1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users. 2 3This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>. 4See end of file for further details. For commonly done items, please see the 5COMMON ITEMS: section later in the file. These instructions assume that you 6basically know what you are doing. If not, then please consult the FreeBSD 7handbook: 8 9 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html 10 11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in 12/usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before running portupgrade. 13 14NOTE: FreeBSD has switched from gcc to clang. If you have trouble bootstrapping 15from older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG and WITH_GCC to bootstrap to 16the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process 17from older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile. 18 19NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW: 20 FreeBSD 12.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel 21 and userland. These features attempt to detect incorrect use of 22 system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity 23 checking and fail stop semantics. They also substantially impact 24 system performance. If you want to do performance measurement, 25 benchmarking, and optimization, you'll want to turn them off. This 26 includes various WITNESS- related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc 27 debugging flags in userland, and various verbose features in the 28 kernel. Many developers choose to disable these features on build 29 machines to maximize performance. (To completely disable malloc 30 debugging, define MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/make.conf, or to merely 31 disable the most expensive debugging functionality run 32 "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) 33 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 5420170523: 55 The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends 56 a number of types to 64 bits. Upgrading in place requires care and 57 adherence to the documented upgrade procedure. 58 59 If using a custom kernel configuration ensure that the 60 COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option is included (as during the upgrade the 61 system will be running the ino64 kernel with the existing world). 62 63 For the safest in-place upgrade begin by removing previous build 64 artifacts via "rm -rf /usr/obj/*". Then, carefully follow the 65 full procedure documented below under the heading "To rebuild 66 everything and install it on the current system." Specifically, 67 a reboot is required after installing the new kernel before 68 installing world. 69 7020170424: 71 The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and 72 patm(4) devices has been removed. Consumers should plan a 73 migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11. 74 7520170420: 76 GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU 77 diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of 78 GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name. 79 8020170413: 81 As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when 82 keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with 83 documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state. 84 This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags 85 and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state. 86 To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with 87 keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5). 88 8920170407: 90 arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default, 91 instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be 92 installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set 93 CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin . 94 9520170405: 96 The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl 97 net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted. L2 broadcast 98 packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets. 99 10020170331: 101 Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now 102 use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail 103 instead of using the first assigned address of the jail. 104 10520170329: 106 The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend: 107 cfiscsi.ko does instead. 108 109 If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded 110 via one of the following methods: 111 - `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5). 112 - Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5). 113 - ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support 114 (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5)) 115 116 Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details. 117 11820170316: 119 The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko. 120 Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the 121 same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was 122 missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible 123 with mmc.ko). 124 12520170315: 126 The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity. 127 If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify 128 them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must 129 be prefixed with colon. 130 13120170311: 132 The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been 133 removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version 134 (sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware. 135 13620170302: 137 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0. 138 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 139 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 140 14120170221: 142 The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality 143 has been reimplemented. It's not possible now to create a snapshot 144 by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/. That should be the only user visible 145 change. 146 14720170216: 148 EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer 149 valid. 150 15120170215: 152 MCA bus support has been removed. 153 15420170127: 155 The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed 156 WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC. 157 15820170112: 159 The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that 160 the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications. 161 16220170109: 163 The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via 164 IFLIB. If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4) 165 but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom configuration. 166 16720161217: 168 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1. 169 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 170 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 171 17220161124: 173 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0. 174 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 175 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 176 17720161119: 178 The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap 179 statistics at the front for all CPU variations. libkvm(3) and all tools 180 that link against it need to be recompiled. 181 18220161030: 183 isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver, 184 chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware. 185 On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using 186 device hints. Please see the corresponding manual pages for details. 187 18820161017: 189 The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of 190 rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific 191 parts. 192 Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name 193 conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B)) 194 19520161015: 196 GNU rcs has been removed from base. It is available as packages: 197 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 198 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was 199 removed from base. 200 20120161008: 202 Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control 203 modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the 204 TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.) 205 20620161003: 207 The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 208 ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy. 209 21020160924: 211 Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed 212 to use an extension of .pico instead. The purpose of this change is 213 to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file 214 systems. On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so. 215 21620160918: 217 GNU rcs has been turned off by default. It can (temporarily) be built 218 again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf. 219 Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages: 220 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 221 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base. 222 22320160918: 224 The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr. 225 22620160908: 227 The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into 228 two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and 229 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH. Define both for the original 230 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior. 231 23220160824: 233 r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace 234 programs and the kernel. ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be 235 rebuilt to work with new kernels. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped 236 to 1200005. 237 23820160818: 239 The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP 240 packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3 241 broadcast packets. It is not expected that this will affect any 242 standards-conforming UDP application. The new behaviour can be 243 disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to 244 0. 245 24620160818: 247 Remove the openbsd_poll system call. 248 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 249 25020160622: 251 The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with 252 a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2) 253 system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include 254 "options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the 255 default). Users should ensure that this option is enabled in 256 their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their 257 kernel. 258 25920160527: 260 CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers. 261 This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using 262 those disk's diskid device nodes. For example, if /etc/fstab 263 previously contained a line like 264 "/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should 265 change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456". Users of geom 266 transforms like gmirror may also be affected. ZFS users should 267 generally be fine. 268 26920160523: 270 The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and 271 improved performance. But it is binary-incompatible with the old API. 272 Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects 273 built with the old headers. 