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 running portupgrade. 13 1420210202: 15 Various LinuxKPI functionality was added which conflicts with DRM. 16 Please update your drm-kmod port to after the __FreeBSD_verison 1300139 17 update. 18 1920210122: 20 The stable/13 branch has been created from main. 21 2220210108: 23 PC Card attachments for all devices have been removed. In the case of 24 wi and cmx, the entire drivers were removed because they were only 25 PC Card devices. FreeBSD_version 1300134 should be used for this 26 since it was bumped so recently. 27 2820210107: 29 Transport-independent parts of HID support have been split off the USB 30 code in to separate subsystem. Kernel configs which include one of 31 ums, ukbd, uhid, atp, wsp, wmt, uaudio, ugold or ucycom drivers should 32 be updated with adding of "device hid" line. 33 3420210105: 35 ncurses installation has been modified to only keep the widechar 36 enabled version. Incremental build is broken for that change, so it 37 requires a clean build. 38 3920201223: 40 The FreeBSD project has migrated from Subversion to Git. Temporary 41 instructions can be found at 42 https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/src-cvt.md 43 and other documents in that repo. 44 4520201216: 46 The services database has been updated to cover more of the basic 47 services expected in a modern system. The database is big enough 48 that it will cause issues in mergemaster in Releases previous to 49 12.2 and 11.3, or in very old current systems from before r358154. 50 5120201215: 52 Obsolete in-tree GDB 6.1.1 has been removed. GDB (including kgdb) 53 may be installed from ports or packages. 54 5520201124: 56 ping6 has been merged into ping. It can now be called as "ping -6". 57 See ping(8) for details. 58 5920201108: 60 Default value of net.add_addr_allfibs has been changed to 0. 61 If you have multi-fib configuration and rely on existence of all 62 interface routes in every fib, you need to set the above sysctl to 1. 6320201030: 64 The internal pre-processor in the calendar(1) program has been 65 extended to support more C pre-processor commands (e.g. #ifdef, #else, 66 and #undef) and to detect unbalanced conditional statements. 67 Error messages have been extended to include the filename and line 68 number if processing stops to help fixing malformed data files. 69 7020201026: 71 All the data files for the calendar(1) program, except calendar.freebsd, 72 have been moved to the deskutils/calendar-data port, much like the 73 jewish calendar entries were moved to deskutils/hebcal years ago. After 74 make delete-old-files, you need to install it to retain full 75 functionality. calendar(1) will issue a reminder for files it can't 76 find. 77 7820200923: 79 LINT files are no longer generated. We now include the relevant NOTES 80 files. Note: This may cause conflicts with updating in some cases. 81 find sys -name LINT\* -delete 82 is suggested across this commit to remove the generated LINT files. 83 84 If you have tried to update with generated files there, the svn 85 command you want to un-auger the tree is 86 cd sys/amd64/conf 87 svn revert -R . 88 and then do the above find from the top level. Substitute 'amd64' 89 above with where the error message indicates a conflict. 90 9120200824: 92 OpenZFS support has been integrated. Do not upgrade root pools until 93 the loader is updated to support zstd. Furthermore, we caution against 94 'zpool upgrade' for the next few weeks. The change should be transparent 95 unless you want to use new features. 96 97 Not all "NO_CLEAN" build scenarios work across these changes. Many 98 scenarios have been tested and fixed, but rebuilding kernels without 99 rebuilding world may fail. 100 101 The ZFS cache file has moved from /boot to /etc to match the OpenZFS 102 upstream default. A fallback to /boot has been added for mountroot. 103 104 Pool auto import behavior at boot has been moved from the kernel module 105 to an explicit "zpool import -a" in one of the rc scripts enabled by 106 zfs_enable=YES. This means your non-root zpools won't auto import until 107 you upgrade your /etc/rc.d files. 108 10920200824: 110 The resume code now notifies devd with the 'kernel' system 111 rather than the old 'kern' subsystem to be consistent with 112 other use. The old notification will be created as well, but 113 will be removed prior to FreeBSD 14.0. 114 11520200821: 116 r362275 changed the internal API between the kernel RPC and the 117 NFS modules. As such, all the modules must be recompiled from 118 sources. 119 12020200817: 121 r364330 modified the internal API used between the NFS modules. 122 As such, all the NFS modules must be re-compiled from sources. 123 12420200816: 125 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 126 been upgraded to 11.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 127 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 128 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 129 13020200810: 131 r364092 modified the internal ABI used between the kernel NFS 132 modules. As such, all of these modules need to be rebuilt 133 from sources, so a version bump was done. 134 13520200807: 136 Makefile.inc has been updated to work around the issue documented in 137 20200729. It was a case where the optimization of using symbolic links 138 to point to binaries created a situation where we'd run new binaries 139 with old libraries starting midway through the installworld process. 140 14120200729: 142 r363679 has redefined some undefined behavior in regcomp(3); notably, 143 extraneous escapes of most ordinary characters will no longer be 144 accepted. An exp-run has identified all of the problems with this in 145 ports, but other non-ports software may need extra escapes removed to 146 continue to function. 147 148 Because of this change, installworld may encounter the following error 149 from rtld: Undefined symbol "regcomp@FBSD_1.6" -- It is imperative that 150 you do not halt installworld. Instead, let it run to completion (whether 151 successful or not) and run installworld once more. 152 15320200627: 154 A new implementation of bc and dc has been imported in r362681. This 155 implementation corrects non-conformant behavior of the previous bc 156 and adds GNU bc compatible options. It offers a number of extensions, 157 is much faster on large values, and has support for message catalogs 158 (a number of languages are already supported, contributions of further 159 languages welcome). The option WITHOUT_GH_BC can be used to build the 160 world with the previous versions of bc and dc. 161 16220200625: 163 r362639 changed the internal API used between the NFS kernel modules. 164 As such, they all need to be rebuilt from sources. 165 16620200613: 167 r362158 changed the arguments for VFS_CHECKEXP(). As such, any 168 out of tree file systems need to be modified and rebuilt. 169 Also, any file systems that are modules must be rebuilt. 170 17120200604: 172 read(2) of a directory fd is now rejected by default. root may 173 re-enable it for system root only on non-ZFS filesystems with the 174 security.bsd.allow_read_dir sysctl(8) MIB if 175 security.bsd.suser_enabled=1. 176 177 It may be advised to setup aliases for grep to default to `-d skip` if 178 commonly non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and 179 the potential for the resulting stderr output is not tolerable. Example 180 aliases are now installed, commented out, in /root/.cshrc and 181 /root/.shrc. 182 18320200523: 184 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 185 been upgraded to 10.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 186 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 187 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 188 18920200512: 190 Support for obsolete compilers has been removed from the build system. 191 Clang 6 and GCC 6.4 are the minimum supported versions. 192 19320200424: 194 closefrom(2) has been moved under COMPAT12, and replaced in libc with a 195 stub that calls close_range(2). If using a custom kernel configuration, 196 you may want to ensure that the COMPAT_FREEBSD12 option is included, as 197 a slightly older -CURRENT userland and older FreeBSD userlands may not 198 be functional without closefrom(2). 199 20020200414: 201 Upstream DTS from Linux 5.6 was merged and they now have the SID 202 and THS (Secure ID controller and THermal Sensor) node present. 203 The DTB overlays have now been removed from the tree for the H3/H5 and 204 A64 SoCs and the aw_sid and aw_thermal driver have been updated to 205 deal with upstream DTS. If you are using those overlays you need to 206 remove them from loader.conf and update the DTBs on the FAT partition. 207 20820200310: 209 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 210 been upgraded to 10.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 211 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 212 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 213 21420200309: 215 The amd(8) automount daemon has been removed from the source tree. 216 As of FreeBSD 10.1 autofs(5) is the preferred tool for automounting. 217 amd is still available in the sysutils/am-utils port. 218 21920200301: 220 Removed brooktree driver (bktr.4) from the tree. 221 22220200229: 223 The WITH_GPL_DTC option has been removed. The BSD-licenced device tree 224 compiler in usr.bin/dtc is used on all architectures which use dtc, and 225 the GPL dtc is available (if needed) from the sysutils/dtc port. 226 22720200229: 228 The WITHOUT_LLVM_LIBUNWIND option has been removed. LLVM's libunwind 229 is used by all supported CPU architectures. 230 23120200229: 232 GCC 4.2.1 has been removed from the tree. The WITH_GCC, 233 WITH_GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and WITH_GNUCXX options are no longer available. 234 Users who wish to build FreeBSD with GCC must use the external toolchain 235 ports or packages. 236 23720200220: 238 ncurses has been updated to a newer version (6.2-20200215). Given the ABI 239 has changed, users will have to rebuild all the ports that are linked to 240 ncurses. 241 24220200217: 243 The size of struct vnet and the magic cookie have changed. 244 Users need to recompile libkvm and all modules using VIMAGE 245 together with their new kernel. 246 24720200212: 248 Defining the long deprecated NO_CTF, NO_DEBUG_FILES, NO_INSTALLLIB, 249 NO_MAN, NO_PROFILE, and NO_WARNS variables is now an error. Update 250 your Makefiles and scripts to define MK_<var>=no instead as required. 251 252 One exception to this is that program or library Makefiles should 253 define MAN to empty rather than setting MK_MAN=no. 254 25520200108: 256 Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler and LLD the default 257 linker for riscv64. 258 25920200107: 260 make universe no longer uses GCC 4.2.1 on any architectures. 261 Architectures not supported by in-tree Clang/LLVM require an 262 external toolchain package. 263 26420200104: 265 GCC 4.2.1 is now not built by default, as part of the GCC 4.2.1 266 retirement plan. Specifically, the GCC, GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and GNUCXX 267 options default to off for all supported CPU architectures. As a 268 short-term transition aid they may be enabled via WITH_* options. 269 GCC 4.2.1 is expected to be removed from the tree on 2020-03-31. 270 27120200102: 272 Support for armv5 has been disconnected and is being removed. The 273 machine combination MACHINE=arm MACHINE_ARCH=arm is no longer valid. 274 You must now use a MACHINE_ARCH of armv6 or armv7. The default 275 MACHINE_ARCH for MACHINE=arm is now armv7. 276 27720191226: 278 Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler for all powerpc architectures. 279 LLD is now the default linker for powerpc64. The change for powerpc64 280 also includes a change to the ELFv2 ABI, incompatible with the existing 281 ABI. 282 28320191226: 284 Kernel-loadable random(4) modules are no longer unloadable. 285 28620191222: 287 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 288 been upgraded to 9.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 289 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 290 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 291 29220191212: 293 r355677 has modified the internal interface used between the 294 NFS modules in the kernel. As such, they must all be upgraded 295 simultaneously. I will do a version bump for this. 296 29720191205: 298 The root certificates of the Mozilla CA Certificate Store have been 299 imported into the base system and can be managed with the certctl(8) 300 utility. If you have installed the security/ca_root_nss port or package 301 with the ETCSYMLINK option (the default), be advised that there may be 302 differences between those included in the port and those included in 303 base due to differences in nss branch used as well as general update 304 frequency. Note also that certctl(8) cannot manage certs in the 305 format used by the security/ca_root_nss port. 306 30720191120: 308 The amd(8) automount daemon has been disabled by default, and will be 309 removed in the future. As of FreeBSD 10.1 the autofs(5) is available 310 for automounting. 