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 5420170424: 55 The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and 56 patm(4) devices has been removed. Consumers should plan a 57 migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11. 58 5920170420: 60 GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU 61 diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of 62 GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name. 63 6420170413: 65 As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when 66 keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with 67 documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state. 68 This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags 69 and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state. 70 To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with 71 keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5). 72 7320170407: 74 arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default, 75 instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be 76 installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set 77 CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin . 78 7920170331: 80 Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now 81 use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail 82 instead of using the first assigned address of the jail. 83 8420170329: 85 The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend: 86 cfiscsi.ko does instead. 87 88 If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded 89 via one of the following methods: 90 - `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5). 91 - Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5). 92 - ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support 93 (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5)) 94 95 Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details. 96 9720170316: 98 The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko. 99 Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the 100 same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was 101 missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible 102 with mmc.ko). 103 10420170315: 105 The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity. 106 If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify 107 them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must 108 be prefixed with colon. 109 11020170311: 111 The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been 112 removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version 113 (sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware. 114 11520170302: 116 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0. 117 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 118 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 119 12020170221: 121 The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality 122 has been reimplemented. It's not possible now to create a snapshot 123 by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/. That should be the only user visible 124 change. 125 12620170216: 127 EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer 128 valid. 129 13020170215: 131 MCA bus support has been removed. 132 13320170127: 134 The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed 135 WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC. 136 13720170112: 138 The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that 139 the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications. 140 14120170109: 142 The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via 143 IFLIB. If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4) 144 but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom configuration. 145 14620161217: 147 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1. 148 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 149 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 150 15120161124: 152 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0. 153 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 154 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 155 15620161119: 157 The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap 158 statistics at the front for all CPU variations. libkvm(3) and all tools 159 that link against it need to be recompiled. 160 16120161030: 162 isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver, 163 chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware. 164 On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using 165 device hints. Please see the corresponding manual pages for details. 166 16720161017: 168 The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of 169 rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific 170 parts. 171 Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name 172 conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B)) 173 17420161015: 175 GNU rcs has been removed from base. It is available as packages: 176 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 177 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was 178 removed from base. 179 18020161008: 181 Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control 182 modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the 183 TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.) 184 18520161003: 186 The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 187 ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy. 188 18920160924: 190 Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed 191 to use an extension of .pico instead. The purpose of this change is 192 to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file 193 systems. On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so. 194 19520160918: 196 GNU rcs has been turned off by default. It can (temporarily) be built 197 again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf. 198 Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages: 199 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 200 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base. 201 20220160918: 203 The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr. 204 20520160908: 206 The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into 207 two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and 208 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH. Define both for the original 209 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior. 210 21120160824: 212 r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace 213 programs and the kernel. ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be 214 rebuilt to work with new kernels. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped 215 to 1200005. 216 21720160818: 218 The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP 219 packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3 220 broadcast packets. It is not expected that this will affect any 221 standards-conforming UDP application. The new behaviour can be 222 disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to 223 0. 224 22520160818: 226 Remove the openbsd_poll system call. 227 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 228 22920160622: 230 The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with 231 a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2) 232 system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include 233 "options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the 234 default). Users should ensure that this option is enabled in 235 their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their 236 kernel. 237 23820160527: 239 CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers. 240 This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using 241 those disk's diskid device nodes. For example, if /etc/fstab 242 previously contained a line like 243 "/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should 244 change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456". Users of geom 245 transforms like gmirror may also be affected. ZFS users should 246 generally be fine. 247 24820160523: 249 The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and 250 improved performance. But it is binary-incompatible with the old API. 251 Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects 252 built with the old headers. 253 25420160520: 255 The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64. 256 Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these 257 functions and should be updated to the latest version before 258 installing a new libc. 259 26020160517: 261 The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support 262 for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system 263 is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT. 264 This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld 265 and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New 266 packages will be needed. 267 268 To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add 269 TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 270 and the install steps. 271 27220160510: 273 Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to 274 installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. Many kernel 275 modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode 276 KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules. However, 277 manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will 278 now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. 279 28020160414: 281 The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be 282 no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the 283 list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt 284 data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data 285 corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete: 286 287 o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 288 o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 289 o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware 290 o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares 291 o FCCT M500 all firmwares 292 293 Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware 294 with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for 295 updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these 296 drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given 297 this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no 298 other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above 299 vendors work. 300 301 To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your 302 drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting: 303 kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2" 304 in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the 305 quirks entry to 0x3. 