1 Updating Information for users of FreeBSD stable/13. 2 3This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>. 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://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#makeworld 10 11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in 12/usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before updating system packages 13and/or ports. 14 1520240305: 16 13.3-RELEASE. 17 1820240218: 19 Change 9b998db87c28 changed 'struct ieee80211vap' internals in net80211. 20 Given we do not have enough spares and the struct is allocated by 21 drivers, all wireless drivers have to be recompiled. 22 __FreeBSD_version is updated to 1303001 to track this change. 23 2420240207: 25 sendmail 8.18.1 has been imported and merged. This version enforces 26 stricter RFC compliance by default, especially with respect to line 27 endings. This may cause issues with receiving messages from 28 non-compliant MTAs; please see the first 8.18.1 release note in 29 contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES for mitigations. 30 3120230913: 32 Improvements to libtacplus(8) mean that tacplus.conf(5) now 33 follows POSIX shell syntax rules. This may cause TACACS+ 34 authentication to fail if the shared secret contains a single 35 quote, double quote, or backslash character which isn't 36 already properly quoted or escaped. 37 3820230619: 39 To enable pf rdr rules for connections initiated from the host, pf 40 filter rules can be optionally enabled for packets delivered 41 locally. This can change the behavior of rules which match packets 42 delivered to lo0. To enable this feature: 43 44 sysctl net.pf.filter_local=1 45 service pf restart 46 47 When enabled, its best to ensure that packets delivered locally are not 48 filtered, e.g. by adding a 'skip on lo' rule. 49 5020230404: 51 llvm-objump is now always installed as objdump. Previously there was 52 no /usr/bin/objdump unless the WITH_LLVM_BINUTILS knob was used. 53 54 Some LLVM objdump options have a different output format compared to 55 GNU objdump; readelf is available for inspecting ELF files, and GNU 56 objdump is available from the devel/binutils port or package. 57 5820230217: 59 Bump __FreeBSD_verion after various changes to LinuxKPI pci and 802.11 60 in order to help out-of-tree consumers to deal accordingly. 61 6220220701: 63 LinuxKPI pm.h changes require an update to the latest drm-kmod version 64 before re-compiling to avoid errors. 65 6620220327: 67 Bump __FreeBSD_verion to 1301501 after merging LinuxKPI and 68 net80211 changes in order to help out-of-tree consumers to deal 69 accordingly. 70 7120220123: 72 For 64-bit architectures the base system is now built with Position 73 Independent Executable (PIE) support enabled by default. It may be 74 disabled using the WITHOUT_PIE knob. A clean build is required. 75 7620220114: 77 The macros provided for the manipulation of CPU sets (e.g. CPU_AND) 78 have been modified to take 2 source arguments instead of only 1. 79 Externally maintained sources that use these macros will have to 80 be adapted. The FreeBSD version has been bumped to 1300524 to 81 reflect this change. 82 8320211218: 84 Commit 18f5b477ee66 adds two arguments to VOP_ALLOCATE(). 85 Normally changes to VOP calls are not MFC'd, but a 86 discussion on freebsd-current@ seemed to agree that 87 it was acceptable in this case, to fix the NFSv4.2 server. 88 Any out of source tree file system with a custom 89 VOP_ALLOCATE() call will need to be modified. 90 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300523 since the NFS modules need 91 to be rebuilt from sources. 92 9320211124: 94 Commit 6e8e261f0d4e changed the internal KAPI between the NFS 95 modules. As such, all the modules must be rebuilt from sources. 96 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped to 1300522. 97 9820211119: 99 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300521 after merging LinuxKPI and 100 net80211 changes in order to support building various wireless 101 drivers. This is to help other external consumers of LinuxKPI 102 and net80211 to deal accordingly. 103 10420211003: 105 Commit a599f9f7620b deleted the variable called nfs_maxcopyrange 106 from nfscommon.ko, since it no longer needs to be global. As such, 107 the other nfs modules must be rebuilt from up to date sources. 108 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300516 for this. 109 11020210823: 111 As of commit 622809b0868f OpenSSL no longer enables kernel TLS 112 by default. Users can enable kernel TLS via the "KTLS" SSL 113 option. This can be enabled globally by using a custom 114 OpenSSL config file via OPENSSL_CONF or via an 115 application-specific configuration option for applications 116 which permit setting SSL options via SSL_CONF_cmd(3). 117 11820210803: 119 Commits 9fb6e613373c and 9ec7dbf46b0a both changed the internal 120 KAPI between the NFS modules. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300514. 121 All NFS modules must be rebuilt from sources. 122 12320210730: 124 Commit b69019c14cd8 removes pf's DIOCGETSTATESNV ioctl. 125 As of be70c7a50d32 it is no longer used by userspace, but it does mean 126 users may not be able to enumerate pf states if they update the kernel 127 past c021ff986e2b without first updating userspace past be70c7a50d32. 128 12920210718: 130 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300512 after merging LinuxKPI, OFED, 131 net80211, and driver changes in order to support building 132 Intel wireless iwlwifi drivers. This is especially needed for 133 drm-kmod which needs updates after this. 134 13520210715: 136 The 20210707 awk update brought in a change in behavior. This has 137 been corrected as of d4d252c49976. Between these dates, if you 138 installed a new awk binary, you may not be able to build a new 139 kernel because the change in behavior affected the genoffset 140 script used to build the kernel. If you did update, the fix is 141 to update your sources past the above hash and do 142 % cd usr.bin/awk 143 % make clean all 144 % sudo -E make install 145 to enable building kernels again. 146 14720210711: 148 Commit 8a04edfdcbd2 changes the default minor version 149 used for NFSv4 mounts to the highest minor version supported 150 by the NFSv4 server. This default can be overridden by using 151 the "minorversion" mount option. 152 The consensus of a discussion on freebsd-current@ indicated 153 that this would be acceptable to do and would not be considered 154 a POLA violation. 155 15620210710: 157 awk has been updated to the latest one-true-awk version 20210215. 158 This contains a number of minor bug fixes. 159 16020210630: 161 Commit ca179c4d74f2/632e3f2f3a66 changed the package in which 162 the OpenSSL libraries and utilities are packaged. 163 It is recommended for pkgbase user to do: 164 pkg install -f FreeBSD-openssl 165 before pkg upgrade otherwise some dependencies might not be met 166 and pkg will stop working as libssl will not be present anymore 167 on the system. 168 16920210626: 170 Commit 841006678745 changed the internal KAPI between the krpc 171 and nfsd modules. As such, they must both be rebuilt from 172 sources. 173 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1300510. 174 17520210510: 176 Commit 272f39942254 changed the internal KAPI between the 177 nscl.ko and nfscommon.ko modules, so they both need to be 178 rebuilt from sources. 179 18020210429: 181 Commit 5a45802b3c8c changed the internal KAPI between 182 the krpc and NFS. As such, the krpc, nfscommon and 183 nfscl modules must all be rebuilt from sources. 184 Without this patch, NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts should not 185 be done with the nfscbd(8) daemon running, to avoid 186 needing a working back channel for server->client RPCs. 187 18820210202: 189 Various LinuxKPI functionality was added which conflicts with DRM. 190 Please update your drm-kmod port to after the __FreeBSD_verison 1300139 191 update. 192 19320210122: 194 The stable/13 branch has been created from main. 195 19620210108: 197 PC Card attachments for all devices have been removed. In the case of 198 wi and cmx, the entire drivers were removed because they were only 199 PC Card devices. FreeBSD_version 1300134 should be used for this 200 since it was bumped so recently. 201 20220210107: 203 Transport-independent parts of HID support have been split off the USB 204 code in to separate subsystem. Kernel configs which include one of 205 ums, ukbd, uhid, atp, wsp, wmt, uaudio, ugold or ucycom drivers should 206 be updated with adding of "device hid" line. 207 20820210105: 209 ncurses installation has been modified to only keep the widechar 210 enabled version. Incremental build is broken for that change, so it 211 requires a clean build. 212 21320201223: 214 The FreeBSD project has migrated from Subversion to Git. Temporary 215 instructions can be found at 216 https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/src-cvt.md 217 and other documents in that repo. 218 21920201216: 220 The services database has been updated to cover more of the basic 221 services expected in a modern system. The database is big enough 222 that it will cause issues in mergemaster in Releases previous to 223 12.2 and 11.3, or in very old current systems from before r358154. 224 22520201215: 226 Obsolete in-tree GDB 6.1.1 has been removed. GDB (including kgdb) 227 may be installed from ports or packages. 228 22920201124: 230 ping6 has been merged into ping. It can now be called as "ping -6". 231 See ping(8) for details. 232 23320201108: 234 Default value of net.add_addr_allfibs has been changed to 0. 235 If you have multi-fib configuration and rely on existence of all 236 interface routes in every fib, you need to set the above sysctl to 1. 23720201030: 238 The internal pre-processor in the calendar(1) program has been 239 extended to support more C pre-processor commands (e.g. #ifdef, #else, 240 and #undef) and to detect unbalanced conditional statements. 241 Error messages have been extended to include the filename and line 242 number if processing stops to help fixing malformed data files. 243 24420201026: 245 All the data files for the calendar(1) program, except calendar.freebsd, 246 have been moved to the deskutils/calendar-data port, much like the 247 jewish calendar entries were moved to deskutils/hebcal years ago. After 248 make delete-old-files, you need to install it to retain full 249 functionality. calendar(1) will issue a reminder for files it can't 250 find. 251 25220200923: 253 LINT files are no longer generated. We now include the relevant NOTES 254 files. Note: This may cause conflicts with updating in some cases. 255 find sys -name LINT\* -delete 256 is suggested across this commit to remove the generated LINT files. 257 258 If you have tried to update with generated files there, the svn 259 command you want to un-auger the tree is 260 cd sys/amd64/conf 261 svn revert -R . 262 and then do the above find from the top level. Substitute 'amd64' 263 above with where the error message indicates a conflict. 264 26520200824: 266 OpenZFS support has been integrated. Do not upgrade root pools until 267 the loader is updated to support zstd. Furthermore, we caution against 268 'zpool upgrade' for the next few weeks. The change should be transparent 269 unless you want to use new features. 270 271 Not all "NO_CLEAN" build scenarios work across these changes. Many 272 scenarios have been tested and fixed, but rebuilding kernels without 273 rebuilding world may fail. 274 275 The ZFS cache file has moved from /boot to /etc to match the OpenZFS 276 upstream default. A fallback to /boot has been added for mountroot. 277 278 Pool auto import behavior at boot has been moved from the kernel module 279 to an explicit "zpool import -a" in one of the rc scripts enabled by 280 zfs_enable=YES. This means your non-root zpools won't auto import until 281 you upgrade your /etc/rc.d files. 282 28320200824: 284 The resume code now notifies devd with the 'kernel' system 285 rather than the old 'kern' subsystem to be consistent with 286 other use. The old notification will be created as well, but 287 will be removed prior to FreeBSD 14.0. 288 28920200821: 290 r362275 changed the internal API between the kernel RPC and the 291 NFS modules. As such, all the modules must be recompiled from 292 sources. 293 29420200817: 295 r364330 modified the internal API used between the NFS modules. 296 As such, all the NFS modules must be re-compiled from sources. 297 29820200816: 299 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 300 been upgraded to 11.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 301 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 302 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 303 30420200810: 305 r364092 modified the internal ABI used between the kernel NFS 306 modules. As such, all of these modules need to be rebuilt 307 from sources, so a version bump was done. 308 30920200807: 310 Makefile.inc has been updated to work around the issue documented in 311 20200729. It was a case where the optimization of using symbolic links 312 to point to binaries created a situation where we'd run new binaries 313 with old libraries starting midway through the installworld process. 314 31520200729: 316 r363679 has redefined some undefined behavior in regcomp(3); notably, 317 extraneous escapes of most ordinary characters will no longer be 318 accepted. An exp-run has identified all of the problems with this in 319 ports, but other non-ports software may need extra escapes removed to 320 continue to function. 321 322 Because of this change, installworld may encounter the following error 323 from rtld: Undefined symbol "regcomp@FBSD_1.6" -- It is imperative that 324 you do not halt installworld. Instead, let it run to completion (whether 325 successful or not) and run installworld once more. 326 32720200627: 328 A new implementation of bc and dc has been imported in r362681. This 329 implementation corrects non-conformant behavior of the previous bc 330 and adds GNU bc compatible options. It offers a number of extensions, 331 is much faster on large values, and has support for message catalogs 332 (a number of languages are already supported, contributions of further 333 languages welcome). The option WITHOUT_GH_BC can be used to build the 334 world with the previous versions of bc and dc. 335 33620200625: 337 r362639 changed the internal API used between the NFS kernel modules. 