311 31220191107: 313 The nctgpio and wbwd drivers have been moved to the superio bus. 314 If you have one of these drivers in a kernel configuration, then 315 you should add device superio to it. If you use one of these drivers 316 as a module and you compile a custom set of modules, then you should 317 add superio to the set. 318 31920191021: 320 KPIs for network drivers to access interface addresses have changed. 321 Users need to recompile NIC driver modules together with kernel. 322 32320191021: 324 The net.link.tap.user_open sysctl no longer prevents user opening of 325 already created /dev/tapNN devices. Access is still controlled by 326 node permissions, just like tun devices. The net.link.tap.user_open 327 sysctl is now used only to allow users to perform devfs cloning of 328 tap devices, and the subsequent open may not succeed if the user is not 329 in the appropriate group. This sysctl may be deprecated/removed 330 completely in the future. 331 33220191009: 333 mips, powerpc, and sparc64 are no longer built as part of 334 universe / tinderbox unless MAKE_OBSOLETE_GCC is defined. If 335 not defined, mips, powerpc, and sparc64 builds will look for 336 the xtoolchain binaries and if installed use them for universe 337 builds. As llvm 9.0 becomes vetted for these architectures, they 338 will be removed from the list. 339 34020191009: 341 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 342 been upgraded to 9.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 343 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 344 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 345 34620191003: 347 The hpt27xx, hptmv, hptnr, and hptrr drivers have been removed from 348 GENERIC. They are available as modules and can be loaded by adding 349 to /boot/loader.conf hpt27xx_load="YES", hptmv_load="YES", 350 hptnr_load="YES", or hptrr_load="YES", respectively. 351 35220190913: 353 ntpd no longer by default locks its pages in memory, allowing them 354 to be paged out by the kernel. Use rlimit memlock to restore 355 historic BSD behaviour. For example, add "rlimit memlock 32" 356 to ntp.conf to lock up to 32 MB of ntpd address space in memory. 357 35820190823: 359 Several of ping6's options have been renamed for better consistency 360 with ping. If you use any of -ARWXaghmrtwx, you must update your 361 scripts. See ping6(8) for details. 362 36320190727: 364 The vfs.fusefs.sync_unmount and vfs.fusefs.init_backgrounded sysctls 365 and the "-o sync_unmount" and "-o init_backgrounded" mount options have 366 been removed from mount_fusefs(8). You can safely remove them from 367 your scripts, because they had no effect. 368 369 The vfs.fusefs.fix_broken_io, vfs.fusefs.sync_resize, 370 vfs.fusefs.refresh_size, vfs.fusefs.mmap_enable, 371 vfs.fusefs.reclaim_revoked, and vfs.fusefs.data_cache_invalidate 372 sysctls have been removed. If you felt the need to set any of them to 373 a non-default value, please tell [email protected] why. 374 37520190713: 376 Default permissions on the /var/account/acct file (and copies of it 377 rotated by periodic daily scripts) are changed from 0644 to 0640 378 because the file contains sensitive information that should not be 379 world-readable. If the /var/account directory must be created by 380 rc.d/accounting, the mode used is now 0750. Admins who use the 381 accounting feature are encouraged to change the mode of an existing 382 /var/account directory to 0750 or 0700. 383 38420190620: 385 Entropy collection and the /dev/random device are no longer optional 386 components. The "device random" option has been removed. 387 Implementations of distilling algorithms can still be made loadable 388 with "options RANDOM_LOADABLE" (e.g., random_fortuna.ko). 389 39020190612: 391 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 392 been upgraded to 8.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 393 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 394 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 395 39620190608: 397 A fix was applied to i386 kernel modules to avoid panics with 398 dpcpu or vnet. Users need to recompile i386 kernel modules 399 having pcpu or vnet sections or they will refuse to load. 400 40120190513: 402 User-wired pages now have their own counter, 403 vm.stats.vm.v_user_wire_count. The vm.max_wired sysctl was renamed 404 to vm.max_user_wired and changed from an unsigned int to an unsigned 405 long. bhyve VMs wired with the -S are now subject to the user 406 wiring limit; the vm.max_user_wired sysctl may need to be tuned to 407 avoid running into the limit. 408 40920190507: 410 The IPSEC option has been removed from GENERIC. Users requiring 411 ipsec(4) must now load the ipsec(4) kernel module. 412 41320190507: 414 The tap(4) driver has been folded into tun(4), and the module has been 415 renamed to tuntap. You should update any kld_list="if_tap" or 416 kld_list="if_tun" entries in /etc/rc.conf, if_tap_load="YES" or 417 if_tun_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf to load the if_tuntap 418 module instead, and "device tap" or "device tun" entries in kernel 419 config files to select the tuntap device instead. 420 42120190418: 422 The following knobs have been added related to tradeoffs between 423 safe use of the random device and availability in the absence of 424 entropy: 425 426 kern.random.initial_seeding.bypass_before_seeding: tunable; set 427 non-zero to bypass the random device prior to seeding, or zero to 428 block random requests until the random device is initially seeded. 429 For now, set to 1 (unsafe) by default to restore pre-r346250 boot 430 availability properties. 431 432 kern.random.initial_seeding.read_random_bypassed_before_seeding: 433 read-only diagnostic sysctl that is set when bypass is enabled and 434 read_random(9) is bypassed, to enable programmatic handling of this 435 initial condition, if desired. 436 437 kern.random.initial_seeding.arc4random_bypassed_before_seeding: 438 Similar to the above, but for for arc4random(9) initial seeding. 439 440 kern.random.initial_seeding.disable_bypass_warnings: tunable; set 441 non-zero to disable warnings in dmesg when the same conditions are 442 met as for the diagnostic sysctls above. Defaults to zero, i.e., 443 produce warnings in dmesg when the conditions are met. 444 44520190416: 446 The loadable random module KPI has changed; the random_infra_init() 447 routine now requires a 3rd function pointer for a bool (*)(void) 448 method that returns true if the random device is seeded (and 449 therefore unblocked). 450 45120190404: 452 r345895 reverts r320698. This implies that an nfsuserd(8) daemon 453 built from head sources between r320757 (July 6, 2017) and 454 r338192 (Aug. 22, 2018) will not work unless the "-use-udpsock" 455 is added to the command line. 456 nfsuserd daemons built from head sources that are post-r338192 are 457 not affected and should continue to work. 458 45920190320: 460 The fuse(4) module has been renamed to fusefs(4) for consistency with 461 other filesystems. You should update any kld_load="fuse" entries in 462 /etc/rc.conf, fuse_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf, and 463 "options FUSE" entries in kernel config files. 464 46520190304: 466 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 467 8.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 468 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 469 or higher. 470 47120190226: 472 geom_uzip(4) depends on the new module xz. If geom_uzip is statically 473 compiled into your custom kernel, add 'device xz' statement to the 474 kernel config. 475 47620190219: 477 drm and drm2 have been removed from the tree. Please see 478 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics for the latest information on 479 migrating to the drm ports. 480 48120190131: 482 Iflib is no longer unconditionally compiled into the kernel. Drivers 483 using iflib and statically compiled into the kernel, now require 484 the 'device iflib' config option. For the same drivers loaded as 485 modules on kernels not having 'device iflib', the iflib.ko module 486 is loaded automatically. 487 48820190125: 489 The IEEE80211_AMPDU_AGE and AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 kernel configuration 490 options no longer exist since r343219 and r343427 respectively; 491 nothing uses them, so they should be just removed from custom 492 kernel config files. 493 49420181230: 495 r342635 changes the way efibootmgr(8) works by requiring users to add 496 the -b (bootnum) parameter for commands where the bootnum was previously 497 specified with each option. For example 'efibootmgr -B 0001' is now 498 'efibootmgr -B -b 0001'. 499 50020181220: 501 r342286 modifies the NFSv4 server so that it obeys vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport 502 in the same as it is applied to NFSv2 and 3. This implies that NFSv4 503 servers that have vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport set will only allow mounts 504 from clients using a reserved port#. Since both the FreeBSD and Linux 505 NFSv4 clients use reserved port#s by default, this should not affect 506 most NFSv4 mounts. 507 50820181219: 509 The XLP config has been removed. We can't support 64-bit atomics in this 510 kernel because it is running in 32-bit mode. XLP users must transition 511 to running a 64-bit kernel (XLP64 or XLPN32). 512 513 The mips GXEMUL support has been removed from FreeBSD. MALTA* + qemu is 514 the preferred emulator today and we don't need two different ones. 515 516 The old sibyte / swarm / Broadcom BCM1250 support has been 517 removed from the mips port. 518 51920181211: 520 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 521 7.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 522 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 523 or higher. 524 52520181211: 526 Remove the timed and netdate programs from the base tree. Setting 527 the time with these daemons has been obsolete for over a decade. 528 52920181126: 530 On amd64, arm64 and armv7 (architectures that install LLVM's ld.lld 531 linker as /usr/bin/ld) GNU ld is no longer installed as ld.bfd, as 532 it produces broken binaries when ifuncs are in use. Users needing 533 GNU ld should install the binutils port or package. 534 53520181123: 536 The BSD crtbegin and crtend code has been enabled by default. It has 537 had extensive testing on amd64, arm64, and i386. It can be disabled 538 by building a world with -DWITHOUT_BSD_CRTBEGIN. 539 54020181115: 541 The set of CTM commands (ctm, ctm_smail, ctm_rmail, ctm_dequeue) 542 has been converted to a port (misc/ctm) and will be removed from 543 FreeBSD-13. It is available as a package (ctm) for all supported 544 FreeBSD versions. 545 54620181110: 547 The default newsyslog.conf(5) file has been changed to only include 548 files in /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ and /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ if 549 the filenames end in '.conf' and do not begin with a '.'. 550 551 You should check the configuration files in these two directories match 552 this naming convention. You can verify which configuration files are 553 being included using the command: 554 $ newsyslog -Nrv 555 55620181015: 557 Ports for the DRM modules have been simplified. Now, amd64 users should 558 just install the drm-kmod port. All others should install 559 drm-legacy-kmod. 560 561 Graphics hardware that's newer than about 2010 usually works with 562 drm-kmod. For hardware older than 2013, however, some users will need 563 to use drm-legacy-kmod if drm-kmod doesn't work for them. Hardware older 564 than 2008 usually only works in drm-legacy-kmod. The graphics team can 565 only commit to hardware made since 2013 due to the complexity of the 566 market and difficulty to test all the older cards effectively. If you 567 have hardware supported by drm-kmod, you are strongly encouraged to use 568 that as you will get better support. 569 570 Other than KPI chasing, drm-legacy-kmod will not be updated. As outlined 571 elsewhere, the drm and drm2 modules will be eliminated from the src base 572 soon (with a limited exception for arm). Please update to the package 573 asap and report any issues to [email protected]. 574 575 Generally, anybody using the drm*-kmod packages should add 576 WITHOUT_DRM_MODULE=t and WITHOUT_DRM2_MODULE=t to avoid nasty 577 cross-threading surprises, especially with automatic driver 578 loading from X11 startup. These will become the defaults in 13-current 579 shortly. 580 58120181012: 582 The ixlv(4) driver has been renamed to iavf(4). As a consequence, 583 custom kernel and module loading configuration files must be updated 584 accordingly. Moreover, interfaces previous presented as ixlvN to the 585 system are now exposed as iavfN and network configuration files must 586 be adjusted as necessary. 587 58820181009: 589 OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1. This update included 590 additional various API changes throughout the base system. It is 591 important to rebuild third-party software after upgrading. The value 592 of __FreeBSD_version has been bumped accordingly. 593 59420181006: 595 The legacy DRM modules and drivers have now been added to the loader's 596 module blacklist, in favor of loading them with kld_list in rc.conf(5). 