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 https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html 10 11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in 12/usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before running portupgrade. 13 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 3420180701: 35 The '%I' format in the kern.corefile sysctl limits the number of 36 core files that a process can generate to the number stored in the 37 debug.ncores sysctl. The '%I' format is replaced by the single digit 38 index. Previously, if all indexes were taken the kernel would overwrite 39 only a core file with the highest index in a filename. 40 Currently the system will create a new core file if there is a free 41 index or if all slots are taken it will overwrite the oldest one. 42 4320180630: 44 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 45 6.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 46 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 47 or higher. 48 4920180628: 50 r335753 introduced a new quoting method. However, etc/devd/devmatch.conf 51 needed to be changed to work with it. This change was made with r335763 52 and requires a mergemaster / etcupdate / etc to update the installed file. 53 5420180612: 55 r334930 changed the interface between the NFS modules, so they all 56 need to be rebuilt. r335018 did a __FreeBSD_version bump for this. 57 5820180530: 59 The kernel / userland interface for devinfo changed, so you'll 60 need a new kernel and userland as a pair for it to work (rebuilding 61 lib/libdevinfo is all that's required). devinfo and devmatch will 62 not work, but everything else will when there's a mismatch. 63 6420180523: 65 The on-disk format for hwpmc callchain records has changed to include 66 threadid corresponding to a given record. This changes the field offsets 67 and thus requires that libpmcstat be rebuilt before using a kernel 68 later than r334108. 69 7020180517: 71 The vxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was introduced into 72 HEAD one week before the Exar left the Ethernet market and is not 73 known to be used. If you have device vxge in your kernel config file 74 it must be removed. 75 7620180510: 77 The amd64 kernel now requires a ld that supports ifunc to produce a 78 working kernel, either lld or a newer binutils. lld is built by default 79 on amd64, and the 'buildkernel' target uses it automatically. However, 80 it is not the default linker, so building the kernel the traditional 81 way requires LD=ld.lld on the command line (or LD=/usr/local/bin/ld for 82 binutils port/package). lld will soon be default, and this requirement 83 will go away. 84 8520180508: 86 The nxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for PCI-X 10g 87 cards made by s2io/Neterion. The company was aquired by Exar and 88 no longer sells or supports Ethernet products. If you have device 89 nxge in your kernel config file it must be removed. 90 9120180504: 92 The tz database (tzdb) has been updated to 2018e. This version more 93 correctly models time stamps in time zones with negative DST such as 94 Europe/Dublin (from 1971 on), Europe/Prague (1946/7), and 95 Africa/Windhoek (1994/2017). This does not affect the UT offsets, only 96 time zone abbreviations and the tm_isdst flag. 97 9820180502: 99 The ixgb(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for an early and 100 uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a single ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel 101 quickly shifted to the long lived ixgbe family. If you have device 102 ixgb in your kernel config file it must be removed. 103 10420180501: 105 The lmc(4) driver has been removed. This was a WAN interface 106 card that was already reportedly rare in 2003, and had an ambiguous 107 license. If you have device lmc in your kernel config file it must 108 be removed. 109 11020180413: 111 Support for Arcnet networks has been removed. If you have device 112 arcnet or device cm in your kernel config file they must be 113 removed. 114 11520180411: 116 Support for FDDI networks has been removed. If you have device 117 fddi or device fpa in your kernel config file they must be 118 removed. 119 12020180406: 121 In addition to supporting RFC 3164 formatted messages, the 122 syslogd(8) service is now capable of parsing RFC 5424 formatted 123 log messages. The main benefit of using RFC 5424 is that clients 124 may now send log messages with timestamps containing year numbers, 125 microseconds and time zone offsets. 126 127 Similarly, the syslog(3) C library function has been altered to 128 send RFC 5424 formatted messages to the local system logging 129 daemon. On systems using syslogd(8), this change should have no 130 negative impact, as long as syslogd(8) and the C library are 131 updated at the same time. On systems using a different system 132 logging daemon, it may be necessary to make configuration 133 adjustments, depending on the software used. 134 135 When using syslog-ng, add the 'syslog-protocol' flag to local 136 input sources to enable parsing of RFC 5424 formatted messages: 137 138 source src { 139 unix-dgram("/var/run/log" flags(syslog-protocol)); 140 } 141 142 When using rsyslog, disable the 'SysSock.UseSpecialParser' option 143 of the 'imuxsock' module to let messages be processed by the 144 regular RFC 3164/5424 parsing pipeline: 145 146 module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.UseSpecialParser="off") 147 148 Do note that these changes only affect communication between local 149 applications and syslogd(8). The format that syslogd(8) uses to 150 store messages on disk or forward messages to other systems 151 remains unchanged. syslogd(8) still uses RFC 3164 for these 152 purposes. Options to customize this behaviour will be added in the 153 future. Utilities that process log files stored in /var/log are 154 thus expected to continue to function as before. 155 156 __FreeBSD_version has been incremented to 1200061 to denote this 157 change. 158 15920180328: 160 Support for token ring networks has been removed. If you 161 have "device token" in your kernel config you should remove 162 it. No device drivers supported token ring. 163 16420180323: 165 makefs was modified to be able to tag ISO9660 El Torito boot catalog 166 entries as EFI instead of overloading the i386 tag as done previously. 167 The amd64 mkisoimages.sh script used to build amd64 ISO images for 168 release was updated to use this. This may mean that makefs must be 169 updated before "make cdrom" can be run in the release directory. This 170 should be as simple as: 171 172 $ cd $SRCDIR/usr.sbin/makefs 173 $ make depend all install 174 17520180212: 176 FreeBSD boot loader enhanced with Lua scripting. It's purely opt-in for 177 now by building WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH in /etc/src.conf. 178 Co-existance for the transition period will come shortly. Booting is a 179 complex environment and test coverage for Lua-enabled loaders has been 180 thin, so it would be prudent to assume it might not work and make 181 provisions for backup boot methods. 182 18320180211: 184 devmatch functionality has been turned on in devd. It will automatically 185 load drivers for unattached devices. This may cause unexpected drivers to 186 be loaded. Please report any problems to current@ and imp@freebsd.org. 187 18820180114: 189 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 190 6.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 191 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 192 or higher. 193 19420180110: 195 LLVM's lld linker is now used as the FreeBSD/amd64 bootstrap linker. 196 This means it is used to link the kernel and userland libraries and 197 executables, but is not yet installed as /usr/bin/ld by default. 198 199 To revert to ld.bfd as the bootstrap linker, in /etc/src.conf set 200 WITHOUT_LLD_BOOTSTRAP=yes 201 20220180110: 203 On i386, pmtimer has been removed. Its functionality has been folded 204 into apm. It was a no-op on ACPI in current for a while now (but was still 205 needed on i386 in FreeBSD 11 and earlier). Users may need to remove it 206 from kernel config files. 207 20820180104: 209 The use of RSS hash from the network card aka flowid has been 210 disabled by default for lagg(4) as it's currently incompatible with 211 the lacp and loadbalance protocols. 212 213 This can be re-enabled by setting the following in loader.conf: 214 net.link.lagg.default_use_flowid="1" 215 21620180102: 217 The SW_WATCHDOG option is no longer necessary to enable the 218 hardclock-based software watchdog if no hardware watchdog is 219 configured. As before, SW_WATCHDOG will cause the software 220 watchdog to be enabled even if a hardware watchdog is configured. 221 22220171215: 223 r326887 fixes the issue described in the 20171214 UPDATING entry. 224 r326888 flips the switch back to building GELI support always. 