338 As such, they all need to be rebuilt from sources. 339 34020200613: 341 r362158 changed the arguments for VFS_CHECKEXP(). As such, any 342 out of tree file systems need to be modified and rebuilt. 343 Also, any file systems that are modules must be rebuilt. 344 34520200604: 346 read(2) of a directory fd is now rejected by default. root may 347 re-enable it for system root only on non-ZFS filesystems with the 348 security.bsd.allow_read_dir sysctl(8) MIB if 349 security.bsd.suser_enabled=1. 350 351 It may be advised to setup aliases for grep to default to `-d skip` if 352 commonly non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and 353 the potential for the resulting stderr output is not tolerable. Example 354 aliases are now installed, commented out, in /root/.cshrc and 355 /root/.shrc. 356 35720200523: 358 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 359 been upgraded to 10.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 360 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 361 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 362 36320200512: 364 Support for obsolete compilers has been removed from the build system. 365 Clang 6 and GCC 6.4 are the minimum supported versions. 366 36720200424: 368 closefrom(2) has been moved under COMPAT12, and replaced in libc with a 369 stub that calls close_range(2). If using a custom kernel configuration, 370 you may want to ensure that the COMPAT_FREEBSD12 option is included, as 371 a slightly older -CURRENT userland and older FreeBSD userlands may not 372 be functional without closefrom(2). 373 37420200414: 375 Upstream DTS from Linux 5.6 was merged and they now have the SID 376 and THS (Secure ID controller and THermal Sensor) node present. 377 The DTB overlays have now been removed from the tree for the H3/H5 and 378 A64 SoCs and the aw_sid and aw_thermal driver have been updated to 379 deal with upstream DTS. If you are using those overlays you need to 380 remove them from loader.conf and update the DTBs on the FAT partition. 381 38220200310: 383 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 384 been upgraded to 10.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 385 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 386 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 387 38820200309: 389 The amd(8) automount daemon has been removed from the source tree. 390 As of FreeBSD 10.1 autofs(5) is the preferred tool for automounting. 391 amd is still available in the sysutils/am-utils port. 392 39320200301: 394 Removed brooktree driver (bktr.4) from the tree. 395 39620200229: 397 The WITH_GPL_DTC option has been removed. The BSD-licenced device tree 398 compiler in usr.bin/dtc is used on all architectures which use dtc, and 399 the GPL dtc is available (if needed) from the sysutils/dtc port. 400 40120200229: 402 The WITHOUT_LLVM_LIBUNWIND option has been removed. LLVM's libunwind 403 is used by all supported CPU architectures. 404 40520200229: 406 GCC 4.2.1 has been removed from the tree. The WITH_GCC, 407 WITH_GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and WITH_GNUCXX options are no longer available. 408 Users who wish to build FreeBSD with GCC must use the external toolchain 409 ports or packages. 410 41120200220: 412 ncurses has been updated to a newer version (6.2-20200215). Given the ABI 413 has changed, users will have to rebuild all the ports that are linked to 414 ncurses. 415 41620200217: 417 The size of struct vnet and the magic cookie have changed. 418 Users need to recompile libkvm and all modules using VIMAGE 419 together with their new kernel. 420 42120200212: 422 Defining the long deprecated NO_CTF, NO_DEBUG_FILES, NO_INSTALLLIB, 423 NO_MAN, NO_PROFILE, and NO_WARNS variables is now an error. Update 424 your Makefiles and scripts to define MK_<var>=no instead as required. 425 426 One exception to this is that program or library Makefiles should 427 define MAN to empty rather than setting MK_MAN=no. 428 42920200108: 430 Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler and LLD the default 431 linker for riscv64. 432 43320200107: 434 make universe no longer uses GCC 4.2.1 on any architectures. 435 Architectures not supported by in-tree Clang/LLVM require an 436 external toolchain package. 437 43820200104: 439 GCC 4.2.1 is now not built by default, as part of the GCC 4.2.1 440 retirement plan. Specifically, the GCC, GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and GNUCXX 441 options default to off for all supported CPU architectures. As a 442 short-term transition aid they may be enabled via WITH_* options. 443 GCC 4.2.1 is expected to be removed from the tree on 2020-03-31. 444 44520200102: 446 Support for armv5 has been disconnected and is being removed. The 447 machine combination MACHINE=arm MACHINE_ARCH=arm is no longer valid. 448 You must now use a MACHINE_ARCH of armv6 or armv7. The default 449 MACHINE_ARCH for MACHINE=arm is now armv7. 450 45120191226: 452 Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler for all powerpc architectures. 453 LLD is now the default linker for powerpc64. The change for powerpc64 454 also includes a change to the ELFv2 ABI, incompatible with the existing 455 ABI. 456 45720191226: 458 Kernel-loadable random(4) modules are no longer unloadable. 459 46020191222: 461 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 462 been upgraded to 9.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 463 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 464 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 465 46620191212: 467 r355677 has modified the internal interface used between the 468 NFS modules in the kernel. As such, they must all be upgraded 469 simultaneously. I will do a version bump for this. 470 47120191205: 472 The root certificates of the Mozilla CA Certificate Store have been 473 imported into the base system and can be managed with the certctl(8) 474 utility. If you have installed the security/ca_root_nss port or package 475 with the ETCSYMLINK option (the default), be advised that there may be 476 differences between those included in the port and those included in 477 base due to differences in nss branch used as well as general update 478 frequency. Note also that certctl(8) cannot manage certs in the 479 format used by the security/ca_root_nss port. 480 48120191120: 482 The amd(8) automount daemon has been disabled by default, and will be 483 removed in the future. As of FreeBSD 10.1 the autofs(5) is available 484 for automounting. 485 48620191107: 487 The nctgpio and wbwd drivers have been moved to the superio bus. 488 If you have one of these drivers in a kernel configuration, then 489 you should add device superio to it. If you use one of these drivers 490 as a module and you compile a custom set of modules, then you should 491 add superio to the set. 492 49320191021: 494 KPIs for network drivers to access interface addresses have changed. 495 Users need to recompile NIC driver modules together with kernel. 496 49720191021: 498 The net.link.tap.user_open sysctl no longer prevents user opening of 499 already created /dev/tapNN devices. Access is still controlled by 500 node permissions, just like tun devices. The net.link.tap.user_open 501 sysctl is now used only to allow users to perform devfs cloning of 502 tap devices, and the subsequent open may not succeed if the user is not 503 in the appropriate group. This sysctl may be deprecated/removed 504 completely in the future. 505 50620191009: 507 mips, powerpc, and sparc64 are no longer built as part of 508 universe / tinderbox unless MAKE_OBSOLETE_GCC is defined. If 509 not defined, mips, powerpc, and sparc64 builds will look for 510 the xtoolchain binaries and if installed use them for universe 511 builds. As llvm 9.0 becomes vetted for these architectures, they 512 will be removed from the list. 513 51420191009: 515 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 516 been upgraded to 9.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 517 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 518 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 519 52020191003: 521 The hpt27xx, hptmv, hptnr, and hptrr drivers have been removed from 522 GENERIC. They are available as modules and can be loaded by adding 523 to /boot/loader.conf hpt27xx_load="YES", hptmv_load="YES", 524 hptnr_load="YES", or hptrr_load="YES", respectively. 525 52620190913: 527 ntpd no longer by default locks its pages in memory, allowing them 528 to be paged out by the kernel. Use rlimit memlock to restore 529 historic BSD behaviour. For example, add "rlimit memlock 32" 530 to ntp.conf to lock up to 32 MB of ntpd address space in memory. 531 53220190823: 533 Several of ping6's options have been renamed for better consistency 534 with ping. If you use any of -ARWXaghmrtwx, you must update your 535 scripts. See ping6(8) for details. 536 53720190727: 538 The vfs.fusefs.sync_unmount and vfs.fusefs.init_backgrounded sysctls 539 and the "-o sync_unmount" and "-o init_backgrounded" mount options have 540 been removed from mount_fusefs(8). You can safely remove them from 541 your scripts, because they had no effect. 542 543 The vfs.fusefs.fix_broken_io, vfs.fusefs.sync_resize, 544 vfs.fusefs.refresh_size, vfs.fusefs.mmap_enable, 545 vfs.fusefs.reclaim_revoked, and vfs.fusefs.data_cache_invalidate 546 sysctls have been removed. If you felt the need to set any of them to 547 a non-default value, please tell asomers@FreeBSD.org why. 548 54920190713: 550 Default permissions on the /var/account/acct file (and copies of it 551 rotated by periodic daily scripts) are changed from 0644 to 0640 552 because the file contains sensitive information that should not be 553 world-readable. If the /var/account directory must be created by 554 rc.d/accounting, the mode used is now 0750. Admins who use the 555 accounting feature are encouraged to change the mode of an existing 556 /var/account directory to 0750 or 0700. 557 55820190620: 559 Entropy collection and the /dev/random device are no longer optional 560 components. The "device random" option has been removed. 561 Implementations of distilling algorithms can still be made loadable 562 with "options RANDOM_LOADABLE" (e.g., random_fortuna.ko). 563 56420190612: 565 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have 566 been upgraded to 8.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for 567 information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already 568 using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 569 57020190608: 571 A fix was applied to i386 kernel modules to avoid panics with 572 dpcpu or vnet. Users need to recompile i386 kernel modules 573 having pcpu or vnet sections or they will refuse to load. 574 57520190513: 576 User-wired pages now have their own counter, 577 vm.stats.vm.v_user_wire_count. The vm.max_wired sysctl was renamed 578 to vm.max_user_wired and changed from an unsigned int to an unsigned 579 long. bhyve VMs wired with the -S are now subject to the user 580 wiring limit; the vm.max_user_wired sysctl may need to be tuned to 581 avoid running into the limit. 582 58320190507: 584 The IPSEC option has been removed from GENERIC. Users requiring 585 ipsec(4) must now load the ipsec(4) kernel module. 586 58720190507: 588 The tap(4) driver has been folded into tun(4), and the module has been 589 renamed to tuntap. You should update any kld_list="if_tap" or 590 kld_list="if_tun" entries in /etc/rc.conf, if_tap_load="YES" or 591 if_tun_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf to load the if_tuntap 592 module instead, and "device tap" or "device tun" entries in kernel 593 config files to select the tuntap device instead. 594 59520190418: 596 The following knobs have been added related to tradeoffs between 597 safe use of the random device and availability in the absence of 598 entropy: 599 600 kern.random.initial_seeding.bypass_before_seeding: tunable; set 601 non-zero to bypass the random device prior to seeding, or zero to 602 block random requests until the random device is initially seeded. 603 For now, set to 1 (unsafe) by default to restore pre-r346250 boot 604 availability properties. 605 606 kern.random.initial_seeding.read_random_bypassed_before_seeding: 607 read-only diagnostic sysctl that is set when bypass is enabled and 608 read_random(9) is bypassed, to enable programmatic handling of this 609 initial condition, if desired. 610 611 kern.random.initial_seeding.arc4random_bypassed_before_seeding: 612 Similar to the above, but for arc4random(9) initial seeding. 613 614 kern.random.initial_seeding.disable_bypass_warnings: tunable; set 615 non-zero to disable warnings in dmesg when the same conditions are 616 met as for the diagnostic sysctls above. Defaults to zero, i.e., 617 produce warnings in dmesg when the conditions are met. 618 61920190416: 620 The loadable random module KPI has changed; the random_infra_init() 621 routine now requires a 3rd function pointer for a bool (*)(void) 622 method that returns true if the random device is seeded (and 623 therefore unblocked). 624 62520190404: 626 r345895 reverts r320698. This implies that an nfsuserd(8) daemon 627 built from head sources between r320757 (July 6, 2017) and 628 r338192 (Aug. 22, 2018) will not work unless the "-use-udpsock" 629 is added to the command line. 630 nfsuserd daemons built from head sources that are post-r338192 are 631 not affected and should continue to work. 632 63320190320: 634 The fuse(4) module has been renamed to fusefs(4) for consistency with 635 other filesystems. You should update any kld_load="fuse" entries in 636 /etc/rc.conf, fuse_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf, and 637 "options FUSE" entries in kernel config files. 638 63920190304: 640 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 641 8.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 642 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 643 or higher. 