274 27520160520: 276 The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64. 277 Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these 278 functions and should be updated to the latest version before 279 installing a new libc. 280 28120160517: 282 The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support 283 for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system 284 is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT. 285 This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld 286 and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New 287 packages will be needed. 288 289 To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add 290 TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 291 and the install steps. 292 29320160510: 294 Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to 295 installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. Many kernel 296 modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode 297 KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules. However, 298 manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will 299 now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. 300 30120160414: 302 The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be 303 no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the 304 list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt 305 data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data 306 corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete: 307 308 o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 309 o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 310 o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware 311 o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares 312 o FCCT M500 all firmwares 313 314 Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware 315 with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for 316 updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these 317 drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given 318 this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no 319 other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above 320 vendors work. 321 322 To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your 323 drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting: 324 kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2" 325 in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the 326 quirks entry to 0x3. 327 32820160330: 329 The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is 330 now the one true way. The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has 331 been removed. See 20160311 for further details. 332 33320160317: 334 Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t. All 335 drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled. 336 33720160311: 338 WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree 339 builds. It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the 340 'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran 341 when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before 342 building anything else. Dependencies are gathered at compile time with 343 -MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file. Users should 344 run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older 345 stale .depend files. 346 34720160306: 348 On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into 349 kernel modules. Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time, 350 please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before 351 rebooting, e.g.: 352 353 make buildworld 354 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 355 make -C sys/boot install 356 <reboot in single user> 357 358 Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section, 359 below. 360 36120160305: 362 Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0. Please 363 see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 364 upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 365 36620160301: 367 The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The 368 VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed. 369 Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only 370 permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable 371 asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the 372 vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value. 373 37420160226: 375 The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the 376 ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a 377 drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The 378 (temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set 379 to obtain the GNU version if necessary. 380 38120160129: 382 Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default. That 383 feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks. 384 Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will 385 still work, even if the guest is using ZFS. Legacy behavior can be 386 restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1. 387 38820160119: 389 The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH. They are 390 still available in the security/openssh-portable port. 391 39220160113: 393 With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required 394 during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user 395 prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 396 39720151216: 398 The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a 399 consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp 400 server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the 401 other loaders. 402 40320151211: 404 The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has 405 been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel, 406 a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced 407 for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild 408 the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or 409 later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding. 410 41120151207: 412 Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and 413 installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but 414 requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed 415 world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes 416 in src.conf(5). 417 41820151130: 419 r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and 420 nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether. 421 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 422 42320151108: 424 Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of 425 order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old 426 behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C". 427 428 Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given 429 collation results will be different. 430 431 Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient 432 locales before running make installworld. 433 434 rm -rf /usr/share/locale/* 435 43620151030: 437 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d. Any binaries requiring 438 libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled. 439 44020151020: 441 Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0. 442 Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and 443 should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively. 444 44520151017: 446 The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into 447 sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and 448 'make -n -n' to recursively show commands. Now 'make -n' will recurse 449 and 'make -N' will not. 450 45120151012: 452 If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster 453 and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now 454 updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld. If you had 455 excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may 456 want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install". 457 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of 458 whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used. If you are not using 459 SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior. 460 46120151011: 462 Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. 463 It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases 464 and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.* 465 environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links. 466 46720151006: 468 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 469 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 470 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 471 47220150924: 473 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 474 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 475 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 476 userland debug files. 477 478 When using the supported kernel installation method the 479 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 480 as is done with /boot/kernel. 481 482 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 483 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 484 48520150827: 486 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 487 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 488 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 489 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 490 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 491 rc.d scripts in /etc. 492 49320150827: 494 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 495 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 496 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 497 49820150817: 499 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 500 them, the kernel must have 501 502 device random 503 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 504 505 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 506 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 507 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 508 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 509 510 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 511 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 512 51320150813: 514 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 515 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 516 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 517 51820150810: 519 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 520 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 521 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 522 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 523 524 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 525 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 526 difference with this change. 