597 The module blacklist may be overridden with the loader.conf(5) 598 'module_blacklist' variable, but loading them via rc.conf(5) is strongly 599 encouraged. 600 60120181002: 602 The cam(4) based nda(4) driver will be used over nvd(4) by default on 603 powerpc64. You may set 'options NVME_USE_NVD=1' in your kernel conf or 604 loader tunable 'hw.nvme.use_nvd=1' if you wish to use the existing 605 driver. Make sure to edit /boot/etc/kboot.conf and fstab to use the 606 nda device name. 607 60820180913: 609 Reproducible build mode is now on by default, in preparation for 610 FreeBSD 12.0. This eliminates build metadata such as the user, 611 host, and time from the kernel (and uname), unless the working tree 612 corresponds to a modified checkout from a version control system. 613 The previous behavior can be obtained by setting the /etc/src.conf 614 knob WITHOUT_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD. 615 61620180826: 617 The Yarrow CSPRNG has been removed from the kernel as it has not been 618 supported by its designers since at least 2003. Fortuna has been the 619 default since FreeBSD-11. 620 62120180822: 622 devctl freeze/thaw have gone into the tree, the rc scripts have been 623 updated to use them and devmatch has been changed. You should update 624 kernel, userland and rc scripts all at the same time. 625 62620180818: 627 The default interpreter has been switched from 4th to Lua. 628 LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP, documented in build(7), will override the default 629 interpreter. If you have custom FORTH code you will need to set 630 LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP=4th (valid values are 4th, lua or simp) in 631 src.conf for the build. This will create default hard links between 632 loader and loader_4th instead of loader and loader_lua, the new default. 633 If you are using UEFI it will create the proper hard link to loader.efi. 634 635 bhyve uses userboot.so. It remains 4th-only until some issues are solved 636 regarding coexisting with multiple versions of FreeBSD are resolved. 637 63820180815: 639 ls(1) now respects the COLORTERM environment variable used in other 640 systems and software to indicate that a colored terminal is both 641 supported and desired. If ls(1) is suddenly emitting colors, they may 642 be disabled again by either removing the unwanted COLORTERM from your 643 environment, or using `ls --color=never`. The ls(1) specific CLICOLOR 644 may not be observed in a future release. 645 64620180808: 647 The default pager for most commands has been changed to "less". To 648 restore the old behavior, set PAGER="more" and MANPAGER="more -s" in 649 your environment. 650 65120180731: 652 The jedec_ts(4) driver has been removed. A superset of its functionality 653 is available in the jedec_dimm(4) driver, and the manpage for that 654 driver includes migration instructions. If you have "device jedec_ts" 655 in your kernel configuration file, it must be removed. 656 65720180730: 658 amd64/GENERIC now has EFI runtime services, EFIRT, enabled by default. 659 This should have no effect if the kernel is booted via BIOS/legacy boot. 660 EFIRT may be disabled via a loader tunable, efi.rt.disabled, if a system 661 has a buggy firmware that prevents a successful boot due to use of 662 runtime services. 663 66420180727: 665 Atmel AT91RM9200 and AT91SAM9, Cavium CNS 11xx and XScale 666 support has been removed from the tree. These ports were 667 obsolete and/or known to be broken for many years. 668 66920180723: 670 loader.efi has been augmented to participate more fully in the 671 UEFI boot manager protocol. loader.efi will now look at the 672 BootXXXX environment variable to determine if a specific kernel 673 or root partition was specified. XXXX is derived from BootCurrent. 674 efibootmgr(8) manages these standard UEFI variables. 675 67620180720: 677 zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader. 678 zfsloader is no longer necessary once you've updated your 679 boot blocks. For a transition period, we will install a 680 hardlink for zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition 681 until the boot blocks can be updated (hard link because old 682 zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks). 683 68420180719: 685 ARM64 now have efifb support, if you want to have serial console 686 on your arm64 board when an screen is connected and the bootloader 687 setup a frame buffer for us to use, just add : 688 boot_serial=YES 689 boot_multicons=YES 690 in /boot/loader.conf 691 For Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI) users, this is needed even if you don't have 692 an screen connected as the firmware will setup a frame buffer are that 693 u-boot will expose as an EFI frame buffer. 694 69520180719: 696 New uid:gid added, ntpd:ntpd (123:123). Be sure to run mergemaster 697 or take steps to update /etc/passwd before doing installworld on 698 existing systems. Do not skip the "mergemaster -Fp" step before 699 installworld, as described in the update procedures near the bottom 700 of this document. Also, rc.d/ntpd now starts ntpd(8) as user ntpd 701 if the new mac_ntpd(4) policy is available, unless ntpd_flags or 702 the ntp config file contain options that change file/dir locations. 703 When such options (e.g., "statsdir" or "crypto") are used, ntpd can 704 still be run as non-root by setting ntpd_user=ntpd in rc.conf, after 705 taking steps to ensure that all required files/dirs are accessible 706 by the ntpd user. 707 70820180717: 709 Big endian arm support has been removed. 710 71120180711: 712 The static environment setup in kernel configs is no longer mutually 713 exclusive with the loader(8) environment by default. In order to 714 restore the previous default behavior of disabling the loader(8) 715 environment if a static environment is present, you must specify 716 loader_env.disabled=1 in the static environment. 717 71820180705: 719 The ABI of syscalls used by management tools like sockstat and 720 netstat has been broken to allow 32-bit binaries to work on 721 64-bit kernels without modification. These programs will need 722 to match the kernel in order to function. External programs may 723 require minor modifications to accommodate a change of type in 724 structures from pointers to 64-bit virtual addresses. 725 72620180702: 727 On i386 and amd64 atomics are now inlined. Out of tree modules using 728 atomics will need to be rebuilt. 729 73020180701: 731 The '%I' format in the kern.corefile sysctl limits the number of 732 core files that a process can generate to the number stored in the 733 debug.ncores sysctl. The '%I' format is replaced by the single digit 734 index. Previously, if all indexes were taken the kernel would overwrite 735 only a core file with the highest index in a filename. 736 Currently the system will create a new core file if there is a free 737 index or if all slots are taken it will overwrite the oldest one. 738 73920180630: 740 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 741 6.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 742 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 743 or higher. 744 74520180628: 746 r335753 introduced a new quoting method. However, etc/devd/devmatch.conf 747 needed to be changed to work with it. This change was made with r335763 748 and requires a mergemaster / etcupdate / etc to update the installed 749 file. 750 75120180612: 752 r334930 changed the interface between the NFS modules, so they all 753 need to be rebuilt. r335018 did a __FreeBSD_version bump for this. 754 75520180530: 756 As of r334391 lld is the default amd64 system linker; it is installed 757 as /usr/bin/ld. Kernel build workarounds (see 20180510 entry) are no 758 longer necessary. 759 76020180530: 761 The kernel / userland interface for devinfo changed, so you'll 762 need a new kernel and userland as a pair for it to work (rebuilding 763 lib/libdevinfo is all that's required). devinfo and devmatch will 764 not work, but everything else will when there's a mismatch. 765 76620180523: 767 The on-disk format for hwpmc callchain records has changed to include 768 threadid corresponding to a given record. This changes the field offsets 769 and thus requires that libpmcstat be rebuilt before using a kernel 770 later than r334108. 771 77220180517: 773 The vxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was introduced into 774 HEAD one week before the Exar left the Ethernet market and is not 775 known to be used. If you have device vxge in your kernel config file 776 it must be removed. 777 77820180510: 779 The amd64 kernel now requires a ld that supports ifunc to produce a 780 working kernel, either lld or a newer binutils. lld is built by default 781 on amd64, and the 'buildkernel' target uses it automatically. However, 782 it is not the default linker, so building the kernel the traditional 783 way requires LD=ld.lld on the command line (or LD=/usr/local/bin/ld for 784 binutils port/package). lld will soon be default, and this requirement 785 will go away. 786 787 NOTE: As of r334391 lld is the default system linker on amd64, and no 788 workaround is necessary. 789 79020180508: 791 The nxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for PCI-X 10g 792 cards made by s2io/Neterion. The company was acquired by Exar and 793 no longer sells or supports Ethernet products. If you have device 794 nxge in your kernel config file it must be removed. 795 79620180504: 797 The tz database (tzdb) has been updated to 2018e. This version more 798 correctly models time stamps in time zones with negative DST such as 799 Europe/Dublin (from 1971 on), Europe/Prague (1946/7), and 800 Africa/Windhoek (1994/2017). This does not affect the UT offsets, only 801 time zone abbreviations and the tm_isdst flag. 802 80320180502: 804 The ixgb(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for an early and 805 uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a single ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel 806 quickly shifted to the long lived ixgbe family. If you have device 807 ixgb in your kernel config file it must be removed. 808 80920180501: 810 The lmc(4) driver has been removed. This was a WAN interface 811 card that was already reportedly rare in 2003, and had an ambiguous 812 license. If you have device lmc in your kernel config file it must 813 be removed. 814 81520180413: 816 Support for Arcnet networks has been removed. If you have device 817 arcnet or device cm in your kernel config file they must be 818 removed. 819 82020180411: 821 Support for FDDI networks has been removed. If you have device 822 fddi or device fpa in your kernel config file they must be 823 removed. 824 82520180406: 826 In addition to supporting RFC 3164 formatted messages, the 827 syslogd(8) service is now capable of parsing RFC 5424 formatted 828 log messages. The main benefit of using RFC 5424 is that clients 829 may now send log messages with timestamps containing year numbers, 830 microseconds and time zone offsets. 831 832 Similarly, the syslog(3) C library function has been altered to 833 send RFC 5424 formatted messages to the local system logging 834 daemon. On systems using syslogd(8), this change should have no 835 negative impact, as long as syslogd(8) and the C library are 836 updated at the same time. On systems using a different system 837 logging daemon, it may be necessary to make configuration 838 adjustments, depending on the software used. 839 840 When using syslog-ng, add the 'syslog-protocol' flag to local 841 input sources to enable parsing of RFC 5424 formatted messages: 842 843 source src { 844 unix-dgram("/var/run/log" flags(syslog-protocol)); 845 } 846 847 When using rsyslog, disable the 'SysSock.UseSpecialParser' option 848 of the 'imuxsock' module to let messages be processed by the 849 regular RFC 3164/5424 parsing pipeline: 850 851 module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.UseSpecialParser="off") 852 853 Do note that these changes only affect communication between local 854 applications and syslogd(8). The format that syslogd(8) uses to 855 store messages on disk or forward messages to other systems 856 remains unchanged. syslogd(8) still uses RFC 3164 for these 857 purposes. Options to customize this behaviour will be added in the 858 future. Utilities that process log files stored in /var/log are 859 thus expected to continue to function as before. 860 861 __FreeBSD_version has been incremented to 1200061 to denote this 862 change. 863 86420180328: 865 Support for token ring networks has been removed. If you 866 have "device token" in your kernel config you should remove 867 it. No device drivers supported token ring. 868 86920180323: 870 makefs was modified to be able to tag ISO9660 El Torito boot catalog 871 entries as EFI instead of overloading the i386 tag as done previously. 