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/updating-src.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 34 35****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ****************************** 36 37 Due to a bug in some versions of clang that's very hard to workaround in 38 the upgrade process, to upgrade to -current you must first upgrade 39 either stable/9 after r286035 or stable/10 after r286033 (including 40 10.3-RELEASE) or current after r286007 (including stable/11 and 41 11.0-RELEASE). These revisions post-date the 10.2 and 9.3 releases, so 42 you'll need to take the unusual step of upgrading to the tip of the 43 stable branch before moving to 11 or -current via a source upgrade. 44 stable/11 and 11.0-RELEASE have working newer compiler. This differs 45 from the historical situation where one could upgrade from anywhere on 46 the last couple of stable branches, so be careful. 47 48 If you're running a hybrid system on 9.x or 10.x with an updated clang 49 compiler or are using an supported external toolchain, the build system 50 will allow the upgrade. Otherwise it will print a reminder. 51 52****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ****************************** 53 5420170625: 55 The FreeBSD/powerpc platform now uses a 64-bit type for time_t. This is 56 a very major ABI incompatible change, so users of FreeBSD/powerpc must 57 be careful when performing source upgrades. It is best to run 58 'make installworld' from an alternate root system, either a live 59 CD/memory stick, or a temporary root partition. Additionally, all ports 60 must be recompiled. powerpc64 is largely unaffected, except in the case 61 of 32-bit compatibility. All 32-bit binaries will be affected. 62 6320170623: 64 Forward compatibility for the "ino64" project have been committed. This 65 will allow most new binaries to run on older kernels in a limited 66 fashion. This prevents many of the common foot-shooting actions in the 67 upgrade as well as the limited ability to roll back the kernel across 68 the ino64 upgrade. Complicated use cases may not work properly, though 69 enough simpler ones work to allow recovery in most situations. 70 7120170620: 72 Switch back to the BSDL dtc (Device Tree Compiler). Set WITH_GPL_DTC 73 if you require the GPL compiler. 74 7520170618: 76 The internal ABI used for communication between the NFS kernel modules 77 was changed by r320085, so __FreeBSD_version was bumped to 78 ensure all the NFS related modules are updated together. 79 8020170617: 81 The ABI of struct event was changed by extending the data 82 member to 64bit and adding ext fields. For upgrade, same 83 precautions as for the entry 20170523 "ino64" must be 84 followed. 85 8620170531: 87 The GNU roff toolchain has been removed from base. To render manpages 88 which are not supported by mandoc(1), man(1) can fallback on GNU roff 89 from ports (and recommends to install it). 90 To render roff(7) documents, consider using GNU roff from ports or the 91 heirloom doctools roff toolchain from ports via pkg install groff or 92 via pkg install heirloom-doctools. 93 9420170524: 95 The ath(4) and ath_hal(4) modules now build piecemeal to allow for 96 smaller runtime footprint builds. This is useful for embedded systems 97 which only require one chipset support. 98 99 If you load it as a module, make sure this is in /boot/loader.conf: 100 101 if_ath_load="YES" 102 103 This will load the HAL, all chip/RF backends and if_ath_pci. 104 If you have if_ath_pci in /boot/loader.conf, ensure it is after 105 if_ath or it will not load any HAL chipset support. 106 107 If you want to selectively load things (eg on ye cheape ARM/MIPS 108 platforms where RAM is at a premium) you should: 109 110 * load ath_hal 111 * load the chip modules in question 112 * load ath_rate, ath_dfs 113 * load ath_main 114 * load if_ath_pci and/or if_ath_ahb depending upon your particular 115 bus bind type - this is where probe/attach is done. 116 117 For further comments/feedback, poke adrian@ . 118 11920170523: 120 The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends 121 a number of types to 64 bits. Upgrading in place requires care and 122 adherence to the documented upgrade procedure. 123 124 If using a custom kernel configuration ensure that the 125 COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option is included (as during the upgrade the 126 system will be running the ino64 kernel with the existing world). 127 128 For the safest in-place upgrade begin by removing previous build 129 artifacts via "rm -rf /usr/obj/*". Then, carefully follow the 130 full procedure documented below under the heading "To rebuild 131 everything and install it on the current system." Specifically, 132 a reboot is required after installing the new kernel before 133 installing world. 134 13520170424: 136 The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and 137 patm(4) devices has been removed. Consumers should plan a 138 migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11. 139 14020170420: 141 GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU 142 diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of 143 GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name. 144 14520170413: 146 As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when 147 keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with 148 documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state. 149 This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags 150 and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state. 151 To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with 152 keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5). 153 15420170407: 155 arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default, 156 instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be 157 installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set 158 CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin . 159 16020170405: 161 The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl 162 net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted. L2 broadcast 163 packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets. 164 16520170331: 166 Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now 167 use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail 168 instead of using the first assigned address of the jail. 169 17020170329: 171 The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend: 172 cfiscsi.ko does instead. 173 174 If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded 175 via one of the following methods: 176 - `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5). 177 - Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5). 178 - ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support 179 (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5)) 180 181 Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details. 182 18320170316: 184 The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko. 185 Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the 186 same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was 187 missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible 188 with mmc.ko). 189 19020170315: 191 The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity. 192 If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify 193 them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must 194 be prefixed with colon. 195 19620170311: 197 The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been 198 removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version 199 (sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware. 200 20120170302: 202 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0. 203 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 204 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 205 20620170221: 207 The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality 208 has been reimplemented. It's not possible now to create a snapshot 209 by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/. That should be the only user visible 210 change. 211 21220170216: 213 EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer 214 valid. 215 21620170215: 217 MCA bus support has been removed. 218 21920170127: 220 The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed 221 WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC. 222 22320170112: 224 The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that 225 the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications. 226 22720170109: 228 The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via 229 IFLIB. If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4) 230 but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom configuration. 231 23220161217: 233 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1. 234 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 235 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 236 23720161124: 238 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0. 239 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 240 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 241 24220161119: 243 The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap 244 statistics at the front for all CPU variations. libkvm(3) and all tools 245 that link against it need to be recompiled. 246 24720161030: 248 isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver, 249 chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware. 250 On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using 251 device hints. Please see the corresponding manual pages for details. 252 25320161017: 254 The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of 255 rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific 256 parts. 