527 528 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 529 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 530 remove that workaround. 531 53220150809: 533 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 534 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 535 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 536 with: 537 538 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 539 54020150806: 541 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 542 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 543 loader.rc.local instead. 544 54520150805: 546 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 547 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 548 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 549 55020150728: 551 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 552 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 553 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 554 555 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 556 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 557 55820150706: 559 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 560 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 561 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 562 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 563 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 564 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 565 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 566 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 567 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 568 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 569 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 570 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 571 57220150630: 573 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 574 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 575 576 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 577 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 578 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 579 580 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 581 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 582 583 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 584 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 585 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 586 587 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 588 entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 589 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 590 and it is assumed you know what you need. 591 592 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 593 habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 594 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 595 behaviour from your security subsystems. 596 597 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 598 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 599 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 600 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 601 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 602 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 603 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 604 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 605 will never happen. 606 60720150623: 608 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 609 entry below has been been committed in revision 284717. 610 61120150616: 612 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 613 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 614 61520150615: 616 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 617 below has been been committed in revision 284436. The work 618 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 619 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 620 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 621 62220150614: 623 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 624 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 625 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 626 with Kyuafile and kyua. 627 62820150614: 629 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 630 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 631 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 632 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 633 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 634 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 635 2048 bit DH parameter by: 636 637 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 638 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 639 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 640 replace it with '2'. 641 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 642 a file path, create a new file with: 643 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 644 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 645 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 646 5. Restart sendmail: 647 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 648 649 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 650 updated. 651 65220150604: 653 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 654 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 655 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 656 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 657 5.x. 658 659 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 660 66120150525: 662 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 663 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 664 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 665 66620150521: 667 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 668 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 669 and Pandaboard: 670 671 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 672 same but content is different now 673 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 674 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 675 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 676 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 677 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 678 67920150501: 680 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 681 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 682 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 683 68420150423: 685 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 686 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 687 68820150415: 689 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 690 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 691 69220150416: 693 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 694 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 695 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 696 69720150324: 698 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 699 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 700 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 701 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 702 70320150315: 704 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 705 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 706 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 707 70820150307: 709 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 710 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 711 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 712 kernel before rebooting. 713 71420150217: 715 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 716 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 717 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 718 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 719 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 720 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 721 72220150210: 723 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 724 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 725 with the new kernel. 726 72720150131: 728 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 729 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 730 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 731 73220150118: 733 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 734 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 735 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 736 are not already using 3.5.0. 737 73820150107: 739 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 740 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 741 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 742 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 743 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 744 74520150105: 746 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 747 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 748 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 749 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 750 75120150102: 752 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 753 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 754 75520141231: 756 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 757 758 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 759 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 760 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 761 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 762 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 763 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 764 later. 765 766 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 767 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 768 of the box. 769 770 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 771 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 772 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 773 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 774 775 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 776 the instructions for 9.x above. 777 778 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 779 default, and do not build clang. 780 781 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 782 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 783 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 784 785 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 786 the following are most likely to appear: 787 788 -Wabsolute-value 789 790 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 791 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 792 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 793 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 794 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 795 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 796 cast, or disable the warning. 