872 The amd64 mkisoimages.sh script used to build amd64 ISO images for 873 release was updated to use this. This may mean that makefs must be 874 updated before "make cdrom" can be run in the release directory. This 875 should be as simple as: 876 877 $ cd $SRCDIR/usr.sbin/makefs 878 $ make depend all install 879 88020180212: 881 FreeBSD boot loader enhanced with Lua scripting. It's purely opt-in for 882 now by building WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH in /etc/src.conf. 883 Co-existence for the transition period will come shortly. Booting is a 884 complex environment and test coverage for Lua-enabled loaders has been 885 thin, so it would be prudent to assume it might not work and make 886 provisions for backup boot methods. 887 88820180211: 889 devmatch functionality has been turned on in devd. It will automatically 890 load drivers for unattached devices. This may cause unexpected drivers 891 to be loaded. Please report any problems to current@ and 892 [email protected]. 893 89420180114: 895 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 896 6.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 897 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 898 or higher. 899 90020180110: 901 LLVM's lld linker is now used as the FreeBSD/amd64 bootstrap linker. 902 This means it is used to link the kernel and userland libraries and 903 executables, but is not yet installed as /usr/bin/ld by default. 904 905 To revert to ld.bfd as the bootstrap linker, in /etc/src.conf set 906 WITHOUT_LLD_BOOTSTRAP=yes 907 90820180110: 909 On i386, pmtimer has been removed. Its functionality has been folded 910 into apm. It was a no-op on ACPI in current for a while now (but was 911 still needed on i386 in FreeBSD 11 and earlier). Users may need to 912 remove it from kernel config files. 913 91420180104: 915 The use of RSS hash from the network card aka flowid has been 916 disabled by default for lagg(4) as it's currently incompatible with 917 the lacp and loadbalance protocols. 918 919 This can be re-enabled by setting the following in loader.conf: 920 net.link.lagg.default_use_flowid="1" 921 92220180102: 923 The SW_WATCHDOG option is no longer necessary to enable the 924 hardclock-based software watchdog if no hardware watchdog is 925 configured. As before, SW_WATCHDOG will cause the software 926 watchdog to be enabled even if a hardware watchdog is configured. 927 92820171215: 929 r326887 fixes the issue described in the 20171214 UPDATING entry. 930 r326888 flips the switch back to building GELI support always. 931 93220171214: 933 r362593 broke ZFS + GELI support for reasons unknown. However, 934 it also broke ZFS support generally, so GELI has been turned off 935 by default as the lesser evil in r326857. If you boot off ZFS and/or 936 GELI, it might not be a good time to update. 937 93820171125: 939 PowerPC users must update loader(8) by rebuilding world before 940 installing a new kernel, as the protocol connecting them has 941 changed. Without the update, loader metadata will not be passed 942 successfully to the kernel and users will have to enter their 943 root partition at the kernel mountroot prompt to continue booting. 944 Newer versions of loader can boot old kernels without issue. 945 94620171110: 947 The LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT build variable as been renamed to 948 WITH/OUT_LOADER_FIREWIRE. LOADER_{NO_,}GELI_SUPPORT has been renamed 949 to WITH/OUT_LOADER_GELI. 950 95120171106: 952 The naive and non-compliant support of posix_fallocate(2) in ZFS 953 has been removed as of r325320. The system call now returns EINVAL 954 when used on a ZFS file. Although the new behavior complies with the 955 standard, some consumers are not prepared to cope with it. 956 One known victim is lld prior to r325420. 957 95820171102: 959 Building in a FreeBSD src checkout will automatically create object 960 directories now rather than store files in the current directory if 961 'make obj' was not ran. Calling 'make obj' is no longer necessary. 962 This feature can be disabled by setting WITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ=yes in 963 /etc/src-env.conf (not /etc/src.conf), or passing the option in the 964 environment. 965 96620171101: 967 The default MAKEOBJDIR has changed from /usr/obj/<srcdir> for native 968 builds, and /usr/obj/<arch>/<srcdir> for cross-builds, to a unified 969 /usr/obj/<srcdir>/<arch>. This behavior can be changed to the old 970 format by setting WITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR=yes in /etc/src-env.conf, 971 the environment, or with -DWITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR when building. 972 The UNIFIED_OBJDIR option is a transitional feature that will be 973 removed for 12.0 release; please migrate to the new format for any 974 tools by looking up the OBJDIR used by 'make -V .OBJDIR' means rather 975 than hardcoding paths. 976 97720171028: 978 The native-xtools target no longer installs the files by default to the 979 OBJDIR. Use the native-xtools-install target with a DESTDIR to install 980 to ${DESTDIR}/${NXTP} where NXTP defaults to /nxb-bin. 981 98220171021: 983 As part of the boot loader infrastructure cleanup, LOADER_*_SUPPORT 984 options are changing from controlling the build if defined / undefined 985 to controlling the build with explicit 'yes' or 'no' values. They will 986 shift to WITH/WITHOUT options to match other options in the system. 987 98820171010: 989 libstand has turned into a private library for sys/boot use only. 990 It is no longer supported as a public interface outside of sys/boot. 991 99220171005: 993 The arm port has split armv6 into armv6 and armv7. armv7 is now 994 a valid TARGET_ARCH/MACHINE_ARCH setting. If you have an armv7 system 995 and are running a kernel from before r324363, you will need to add 996 MACHINE_ARCH=armv7 to 'make buildworld' to do a native build. 997 99820171003: 999 When building multiple kernels using KERNCONF, non-existent KERNCONF 1000 files will produce an error and buildkernel will fail. Previously 1001 missing KERNCONF files silently failed giving no indication as to 1002 why, only to subsequently discover during installkernel that the 1003 desired kernel was never built in the first place. 1004 100520170912: 1006 The default serial number format for CTL LUNs has changed. This will 1007 affect users who use /dev/diskid/* device nodes, or whose FibreChannel 1008 or iSCSI clients care about their LUNs' serial numbers. Users who 1009 require serial number stability should hardcode serial numbers in 1010 /etc/ctl.conf . 1011 101220170912: 1013 For 32-bit arm compiled for hard-float support, soft-floating point 1014 binaries now always get their shared libraries from 1015 LD_SOFT_LIBRARY_PATH (in the past, this was only used if 1016 /usr/libsoft also existed). Only users with a hard-float ld.so, but 1017 soft-float everything else should be affected. 1018 101920170826: 1020 The geli password typed at boot is now hidden. To restore the previous 1021 behavior, see geli(8) for configuration options. 1022 102320170825: 1024 Move PMTUD blackhole counters to TCPSTATS and remove them from bare 1025 sysctl values. Minor nit, but requires a rebuild of both world/kernel 1026 to complete. 1027 102820170814: 1029 "make check" behavior (made in ^/head@r295380) has been changed to 1030 execute from a limited sandbox, as opposed to executing from 1031 ${TESTSDIR}. 1032 1033 Behavioral changes: 1034 - The "beforecheck" and "aftercheck" targets are now specified. 1035 - ${CHECKDIR} (added in commit noted above) has been removed. 1036 - Legacy behavior can be enabled by setting 1037 WITHOUT_MAKE_CHECK_USE_SANDBOX in src.conf(5) or the environment. 1038 1039 If the limited sandbox mode is enabled, "make check" will execute 1040 "make distribution", then install, execute the tests, and clean up the 1041 sandbox if successful. 1042 1043 The "make distribution" and "make install" targets are typically run as 1044 root to set appropriate permissions and ownership at installation time. 1045 The end-user should set "WITH_INSTALL_AS_USER" in src.conf(5) or the 1046 environment if executing "make check" with limited sandbox mode using 1047 an unprivileged user. 1048 104920170808: 1050 Since the switch to GPT disk labels, fsck for UFS/FFS has been 1051 unable to automatically find alternate superblocks. As of r322297, 1052 the information needed to find alternate superblocks has been 1053 moved to the end of the area reserved for the boot block. 1054 Filesystems created with a newfs of this vintage or later 1055 will create the recovery information. If you have a filesystem 1056 created prior to this change and wish to have a recovery block 1057 created for your filesystem, you can do so by running fsck in 1058 foreground mode (i.e., do not use the -p or -y options). As it 1059 starts, fsck will ask ``SAVE DATA TO FIND ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS'' 1060 to which you should answer yes. 1061 106220170728: 1063 As of r321665, an NFSv4 server configuration that services 1064 Kerberos mounts or clients that do not support the uid/gid in 1065 owner/owner_group string capability, must explicitly enable 1066 the nfsuserd daemon by adding nfsuserd_enable="YES" to the 1067 machine's /etc/rc.conf file. 1068 106920170722: 1070 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 5.0.0. 1071 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1072 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1073 107420170701: 1075 WITHOUT_RCMDS is now the default. Set WITH_RCMDS if you need the 1076 r-commands (rlogin, rsh, etc.) to be built with the base system. 1077 107820170625: 1079 The FreeBSD/powerpc platform now uses a 64-bit type for time_t. This is 1080 a very major ABI incompatible change, so users of FreeBSD/powerpc must 1081 be careful when performing source upgrades. It is best to run 1082 'make installworld' from an alternate root system, either a live 1083 CD/memory stick, or a temporary root partition. Additionally, all ports 1084 must be recompiled. powerpc64 is largely unaffected, except in the case 1085 of 32-bit compatibility. All 32-bit binaries will be affected. 1086 108720170623: 1088 Forward compatibility for the "ino64" project have been committed. This 1089 will allow most new binaries to run on older kernels in a limited 1090 fashion. This prevents many of the common foot-shooting actions in the 1091 upgrade as well as the limited ability to roll back the kernel across 1092 the ino64 upgrade. Complicated use cases may not work properly, though 1093 enough simpler ones work to allow recovery in most situations. 1094 109520170620: 1096 Switch back to the BSDL dtc (Device Tree Compiler). Set WITH_GPL_DTC 1097 if you require the GPL compiler. 1098 109920170618: 1100 The internal ABI used for communication between the NFS kernel modules 1101 was changed by r320085, so __FreeBSD_version was bumped to 1102 ensure all the NFS related modules are updated together. 1103 110420170617: 1105 The ABI of struct event was changed by extending the data 1106 member to 64bit and adding ext fields. For upgrade, same 1107 precautions as for the entry 20170523 "ino64" must be 1108 followed. 1109 111020170531: 1111 The GNU roff toolchain has been removed from base. To render manpages 1112 which are not supported by mandoc(1), man(1) can fallback on GNU roff 1113 from ports (and recommends to install it). 1114 To render roff(7) documents, consider using GNU roff from ports or the 1115 heirloom doctools roff toolchain from ports via pkg install groff or 1116 via pkg install heirloom-doctools. 1117 111820170524: 1119 The ath(4) and ath_hal(4) modules now build piecemeal to allow for 1120 smaller runtime footprint builds. This is useful for embedded systems 1121 which only require one chipset support. 1122 1123 If you load it as a module, make sure this is in /boot/loader.conf: 1124 1125 if_ath_load="YES" 1126 1127 This will load the HAL, all chip/RF backends and if_ath_pci. 1128 If you have if_ath_pci in /boot/loader.conf, ensure it is after 1129 if_ath or it will not load any HAL chipset support. 1130 1131 If you want to selectively load things (eg on ye cheape ARM/MIPS 1132 platforms where RAM is at a premium) you should: 1133 1134 * load ath_hal 1135 * load the chip modules in question 1136 * load ath_rate, ath_dfs 1137 * load ath_main 1138 * load if_ath_pci and/or if_ath_ahb depending upon your particular 1139 bus bind type - this is where probe/attach is done. 1140 1141 For further comments/feedback, poke adrian@ . 1142 114320170523: 1144 The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends 1145 a number of types to 64 bits. Upgrading in place requires care and 1146 adherence to the documented upgrade procedure. 1147 1148 If using a custom kernel configuration ensure that the 1149 COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option is included (as during the upgrade the 1150 system will be running the ino64 kernel with the existing world). 1151 1152 For the safest in-place upgrade begin by removing previous build 1153 artifacts via "rm -rf /usr/obj/*". Then, carefully follow the full 1154 procedure documented below under the heading "To rebuild everything and 1155 install it on the current system." Specifically, a reboot is required 1156 after installing the new kernel before installing world. While an 1157 installworld normally works by accident from multiuser after rebooting 1158 the proper kernel, there are many cases where this will fail across this 1159 upgrade and installworld from single user is required. 