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 1520211003: 16 Commit a599f9f7620b deleted the variable called nfs_maxcopyrange 17 from nfscommon.ko, since it no longer needs to be global. As such, 18 the other nfs modules must be rebuilt from up to date sources. 19 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300516 for this. 20 2120210823: 22 As of commit 622809b0868f OpenSSL no longer enables kernel TLS 23 by default. Users can enable kernel TLS via the "KTLS" SSL 24 option. This can be enabled globally by using a custom 25 OpenSSL config file via OPENSSL_CONF or via an 26 application-specific configuration option for applications 27 which permit setting SSL options via SSL_CONF_cmd(3). 28 2920210803: 30 Commits 9fb6e613373c and 9ec7dbf46b0a both changed the internal 31 KAPI between the NFS modules. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300514. 32 All NFS modules must be rebuilt from sources. 33 3420210730: 35 Commit b69019c14cd8 removes pf's DIOCGETSTATESNV ioctl. 36 As of be70c7a50d32 it is no longer used by userspace, but it does mean 37 users may not be able to enumerate pf states if they update the kernel 38 past c021ff986e2b without first updating userspace past be70c7a50d32. 39 4020210718: 41 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300512 after merging LinuxKPI, OFED, 42 net80211, and driver changes in order to support building 43 Intel wireless iwlwifi drivers. This is especially needed for 44 drm-kmod which needs updates after this. 45 4620210715: 47 The 20210707 awk update brought in a change in behavior. This has 48 been corrected as of d4d252c49976. Between these dates, if you 49 installed a new awk binary, you may not be able to build a new 50 kernel because the change in behavior affected the genoffset 51 script used to build the kernel. If you did update, the fix is 52 to update your sources past the above hash and do 53 % cd usr.bin/awk 54 % make clean all 55 % sudo -E make install 56 to enable building kernels again. 57 5820210711: 59 Commit 8a04edfdcbd2 changes the default minor version 60 used for NFSv4 mounts to the highest minor version supported 61 by the NFSv4 server. This default can be overridden by using 62 the "minorversion" mount option. 63 The consensus of a discussion on freebsd-current@ indicated 64 that this would be acceptable to do and would not be considered 65 a POLA violation. 66 6720210710: 68 awk has been updated to the latest one-true-awk version 20210215. 69 This contains a number of minor bug fixes. 70 7120210630: 72 Commit ca179c4d74f2/632e3f2f3a66 changed the package in which 73 the OpenSSL libraries and utilities are packaged. 74 It is recommended for pkgbase user to do: 75 pkg install -f FreeBSD-openssl 76 before pkg upgrade otherwise some dependencies might not be met 77 and pkg will stop working as libssl will not be present anymore 78 on the system. 79 8020210626: 81 Commit 841006678745 changed the internal KAPI between the krpc 82 and nfsd modules. As such, they must both be rebuilt from 83 sources. 84 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1300510. 85 8620210510: 87 Commit 272f39942254 changed the internal KAPI between the 88 nscl.ko and nfscommon.ko modules, so they both need to be 89 rebuilt from sources. 90 9120210429: 92 Commit 5a45802b3c8c changed the internal KAPI between 93 the krpc and NFS. As such, the krpc, nfscommon and 94 nfscl modules must all be rebuilt from sources. 95 Without this patch, NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts should not 96 be done with the nfscbd(8) daemon running, to avoid 97 needing a working back channel for server->client RPCs. 98 9920210202: 100 Various LinuxKPI functionality was added which conflicts with DRM. 101 Please update your drm-kmod port to after the __FreeBSD_verison 1300139 102 update. 103 10420210122: 105 The stable/13 branch has been created from main. 106 10720210108: 108 PC Card attachments for all devices have been removed. In the case of 109 wi and cmx, the entire drivers were removed because they were only 110 PC Card devices. FreeBSD_version 1300134 should be used for this 111 since it was bumped so recently. 112 11320210107: 114 Transport-independent parts of HID support have been split off the USB 115 code in to separate subsystem. Kernel configs which include one of 116 ums, ukbd, uhid, atp, wsp, wmt, uaudio, ugold or ucycom drivers should 117 be updated with adding of "device hid" line. 118 11920210105: 120 ncurses installation has been modified to only keep the widechar 121 enabled version. Incremental build is broken for that change, so it 122 requires a clean build. 123 12420201223: 125 The FreeBSD project has migrated from Subversion to Git. Temporary 126 instructions can be found at 127 https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/src-cvt.md 128 and other documents in that repo. 129 13020201216: 131 The services database has been updated to cover more of the basic 132 services expected in a modern system. The database is big enough 133 that it will cause issues in mergemaster in Releases previous to 134 12.2 and 11.3, or in very old current systems from before r358154. 135 13620201215: 137 Obsolete in-tree GDB 6.1.1 has been removed. GDB (including kgdb) 138 may be installed from ports or packages. 139 14020201124: 141 ping6 has been merged into ping. It can now be called as "ping -6". 142 See ping(8) for details. 143 14420201108: 145 Default value of net.add_addr_allfibs has been changed to 0. 146 If you have multi-fib configuration and rely on existence of all 147 interface routes in every fib, you need to set the above sysctl to 1. 14820201030: 149 The internal pre-processor in the calendar(1) program has been 150 extended to support more C pre-processor commands (e.g. #ifdef, #else, 151 and #undef) and to detect unbalanced conditional statements. 152 Error messages have been extended to include the filename and line 153 number if processing stops to help fixing malformed data files. 154 15520201026: 156 All the data files for the calendar(1) program, except calendar.freebsd, 157 have been moved to the deskutils/calendar-data port, much like the 158 jewish calendar entries were moved to deskutils/hebcal years ago. After 159 make delete-old-files, you need to install it to retain full 160 functionality. calendar(1) will issue a reminder for files it can't 161 find. 162 16320200923: 164 LINT files are no longer generated. We now include the relevant NOTES 165 files. Note: This may cause conflicts with updating in some cases. 166 find sys -name LINT\* -delete 167 is suggested across this commit to remove the generated LINT files. 168 169 If you have tried to update with generated files there, the svn 170 command you want to un-auger the tree is 171 cd sys/amd64/conf 172 svn revert -R . 173 and then do the above find from the top level. Substitute 'amd64' 174 above with where the error message indicates a conflict. 175 17620200824: 177 OpenZFS support has been integrated. Do not upgrade root pools until 178 the loader is updated to support zstd. Furthermore, we caution against 179 'zpool upgrade' for the next few weeks. The change should be transparent 180 unless you want to use new features. 181 182 Not all "NO_CLEAN" build scenarios work across these changes. Many 183 scenarios have been tested and fixed, but rebuilding kernels without 184 rebuilding world may fail. 185 186 The ZFS cache file has moved from /boot to /etc to match the OpenZFS 187 upstream default. A fallback to /boot has been added for mountroot. 188 189 Pool auto import behavior at boot has been moved from the kernel module 190 to an explicit "zpool import -a" in one of the rc scripts enabled by 191 zfs_enable=YES. This means your non-root zpools won't auto import until 192 you upgrade your /etc/rc.d files. 193 19420200824: 195 The resume code now notifies devd with the 'kernel' system 196 rather than the old 'kern' subsystem to be consistent with 197 other use. The old notification will be created as well, but 198 will be removed prior to FreeBSD 14.0. 199 20020200821: 201 r362275 changed the internal API between the kernel RPC and the 202 NFS modules. As such, all the modules must be recompiled from 203 sources. 204 20520200817: 206 r364330 modified the internal API used between the NFS modules. 207 As such, all the NFS modules must be re-compiled from sources. 208 20920200816: 210 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 211 been upgraded to 11.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 212 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 213 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 214 21520200810: 216 r364092 modified the internal ABI used between the kernel NFS 217 modules. As such, all of these modules need to be rebuilt 218 from sources, so a version bump was done. 219 22020200807: 221 Makefile.inc has been updated to work around the issue documented in 222 20200729. It was a case where the optimization of using symbolic links 223 to point to binaries created a situation where we'd run new binaries 224 with old libraries starting midway through the installworld process. 225 22620200729: 227 r363679 has redefined some undefined behavior in regcomp(3); notably, 228 extraneous escapes of most ordinary characters will no longer be 229 accepted. An exp-run has identified all of the problems with this in 230 ports, but other non-ports software may need extra escapes removed to 231 continue to function. 232 233 Because of this change, installworld may encounter the following error 234 from rtld: Undefined symbol "regcomp@FBSD_1.6" -- It is imperative that 235 you do not halt installworld. Instead, let it run to completion (whether 236 successful or not) and run installworld once more. 237 23820200627: 239 A new implementation of bc and dc has been imported in r362681. This 240 implementation corrects non-conformant behavior of the previous bc 241 and adds GNU bc compatible options. It offers a number of extensions, 242 is much faster on large values, and has support for message catalogs 243 (a number of languages are already supported, contributions of further 244 languages welcome). The option WITHOUT_GH_BC can be used to build the 245 world with the previous versions of bc and dc. 246 24720200625: 248 r362639 changed the internal API used between the NFS kernel modules. 249 As such, they all need to be rebuilt from sources. 250 25120200613: 252 r362158 changed the arguments for VFS_CHECKEXP(). As such, any 253 out of tree file systems need to be modified and rebuilt. 254 Also, any file systems that are modules must be rebuilt. 255 25620200604: 257 read(2) of a directory fd is now rejected by default. root may 258 re-enable it for system root only on non-ZFS filesystems with the 259 security.bsd.allow_read_dir sysctl(8) MIB if 260 security.bsd.suser_enabled=1. 261 262 It may be advised to setup aliases for grep to default to `-d skip` if 263 commonly non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and 264 the potential for the resulting stderr output is not tolerable. Example 265 aliases are now installed, commented out, in /root/.cshrc and 266 /root/.shrc. 267 26820200523: 269 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 270 been upgraded to 10.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 271 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 272 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 273 27420200512: 275 Support for obsolete compilers has been removed from the build system. 276 Clang 6 and GCC 6.4 are the minimum supported versions. 277 27820200424: 279 closefrom(2) has been moved under COMPAT12, and replaced in libc with a 280 stub that calls close_range(2). If using a custom kernel configuration, 281 you may want to ensure that the COMPAT_FREEBSD12 option is included, as 282 a slightly older -CURRENT userland and older FreeBSD userlands may not 283 be functional without closefrom(2). 284 28520200414: 286 Upstream DTS from Linux 5.6 was merged and they now have the SID 287 and THS (Secure ID controller and THermal Sensor) node present. 288 The DTB overlays have now been removed from the tree for the H3/H5 and 289 A64 SoCs and the aw_sid and aw_thermal driver have been updated to 290 deal with upstream DTS. If you are using those overlays you need to 291 remove them from loader.conf and update the DTBs on the FAT partition. 292 29320200310: 294 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 295 been upgraded to 10.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 296 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 297 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 298 29920200309: 300 The amd(8) automount daemon has been removed from the source tree. 301 As of FreeBSD 10.1 autofs(5) is the preferred tool for automounting. 302 amd is still available in the sysutils/am-utils port. 303 30420200301: 305 Removed brooktree driver (bktr.4) from the tree. 306 30720200229: 308 The WITH_GPL_DTC option has been removed. The BSD-licenced device tree 309 compiler in usr.bin/dtc is used on all architectures which use dtc, and 310 the GPL dtc is available (if needed) from the sysutils/dtc port. 311 31220200229: 313 The WITHOUT_LLVM_LIBUNWIND option has been removed. LLVM's libunwind 314 is used by all supported CPU architectures. 315 31620200229: 317 GCC 4.2.1 has been removed from the tree. The WITH_GCC, 318 WITH_GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and WITH_GNUCXX options are no longer available. 319 Users who wish to build FreeBSD with GCC must use the external toolchain 320 ports or packages. 321 32220200220: 323 ncurses has been updated to a newer version (6.2-20200215). Given the ABI 324 has changed, users will have to rebuild all the ports that are linked to 325 ncurses. 