306 30720160330: 308 The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is 309 now the one true way. The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has 310 been removed. See 20160311 for further details. 311 31220160317: 313 Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t. All 314 drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled. 315 31620160311: 317 WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree 318 builds. It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the 319 'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran 320 when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before 321 building anything else. Dependencies are gathered at compile time with 322 -MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file. Users should 323 run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older 324 stale .depend files. 325 32620160306: 327 On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into 328 kernel modules. Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time, 329 please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before 330 rebooting, e.g.: 331 332 make buildworld 333 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 334 make -C sys/boot install 335 <reboot in single user> 336 337 Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section, 338 below. 339 34020160305: 341 Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0. Please 342 see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 343 upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 344 34520160301: 346 The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The 347 VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed. 348 Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only 349 permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable 350 asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the 351 vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value. 352 35320160226: 354 The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the 355 ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a 356 drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The 357 (temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set 358 to obtain the GNU version if necessary. 359 36020160129: 361 Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default. That 362 feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks. 363 Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will 364 still work, even if the guest is using ZFS. Legacy behavior can be 365 restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1. 366 36720160119: 368 The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH. They are 369 still available in the security/openssh-portable port. 370 37120160113: 372 With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required 373 during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user 374 prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 375 37620151216: 377 The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a 378 consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp 379 server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the 380 other loaders. 381 38220151211: 383 The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has 384 been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel, 385 a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced 386 for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild 387 the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or 388 later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding. 389 39020151207: 391 Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and 392 installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but 393 requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed 394 world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes 395 in src.conf(5). 396 39720151130: 398 r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and 399 nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether. 400 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 401 40220151108: 403 Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of 404 order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old 405 behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C". 406 407 Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given 408 collation results will be different. 409 410 Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient 411 locales before running make installworld. 412 413 rm -rf /usr/share/locale/* 414 41520151030: 416 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d. Any binaries requiring 417 libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled. 418 41920151020: 420 Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0. 421 Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and 422 should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively. 423 42420151017: 425 The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into 426 sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and 427 'make -n -n' to recursively show commands. Now 'make -n' will recurse 428 and 'make -N' will not. 429 43020151012: 431 If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster 432 and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now 433 updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld. If you had 434 excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may 435 want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install". 436 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of 437 whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used. If you are not using 438 SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior. 439 44020151011: 441 Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. 442 It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases 443 and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.* 444 environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links. 445 44620151006: 447 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 448 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 449 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 450 45120150924: 452 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 453 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 454 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 455 userland debug files. 456 457 When using the supported kernel installation method the 458 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 459 as is done with /boot/kernel. 460 461 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 462 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 463 46420150827: 465 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 466 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 467 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 468 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 469 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 470 rc.d scripts in /etc. 471 47220150827: 473 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 474 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 475 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 476 47720150817: 478 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 479 them, the kernel must have 480 481 device random 482 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 483 484 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 485 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 486 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 487 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 488 489 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 490 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 491 49220150813: 493 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 494 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 495 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 496 49720150810: 498 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 499 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 500 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 501 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 502 503 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 504 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 505 difference with this change. 506 507 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 508 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 509 remove that workaround. 510 51120150809: 512 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 513 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 514 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 515 with: 516 517 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 518 51920150806: 520 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 521 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 522 loader.rc.local instead. 523 52420150805: 525 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 526 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 527 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 528 52920150728: 530 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 531 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 532 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 533 534 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 535 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 536 53720150706: 538 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 539 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 540 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 541 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 542 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 543 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 544 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 545 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 546 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 547 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 548 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 549 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 550 55120150630: 552 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 553 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 554 555 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 556 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 557 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 558 559 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 560 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 561 562 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 563 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 564 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 565 566 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 567 entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 568 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 569 and it is assumed you know what you need. 570 571 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 572 habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 573 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 574 behaviour from your security subsystems. 