1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users. 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 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html 10 11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in 12/usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before running portupgrade. 13 14NOTE: FreeBSD has switched from gcc to clang. If you have trouble bootstrapping 15from older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG and WITH_GCC to bootstrap to 16the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process 17from older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile. 18 19NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW: 20 FreeBSD 12.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel 21 and userland. These features attempt to detect incorrect use of 22 system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity 23 checking and fail stop semantics. They also substantially impact 24 system performance. If you want to do performance measurement, 25 benchmarking, and optimization, you'll want to turn them off. This 26 includes various WITNESS- related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc 27 debugging flags in userland, and various verbose features in the 28 kernel. Many developers choose to disable these features on build 29 machines to maximize performance. (To completely disable malloc 30 debugging, define MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/make.conf, or to merely 31 disable the most expensive debugging functionality run 32 "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) 33 3420160908: 35 The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into 36 two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and 37 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH. Define both for the original 38 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior. 39 4020160824: 41 r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace 42 programs and the kernel. ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be 43 rebuilt to work with new kernels. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped 44 to 1200005. 45 4620160818: 47 The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP 48 packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3 49 broadcast packets. It is not expected that this will affect any 50 standards-conforming UDP application. The new behaviour can be 51 disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to 52 0. 53 5420160818: 55 Remove the openbsd_poll system call. 56 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 57 5820160622: 59 The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with 60 a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2) 61 system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include 62 "options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the 63 default). Users should ensure that this option is enabled in 64 their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their 65 kernel. 66 6720160527: 68 CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers. 69 This will effect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using 70 those disk's diskid device nodes. For example, if /etc/fstab 71 previously contained a line like 72 "/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should 73 change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456". Users of geom 74 transforms like gmirror may also be affected. ZFS users should 75 generally be fine. 76 7720160523: 78 The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and 79 improved performance. But it is binary-incompatible with the old API. 80 Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects 81 built with the old headers. 82 8320160520: 84 The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64. 85 Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these 86 functions and should be updated to the latest version before 87 installing a new libc. 88 8920160517: 90 The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support 91 for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system 92 is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT. 93 This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld 94 and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New 95 packages will be needed. 96 97 To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add 98 TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 99 and the install steps. 100 10120160510: 102 Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to 103 installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. Many kernel 104 modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode 105 KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules. However, 106 manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will 107 now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. 108 10920160414: 110 The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be 111 no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the 112 list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt 113 data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data 114 corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete: 115 116 o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 117 o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 118 o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware 119 o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares 120 o FCCT M500 all firmwares 121 122 Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware 123 with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for 124 updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these 125 drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given 126 this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no 127 other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above 128 vendors work. 129 130 To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your 131 drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting: 132 kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2" 133 in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the 134 quirks entry to 0x3. 135 13620160330: 137 The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is 138 now the one true way. The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has 139 been removed. See 20160311 for further details. 140 14120160317: 142 Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t. All 143 drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled. 144 14520160311: 146 WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree 147 builds. It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the 148 'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran 149 when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before 150 building anything else. Dependencies are gathered at compile time with 151 -MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file. Users should 152 run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older 153 stale .depend files. 154 15520160306: 156 On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into 157 kernel modules. Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time, 158 please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before 159 rebooting, e.g.: 160 161 make buildworld 162 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 163 make -C sys/boot install 164 <reboot in single user> 165 166 Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section, 167 below. 168 16920160305: 170 Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0. Please 171 see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 172 upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 173 17420160301: 175 The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The 176 VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed. 177 Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only 178 permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable 179 asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the 180 vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value. 181 18220160226: 183 The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the 184 ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a 185 drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The 186 (temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set 187 to obtain the GNU version if necessary. 188 18920160129: 190 Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default. That 191 feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks. 192 Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will 193 still work, even if the guest is using ZFS. Legacy behavior can be 194 restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1. 195 19620160119: 197 The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH. They are 198 still available in the security/openssh-portable port. 199 20020160113: 201 With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required 202 during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user 203 prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 204 20520151216: 206 The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a 207 consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp 208 server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the 209 other loaders. 210 21120151211: 212 The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has 213 been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel, 214 a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced 215 for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild 216 the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or 217 later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding. 218 21920151207: 220 Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and 221 installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but 222 requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed 223 world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes 224 in src.conf(5). 225 22620151130: 227 r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and 228 nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether. 229 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 230 23120151108: 232 Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of 233 order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old 234 behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C". 235 236 Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given 237 collation results will be different. 238 239 Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient 240 locales before running make installworld. 241 242 rm -rf /usr/share/locale/* 243 24420151030: 245 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d. Any binaries requiring 246 libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled. 247 24820151020: 249 Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0. 250 Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and 251 should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively. 252 25320151017: 254 The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into 255 sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and 256 'make -n -n' to recursively show commands. Now 'make -n' will recurse 257 and 'make -N' will not. 258 25920151012: 260 If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster 261 and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now 262 updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld. If you had 263 excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may 264 want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install". 