225 22620171214: 227 r362593 broke ZFS + GELI support for reasons unknown. However, 228 it also broke ZFS support generally, so GELI has been turned off 229 by default as the lesser evil in r326857. If you boot off ZFS and/or 230 GELI, it might not be a good time to update. 231 23220171125: 233 PowerPC users must update loader(8) by rebuilding world before 234 installing a new kernel, as the protocol connecting them has 235 changed. Without the update, loader metadata will not be passed 236 successfully to the kernel and users will have to enter their 237 root partition at the kernel mountroot prompt to continue booting. 238 Newer versions of loader can boot old kernels without issue. 239 24020171110: 241 The LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT build variable as been renamed to 242 WITH/OUT_LOADER_FIREWIRE. LOADER_{NO_,}GELI_SUPPORT has been renamed 243 to WITH/OUT_LOADER_GELI. 244 24520171106: 246 The naive and non-compliant support of posix_fallocate(2) in ZFS 247 has been removed as of r325320. The system call now returns EINVAL 248 when used on a ZFS file. Although the new behavior complies with the 249 standard, some consumers are not prepared to cope with it. 250 One known victim is lld prior to r325420. 251 25220171102: 253 Building in a FreeBSD src checkout will automatically create object 254 directories now rather than store files in the current directory if 255 'make obj' was not ran. Calling 'make obj' is no longer necessary. 256 This feature can be disabled by setting WITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ=yes in 257 /etc/src-env.conf (not /etc/src.conf), or passing the option in the 258 environment. 259 26020171101: 261 The default MAKEOBJDIR has changed from /usr/obj/<srcdir> for native 262 builds, and /usr/obj/<arch>/<srcdir> for cross-builds, to a unified 263 /usr/obj/<srcdir>/<arch>. This behavior can be changed to the old 264 format by setting WITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR=yes in /etc/src-env.conf, 265 the environment, or with -DWITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR when building. 266 The UNIFIED_OBJDIR option is a transitional feature that will be 267 removed for 12.0 release; please migrate to the new format for any 268 tools by looking up the OBJDIR used by 'make -V .OBJDIR' means rather 269 than hardcoding paths. 270 27120171028: 272 The native-xtools target no longer installs the files by default to the 273 OBJDIR. Use the native-xtools-install target with a DESTDIR to install 274 to ${DESTDIR}/${NXTP} where NXTP defaults to /nxb-bin. 275 27620171021: 277 As part of the boot loader infrastructure cleanup, LOADER_*_SUPPORT 278 options are changing from controlling the build if defined / undefined 279 to controlling the build with explicit 'yes' or 'no' values. They will 280 shift to WITH/WITHOUT options to match other options in the system. 281 28220171010: 283 libstand has turned into a private library for sys/boot use only. 284 It is no longer supported as a public interface outside of sys/boot. 285 28620171005: 287 The arm port has split armv6 into armv6 and armv7. armv7 is now 288 a valid TARGET_ARCH/MACHINE_ARCH setting. If you have an armv7 system 289 and are running a kernel from before r324363, you will need to add 290 MACHINE_ARCH=armv7 to 'make buildworld' to do a native build. 291 29220171003: 293 When building multiple kernels using KERNCONF, non-existent KERNCONF 294 files will produce an error and buildkernel will fail. Previously 295 missing KERNCONF files silently failed giving no indication as to 296 why, only to subsequently discover during installkernel that the 297 desired kernel was never built in the first place. 298 29920170912: 300 The default serial number format for CTL LUNs has changed. This will 301 affect users who use /dev/diskid/* device nodes, or whose FibreChannel 302 or iSCSI clients care about their LUNs' serial numbers. Users who 303 require serial number stability should hardcode serial numbers in 304 /etc/ctl.conf . 305 30620170912: 307 For 32-bit arm compiled for hard-float support, soft-floating point 308 binaries now always get their shared libraries from 309 LD_SOFT_LIBRARY_PATH (in the past, this was only used if 310 /usr/libsoft also existed). Only users with a hard-float ld.so, but 311 soft-float everything else should be affected. 312 31320170826: 314 The geli password typed at boot is now hidden. To restore the previous 315 behavior, see geli(8) for configuration options. 316 31720170825: 318 Move PMTUD blackhole counters to TCPSTATS and remove them from bare 319 sysctl values. Minor nit, but requires a rebuild of both world/kernel 320 to complete. 321 32220170814: 323 "make check" behavior (made in ^/head@r295380) has been changed to 324 execute from a limited sandbox, as opposed to executing from 325 ${TESTSDIR}. 326 327 Behavioral changes: 328 - The "beforecheck" and "aftercheck" targets are now specified. 329 - ${CHECKDIR} (added in commit noted above) has been removed. 330 - Legacy behavior can be enabled by setting 331 WITHOUT_MAKE_CHECK_USE_SANDBOX in src.conf(5) or the environment. 332 333 If the limited sandbox mode is enabled, "make check" will execute 334 "make distribution", then install, execute the tests, and clean up the 335 sandbox if successful. 336 337 The "make distribution" and "make install" targets are typically run as 338 root to set appropriate permissions and ownership at installation time. 339 The end-user should set "WITH_INSTALL_AS_USER" in src.conf(5) or the 340 environment if executing "make check" with limited sandbox mode using 341 an unprivileged user. 342 34320170808: 344 Since the switch to GPT disk labels, fsck for UFS/FFS has been 345 unable to automatically find alternate superblocks. As of r322297, 346 the information needed to find alternate superblocks has been 347 moved to the end of the area reserved for the boot block. 348 Filesystems created with a newfs of this vintage or later 349 will create the recovery information. If you have a filesystem 350 created prior to this change and wish to have a recovery block 351 created for your filesystem, you can do so by running fsck in 352 foreground mode (i.e., do not use the -p or -y options). As it 353 starts, fsck will ask ``SAVE DATA TO FIND ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS'' 354 to which you should answer yes. 355 35620170728: 357 As of r321665, an NFSv4 server configuration that services 358 Kerberos mounts or clients that do not support the uid/gid in 359 owner/owner_group string capability, must explicitly enable 360 the nfsuserd daemon by adding nfsuserd_enable="YES" to the 361 machine's /etc/rc.conf file. 362 36320170722: 364 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 5.0.0. 365 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 366 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 367 36820170701: 369 WITHOUT_RCMDS is now the default. Set WITH_RCMDS if you need the 370 r-commands (rlogin, rsh, etc.) to be built with the base system. 371 37220170625: 373 The FreeBSD/powerpc platform now uses a 64-bit type for time_t. This is 374 a very major ABI incompatible change, so users of FreeBSD/powerpc must 375 be careful when performing source upgrades. It is best to run 376 'make installworld' from an alternate root system, either a live 377 CD/memory stick, or a temporary root partition. Additionally, all ports 378 must be recompiled. powerpc64 is largely unaffected, except in the case 379 of 32-bit compatibility. All 32-bit binaries will be affected. 380 38120170623: 382 Forward compatibility for the "ino64" project have been committed. This 383 will allow most new binaries to run on older kernels in a limited 384 fashion. This prevents many of the common foot-shooting actions in the 385 upgrade as well as the limited ability to roll back the kernel across 386 the ino64 upgrade. Complicated use cases may not work properly, though 387 enough simpler ones work to allow recovery in most situations. 388 38920170620: 390 Switch back to the BSDL dtc (Device Tree Compiler). Set WITH_GPL_DTC 391 if you require the GPL compiler. 392 39320170618: 394 The internal ABI used for communication between the NFS kernel modules 395 was changed by r320085, so __FreeBSD_version was bumped to 396 ensure all the NFS related modules are updated together. 397 39820170617: 399 The ABI of struct event was changed by extending the data 400 member to 64bit and adding ext fields. For upgrade, same 401 precautions as for the entry 20170523 "ino64" must be 402 followed. 403 40420170531: 405 The GNU roff toolchain has been removed from base. To render manpages 406 which are not supported by mandoc(1), man(1) can fallback on GNU roff 407 from ports (and recommends to install it). 408 To render roff(7) documents, consider using GNU roff from ports or the 409 heirloom doctools roff toolchain from ports via pkg install groff or 410 via pkg install heirloom-doctools. 