575 576 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 577 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 578 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 579 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 580 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 581 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 582 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 583 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 584 will never happen. 585 58620150623: 587 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 588 entry below has been been committed in revision 284717. 589 59020150616: 591 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 592 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 593 59420150615: 595 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 596 below has been been committed in revision 284436. The work 597 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 598 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 599 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 600 60120150614: 602 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 603 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 604 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 605 with Kyuafile and kyua. 606 60720150614: 608 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 609 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 610 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 611 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 612 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 613 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 614 2048 bit DH parameter by: 615 616 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 617 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 618 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 619 replace it with '2'. 620 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 621 a file path, create a new file with: 622 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 623 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 624 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 625 5. Restart sendmail: 626 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 627 628 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 629 updated. 630 63120150604: 632 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 633 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 634 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 635 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 636 5.x. 637 638 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 639 64020150525: 641 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 642 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 643 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 644 64520150521: 646 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 647 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 648 and Pandaboard: 649 650 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 651 same but content is different now 652 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 653 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 654 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 655 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 656 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 657 65820150501: 659 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 660 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 661 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 662 66320150423: 664 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 665 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 666 66720150415: 668 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 669 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 670 67120150416: 672 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 673 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 674 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 675 67620150324: 677 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 678 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 679 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 680 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 681 68220150315: 683 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 684 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 685 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 686 68720150307: 688 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 689 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 690 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 691 kernel before rebooting. 692 69320150217: 694 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 695 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 696 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 697 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 698 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 699 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 700 70120150210: 702 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 703 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 704 with the new kernel. 705 70620150131: 707 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 708 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 709 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 710 71120150118: 712 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 713 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 714 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 715 are not already using 3.5.0. 716 71720150107: 718 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 719 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 720 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 721 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 722 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 723 72420150105: 725 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 726 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 727 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 728 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 729 73020150102: 731 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 732 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 733 73420141231: 735 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 736 737 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 738 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 739 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 740 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 741 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 742 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 743 later. 744 745 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 746 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 747 of the box. 748 749 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 750 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 751 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 752 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 753 754 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 755 the instructions for 9.x above. 756 757 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 758 default, and do not build clang. 759 760 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 761 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 762 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 763 764 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 765 the following are most likely to appear: 766 767 -Wabsolute-value 768 769 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 770 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 771 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 772 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 773 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 774 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 775 cast, or disable the warning. 776 777 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 778 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 779 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 780 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 781 side-effects. 782 783 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 784 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 785 786 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 787 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 788 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 789 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 790 791 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 792 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 793 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 794 unreachable could be optimized away. 795 79620141222: 797 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 798 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 799 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 800 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 801 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 802 the utilities will report errors. 803 80420141121: 805 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 806 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 807 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 808 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 809 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 810 LOCAL_DIRS. 811 81220141109: 813 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 814 has been obsolete for a very long time. 815 81620141104: 817 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 818 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 819 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 820 drivers. 