265 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of 266 whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used. If you are not using 267 SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior. 268 26920151011: 270 Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. 271 It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases 272 and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.* 273 environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links. 274 27520151006: 276 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 277 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 278 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 279 28020150924: 281 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 282 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 283 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 284 userland debug files. 285 286 When using the supported kernel installation method the 287 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 288 as is done with /boot/kernel. 289 290 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 291 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 292 29320150827: 294 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 295 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 296 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 297 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 298 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 299 rc.d scripts in /etc. 300 30120150827: 302 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 303 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 304 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 305 30620150817: 307 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 308 them, the kernel must have 309 310 device random 311 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 312 313 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 314 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 315 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 316 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 317 318 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 319 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 320 32120150813: 322 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 323 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 324 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 325 32620150810: 327 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 328 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 329 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 330 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 331 332 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 333 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 334 difference with this change. 335 336 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 337 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 338 remove that workaround. 339 34020150809: 341 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 342 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 343 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 344 with: 345 346 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 347 34820150806: 349 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 350 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 351 loader.rc.local instead. 352 35320150805: 354 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 355 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 356 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 357 35820150728: 359 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 360 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 361 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 362 363 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 364 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 365 36620150706: 367 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 368 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 369 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 370 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 371 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 372 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 373 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 374 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 375 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 376 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 377 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 378 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 379 38020150630: 381 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 382 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 383 384 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 385 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 386 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 387 388 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 389 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 390 391 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 392 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 393 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 394 395 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 396 entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 397 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 398 and it is assumed you know what you need. 399 400 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 401 habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 402 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 403 behaviour from your security subsystems. 404 405 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 406 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 407 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 408 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 409 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 410 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 411 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 412 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 413 will never happen. 414 41520150623: 416 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 417 entry below has been been committed in revision 284717. 418 41920150616: 420 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 421 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 422 42320150615: 424 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 425 below has been been committed in revision 284436. The work 426 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 427 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 428 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 429 43020150614: 431 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 432 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 433 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 434 with Kyuafile and kyua. 435 43620150614: 437 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 438 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 439 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 440 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 441 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 442 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 443 2048 bit DH parameter by: 444 445 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 446 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 447 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 448 replace it with '2'. 449 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 450 a file path, create a new file with: 451 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 452 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 453 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 454 5. Restart sendmail: 455 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 456 457 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 458 updated. 459 46020150604: 461 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 462 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 463 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 464 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 465 5.x. 466 467 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 468 46920150525: 470 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 471 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 472 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 473 47420150521: 475 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 476 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 477 and Pandaboard: 478 479 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 480 same but content is different now 481 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 482 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 483 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 484 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 485 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 486 48720150501: 488 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 489 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 490 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 491 49220150423: 493 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 494 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 495 49620150415: 497 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 498 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 499 50020150416: 501 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 502 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 503 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 504 50520150324: 506 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 507 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 508 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 509 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 510 51120150315: 512 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 513 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 514 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 515 51620150307: 517 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 518 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 519 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 520 kernel before rebooting. 521 52220150217: 523 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 524 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 525 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 526 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 527 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 528 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 529 53020150210: 531 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 532 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 533 with the new kernel. 534 53520150131: 536 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 537 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 538 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 539 54020150118: 541 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 542 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 543 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 544 are not already using 3.5.0. 