257 Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name 258 conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B)) 259 26020161015: 261 GNU rcs has been removed from base. It is available as packages: 262 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 263 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was 264 removed from base. 265 26620161008: 267 Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control 268 modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the 269 TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.) 270 27120161003: 272 The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 273 ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy. 274 27520160924: 276 Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed 277 to use an extension of .pico instead. The purpose of this change is 278 to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file 279 systems. On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so. 280 28120160918: 282 GNU rcs has been turned off by default. It can (temporarily) be built 283 again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf. 284 Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages: 285 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 286 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base. 287 28820160918: 289 The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr. 290 29120160908: 292 The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into 293 two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and 294 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH. Define both for the original 295 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior. 296 29720160824: 298 r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace 299 programs and the kernel. ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be 300 rebuilt to work with new kernels. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped 301 to 1200005. 302 30320160818: 304 The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP 305 packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3 306 broadcast packets. It is not expected that this will affect any 307 standards-conforming UDP application. The new behaviour can be 308 disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to 309 0. 310 31120160818: 312 Remove the openbsd_poll system call. 313 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 314 31520160622: 316 The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with 317 a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2) 318 system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include 319 "options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the 320 default). Users should ensure that this option is enabled in 321 their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their 322 kernel. 323 32420160527: 325 CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers. 326 This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using 327 those disk's diskid device nodes. For example, if /etc/fstab 328 previously contained a line like 329 "/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should 330 change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456". Users of geom 331 transforms like gmirror may also be affected. ZFS users should 332 generally be fine. 333 33420160523: 335 The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and 336 improved performance. But it is binary-incompatible with the old API. 337 Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects 338 built with the old headers. 339 34020160520: 341 The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64. 342 Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these 343 functions and should be updated to the latest version before 344 installing a new libc. 345 34620160517: 347 The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support 348 for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system 349 is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT. 350 This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld 351 and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New 352 packages will be needed. 353 354 To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add 355 TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 356 and the install steps. 357 35820160510: 359 Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to 360 installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. Many kernel 361 modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode 362 KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules. However, 363 manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will 364 now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. 365 36620160414: 367 The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be 368 no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the 369 list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt 370 data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data 371 corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete: 372 373 o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 374 o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 375 o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware 376 o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares 377 o FCCT M500 all firmwares 378 379 Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware 380 with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for 381 updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these 382 drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given 383 this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no 384 other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above 385 vendors work. 386 387 To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your 388 drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting: 389 kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2" 390 in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the 391 quirks entry to 0x3. 392 39320160330: 394 The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is 395 now the one true way. The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has 396 been removed. See 20160311 for further details. 397 39820160317: 399 Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t. All 400 drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled. 401 40220160311: 403 WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree 404 builds. It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the 405 'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran 406 when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before 407 building anything else. Dependencies are gathered at compile time with 408 -MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file. Users should 409 run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older 410 stale .depend files. 411 41220160306: 413 On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into 414 kernel modules. Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time, 415 please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before 416 rebooting, e.g.: 417 418 make buildworld 419 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 420 make -C sys/boot install 421 <reboot in single user> 422 423 Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section, 424 below. 425 42620160305: 427 Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0. Please 428 see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 429 upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 430 43120160301: 432 The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The 433 VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed. 434 Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only 435 permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable 436 asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the 437 vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value. 438 43920160226: 440 The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the 441 ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a 442 drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The 443 (temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set 444 to obtain the GNU version if necessary. 445 44620160129: 447 Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default. That 448 feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks. 449 Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will 450 still work, even if the guest is using ZFS. Legacy behavior can be 451 restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1. 452 45320160119: 454 The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH. They are 455 still available in the security/openssh-portable port. 456 45720160113: 458 With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required 459 during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user 460 prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 461 46220151216: 463 The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a 464 consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp 465 server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the 466 other loaders. 467 46820151211: 469 The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has 470 been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel, 471 a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced 472 for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild 473 the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or 474 later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding. 475 47620151207: 477 Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and 478 installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but 479 requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed 480 world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes 481 in src.conf(5). 