821 822 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 823 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 824 indicate what you need to do. 825 826 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 827 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 828 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 829 830 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 831 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 832 kern.vty=sc 833 83420141102: 835 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 836 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 837 execute it. 838 83920141009: 840 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 841 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 842 devel/gperf port. 843 84420140923: 845 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 846 contrib/pjdfstest . 847 84820140922: 849 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 850 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 851 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 852 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 853 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 854 their next update cycle. 855 85620140729: 857 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 858 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 859 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 860 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 861 1.12.4_8 or newer. 862 86320140723: 864 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 865 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 866 86720140719: 868 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 869 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 870 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 871 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 872 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 873 new configuration. 874 87520140709: 876 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 877 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 878 them again. 879 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 880 88120140708: 882 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 883 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 884 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 885 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 886 requires readline. 887 88820140702: 889 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 890 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 891 architecture. 892 89320140701: 894 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 895 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 896 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 897 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 898 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 899 90020140629: 901 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 902 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 903 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 904 90520140619: 906 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 907 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 908 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 909 91020140606: 911 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 912 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 913 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 914 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 915 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 916 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 917 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 918 "make installworld". 919 920 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 921 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 922 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 923 is run. 924 925 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 926 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 927 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 928 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 929 be removed during a clean upgrade. 930 93120140512: 932 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 933 93420140508: 935 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 936 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 937 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 938 93920140505: 940 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 941 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 942 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 943 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 944 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 945 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 946 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 947 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 948 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 949 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 950 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 951 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 952 953 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 954 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 955 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 956 as well. 957 95820140430: 959 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 960 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 961 96220140424: 963 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 964 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 965 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 966 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 967 build hosts for older releases. 968 969 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 970 r276991, respectively. 971 97220140418: 973 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 974 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 975 will silently lack HESIOD. 976 97720140405: 978 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 979 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 980 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 981 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 982 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 983 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 984 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 985 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 986 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 987 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 988 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 989 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 990 99120140306: 992 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 993 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 994 with command line option -W. 995 99620140226: 997 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 998 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 999 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 1000 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 1001 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 1002 100320140216: 1004 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 1005 100620140216: 1007 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 1008 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 1009 101020140212: 1011 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 1012 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 1013 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 1014 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 1015 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 1016 101720140204: 1018 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 1019 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 1020 kernel is still highly recommended. 1021 102220140131: 1023 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 1024 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 1025 capability mode support in kernel. 1026 102720140128: 1028 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 1029 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 1030 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 1031 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 1032 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 1033 103420140110: 1035 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 1036 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 1037 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 1038 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 1039 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 1040 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 1041 104220131213: 1043 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 1044 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 1045 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 1046 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 1047 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 1048 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 1049 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 1050 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 1051 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 1052 105320131108: 1054 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 1055 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 1056 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 1057 should change your settings to use the latter. 1058 105920131025: 1060 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 1061 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 1062 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 1063 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 1064 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 1065 106620131014: 1067 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 1068 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 1069 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 1070 delete-old-libs": 1071 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 1072 or 1073 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 1074 107520131010: 1076 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 1077 revision r256279. 1078 107920131010: 1080 The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8) 1081 configuration file. The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables 1082 for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to 1083 /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked. 1084 This is transparently backward compatible. See below about some 1085 incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details. 