326 32720200217: 328 The size of struct vnet and the magic cookie have changed. 329 Users need to recompile libkvm and all modules using VIMAGE 330 together with their new kernel. 331 33220200212: 333 Defining the long deprecated NO_CTF, NO_DEBUG_FILES, NO_INSTALLLIB, 334 NO_MAN, NO_PROFILE, and NO_WARNS variables is now an error. Update 335 your Makefiles and scripts to define MK_<var>=no instead as required. 336 337 One exception to this is that program or library Makefiles should 338 define MAN to empty rather than setting MK_MAN=no. 339 34020200108: 341 Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler and LLD the default 342 linker for riscv64. 343 34420200107: 345 make universe no longer uses GCC 4.2.1 on any architectures. 346 Architectures not supported by in-tree Clang/LLVM require an 347 external toolchain package. 348 34920200104: 350 GCC 4.2.1 is now not built by default, as part of the GCC 4.2.1 351 retirement plan. Specifically, the GCC, GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and GNUCXX 352 options default to off for all supported CPU architectures. As a 353 short-term transition aid they may be enabled via WITH_* options. 354 GCC 4.2.1 is expected to be removed from the tree on 2020-03-31. 355 35620200102: 357 Support for armv5 has been disconnected and is being removed. The 358 machine combination MACHINE=arm MACHINE_ARCH=arm is no longer valid. 359 You must now use a MACHINE_ARCH of armv6 or armv7. The default 360 MACHINE_ARCH for MACHINE=arm is now armv7. 361 36220191226: 363 Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler for all powerpc architectures. 364 LLD is now the default linker for powerpc64. The change for powerpc64 365 also includes a change to the ELFv2 ABI, incompatible with the existing 366 ABI. 367 36820191226: 369 Kernel-loadable random(4) modules are no longer unloadable. 370 37120191222: 372 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 373 been upgraded to 9.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 374 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 375 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 376 37720191212: 378 r355677 has modified the internal interface used between the 379 NFS modules in the kernel. As such, they must all be upgraded 380 simultaneously. I will do a version bump for this. 381 38220191205: 383 The root certificates of the Mozilla CA Certificate Store have been 384 imported into the base system and can be managed with the certctl(8) 385 utility. If you have installed the security/ca_root_nss port or package 386 with the ETCSYMLINK option (the default), be advised that there may be 387 differences between those included in the port and those included in 388 base due to differences in nss branch used as well as general update 389 frequency. Note also that certctl(8) cannot manage certs in the 390 format used by the security/ca_root_nss port. 391 39220191120: 393 The amd(8) automount daemon has been disabled by default, and will be 394 removed in the future. As of FreeBSD 10.1 the autofs(5) is available 395 for automounting. 396 39720191107: 398 The nctgpio and wbwd drivers have been moved to the superio bus. 399 If you have one of these drivers in a kernel configuration, then 400 you should add device superio to it. If you use one of these drivers 401 as a module and you compile a custom set of modules, then you should 402 add superio to the set. 403 40420191021: 405 KPIs for network drivers to access interface addresses have changed. 406 Users need to recompile NIC driver modules together with kernel. 407 40820191021: 409 The net.link.tap.user_open sysctl no longer prevents user opening of 410 already created /dev/tapNN devices. Access is still controlled by 411 node permissions, just like tun devices. The net.link.tap.user_open 412 sysctl is now used only to allow users to perform devfs cloning of 413 tap devices, and the subsequent open may not succeed if the user is not 414 in the appropriate group. This sysctl may be deprecated/removed 415 completely in the future. 416 41720191009: 418 mips, powerpc, and sparc64 are no longer built as part of 419 universe / tinderbox unless MAKE_OBSOLETE_GCC is defined. If 420 not defined, mips, powerpc, and sparc64 builds will look for 421 the xtoolchain binaries and if installed use them for universe 422 builds. As llvm 9.0 becomes vetted for these architectures, they 423 will be removed from the list. 424 42520191009: 426 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 427 been upgraded to 9.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 428 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 429 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 430 43120191003: 432 The hpt27xx, hptmv, hptnr, and hptrr drivers have been removed from 433 GENERIC. They are available as modules and can be loaded by adding 434 to /boot/loader.conf hpt27xx_load="YES", hptmv_load="YES", 435 hptnr_load="YES", or hptrr_load="YES", respectively. 436 43720190913: 438 ntpd no longer by default locks its pages in memory, allowing them 439 to be paged out by the kernel. Use rlimit memlock to restore 440 historic BSD behaviour. For example, add "rlimit memlock 32" 441 to ntp.conf to lock up to 32 MB of ntpd address space in memory. 442 44320190823: 444 Several of ping6's options have been renamed for better consistency 445 with ping. If you use any of -ARWXaghmrtwx, you must update your 446 scripts. See ping6(8) for details. 447 44820190727: 449 The vfs.fusefs.sync_unmount and vfs.fusefs.init_backgrounded sysctls 450 and the "-o sync_unmount" and "-o init_backgrounded" mount options have 451 been removed from mount_fusefs(8). You can safely remove them from 452 your scripts, because they had no effect. 453 454 The vfs.fusefs.fix_broken_io, vfs.fusefs.sync_resize, 455 vfs.fusefs.refresh_size, vfs.fusefs.mmap_enable, 456 vfs.fusefs.reclaim_revoked, and vfs.fusefs.data_cache_invalidate 457 sysctls have been removed. If you felt the need to set any of them to 458 a non-default value, please tell [email protected] why. 459 46020190713: 461 Default permissions on the /var/account/acct file (and copies of it 462 rotated by periodic daily scripts) are changed from 0644 to 0640 463 because the file contains sensitive information that should not be 464 world-readable. If the /var/account directory must be created by 465 rc.d/accounting, the mode used is now 0750. Admins who use the 466 accounting feature are encouraged to change the mode of an existing 467 /var/account directory to 0750 or 0700. 468 46920190620: 470 Entropy collection and the /dev/random device are no longer optional 471 components. The "device random" option has been removed. 472 Implementations of distilling algorithms can still be made loadable 473 with "options RANDOM_LOADABLE" (e.g., random_fortuna.ko). 474 47520190612: 476 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 477 been upgraded to 8.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 478 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 479 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 480 48120190608: 482 A fix was applied to i386 kernel modules to avoid panics with 483 dpcpu or vnet. Users need to recompile i386 kernel modules 484 having pcpu or vnet sections or they will refuse to load. 485 48620190513: 487 User-wired pages now have their own counter, 488 vm.stats.vm.v_user_wire_count. The vm.max_wired sysctl was renamed 489 to vm.max_user_wired and changed from an unsigned int to an unsigned 490 long. bhyve VMs wired with the -S are now subject to the user 491 wiring limit; the vm.max_user_wired sysctl may need to be tuned to 492 avoid running into the limit. 493 49420190507: 495 The IPSEC option has been removed from GENERIC. Users requiring 496 ipsec(4) must now load the ipsec(4) kernel module. 497 49820190507: 499 The tap(4) driver has been folded into tun(4), and the module has been 500 renamed to tuntap. You should update any kld_list="if_tap" or 501 kld_list="if_tun" entries in /etc/rc.conf, if_tap_load="YES" or 502 if_tun_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf to load the if_tuntap 503 module instead, and "device tap" or "device tun" entries in kernel 504 config files to select the tuntap device instead. 505 50620190418: 507 The following knobs have been added related to tradeoffs between 508 safe use of the random device and availability in the absence of 509 entropy: 510 511 kern.random.initial_seeding.bypass_before_seeding: tunable; set 512 non-zero to bypass the random device prior to seeding, or zero to 513 block random requests until the random device is initially seeded. 514 For now, set to 1 (unsafe) by default to restore pre-r346250 boot 515 availability properties. 516 517 kern.random.initial_seeding.read_random_bypassed_before_seeding: 518 read-only diagnostic sysctl that is set when bypass is enabled and 519 read_random(9) is bypassed, to enable programmatic handling of this 520 initial condition, if desired. 521 522 kern.random.initial_seeding.arc4random_bypassed_before_seeding: 523 Similar to the above, but for for arc4random(9) initial seeding. 524 525 kern.random.initial_seeding.disable_bypass_warnings: tunable; set 526 non-zero to disable warnings in dmesg when the same conditions are 527 met as for the diagnostic sysctls above. Defaults to zero, i.e., 528 produce warnings in dmesg when the conditions are met. 529 53020190416: 531 The loadable random module KPI has changed; the random_infra_init() 532 routine now requires a 3rd function pointer for a bool (*)(void) 533 method that returns true if the random device is seeded (and 534 therefore unblocked). 535 53620190404: 537 r345895 reverts r320698. This implies that an nfsuserd(8) daemon 538 built from head sources between r320757 (July 6, 2017) and 539 r338192 (Aug. 22, 2018) will not work unless the "-use-udpsock" 540 is added to the command line. 541 nfsuserd daemons built from head sources that are post-r338192 are 542 not affected and should continue to work. 543 54420190320: 545 The fuse(4) module has been renamed to fusefs(4) for consistency with 546 other filesystems. You should update any kld_load="fuse" entries in 547 /etc/rc.conf, fuse_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf, and 548 "options FUSE" entries in kernel config files. 549 55020190304: 551 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 552 8.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 553 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 554 or higher. 555 55620190226: 557 geom_uzip(4) depends on the new module xz. If geom_uzip is statically 558 compiled into your custom kernel, add 'device xz' statement to the 559 kernel config. 560 56120190219: 562 drm and drm2 have been removed from the tree. Please see 563 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics for the latest information on 564 migrating to the drm ports. 565 56620190131: 567 Iflib is no longer unconditionally compiled into the kernel. Drivers 568 using iflib and statically compiled into the kernel, now require 569 the 'device iflib' config option. For the same drivers loaded as 570 modules on kernels not having 'device iflib', the iflib.ko module 571 is loaded automatically. 572 57320190125: 574 The IEEE80211_AMPDU_AGE and AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 kernel configuration 575 options no longer exist since r343219 and r343427 respectively; 576 nothing uses them, so they should be just removed from custom 577 kernel config files. 578 57920181230: 580 r342635 changes the way efibootmgr(8) works by requiring users to add 581 the -b (bootnum) parameter for commands where the bootnum was previously 582 specified with each option. For example 'efibootmgr -B 0001' is now 583 'efibootmgr -B -b 0001'. 584 58520181220: 586 r342286 modifies the NFSv4 server so that it obeys vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport 587 in the same as it is applied to NFSv2 and 3. This implies that NFSv4 588 servers that have vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport set will only allow mounts 589 from clients using a reserved port#. Since both the FreeBSD and Linux 590 NFSv4 clients use reserved port#s by default, this should not affect 591 most NFSv4 mounts. 592 59320181219: 594 The XLP config has been removed. We can't support 64-bit atomics in this 595 kernel because it is running in 32-bit mode. XLP users must transition 596 to running a 64-bit kernel (XLP64 or XLPN32). 597 598 The mips GXEMUL support has been removed from FreeBSD. MALTA* + qemu is 599 the preferred emulator today and we don't need two different ones. 600 601 The old sibyte / swarm / Broadcom BCM1250 support has been 602 removed from the mips port. 603 60420181211: 605 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 606 7.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 607 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 608 or higher. 609 61020181211: 611 Remove the timed and netdate programs from the base tree. Setting 612 the time with these daemons has been obsolete for over a decade. 613 61420181126: 615 On amd64, arm64 and armv7 (architectures that install LLVM's ld.lld 616 linker as /usr/bin/ld) GNU ld is no longer installed as ld.bfd, as 617 it produces broken binaries when ifuncs are in use. Users needing 618 GNU ld should install the binutils port or package. 619 62020181123: 621 The BSD crtbegin and crtend code has been enabled by default. It has 622 had extensive testing on amd64, arm64, and i386. It can be disabled 623 by building a world with -DWITHOUT_BSD_CRTBEGIN. 