482 48320151130: 484 r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and 485 nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether. 486 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 487 48820151108: 489 Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of 490 order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old 491 behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C". 492 493 Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given 494 collation results will be different. 495 496 Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient 497 locales before running make installworld. 498 499 rm -rf /usr/share/locale/* 500 50120151030: 502 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d. Any binaries requiring 503 libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled. 504 50520151020: 506 Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0. 507 Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and 508 should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively. 509 51020151017: 511 The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into 512 sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and 513 'make -n -n' to recursively show commands. Now 'make -n' will recurse 514 and 'make -N' will not. 515 51620151012: 517 If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster 518 and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now 519 updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld. If you had 520 excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may 521 want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install". 522 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of 523 whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used. If you are not using 524 SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior. 525 52620151011: 527 Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. 528 It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases 529 and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.* 530 environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links. 531 53220151006: 533 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 534 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 535 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 536 53720150924: 538 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 539 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 540 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 541 userland debug files. 542 543 When using the supported kernel installation method the 544 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 545 as is done with /boot/kernel. 546 547 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 548 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 549 55020150827: 551 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 552 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 553 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 554 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 555 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 556 rc.d scripts in /etc. 557 55820150827: 559 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 560 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 561 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 562 56320150817: 564 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 565 them, the kernel must have 566 567 device random 568 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 569 570 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 571 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 572 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 573 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 574 575 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 576 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 577 57820150813: 579 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 580 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 581 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 582 58320150810: 584 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 585 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 586 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 587 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 588 589 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 590 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 591 difference with this change. 592 593 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 594 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 595 remove that workaround. 596 59720150809: 598 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 599 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 600 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 601 with: 602 603 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 604 60520150806: 606 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 607 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 608 loader.rc.local instead. 609 61020150805: 611 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 612 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 613 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 614 61520150728: 616 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 617 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 618 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 619 620 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 621 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 622 62320150706: 624 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 625 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 626 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 627 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 628 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 629 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 630 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 631 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 632 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 633 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 634 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 635 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 636 63720150630: 638 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 639 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 640 641 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 642 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 643 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 644 645 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 646 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 647 648 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 649 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 650 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 651 652 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 653 entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 654 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 655 and it is assumed you know what you need. 656 657 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 658 habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 659 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 660 behaviour from your security subsystems. 661 662 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 663 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 664 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 665 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 666 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 667 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 668 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 669 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 670 will never happen. 671 67220150623: 673 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 674 entry below has been been committed in revision 284717. 675 67620150616: 677 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 678 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 679 68020150615: 681 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 682 below has been been committed in revision 284436. The work 683 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 684 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 685 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 686 68720150614: 688 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 689 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 690 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 691 with Kyuafile and kyua. 692 69320150614: 694 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 695 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 696 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 697 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 698 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 699 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 700 2048 bit DH parameter by: 701 702 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 703 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 704 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 705 replace it with '2'. 706 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 707 a file path, create a new file with: 708 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 709 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 710 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 711 5. Restart sendmail: 712 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 713 714 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 715 updated. 