411 41220170524: 413 The ath(4) and ath_hal(4) modules now build piecemeal to allow for 414 smaller runtime footprint builds. This is useful for embedded systems 415 which only require one chipset support. 416 417 If you load it as a module, make sure this is in /boot/loader.conf: 418 419 if_ath_load="YES" 420 421 This will load the HAL, all chip/RF backends and if_ath_pci. 422 If you have if_ath_pci in /boot/loader.conf, ensure it is after 423 if_ath or it will not load any HAL chipset support. 424 425 If you want to selectively load things (eg on ye cheape ARM/MIPS 426 platforms where RAM is at a premium) you should: 427 428 * load ath_hal 429 * load the chip modules in question 430 * load ath_rate, ath_dfs 431 * load ath_main 432 * load if_ath_pci and/or if_ath_ahb depending upon your particular 433 bus bind type - this is where probe/attach is done. 434 435 For further comments/feedback, poke adrian@ . 436 43720170523: 438 The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends 439 a number of types to 64 bits. Upgrading in place requires care and 440 adherence to the documented upgrade procedure. 441 442 If using a custom kernel configuration ensure that the 443 COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option is included (as during the upgrade the 444 system will be running the ino64 kernel with the existing world). 445 446 For the safest in-place upgrade begin by removing previous build 447 artifacts via "rm -rf /usr/obj/*". Then, carefully follow the 448 full procedure documented below under the heading "To rebuild 449 everything and install it on the current system." Specifically, 450 a reboot is required after installing the new kernel before 451 installing world. 452 45320170424: 454 The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and 455 patm(4) devices has been removed. Consumers should plan a 456 migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11. 457 45820170420: 459 GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU 460 diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of 461 GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name. 462 46320170413: 464 As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when 465 keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with 466 documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state. 467 This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags 468 and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state. 469 To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with 470 keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5). 471 47220170407: 473 arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default, 474 instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be 475 installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set 476 CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin . 477 47820170405: 479 The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl 480 net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted. L2 broadcast 481 packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets. 482 48320170331: 484 Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now 485 use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail 486 instead of using the first assigned address of the jail. 487 48820170329: 489 The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend: 490 cfiscsi.ko does instead. 491 492 If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded 493 via one of the following methods: 494 - `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5). 495 - Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5). 496 - ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support 497 (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5)) 498 499 Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details. 500 50120170316: 502 The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko. 503 Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the 504 same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was 505 missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible 506 with mmc.ko). 507 50820170315: 509 The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity. 510 If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify 511 them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must 512 be prefixed with colon. 513 51420170311: 515 The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been 516 removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version 517 (sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware. 518 51920170302: 520 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0. 521 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 522 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 523 52420170221: 525 The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality 526 has been reimplemented. It's not possible now to create a snapshot 527 by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/. That should be the only user visible 528 change. 529 53020170216: 531 EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer 532 valid. 533 53420170215: 535 MCA bus support has been removed. 536 53720170127: 538 The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed 539 WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC. 540 54120170112: 542 The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that 543 the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications. 544 54520170109: 546 The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via 547 IFLIB. If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4) 548 but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom configuration. 549 55020161217: 551 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1. 552 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 553 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 554 55520161124: 556 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0. 557 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 558 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 559 56020161119: 561 The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap 562 statistics at the front for all CPU variations. libkvm(3) and all tools 563 that link against it need to be recompiled. 564 56520161030: 566 isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver, 567 chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware. 568 On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using 569 device hints. Please see the corresponding manual pages for details. 570 57120161017: 572 The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of 573 rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific 574 parts. 575 Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name 576 conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B)) 577 57820161015: 579 GNU rcs has been removed from base. It is available as packages: 580 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 581 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was 582 removed from base. 583 58420161008: 585 Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control 586 modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the 587 TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.) 588 58920161003: 590 The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 591 ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy. 592 59320160924: 594 Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed 595 to use an extension of .pico instead. The purpose of this change is 596 to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file 597 systems. On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so. 598 59920160918: 600 GNU rcs has been turned off by default. It can (temporarily) be built 601 again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf. 602 Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages: 603 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 604 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base. 605 60620160918: 607 The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr. 608 60920160908: 610 The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into 611 two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and 612 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH. Define both for the original 613 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior. 614 61520160824: 616 r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace 617 programs and the kernel. ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be 618 rebuilt to work with new kernels. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped 619 to 1200005. 620 62120160818: 622 The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP 623 packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3 624 broadcast packets. It is not expected that this will affect any 625 standards-conforming UDP application. The new behaviour can be 626 disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to 627 0. 