797 798 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 799 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 800 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 801 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 802 side-effects. 803 804 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 805 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 806 807 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 808 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 809 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 810 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 811 812 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 813 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 814 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 815 unreachable could be optimized away. 816 81720141222: 818 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 819 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 820 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 821 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 822 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 823 the utilities will report errors. 824 82520141121: 826 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 827 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 828 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 829 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 830 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 831 LOCAL_DIRS. 832 83320141109: 834 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 835 has been obsolete for a very long time. 836 83720141104: 838 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 839 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 840 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 841 drivers. 842 843 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 844 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 845 indicate what you need to do. 846 847 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 848 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 849 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 850 851 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 852 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 853 kern.vty=sc 854 85520141102: 856 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 857 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 858 execute it. 859 86020141009: 861 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 862 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 863 devel/gperf port. 864 86520140923: 866 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 867 contrib/pjdfstest . 868 86920140922: 870 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 871 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 872 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 873 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 874 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 875 their next update cycle. 876 87720140729: 878 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 879 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 880 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 881 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 882 1.12.4_8 or newer. 883 88420140723: 885 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 886 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 887 88820140719: 889 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 890 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 891 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 892 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 893 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 894 new configuration. 895 89620140709: 897 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 898 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 899 them again. 900 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 901 90220140708: 903 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 904 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 905 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 906 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 907 requires readline. 908 90920140702: 910 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 911 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 912 architecture. 913 91420140701: 915 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 916 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 917 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 918 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 919 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 920 92120140629: 922 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 923 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 924 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 925 92620140619: 927 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 928 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 929 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 930 93120140606: 932 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 933 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 934 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 935 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 936 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 937 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 938 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 939 "make installworld". 940 941 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 942 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 943 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 944 is run. 945 946 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 947 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 948 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 949 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 950 be removed during a clean upgrade. 951 95220140512: 953 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 954 95520140508: 956 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 957 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 958 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 959 96020140505: 961 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 962 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 963 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 964 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 965 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 966 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 967 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 968 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 969 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 970 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 971 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 972 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 973 974 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 975 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 976 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 977 as well. 978 97920140430: 980 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 981 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 982 98320140424: 984 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 985 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 986 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 987 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 988 build hosts for older releases. 989 990 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 991 r276991, respectively. 992 99320140418: 994 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 995 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 996 will silently lack HESIOD. 997 99820140405: 999 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 1000 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 1001 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 1002 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 1003 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 1004 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 1005 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 1006 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 1007 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 1008 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 1009 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 1010 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 1011 101220140306: 1013 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 1014 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 1015 with command line option -W. 1016 101720140226: 1018 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 1019 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 1020 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 1021 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 1022 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 1023 102420140216: 1025 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 1026 102720140216: 1028 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 1029 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 1030 103120140212: 1032 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 1033 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 1034 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 1035 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 1036 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 1037 103820140204: 1039 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 1040 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 1041 kernel is still highly recommended. 1042 104320140131: 1044 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 1045 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 1046 capability mode support in kernel. 1047 104820140128: 1049 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 1050 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 1051 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 1052 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 1053 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 1054 105520140110: 1056 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 1057 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 1058 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 1059 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 1060 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 1061 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 1062 106320131213: 1064 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 1065 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 1066 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 1067 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 1068 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 1069 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 1070 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 1071 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 1072 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 1073 107420131108: 1075 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 1076 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 1077 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 1078 should change your settings to use the latter. 