716 71720150604: 718 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 719 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 720 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 721 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 722 5.x. 723 724 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 725 72620150525: 727 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 728 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 729 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 730 73120150521: 732 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 733 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 734 and Pandaboard: 735 736 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 737 same but content is different now 738 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 739 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 740 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 741 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 742 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 743 74420150501: 745 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 746 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 747 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 748 74920150423: 750 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 751 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 752 75320150415: 754 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 755 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 756 75720150416: 758 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 759 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 760 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 761 76220150324: 763 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 764 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 765 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 766 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 767 76820150315: 769 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 770 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 771 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 772 77320150307: 774 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 775 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 776 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 777 kernel before rebooting. 778 77920150217: 780 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 781 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 782 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 783 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 784 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 785 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 786 78720150210: 788 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 789 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 790 with the new kernel. 791 79220150131: 793 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 794 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 795 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 796 79720150118: 798 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 799 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 800 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 801 are not already using 3.5.0. 802 80320150107: 804 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 805 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 806 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 807 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 808 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 809 81020150105: 811 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 812 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 813 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 814 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 815 81620150102: 817 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 818 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 819 82020141231: 821 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 822 823 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 824 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 825 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 826 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 827 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 828 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 829 later. 830 831 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 832 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 833 of the box. 834 835 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 836 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 837 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 838 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 839 840 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 841 the instructions for 9.x above. 842 843 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 844 default, and do not build clang. 845 846 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 847 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 848 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 849 850 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 851 the following are most likely to appear: 852 853 -Wabsolute-value 854 855 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 856 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 857 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 858 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 859 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 860 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 861 cast, or disable the warning. 862 863 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 864 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 865 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 866 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 867 side-effects. 868 869 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 870 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 871 872 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 873 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 874 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 875 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 876 877 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 878 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 879 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 880 unreachable could be optimized away. 881 88220141222: 883 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 884 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 885 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 886 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 887 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 888 the utilities will report errors. 889 89020141121: 891 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 892 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 893 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 894 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 895 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 896 LOCAL_DIRS. 897 89820141109: 899 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 900 has been obsolete for a very long time. 901 90220141104: 903 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 904 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 905 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 906 drivers. 907 908 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 909 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 910 indicate what you need to do. 911 912 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 913 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 914 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 915 916 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 917 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 918 kern.vty=sc 919 92020141102: 921 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 922 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 923 execute it. 924 92520141009: 926 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 927 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 928 devel/gperf port. 929 93020140923: 931 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 932 contrib/pjdfstest . 933 93420140922: 935 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 936 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 937 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 938 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 939 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 940 their next update cycle. 941 94220140729: 943 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 944 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 945 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 946 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 947 1.12.4_8 or newer. 948 94920140723: 950 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 951 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 952 95320140719: 954 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 955 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 956 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 957 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 958 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 959 new configuration. 960 96120140709: 962 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 963 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 964 them again. 965 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 966 96720140708: 968 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 969 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 970 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 971 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 972 requires readline. 973 97420140702: 975 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 976 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 977 architecture. 