624 62520181115: 626 The set of CTM commands (ctm, ctm_smail, ctm_rmail, ctm_dequeue) 627 has been converted to a port (misc/ctm) and will be removed from 628 FreeBSD-13. It is available as a package (ctm) for all supported 629 FreeBSD versions. 630 63120181110: 632 The default newsyslog.conf(5) file has been changed to only include 633 files in /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ and /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ if 634 the filenames end in '.conf' and do not begin with a '.'. 635 636 You should check the configuration files in these two directories match 637 this naming convention. You can verify which configuration files are 638 being included using the command: 639 $ newsyslog -Nrv 640 64120181015: 642 Ports for the DRM modules have been simplified. Now, amd64 users should 643 just install the drm-kmod port. All others should install 644 drm-legacy-kmod. 645 646 Graphics hardware that's newer than about 2010 usually works with 647 drm-kmod. For hardware older than 2013, however, some users will need 648 to use drm-legacy-kmod if drm-kmod doesn't work for them. Hardware older 649 than 2008 usually only works in drm-legacy-kmod. The graphics team can 650 only commit to hardware made since 2013 due to the complexity of the 651 market and difficulty to test all the older cards effectively. If you 652 have hardware supported by drm-kmod, you are strongly encouraged to use 653 that as you will get better support. 654 655 Other than KPI chasing, drm-legacy-kmod will not be updated. As outlined 656 elsewhere, the drm and drm2 modules will be eliminated from the src base 657 soon (with a limited exception for arm). Please update to the package 658 asap and report any issues to [email protected]. 659 660 Generally, anybody using the drm*-kmod packages should add 661 WITHOUT_DRM_MODULE=t and WITHOUT_DRM2_MODULE=t to avoid nasty 662 cross-threading surprises, especially with automatic driver 663 loading from X11 startup. These will become the defaults in 13-current 664 shortly. 665 66620181012: 667 The ixlv(4) driver has been renamed to iavf(4). As a consequence, 668 custom kernel and module loading configuration files must be updated 669 accordingly. Moreover, interfaces previous presented as ixlvN to the 670 system are now exposed as iavfN and network configuration files must 671 be adjusted as necessary. 672 67320181009: 674 OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1. This update included 675 additional various API changes throughout the base system. It is 676 important to rebuild third-party software after upgrading. The value 677 of __FreeBSD_version has been bumped accordingly. 678 67920181006: 680 The legacy DRM modules and drivers have now been added to the loader's 681 module blacklist, in favor of loading them with kld_list in rc.conf(5). 682 The module blacklist may be overridden with the loader.conf(5) 683 'module_blacklist' variable, but loading them via rc.conf(5) is strongly 684 encouraged. 685 68620181002: 687 The cam(4) based nda(4) driver will be used over nvd(4) by default on 688 powerpc64. You may set 'options NVME_USE_NVD=1' in your kernel conf or 689 loader tunable 'hw.nvme.use_nvd=1' if you wish to use the existing 690 driver. Make sure to edit /boot/etc/kboot.conf and fstab to use the 691 nda device name. 692 69320180913: 694 Reproducible build mode is now on by default, in preparation for 695 FreeBSD 12.0. This eliminates build metadata such as the user, 696 host, and time from the kernel (and uname), unless the working tree 697 corresponds to a modified checkout from a version control system. 698 The previous behavior can be obtained by setting the /etc/src.conf 699 knob WITHOUT_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD. 700 70120180826: 702 The Yarrow CSPRNG has been removed from the kernel as it has not been 703 supported by its designers since at least 2003. Fortuna has been the 704 default since FreeBSD-11. 705 70620180822: 707 devctl freeze/thaw have gone into the tree, the rc scripts have been 708 updated to use them and devmatch has been changed. You should update 709 kernel, userland and rc scripts all at the same time. 710 71120180818: 712 The default interpreter has been switched from 4th to Lua. 713 LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP, documented in build(7), will override the default 714 interpreter. If you have custom FORTH code you will need to set 715 LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP=4th (valid values are 4th, lua or simp) in 716 src.conf for the build. This will create default hard links between 717 loader and loader_4th instead of loader and loader_lua, the new default. 718 If you are using UEFI it will create the proper hard link to loader.efi. 719 720 bhyve uses userboot.so. It remains 4th-only until some issues are solved 721 regarding coexisting with multiple versions of FreeBSD are resolved. 722 72320180815: 724 ls(1) now respects the COLORTERM environment variable used in other 725 systems and software to indicate that a colored terminal is both 726 supported and desired. If ls(1) is suddenly emitting colors, they may 727 be disabled again by either removing the unwanted COLORTERM from your 728 environment, or using `ls --color=never`. The ls(1) specific CLICOLOR 729 may not be observed in a future release. 730 73120180808: 732 The default pager for most commands has been changed to "less". To 733 restore the old behavior, set PAGER="more" and MANPAGER="more -s" in 734 your environment. 735 73620180731: 737 The jedec_ts(4) driver has been removed. A superset of its functionality 738 is available in the jedec_dimm(4) driver, and the manpage for that 739 driver includes migration instructions. If you have "device jedec_ts" 740 in your kernel configuration file, it must be removed. 741 74220180730: 743 amd64/GENERIC now has EFI runtime services, EFIRT, enabled by default. 744 This should have no effect if the kernel is booted via BIOS/legacy boot. 745 EFIRT may be disabled via a loader tunable, efi.rt.disabled, if a system 746 has a buggy firmware that prevents a successful boot due to use of 747 runtime services. 748 74920180727: 750 Atmel AT91RM9200 and AT91SAM9, Cavium CNS 11xx and XScale 751 support has been removed from the tree. These ports were 752 obsolete and/or known to be broken for many years. 753 75420180723: 755 loader.efi has been augmented to participate more fully in the 756 UEFI boot manager protocol. loader.efi will now look at the 757 BootXXXX environment variable to determine if a specific kernel 758 or root partition was specified. XXXX is derived from BootCurrent. 759 efibootmgr(8) manages these standard UEFI variables. 760 76120180720: 762 zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader. 763 zfsloader is no longer necessary once you've updated your 764 boot blocks. For a transition period, we will install a 765 hardlink for zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition 766 until the boot blocks can be updated (hard link because old 767 zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks). 768 76920180719: 770 ARM64 now have efifb support, if you want to have serial console 771 on your arm64 board when an screen is connected and the bootloader 772 setup a frame buffer for us to use, just add : 773 boot_serial=YES 774 boot_multicons=YES 775 in /boot/loader.conf 776 For Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI) users, this is needed even if you don't have 777 an screen connected as the firmware will setup a frame buffer are that 778 u-boot will expose as an EFI frame buffer. 779 78020180719: 781 New uid:gid added, ntpd:ntpd (123:123). Be sure to run mergemaster 782 or take steps to update /etc/passwd before doing installworld on 783 existing systems. Do not skip the "mergemaster -Fp" step before 784 installworld, as described in the update procedures near the bottom 785 of this document. Also, rc.d/ntpd now starts ntpd(8) as user ntpd 786 if the new mac_ntpd(4) policy is available, unless ntpd_flags or 787 the ntp config file contain options that change file/dir locations. 788 When such options (e.g., "statsdir" or "crypto") are used, ntpd can 789 still be run as non-root by setting ntpd_user=ntpd in rc.conf, after 790 taking steps to ensure that all required files/dirs are accessible 791 by the ntpd user. 792 79320180717: 794 Big endian arm support has been removed. 795 79620180711: 797 The static environment setup in kernel configs is no longer mutually 798 exclusive with the loader(8) environment by default. In order to 799 restore the previous default behavior of disabling the loader(8) 800 environment if a static environment is present, you must specify 801 loader_env.disabled=1 in the static environment. 802 80320180705: 804 The ABI of syscalls used by management tools like sockstat and 805 netstat has been broken to allow 32-bit binaries to work on 806 64-bit kernels without modification. These programs will need 807 to match the kernel in order to function. External programs may 808 require minor modifications to accommodate a change of type in 809 structures from pointers to 64-bit virtual addresses. 810 81120180702: 812 On i386 and amd64 atomics are now inlined. Out of tree modules using 813 atomics will need to be rebuilt. 814 81520180701: 816 The '%I' format in the kern.corefile sysctl limits the number of 817 core files that a process can generate to the number stored in the 818 debug.ncores sysctl. The '%I' format is replaced by the single digit 819 index. Previously, if all indexes were taken the kernel would overwrite 820 only a core file with the highest index in a filename. 821 Currently the system will create a new core file if there is a free 822 index or if all slots are taken it will overwrite the oldest one. 823 82420180630: 825 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 826 6.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 827 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 828 or higher. 829 83020180628: 831 r335753 introduced a new quoting method. However, etc/devd/devmatch.conf 832 needed to be changed to work with it. This change was made with r335763 833 and requires a mergemaster / etcupdate / etc to update the installed 834 file. 835 83620180612: 837 r334930 changed the interface between the NFS modules, so they all 838 need to be rebuilt. r335018 did a __FreeBSD_version bump for this. 839 84020180530: 841 As of r334391 lld is the default amd64 system linker; it is installed 842 as /usr/bin/ld. Kernel build workarounds (see 20180510 entry) are no 843 longer necessary. 844 84520180530: 846 The kernel / userland interface for devinfo changed, so you'll 847 need a new kernel and userland as a pair for it to work (rebuilding 848 lib/libdevinfo is all that's required). devinfo and devmatch will 849 not work, but everything else will when there's a mismatch. 850 85120180523: 852 The on-disk format for hwpmc callchain records has changed to include 853 threadid corresponding to a given record. This changes the field offsets 854 and thus requires that libpmcstat be rebuilt before using a kernel 855 later than r334108. 856 85720180517: 858 The vxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was introduced into 859 HEAD one week before the Exar left the Ethernet market and is not 860 known to be used. If you have device vxge in your kernel config file 861 it must be removed. 862 86320180510: 864 The amd64 kernel now requires a ld that supports ifunc to produce a 865 working kernel, either lld or a newer binutils. lld is built by default 866 on amd64, and the 'buildkernel' target uses it automatically. However, 867 it is not the default linker, so building the kernel the traditional 868 way requires LD=ld.lld on the command line (or LD=/usr/local/bin/ld for 869 binutils port/package). lld will soon be default, and this requirement 870 will go away. 871 872 NOTE: As of r334391 lld is the default system linker on amd64, and no 873 workaround is necessary. 874 87520180508: 876 The nxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for PCI-X 10g 877 cards made by s2io/Neterion. The company was acquired by Exar and 878 no longer sells or supports Ethernet products. If you have device 879 nxge in your kernel config file it must be removed. 880 88120180504: 882 The tz database (tzdb) has been updated to 2018e. This version more 883 correctly models time stamps in time zones with negative DST such as 884 Europe/Dublin (from 1971 on), Europe/Prague (1946/7), and 885 Africa/Windhoek (1994/2017). This does not affect the UT offsets, only 886 time zone abbreviations and the tm_isdst flag. 887 88820180502: 889 The ixgb(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for an early and 890 uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a single ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel 891 quickly shifted to the long lived ixgbe family. If you have device 892 ixgb in your kernel config file it must be removed. 893 89420180501: 895 The lmc(4) driver has been removed. This was a WAN interface 896 card that was already reportedly rare in 2003, and had an ambiguous 897 license. If you have device lmc in your kernel config file it must 898 be removed. 899 90020180413: 901 Support for Arcnet networks has been removed. If you have device 902 arcnet or device cm in your kernel config file they must be 903 removed. 904 90520180411: 906 Support for FDDI networks has been removed. If you have device 907 fddi or device fpa in your kernel config file they must be 908 removed. 909 91020180406: 911 In addition to supporting RFC 3164 formatted messages, the 912 syslogd(8) service is now capable of parsing RFC 5424 formatted 913 log messages. The main benefit of using RFC 5424 is that clients 914 may now send log messages with timestamps containing year numbers, 915 microseconds and time zone offsets. 