1160 116120170424: 1162 The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and 1163 patm(4) devices has been removed. Consumers should plan a 1164 migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11. 1165 116620170420: 1167 GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU 1168 diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of 1169 GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name. 1170 117120170413: 1172 As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when 1173 keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with 1174 documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state. 1175 This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags 1176 and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state. 1177 To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with 1178 keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5). 1179 118020170407: 1181 arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default, 1182 instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be 1183 installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set 1184 CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin . 1185 118620170405: 1187 The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl 1188 net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted. L2 broadcast 1189 packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets. 1190 119120170331: 1192 Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now 1193 use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail 1194 instead of using the first assigned address of the jail. 1195 119620170329: 1197 The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend: 1198 cfiscsi.ko does instead. 1199 1200 If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded 1201 via one of the following methods: 1202 - `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5). 1203 - Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5). 1204 - ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support 1205 (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5)) 1206 1207 Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details. 1208 120920170316: 1210 The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko. 1211 Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the 1212 same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was 1213 missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible 1214 with mmc.ko). 1215 121620170315: 1217 The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity. 1218 If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify 1219 them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must 1220 be prefixed with colon. 1221 122220170311: 1223 The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been 1224 removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version 1225 (sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware. 1226 122720170302: 1228 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0. 1229 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1230 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1231 123220170221: 1233 The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality 1234 has been reimplemented. It's not possible now to create a snapshot 1235 by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/. That should be the only user visible 1236 change. 1237 123820170216: 1239 EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer 1240 valid. 1241 124220170215: 1243 MCA bus support has been removed. 1244 124520170127: 1246 The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed 1247 WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC. 1248 124920170112: 1250 The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that 1251 the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications. 1252 125320170109: 1254 The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via 1255 IFLIB. If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4) 1256 but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom 1257 configuration. 1258 125920161217: 1260 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1. 1261 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1262 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1263 126420161124: 1265 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0. 1266 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1267 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1268 126920161119: 1270 The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap 1271 statistics at the front for all CPU variations. libkvm(3) and all tools 1272 that link against it need to be recompiled. 1273 127420161030: 1275 isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver, 1276 chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware. 1277 On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using 1278 device hints. Please see the corresponding manual pages for details. 1279 128020161017: 1281 The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of 1282 rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific 1283 parts. 1284 Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name 1285 conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B)) 1286 128720161015: 1288 GNU rcs has been removed from base. It is available as packages: 1289 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 1290 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was 1291 removed from base. 1292 129320161008: 1294 Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control 1295 modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the 1296 TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.) 1297 129820161003: 1299 The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 1300 ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy. 1301 130220160924: 1303 Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed 1304 to use an extension of .pico instead. The purpose of this change is 1305 to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file 1306 systems. On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so. 1307 130820160918: 1309 GNU rcs has been turned off by default. It can (temporarily) be built 1310 again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf. 1311 Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages: 1312 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 1313 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base. 1314 131520160918: 1316 The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr. 1317 131820160908: 1319 The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into 1320 two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and 1321 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH. Define both for the original 1322 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior. 1323 132420160824: 1325 r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace 1326 programs and the kernel. ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be 1327 rebuilt to work with new kernels. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped 1328 to 1200005. 1329 133020160818: 1331 The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP 1332 packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3 1333 broadcast packets. It is not expected that this will affect any 1334 standards-conforming UDP application. The new behaviour can be 1335 disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to 1336 0. 1337 133820160818: 1339 Remove the openbsd_poll system call. 1340 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 1341 134220160708: 1343 The stable/11 branch has been created from head@r302406. 1344 134520160622: 1346 The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with 1347 a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2) 1348 system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include 1349 "options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the 1350 default). Users should ensure that this option is enabled in 1351 their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their 1352 kernel. 1353 135420160527: 1355 CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers. 1356 This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using 1357 those disk's diskid device nodes. For example, if /etc/fstab 1358 previously contained a line like 1359 "/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should 1360 change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456". Users of geom 1361 transforms like gmirror may also be affected. ZFS users should 1362 generally be fine. 1363 136420160523: 1365 The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and 1366 improved performance. But it is binary-incompatible with the old API. 1367 Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects 1368 built with the old headers. 1369 137020160520: 1371 The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64. 1372 Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these 1373 functions and should be updated to the latest version before 1374 installing a new libc. 1375 137620160517: 1377 The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support 1378 for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system 1379 is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT. 1380 This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld 1381 and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New 1382 packages will be needed. 1383 1384 To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add 1385 TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 1386 and the install steps. 1387 138820160510: 1389 Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to 1390 installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. Many kernel 1391 modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode 1392 KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules. However, 1393 manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will 1394 now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. 1395 139620160414: 1397 The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be 1398 no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the 1399 list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt 1400 data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data 1401 corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete: 1402 1403 o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 1404 o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 1405 o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware 1406 o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares 1407 o FCCT M500 all firmwares 1408 1409 Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware 1410 with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for 1411 updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these 1412 drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given 1413 this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no 1414 other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above 1415 vendors work. 1416 1417 To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your 1418 drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting: 1419 kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2" 1420 in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the 1421 quirks entry to 0x3. 1422 142320160330: 1424 The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is 1425 now the one true way. The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has 1426 been removed. See 20160311 for further details. 1427 142820160317: 1429 Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t. All 1430 drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled. 1431 143220160311: 1433 WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree 1434 builds. It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the 1435 'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran 1436 when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before 1437 building anything else. Dependencies are gathered at compile time with 1438 -MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file. Users should 1439 run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older 1440 stale .depend files. 1441 144220160306: 1443 On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into 1444 kernel modules. Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time, 1445 please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before 1446 rebooting, e.g.: 1447 1448 make buildworld 1449 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1450 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1451 make -C sys/boot install 1452 <reboot in single user> 1453 1454 Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section, 1455 below. 1456 145720160305: 1458 Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0. Please 1459 see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 1460 upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1461 146220160301: 1463 The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The 1464 VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed. 1465 Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only 1466 permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable 1467 asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the 1468 vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value. 