545 54620150107: 547 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 548 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 549 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 550 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 551 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 552 55320150105: 554 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 555 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 556 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 557 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 558 55920150102: 560 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 561 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 562 56320141231: 564 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 565 566 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 567 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 568 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 569 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 570 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 571 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 572 later. 573 574 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 575 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 576 of the box. 577 578 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 579 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 580 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 581 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 582 583 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 584 the instructions for 9.x above. 585 586 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 587 default, and do not build clang. 588 589 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 590 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 591 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 592 593 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 594 the following are most likely to appear: 595 596 -Wabsolute-value 597 598 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 599 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 600 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 601 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 602 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 603 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 604 cast, or disable the warning. 605 606 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 607 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 608 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 609 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 610 side-effects. 611 612 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 613 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 614 615 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 616 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 617 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 618 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 619 620 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 621 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 622 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 623 unreachable could be optimized away. 624 62520141222: 626 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 627 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 628 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 629 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 630 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 631 the utilities will report errors. 632 63320141121: 634 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 635 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 636 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 637 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 638 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 639 LOCAL_DIRS. 640 64120141109: 642 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 643 has been obsolete for a very long time. 644 64520141104: 646 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 647 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 648 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 649 drivers. 650 651 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 652 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 653 indicate what you need to do. 654 655 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 656 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 657 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 658 659 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 660 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 661 kern.vty=sc 662 66320141102: 664 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 665 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 666 execute it. 667 66820141009: 669 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 670 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 671 devel/gperf port. 672 67320140923: 674 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 675 contrib/pjdfstest . 676 67720140922: 678 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 679 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 680 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 681 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 682 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 683 their next update cycle. 684 68520140729: 686 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 687 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 688 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 689 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 690 1.12.4_8 or newer. 691 69220140723: 693 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 694 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 695 69620140719: 697 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 698 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 699 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 700 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 701 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 702 new configuration. 703 70420140709: 705 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 706 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 707 them again. 708 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 709 71020140708: 711 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 712 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 713 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 714 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 715 requires readline. 716 71720140702: 718 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 719 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 720 architecture. 721 72220140701: 723 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 724 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 725 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 726 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 727 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 728 72920140629: 730 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 731 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 732 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 733 73420140619: 735 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 736 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 737 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 738 73920140606: 740 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 741 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 742 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 743 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 744 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 745 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 746 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 747 "make installworld". 748 749 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 750 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 751 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 752 is run. 753 754 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 755 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 756 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 757 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 758 be removed during a clean upgrade. 759 76020140512: 761 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 762 76320140508: 764 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 765 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 766 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 767 76820140505: 769 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 770 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 771 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 772 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 773 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 774 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 775 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 776 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 777 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 778 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 779 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 780 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 781 782 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 783 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 784 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 785 as well. 786 78720140430: 788 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 789 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 790 79120140424: 792 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 793 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 794 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 795 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 796 build hosts for older releases. 797 798 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 799 r276991, respectively. 800 80120140418: 802 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 803 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 804 will silently lack HESIOD. 805 80620140405: 807 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 808 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 809 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 810 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 811 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 812 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 813 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 814 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 815 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 816 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 817 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 818 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 819 82020140306: 821 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 822 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 823 with command line option -W. 824 82520140226: 826 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 827 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 828 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 829 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 830 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 831 83220140216: 833 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 834 83520140216: 836 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 837 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 838 83920140212: 840 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 841 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 842 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 843 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 844 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 845 84620140204: 847 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 848 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 849 kernel is still highly recommended. 