1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users. 2 3This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>. 4See end of file for further details. For commonly done items, please see the 5COMMON ITEMS: section later in the file. These instructions assume that you 6basically know what you are doing. If not, then please consult the FreeBSD 7handbook: 8 9 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html 10 11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in 12/usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before running portupgrade. 13 14NOTE: FreeBSD has switched from gcc to clang. If you have trouble bootstrapping 15from older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG and WITH_GCC to bootstrap to 16the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process from 17older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile. 18 19NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 11.x IS SLOW: 20 FreeBSD 11.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 3420150728: 35 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 36 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 37 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 38 39 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 40 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 41 4220150706: 43 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 44 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 45 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 46 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 47 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 48 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 49 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 50 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 51 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 52 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 53 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 54 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 55 5620150630: 57 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 58 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 59 60 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 61 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 62 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 63 64 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 65 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 66 67 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 68 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 69 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 70 71 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 72 entopy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 73 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 74 and it is assumed you know what you need. 75 76 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 77 habit of tweeking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 78 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 79 behaviour from your security subsystems. 80 81 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 82 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 83 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 84 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 85 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 86 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 87 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 88 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 89 will never happen. 90 9120150623: 92 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 93 entry below has been been committed in revision 284717. 94 9520150616: 96 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 97 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 98 9920150615: 100 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 101 below has been been committed in revision 284436. The work 102 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 103 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 104 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 105 10620150614: 107 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 108 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 109 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 110 with Kyuafile and kyua. 111 11220150614: 113 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 114 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 115 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 116 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 117 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 118 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 119 2048 bit DH parameter by: 120 121 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 122 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 123 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 124 replace it with '2'. 125 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 126 a file path, create a new file with: 127 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 128 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 129 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 130 5. Restart sendmail: 131 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 132 133 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 134 updated. 135 13620150604: 137 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 138 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 139 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 140 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 141 5.x. 142 143 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 144 14520150525: 146 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 147 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 148 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 149 15020150521: 151 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 152 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 153 and Pandaboard: 154 155 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 156 same but content is different now 157 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 158 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 159 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 160 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 161 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 162 16320150501: 164 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 165 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 166 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 167 16820150423: 169 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 170 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 171 17220150415: 173 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 174 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 175 17620150416: 177 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 178 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 179 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 180 18120150324: 182 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 183 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 184 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 185 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 186 18720150315: 188 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 189 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 190 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 191 19220150307: 193 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 194 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 195 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 196 kernel before rebooting. 197 19820150217: 199 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 200 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 201 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 202 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 203 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 204 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 205 20620150210: 207 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 208 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 209 with the new kernel. 210 21120150131: 212 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 213 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 214 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 215 21620150118: 217 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 218 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 219 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 220 are not already using 3.5.0. 221 22220150107: 223 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 224 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 225 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 226 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 227 binutils tools, if necessary. 228 22920150105: 230 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 231 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 232 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 233 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 234 23520150102: 236 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 237 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 238 23920141231: 240 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 241 242 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 243 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 244 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 245 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 246 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 247 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 248 later. 249 250 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 251 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 252 of the box. 253 254 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 255 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 256 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 257 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 258 259 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 260 the instructions for 9.x above. 261 262 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 263 default, and do not build clang. 264 265 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 266 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 267 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 268 269 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 270 the following are most likely to appear: 271 272 -Wabsolute-value 273 274 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 275 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 276 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 277 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 278 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 279 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 280 cast, or disable the warning. 