978 97920140701: 980 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 981 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 982 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 983 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 984 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 985 98620140629: 987 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 988 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 989 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 990 99120140619: 992 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 993 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 994 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 995 99620140606: 997 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 998 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 999 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 1000 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 1001 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 1002 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 1003 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 1004 "make installworld". 1005 1006 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 1007 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 1008 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 1009 is run. 1010 1011 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 1012 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 1013 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 1014 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 1015 be removed during a clean upgrade. 1016 101720140512: 1018 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 1019 102020140508: 1021 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 1022 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 1023 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 1024 102520140505: 1026 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 1027 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 1028 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 1029 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 1030 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 1031 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 1032 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 1033 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 1034 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 1035 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 1036 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 1037 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 1038 1039 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 1040 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 1041 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 1042 as well. 1043 104420140430: 1045 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 1046 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 1047 104820140424: 1049 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 1050 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 1051 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 1052 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 1053 build hosts for older releases. 1054 1055 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 1056 r276991, respectively. 1057 105820140418: 1059 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 1060 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 1061 will silently lack HESIOD. 1062 106320140405: 1064 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 1065 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 1066 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 1067 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 1068 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 1069 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 1070 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 1071 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 1072 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 1073 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 1074 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 1075 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 1076 107720140306: 1078 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 1079 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 1080 with command line option -W. 1081 108220140226: 1083 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 1084 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 1085 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 1086 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 1087 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 1088 108920140216: 1090 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 1091 109220140216: 1093 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 1094 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 1095 109620140212: 1097 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 1098 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 1099 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 1100 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 1101 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 1102 110320140204: 1104 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 1105 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 1106 kernel is still highly recommended. 1107 110820140131: 1109 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 1110 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 1111 capability mode support in kernel. 1112 111320140128: 1114 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 1115 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 1116 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 1117 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 1118 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 1119 112020140110: 1121 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 1122 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 1123 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 1124 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 1125 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 1126 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 1127 112820131213: 1129 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 1130 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 1131 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 1132 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 1133 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 1134 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 1135 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 1136 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 1137 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 1138 113920131108: 1140 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 1141 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 1142 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 1143 should change your settings to use the latter. 1144 114520131025: 1146 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 1147 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 1148 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 1149 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 1150 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 1151 115220131014: 1153 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 1154 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 1155 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 1156 delete-old-libs": 1157 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 1158 or 1159 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 1160 116120131010: 1162 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 1163 revision r256279. 1164 116520131010: 1166 The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8) 1167 configuration file. The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables 1168 for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to 1169 /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked. 1170 This is transparently backward compatible. See below about some 1171 incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details. 1172 1173 These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration 1174 file. One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate 1175 a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without 1176 running the jail(8) utility. The default pathname of the 1177 configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by 1178 using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables. 1179 1180 Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at 1181 this moment. Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name 1182 with an integer. 1183 118420130930: 1185 BIND has been removed from the base system. If all you need 1186 is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound 1187 service instead. Otherwise, several versions of BIND are 1188 available in the ports tree. The dns/bind99 port is one example. 1189 1190 With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base 1191 system. Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are 1192 in the base system. Alternatively, nslookup and dig can 1193 be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port. 1194 119520130916: 1196 With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now 1197 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1198 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1199 120020130911: 1201 OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default 1202 silently trust signed SSHFP records. This can be controlled with 1203 the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting. DNSSEC support 1204 can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf. 1205 120620130906: 1207 The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++) 1208 are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system 1209 compiler. You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX 1210 options in src.conf. 1211 121220130905: 1213 The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel 1214 configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work. 1215 If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include 1216 'options PROCDESC'. 