850 85120140131: 852 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 853 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 854 capability mode support in kernel. 855 85620140128: 857 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 858 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 859 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 860 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 861 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 862 86320140110: 864 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 865 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 866 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 867 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 868 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 869 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 870 87120131213: 872 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 873 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 874 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 875 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 876 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 877 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 878 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 879 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 880 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 881 88220131108: 883 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 884 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 885 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 886 should change your settings to use the latter. 887 88820131025: 889 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 890 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 891 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 892 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 893 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 894 89520131014: 896 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 897 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 898 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 899 delete-old-libs": 900 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 901 or 902 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 903 90420131010: 905 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 906 revision r256279. 907 90820131010: 909 The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8) 910 configuration file. The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables 911 for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to 912 /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked. 913 This is transparently backward compatible. See below about some 914 incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details. 915 916 These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration 917 file. One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate 918 a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without 919 running the jail(8) utility. The default pathname of the 920 configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by 921 using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables. 922 923 Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at 924 this moment. Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name 925 with an integer. 926 92720130930: 928 BIND has been removed from the base system. If all you need 929 is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound 930 service instead. Otherwise, several versions of BIND are 931 available in the ports tree. The dns/bind99 port is one example. 932 933 With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base 934 system. Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are 935 in the base system. Alternatively, nslookup and dig can 936 be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port. 937 93820130916: 939 With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now 940 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 941 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 942 94320130911: 944 OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default 945 silently trust signed SSHFP records. This can be controlled with 946 the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting. DNSSEC support 947 can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf. 948 94920130906: 950 The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++) 951 are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system 952 compiler. You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX 953 options in src.conf. 954 95520130905: 956 The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel 957 configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work. 958 If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include 959 'options PROCDESC'. 960 96120130905: 962 The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified 963 in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs 964 have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the 965 following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is 966 advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl, 967 kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq. 968 96920130903: 970 AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc. The AES-NI module 971 has been updated to use this support. A new gcc is required to build 972 the aesni module on both i386 and amd64. 973 97420130821: 975 The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices. 976 Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be 977 used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG". 978 97920130813: 980 WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets. WITH_ICONV now 981 enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default. 982 WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time 983 compatibility. Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way. 984 If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely 985 need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT. 986 98720130806: 988 INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and 989 Illumos origin, including ZFS. If you have INVARIANTS in your 990 kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG 991 explicitly. 992 DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS) 993 locks if WITNESS option was set. Because that generated a lot of 994 witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false 995 positives, this is no longer done. New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS 996 can be used to achieve the previous behavior. 997 99820130806: 999 Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead 1000 of time_second. Although this is not a user-visible functional 1001 change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8), 1002 rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated 1003 to r253970 or later. 1004 100520130802: 1006 find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments, 1007 instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did 1008 not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message 1009 would result: 1010 1011 find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe 1012 1013 Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented 1014 without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing 1015 directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the 1016 old as well as the new version of find. 1017 101820130726: 1019 Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed. 1020 Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs 1021 path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by 1022 slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs 1023 subdirectories must be reviewed. 1024 102520130716: 1026 The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is 1027 incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will 1028 need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 1029 1030 To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set. 1031 1032 NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and 1033 users are advised to upgrade. 1034 103520130709: 1036 pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it 1037 you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5). 1038 103920130709: 1040 Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able 1041 keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking 1042 statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.) 1043 104420130618: 1045 Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write 1046 to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space 1047 even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had 1048 write access to that file. 1049 105020130615: 1051 CVS has been removed from the base system. An exact copy 1052 of the code is available from the devel/cvs port. 1053 105420130613: 1055 Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake: 1056 1057 make: illegal option -- J 1058 usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable] 1059 ... 1060 *** [buildworld] Error code 2 1061 1062 this likely due to an old instance of make in 1063 ${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE}) 1064 which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if 1065 you see the above error: 1066 1067 rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH` 1068 1069 should resolve it. 1070 107120130516: 1072 Use bmake by default. 1073 Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via 1074 -DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old 1075 make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE. 1076 1077 It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command 1078 line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the 1079 command line. Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer 1080 than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent 1081 behavior in parallel build. 1082 108320130429: 1084 Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files. 1085 108620130426: 1087 The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because 1088 the IDEA patent expired. 1089 109020130426: 1091 The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed 1092 from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been 1093 enabled by default. 1094 109520130425: 1096 The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX 1097 rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in 1098 order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as 1099 install and mtree. When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where 1100 the install command does not support -l, you will need to 1101 install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required. 1102 This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster 1103 && make install). 