644 64520190226: 646 geom_uzip(4) depends on the new module xz. If geom_uzip is statically 647 compiled into your custom kernel, add 'device xz' statement to the 648 kernel config. 649 65020190219: 651 drm and drm2 have been removed from the tree. Please see 652 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics for the latest information on 653 migrating to the drm ports. 654 65520190131: 656 Iflib is no longer unconditionally compiled into the kernel. Drivers 657 using iflib and statically compiled into the kernel, now require 658 the 'device iflib' config option. For the same drivers loaded as 659 modules on kernels not having 'device iflib', the iflib.ko module 660 is loaded automatically. 661 66220190125: 663 The IEEE80211_AMPDU_AGE and AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 kernel configuration 664 options no longer exist since r343219 and r343427 respectively; 665 nothing uses them, so they should be just removed from custom 666 kernel config files. 667 66820181230: 669 r342635 changes the way efibootmgr(8) works by requiring users to add 670 the -b (bootnum) parameter for commands where the bootnum was previously 671 specified with each option. For example 'efibootmgr -B 0001' is now 672 'efibootmgr -B -b 0001'. 673 67420181220: 675 r342286 modifies the NFSv4 server so that it obeys vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport 676 in the same as it is applied to NFSv2 and 3. This implies that NFSv4 677 servers that have vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport set will only allow mounts 678 from clients using a reserved port#. Since both the FreeBSD and Linux 679 NFSv4 clients use reserved port#s by default, this should not affect 680 most NFSv4 mounts. 681 68220181219: 683 The XLP config has been removed. We can't support 64-bit atomics in this 684 kernel because it is running in 32-bit mode. XLP users must transition 685 to running a 64-bit kernel (XLP64 or XLPN32). 686 687 The mips GXEMUL support has been removed from FreeBSD. MALTA* + qemu is 688 the preferred emulator today and we don't need two different ones. 689 690 The old sibyte / swarm / Broadcom BCM1250 support has been 691 removed from the mips port. 692 69320181211: 694 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 695 7.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 696 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 697 or higher. 698 69920181211: 700 Remove the timed and netdate programs from the base tree. Setting 701 the time with these daemons has been obsolete for over a decade. 702 70320181126: 704 On amd64, arm64 and armv7 (architectures that install LLVM's ld.lld 705 linker as /usr/bin/ld) GNU ld is no longer installed as ld.bfd, as 706 it produces broken binaries when ifuncs are in use. Users needing 707 GNU ld should install the binutils port or package. 708 70920181123: 710 The BSD crtbegin and crtend code has been enabled by default. It has 711 had extensive testing on amd64, arm64, and i386. It can be disabled 712 by building a world with -DWITHOUT_BSD_CRTBEGIN. 713 71420181115: 715 The set of CTM commands (ctm, ctm_smail, ctm_rmail, ctm_dequeue) 716 has been converted to a port (misc/ctm) and will be removed from 717 FreeBSD-13. It is available as a package (ctm) for all supported 718 FreeBSD versions. 719 72020181110: 721 The default newsyslog.conf(5) file has been changed to only include 722 files in /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ and /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ if 723 the filenames end in '.conf' and do not begin with a '.'. 724 725 You should check the configuration files in these two directories match 726 this naming convention. You can verify which configuration files are 727 being included using the command: 728 $ newsyslog -Nrv 729 73020181015: 731 Ports for the DRM modules have been simplified. Now, amd64 users should 732 just install the drm-kmod port. All others should install 733 drm-legacy-kmod. 734 735 Graphics hardware that's newer than about 2010 usually works with 736 drm-kmod. For hardware older than 2013, however, some users will need 737 to use drm-legacy-kmod if drm-kmod doesn't work for them. Hardware older 738 than 2008 usually only works in drm-legacy-kmod. The graphics team can 739 only commit to hardware made since 2013 due to the complexity of the 740 market and difficulty to test all the older cards effectively. If you 741 have hardware supported by drm-kmod, you are strongly encouraged to use 742 that as you will get better support. 743 744 Other than KPI chasing, drm-legacy-kmod will not be updated. As outlined 745 elsewhere, the drm and drm2 modules will be eliminated from the src base 746 soon (with a limited exception for arm). Please update to the package 747 asap and report any issues to x11@freebsd.org. 748 749 Generally, anybody using the drm*-kmod packages should add 750 WITHOUT_DRM_MODULE=t and WITHOUT_DRM2_MODULE=t to avoid nasty 751 cross-threading surprises, especially with automatic driver 752 loading from X11 startup. These will become the defaults in 13-current 753 shortly. 754 75520181012: 756 The ixlv(4) driver has been renamed to iavf(4). As a consequence, 757 custom kernel and module loading configuration files must be updated 758 accordingly. Moreover, interfaces previous presented as ixlvN to the 759 system are now exposed as iavfN and network configuration files must 760 be adjusted as necessary. 761 76220181009: 763 OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1. This update included 764 additional various API changes throughout the base system. It is 765 important to rebuild third-party software after upgrading. The value 766 of __FreeBSD_version has been bumped accordingly. 767 76820181006: 769 The legacy DRM modules and drivers have now been added to the loader's 770 module blacklist, in favor of loading them with kld_list in rc.conf(5). 771 The module blacklist may be overridden with the loader.conf(5) 772 'module_blacklist' variable, but loading them via rc.conf(5) is strongly 773 encouraged. 774 77520181002: 776 The cam(4) based nda(4) driver will be used over nvd(4) by default on 777 powerpc64. You may set 'options NVME_USE_NVD=1' in your kernel conf or 778 loader tunable 'hw.nvme.use_nvd=1' if you wish to use the existing 779 driver. Make sure to edit /boot/etc/kboot.conf and fstab to use the 780 nda device name. 781 78220180913: 783 Reproducible build mode is now on by default, in preparation for 784 FreeBSD 12.0. This eliminates build metadata such as the user, 785 host, and time from the kernel (and uname), unless the working tree 786 corresponds to a modified checkout from a version control system. 787 The previous behavior can be obtained by setting the /etc/src.conf 788 knob WITHOUT_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD. 789 79020180826: 791 The Yarrow CSPRNG has been removed from the kernel as it has not been 792 supported by its designers since at least 2003. Fortuna has been the 793 default since FreeBSD-11. 794 79520180822: 796 devctl freeze/thaw have gone into the tree, the rc scripts have been 797 updated to use them and devmatch has been changed. You should update 798 kernel, userland and rc scripts all at the same time. 799 80020180818: 801 The default interpreter has been switched from 4th to Lua. 802 LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP, documented in build(7), will override the default 803 interpreter. If you have custom FORTH code you will need to set 804 LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP=4th (valid values are 4th, lua or simp) in 805 src.conf for the build. This will create default hard links between 806 loader and loader_4th instead of loader and loader_lua, the new default. 807 If you are using UEFI it will create the proper hard link to loader.efi. 808 809 bhyve uses userboot.so. It remains 4th-only until some issues are solved 810 regarding coexisting with multiple versions of FreeBSD are resolved. 811 81220180815: 813 ls(1) now respects the COLORTERM environment variable used in other 814 systems and software to indicate that a colored terminal is both 815 supported and desired. If ls(1) is suddenly emitting colors, they may 816 be disabled again by either removing the unwanted COLORTERM from your 817 environment, or using `ls --color=never`. The ls(1) specific CLICOLOR 818 may not be observed in a future release. 819 82020180808: 821 The default pager for most commands has been changed to "less". To 822 restore the old behavior, set PAGER="more" and MANPAGER="more -s" in 823 your environment. 824 82520180731: 826 The jedec_ts(4) driver has been removed. A superset of its functionality 827 is available in the jedec_dimm(4) driver, and the manpage for that 828 driver includes migration instructions. If you have "device jedec_ts" 829 in your kernel configuration file, it must be removed. 830 83120180730: 832 amd64/GENERIC now has EFI runtime services, EFIRT, enabled by default. 833 This should have no effect if the kernel is booted via BIOS/legacy boot. 834 EFIRT may be disabled via a loader tunable, efi.rt.disabled, if a system 835 has a buggy firmware that prevents a successful boot due to use of 836 runtime services. 837 83820180727: 839 Atmel AT91RM9200 and AT91SAM9, Cavium CNS 11xx and XScale 840 support has been removed from the tree. These ports were 841 obsolete and/or known to be broken for many years. 842 84320180723: 844 loader.efi has been augmented to participate more fully in the 845 UEFI boot manager protocol. loader.efi will now look at the 846 BootXXXX environment variable to determine if a specific kernel 847 or root partition was specified. XXXX is derived from BootCurrent. 848 efibootmgr(8) manages these standard UEFI variables. 849 85020180720: 851 zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader. 852 zfsloader is no longer necessary once you've updated your 853 boot blocks. For a transition period, we will install a 854 hardlink for zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition 855 until the boot blocks can be updated (hard link because old 856 zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks). 857 85820180719: 859 ARM64 now have efifb support, if you want to have serial console 860 on your arm64 board when an screen is connected and the bootloader 861 setup a frame buffer for us to use, just add : 862 boot_serial=YES 863 boot_multicons=YES 864 in /boot/loader.conf 865 For Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI) users, this is needed even if you don't have 866 an screen connected as the firmware will setup a frame buffer are that 867 u-boot will expose as an EFI frame buffer. 868 86920180719: 870 New uid:gid added, ntpd:ntpd (123:123). Be sure to run mergemaster 871 or take steps to update /etc/passwd before doing installworld on 872 existing systems. Do not skip the "mergemaster -Fp" step before 873 installworld, as described in the update procedures near the bottom 874 of this document. Also, rc.d/ntpd now starts ntpd(8) as user ntpd 875 if the new mac_ntpd(4) policy is available, unless ntpd_flags or 876 the ntp config file contain options that change file/dir locations. 877 When such options (e.g., "statsdir" or "crypto") are used, ntpd can 878 still be run as non-root by setting ntpd_user=ntpd in rc.conf, after 879 taking steps to ensure that all required files/dirs are accessible 880 by the ntpd user. 881 88220180717: 883 Big endian arm support has been removed. 884 88520180711: 886 The static environment setup in kernel configs is no longer mutually 887 exclusive with the loader(8) environment by default. In order to 888 restore the previous default behavior of disabling the loader(8) 889 environment if a static environment is present, you must specify 890 loader_env.disabled=1 in the static environment. 891 89220180705: 893 The ABI of syscalls used by management tools like sockstat and 894 netstat has been broken to allow 32-bit binaries to work on 895 64-bit kernels without modification. These programs will need 896 to match the kernel in order to function. External programs may 897 require minor modifications to accommodate a change of type in 898 structures from pointers to 64-bit virtual addresses. 899 90020180702: 901 On i386 and amd64 atomics are now inlined. Out of tree modules using 902 atomics will need to be rebuilt. 903 90420180701: 905 The '%I' format in the kern.corefile sysctl limits the number of 906 core files that a process can generate to the number stored in the 907 debug.ncores sysctl. The '%I' format is replaced by the single digit 908 index. Previously, if all indexes were taken the kernel would overwrite 909 only a core file with the highest index in a filename. 910 Currently the system will create a new core file if there is a free 911 index or if all slots are taken it will overwrite the oldest one. 912 91320180630: 914 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 915 6.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 916 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 917 or higher. 918 91920180628: 920 r335753 introduced a new quoting method. However, etc/devd/devmatch.conf 921 needed to be changed to work with it. This change was made with r335763 922 and requires a mergemaster / etcupdate / etc to update the installed 923 file. 924 92520180612: 926 r334930 changed the interface between the NFS modules, so they all 927 need to be rebuilt. r335018 did a __FreeBSD_version bump for this. 928 92920180530: 930 As of r334391 lld is the default amd64 system linker; it is installed 931 as /usr/bin/ld. Kernel build workarounds (see 20180510 entry) are no 932 longer necessary. 933 93420180530: 935 The kernel / userland interface for devinfo changed, so you'll 936 need a new kernel and userland as a pair for it to work (rebuilding 937 lib/libdevinfo is all that's required). devinfo and devmatch will 938 not work, but everything else will when there's a mismatch. 939 94020180523: 941 The on-disk format for hwpmc callchain records has changed to include 942 threadid corresponding to a given record. This changes the field offsets 943 and thus requires that libpmcstat be rebuilt before using a kernel 944 later than r334108. 