1217 121820130905: 1219 The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified 1220 in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs 1221 have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the 1222 following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is 1223 advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl, 1224 kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq. 1225 122620130903: 1227 AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc. The AES-NI module 1228 has been updated to use this support. A new gcc is required to build 1229 the aesni module on both i386 and amd64. 1230 123120130821: 1232 The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices. 1233 Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be 1234 used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG". 1235 123620130813: 1237 WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets. WITH_ICONV now 1238 enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default. 1239 WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time 1240 compatibility. Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way. 1241 If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely 1242 need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT. 1243 124420130806: 1245 INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and 1246 Illumos origin, including ZFS. If you have INVARIANTS in your 1247 kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG 1248 explicitly. 1249 DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS) 1250 locks if WITNESS option was set. Because that generated a lot of 1251 witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false 1252 positives, this is no longer done. New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS 1253 can be used to achieve the previous behavior. 1254 125520130806: 1256 Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead 1257 of time_second. Although this is not a user-visible functional 1258 change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8), 1259 rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated 1260 to r253970 or later. 1261 126220130802: 1263 find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments, 1264 instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did 1265 not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message 1266 would result: 1267 1268 find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe 1269 1270 Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented 1271 without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing 1272 directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the 1273 old as well as the new version of find. 1274 127520130726: 1276 Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed. 1277 Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs 1278 path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by 1279 slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs 1280 subdirectories must be reviewed. 1281 128220130716: 1283 The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is 1284 incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will 1285 need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 1286 1287 To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set. 1288 1289 NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and 1290 users are advised to upgrade. 1291 129220130709: 1293 pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it 1294 you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5). 1295 129620130709: 1297 Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able 1298 keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking 1299 statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.) 1300 130120130618: 1302 Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write 1303 to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space 1304 even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had 1305 write access to that file. 1306 130720130615: 1308 CVS has been removed from the base system. An exact copy 1309 of the code is available from the devel/cvs port. 1310 131120130613: 1312 Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake: 1313 1314 make: illegal option -- J 1315 usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable] 1316 ... 1317 *** [buildworld] Error code 2 1318 1319 this likely due to an old instance of make in 1320 ${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE}) 1321 which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if 1322 you see the above error: 1323 1324 rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH` 1325 1326 should resolve it. 1327 132820130516: 1329 Use bmake by default. 1330 Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via 1331 -DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old 1332 make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE. 1333 1334 It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command 1335 line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the 1336 command line. Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer 1337 than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent 1338 behavior in parallel build. 1339 134020130429: 1341 Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files. 1342 134320130426: 1344 The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because 1345 the IDEA patent expired. 1346 134720130426: 1348 The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed 1349 from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been 1350 enabled by default. 1351 135220130425: 1353 The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX 1354 rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in 1355 order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as 1356 install and mtree. When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where 1357 the install command does not support -l, you will need to 1358 install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required. 1359 This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster 1360 && make install). 1361 136220130404: 1363 Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since 1364 FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources. Kernel modules 1365 atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are 1366 removed. Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled 1367 and removed. 1368 136920130319: 1370 SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2) 1371 and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may 1372 automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting 1373 binaries will not work on older kernels. 1374 137520130308: 1376 CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further 1377 information, see the respective 20130304 entry). 1378 137920130304: 1380 Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout, 1381 so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions 1382 in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced 1383 by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild 1384 is requested. 1385 1386 The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64, 1387 but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE 1388 option) to save memory. To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE 1389 option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 1390 in /boot/loader.conf. 1391 139220130301: 1393 The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64. 1394 This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system 1395 initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if 1396 a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system 1397 unusable on 128MB or less of RAM. 1398 139920130208: 1400 A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please 1401 refer to zpool-features(7) for more information. 1402 1403 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1404 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1405 140620130129: 1407 A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed 1408 as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch. 1409 To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default, 1410 while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild 1411 and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set. 1412 141320130121: 1414 Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build 1415 and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL 1416 make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the 1417 command line. If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs 1418 you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or 1419 /etc/src.conf. 1420 142120130118: 1422 The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an 1423 argument that is a file or path to append logs to. In the 1424 unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line 1425 and the command line contained at least two files and a target 1426 directory the first file will have logs appended to it. The -M 1427 option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its 1428 use is expected to be extremely rare. 1429 143020121223: 1431 After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS 1432 on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics. 1433 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations. 1434 143520121222: 1436 GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata. 1437 Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters, 1438 '%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to 1439 be updated. 