1469 147020160226: 1471 The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the 1472 ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a 1473 drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The 1474 (temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set 1475 to obtain the GNU version if necessary. 1476 147720160129: 1478 Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default. That 1479 feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks. 1480 Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will 1481 still work, even if the guest is using ZFS. Legacy behavior can be 1482 restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1. 1483 148420160119: 1485 The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH. They are 1486 still available in the security/openssh-portable port. 1487 148820160113: 1489 With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required 1490 during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user 1491 prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1492 149320151216: 1494 The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a 1495 consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp 1496 server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the 1497 other loaders. 1498 149920151211: 1500 The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has 1501 been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel, 1502 a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced 1503 for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild 1504 the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or 1505 later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding. 1506 150720151207: 1508 Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and 1509 installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but 1510 requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed 1511 world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes 1512 in src.conf(5). 1513 151420151130: 1515 r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and 1516 nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether. 1517 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 1518 151920151108: 1520 Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of 1521 order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old 1522 behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C". 1523 1524 Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given 1525 collation results will be different. 1526 1527 Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient 1528 locales before running make installworld. 1529 1530 rm -rf /usr/share/locale/* 1531 153220151030: 1533 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d. Any binaries requiring 1534 libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled. 1535 153620151020: 1537 Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0. 1538 Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and 1539 should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively. 1540 154120151017: 1542 The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into 1543 sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and 1544 'make -n -n' to recursively show commands. Now 'make -n' will recurse 1545 and 'make -N' will not. 1546 154720151012: 1548 If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster 1549 and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now 1550 updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld. If you had 1551 excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may 1552 want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install". 1553 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of 1554 whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used. If you are not using 1555 SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior. 1556 155720151011: 1558 Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. 1559 It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases 1560 and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.* 1561 environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links. 1562 156320151006: 1564 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 1565 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1566 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1567 156820150924: 1569 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 1570 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 1571 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 1572 userland debug files. 1573 1574 When using the supported kernel installation method the 1575 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 1576 as is done with /boot/kernel. 1577 1578 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 1579 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 1580 158120150827: 1582 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 1583 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 1584 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 1585 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 1586 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 1587 rc.d scripts in /etc. 1588 158920150827: 1590 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 1591 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 1592 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 1593 159420150817: 1595 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 1596 them, the kernel must have 1597 1598 device random 1599 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 1600 1601 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 1602 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 1603 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 1604 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 1605 1606 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 1607 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 1608 160920150813: 1610 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 1611 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 1612 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 1613 161420150810: 1615 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 1616 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 1617 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 1618 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 1619 1620 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 1621 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 1622 difference with this change. 1623 1624 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 1625 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 1626 remove that workaround. 1627 162820150809: 1629 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 1630 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 1631 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 1632 with: 1633 1634 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 1635 163620150806: 1637 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 1638 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 1639 loader.rc.local instead. 1640 164120150805: 1642 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 1643 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 1644 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 1645 164620150728: 1647 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 1648 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 1649 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 1650 1651 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 1652 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 1653 165420150706: 1655 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 1656 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 1657 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 1658 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 1659 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 1660 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 1661 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 1662 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 1663 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 1664 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 1665 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 1666 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 1667 166820150630: 1669 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 1670 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 1671 1672 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 1673 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 1674 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 1675 1676 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 1677 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 1678 1679 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 1680 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 1681 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 1682 1683 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 1684 entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 1685 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 1686 and it is assumed you know what you need. 1687 1688 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 1689 habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 1690 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 1691 behaviour from your security subsystems. 1692 1693 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 1694 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 1695 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 1696 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 1697 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 1698 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 1699 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 1700 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 1701 will never happen. 1702 170320150623: 1704 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 1705 entry below has been committed in revision 284717. 1706 170720150616: 1708 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 1709 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 1710 171120150615: 1712 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 1713 below has been committed in revision 284436. The work 1714 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 1715 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 1716 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 1717 171820150614: 1719 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 1720 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 1721 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 1722 with Kyuafile and kyua. 1723 172420150614: 1725 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 1726 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 1727 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 1728 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 1729 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 1730 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 1731 2048 bit DH parameter by: 1732 1733 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 1734 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 1735 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 1736 replace it with '2'. 1737 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 1738 a file path, create a new file with: 1739 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 1740 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 1741 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 1742 5. Restart sendmail: 1743 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 1744 1745 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 1746 updated. 1747 174820150604: 1749 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 1750 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 1751 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 1752 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 1753 5.x. 1754 1755 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 1756 175720150525: 1758 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 1759 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 1760 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 1761 176220150521: 1763 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 1764 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 1765 and Pandaboard: 1766 1767 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 1768 same but content is different now 1769 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 1770 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 1771 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 1772 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 1773 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 1774 177520150501: 1776 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 1777 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 1778 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 1779 178020150423: 1781 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 1782 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 1783 178420150415: 1785 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 1786 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 1787 178820150416: 1789 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 1790 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 1791 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 1792 179320150324: 1794 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 1795 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 1796 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 1797 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 1798 179920150315: 1800 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 1801 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 1802 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 1803 180420150307: 1805 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 1806 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 1807 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 1808 kernel before rebooting. 