916 917 Similarly, the syslog(3) C library function has been altered to 918 send RFC 5424 formatted messages to the local system logging 919 daemon. On systems using syslogd(8), this change should have no 920 negative impact, as long as syslogd(8) and the C library are 921 updated at the same time. On systems using a different system 922 logging daemon, it may be necessary to make configuration 923 adjustments, depending on the software used. 924 925 When using syslog-ng, add the 'syslog-protocol' flag to local 926 input sources to enable parsing of RFC 5424 formatted messages: 927 928 source src { 929 unix-dgram("/var/run/log" flags(syslog-protocol)); 930 } 931 932 When using rsyslog, disable the 'SysSock.UseSpecialParser' option 933 of the 'imuxsock' module to let messages be processed by the 934 regular RFC 3164/5424 parsing pipeline: 935 936 module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.UseSpecialParser="off") 937 938 Do note that these changes only affect communication between local 939 applications and syslogd(8). The format that syslogd(8) uses to 940 store messages on disk or forward messages to other systems 941 remains unchanged. syslogd(8) still uses RFC 3164 for these 942 purposes. Options to customize this behaviour will be added in the 943 future. Utilities that process log files stored in /var/log are 944 thus expected to continue to function as before. 945 946 __FreeBSD_version has been incremented to 1200061 to denote this 947 change. 948 94920180328: 950 Support for token ring networks has been removed. If you 951 have "device token" in your kernel config you should remove 952 it. No device drivers supported token ring. 953 95420180323: 955 makefs was modified to be able to tag ISO9660 El Torito boot catalog 956 entries as EFI instead of overloading the i386 tag as done previously. 957 The amd64 mkisoimages.sh script used to build amd64 ISO images for 958 release was updated to use this. This may mean that makefs must be 959 updated before "make cdrom" can be run in the release directory. This 960 should be as simple as: 961 962 $ cd $SRCDIR/usr.sbin/makefs 963 $ make depend all install 964 96520180212: 966 FreeBSD boot loader enhanced with Lua scripting. It's purely opt-in for 967 now by building WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH in /etc/src.conf. 968 Co-existence for the transition period will come shortly. Booting is a 969 complex environment and test coverage for Lua-enabled loaders has been 970 thin, so it would be prudent to assume it might not work and make 971 provisions for backup boot methods. 972 97320180211: 974 devmatch functionality has been turned on in devd. It will automatically 975 load drivers for unattached devices. This may cause unexpected drivers 976 to be loaded. Please report any problems to current@ and 977 [email protected]. 978 97920180114: 980 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 981 6.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 982 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 983 or higher. 984 98520180110: 986 LLVM's lld linker is now used as the FreeBSD/amd64 bootstrap linker. 987 This means it is used to link the kernel and userland libraries and 988 executables, but is not yet installed as /usr/bin/ld by default. 989 990 To revert to ld.bfd as the bootstrap linker, in /etc/src.conf set 991 WITHOUT_LLD_BOOTSTRAP=yes 992 99320180110: 994 On i386, pmtimer has been removed. Its functionality has been folded 995 into apm. It was a no-op on ACPI in current for a while now (but was 996 still needed on i386 in FreeBSD 11 and earlier). Users may need to 997 remove it from kernel config files. 998 99920180104: 1000 The use of RSS hash from the network card aka flowid has been 1001 disabled by default for lagg(4) as it's currently incompatible with 1002 the lacp and loadbalance protocols. 1003 1004 This can be re-enabled by setting the following in loader.conf: 1005 net.link.lagg.default_use_flowid="1" 1006 100720180102: 1008 The SW_WATCHDOG option is no longer necessary to enable the 1009 hardclock-based software watchdog if no hardware watchdog is 1010 configured. As before, SW_WATCHDOG will cause the software 1011 watchdog to be enabled even if a hardware watchdog is configured. 1012 101320171215: 1014 r326887 fixes the issue described in the 20171214 UPDATING entry. 1015 r326888 flips the switch back to building GELI support always. 1016 101720171214: 1018 r362593 broke ZFS + GELI support for reasons unknown. However, 1019 it also broke ZFS support generally, so GELI has been turned off 1020 by default as the lesser evil in r326857. If you boot off ZFS and/or 1021 GELI, it might not be a good time to update. 1022 102320171125: 1024 PowerPC users must update loader(8) by rebuilding world before 1025 installing a new kernel, as the protocol connecting them has 1026 changed. Without the update, loader metadata will not be passed 1027 successfully to the kernel and users will have to enter their 1028 root partition at the kernel mountroot prompt to continue booting. 1029 Newer versions of loader can boot old kernels without issue. 1030 103120171110: 1032 The LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT build variable as been renamed to 1033 WITH/OUT_LOADER_FIREWIRE. LOADER_{NO_,}GELI_SUPPORT has been renamed 1034 to WITH/OUT_LOADER_GELI. 1035 103620171106: 1037 The naive and non-compliant support of posix_fallocate(2) in ZFS 1038 has been removed as of r325320. The system call now returns EINVAL 1039 when used on a ZFS file. Although the new behavior complies with the 1040 standard, some consumers are not prepared to cope with it. 1041 One known victim is lld prior to r325420. 1042 104320171102: 1044 Building in a FreeBSD src checkout will automatically create object 1045 directories now rather than store files in the current directory if 1046 'make obj' was not ran. Calling 'make obj' is no longer necessary. 1047 This feature can be disabled by setting WITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ=yes in 1048 /etc/src-env.conf (not /etc/src.conf), or passing the option in the 1049 environment. 1050 105120171101: 1052 The default MAKEOBJDIR has changed from /usr/obj/<srcdir> for native 1053 builds, and /usr/obj/<arch>/<srcdir> for cross-builds, to a unified 1054 /usr/obj/<srcdir>/<arch>. This behavior can be changed to the old 1055 format by setting WITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR=yes in /etc/src-env.conf, 1056 the environment, or with -DWITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR when building. 1057 The UNIFIED_OBJDIR option is a transitional feature that will be 1058 removed for 12.0 release; please migrate to the new format for any 1059 tools by looking up the OBJDIR used by 'make -V .OBJDIR' means rather 1060 than hardcoding paths. 1061 106220171028: 1063 The native-xtools target no longer installs the files by default to the 1064 OBJDIR. Use the native-xtools-install target with a DESTDIR to install 1065 to ${DESTDIR}/${NXTP} where NXTP defaults to /nxb-bin. 1066 106720171021: 1068 As part of the boot loader infrastructure cleanup, LOADER_*_SUPPORT 1069 options are changing from controlling the build if defined / undefined 1070 to controlling the build with explicit 'yes' or 'no' values. They will 1071 shift to WITH/WITHOUT options to match other options in the system. 1072 107320171010: 1074 libstand has turned into a private library for sys/boot use only. 1075 It is no longer supported as a public interface outside of sys/boot. 1076 107720171005: 1078 The arm port has split armv6 into armv6 and armv7. armv7 is now 1079 a valid TARGET_ARCH/MACHINE_ARCH setting. If you have an armv7 system 1080 and are running a kernel from before r324363, you will need to add 1081 MACHINE_ARCH=armv7 to 'make buildworld' to do a native build. 1082 108320171003: 1084 When building multiple kernels using KERNCONF, non-existent KERNCONF 1085 files will produce an error and buildkernel will fail. Previously 1086 missing KERNCONF files silently failed giving no indication as to 1087 why, only to subsequently discover during installkernel that the 1088 desired kernel was never built in the first place. 1089 109020170912: 1091 The default serial number format for CTL LUNs has changed. This will 1092 affect users who use /dev/diskid/* device nodes, or whose FibreChannel 1093 or iSCSI clients care about their LUNs' serial numbers. Users who 1094 require serial number stability should hardcode serial numbers in 1095 /etc/ctl.conf . 1096 109720170912: 1098 For 32-bit arm compiled for hard-float support, soft-floating point 1099 binaries now always get their shared libraries from 1100 LD_SOFT_LIBRARY_PATH (in the past, this was only used if 1101 /usr/libsoft also existed). Only users with a hard-float ld.so, but 1102 soft-float everything else should be affected. 1103 110420170826: 1105 The geli password typed at boot is now hidden. To restore the previous 1106 behavior, see geli(8) for configuration options. 1107 110820170825: 1109 Move PMTUD blackhole counters to TCPSTATS and remove them from bare 1110 sysctl values. Minor nit, but requires a rebuild of both world/kernel 1111 to complete. 1112 111320170814: 1114 "make check" behavior (made in ^/head@r295380) has been changed to 1115 execute from a limited sandbox, as opposed to executing from 1116 ${TESTSDIR}. 1117 1118 Behavioral changes: 1119 - The "beforecheck" and "aftercheck" targets are now specified. 1120 - ${CHECKDIR} (added in commit noted above) has been removed. 1121 - Legacy behavior can be enabled by setting 1122 WITHOUT_MAKE_CHECK_USE_SANDBOX in src.conf(5) or the environment. 1123 1124 If the limited sandbox mode is enabled, "make check" will execute 1125 "make distribution", then install, execute the tests, and clean up the 1126 sandbox if successful. 1127 1128 The "make distribution" and "make install" targets are typically run as 1129 root to set appropriate permissions and ownership at installation time. 1130 The end-user should set "WITH_INSTALL_AS_USER" in src.conf(5) or the 1131 environment if executing "make check" with limited sandbox mode using 1132 an unprivileged user. 1133 113420170808: 1135 Since the switch to GPT disk labels, fsck for UFS/FFS has been 1136 unable to automatically find alternate superblocks. As of r322297, 1137 the information needed to find alternate superblocks has been 1138 moved to the end of the area reserved for the boot block. 1139 Filesystems created with a newfs of this vintage or later 1140 will create the recovery information. If you have a filesystem 1141 created prior to this change and wish to have a recovery block 1142 created for your filesystem, you can do so by running fsck in 1143 foreground mode (i.e., do not use the -p or -y options). As it 1144 starts, fsck will ask ``SAVE DATA TO FIND ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS'' 1145 to which you should answer yes. 1146 114720170728: 1148 As of r321665, an NFSv4 server configuration that services 1149 Kerberos mounts or clients that do not support the uid/gid in 1150 owner/owner_group string capability, must explicitly enable 1151 the nfsuserd daemon by adding nfsuserd_enable="YES" to the 1152 machine's /etc/rc.conf file. 1153 115420170722: 1155 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 5.0.0. 1156 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1157 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1158 115920170701: 1160 WITHOUT_RCMDS is now the default. Set WITH_RCMDS if you need the 1161 r-commands (rlogin, rsh, etc.) to be built with the base system. 1162 116320170625: 1164 The FreeBSD/powerpc platform now uses a 64-bit type for time_t. This is 1165 a very major ABI incompatible change, so users of FreeBSD/powerpc must 1166 be careful when performing source upgrades. It is best to run 1167 'make installworld' from an alternate root system, either a live 1168 CD/memory stick, or a temporary root partition. Additionally, all ports 1169 must be recompiled. powerpc64 is largely unaffected, except in the case 1170 of 32-bit compatibility. All 32-bit binaries will be affected. 1171 117220170623: 1173 Forward compatibility for the "ino64" project have been committed. This 1174 will allow most new binaries to run on older kernels in a limited 1175 fashion. This prevents many of the common foot-shooting actions in the 1176 upgrade as well as the limited ability to roll back the kernel across 1177 the ino64 upgrade. Complicated use cases may not work properly, though 1178 enough simpler ones work to allow recovery in most situations. 1179 118020170620: 1181 Switch back to the BSDL dtc (Device Tree Compiler). Set WITH_GPL_DTC 1182 if you require the GPL compiler. 1183 118420170618: 1185 The internal ABI used for communication between the NFS kernel modules 1186 was changed by r320085, so __FreeBSD_version was bumped to 1187 ensure all the NFS related modules are updated together. 1188 118920170617: 1190 The ABI of struct event was changed by extending the data 1191 member to 64bit and adding ext fields. For upgrade, same 1192 precautions as for the entry 20170523 "ino64" must be 1193 followed. 1194 119520170531: 1196 The GNU roff toolchain has been removed from base. To render manpages 1197 which are not supported by mandoc(1), man(1) can fallback on GNU roff 1198 from ports (and recommends to install it). 1199 To render roff(7) documents, consider using GNU roff from ports or the 1200 heirloom doctools roff toolchain from ports via pkg install groff or 1201 via pkg install heirloom-doctools. 