945 94620180517: 947 The vxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was introduced into 948 HEAD one week before the Exar left the Ethernet market and is not 949 known to be used. If you have device vxge in your kernel config file 950 it must be removed. 951 95220180510: 953 The amd64 kernel now requires a ld that supports ifunc to produce a 954 working kernel, either lld or a newer binutils. lld is built by default 955 on amd64, and the 'buildkernel' target uses it automatically. However, 956 it is not the default linker, so building the kernel the traditional 957 way requires LD=ld.lld on the command line (or LD=/usr/local/bin/ld for 958 binutils port/package). lld will soon be default, and this requirement 959 will go away. 960 961 NOTE: As of r334391 lld is the default system linker on amd64, and no 962 workaround is necessary. 963 96420180508: 965 The nxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for PCI-X 10g 966 cards made by s2io/Neterion. The company was acquired by Exar and 967 no longer sells or supports Ethernet products. If you have device 968 nxge in your kernel config file it must be removed. 969 97020180504: 971 The tz database (tzdb) has been updated to 2018e. This version more 972 correctly models time stamps in time zones with negative DST such as 973 Europe/Dublin (from 1971 on), Europe/Prague (1946/7), and 974 Africa/Windhoek (1994/2017). This does not affect the UT offsets, only 975 time zone abbreviations and the tm_isdst flag. 976 97720180502: 978 The ixgb(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for an early and 979 uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a single ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel 980 quickly shifted to the long lived ixgbe family. If you have device 981 ixgb in your kernel config file it must be removed. 982 98320180501: 984 The lmc(4) driver has been removed. This was a WAN interface 985 card that was already reportedly rare in 2003, and had an ambiguous 986 license. If you have device lmc in your kernel config file it must 987 be removed. 988 98920180413: 990 Support for Arcnet networks has been removed. If you have device 991 arcnet or device cm in your kernel config file they must be 992 removed. 993 99420180411: 995 Support for FDDI networks has been removed. If you have device 996 fddi or device fpa in your kernel config file they must be 997 removed. 998 99920180406: 1000 In addition to supporting RFC 3164 formatted messages, the 1001 syslogd(8) service is now capable of parsing RFC 5424 formatted 1002 log messages. The main benefit of using RFC 5424 is that clients 1003 may now send log messages with timestamps containing year numbers, 1004 microseconds and time zone offsets. 1005 1006 Similarly, the syslog(3) C library function has been altered to 1007 send RFC 5424 formatted messages to the local system logging 1008 daemon. On systems using syslogd(8), this change should have no 1009 negative impact, as long as syslogd(8) and the C library are 1010 updated at the same time. On systems using a different system 1011 logging daemon, it may be necessary to make configuration 1012 adjustments, depending on the software used. 1013 1014 When using syslog-ng, add the 'syslog-protocol' flag to local 1015 input sources to enable parsing of RFC 5424 formatted messages: 1016 1017 source src { 1018 unix-dgram("/var/run/log" flags(syslog-protocol)); 1019 } 1020 1021 When using rsyslog, disable the 'SysSock.UseSpecialParser' option 1022 of the 'imuxsock' module to let messages be processed by the 1023 regular RFC 3164/5424 parsing pipeline: 1024 1025 module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.UseSpecialParser="off") 1026 1027 Do note that these changes only affect communication between local 1028 applications and syslogd(8). The format that syslogd(8) uses to 1029 store messages on disk or forward messages to other systems 1030 remains unchanged. syslogd(8) still uses RFC 3164 for these 1031 purposes. Options to customize this behaviour will be added in the 1032 future. Utilities that process log files stored in /var/log are 1033 thus expected to continue to function as before. 1034 1035 __FreeBSD_version has been incremented to 1200061 to denote this 1036 change. 1037 103820180328: 1039 Support for token ring networks has been removed. If you 1040 have "device token" in your kernel config you should remove 1041 it. No device drivers supported token ring. 1042 104320180323: 1044 makefs was modified to be able to tag ISO9660 El Torito boot catalog 1045 entries as EFI instead of overloading the i386 tag as done previously. 1046 The amd64 mkisoimages.sh script used to build amd64 ISO images for 1047 release was updated to use this. This may mean that makefs must be 1048 updated before "make cdrom" can be run in the release directory. This 1049 should be as simple as: 1050 1051 $ cd $SRCDIR/usr.sbin/makefs 1052 $ make depend all install 1053 105420180212: 1055 FreeBSD boot loader enhanced with Lua scripting. It's purely opt-in for 1056 now by building WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH in /etc/src.conf. 1057 Co-existence for the transition period will come shortly. Booting is a 1058 complex environment and test coverage for Lua-enabled loaders has been 1059 thin, so it would be prudent to assume it might not work and make 1060 provisions for backup boot methods. 1061 106220180211: 1063 devmatch functionality has been turned on in devd. It will automatically 1064 load drivers for unattached devices. This may cause unexpected drivers 1065 to be loaded. Please report any problems to current@ and 1066 imp@freebsd.org. 1067 106820180114: 1069 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 1070 6.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 1071 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 1072 or higher. 1073 107420180110: 1075 LLVM's lld linker is now used as the FreeBSD/amd64 bootstrap linker. 1076 This means it is used to link the kernel and userland libraries and 1077 executables, but is not yet installed as /usr/bin/ld by default. 1078 1079 To revert to ld.bfd as the bootstrap linker, in /etc/src.conf set 1080 WITHOUT_LLD_BOOTSTRAP=yes 1081 108220180110: 1083 On i386, pmtimer has been removed. Its functionality has been folded 1084 into apm. It was a no-op on ACPI in current for a while now (but was 1085 still needed on i386 in FreeBSD 11 and earlier). Users may need to 1086 remove it from kernel config files. 1087 108820180104: 1089 The use of RSS hash from the network card aka flowid has been 1090 disabled by default for lagg(4) as it's currently incompatible with 1091 the lacp and loadbalance protocols. 1092 1093 This can be re-enabled by setting the following in loader.conf: 1094 net.link.lagg.default_use_flowid="1" 1095 109620180102: 1097 The SW_WATCHDOG option is no longer necessary to enable the 1098 hardclock-based software watchdog if no hardware watchdog is 1099 configured. As before, SW_WATCHDOG will cause the software 1100 watchdog to be enabled even if a hardware watchdog is configured. 1101 110220171215: 1103 r326887 fixes the issue described in the 20171214 UPDATING entry. 1104 r326888 flips the switch back to building GELI support always. 1105 110620171214: 1107 r362593 broke ZFS + GELI support for reasons unknown. However, 1108 it also broke ZFS support generally, so GELI has been turned off 1109 by default as the lesser evil in r326857. If you boot off ZFS and/or 1110 GELI, it might not be a good time to update. 1111 111220171125: 1113 PowerPC users must update loader(8) by rebuilding world before 1114 installing a new kernel, as the protocol connecting them has 1115 changed. Without the update, loader metadata will not be passed 1116 successfully to the kernel and users will have to enter their 1117 root partition at the kernel mountroot prompt to continue booting. 1118 Newer versions of loader can boot old kernels without issue. 1119 112020171110: 1121 The LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT build variable as been renamed to 1122 WITH/OUT_LOADER_FIREWIRE. LOADER_{NO_,}GELI_SUPPORT has been renamed 1123 to WITH/OUT_LOADER_GELI. 1124 112520171106: 1126 The naive and non-compliant support of posix_fallocate(2) in ZFS 1127 has been removed as of r325320. The system call now returns EINVAL 1128 when used on a ZFS file. Although the new behavior complies with the 1129 standard, some consumers are not prepared to cope with it. 1130 One known victim is lld prior to r325420. 1131 113220171102: 1133 Building in a FreeBSD src checkout will automatically create object 1134 directories now rather than store files in the current directory if 1135 'make obj' was not ran. Calling 'make obj' is no longer necessary. 1136 This feature can be disabled by setting WITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ=yes in 1137 /etc/src-env.conf (not /etc/src.conf), or passing the option in the 1138 environment. 1139 114020171101: 1141 The default MAKEOBJDIR has changed from /usr/obj/<srcdir> for native 1142 builds, and /usr/obj/<arch>/<srcdir> for cross-builds, to a unified 1143 /usr/obj/<srcdir>/<arch>. This behavior can be changed to the old 1144 format by setting WITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR=yes in /etc/src-env.conf, 1145 the environment, or with -DWITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR when building. 1146 The UNIFIED_OBJDIR option is a transitional feature that will be 1147 removed for 12.0 release; please migrate to the new format for any 1148 tools by looking up the OBJDIR used by 'make -V .OBJDIR' means rather 1149 than hardcoding paths. 1150 115120171028: 1152 The native-xtools target no longer installs the files by default to the 1153 OBJDIR. Use the native-xtools-install target with a DESTDIR to install 1154 to ${DESTDIR}/${NXTP} where NXTP defaults to /nxb-bin. 1155 115620171021: 1157 As part of the boot loader infrastructure cleanup, LOADER_*_SUPPORT 1158 options are changing from controlling the build if defined / undefined 1159 to controlling the build with explicit 'yes' or 'no' values. They will 1160 shift to WITH/WITHOUT options to match other options in the system. 1161 116220171010: 1163 libstand has turned into a private library for sys/boot use only. 1164 It is no longer supported as a public interface outside of sys/boot. 1165 116620171005: 1167 The arm port has split armv6 into armv6 and armv7. armv7 is now 1168 a valid TARGET_ARCH/MACHINE_ARCH setting. If you have an armv7 system 1169 and are running a kernel from before r324363, you will need to add 1170 MACHINE_ARCH=armv7 to 'make buildworld' to do a native build. 1171 117220171003: 1173 When building multiple kernels using KERNCONF, non-existent KERNCONF 1174 files will produce an error and buildkernel will fail. Previously 1175 missing KERNCONF files silently failed giving no indication as to 1176 why, only to subsequently discover during installkernel that the 1177 desired kernel was never built in the first place. 1178 117920170912: 1180 The default serial number format for CTL LUNs has changed. This will 1181 affect users who use /dev/diskid/* device nodes, or whose FibreChannel 1182 or iSCSI clients care about their LUNs' serial numbers. Users who 1183 require serial number stability should hardcode serial numbers in 1184 /etc/ctl.conf . 1185 118620170912: 1187 For 32-bit arm compiled for hard-float support, soft-floating point 1188 binaries now always get their shared libraries from 1189 LD_SOFT_LIBRARY_PATH (in the past, this was only used if 1190 /usr/libsoft also existed). Only users with a hard-float ld.so, but 1191 soft-float everything else should be affected. 1192 119320170826: 1194 The geli password typed at boot is now hidden. To restore the previous 1195 behavior, see geli(8) for configuration options. 1196 119720170825: 1198 Move PMTUD blackhole counters to TCPSTATS and remove them from bare 1199 sysctl values. Minor nit, but requires a rebuild of both world/kernel 1200 to complete. 1201 120220170814: 1203 "make check" behavior (made in ^/head@r295380) has been changed to 1204 execute from a limited sandbox, as opposed to executing from 1205 ${TESTSDIR}. 1206 1207 Behavioral changes: 1208 - The "beforecheck" and "aftercheck" targets are now specified. 1209 - ${CHECKDIR} (added in commit noted above) has been removed. 1210 - Legacy behavior can be enabled by setting 1211 WITHOUT_MAKE_CHECK_USE_SANDBOX in src.conf(5) or the environment. 1212 1213 If the limited sandbox mode is enabled, "make check" will execute 1214 "make distribution", then install, execute the tests, and clean up the 1215 sandbox if successful. 1216 1217 The "make distribution" and "make install" targets are typically run as 1218 root to set appropriate permissions and ownership at installation time. 1219 The end-user should set "WITH_INSTALL_AS_USER" in src.conf(5) or the 1220 environment if executing "make check" with limited sandbox mode using 1221 an unprivileged user. 1222 122320170808: 1224 Since the switch to GPT disk labels, fsck for UFS/FFS has been 1225 unable to automatically find alternate superblocks. As of r322297, 1226 the information needed to find alternate superblocks has been 1227 moved to the end of the area reserved for the boot block. 1228 Filesystems created with a newfs of this vintage or later 1229 will create the recovery information. If you have a filesystem 1230 created prior to this change and wish to have a recovery block 1231 created for your filesystem, you can do so by running fsck in 1232 foreground mode (i.e., do not use the -p or -y options). As it 1233 starts, fsck will ask ``SAVE DATA TO FIND ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS'' 1234 to which you should answer yes. 1235 123620170728: 1237 As of r321665, an NFSv4 server configuration that services 1238 Kerberos mounts or clients that do not support the uid/gid in 1239 owner/owner_group string capability, must explicitly enable 1240 the nfsuserd daemon by adding nfsuserd_enable="YES" to the 1241 machine's /etc/rc.conf file. 1242 124320170722: 1244 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 5.0.0. 1245 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1246 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1247 124820170701: 1249 WITHOUT_RCMDS is now the default. Set WITH_RCMDS if you need the 1250 r-commands (rlogin, rsh, etc.) to be built with the base system. 