1079 108020131025: 1081 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 1082 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 1083 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 1084 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 1085 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 1086 108720131014: 1088 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 1089 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 1090 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 1091 delete-old-libs": 1092 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 1093 or 1094 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 1095 109620131010: 1097 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 1098 revision r256279. 1099 110020131010: 1101 The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8) 1102 configuration file. The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables 1103 for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to 1104 /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked. 1105 This is transparently backward compatible. See below about some 1106 incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details. 1107 1108 These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration 1109 file. One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate 1110 a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without 1111 running the jail(8) utility. The default pathname of the 1112 configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by 1113 using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables. 1114 1115 Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at 1116 this moment. Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name 1117 with an integer. 1118 111920130930: 1120 BIND has been removed from the base system. If all you need 1121 is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound 1122 service instead. Otherwise, several versions of BIND are 1123 available in the ports tree. The dns/bind99 port is one example. 1124 1125 With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base 1126 system. Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are 1127 in the base system. Alternatively, nslookup and dig can 1128 be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port. 1129 113020130916: 1131 With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now 1132 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1133 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1134 113520130911: 1136 OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default 1137 silently trust signed SSHFP records. This can be controlled with 1138 the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting. DNSSEC support 1139 can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf. 1140 114120130906: 1142 The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++) 1143 are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system 1144 compiler. You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX 1145 options in src.conf. 1146 114720130905: 1148 The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel 1149 configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work. 1150 If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include 1151 'options PROCDESC'. 1152 115320130905: 1154 The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified 1155 in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs 1156 have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the 1157 following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is 1158 advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl, 1159 kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq. 1160 116120130903: 1162 AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc. The AES-NI module 1163 has been updated to use this support. A new gcc is required to build 1164 the aesni module on both i386 and amd64. 1165 116620130821: 1167 The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices. 1168 Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be 1169 used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG". 1170 117120130813: 1172 WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets. WITH_ICONV now 1173 enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default. 1174 WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time 1175 compatibility. Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way. 1176 If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely 1177 need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT. 1178 117920130806: 1180 INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and 1181 Illumos origin, including ZFS. If you have INVARIANTS in your 1182 kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG 1183 explicitly. 1184 DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS) 1185 locks if WITNESS option was set. Because that generated a lot of 1186 witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false 1187 positives, this is no longer done. New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS 1188 can be used to achieve the previous behavior. 1189 119020130806: 1191 Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead 1192 of time_second. Although this is not a user-visible functional 1193 change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8), 1194 rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated 1195 to r253970 or later. 1196 119720130802: 1198 find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments, 1199 instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did 1200 not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message 1201 would result: 1202 1203 find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe 1204 1205 Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented 1206 without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing 1207 directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the 1208 old as well as the new version of find. 1209 121020130726: 1211 Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed. 1212 Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs 1213 path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by 1214 slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs 1215 subdirectories must be reviewed. 1216 121720130716: 1218 The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is 1219 incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will 1220 need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 1221 1222 To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set. 1223 1224 NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and 1225 users are advised to upgrade. 1226 122720130709: 1228 pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it 1229 you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5). 1230 123120130709: 1232 Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able 1233 keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking 1234 statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.) 1235 123620130618: 1237 Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write 1238 to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space 1239 even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had 1240 write access to that file. 1241 124220130615: 1243 CVS has been removed from the base system. An exact copy 1244 of the code is available from the devel/cvs port. 1245 124620130613: 1247 Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake: 1248 1249 make: illegal option -- J 1250 usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable] 1251 ... 1252 *** [buildworld] Error code 2 1253 1254 this likely due to an old instance of make in 1255 ${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE}) 1256 which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if 1257 you see the above error: 1258 1259 rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH` 1260 1261 should resolve it. 1262 126320130516: 1264 Use bmake by default. 1265 Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via 1266 -DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old 1267 make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE. 1268 1269 It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command 1270 line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the 1271 command line. Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer 1272 than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent 1273 behavior in parallel build. 1274 127520130429: 1276 Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files. 1277 127820130426: 1279 The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because 1280 the IDEA patent expired. 1281 128220130426: 1283 The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed 1284 from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been 1285 enabled by default. 1286 128720130425: 1288 The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX 1289 rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in 1290 order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as 1291 install and mtree. When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where 1292 the install command does not support -l, you will need to 1293 install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required. 1294 This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster 1295 && make install). 1296 129720130404: 1298 Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since 1299 FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources. Kernel modules 1300 atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are 1301 removed. Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled 1302 and removed. 1303 130420130319: 1305 SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2) 1306 and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may 1307 automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting 1308 binaries will not work on older kernels. 1309 131020130308: 1311 CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further 1312 information, see the respective 20130304 entry). 1313 131420130304: 1315 Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout, 1316 so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions 1317 in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced 1318 by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild 1319 is requested. 1320 1321 The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64, 1322 but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE 1323 option) to save memory. To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE 1324 option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 1325 in /boot/loader.conf. 1326 132720130301: 1328 The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64. 