628 62920160818: 630 Remove the openbsd_poll system call. 631 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 632 63320160622: 634 The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with 635 a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2) 636 system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include 637 "options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the 638 default). Users should ensure that this option is enabled in 639 their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their 640 kernel. 641 64220160527: 643 CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers. 644 This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using 645 those disk's diskid device nodes. For example, if /etc/fstab 646 previously contained a line like 647 "/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should 648 change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456". Users of geom 649 transforms like gmirror may also be affected. ZFS users should 650 generally be fine. 651 65220160523: 653 The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and 654 improved performance. But it is binary-incompatible with the old API. 655 Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects 656 built with the old headers. 657 65820160520: 659 The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64. 660 Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these 661 functions and should be updated to the latest version before 662 installing a new libc. 663 66420160517: 665 The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support 666 for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system 667 is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT. 668 This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld 669 and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New 670 packages will be needed. 671 672 To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add 673 TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 674 and the install steps. 675 67620160510: 677 Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to 678 installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. Many kernel 679 modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode 680 KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules. However, 681 manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will 682 now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. 683 68420160414: 685 The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be 686 no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the 687 list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt 688 data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data 689 corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete: 690 691 o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 692 o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 693 o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware 694 o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares 695 o FCCT M500 all firmwares 696 697 Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware 698 with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for 699 updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these 700 drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given 701 this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no 702 other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above 703 vendors work. 704 705 To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your 706 drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting: 707 kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2" 708 in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the 709 quirks entry to 0x3. 710 71120160330: 712 The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is 713 now the one true way. The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has 714 been removed. See 20160311 for further details. 715 71620160317: 717 Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t. All 718 drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled. 719 72020160311: 721 WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree 722 builds. It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the 723 'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran 724 when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before 725 building anything else. Dependencies are gathered at compile time with 726 -MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file. Users should 727 run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older 728 stale .depend files. 729 73020160306: 731 On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into 732 kernel modules. Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time, 733 please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before 734 rebooting, e.g.: 735 736 make buildworld 737 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 738 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 739 make -C sys/boot install 740 <reboot in single user> 741 742 Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section, 743 below. 744 74520160305: 746 Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0. Please 747 see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 748 upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 749 75020160301: 751 The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The 752 VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed. 753 Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only 754 permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable 755 asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the 756 vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value. 757 75820160226: 759 The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the 760 ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a 761 drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The 762 (temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set 763 to obtain the GNU version if necessary. 764 76520160129: 766 Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default. That 767 feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks. 768 Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will 769 still work, even if the guest is using ZFS. Legacy behavior can be 770 restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1. 771 77220160119: 773 The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH. They are 774 still available in the security/openssh-portable port. 775 77620160113: 777 With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required 778 during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user 779 prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 780 78120151216: 782 The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a 783 consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp 784 server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the 785 other loaders. 786 78720151211: 788 The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has 789 been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel, 790 a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced 791 for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild 792 the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or 793 later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding. 794 79520151207: 796 Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and 797 installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but 798 requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed 799 world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes 800 in src.conf(5). 801 80220151130: 803 r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and 804 nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether. 805 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 806 80720151108: 808 Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of 809 order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old 810 behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C". 811 812 Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given 813 collation results will be different. 814 815 Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient 816 locales before running make installworld. 817 818 rm -rf /usr/share/locale/* 819 82020151030: 821 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d. Any binaries requiring 822 libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled. 823 82420151020: 825 Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0. 826 Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and 827 should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively. 