1251 125220170625: 1253 The FreeBSD/powerpc platform now uses a 64-bit type for time_t. This is 1254 a very major ABI incompatible change, so users of FreeBSD/powerpc must 1255 be careful when performing source upgrades. It is best to run 1256 'make installworld' from an alternate root system, either a live 1257 CD/memory stick, or a temporary root partition. Additionally, all ports 1258 must be recompiled. powerpc64 is largely unaffected, except in the case 1259 of 32-bit compatibility. All 32-bit binaries will be affected. 1260 126120170623: 1262 Forward compatibility for the "ino64" project have been committed. This 1263 will allow most new binaries to run on older kernels in a limited 1264 fashion. This prevents many of the common foot-shooting actions in the 1265 upgrade as well as the limited ability to roll back the kernel across 1266 the ino64 upgrade. Complicated use cases may not work properly, though 1267 enough simpler ones work to allow recovery in most situations. 1268 126920170620: 1270 Switch back to the BSDL dtc (Device Tree Compiler). Set WITH_GPL_DTC 1271 if you require the GPL compiler. 1272 127320170618: 1274 The internal ABI used for communication between the NFS kernel modules 1275 was changed by r320085, so __FreeBSD_version was bumped to 1276 ensure all the NFS related modules are updated together. 1277 127820170617: 1279 The ABI of struct event was changed by extending the data 1280 member to 64bit and adding ext fields. For upgrade, same 1281 precautions as for the entry 20170523 "ino64" must be 1282 followed. 1283 128420170531: 1285 The GNU roff toolchain has been removed from base. To render manpages 1286 which are not supported by mandoc(1), man(1) can fallback on GNU roff 1287 from ports (and recommends to install it). 1288 To render roff(7) documents, consider using GNU roff from ports or the 1289 heirloom doctools roff toolchain from ports via pkg install groff or 1290 via pkg install heirloom-doctools. 1291 129220170524: 1293 The ath(4) and ath_hal(4) modules now build piecemeal to allow for 1294 smaller runtime footprint builds. This is useful for embedded systems 1295 which only require one chipset support. 1296 1297 If you load it as a module, make sure this is in /boot/loader.conf: 1298 1299 if_ath_load="YES" 1300 1301 This will load the HAL, all chip/RF backends and if_ath_pci. 1302 If you have if_ath_pci in /boot/loader.conf, ensure it is after 1303 if_ath or it will not load any HAL chipset support. 1304 1305 If you want to selectively load things (eg on ye cheape ARM/MIPS 1306 platforms where RAM is at a premium) you should: 1307 1308 * load ath_hal 1309 * load the chip modules in question 1310 * load ath_rate, ath_dfs 1311 * load ath_main 1312 * load if_ath_pci and/or if_ath_ahb depending upon your particular 1313 bus bind type - this is where probe/attach is done. 1314 1315 For further comments/feedback, poke adrian@ . 1316 131720170523: 1318 The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends 1319 a number of types to 64 bits. Upgrading in place requires care and 1320 adherence to the documented upgrade procedure. 1321 1322 If using a custom kernel configuration ensure that the 1323 COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option is included (as during the upgrade the 1324 system will be running the ino64 kernel with the existing world). 1325 1326 For the safest in-place upgrade begin by removing previous build 1327 artifacts via "rm -rf /usr/obj/*". Then, carefully follow the full 1328 procedure documented below under the heading "To rebuild everything and 1329 install it on the current system." Specifically, a reboot is required 1330 after installing the new kernel before installing world. While an 1331 installworld normally works by accident from multiuser after rebooting 1332 the proper kernel, there are many cases where this will fail across this 1333 upgrade and installworld from single user is required. 1334 133520170424: 1336 The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and 1337 patm(4) devices has been removed. Consumers should plan a 1338 migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11. 1339 134020170420: 1341 GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU 1342 diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of 1343 GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name. 1344 134520170413: 1346 As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when 1347 keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with 1348 documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state. 1349 This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags 1350 and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state. 1351 To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with 1352 keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5). 1353 135420170407: 1355 arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default, 1356 instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be 1357 installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set 1358 CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin . 1359 136020170405: 1361 The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl 1362 net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted. L2 broadcast 1363 packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets. 1364 136520170331: 1366 Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now 1367 use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail 1368 instead of using the first assigned address of the jail. 1369 137020170329: 1371 The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend: 1372 cfiscsi.ko does instead. 1373 1374 If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded 1375 via one of the following methods: 1376 - `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5). 1377 - Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5). 1378 - ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support 1379 (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5)) 1380 1381 Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details. 1382 138320170316: 1384 The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko. 1385 Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the 1386 same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was 1387 missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible 1388 with mmc.ko). 1389 139020170315: 1391 The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity. 1392 If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify 1393 them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must 1394 be prefixed with colon. 1395 139620170311: 1397 The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been 1398 removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version 1399 (sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware. 1400 140120170302: 1402 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0. 1403 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1404 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1405 140620170221: 1407 The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality 1408 has been reimplemented. It's not possible now to create a snapshot 1409 by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/. That should be the only user visible 1410 change. 1411 141220170216: 1413 EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer 1414 valid. 1415 141620170215: 1417 MCA bus support has been removed. 1418 141920170127: 1420 The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed 1421 WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC. 1422 142320170112: 1424 The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that 1425 the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications. 1426 142720170109: 1428 The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via 1429 IFLIB. If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4) 1430 but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom 1431 configuration. 1432 143320161217: 1434 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1. 1435 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1436 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1437 143820161124: 1439 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0. 1440 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1441 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1442 144320161119: 1444 The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap 1445 statistics at the front for all CPU variations. libkvm(3) and all tools 1446 that link against it need to be recompiled. 1447 144820161030: 1449 isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver, 1450 chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware. 1451 On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using 1452 device hints. Please see the corresponding manual pages for details. 1453 145420161017: 1455 The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of 1456 rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific 1457 parts. 1458 Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name 1459 conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B)) 1460 146120161015: 1462 GNU rcs has been removed from base. It is available as packages: 1463 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 1464 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was 1465 removed from base. 1466 146720161008: 1468 Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control 1469 modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the 1470 TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.) 1471 147220161003: 1473 The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 1474 ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy. 1475 147620160924: 1477 Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed 1478 to use an extension of .pico instead. The purpose of this change is 1479 to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file 1480 systems. On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so. 1481 148220160918: 1483 GNU rcs has been turned off by default. It can (temporarily) be built 1484 again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf. 1485 Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages: 1486 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 1487 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base. 1488 148920160918: 1490 The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr. 1491 149220160908: 1493 The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into 1494 two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and 1495 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH. Define both for the original 1496 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior. 1497 149820160824: 1499 r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace 1500 programs and the kernel. ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be 1501 rebuilt to work with new kernels. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped 1502 to 1200005. 1503 150420160818: 1505 The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP 1506 packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3 1507 broadcast packets. It is not expected that this will affect any 1508 standards-conforming UDP application. The new behaviour can be 1509 disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to 1510 0. 1511 151220160818: 1513 Remove the openbsd_poll system call. 1514 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 1515 151620160708: 1517 The stable/11 branch has been created from head@r302406. 1518 151920160622: 1520 The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with 1521 a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2) 1522 system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include 1523 "options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the 1524 default). Users should ensure that this option is enabled in 1525 their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their 1526 kernel. 1527 152820160527: 1529 CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers. 1530 This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using 1531 those disk's diskid device nodes. For example, if /etc/fstab 1532 previously contained a line like 1533 "/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should 1534 change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456". Users of geom 1535 transforms like gmirror may also be affected. ZFS users should 1536 generally be fine. 1537 153820160523: 1539 The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and 1540 improved performance. But it is binary-incompatible with the old API. 1541 Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects 1542 built with the old headers. 1543 154420160520: 1545 The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64. 1546 Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these 1547 functions and should be updated to the latest version before 1548 installing a new libc. 1549 155020160517: 1551 The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support 1552 for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system 1553 is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT. 1554 This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld 1555 and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New 1556 packages will be needed. 1557 1558 To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add 1559 TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 1560 and the install steps. 1561 156220160510: 1563 Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to 1564 installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. Many kernel 1565 modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode 1566 KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules. However, 1567 manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will 1568 now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. 