281 282 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 283 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 284 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 285 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 286 side-effects. 287 288 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 289 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 290 291 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 292 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 293 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 294 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 295 296 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 297 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 298 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 299 unreachable could be optimized away. 300 30120141222: 302 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 303 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 304 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 305 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 306 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 307 the utilities will report errors. 308 30920141121: 310 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 311 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 312 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 313 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 314 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 315 LOCAL_DIRS. 316 31720141109: 318 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 319 has been obsolete for a very long time. 320 32120141104: 322 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 323 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 324 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 325 drivers. 326 327 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 328 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 329 indicate what you need to do. 330 331 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 332 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 333 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 334 335 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 336 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 337 kern.vty=sc 338 33920141102: 340 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 341 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 342 execute it. 343 34420141009: 345 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 346 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 347 devel/gperf port. 348 34920140923: 350 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 351 contrib/pjdfstest . 352 35320140922: 354 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 355 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 356 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 357 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 358 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 359 their next update cycle. 360 36120140729: 362 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 363 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 364 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 365 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 366 1.12.4_8 or newer. 367 36820140723: 369 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 370 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 371 37220140719: 373 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 374 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 375 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 376 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 377 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 378 new configuration. 379 38020140709: 381 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 382 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 383 them again. 384 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 385 38620140708: 387 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 388 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 389 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 390 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 391 requires readline. 392 39320140702: 394 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 395 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 396 architecture. 397 39820140701: 399 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 400 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 401 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 402 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 403 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 404 40520140629: 406 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 407 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 408 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 409 41020140619: 411 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 412 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 413 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 414 41520140606: 416 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 417 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 418 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 419 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 420 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 421 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 422 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 423 "make installworld". 424 425 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 426 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 427 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 428 is run. 429 430 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 431 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 432 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 433 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 434 be removed during a clean upgrade. 435 43620140512: 437 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 438 43920140508: 440 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 441 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 442 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 443 44420140505: 445 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 446 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 447 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 448 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 449 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 450 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 451 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 452 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 453 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 454 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 455 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 456 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 457 458 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 459 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 460 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 461 as well. 462 46320140430: 464 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 465 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 466 46720140424: 468 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 469 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 470 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 471 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 472 build hosts for older releases. 473 474 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 475 r276991, respectively. 476 47720140418: 478 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 479 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 480 will silently lack HESIOD. 481 48220140405: 483 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 484 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 485 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 486 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 487 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 488 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 489 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 490 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 491 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 492 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 493 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 494 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 495 49620140306: 497 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 498 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 499 with command line option -W. 500 50120140226: 502 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 503 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 504 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 505 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 506 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 507 50820140216: 509 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 510 51120140216: 512 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 513 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 514 51520140212: 516 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 517 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 518 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 519 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 520 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 521 52220140204: 523 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 524 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 525 kernel is still highly recommended. 526 52720140131: 528 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 529 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 530 capability mode support in kernel. 531 53220140128: 533 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 534 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 535 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 536 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 537 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 538 53920140110: 540 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 541 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 542 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 543 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 544 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 545 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 546 54720131213: 548 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 549 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 550 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 551 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 552 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 553 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 554 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 555 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 556 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 557 55820131108: 559 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 560 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 561 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 562 should change your settings to use the latter. 