1104 110520130404: 1106 Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since 1107 FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources. Kernel modules 1108 atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are 1109 removed. Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled 1110 and removed. 1111 111220130319: 1113 SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2) 1114 and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may 1115 automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting 1116 binaries will not work on older kernels. 1117 111820130308: 1119 CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further 1120 information, see the respective 20130304 entry). 1121 112220130304: 1123 Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout, 1124 so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions 1125 in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced 1126 by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild 1127 is requested. 1128 1129 The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64, 1130 but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE 1131 option) to save memory. To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE 1132 option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 1133 in /boot/loader.conf. 1134 113520130301: 1136 The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64. 1137 This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system 1138 initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if 1139 a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system 1140 unusable on 128MB or less of RAM. 1141 114220130208: 1143 A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please 1144 refer to zpool-features(7) for more information. 1145 1146 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1147 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1148 114920130129: 1150 A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed 1151 as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch. 1152 To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default, 1153 while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild 1154 and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set. 1155 115620130121: 1157 Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build 1158 and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL 1159 make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the 1160 command line. If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs 1161 you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or 1162 /etc/src.conf. 1163 116420130118: 1165 The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an 1166 argument that is a file or path to append logs to. In the 1167 unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line 1168 and the command line contained at least two files and a target 1169 directory the first file will have logs appended to it. The -M 1170 option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its 1171 use is expected to be extremely rare. 1172 117320121223: 1174 After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS 1175 on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics. 1176 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations. 1177 117820121222: 1179 GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata. 1180 Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters, 1181 '%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to 1182 be updated. 1183 118420121217: 1185 By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved. To 1186 restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps 1187 stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf: 1188 1189 savecore_flags="" 1190 119120121201: 1192 With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now 1193 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1194 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1195 119620121117: 1197 The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now 1198 filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via 1199 sysctl or routing socket. This means the KAME-specific embedded scope 1200 id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application. 1201 This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid. 1202 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025. 1203 120420121105: 1205 On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default. 1206 This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang 1207 and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++, 1208 and /usr/bin/cpp. To disable this behavior and revert to building 1209 with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions 1210 of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang 1211 build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable 1212 branch point). 1213 121420121102: 1215 The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its 1216 functionality now turned on by default. 1217 121820121023: 1219 The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and 1220 split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP. 1221 NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write 1222 mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes. 1223 NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current 1224 driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage. 1225 Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under 1226 consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal 1227 of the two kernel options. 1228 122920121023: 1230 The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte 1231 order. The following modules need to be recompiled together 1232 with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4), 1233 pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4). 1234 123520121022: 1236 Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The 1237 VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be 1238 recompiled. 1239 124020121018: 1241 All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from 1242 the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs, 1243 portalfs, smbfs, xfs. 1244 124520121016: 1246 The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following 1247 modules need to be recompiled together with kernel: 1248 ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4), 1249 vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4), 1250 faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4). 1251 125220121015: 1253 The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host 1254 Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver). 1255 No kernel config modifications are required, but if you 1256 load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead. 1257 125820121014: 1259 Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system. 1260 126120121013: 1262 The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed 1263 sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious 1264 problems have been reported. The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT 1265 knob has also gone. 1266 126720121006: 1268 The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet 1269 filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled 1270 with new kernel. 1271 127220121001: 1273 The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver 1274 PS-POLL and power-save support. All wireless drivers need to be 1275 recompiled to work with the new kernel. 1276 127720120913: 1278 The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number 1279 generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally. 1280 Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if 1281 needed. The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the 1282 device, so the change only affects the custom kernel 1283 configurations. 1284 128520120908: 1286 The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and 1287 snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel. 1288 128920120828: 1290 A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged 1291 to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be 1292 imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support 1293 this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5) 1294 manual page. 1295 129620120727: 1297 The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto- 1298 detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these 1299 to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable. 1300 130120120712: 1302 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c. Any binaries requiring 1303 libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled. Also, there are 1304 configuration changes. Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf. 1305 130620120712: 1307 The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency 1308 with other variables: 1309 kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered 1310 kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered 1311 131220120628: 1313 The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort. For now, GNU sort 1314 is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to 1315 GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT. In this case, BSD sort will be 1316 installed as "bsdsort". 1317 131820120611: 1319 A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD. 1320 Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning 1321 is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward 1322 compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS 1323 pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools 1324 is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information 1325 read the new zpool-features(5) manual page. 1326 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1327 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1328 132920120417: 1330 The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported 1331 as contrib/jemalloc. The most disruptive API change is to 1332 /etc/malloc.conf. If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf, 1333 delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the 1334 new format after rebooting. See malloc.conf(5) for details 1335 (specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL 1336 NAMESPACE section). 1337 133820120328: 1339 Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb". mips64eb 1340 is now spelled mips64. mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32. mipseb is 1341 now spelled mips. This is to aid compatibility with third-party 1342 software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3). Little-endian 1343 settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine 1344 from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in 1345 your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine. 1346 134720120306: 1348 Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported 1349 platforms. 1350 135120120229: 1352 Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on nullfs(5). Previously 1353 nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer, 1354 as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect 1355 only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect 1356 only to the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the 1357 lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to. 1358 135920120211: 1360 The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored. 1361 If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to 1362 recompile libc again with your kernel. You still need to recompile 1363 world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already 1364 comes from 20111215. 