1963f38b2SChristos MargiolisRelease notes for FreeBSD 15.0. 28dbc2b6eSMark Johnston 38dbc2b6eSMark JohnstonThis file describes new user-visible features, changes and updates relevant to 48dbc2b6eSMark Johnstonusers of binary FreeBSD releases. Each entry should describe the change in no 58dbc2b6eSMark Johnstonmore than several sentences and should reference manual pages where an 68dbc2b6eSMark Johnstoninterested user can find more information. Entries should wrap after 80 78dbc2b6eSMark Johnstoncolumns. Each entry should begin with one or more commit IDs on one line, 8cda1f88dSWarner Loshspecified as a comma separated list and/or range, followed by a colon and a 9cda1f88dSWarner Loshnewline. Entries should be separated by a newline. 108dbc2b6eSMark Johnston 118dbc2b6eSMark JohnstonChanges to this file should not be MFCed. 128dbc2b6eSMark Johnston 13*dac33a65SRick Macklem7c5146da1286: 14*dac33a65SRick Macklem Mountd has been modified to use strunvis(3) to decode directory 15*dac33a65SRick Macklem names in exports(5) file(s). This allows special characters, 16*dac33a65SRick Macklem such as blanks, to be embedded in the directory name(s). 17*dac33a65SRick Macklem "vis -M" may be used to encode such directory name(s). 18*dac33a65SRick Macklem 1933c2bd53SMark Johnstonc5359e2af5ab: 2033c2bd53SMark Johnston bhyve(8) has a new network backend, "slirp", which makes use of the 2133c2bd53SMark Johnston libslirp package to provide a userspace network stack. This backend 2233c2bd53SMark Johnston makes it possible to access the guest network from the host without 2333c2bd53SMark Johnston requiring any extra network configuration on the host. 2433c2bd53SMark Johnston 25b351fa9dSChristos Margiolisbb830e346bd5: 26b351fa9dSChristos Margiolis Set the IUTF8 flag by default in tty(4). 27b351fa9dSChristos Margiolis 28b351fa9dSChristos Margiolis 128f63cedc14 and 9e589b093857 added proper UTF-8 backspacing handling 29b351fa9dSChristos Margiolis in the tty(4) driver, which is enabled by setting the new IUTF8 flag 30b351fa9dSChristos Margiolis through stty(1). Since the default locale is UTF-8, enable IUTF8 by 31b351fa9dSChristos Margiolis default. 32b351fa9dSChristos Margiolis 33bb63e82eSBaptiste Daroussinff01d71e48d4: 34b627b3e6SBaptiste Daroussin dialog(1) has been replaced by bsddialog(1) 35bb63e82eSBaptiste Daroussin 36da51a121SJohn Baldwin41582f28ddf7: 37da51a121SJohn Baldwin FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms. 38da51a121SJohn Baldwin However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit 39da51a121SJohn Baldwin binaries. 40da51a121SJohn Baldwin 41da51a121SJohn Baldwin Support for executing 32-bit binaries on 64-bit platforms via 42da51a121SJohn Baldwin COMPAT_FREEBSD32 will remain supported for at least the 43da51a121SJohn Baldwin stable/15 and stable/16 branches. 44da51a121SJohn Baldwin 45da51a121SJohn Baldwin Support for compiling individual 32-bit applications via 46da51a121SJohn Baldwin `cc -m32` will also be supported for at least the stable/15 47da51a121SJohn Baldwin branch which includes suitable headers in /usr/include and 48da51a121SJohn Baldwin libraries in /usr/lib32. 49da51a121SJohn Baldwin 50da51a121SJohn Baldwin Support for 32-bit platforms in ports for 15.0 and later 51da51a121SJohn Baldwin releases is also deprecated, and these future releases may not 52da51a121SJohn Baldwin include binary packages for 32-bit platforms or support for 53da51a121SJohn Baldwin building 32-bit applications from ports. 54da51a121SJohn Baldwin 55da51a121SJohn Baldwin stable/14 and earlier branches will retain existing 32-bit 56da51a121SJohn Baldwin kernel and world support. Ports will retain existing support 57768489c7SJohn Baldwin for building ports and packages for 32-bit systems on stable/14 58da51a121SJohn Baldwin and earlier branches as long as those branches are supported 59da51a121SJohn Baldwin by the ports system. However, all 32-bit platforms are Tier-2 60da51a121SJohn Baldwin or Tier-3 and support for individual ports should be expected 61da51a121SJohn Baldwin to degrade as upstreams deprecate 32-bit platforms. 62da51a121SJohn Baldwin 63da51a121SJohn Baldwin With the current support schedule, stable/14 will be EOLed 5 64da51a121SJohn Baldwin years after the release of 14.0. The EOL of stable/14 would 65da51a121SJohn Baldwin mark the end of support for 32-bit platforms including source 66da51a121SJohn Baldwin releases, pre-built packages, and support for building 67da51a121SJohn Baldwin applications from ports. Given an estimated release date of 68da51a121SJohn Baldwin October 2023 for 14.0, support for 32-bit platforms would end 69da51a121SJohn Baldwin in October 2028. 70da51a121SJohn Baldwin 71da51a121SJohn Baldwin The project may choose to alter this approach when 15.0 is 72da51a121SJohn Baldwin released by extending some level of 32-bit support for one or 73da51a121SJohn Baldwin more platforms in 15.0 or later. Users should use the 74da51a121SJohn Baldwin stable/14 branch to migrate off of 32-bit platforms. 75