1440 144120121217: 1442 By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved. To 1443 restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps 1444 stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf: 1445 1446 savecore_flags="" 1447 144820121201: 1449 With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now 1450 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1451 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1452 145320121117: 1454 The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now 1455 filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via 1456 sysctl or routing socket. This means the KAME-specific embedded scope 1457 id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application. 1458 This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid. 1459 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025. 1460 146120121105: 1462 On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default. 1463 This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang 1464 and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++, 1465 and /usr/bin/cpp. To disable this behavior and revert to building 1466 with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions 1467 of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang 1468 build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable 1469 branch point). 1470 147120121102: 1472 The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its 1473 functionality now turned on by default. 1474 147520121023: 1476 The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and 1477 split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP. 1478 NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write 1479 mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes. 1480 NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current 1481 driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage. 1482 Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under 1483 consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal 1484 of the two kernel options. 1485 148620121023: 1487 The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte 1488 order. The following modules need to be recompiled together 1489 with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4), 1490 pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4). 1491 149220121022: 1493 Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The 1494 VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be 1495 recompiled. 1496 149720121018: 1498 All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from 1499 the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs, 1500 portalfs, smbfs, xfs. 1501 150220121016: 1503 The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following 1504 modules need to be recompiled together with kernel: 1505 ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4), 1506 vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4), 1507 faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4). 1508 150920121015: 1510 The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host 1511 Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver). 1512 No kernel config modifications are required, but if you 1513 load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead. 1514 151520121014: 1516 Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system. 1517 151820121013: 1519 The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed 1520 sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious 1521 problems have been reported. The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT 1522 knob has also gone. 1523 152420121006: 1525 The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet 1526 filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled 1527 with new kernel. 1528 152920121001: 1530 The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver 1531 PS-POLL and power-save support. All wireless drivers need to be 1532 recompiled to work with the new kernel. 1533 153420120913: 1535 The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number 1536 generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally. 1537 Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if 1538 needed. The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the 1539 device, so the change only affects the custom kernel 1540 configurations. 1541 154220120908: 1543 The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and 1544 snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel. 1545 154620120828: 1547 A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged 1548 to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be 1549 imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support 1550 this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5) 1551 manual page. 1552 155320120727: 1554 The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto- 1555 detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these 1556 to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable. 1557 155820120712: 1559 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c. Any binaries requiring 1560 libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled. Also, there are 1561 configuration changes. Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf. 1562 156320120712: 1564 The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency 1565 with other variables: 1566 kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered 1567 kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered 1568 156920120628: 1570 The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort. For now, GNU sort 1571 is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to 1572 GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT. In this case, BSD sort will be 1573 installed as "bsdsort". 1574 157520120611: 1576 A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD. 1577 Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning 1578 is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward 1579 compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS 1580 pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools 1581 is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information 1582 read the new zpool-features(5) manual page. 1583 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1584 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1585 158620120417: 1587 The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported 1588 as contrib/jemalloc. The most disruptive API change is to 1589 /etc/malloc.conf. If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf, 1590 delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the 1591 new format after rebooting. See malloc.conf(5) for details 1592 (specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL 1593 NAMESPACE section). 1594 159520120328: 1596 Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb". mips64eb 1597 is now spelled mips64. mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32. mipseb is 1598 now spelled mips. This is to aid compatibility with third-party 1599 software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3). Little-endian 1600 settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine 1601 from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in 1602 your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine. 1603 160420120306: 1605 Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported 1606 platforms. 1607 160820120229: 1609 Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on nullfs(5). Previously 1610 nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer, 1611 as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect 1612 only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect 1613 only to the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the 1614 lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to. 1615 161620120211: 1617 The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored. 1618 If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to 1619 recompile libc again with your kernel. You still need to recompile 1620 world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already 1621 comes from 20111215. 1622 162320120114: 1624 The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr. All 1625 base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a 1626 port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either 1627 hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port. 1628 1629 An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d: 1630 rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i 1631 163220120109: 1633 panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts 1634 on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running. 1635 This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic 1636 tunable/sysctl. 1637 The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic. 1638 163920111215: 1640 The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration 1641 of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format 1642 of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages 1643 for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently 1644 not supported anymore. 1645 1646 Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User 1647 utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8), 1648 need to be recompiled. 1649 165020111122: 1651 The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to 1652 /dev/wmistat0. 1653 165420111108: 1655 The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to 1656 explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems. 1657 It is on by default for all supported platform at this present 1658 time. 1659 166020111101: 1661 The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64, 1662 i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files. 