828 82920151017: 830 The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into 831 sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and 832 'make -n -n' to recursively show commands. Now 'make -n' will recurse 833 and 'make -N' will not. 834 83520151012: 836 If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster 837 and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now 838 updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld. If you had 839 excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may 840 want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install". 841 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of 842 whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used. If you are not using 843 SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior. 844 84520151011: 846 Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. 847 It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases 848 and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.* 849 environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links. 850 85120151006: 852 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 853 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 854 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 855 85620150924: 857 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 858 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 859 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 860 userland debug files. 861 862 When using the supported kernel installation method the 863 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 864 as is done with /boot/kernel. 865 866 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 867 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 868 86920150827: 870 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 871 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 872 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 873 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 874 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 875 rc.d scripts in /etc. 876 87720150827: 878 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 879 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 880 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 881 88220150817: 883 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 884 them, the kernel must have 885 886 device random 887 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 888 889 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 890 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 891 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 892 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 893 894 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 895 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 896 89720150813: 898 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 899 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 900 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 901 90220150810: 903 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 904 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 905 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 906 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 907 908 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 909 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 910 difference with this change. 911 912 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 913 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 914 remove that workaround. 915 91620150809: 917 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 918 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 919 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 920 with: 921 922 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 923 92420150806: 925 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 926 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 927 loader.rc.local instead. 928 92920150805: 930 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 931 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 932 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 933 93420150728: 935 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 936 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 937 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 938 939 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 940 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 941 94220150706: 943 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 944 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 945 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 946 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 947 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 948 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 949 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 950 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 951 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 952 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 953 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 954 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 955 95620150630: 957 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 958 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 959 960 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 961 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 962 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 963 964 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 965 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 966 967 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 968 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 969 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 970 971 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 972 entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 973 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 974 and it is assumed you know what you need. 975 976 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 977 habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 978 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 979 behaviour from your security subsystems. 980 981 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 982 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 983 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 984 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 985 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 986 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 987 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 988 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 989 will never happen. 990 99120150623: 992 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 993 entry below has been committed in revision 284717. 994 99520150616: 996 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 997 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 998 99920150615: 1000 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 1001 below has been committed in revision 284436. The work 1002 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 1003 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 1004 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 1005 100620150614: 1007 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 1008 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 1009 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 1010 with Kyuafile and kyua. 1011 101220150614: 1013 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 1014 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 1015 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 1016 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 1017 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 1018 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 1019 2048 bit DH parameter by: 1020 1021 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 1022 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 1023 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 1024 replace it with '2'. 1025 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 1026 a file path, create a new file with: 1027 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 1028 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 1029 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 1030 5. Restart sendmail: 1031 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 1032 1033 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 1034 updated. 