1329 This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system 1330 initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if 1331 a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system 1332 unusable on 128MB or less of RAM. 1333 133420130208: 1335 A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please 1336 refer to zpool-features(7) for more information. 1337 1338 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1339 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1340 134120130129: 1342 A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed 1343 as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch. 1344 To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default, 1345 while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild 1346 and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set. 1347 134820130121: 1349 Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build 1350 and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL 1351 make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the 1352 command line. If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs 1353 you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or 1354 /etc/src.conf. 1355 135620130118: 1357 The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an 1358 argument that is a file or path to append logs to. In the 1359 unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line 1360 and the command line contained at least two files and a target 1361 directory the first file will have logs appended to it. The -M 1362 option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its 1363 use is expected to be extremely rare. 1364 136520121223: 1366 After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS 1367 on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics. 1368 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations. 1369 137020121222: 1371 GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata. 1372 Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters, 1373 '%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to 1374 be updated. 1375 137620121217: 1377 By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved. To 1378 restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps 1379 stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf: 1380 1381 savecore_flags="" 1382 138320121201: 1384 With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now 1385 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1386 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1387 138820121117: 1389 The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now 1390 filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via 1391 sysctl or routing socket. This means the KAME-specific embedded scope 1392 id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application. 1393 This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid. 1394 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025. 1395 139620121105: 1397 On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default. 1398 This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang 1399 and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++, 1400 and /usr/bin/cpp. To disable this behavior and revert to building 1401 with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions 1402 of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang 1403 build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable 1404 branch point). 1405 140620121102: 1407 The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its 1408 functionality now turned on by default. 1409 141020121023: 1411 The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and 1412 split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP. 1413 NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write 1414 mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes. 1415 NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current 1416 driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage. 1417 Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under 1418 consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal 1419 of the two kernel options. 1420 142120121023: 1422 The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte 1423 order. The following modules need to be recompiled together 1424 with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4), 1425 pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4). 1426 142720121022: 1428 Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The 1429 VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be 1430 recompiled. 1431 143220121018: 1433 All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from 1434 the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs, 1435 portalfs, smbfs, xfs. 1436 143720121016: 1438 The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following 1439 modules need to be recompiled together with kernel: 1440 ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4), 1441 vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4), 1442 faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4). 1443 144420121015: 1445 The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host 1446 Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver). 1447 No kernel config modifications are required, but if you 1448 load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead. 1449 145020121014: 1451 Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system. 1452 145320121013: 1454 The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed 1455 sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious 1456 problems have been reported. The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT 1457 knob has also gone. 1458 145920121006: 1460 The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet 1461 filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled 1462 with new kernel. 1463 146420121001: 1465 The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver 1466 PS-POLL and power-save support. All wireless drivers need to be 1467 recompiled to work with the new kernel. 1468 146920120913: 1470 The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number 1471 generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally. 1472 Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if 1473 needed. The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the 1474 device, so the change only affects the custom kernel 1475 configurations. 1476 147720120908: 1478 The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and 1479 snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel. 1480 148120120828: 1482 A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged 1483 to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be 1484 imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support 1485 this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5) 1486 manual page. 1487 148820120727: 1489 The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto- 1490 detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these 1491 to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable. 1492 149320120712: 1494 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c. Any binaries requiring 1495 libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled. Also, there are 1496 configuration changes. Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf. 1497 149820120712: 1499 The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency 1500 with other variables: 1501 kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered 1502 kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered 1503 150420120628: 1505 The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort. For now, GNU sort 1506 is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to 1507 GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT. In this case, BSD sort will be 1508 installed as "bsdsort". 1509 151020120611: 1511 A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD. 1512 Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning 1513 is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward 1514 compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS 1515 pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools 1516 is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information 1517 read the new zpool-features(5) manual page. 1518 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1519 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1520 152120120417: 1522 The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported 1523 as contrib/jemalloc. The most disruptive API change is to 1524 /etc/malloc.conf. If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf, 1525 delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the 1526 new format after rebooting. See malloc.conf(5) for details 1527 (specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL 1528 NAMESPACE section). 1529 153020120328: 1531 Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb". mips64eb 1532 is now spelled mips64. mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32. mipseb is 1533 now spelled mips. This is to aid compatibility with third-party 1534 software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3). Little-endian 1535 settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine 1536 from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in 1537 your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine. 1538 153920120306: 1540 Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported 1541 platforms. 1542 154320120229: 1544 Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on nullfs(5). Previously 1545 nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer, 1546 as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect 1547 only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect 1548 only to the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the 1549 lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to. 1550 155120120211: 1552 The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored. 1553 If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to 1554 recompile libc again with your kernel. You still need to recompile 1555 world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already 1556 comes from 20111215. 1557 155820120114: 1559 The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr. All 1560 base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a 1561 port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either 1562 hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port. 1563 1564 An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d: 1565 rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i 1566 156720120109: 1568 panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts 1569 on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running. 1570 This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic 1571 tunable/sysctl. 