563 56420131025: 565 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 566 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 567 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 568 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 569 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 570 57120131014: 572 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 573 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 574 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 575 delete-old-libs": 576 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 577 or 578 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 579 58020131010: 581 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 582 revision r256279. 583 58420131010: 585 The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8) 586 configuration file. The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables 587 for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to 588 /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked. 589 This is transparently backward compatible. See below about some 590 incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details. 591 592 These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration 593 file. One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate 594 a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without 595 running the jail(8) utility. The default pathname of the 596 configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by 597 using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables. 598 599 Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at 600 this moment. Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name 601 with an integer. 602 60320130930: 604 BIND has been removed from the base system. If all you need 605 is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound 606 service instead. Otherwise, several versions of BIND are 607 available in the ports tree. The dns/bind99 port is one example. 608 609 With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base 610 system. Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are 611 in the base system. Alternatively, nslookup and dig can 612 be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port. 613 61420130916: 615 With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now 616 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 617 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 618 61920130911: 620 OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default 621 silently trust signed SSHFP records. This can be controlled with 622 the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting. DNSSEC support 623 can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf. 624 62520130906: 626 The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++) 627 are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system 628 compiler. You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX 629 options in src.conf. 630 63120130905: 632 The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel 633 configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work. 634 If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include 635 'options PROCDESC'. 636 63720130905: 638 The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified 639 in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs 640 have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the 641 following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is 642 advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl, 643 kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq. 644 64520130903: 646 AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc. The AES-NI module 647 has been updated to use this support. A new gcc is required to build 648 the aesni module on both i386 and amd64. 649 65020130821: 651 The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices. 652 Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be 653 used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG". 654 65520130813: 656 WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets. WITH_ICONV now 657 enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default. 658 WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time 659 compatability. Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way. 660 If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely 661 need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT. 662 66320130806: 664 INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and 665 Illumos origin, including ZFS. If you have INVARIANTS in your 666 kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG 667 explicitly. 668 DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS) 669 locks if WITNESS option was set. Because that generated a lot of 670 witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false 671 positives, this is no longer done. New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS 672 can be used to achieve the previous behavior. 673 67420130806: 675 Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead 676 of time_second. Although this is not a user-visible functional 677 change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8), 678 rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated 679 to r253970 or later. 680 68120130802: 682 find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments, 683 instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did 684 not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message 685 would result: 686 687 find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe 688 689 Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented 690 without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing 691 directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the 692 old as well as the new version of find. 693 69420130726: 695 Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed. 696 Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs 697 path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by 698 slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs 699 subdirectories must be reviewed. 700 70120130716: 702 The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is 703 incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will 704 need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 705 706 To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set. 707 708 NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and 709 users are advised to upgrade. 710 71120130709: 712 pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it 713 you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5). 714 71520130709: 716 Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able 717 keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking 718 statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.) 719 72020130629: 721 Fix targets that run multiple make's to use && rather than ; 722 so that subsequent steps depend on success of previous. 723 724 NOTE: if building 'universe' with -j* on stable/8 or stable/9 725 it would be better to start the build using bmake, to avoid 726 overloading the machine. 727 72820130618: 729 Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write 730 to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space 731 even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had 732 write access to that file. 733 73420130615: 735 CVS has been removed from the base system. An exact copy 736 of the code is available from the devel/cvs port. 737 73820130613: 739 Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake: 740 741 make: illegal option -- J 742 usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable] 743 ... 744 *** [buildworld] Error code 2 745 746 this likely due to an old instance of make in 747 ${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE}) 748 which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if 749 you see the above error: 750 751 rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH` 752 753 should resolve it. 754 75520130516: 756 Use bmake by default. 757 Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via 758 -DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old 759 make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE. 760 761 It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command 762 line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the 763 command line. Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer 764 than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent 765 behavior in parallel build. 766 76720130429: 768 Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files. 769 77020130426: 771 The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because 772 the IDEA patent expired. 773 77420130426: 775 The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed 776 from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been 777 enabled by default. 778 77920130425: 780 The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX 781 rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in 782 order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as 783 install and mtree. When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where 784 the install command does not support -l, you will need to 785 install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required. 786 This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster 787 && make install). 788 78920130404: 790 Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since 791 FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources. Kernel modules 792 atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are 793 removed. Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled 794 and removed. 795 79620130319: 797 SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2) 798 and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may 799 automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting 800 binaries will not work on older kernels. 