1663 166420110930: 1665 sysinstall has been removed 1666 166720110923: 1668 The stable/9 branch created in subversion. This corresponds to the 1669 RELENG_9 branch in CVS. 1670 1671COMMON ITEMS: 1672 1673 General Notes 1674 ------------- 1675 Avoid using make -j when upgrading. While generally safe, there are 1676 sometimes problems using -j to upgrade. If your upgrade fails with 1677 -j, please try again without -j. From time to time in the past there 1678 have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This 1679 is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one 1680 that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when 1681 several months have passed on the -current branch). 1682 1683 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 1684 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 1685 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 1686 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 1687 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 1688 1689 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to 1690 upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then 1691 do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path, 1692 and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try this 1693 approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade. Since 1694 the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgade from 1695 anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the 1696 last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's 1697 an exception. 1698 1699 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 1700 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 1701 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 1702 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 1703 1704 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 1705 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 1706 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 1707 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 1708 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 1709 should write them with this in mind. 1710 1711 ZFS notes 1712 --------- 1713 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 1714 these two steps: 1715 1716 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 1717 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 1718 1719 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 1720 1721 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first 1722 partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 1723 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0" 1724 1725 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 1726 1727 To build a kernel 1728 ----------------- 1729 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 1730 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 1731 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 1732 1733 make kernel-toolchain 1734 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1735 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1736 1737 To test a kernel once 1738 --------------------- 1739 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 1740 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 1741 debugging information) run 1742 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 1743 nextboot -k testkernel 1744 1745 To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up 1746 -------------------------------------------------------------- 1747 This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system. Replace 1748 ${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386", 1749 "arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc). 1750 1751 cd src/sys/${arch}/conf 1752 config KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1753 cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1754 make depend 1755 make 1756 make install 1757 1758 If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section. 1759 1760 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 1761 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1762 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 1763 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 1764 1765 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1766 make buildworld 1767 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1768 [1] 1769 <reboot in single user> [3] 1770 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1771 make installworld 1772 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1773 make delete-old [6] 1774 <reboot> 1775 1776 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 1777 -------------------------------------------------- 1778 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 1779 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 1780 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 1781 # size. 1782 1783 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1784 <boot into -stable> 1785 make buildworld 1786 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1787 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 1788 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 1789 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 1790 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 1791 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1792 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 1793 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 1794 <reboot into current> 1795 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 1796 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 1797 <reboot> 1798 1799 1800 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 1801 ---------------------------------------------- 1802 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1803 make buildworld [9] 1804 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 1805 [1] 1806 <reboot in single user> [3] 1807 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1808 make installworld 1809 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1810 make delete-old [6] 1811 <reboot> 1812 1813 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 1814 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 1815 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 1816 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 1817 the UPDATING entries. 1818 1819 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 1820 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 1821 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 1822 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 1823 much fewer pitfalls. 1824 1825 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you 1826 should disable them at this point so they don't crash your 1827 system on reboot. 1828 1829 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 1830 fsck -p 1831 mount -u / 1832 mount -a 1833 cd src 1834 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 1835 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that 1836 you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. 1837 1838 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 1839 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 1840 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 1841 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 1842 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 1843 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 1844 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 1845 1846 [5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time 1847 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 1848 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 1849 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 1850 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 1851 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 1852 1853 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 1854 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 1855 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 1856 1857 [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to 1858 do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in 1859 your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is 1860 hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is 1861 required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on 1862 for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7. 1863 1864 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 1865 last time you updated your kernel config file. 1866 1867 [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have 1868 cvs prune empty directories. 1869 1870 If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 1871 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 1872 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 1873 1874 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 1875 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 1876 warn if it is improperly defined. 1877FORMAT: 1878 1879This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 1880breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 1881list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011. 1882If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 1883to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 1884 1885Copyright information: 1886 1887Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. 1888 1889Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without 1890modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this 1891document are permitted without further permission from the author. 1892 1893THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY WARNER LOSH ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 1894IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 1895WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 1896DISCLAIMED. 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