1086 1087 These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration 1088 file. One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate 1089 a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without 1090 running the jail(8) utility. The default pathname of the 1091 configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by 1092 using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables. 1093 1094 Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at 1095 this moment. Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name 1096 with an integer. 1097 109820130930: 1099 BIND has been removed from the base system. If all you need 1100 is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound 1101 service instead. Otherwise, several versions of BIND are 1102 available in the ports tree. The dns/bind99 port is one example. 1103 1104 With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base 1105 system. Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are 1106 in the base system. Alternatively, nslookup and dig can 1107 be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port. 1108 110920130916: 1110 With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now 1111 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1112 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1113 111420130911: 1115 OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default 1116 silently trust signed SSHFP records. This can be controlled with 1117 the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting. DNSSEC support 1118 can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf. 1119 112020130906: 1121 The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++) 1122 are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system 1123 compiler. You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX 1124 options in src.conf. 1125 112620130905: 1127 The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel 1128 configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work. 1129 If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include 1130 'options PROCDESC'. 1131 113220130905: 1133 The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified 1134 in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs 1135 have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the 1136 following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is 1137 advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl, 1138 kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq. 1139 114020130903: 1141 AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc. The AES-NI module 1142 has been updated to use this support. A new gcc is required to build 1143 the aesni module on both i386 and amd64. 1144 114520130821: 1146 The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices. 1147 Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be 1148 used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG". 1149 115020130813: 1151 WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets. WITH_ICONV now 1152 enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default. 1153 WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time 1154 compatibility. Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way. 1155 If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely 1156 need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT. 1157 115820130806: 1159 INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and 1160 Illumos origin, including ZFS. If you have INVARIANTS in your 1161 kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG 1162 explicitly. 1163 DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS) 1164 locks if WITNESS option was set. Because that generated a lot of 1165 witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false 1166 positives, this is no longer done. New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS 1167 can be used to achieve the previous behavior. 1168 116920130806: 1170 Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead 1171 of time_second. Although this is not a user-visible functional 1172 change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8), 1173 rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated 1174 to r253970 or later. 1175 117620130802: 1177 find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments, 1178 instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did 1179 not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message 1180 would result: 1181 1182 find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe 1183 1184 Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented 1185 without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing 1186 directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the 1187 old as well as the new version of find. 1188 118920130726: 1190 Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed. 1191 Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs 1192 path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by 1193 slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs 1194 subdirectories must be reviewed. 1195 119620130716: 1197 The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is 1198 incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will 1199 need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 1200 1201 To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set. 1202 1203 NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and 1204 users are advised to upgrade. 1205 120620130709: 1207 pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it 1208 you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5). 1209 121020130709: 1211 Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able 1212 keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking 1213 statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.) 1214 121520130618: 1216 Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write 1217 to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space 1218 even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had 1219 write access to that file. 1220 122120130615: 1222 CVS has been removed from the base system. An exact copy 1223 of the code is available from the devel/cvs port. 1224 122520130613: 1226 Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake: 1227 1228 make: illegal option -- J 1229 usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable] 1230 ... 1231 *** [buildworld] Error code 2 1232 1233 this likely due to an old instance of make in 1234 ${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE}) 1235 which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if 1236 you see the above error: 1237 1238 rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH` 1239 1240 should resolve it. 1241 124220130516: 1243 Use bmake by default. 1244 Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via 1245 -DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old 1246 make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE. 1247 1248 It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command 1249 line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the 1250 command line. Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer 1251 than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent 1252 behavior in parallel build. 1253 125420130429: 1255 Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files. 1256 125720130426: 1258 The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because 1259 the IDEA patent expired. 1260 126120130426: 1262 The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed 1263 from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been 1264 enabled by default. 1265 126620130425: 1267 The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX 1268 rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in 1269 order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as 1270 install and mtree. When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where 1271 the install command does not support -l, you will need to 1272 install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required. 1273 This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster 1274 && make install). 1275 127620130404: 1277 Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since 1278 FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources. Kernel modules 1279 atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are 1280 removed. Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled 1281 and removed. 1282 128320130319: 1284 SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2) 1285 and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may 1286 automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting 1287 binaries will not work on older kernels. 1288 128920130308: 1290 CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further 1291 information, see the respective 20130304 entry). 1292 129320130304: 1294 Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout, 1295 so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions 1296 in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced 1297 by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild 1298 is requested. 1299 1300 The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64, 1301 but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE 1302 option) to save memory. To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE 1303 option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 1304 in /boot/loader.conf. 1305 130620130301: 1307 The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64. 1308 This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system 1309 initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if 1310 a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system 1311 unusable on 128MB or less of RAM. 1312 131320130208: 1314 A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please 1315 refer to zpool-features(7) for more information. 