801 80220130308: 803 CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further 804 information, see the respective 20130304 entry). 805 80620130304: 807 Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout, 808 so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions 809 in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced 810 by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild 811 is requested. 812 813 The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64, 814 but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE 815 option) to save memory. To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE 816 option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 817 in /boot/loader.conf. 818 81920130301: 820 The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64. 821 This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system 822 initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if 823 a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system 824 unusable on 128MB or less of RAM. 825 82620130208: 827 A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please 828 refer to zpool-features(7) for more information. 829 830 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 831 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 832 83320130129: 834 A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed 835 as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch. 836 To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default, 837 while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild 838 and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set. 839 84020130121: 841 Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build 842 and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL 843 make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the 844 command line. If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs 845 you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or 846 /etc/src.conf. 847 84820130118: 849 The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an 850 argument that is a file or path to append logs to. In the 851 unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line 852 and the command line contained at least two files and a target 853 directory the first file will have logs appended to it. The -M 854 option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its 855 use is expected to be extremely rare. 856 85720121223: 858 After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS 859 on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics. 860 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations. 861 86220121222: 863 GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata. 864 Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters, 865 '%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to 866 be updated. 867 86820121217: 869 By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved. To 870 restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps 871 stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf: 872 873 savecore_flags="" 874 87520121201: 876 With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now 877 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 878 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 879 88020121117: 881 The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now 882 filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via 883 sysctl or routing socket. This means the KAME-specific embedded scope 884 id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application. 885 This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid. 886 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025. 887 88820121105: 889 On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default. 890 This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang 891 and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++, 892 and /usr/bin/cpp. To disable this behavior and revert to building 893 with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions 894 of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang 895 build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable 896 branch point). 897 89820121102: 899 The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its 900 functionality now turned on by default. 901 90220121023: 903 The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and 904 split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP. 905 NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write 906 mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes. 907 NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current 908 driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage. 909 Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under 910 consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal 911 of the two kernel options. 912 91320121023: 914 The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte 915 order. The following modules need to be recompiled together 916 with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4), 917 pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4). 918 91920121022: 920 Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The 921 VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be 922 recompiled. 923 92420121018: 925 All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from 926 the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs, 927 portalfs, smbfs, xfs. 928 92920121016: 930 The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following 931 modules need to be recompiled together with kernel: 932 ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4), 933 vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4), 934 faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4). 935 93620121015: 937 The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host 938 Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver). 939 No kernel config modifications are required, but if you 940 load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead. 941 94220121014: 943 Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system. 944 94520121013: 946 The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed 947 sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious 948 problems have been reported. The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT 949 knob has also gone. 950 95120121006: 952 The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet 953 filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled 954 with new kernel. 955 95620121001: 957 The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver 958 PS-POLL and power-save support. All wireless drivers need to be 959 recompiled to work with the new kernel. 960 96120120913: 962 The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number 963 generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally. 964 Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if 965 needed. The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the 966 device, so the change only affects the custom kernel 967 configurations. 968 96920120908: 970 The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and 971 snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel. 972 97320120828: 974 A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged 975 to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be 976 imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support 977 this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5) 978 manual page. 979 98020120727: 981 The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto- 982 detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these 983 to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable. 984 98520120712: 986 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c. Any binaries requiring 987 libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled. Also, there are 988 configuration changes. Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf. 989 99020120712: 991 The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency 992 with other variables: 993 kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered 994 kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered 995 99620120628: 997 The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort. For now, GNU sort 998 is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to 999 GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT. In this case, BSD sort will be 1000 installed as "bsdsort". 1001 100220120611: 1003 A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD. 1004 Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning 1005 is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward 1006 compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS 1007 pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools 1008 is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information 1009 read the new zpool-features(5) manual page. 1010 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1011 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1012 101320120417: 1014 The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported 1015 as contrib/jemalloc. The most disruptive API change is to 1016 /etc/malloc.conf. If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf, 1017 delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the 1018 new format after rebooting. See malloc.conf(5) for details 1019 (specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL 1020 NAMESPACE section). 1021 102220120328: 1023 Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb". mips64eb 1024 is now spelled mips64. mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32. mipseb is 1025 now spelled mips. This is to aid compatibility with third-party 1026 software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3). Little-endian 1027 settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine 1028 from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in 1029 your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine. 1030 103120120306: 1032 Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported 1033 platforms. 1034 103520120229: 1036 Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on nullfs(5). Previously 1037 nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer, 1038 as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect 1039 only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect 1040 only to the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the 1041 lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to. 1042 104320120211: 1044 The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored. 1045 If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to 1046 recompile libc again with your kernel. You still need to recompile 1047 world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already 1048 comes from 20111215. 