1572 The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic. 1573 157420111215: 1575 The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration 1576 of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format 1577 of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages 1578 for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently 1579 not supported anymore. 1580 1581 Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User 1582 utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8), 1583 need to be recompiled. 1584 158520111122: 1586 The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to 1587 /dev/wmistat0. 1588 158920111108: 1590 The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to 1591 explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems. 1592 It is on by default for all supported platform at this present 1593 time. 1594 159520111101: 1596 The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64, 1597 i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files. 1598 159920110930: 1600 sysinstall has been removed 1601 160220110923: 1603 The stable/9 branch created in subversion. This corresponds to the 1604 RELENG_9 branch in CVS. 1605 1606COMMON ITEMS: 1607 1608 General Notes 1609 ------------- 1610 Avoid using make -j when upgrading. While generally safe, there are 1611 sometimes problems using -j to upgrade. If your upgrade fails with 1612 -j, please try again without -j. From time to time in the past there 1613 have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This 1614 is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one 1615 that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when 1616 several months have passed on the -current branch). 1617 1618 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 1619 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 1620 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 1621 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 1622 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 1623 1624 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to 1625 upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then 1626 do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path, 1627 and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try this 1628 approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade. Since 1629 the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgade from 1630 anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the 1631 last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's 1632 an exception. 1633 1634 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 1635 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 1636 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 1637 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 1638 1639 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 1640 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 1641 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 1642 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 1643 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 1644 should write them with this in mind. 1645 1646 ZFS notes 1647 --------- 1648 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 1649 these two steps: 1650 1651 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 1652 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 1653 1654 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 1655 1656 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first 1657 partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 1658 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0" 1659 1660 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 1661 1662 To build a kernel 1663 ----------------- 1664 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 1665 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 1666 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 1667 1668 make kernel-toolchain 1669 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1670 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1671 1672 To test a kernel once 1673 --------------------- 1674 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 1675 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 1676 debugging information) run 1677 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 1678 nextboot -k testkernel 1679 1680 To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up 1681 -------------------------------------------------------------- 1682 This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system. Replace 1683 ${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386", 1684 "arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc). 1685 1686 cd src/sys/${arch}/conf 1687 config KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1688 cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1689 make depend 1690 make 1691 make install 1692 1693 If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section. 1694 1695 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 1696 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1697 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 1698 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 1699 1700 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1701 make buildworld 1702 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1703 [1] 1704 <reboot in single user> [3] 1705 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1706 make installworld 1707 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1708 make delete-old [6] 1709 <reboot> 1710 1711 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 1712 -------------------------------------------------- 1713 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 1714 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 1715 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 1716 # size. 1717 1718 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1719 <boot into -stable> 1720 make buildworld 1721 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1722 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 1723 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 1724 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 1725 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 1726 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1727 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 1728 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 1729 <reboot into current> 1730 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 1731 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 1732 <reboot> 1733 1734 1735 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 1736 ---------------------------------------------- 1737 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1738 make buildworld [9] 1739 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 1740 [1] 1741 <reboot in single user> [3] 1742 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1743 make installworld 1744 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1745 make delete-old [6] 1746 <reboot> 1747 1748 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 1749 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 1750 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 1751 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 1752 the UPDATING entries. 1753 1754 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 1755 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 1756 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 1757 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 1758 much fewer pitfalls. 1759 1760 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you 1761 should disable them at this point so they don't crash your 1762 system on reboot. 1763 1764 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 1765 fsck -p 1766 mount -u / 1767 mount -a 1768 cd src 1769 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 1770 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that 1771 you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. 1772 1773 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 1774 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 1775 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 1776 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 1777 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 1778 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 1779 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 1780 1781 [5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time 1782 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 1783 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 1784 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 1785 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 1786 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 1787 1788 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 1789 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 1790 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 1791 1792 [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to 1793 do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in 1794 your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is 1795 hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is 1796 required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on 1797 for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7. 1798 1799 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 1800 last time you updated your kernel config file. 1801 1802 [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have 1803 cvs prune empty directories. 1804 1805 If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 1806 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 1807 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 1808 1809 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 1810 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 1811 warn if it is improperly defined. 1812FORMAT: 1813 1814This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 1815breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 1816list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011. 1817If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 1818to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 1819 1820Copyright information: 1821 1822Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. 1823 1824Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without 1825modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this 1826document are permitted without further permission from the author. 1827 1828THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY WARNER LOSH ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 1829IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 1830WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 1831DISCLAIMED. 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