1035 103620150604: 1037 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 1038 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 1039 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 1040 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 1041 5.x. 1042 1043 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 1044 104520150525: 1046 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 1047 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 1048 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 1049 105020150521: 1051 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 1052 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 1053 and Pandaboard: 1054 1055 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 1056 same but content is different now 1057 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 1058 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 1059 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 1060 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 1061 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 1062 106320150501: 1064 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 1065 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 1066 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 1067 106820150423: 1069 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 1070 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 1071 107220150415: 1073 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 1074 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 1075 107620150416: 1077 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 1078 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 1079 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 1080 108120150324: 1082 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 1083 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 1084 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 1085 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 1086 108720150315: 1088 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 1089 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 1090 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 1091 109220150307: 1093 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 1094 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 1095 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 1096 kernel before rebooting. 1097 109820150217: 1099 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 1100 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 1101 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 1102 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 1103 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 1104 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 1105 110620150210: 1107 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 1108 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 1109 with the new kernel. 1110 111120150131: 1112 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 1113 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 1114 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 1115 111620150118: 1117 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 1118 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 1119 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 1120 are not already using 3.5.0. 1121 112220150107: 1123 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 1124 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 1125 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 1126 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 1127 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 1128 112920150105: 1130 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 1131 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 1132 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 1133 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 1134 113520150102: 1136 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 1137 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 1138 113920141231: 1140 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 1141 1142 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 1143 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 1144 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 1145 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 1146 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 1147 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 1148 later. 1149 1150 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 1151 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 1152 of the box. 1153 1154 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 1155 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 1156 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 1157 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 1158 1159 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 1160 the instructions for 9.x above. 1161 1162 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 1163 default, and do not build clang. 1164 1165 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 1166 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 1167 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 1168 1169 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 1170 the following are most likely to appear: 1171 1172 -Wabsolute-value 1173 1174 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 1175 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 1176 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 1177 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 1178 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 1179 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 1180 cast, or disable the warning. 1181 1182 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 1183 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 1184 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 1185 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 1186 side-effects. 1187 1188 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 1189 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 1190 1191 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 1192 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 1193 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 1194 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 1195 1196 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 1197 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 1198 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 1199 unreachable could be optimized away. 1200 120120141222: 1202 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 1203 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 1204 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 1205 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 1206 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 1207 the utilities will report errors. 1208 120920141121: 1210 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 1211 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 1212 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 1213 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 1214 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 1215 LOCAL_DIRS. 1216 121720141109: 1218 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 1219 has been obsolete for a very long time. 1220 122120141104: 1222 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 1223 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 1224 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 1225 drivers. 1226 1227 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 1228 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 1229 indicate what you need to do. 1230 1231 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 1232 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 1233 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 1234 1235 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 1236 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 1237 kern.vty=sc 1238 123920141102: 1240 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 1241 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 1242 execute it. 1243 124420141009: 1245 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 1246 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 1247 devel/gperf port. 1248 124920140923: 1250 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 1251 contrib/pjdfstest . 1252 125320140922: 1254 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 1255 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 1256 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 1257 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 1258 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 1259 their next update cycle. 1260 126120140729: 1262 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 1263 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 1264 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 1265 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 1266 1.12.4_8 or newer. 1267 126820140723: 1269 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 1270 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 1271 127220140719: 1273 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 1274 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 1275 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 1276 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 1277 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 1278 new configuration. 