1316 1317 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1318 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1319 132020130129: 1321 A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed 1322 as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch. 1323 To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default, 1324 while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild 1325 and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set. 1326 132720130121: 1328 Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build 1329 and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL 1330 make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the 1331 command line. If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs 1332 you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or 1333 /etc/src.conf. 1334 133520130118: 1336 The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an 1337 argument that is a file or path to append logs to. In the 1338 unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line 1339 and the command line contained at least two files and a target 1340 directory the first file will have logs appended to it. The -M 1341 option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its 1342 use is expected to be extremely rare. 1343 134420121223: 1345 After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS 1346 on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics. 1347 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations. 1348 134920121222: 1350 GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata. 1351 Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters, 1352 '%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to 1353 be updated. 1354 135520121217: 1356 By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved. To 1357 restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps 1358 stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf: 1359 1360 savecore_flags="" 1361 136220121201: 1363 With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now 1364 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1365 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1366 136720121117: 1368 The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now 1369 filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via 1370 sysctl or routing socket. This means the KAME-specific embedded scope 1371 id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application. 1372 This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid. 1373 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025. 1374 137520121105: 1376 On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default. 1377 This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang 1378 and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++, 1379 and /usr/bin/cpp. To disable this behavior and revert to building 1380 with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions 1381 of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang 1382 build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable 1383 branch point). 1384 138520121102: 1386 The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its 1387 functionality now turned on by default. 1388 138920121023: 1390 The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and 1391 split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP. 1392 NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write 1393 mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes. 1394 NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current 1395 driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage. 1396 Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under 1397 consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal 1398 of the two kernel options. 1399 140020121023: 1401 The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte 1402 order. The following modules need to be recompiled together 1403 with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4), 1404 pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4). 1405 140620121022: 1407 Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The 1408 VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be 1409 recompiled. 1410 141120121018: 1412 All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from 1413 the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs, 1414 portalfs, smbfs, xfs. 1415 141620121016: 1417 The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following 1418 modules need to be recompiled together with kernel: 1419 ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4), 1420 vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4), 1421 faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4). 1422 142320121015: 1424 The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host 1425 Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver). 1426 No kernel config modifications are required, but if you 1427 load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead. 1428 142920121014: 1430 Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system. 1431 143220121013: 1433 The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed 1434 sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious 1435 problems have been reported. The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT 1436 knob has also gone. 1437 143820121006: 1439 The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet 1440 filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled 1441 with new kernel. 1442 144320121001: 1444 The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver 1445 PS-POLL and power-save support. All wireless drivers need to be 1446 recompiled to work with the new kernel. 1447 144820120913: 1449 The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number 1450 generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally. 1451 Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if 1452 needed. The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the 1453 device, so the change only affects the custom kernel 1454 configurations. 1455 145620120908: 1457 The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and 1458 snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel. 1459 146020120828: 1461 A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged 1462 to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be 1463 imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support 1464 this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5) 1465 manual page. 1466 146720120727: 1468 The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto- 1469 detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these 1470 to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable. 1471 147220120712: 1473 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c. Any binaries requiring 1474 libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled. Also, there are 1475 configuration changes. Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf. 1476 147720120712: 1478 The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency 1479 with other variables: 1480 kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered 1481 kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered 1482 148320120628: 1484 The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort. For now, GNU sort 1485 is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to 1486 GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT. In this case, BSD sort will be 1487 installed as "bsdsort". 1488 148920120611: 1490 A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD. 1491 Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning 1492 is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward 1493 compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS 1494 pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools 1495 is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information 1496 read the new zpool-features(5) manual page. 1497 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1498 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1499 150020120417: 1501 The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported 1502 as contrib/jemalloc. The most disruptive API change is to 1503 /etc/malloc.conf. If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf, 1504 delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the 1505 new format after rebooting. See malloc.conf(5) for details 1506 (specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL 1507 NAMESPACE section). 1508 150920120328: 1510 Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb". mips64eb 1511 is now spelled mips64. mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32. mipseb is 1512 now spelled mips. This is to aid compatibility with third-party 1513 software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3). Little-endian 1514 settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine 1515 from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in 1516 your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine. 1517 151820120306: 1519 Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported 1520 platforms. 1521 152220120229: 1523 Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on nullfs(5). Previously 1524 nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer, 1525 as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect 1526 only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect 1527 only to the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the 1528 lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to. 1529 153020120211: 1531 The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored. 1532 If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to 1533 recompile libc again with your kernel. You still need to recompile 1534 world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already 1535 comes from 20111215. 1536 153720120114: 1538 The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr. All 1539 base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a 1540 port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either 1541 hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port. 1542 1543 An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d: 1544 rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i 1545 154620120109: 1547 panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts 1548 on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running. 1549 This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic 1550 tunable/sysctl. 1551 The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic. 1552 155320111215: 1554 The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration 1555 of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format 1556 of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages 1557 for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently 1558 not supported anymore. 