2278 227920131014: 2280 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 2281 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 2282 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 2283 delete-old-libs": 2284 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 2285 or 2286 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 2287 228820131010: 2289 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 2290 revision r256279. 2291 2292COMMON ITEMS: 2293 2294 General Notes 2295 ------------- 2296 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 2297 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 2298 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 2299 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 2300 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 2301 Occasionally a build failure will occur with "make -j" due to a race 2302 condition. If this happens try building again without -j, and please 2303 report a bug if it happens consistently. 2304 2305 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to 2306 upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then 2307 do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path, 2308 and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try this 2309 approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade. Since 2310 the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgrade from 2311 anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the 2312 last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's 2313 an exception. 2314 2315 The update process will emit an error on an attempt to perform a build 2316 or install from a FreeBSD version below the earliest supported version. 2317 When updating from an older version the update should be performed one 2318 major release at a time, including running `make delete-old` at each 2319 step. 2320 2321 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 2322 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 2323 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 2324 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 2325 2326 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 2327 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 2328 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 2329 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 2330 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 2331 should write them with this in mind. 2332 2333 ZFS notes 2334 --------- 2335 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 2336 these two steps: 2337 2338 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 2339 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 2340 2341 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 2342 2343 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the 2344 freebsd-boot partition of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 2345 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i $N ada0" 2346 The value $N will typically be 1 (if booting from BIOS) or 2 (if 2347 booting from EFI). 2348 2349 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 2350 2351 To build a kernel 2352 ----------------- 2353 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 2354 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 2355 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 2356 2357 make kernel-toolchain 2358 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2359 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2360 2361 To test a kernel once 2362 --------------------- 2363 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 2364 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 2365 debugging information) run 2366 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 2367 nextboot -k testkernel 2368 2369 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 2370 ----------------------------------------------------------- 2371 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 2372 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 2373 2374 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 2375 make buildworld 2376 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2377 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2378 [1] 2379 <reboot in single user> [3] 2380 mergemaster -Fp [5] 2381 make installworld 2382 mergemaster -Fi [4] 2383 make delete-old [6] 2384 <reboot> 2385 2386 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 2387 -------------------------------------------------- 2388 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 2389 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 2390 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 2391 # size. 2392 2393 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 2394 <boot into -stable> 2395 make buildworld 2396 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2397 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 2398 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 2399 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 2400 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 2401 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 2402 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 2403 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 2404 <reboot into current> 2405 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 2406 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 2407 <reboot> 2408 2409 2410 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 2411 ---------------------------------------------- 2412 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 2413 make buildworld [9] 2414 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 2415 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2416 [1] 2417 <reboot in single user> [3] 2418 mergemaster -Fp [5] 2419 make installworld 2420 mergemaster -Fi [4] 2421 make delete-old [6] 2422 <reboot> 2423 2424 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 2425 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 2426 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 2427 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 2428 the UPDATING entries. 2429 2430 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 2431 [email protected]. Make sure that before you update 2432 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 2433 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 2434 much fewer pitfalls. 2435 2436 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you should disable 2437 them at this point so they don't crash your system on 2438 reboot. Alternatively, you should rebuild all the modules you have in 2439 your system and install them as well. If you are running -current, you 2440 should seriously consider placing all sources to all the modules for 2441 your system (or symlinks to them) in /usr/local/sys/modules so this 2442 happens automatically. If all your modules come from ports, then adding 2443 the port origin directories to PORTS_MODULES instead is also automatic 2444 and effective, eg: 2445 PORTS_MODULES+=x11/nvidia-driver 2446 2447 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 2448 fsck -p 2449 mount -u / 2450 mount -a 2451 sh /etc/rc.d/zfs start # mount zfs filesystem, if needed 2452 cd src # full path to source 2453 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 2454 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that you boot 2455 into single user mode to do the installworld. 2456 2457 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 2458 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 2459 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 2460 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 2461 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 2462 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 2463 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 2464 2465 [5] Usually this step is a no-op. However, from time to time 2466 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 2467 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 2468 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 2469 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 2470 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 2471 2472 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 2473 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 2474 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 2475 2476 [8] The new kernel must be able to run existing binaries used by an 2477 installworld. When upgrading across major versions, the new kernel's 2478 configuration must include the correct COMPAT_FREEBSD<n> option for 2479 existing binaries (e.g. COMPAT_FREEBSD11 to run 11.x binaries). Failure 2480 to do so may leave you with a system that is hard to boot to recover. A 2481 GENERIC kernel will include suitable compatibility options to run 2482 binaries from older branches. Note that the ability to run binaries 2483 from unsupported branches is not guaranteed. 2484 2485 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 2486 last time you updated your kernel config file. Options also 2487 change over time, so you may need to adjust your custom kernels 2488 for these as well. 2489 2490 [9] If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 2491 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 2492 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 2493 2494 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 2495 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 2496 warn if it is improperly defined. 2497FORMAT: 2498 2499This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 2500breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 2501list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011. 2502If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 2503to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 2504 2505Copyright information: 2506 2507Copyright 1998-2009 M. 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