1202 120320170524: 1204 The ath(4) and ath_hal(4) modules now build piecemeal to allow for 1205 smaller runtime footprint builds. This is useful for embedded systems 1206 which only require one chipset support. 1207 1208 If you load it as a module, make sure this is in /boot/loader.conf: 1209 1210 if_ath_load="YES" 1211 1212 This will load the HAL, all chip/RF backends and if_ath_pci. 1213 If you have if_ath_pci in /boot/loader.conf, ensure it is after 1214 if_ath or it will not load any HAL chipset support. 1215 1216 If you want to selectively load things (eg on ye cheape ARM/MIPS 1217 platforms where RAM is at a premium) you should: 1218 1219 * load ath_hal 1220 * load the chip modules in question 1221 * load ath_rate, ath_dfs 1222 * load ath_main 1223 * load if_ath_pci and/or if_ath_ahb depending upon your particular 1224 bus bind type - this is where probe/attach is done. 1225 1226 For further comments/feedback, poke adrian@ . 1227 122820170523: 1229 The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends 1230 a number of types to 64 bits. Upgrading in place requires care and 1231 adherence to the documented upgrade procedure. 1232 1233 If using a custom kernel configuration ensure that the 1234 COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option is included (as during the upgrade the 1235 system will be running the ino64 kernel with the existing world). 1236 1237 For the safest in-place upgrade begin by removing previous build 1238 artifacts via "rm -rf /usr/obj/*". Then, carefully follow the full 1239 procedure documented below under the heading "To rebuild everything and 1240 install it on the current system." Specifically, a reboot is required 1241 after installing the new kernel before installing world. While an 1242 installworld normally works by accident from multiuser after rebooting 1243 the proper kernel, there are many cases where this will fail across this 1244 upgrade and installworld from single user is required. 1245 124620170424: 1247 The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and 1248 patm(4) devices has been removed. Consumers should plan a 1249 migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11. 1250 125120170420: 1252 GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU 1253 diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of 1254 GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name. 1255 125620170413: 1257 As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when 1258 keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with 1259 documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state. 1260 This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags 1261 and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state. 1262 To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with 1263 keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5). 1264 126520170407: 1266 arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default, 1267 instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be 1268 installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set 1269 CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin . 1270 127120170405: 1272 The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl 1273 net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted. L2 broadcast 1274 packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets. 1275 127620170331: 1277 Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now 1278 use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail 1279 instead of using the first assigned address of the jail. 1280 128120170329: 1282 The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend: 1283 cfiscsi.ko does instead. 1284 1285 If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded 1286 via one of the following methods: 1287 - `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5). 1288 - Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5). 1289 - ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support 1290 (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5)) 1291 1292 Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details. 1293 129420170316: 1295 The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko. 1296 Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the 1297 same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was 1298 missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible 1299 with mmc.ko). 1300 130120170315: 1302 The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity. 1303 If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify 1304 them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must 1305 be prefixed with colon. 1306 130720170311: 1308 The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been 1309 removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version 1310 (sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware. 1311 131220170302: 1313 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0. 1314 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1315 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1316 131720170221: 1318 The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality 1319 has been reimplemented. It's not possible now to create a snapshot 1320 by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/. That should be the only user visible 1321 change. 1322 132320170216: 1324 EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer 1325 valid. 1326 132720170215: 1328 MCA bus support has been removed. 1329 133020170127: 1331 The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed 1332 WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC. 1333 133420170112: 1335 The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that 1336 the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications. 1337 133820170109: 1339 The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via 1340 IFLIB. If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4) 1341 but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom 1342 configuration. 1343 134420161217: 1345 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1. 1346 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1347 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1348 134920161124: 1350 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0. 1351 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1352 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1353 135420161119: 1355 The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap 1356 statistics at the front for all CPU variations. libkvm(3) and all tools 1357 that link against it need to be recompiled. 1358 135920161030: 1360 isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver, 1361 chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware. 1362 On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using 1363 device hints. Please see the corresponding manual pages for details. 1364 136520161017: 1366 The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of 1367 rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific 1368 parts. 1369 Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name 1370 conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B)) 1371 137220161015: 1373 GNU rcs has been removed from base. It is available as packages: 1374 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 1375 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was 1376 removed from base. 1377 137820161008: 1379 Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control 1380 modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the 1381 TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.) 1382 138320161003: 1384 The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 1385 ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy. 1386 138720160924: 1388 Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed 1389 to use an extension of .pico instead. The purpose of this change is 1390 to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file 1391 systems. On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so. 1392 139320160918: 1394 GNU rcs has been turned off by default. It can (temporarily) be built 1395 again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf. 1396 Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages: 1397 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 1398 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base. 1399 140020160918: 1401 The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr. 1402 140320160908: 1404 The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into 1405 two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and 1406 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH. Define both for the original 1407 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior. 1408 140920160824: 1410 r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace 1411 programs and the kernel. ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be 1412 rebuilt to work with new kernels. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped 1413 to 1200005. 1414 141520160818: 1416 The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP 1417 packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3 1418 broadcast packets. It is not expected that this will affect any 1419 standards-conforming UDP application. The new behaviour can be 1420 disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to 1421 0. 1422 142320160818: 1424 Remove the openbsd_poll system call. 1425 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 1426 142720160708: 1428 The stable/11 branch has been created from head@r302406. 1429 143020160622: 1431 The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with 1432 a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2) 1433 system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include 1434 "options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the 1435 default). Users should ensure that this option is enabled in 1436 their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their 1437 kernel. 1438 143920160527: 1440 CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers. 1441 This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using 1442 those disk's diskid device nodes. For example, if /etc/fstab 1443 previously contained a line like 1444 "/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should 1445 change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456". Users of geom 1446 transforms like gmirror may also be affected. ZFS users should 1447 generally be fine. 1448 144920160523: 1450 The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and 1451 improved performance. But it is binary-incompatible with the old API. 1452 Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects 1453 built with the old headers. 1454 145520160520: 1456 The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64. 1457 Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these 1458 functions and should be updated to the latest version before 1459 installing a new libc. 1460 146120160517: 1462 The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support 1463 for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system 1464 is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT. 1465 This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld 1466 and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New 1467 packages will be needed. 1468 1469 To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add 1470 TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 1471 and the install steps. 1472 147320160510: 1474 Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to 1475 installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. Many kernel 1476 modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode 1477 KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules. However, 1478 manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will 1479 now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. 1480 148120160414: 1482 The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be 1483 no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the 1484 list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt 1485 data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data 1486 corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete: 1487 1488 o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 1489 o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 1490 o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware 1491 o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares 1492 o FCCT M500 all firmwares 1493 1494 Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware 1495 with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for 1496 updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these 1497 drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given 1498 this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no 1499 other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above 1500 vendors work. 1501 1502 To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your 1503 drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting: 1504 kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2" 1505 in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the 1506 quirks entry to 0x3. 1507 150820160330: 1509 The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is 1510 now the one true way. The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has 1511 been removed. See 20160311 for further details. 