1559 1560 Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User 1561 utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8), 1562 need to be recompiled. 1563 156420111122: 1565 The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to 1566 /dev/wmistat0. 1567 156820111108: 1569 The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to 1570 explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems. 1571 It is on by default for all supported platform at this present 1572 time. 1573 157420111101: 1575 The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64, 1576 i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files. 1577 157820110930: 1579 sysinstall has been removed 1580 158120110923: 1582 The stable/9 branch created in subversion. This corresponds to the 1583 RELENG_9 branch in CVS. 1584 1585COMMON ITEMS: 1586 1587 General Notes 1588 ------------- 1589 Avoid using make -j when upgrading. While generally safe, there are 1590 sometimes problems using -j to upgrade. If your upgrade fails with 1591 -j, please try again without -j. From time to time in the past there 1592 have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This 1593 is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one 1594 that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when 1595 several months have passed on the -current branch). 1596 1597 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 1598 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 1599 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 1600 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 1601 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 1602 1603 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to 1604 upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then 1605 do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path, 1606 and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try this 1607 approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade. Since 1608 the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgade from 1609 anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the 1610 last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's 1611 an exception. 1612 1613 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 1614 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 1615 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 1616 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 1617 1618 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 1619 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 1620 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 1621 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 1622 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 1623 should write them with this in mind. 1624 1625 ZFS notes 1626 --------- 1627 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 1628 these two steps: 1629 1630 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 1631 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 1632 1633 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 1634 1635 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first 1636 partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 1637 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0" 1638 1639 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 1640 1641 To build a kernel 1642 ----------------- 1643 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 1644 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 1645 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 1646 1647 make kernel-toolchain 1648 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1649 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1650 1651 To test a kernel once 1652 --------------------- 1653 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 1654 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 1655 debugging information) run 1656 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 1657 nextboot -k testkernel 1658 1659 To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up 1660 -------------------------------------------------------------- 1661 This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system. Replace 1662 ${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386", 1663 "arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc). 1664 1665 cd src/sys/${arch}/conf 1666 config KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1667 cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1668 make depend 1669 make 1670 make install 1671 1672 If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section. 1673 1674 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 1675 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1676 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 1677 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 1678 1679 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1680 make buildworld 1681 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1682 [1] 1683 <reboot in single user> [3] 1684 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1685 make installworld 1686 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1687 make delete-old [6] 1688 <reboot> 1689 1690 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 1691 -------------------------------------------------- 1692 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 1693 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 1694 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 1695 # size. 1696 1697 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1698 <boot into -stable> 1699 make buildworld 1700 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1701 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 1702 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 1703 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 1704 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 1705 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1706 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 1707 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 1708 <reboot into current> 1709 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 1710 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 1711 <reboot> 1712 1713 1714 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 1715 ---------------------------------------------- 1716 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1717 make buildworld [9] 1718 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 1719 [1] 1720 <reboot in single user> [3] 1721 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1722 make installworld 1723 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1724 make delete-old [6] 1725 <reboot> 1726 1727 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 1728 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 1729 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 1730 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 1731 the UPDATING entries. 1732 1733 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 1734 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 1735 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 1736 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 1737 much fewer pitfalls. 1738 1739 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you 1740 should disable them at this point so they don't crash your 1741 system on reboot. 1742 1743 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 1744 fsck -p 1745 mount -u / 1746 mount -a 1747 cd src 1748 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 1749 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that 1750 you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. 1751 1752 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 1753 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 1754 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 1755 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 1756 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 1757 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 1758 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 1759 1760 [5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time 1761 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 1762 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 1763 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 1764 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 1765 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 1766 1767 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 1768 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 1769 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 1770 1771 [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to 1772 do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in 1773 your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is 1774 hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is 1775 required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on 1776 for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7. 1777 1778 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 1779 last time you updated your kernel config file. 1780 1781 [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have 1782 cvs prune empty directories. 1783 1784 If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 1785 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 1786 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 1787 1788 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 1789 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 1790 warn if it is improperly defined. 1791FORMAT: 1792 1793This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 1794breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 1795list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011. 1796If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 1797to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 1798 1799Copyright information: 1800 1801Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. 1802 1803Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without 1804modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this 1805document are permitted without further permission from the author. 1806 1807THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY WARNER LOSH ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 1808IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 1809WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 1810DISCLAIMED. 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