1279 128020140709: 1281 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 1282 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 1283 them again. 1284 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 1285 128620140708: 1287 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 1288 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 1289 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 1290 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 1291 requires readline. 1292 129320140702: 1294 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 1295 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 1296 architecture. 1297 129820140701: 1299 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 1300 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 1301 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 1302 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 1303 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 1304 130520140629: 1306 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 1307 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 1308 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 1309 131020140619: 1311 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 1312 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 1313 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 1314 131520140606: 1316 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 1317 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 1318 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 1319 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 1320 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 1321 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 1322 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 1323 "make installworld". 1324 1325 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 1326 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 1327 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 1328 is run. 1329 1330 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 1331 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 1332 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 1333 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 1334 be removed during a clean upgrade. 1335 133620140512: 1337 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 1338 133920140508: 1340 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 1341 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 1342 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 1343 134420140505: 1345 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 1346 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 1347 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 1348 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 1349 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 1350 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 1351 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 1352 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 1353 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 1354 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 1355 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 1356 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 1357 1358 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 1359 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 1360 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 1361 as well. 1362 136320140430: 1364 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 1365 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 1366 136720140424: 1368 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 1369 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 1370 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 1371 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 1372 build hosts for older releases. 1373 1374 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 1375 r276991, respectively. 1376 137720140418: 1378 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 1379 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 1380 will silently lack HESIOD. 1381 138220140405: 1383 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 1384 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 1385 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 1386 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 1387 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 1388 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 1389 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 1390 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 1391 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 1392 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 1393 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 1394 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 1395 139620140306: 1397 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 1398 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 1399 with command line option -W. 1400 140120140226: 1402 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 1403 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 1404 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 1405 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 1406 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 1407 140820140216: 1409 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 1410 141120140216: 1412 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 1413 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 1414 141520140212: 1416 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 1417 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 1418 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 1419 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 1420 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 1421 142220140204: 1423 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 1424 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 1425 kernel is still highly recommended. 1426 142720140131: 1428 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 1429 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 1430 capability mode support in kernel. 1431 143220140128: 1433 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 1434 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 1435 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 1436 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 1437 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 1438 143920140110: 1440 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 1441 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 1442 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 1443 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 1444 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 1445 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 1446 144720131213: 1448 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 1449 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 1450 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 1451 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 1452 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 1453 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 1454 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 1455 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 1456 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 1457 145820131108: 1459 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 1460 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 1461 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 1462 should change your settings to use the latter. 1463 146420131025: 1465 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 1466 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 1467 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 1468 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 1469 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 1470 147120131014: 1472 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 1473 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 1474 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 1475 delete-old-libs": 1476 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 1477 or 1478 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 1479 148020131010: 1481 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 1482 revision r256279. 