1512 151320160317: 1514 Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t. All 1515 drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled. 1516 151720160311: 1518 WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree 1519 builds. It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the 1520 'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran 1521 when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before 1522 building anything else. Dependencies are gathered at compile time with 1523 -MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file. Users should 1524 run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older 1525 stale .depend files. 1526 152720160306: 1528 On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into 1529 kernel modules. Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time, 1530 please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before 1531 rebooting, e.g.: 1532 1533 make buildworld 1534 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1535 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1536 make -C sys/boot install 1537 <reboot in single user> 1538 1539 Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section, 1540 below. 1541 154220160305: 1543 Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0. Please 1544 see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 1545 upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1546 154720160301: 1548 The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The 1549 VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed. 1550 Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only 1551 permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable 1552 asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the 1553 vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value. 1554 155520160226: 1556 The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the 1557 ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a 1558 drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The 1559 (temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set 1560 to obtain the GNU version if necessary. 1561 156220160129: 1563 Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default. That 1564 feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks. 1565 Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will 1566 still work, even if the guest is using ZFS. Legacy behavior can be 1567 restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1. 1568 156920160119: 1570 The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH. They are 1571 still available in the security/openssh-portable port. 1572 157320160113: 1574 With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required 1575 during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user 1576 prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1577 157820151216: 1579 The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a 1580 consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp 1581 server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the 1582 other loaders. 1583 158420151211: 1585 The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has 1586 been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel, 1587 a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced 1588 for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild 1589 the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or 1590 later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding. 1591 159220151207: 1593 Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and 1594 installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but 1595 requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed 1596 world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes 1597 in src.conf(5). 1598 159920151130: 1600 r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and 1601 nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether. 1602 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 1603 160420151108: 1605 Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of 1606 order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old 1607 behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C". 1608 1609 Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given 1610 collation results will be different. 1611 1612 Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient 1613 locales before running make installworld. 1614 1615 rm -rf /usr/share/locale/* 1616 161720151030: 1618 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d. Any binaries requiring 1619 libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled. 1620 162120151020: 1622 Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0. 1623 Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and 1624 should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively. 1625 162620151017: 1627 The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into 1628 sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and 1629 'make -n -n' to recursively show commands. Now 'make -n' will recurse 1630 and 'make -N' will not. 1631 163220151012: 1633 If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster 1634 and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now 1635 updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld. If you had 1636 excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may 1637 want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install". 1638 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of 1639 whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used. If you are not using 1640 SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior. 1641 164220151011: 1643 Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. 1644 It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases 1645 and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.* 1646 environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links. 1647 164820151006: 1649 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 1650 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1651 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1652 165320150924: 1654 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 1655 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 1656 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 1657 userland debug files. 1658 1659 When using the supported kernel installation method the 1660 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 1661 as is done with /boot/kernel. 1662 1663 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 1664 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 1665 166620150827: 1667 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 1668 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 1669 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 1670 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 1671 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 1672 rc.d scripts in /etc. 1673 167420150827: 1675 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 1676 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 1677 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 1678 167920150817: 1680 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 1681 them, the kernel must have 1682 1683 device random 1684 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 1685 1686 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 1687 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 1688 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 1689 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 1690 1691 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 1692 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 1693 169420150813: 1695 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 1696 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 1697 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 1698 169920150810: 1700 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 1701 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 1702 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 1703 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 1704 1705 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 1706 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 1707 difference with this change. 1708 1709 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 1710 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 1711 remove that workaround. 1712 171320150809: 1714 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 1715 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 1716 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 1717 with: 1718 1719 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 1720 172120150806: 1722 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 1723 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 1724 loader.rc.local instead. 1725 172620150805: 1727 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 1728 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 1729 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 1730 173120150728: 1732 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 1733 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 1734 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 1735 1736 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 1737 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 1738 173920150706: 1740 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 1741 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 1742 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 1743 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 1744 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 1745 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 1746 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 1747 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 1748 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 1749 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 1750 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 1751 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 1752 175320150630: 1754 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 1755 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 1756 1757 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 1758 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 1759 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 1760 1761 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 1762 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 1763 1764 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 1765 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 1766 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 1767 1768 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 1769 entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 1770 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 1771 and it is assumed you know what you need. 1772 1773 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 1774 habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 1775 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 1776 behaviour from your security subsystems. 1777 1778 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 1779 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 1780 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 1781 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 1782 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 1783 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 1784 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 1785 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 1786 will never happen. 1787 178820150623: 1789 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 1790 entry below has been committed in revision 284717. 1791 179220150616: 1793 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 1794 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 1795 179620150615: 1797 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 1798 below has been committed in revision 284436. The work 1799 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 1800 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 1801 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 1802 180320150614: 1804 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 1805 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 1806 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 1807 with Kyuafile and kyua. 1808 180920150614: 1810 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 1811 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 1812 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 1813 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 1814 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 1815 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 1816 2048 bit DH parameter by: 1817 1818 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 1819 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 1820 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 1821 replace it with '2'. 1822 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 1823 a file path, create a new file with: 1824 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 1825 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 1826 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 1827 5. Restart sendmail: 1828 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 1829 1830 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 1831 updated. 