1569 157020160414: 1571 The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be 1572 no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the 1573 list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt 1574 data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data 1575 corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete: 1576 1577 o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 1578 o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 1579 o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware 1580 o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares 1581 o FCCT M500 all firmwares 1582 1583 Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware 1584 with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for 1585 updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these 1586 drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given 1587 this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no 1588 other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above 1589 vendors work. 1590 1591 To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your 1592 drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting: 1593 kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2" 1594 in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the 1595 quirks entry to 0x3. 1596 159720160330: 1598 The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is 1599 now the one true way. The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has 1600 been removed. See 20160311 for further details. 1601 160220160317: 1603 Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t. All 1604 drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled. 1605 160620160311: 1607 WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree 1608 builds. It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the 1609 'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran 1610 when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before 1611 building anything else. Dependencies are gathered at compile time with 1612 -MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file. Users should 1613 run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older 1614 stale .depend files. 1615 161620160306: 1617 On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into 1618 kernel modules. Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time, 1619 please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before 1620 rebooting, e.g.: 1621 1622 make buildworld 1623 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1624 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1625 make -C sys/boot install 1626 <reboot in single user> 1627 1628 Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section, 1629 below. 1630 163120160305: 1632 Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0. Please 1633 see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 1634 upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1635 163620160301: 1637 The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The 1638 VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed. 1639 Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only 1640 permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable 1641 asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the 1642 vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value. 1643 164420160226: 1645 The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the 1646 ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a 1647 drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The 1648 (temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set 1649 to obtain the GNU version if necessary. 1650 165120160129: 1652 Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default. That 1653 feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks. 1654 Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will 1655 still work, even if the guest is using ZFS. Legacy behavior can be 1656 restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1. 1657 165820160119: 1659 The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH. They are 1660 still available in the security/openssh-portable port. 1661 166220160113: 1663 With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required 1664 during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user 1665 prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1666 166720151216: 1668 The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a 1669 consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp 1670 server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the 1671 other loaders. 1672 167320151211: 1674 The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has 1675 been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel, 1676 a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced 1677 for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild 1678 the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or 1679 later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding. 1680 168120151207: 1682 Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and 1683 installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but 1684 requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed 1685 world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes 1686 in src.conf(5). 1687 168820151130: 1689 r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and 1690 nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether. 1691 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 1692 169320151108: 1694 Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of 1695 order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old 1696 behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C". 1697 1698 Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given 1699 collation results will be different. 1700 1701 Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient 1702 locales before running make installworld. 1703 1704 rm -rf /usr/share/locale/* 1705 170620151030: 1707 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d. Any binaries requiring 1708 libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled. 1709 171020151020: 1711 Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0. 1712 Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and 1713 should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively. 1714 171520151017: 1716 The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into 1717 sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and 1718 'make -n -n' to recursively show commands. Now 'make -n' will recurse 1719 and 'make -N' will not. 1720 172120151012: 1722 If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster 1723 and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now 1724 updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld. If you had 1725 excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may 1726 want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install". 1727 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of 1728 whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used. If you are not using 1729 SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior. 1730 173120151011: 1732 Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. 1733 It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases 1734 and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.* 1735 environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links. 1736 173720151006: 1738 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 1739 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1740 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1741 174220150924: 1743 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 1744 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 1745 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 1746 userland debug files. 1747 1748 When using the supported kernel installation method the 1749 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 1750 as is done with /boot/kernel. 1751 1752 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 1753 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 1754 175520150827: 1756 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 1757 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 1758 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 1759 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 1760 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 1761 rc.d scripts in /etc. 1762 176320150827: 1764 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 1765 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 1766 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 1767 176820150817: 1769 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 1770 them, the kernel must have 1771 1772 device random 1773 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 1774 1775 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 1776 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 1777 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 1778 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 1779 1780 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 1781 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 1782 178320150813: 1784 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 1785 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 1786 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 1787 178820150810: 1789 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 1790 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 1791 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 1792 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 1793 1794 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 1795 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 1796 difference with this change. 1797 1798 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 1799 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 1800 remove that workaround. 1801 180220150809: 1803 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 1804 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 1805 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 1806 with: 1807 1808 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 1809 181020150806: 1811 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 1812 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 1813 loader.rc.local instead. 1814 181520150805: 1816 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 1817 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 1818 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 1819 182020150728: 1821 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 1822 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 1823 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 1824 1825 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 1826 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 1827 182820150706: 1829 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 1830 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 1831 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 1832 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 1833 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 1834 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 1835 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 1836 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 1837 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 1838 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 1839 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 1840 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 1841 184220150630: 1843 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 1844 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 1845 1846 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 1847 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 1848 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 1849 1850 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 1851 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 1852 1853 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 1854 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 1855 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 1856 1857 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 1858 entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 1859 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 1860 and it is assumed you know what you need. 1861 1862 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 1863 habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 1864 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 1865 behaviour from your security subsystems. 1866 1867 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 1868 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 1869 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 1870 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 1871 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 1872 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 1873 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 1874 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 1875 will never happen. 1876 187720150623: 1878 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 1879 entry below has been committed in revision 284717. 1880 188120150616: 1882 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 1883 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 1884 188520150615: 1886 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 1887 below has been committed in revision 284436. The work 1888 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 1889 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 1890 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 1891 189220150614: 1893 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 1894 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 1895 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 1896 with Kyuafile and kyua. 1897 189820150614: 1899 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 1900 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 1901 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 1902 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 1903 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 1904 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 1905 2048 bit DH parameter by: 1906 1907 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 1908 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 1909 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 1910 replace it with '2'. 