1049 105020120114: 1051 The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr. All 1052 base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a 1053 port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either 1054 hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port. 1055 1056 An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d: 1057 rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i 1058 105920120109: 1060 panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts 1061 on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running. 1062 This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic 1063 tunable/sysctl. 1064 The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic. 1065 106620111215: 1067 The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration 1068 of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format 1069 of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages 1070 for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently 1071 not supported anymore. 1072 1073 Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User 1074 utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8), 1075 need to be recompiled. 1076 107720111122: 1078 The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to 1079 /dev/wmistat0. 1080 108120111108: 1082 The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to 1083 explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems. 1084 It is on by default for all supported platform at this present 1085 time. 1086 108720111101: 1088 The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64, 1089 i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files. 1090 109120110930: 1092 sysinstall has been removed 1093 109420110923: 1095 The stable/9 branch created in subversion. This corresponds to the 1096 RELENG_9 branch in CVS. 1097 1098COMMON ITEMS: 1099 1100 General Notes 1101 ------------- 1102 Avoid using make -j when upgrading. While generally safe, there are 1103 sometimes problems using -j to upgrade. If your upgrade fails with 1104 -j, please try again without -j. From time to time in the past there 1105 have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This 1106 is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one 1107 that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when 1108 several months have passed on the -current branch). 1109 1110 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 1111 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 1112 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 1113 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 1114 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 1115 1116 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best 1117 to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, 1118 then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade 1119 path, and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try 1120 this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade. 1121 1122 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 1123 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 1124 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 1125 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 1126 1127 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 1128 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 1129 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 1130 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 1131 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 1132 should write them with this in mind. 1133 1134 ZFS notes 1135 --------- 1136 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 1137 these two steps: 1138 1139 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 1140 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 1141 1142 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 1143 1144 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first 1145 partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 1146 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0" 1147 1148 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 1149 1150 To build a kernel 1151 ----------------- 1152 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 1153 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 1154 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 1155 1156 make kernel-toolchain 1157 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1158 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1159 1160 To test a kernel once 1161 --------------------- 1162 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 1163 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 1164 debugging information) run 1165 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 1166 nextboot -k testkernel 1167 1168 To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up 1169 -------------------------------------------------------------- 1170 This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system. Replace 1171 ${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386", 1172 "arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc). 1173 1174 cd src/sys/${arch}/conf 1175 config KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1176 cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1177 make depend 1178 make 1179 make install 1180 1181 If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section. 1182 1183 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 1184 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1185 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 1186 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 1187 1188 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1189 make buildworld 1190 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1191 [1] 1192 <reboot in single user> [3] 1193 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1194 make installworld 1195 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1196 make delete-old [6] 1197 <reboot> 1198 1199 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 1200 -------------------------------------------------- 1201 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 1202 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 1203 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 1204 # size. 1205 1206 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1207 <boot into -stable> 1208 make buildworld 1209 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1210 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 1211 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 1212 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 1213 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 1214 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1215 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 1216 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 1217 <reboot into current> 1218 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 1219 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 1220 <reboot> 1221 1222 1223 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 1224 ---------------------------------------------- 1225 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1226 make buildworld [9] 1227 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 1228 [1] 1229 <reboot in single user> [3] 1230 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1231 make installworld 1232 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1233 make delete-old [6] 1234 <reboot> 1235 1236 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 1237 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 1238 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 1239 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 1240 the UPDATING entries. 1241 1242 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 1243 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 1244 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 1245 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 1246 much fewer pitfalls. 1247 1248 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you 1249 should disable them at this point so they don't crash your 1250 system on reboot. 1251 1252 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 1253 fsck -p 1254 mount -u / 1255 mount -a 1256 cd src 1257 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 1258 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that 1259 you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. 1260 1261 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 1262 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 1263 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 1264 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 1265 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 1266 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 1267 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 1268 1269 [5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time 1270 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 1271 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 1272 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 1273 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 1274 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 1275 1276 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 1277 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 1278 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 1279 1280 [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to 1281 do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in 1282 your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is 1283 hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is 1284 required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on 1285 for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7. 1286 1287 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 1288 last time you updated your kernel config file. 1289 1290 [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have 1291 cvs prune empty directories. 1292 1293 If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 1294 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 1295 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 1296 1297 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 1298 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 1299 warn if it is improperly defined. 1300FORMAT: 1301 1302This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 1303breakages in tracking -current. 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