1832 183320150604: 1834 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 1835 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 1836 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 1837 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 1838 5.x. 1839 1840 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 1841 184220150525: 1843 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 1844 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 1845 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 1846 184720150521: 1848 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 1849 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 1850 and Pandaboard: 1851 1852 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 1853 same but content is different now 1854 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 1855 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 1856 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 1857 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 1858 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 1859 186020150501: 1861 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 1862 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 1863 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 1864 186520150423: 1866 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 1867 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 1868 186920150415: 1870 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 1871 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 1872 187320150416: 1874 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 1875 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 1876 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 1877 187820150324: 1879 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 1880 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 1881 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 1882 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 1883 188420150315: 1885 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 1886 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 1887 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 1888 188920150307: 1890 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 1891 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 1892 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 1893 kernel before rebooting. 1894 189520150217: 1896 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 1897 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 1898 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 1899 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 1900 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 1901 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 1902 190320150210: 1904 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 1905 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 1906 with the new kernel. 1907 190820150131: 1909 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 1910 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 1911 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 1912 191320150118: 1914 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 1915 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 1916 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 1917 are not already using 3.5.0. 1918 191920150107: 1920 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 1921 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 1922 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 1923 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 1924 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 1925 192620150105: 1927 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 1928 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 1929 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 1930 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 1931 193220150102: 1933 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 1934 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 1935 193620141231: 1937 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 1938 1939 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 1940 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 1941 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 1942 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 1943 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 1944 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 1945 later. 1946 1947 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 1948 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 1949 of the box. 1950 1951 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 1952 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 1953 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 1954 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 1955 1956 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 1957 the instructions for 9.x above. 1958 1959 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 1960 default, and do not build clang. 1961 1962 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 1963 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 1964 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 1965 1966 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 1967 the following are most likely to appear: 1968 1969 -Wabsolute-value 1970 1971 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 1972 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 1973 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 1974 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 1975 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 1976 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 1977 cast, or disable the warning. 1978 1979 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 1980 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 1981 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 1982 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 1983 side-effects. 1984 1985 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 1986 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 1987 1988 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 1989 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 1990 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 1991 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 1992 1993 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 1994 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 1995 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 1996 unreachable could be optimized away. 1997 199820141222: 1999 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 2000 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 2001 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 2002 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 2003 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 2004 the utilities will report errors. 2005 200620141121: 2007 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 2008 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 2009 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 2010 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 2011 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 2012 LOCAL_DIRS. 2013 201420141109: 2015 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 2016 has been obsolete for a very long time. 2017 201820141104: 2019 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 2020 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 2021 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 2022 drivers. 2023 2024 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 2025 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 2026 indicate what you need to do. 2027 2028 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 2029 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 2030 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 2031 2032 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 2033 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 2034 kern.vty=sc 2035 203620141102: 2037 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 2038 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 2039 execute it. 2040 204120141009: 2042 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 2043 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 2044 devel/gperf port. 2045 204620140923: 2047 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 2048 contrib/pjdfstest . 2049 205020140922: 2051 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 2052 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 2053 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 2054 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 2055 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 2056 their next update cycle. 2057 205820140729: 2059 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 2060 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 2061 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 2062 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 2063 1.12.4_8 or newer. 2064 206520140723: 2066 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 2067 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 2068 206920140719: 2070 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 2071 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 2072 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 2073 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 2074 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 2075 new configuration. 2076 207720140709: 2078 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 2079 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 2080 them again. 2081 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 2082 208320140708: 2084 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 2085 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 2086 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 2087 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 2088 requires readline. 2089 209020140702: 2091 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 2092 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 2093 architecture. 2094 209520140701: 2096 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 2097 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 2098 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 2099 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 2100 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 2101 210220140629: 2103 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 2104 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 2105 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 2106 210720140619: 2108 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 2109 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 2110 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 2111 211220140606: 2113 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 2114 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 2115 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 2116 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 2117 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 2118 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 2119 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 2120 "make installworld". 2121 2122 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 2123 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 2124 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 2125 is run. 2126 2127 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 2128 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 2129 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 2130 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 2131 be removed during a clean upgrade. 2132 213320140512: 2134 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 2135 213620140508: 2137 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 2138 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 2139 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 2140 214120140505: 2142 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 2143 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 2144 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 2145 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 2146 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 2147 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 2148 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 2149 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 2150 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 2151 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 2152 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 2153 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 2154 2155 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 2156 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 2157 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 2158 as well. 2159 216020140430: 2161 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 2162 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 2163 216420140424: 2165 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 2166 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 2167 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 2168 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 2169 build hosts for older releases. 2170 2171 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 2172 r276991, respectively. 2173 217420140418: 2175 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 2176 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 2177 will silently lack HESIOD. 