1911 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 1912 a file path, create a new file with: 1913 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 1914 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 1915 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 1916 5. Restart sendmail: 1917 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 1918 1919 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 1920 updated. 1921 192220150604: 1923 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 1924 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 1925 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 1926 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 1927 5.x. 1928 1929 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 1930 193120150525: 1932 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 1933 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 1934 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 1935 193620150521: 1937 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 1938 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 1939 and Pandaboard: 1940 1941 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 1942 same but content is different now 1943 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 1944 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 1945 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 1946 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 1947 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 1948 194920150501: 1950 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 1951 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 1952 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 1953 195420150423: 1955 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 1956 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 1957 195820150415: 1959 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 1960 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 1961 196220150416: 1963 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 1964 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 1965 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 1966 196720150324: 1968 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 1969 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 1970 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 1971 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 1972 197320150315: 1974 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 1975 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 1976 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 1977 197820150307: 1979 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 1980 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 1981 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 1982 kernel before rebooting. 1983 198420150217: 1985 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 1986 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 1987 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 1988 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 1989 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 1990 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 1991 199220150210: 1993 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 1994 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 1995 with the new kernel. 1996 199720150131: 1998 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 1999 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 2000 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 2001 200220150118: 2003 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 2004 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 2005 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 2006 are not already using 3.5.0. 2007 200820150107: 2009 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 2010 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 2011 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 2012 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 2013 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 2014 201520150105: 2016 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 2017 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 2018 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 2019 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 2020 202120150102: 2022 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 2023 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 2024 202520141231: 2026 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 2027 2028 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 2029 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 2030 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 2031 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 2032 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 2033 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 2034 later. 2035 2036 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 2037 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 2038 of the box. 2039 2040 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 2041 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 2042 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 2043 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 2044 2045 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 2046 the instructions for 9.x above. 2047 2048 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 2049 default, and do not build clang. 2050 2051 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 2052 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 2053 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 2054 2055 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 2056 the following are most likely to appear: 2057 2058 -Wabsolute-value 2059 2060 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 2061 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 2062 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 2063 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 2064 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 2065 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 2066 cast, or disable the warning. 2067 2068 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 2069 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 2070 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 2071 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 2072 side-effects. 2073 2074 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 2075 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 2076 2077 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 2078 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 2079 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 2080 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 2081 2082 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 2083 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 2084 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 2085 unreachable could be optimized away. 2086 208720141222: 2088 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 2089 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 2090 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 2091 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 2092 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 2093 the utilities will report errors. 2094 209520141121: 2096 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 2097 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 2098 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 2099 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 2100 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 2101 LOCAL_DIRS. 2102 210320141109: 2104 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 2105 has been obsolete for a very long time. 2106 210720141104: 2108 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 2109 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 2110 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 2111 drivers. 2112 2113 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 2114 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 2115 indicate what you need to do. 2116 2117 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 2118 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 2119 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 2120 2121 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 2122 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 2123 kern.vty=sc 2124 212520141102: 2126 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 2127 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 2128 execute it. 2129 213020141009: 2131 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 2132 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 2133 devel/gperf port. 2134 213520140923: 2136 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 2137 contrib/pjdfstest . 2138 213920140922: 2140 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 2141 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 2142 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 2143 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 2144 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 2145 their next update cycle. 2146 214720140729: 2148 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 2149 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 2150 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 2151 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 2152 1.12.4_8 or newer. 2153 215420140723: 2155 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 2156 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 2157 215820140719: 2159 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 2160 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 2161 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 2162 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 2163 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 2164 new configuration. 2165 216620140709: 2167 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 2168 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 2169 them again. 2170 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 2171 217220140708: 2173 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 2174 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 2175 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 2176 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 2177 requires readline. 2178 217920140702: 2180 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 2181 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 2182 architecture. 2183 218420140701: 2185 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 2186 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 2187 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 2188 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 2189 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 2190 219120140629: 2192 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 2193 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 2194 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 2195 219620140619: 2197 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 2198 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 2199 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 2200 220120140606: 2202 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 2203 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 2204 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 2205 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 2206 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 2207 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 2208 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 2209 "make installworld". 2210 2211 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 2212 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 2213 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 2214 is run. 2215 2216 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 2217 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 2218 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 2219 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 2220 be removed during a clean upgrade. 2221 222220140512: 2223 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 2224 222520140508: 2226 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 2227 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 2228 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 2229 223020140505: 2231 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 2232 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 2233 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 2234 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 2235 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 2236 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 2237 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 2238 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 2239 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 2240 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 2241 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 2242 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 2243 2244 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 2245 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 2246 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 2247 as well. 2248 224920140430: 2250 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 2251 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 2252 225320140424: 2254 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 2255 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 2256 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 2257 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 2258 build hosts for older releases. 