1809 181020150217: 1811 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 1812 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 1813 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 1814 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 1815 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 1816 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 1817 181820150210: 1819 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 1820 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 1821 with the new kernel. 1822 182320150131: 1824 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 1825 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 1826 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 1827 182820150118: 1829 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 1830 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 1831 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 1832 are not already using 3.5.0. 1833 183420150107: 1835 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 1836 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 1837 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 1838 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 1839 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 1840 184120150105: 1842 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 1843 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 1844 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 1845 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 1846 184720150102: 1848 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 1849 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 1850 185120141231: 1852 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 1853 1854 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 1855 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 1856 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 1857 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 1858 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 1859 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 1860 later. 1861 1862 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 1863 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 1864 of the box. 1865 1866 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 1867 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 1868 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 1869 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 1870 1871 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 1872 the instructions for 9.x above. 1873 1874 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 1875 default, and do not build clang. 1876 1877 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 1878 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 1879 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 1880 1881 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 1882 the following are most likely to appear: 1883 1884 -Wabsolute-value 1885 1886 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 1887 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 1888 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 1889 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 1890 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 1891 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 1892 cast, or disable the warning. 1893 1894 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 1895 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 1896 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 1897 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 1898 side-effects. 1899 1900 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 1901 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 1902 1903 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 1904 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 1905 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 1906 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 1907 1908 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 1909 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 1910 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 1911 unreachable could be optimized away. 1912 191320141222: 1914 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 1915 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 1916 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 1917 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 1918 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 1919 the utilities will report errors. 1920 192120141121: 1922 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 1923 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 1924 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 1925 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 1926 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 1927 LOCAL_DIRS. 1928 192920141109: 1930 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 1931 has been obsolete for a very long time. 1932 193320141104: 1934 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 1935 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 1936 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 1937 drivers. 1938 1939 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 1940 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 1941 indicate what you need to do. 1942 1943 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 1944 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 1945 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 1946 1947 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 1948 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 1949 kern.vty=sc 1950 195120141102: 1952 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 1953 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 1954 execute it. 1955 195620141009: 1957 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 1958 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 1959 devel/gperf port. 1960 196120140923: 1962 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 1963 contrib/pjdfstest . 1964 196520140922: 1966 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 1967 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 1968 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 1969 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 1970 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 1971 their next update cycle. 1972 197320140729: 1974 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 1975 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 1976 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 1977 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 1978 1.12.4_8 or newer. 1979 198020140723: 1981 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 1982 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 1983 198420140719: 1985 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 1986 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 1987 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 1988 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 1989 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 1990 new configuration. 1991 199220140709: 1993 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 1994 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 1995 them again. 1996 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 1997 199820140708: 1999 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 2000 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 2001 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 2002 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 2003 requires readline. 2004 200520140702: 2006 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 2007 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 2008 architecture. 2009 201020140701: 2011 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 2012 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 2013 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 2014 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 2015 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 2016 201720140629: 2018 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 2019 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 2020 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 2021 202220140619: 2023 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 2024 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 2025 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 2026 202720140606: 2028 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 2029 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 2030 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 2031 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 2032 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 2033 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 2034 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 2035 "make installworld". 2036 2037 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 2038 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 2039 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 2040 is run. 2041 2042 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 2043 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 2044 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 2045 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 2046 be removed during a clean upgrade. 2047 204820140512: 2049 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 2050 205120140508: 2052 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 2053 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 2054 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 2055 205620140505: 2057 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 2058 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 2059 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 2060 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 2061 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 2062 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 2063 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 2064 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 2065 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 2066 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 2067 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 2068 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 2069 2070 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 2071 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 2072 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 2073 as well. 2074 207520140430: 2076 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 2077 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 2078 207920140424: 2080 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 2081 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 2082 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 2083 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 2084 build hosts for older releases. 2085 2086 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 2087 r276991, respectively. 2088 208920140418: 2090 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 2091 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 2092 will silently lack HESIOD. 