2178 217920140405: 2180 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 2181 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 2182 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 2183 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 2184 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 2185 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 2186 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 2187 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 2188 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 2189 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 2190 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 2191 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 2192 219320140306: 2194 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 2195 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 2196 with command line option -W. 2197 219820140226: 2199 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 2200 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 2201 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 2202 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 2203 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 2204 220520140216: 2206 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 2207 220820140216: 2209 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 2210 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 2211 221220140212: 2213 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 2214 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 2215 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 2216 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 2217 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 2218 221920140204: 2220 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 2221 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 2222 kernel is still highly recommended. 2223 222420140131: 2225 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 2226 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 2227 capability mode support in kernel. 2228 222920140128: 2230 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 2231 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 2232 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 2233 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 2234 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 2235 223620140110: 2237 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 2238 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 2239 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 2240 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 2241 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 2242 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 2243 224420131213: 2245 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 2246 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 2247 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 2248 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 2249 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 2250 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 2251 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 2252 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 2253 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 2254 225520131108: 2256 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 2257 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 2258 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 2259 should change your settings to use the latter. 2260 226120131025: 2262 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 2263 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 2264 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 2265 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 2266 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 2267 226820131014: 2269 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 2270 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 2271 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 2272 delete-old-libs": 2273 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 2274 or 2275 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 2276 227720131010: 2278 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 2279 revision r256279. 2280 2281COMMON ITEMS: 2282 2283 General Notes 2284 ------------- 2285 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 2286 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 2287 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 2288 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 2289 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 2290 Occasionally a build failure will occur with "make -j" due to a race 2291 condition. If this happens try building again without -j, and please 2292 report a bug if it happens consistently. 2293 2294 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to 2295 upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then 2296 do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path, 2297 and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try this 2298 approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade. Since 2299 the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgrade from 2300 anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the 2301 last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's 2302 an exception. 2303 2304 The update process will emit an error on an attempt to perform a build 2305 or install from a FreeBSD version below the earliest supported version. 2306 When updating from an older version the update should be performed one 2307 major release at a time, including running `make delete-old` at each 2308 step. 2309 2310 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 2311 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 2312 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 2313 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 2314 2315 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 2316 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 2317 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 2318 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 2319 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 2320 should write them with this in mind. 2321 2322 ZFS notes 2323 --------- 2324 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 2325 these two steps: 2326 2327 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 2328 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 2329 2330 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 2331 2332 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the 2333 freebsd-boot partition of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 2334 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i $N ada0" 2335 The value $N will typically be 1 (if booting from BIOS) or 2 (if 2336 booting from EFI). 2337 2338 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 2339 2340 To build a kernel 2341 ----------------- 2342 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 2343 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 2344 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 2345 2346 make kernel-toolchain 2347 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2348 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2349 2350 To test a kernel once 2351 --------------------- 2352 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 2353 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 2354 debugging information) run 2355 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 2356 nextboot -k testkernel 2357 2358 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 2359 ----------------------------------------------------------- 2360 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 2361 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 2362 2363 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 2364 make buildworld 2365 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2366 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2367 [1] 2368 <reboot in single user> [3] 2369 mergemaster -Fp [5] 2370 make installworld 2371 mergemaster -Fi [4] 2372 make delete-old [6] 2373 <reboot> 2374 2375 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 2376 -------------------------------------------------- 2377 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 2378 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 2379 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 2380 # size. 2381 2382 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 2383 <boot into -stable> 2384 make buildworld 2385 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2386 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 2387 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 2388 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 2389 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 2390 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 2391 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 2392 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 2393 <reboot into current> 2394 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 2395 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 2396 <reboot> 2397 2398 2399 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 2400 ---------------------------------------------- 2401 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 2402 make buildworld [9] 2403 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 2404 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2405 [1] 2406 <reboot in single user> [3] 2407 mergemaster -Fp [5] 2408 make installworld 2409 mergemaster -Fi [4] 2410 make delete-old [6] 2411 <reboot> 2412 2413 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 2414 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 2415 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 2416 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 2417 the UPDATING entries. 2418 2419 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 2420 [email protected]. Make sure that before you update 2421 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 2422 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 2423 much fewer pitfalls. 2424 2425 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you should disable 2426 them at this point so they don't crash your system on 2427 reboot. Alternatively, you should rebuild all the modules you have in 2428 your system and install them as well. If you are running -current, you 2429 should seriously consider placing all sources to all the modules for 2430 your system (or symlinks to them) in /usr/local/sys/modules so this 2431 happens automatically. If all your modules come from ports, then adding 2432 the port origin directories to PORTS_MODULES instead is also automatic 2433 and effective, eg: 2434 PORTS_MODULES+=x11/nvidia-driver 2435 2436 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 2437 fsck -p 2438 mount -u / 2439 mount -a 2440 sh /etc/rc.d/zfs start # mount zfs filesystem, if needed 2441 cd src # full path to source 2442 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 2443 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that you boot 2444 into single user mode to do the installworld. 2445 2446 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 2447 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 2448 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 2449 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 2450 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 2451 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 2452 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 2453 2454 [5] Usually this step is a no-op. However, from time to time 2455 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 2456 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 2457 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 2458 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 2459 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 2460 2461 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 2462 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 2463 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 2464 2465 [8] The new kernel must be able to run existing binaries used by an 2466 installworld. When upgrading across major versions, the new kernel's 2467 configuration must include the correct COMPAT_FREEBSD<n> option for 2468 existing binaries (e.g. COMPAT_FREEBSD11 to run 11.x binaries). Failure 2469 to do so may leave you with a system that is hard to boot to recover. A 2470 GENERIC kernel will include suitable compatibility options to run 2471 binaries from older branches. Note that the ability to run binaries 2472 from unsupported branches is not guaranteed. 2473 2474 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 2475 last time you updated your kernel config file. Options also 2476 change over time, so you may need to adjust your custom kernels 2477 for these as well. 2478 2479 [9] If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 2480 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 2481 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 2482 2483 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 2484 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 2485 warn if it is improperly defined. 2486FORMAT: 2487 2488This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 2489breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 2490list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011. 2491If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 2492to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 2493 2494Copyright information: 2495 2496Copyright 1998-2009 M. 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