2259 2260 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 2261 r276991, respectively. 2262 226320140418: 2264 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 2265 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 2266 will silently lack HESIOD. 2267 226820140405: 2269 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 2270 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 2271 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 2272 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 2273 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 2274 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 2275 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 2276 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 2277 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 2278 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 2279 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 2280 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 2281 228220140306: 2283 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 2284 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 2285 with command line option -W. 2286 228720140226: 2288 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 2289 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 2290 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 2291 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 2292 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 2293 229420140216: 2295 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 2296 229720140216: 2298 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 2299 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 2300 230120140212: 2302 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 2303 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 2304 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 2305 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 2306 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 2307 230820140204: 2309 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 2310 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 2311 kernel is still highly recommended. 2312 231320140131: 2314 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 2315 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 2316 capability mode support in kernel. 2317 231820140128: 2319 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 2320 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 2321 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 2322 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 2323 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 2324 232520140110: 2326 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 2327 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 2328 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 2329 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 2330 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 2331 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 2332 233320131213: 2334 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 2335 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 2336 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 2337 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 2338 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 2339 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 2340 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 2341 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 2342 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 2343 234420131108: 2345 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 2346 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 2347 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 2348 should change your settings to use the latter. 2349 235020131025: 2351 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 2352 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 2353 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 2354 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 2355 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 2356 235720131014: 2358 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 2359 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 2360 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 2361 delete-old-libs": 2362 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 2363 or 2364 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 2365 236620131010: 2367 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 2368 revision r256279. 2369 2370COMMON ITEMS: 2371 2372 General Notes 2373 ------------- 2374 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 2375 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 2376 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 2377 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 2378 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 2379 Occasionally a build failure will occur with "make -j" due to a race 2380 condition. If this happens try building again without -j, and please 2381 report a bug if it happens consistently. 2382 2383 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to 2384 upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then 2385 do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path, 2386 and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try this 2387 approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade. Since 2388 the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgrade from 2389 anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the 2390 last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's 2391 an exception. 2392 2393 The update process will emit an error on an attempt to perform a build 2394 or install from a FreeBSD version below the earliest supported version. 2395 When updating from an older version the update should be performed one 2396 major release at a time, including running `make delete-old` at each 2397 step. 2398 2399 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 2400 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 2401 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 2402 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 2403 2404 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 2405 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 2406 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 2407 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 2408 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 2409 should write them with this in mind. 2410 2411 ZFS notes 2412 --------- 2413 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 2414 these two steps: 2415 2416 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 2417 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 2418 2419 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 2420 2421 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the 2422 freebsd-boot partition of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 2423 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i $N ada0" 2424 The value $N will typically be 1 (if booting from BIOS) or 2 (if 2425 booting from EFI). 2426 2427 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 2428 2429 To build a kernel 2430 ----------------- 2431 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 2432 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 2433 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 2434 2435 make kernel-toolchain 2436 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2437 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2438 2439 To test a kernel once 2440 --------------------- 2441 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 2442 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 2443 debugging information) run 2444 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 2445 nextboot -k testkernel 2446 2447 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 2448 ----------------------------------------------------------- 2449 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 2450 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 2451 2452 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 2453 make buildworld 2454 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2455 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2456 [1] 2457 <reboot in single user> [3] 2458 mergemaster -Fp [5] 2459 make installworld 2460 mergemaster -Fi [4] 2461 make delete-old [6] 2462 <reboot> 2463 2464 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 2465 -------------------------------------------------- 2466 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 2467 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 2468 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 2469 # size. 2470 2471 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 2472 <boot into -stable> 2473 make buildworld 2474 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2475 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 2476 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 2477 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 2478 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 2479 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 2480 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 2481 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 2482 <reboot into current> 2483 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 2484 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 2485 <reboot> 2486 2487 2488 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 2489 ---------------------------------------------- 2490 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 2491 make buildworld [9] 2492 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 2493 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 2494 [1] 2495 <reboot in single user> [3] 2496 mergemaster -Fp [5] 2497 make installworld 2498 mergemaster -Fi [4] 2499 make delete-old [6] 2500 <reboot> 2501 2502 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 2503 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 2504 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 2505 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 2506 the UPDATING entries. 2507 2508 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 2509 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 2510 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 2511 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 2512 much fewer pitfalls. 2513 2514 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you should disable 2515 them at this point so they don't crash your system on 2516 reboot. Alternatively, you should rebuild all the modules you have in 2517 your system and install them as well. If you are running -current, you 2518 should seriously consider placing all sources to all the modules for 2519 your system (or symlinks to them) in /usr/local/sys/modules so this 2520 happens automatically. If all your modules come from ports, then adding 2521 the port origin directories to PORTS_MODULES instead is also automatic 2522 and effective, eg: 2523 PORTS_MODULES+=x11/nvidia-driver 2524 2525 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 2526 fsck -p 2527 mount -u / 2528 mount -a 2529 sh /etc/rc.d/zfs start # mount zfs filesystem, if needed 2530 cd src # full path to source 2531 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 2532 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that you boot 2533 into single user mode to do the installworld. 2534 2535 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 2536 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 2537 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 2538 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 2539 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 2540 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 2541 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 2542 2543 [5] Usually this step is a no-op. However, from time to time 2544 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 2545 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 2546 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 2547 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 2548 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 2549 2550 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 2551 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 2552 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 2553 2554 [8] The new kernel must be able to run existing binaries used by an 2555 installworld. When upgrading across major versions, the new kernel's 2556 configuration must include the correct COMPAT_FREEBSD<n> option for 2557 existing binaries (e.g. COMPAT_FREEBSD11 to run 11.x binaries). Failure 2558 to do so may leave you with a system that is hard to boot to recover. A 2559 GENERIC kernel will include suitable compatibility options to run 2560 binaries from older branches. Note that the ability to run binaries 2561 from unsupported branches is not guaranteed. 2562 2563 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 2564 last time you updated your kernel config file. Options also 2565 change over time, so you may need to adjust your custom kernels 2566 for these as well. 2567 2568 [9] If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 2569 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 2570 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 2571 2572 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 2573 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 2574 warn if it is improperly defined. 2575FORMAT: 2576 2577This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 2578breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 2579list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011. 2580If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 2581to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 2582 2583Copyright information: 2584 2585Copyright 1998-2009 M. 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