2093 209420140405: 2095 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 2096 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 2097 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 2098 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 2099 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 2100 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 2101 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 2102 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 2103 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 2104 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 2105 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 2106 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 2107 210820140306: 2109 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 2110 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 2111 with command line option -W. 2112 211320140226: 2114 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 2115 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 2116 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 2117 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 2118 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 2119 212020140216: 2121 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 2122 212320140216: 2124 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 2125 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 2126 212720140212: 2128 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 2129 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 2130 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 2131 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 2132 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 2133 213420140204: 2135 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 2136 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 2137 kernel is still highly recommended. 2138 213920140131: 2140 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 2141 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 2142 capability mode support in kernel. 2143 214420140128: 2145 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 2146 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 2147 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 2148 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 2149 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 2150 215120140110: 2152 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 2153 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 2154 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 2155 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 2156 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 2157 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 2158 215920131213: 2160 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 2161 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 2162 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 2163 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 2164 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 2165 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 2166 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 2167 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 2168 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 2169 217020131108: 2171 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 2172 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 2173 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 2174 should change your settings to use the latter. 2175 217620131025: 2177 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 2178 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 2179 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 2180 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 2181 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 2182 218320131014: 2184 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 2185 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 2186 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 2187 delete-old-libs": 2188 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 2189 or 2190 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 2191 219220131010: 2193 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 2194 revision r256279. 2195 2196COMMON ITEMS: 2197 2198 General Notes 2199 ------------- 2200 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 2201 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 2202 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 2203 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 2204 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 2205 Occasionally a build failure will occur with "make -j" due to a race 2206 condition. If this happens try building again without -j, and please 2207 report a bug if it happens consistently. 2208 2209 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to 2210 upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then 2211 do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path, 2212 and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try this 2213 approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade. Since 2214 the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgrade from 2215 anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the 2216 last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's 2217 an exception. 2218 2219 The update process will emit an error on an attempt to perform a build 2220 or install from a FreeBSD version below the earliest supported version. 2221 When updating from an older version the update should be performed one 2222 major release at a time, including running `make delete-old` at each 2223 step. 2224 2225 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 2226 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 2227 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 2228 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 2229 2230 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 2231 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 2232 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 2233 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 2234 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 2235 should write them with this in mind. 2236 2237 ZFS notes 2238 --------- 2239 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 2240 these two steps: 2241 2242 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 2243 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 2244 2245 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 2246 2247 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the 2248 freebsd-boot partition of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 2249 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i $N ada0" 2250 The value $N will typically be 1 (if booting from BIOS) or 2 (if 2251 booting from EFI). 2252 2253 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 2254 2255 To build a kernel 2256 ----------------- 2257 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 2258 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 2259 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 2260 2261 make kernel-toolchain 2262 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2263 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2264 2265 To test a kernel once 2266 --------------------- 2267 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 2268 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 2269 debugging information) run 2270 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 2271 nextboot -k testkernel 2272 2273 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 2274 ----------------------------------------------------------- 2275 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 2276 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 2277 2278 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 2279 make buildworld 2280 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2281 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2282 [1] 2283 <reboot in single user> [3] 2284 mergemaster -Fp [5] 2285 make installworld 2286 mergemaster -Fi [4] 2287 make delete-old [6] 2288 <reboot> 2289 2290 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 2291 -------------------------------------------------- 2292 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 2293 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 2294 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 2295 # size. 2296 2297 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 2298 <boot into -stable> 2299 make buildworld 2300 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2301 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 2302 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 2303 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 2304 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 2305 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 2306 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 2307 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 2308 <reboot into current> 2309 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 2310 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 2311 <reboot> 2312 2313 2314 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 2315 ---------------------------------------------- 2316 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 2317 make buildworld [9] 2318 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 2319 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2320 [1] 2321 <reboot in single user> [3] 2322 mergemaster -Fp [5] 2323 make installworld 2324 mergemaster -Fi [4] 2325 make delete-old [6] 2326 <reboot> 2327 2328 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 2329 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 2330 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 2331 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 2332 the UPDATING entries. 2333 2334 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 2335 [email protected]. Make sure that before you update 2336 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 2337 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 2338 much fewer pitfalls. 2339 2340 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you should disable 2341 them at this point so they don't crash your system on 2342 reboot. Alternatively, you should rebuild all the modules you have in 2343 your system and install them as well. If you are running -current, you 2344 should seriously consider placing all sources to all the modules for 2345 your system (or symlinks to them) in /usr/local/sys/modules so this 2346 happens automatically. If all your modules come from ports, then adding 2347 the port origin directories to PORTS_MODULES instead is also automatic 2348 and effective, eg: 2349 PORTS_MODULES+=x11/nvidia-driver 2350 2351 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 2352 fsck -p 2353 mount -u / 2354 mount -a 2355 sh /etc/rc.d/zfs start # mount zfs filesystem, if needed 2356 cd src # full path to source 2357 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 2358 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that you boot 2359 into single user mode to do the installworld. 2360 2361 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 2362 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 2363 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 2364 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 2365 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 2366 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 2367 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 2368 2369 [5] Usually this step is a no-op. However, from time to time 2370 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 2371 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 2372 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 2373 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 2374 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 2375 2376 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 2377 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 2378 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 2379 2380 [8] The new kernel must be able to run existing binaries used by an 2381 installworld. When upgrading across major versions, the new kernel's 2382 configuration must include the correct COMPAT_FREEBSD<n> option for 2383 existing binaries (e.g. COMPAT_FREEBSD11 to run 11.x binaries). Failure 2384 to do so may leave you with a system that is hard to boot to recover. A 2385 GENERIC kernel will include suitable compatibility options to run 2386 binaries from older branches. Note that the ability to run binaries 2387 from unsupported branches is not guaranteed. 2388 2389 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 2390 last time you updated your kernel config file. Options also 2391 change over time, so you may need to adjust your custom kernels 2392 for these as well. 2393 2394 [9] If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 2395 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 2396 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 2397 2398 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 2399 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 2400 warn if it is improperly defined. 2401FORMAT: 2402 2403This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 2404breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 2405list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011. 2406If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 2407to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 2408 2409Copyright information: 2410 2411Copyright 1998-2009 M. 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