1365 136620120114: 1367 The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr. All 1368 base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a 1369 port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either 1370 hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port. 1371 1372 An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d: 1373 rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i 1374 137520120109: 1376 panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts 1377 on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running. 1378 This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic 1379 tunable/sysctl. 1380 The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic. 1381 138220111215: 1383 The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration 1384 of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format 1385 of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages 1386 for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently 1387 not supported anymore. 1388 1389 Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User 1390 utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8), 1391 need to be recompiled. 1392 139320111122: 1394 The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to 1395 /dev/wmistat0. 1396 139720111108: 1398 The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to 1399 explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems. 1400 It is on by default for all supported platform at this present 1401 time. 1402 140320111101: 1404 The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64, 1405 i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files. 1406 140720110930: 1408 sysinstall has been removed 1409 141020110923: 1411 The stable/9 branch created in subversion. This corresponds to the 1412 RELENG_9 branch in CVS. 1413 1414COMMON ITEMS: 1415 1416 General Notes 1417 ------------- 1418 Avoid using make -j when upgrading. While generally safe, there are 1419 sometimes problems using -j to upgrade. If your upgrade fails with 1420 -j, please try again without -j. From time to time in the past there 1421 have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This 1422 is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one 1423 that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when 1424 several months have passed on the -current branch). 1425 1426 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 1427 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 1428 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 1429 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 1430 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 1431 1432 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best 1433 to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, 1434 then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade 1435 path, and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try 1436 this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade. 1437 1438 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 1439 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 1440 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 1441 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 1442 1443 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 1444 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 1445 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 1446 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 1447 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 1448 should write them with this in mind. 1449 1450 ZFS notes 1451 --------- 1452 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 1453 these two steps: 1454 1455 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 1456 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 1457 1458 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 1459 1460 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first 1461 partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 1462 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0" 1463 1464 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 1465 1466 To build a kernel 1467 ----------------- 1468 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 1469 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 1470 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 1471 1472 make kernel-toolchain 1473 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1474 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1475 1476 To test a kernel once 1477 --------------------- 1478 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 1479 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 1480 debugging information) run 1481 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 1482 nextboot -k testkernel 1483 1484 To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up 1485 -------------------------------------------------------------- 1486 This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system. Replace 1487 ${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386", 1488 "arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc). 1489 1490 cd src/sys/${arch}/conf 1491 config KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1492 cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1493 make depend 1494 make 1495 make install 1496 1497 If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section. 1498 1499 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 1500 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1501 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 1502 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 1503 1504 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1505 make buildworld 1506 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1507 [1] 1508 <reboot in single user> [3] 1509 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1510 make installworld 1511 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1512 make delete-old [6] 1513 <reboot> 1514 1515 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 1516 -------------------------------------------------- 1517 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 1518 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 1519 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 1520 # size. 1521 1522 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1523 <boot into -stable> 1524 make buildworld 1525 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1526 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 1527 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 1528 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 1529 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 1530 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1531 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 1532 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 1533 <reboot into current> 1534 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 1535 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 1536 <reboot> 1537 1538 1539 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 1540 ---------------------------------------------- 1541 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1542 make buildworld [9] 1543 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 1544 [1] 1545 <reboot in single user> [3] 1546 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1547 make installworld 1548 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1549 make delete-old [6] 1550 <reboot> 1551 1552 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 1553 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 1554 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 1555 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 1556 the UPDATING entries. 1557 1558 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 1559 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 1560 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 1561 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 1562 much fewer pitfalls. 1563 1564 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you 1565 should disable them at this point so they don't crash your 1566 system on reboot. 1567 1568 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 1569 fsck -p 1570 mount -u / 1571 mount -a 1572 cd src 1573 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 1574 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that 1575 you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. 1576 1577 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 1578 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 1579 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 1580 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 1581 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 1582 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 1583 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 1584 1585 [5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time 1586 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 1587 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 1588 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 1589 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 1590 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 1591 1592 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 1593 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 1594 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 1595 1596 [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to 1597 do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in 1598 your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is 1599 hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is 1600 required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on 1601 for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7. 1602 1603 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 1604 last time you updated your kernel config file. 1605 1606 [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have 1607 cvs prune empty directories. 1608 1609 If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 1610 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 1611 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 1612 1613 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 1614 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 1615 warn if it is improperly defined. 1616FORMAT: 1617 1618This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 1619breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 1620list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011. 1621If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 1622to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 1623 1624Copyright information: 1625 1626Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. 1627 1628Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without 1629modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this 1630document are permitted without further permission from the author. 1631 1632THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY WARNER LOSH ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 1633IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 1634WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 1635DISCLAIMED. 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