1483 1484COMMON ITEMS: 1485 1486 General Notes 1487 ------------- 1488 Avoid using make -j when upgrading. While generally safe, there are 1489 sometimes problems using -j to upgrade. If your upgrade fails with 1490 -j, please try again without -j. From time to time in the past there 1491 have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This 1492 is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one 1493 that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when 1494 several months have passed on the -current branch). 1495 1496 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 1497 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 1498 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 1499 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 1500 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 1501 1502 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to 1503 upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then 1504 do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path, 1505 and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try this 1506 approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade. Since 1507 the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgrade from 1508 anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the 1509 last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's 1510 an exception. 1511 1512 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 1513 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 1514 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 1515 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 1516 1517 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 1518 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 1519 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 1520 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 1521 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 1522 should write them with this in mind. 1523 1524 ZFS notes 1525 --------- 1526 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 1527 these two steps: 1528 1529 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 1530 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 1531 1532 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 1533 1534 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first 1535 partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 1536 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0" 1537 1538 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 1539 1540 To build a kernel 1541 ----------------- 1542 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 1543 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 1544 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 1545 1546 make kernel-toolchain 1547 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1548 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1549 1550 To test a kernel once 1551 --------------------- 1552 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 1553 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 1554 debugging information) run 1555 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 1556 nextboot -k testkernel 1557 1558 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 1559 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1560 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 1561 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 1562 1563 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1564 make buildworld 1565 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1566 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1567 [1] 1568 <reboot in single user> [3] 1569 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1570 make installworld 1571 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1572 make delete-old [6] 1573 <reboot> 1574 1575 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 1576 -------------------------------------------------- 1577 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 1578 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 1579 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 1580 # size. 1581 1582 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1583 <boot into -stable> 1584 make buildworld 1585 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1586 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 1587 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 1588 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 1589 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 1590 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1591 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 1592 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 1593 <reboot into current> 1594 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 1595 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 1596 <reboot> 1597 1598 1599 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 1600 ---------------------------------------------- 1601 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1602 make buildworld [9] 1603 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 1604 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1605 [1] 1606 <reboot in single user> [3] 1607 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1608 make installworld 1609 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1610 make delete-old [6] 1611 <reboot> 1612 1613 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 1614 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 1615 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 1616 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 1617 the UPDATING entries. 1618 1619 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 1620 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 1621 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 1622 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 1623 much fewer pitfalls. 1624 1625 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you 1626 should disable them at this point so they don't crash your 1627 system on reboot. 1628 1629 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 1630 fsck -p 1631 mount -u / 1632 mount -a 1633 cd src 1634 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 1635 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that 1636 you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. 1637 1638 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 1639 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 1640 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 1641 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 1642 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 1643 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 1644 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 1645 1646 [5] Usually this step is a no-op. However, from time to time 1647 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 1648 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 1649 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 1650 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 1651 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 1652 1653 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 1654 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 1655 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 1656 1657 [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to 1658 do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in 1659 your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is 1660 hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is 1661 required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on 1662 for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7. 1663 1664 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 1665 last time you updated your kernel config file. 1666 1667 [9] If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 1668 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 1669 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 1670 1671 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 1672 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 1673 warn if it is improperly defined. 1674FORMAT: 1675 1676This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 1677breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 1678list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011. 1679If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 1680to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 1681 1682Copyright information: 1683 1684Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. 1685 1686Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without 1687modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this 1688document are permitted without further permission from the author. 1689 1690THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY WARNER LOSH ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 1691IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 1692WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 1693DISCLAIMED. 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