1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users. 2 3This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>. 4See end of file for further details. For commonly done items, please see the 5COMMON ITEMS: section later in the file. These instructions assume that you 6basically know what you are doing. If not, then please consult the FreeBSD 7handbook: 8 9 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html 10 11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in 12/usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before running portupgrade. 13 14NOTE: FreeBSD has switched from gcc to clang. If you have trouble bootstrapping 15from older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG and WITH_GCC to bootstrap to 16the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process from 17older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile. 18 19NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 11.x IS SLOW: 20 FreeBSD 11.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel 21 and userland. These features attempt to detect incorrect use of 22 system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity 23 checking and fail stop semantics. They also substantially impact 24 system performance. If you want to do performance measurement, 25 benchmarking, and optimization, you'll want to turn them off. This 26 includes various WITNESS- related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc 27 debugging flags in userland, and various verbose features in the 28 kernel. Many developers choose to disable these features on build 29 machines to maximize performance. (To completely disable malloc 30 debugging, define MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/make.conf, or to merely 31 disable the most expensive debugging functionality run 32 "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) 33 3420151006: 35 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 36 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 37 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 38 3920150924: 40 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 41 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 42 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 43 userland debug files. 44 45 When using the supported kernel installation method the 46 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 47 as is done with /boot/kernel. 48 49 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 50 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 51 5220150827: 53 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 54 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 55 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 56 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 57 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 58 rc.d scripts in /etc. 59 6020150827: 61 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 62 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 63 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 64 6520150817: 66 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 67 them, the kernel must have 68 69 device random 70 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 71 72 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 73 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 74 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 75 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 76 77 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 78 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 79 8020150813: 81 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 82 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 83 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 84 8520150810: 86 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 87 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 88 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 89 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 90 91 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 92 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 93 difference with this change. 94 95 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 96 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 97 remove that workaround. 98 9920150809: 100 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 101 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 102 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 103 with: 104 105 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 106 10720150806: 108 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 109 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 110 loader.rc.local instead. 111 11220150805: 113 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 114 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 115 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 116 11720150728: 118 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 119 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 120 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 121 122 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 123 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 124 12520150706: 126 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 127 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 128 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 129 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 130 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 131 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 132 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 133 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 134 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 135 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 136 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 137 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 138 13920150630: 140 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 141 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 142 143 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 144 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 145 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 146 147 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 148 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 149 150 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 151 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 152 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 153 154 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 155 entopy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 156 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 157 and it is assumed you know what you need. 158 159 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 160 habit of tweeking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 161 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 162 behaviour from your security subsystems. 163 164 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 165 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 166 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 167 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 168 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 169 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 170 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 171 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 172 will never happen. 173 17420150623: 175 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 176 entry below has been been committed in revision 284717. 177 17820150616: 179 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 180 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 181 18220150615: 183 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 184 below has been been committed in revision 284436. The work 185 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 186 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 187 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 188 18920150614: 190 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 191 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 192 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 193 with Kyuafile and kyua. 194 19520150614: 196 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 197 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 198 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 199 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 200 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 201 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 202 2048 bit DH parameter by: 203 204 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 205 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 206 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 207 replace it with '2'. 208 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 209 a file path, create a new file with: 210 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 211 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 212 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 213 5. Restart sendmail: 214 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 215 216 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 217 updated. 218 21920150604: 220 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 221 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 222 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 223 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 224 5.x. 225 226 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 227 22820150525: 229 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 230 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 231 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 232 23320150521: 234 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 235 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 236 and Pandaboard: 237 238 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 239 same but content is different now 240 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 241 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 242 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 243 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 244 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 245 24620150501: 247 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 248 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 249 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 250 25120150423: 252 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 253 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 254 25520150415: 256 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 257 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 258 25920150416: 260 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 261 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 262 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 263 26420150324: 265 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 266 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 267 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 268 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 269 27020150315: 271 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 272 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 273 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 274 27520150307: 276 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 277 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 278 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 279 kernel before rebooting. 280 28120150217: 282 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 283 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 284 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 285 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 286 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 287 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 288 28920150210: 290 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 291 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 292 with the new kernel. 293 29420150131: 295 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 296 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 297 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 298 29920150118: 300 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 301 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 302 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 303 are not already using 3.5.0. 304 30520150107: 306 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 307 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 308 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 309 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 310 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 311 31220150105: 313 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 314 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 315 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 316 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 317 31820150102: 319 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 320 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 321 32220141231: 323 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 324 325 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 326 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 327 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 328 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 329 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 330 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 331 later. 332 333 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 334 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 335 of the box. 336 337 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 338 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 339 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 340 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 341 342 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 343 the instructions for 9.x above. 344 345 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 346 default, and do not build clang. 347 348 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 349 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 350 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 351 352 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 353 the following are most likely to appear: 354 355 -Wabsolute-value 356 357 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 358 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 359 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 360 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 361 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 362 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 363 cast, or disable the warning. 364 365 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 366 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 367 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 368 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 369 side-effects. 370 371 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 372 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 373 374 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 375 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 376 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 377 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 378 379 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 380 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 381 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 382 unreachable could be optimized away. 383 38420141222: 385 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 386 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 387 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 388 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 389 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 390 the utilities will report errors. 391 39220141121: 393 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 394 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 395 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 396 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 397 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 398 LOCAL_DIRS. 399 40020141109: 401 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 402 has been obsolete for a very long time. 403 40420141104: 405 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 406 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 407 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 408 drivers. 409 410 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 411 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 412 indicate what you need to do. 413 414 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 415 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 416 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 417 418 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 419 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 420 kern.vty=sc 421 42220141102: 423 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 424 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 425 execute it. 426 42720141009: 428 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 429 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 430 devel/gperf port. 431 43220140923: 433 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 434 contrib/pjdfstest . 435 43620140922: 437 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 438 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 439 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 440 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 441 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 442 their next update cycle. 443 44420140729: 445 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 446 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 447 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 448 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 449 1.12.4_8 or newer. 450 45120140723: 452 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 453 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 454 45520140719: 456 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 457 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 458 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 459 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 460 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 461 new configuration. 462 46320140709: 464 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 465 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 466 them again. 467 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 468 46920140708: 470 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 471 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 472 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 473 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 474 requires readline. 475 47620140702: 477 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 478 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 479 architecture. 480 48120140701: 482 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 483 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 484 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 485 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 486 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 487 48820140629: 489 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 490 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 491 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 492 49320140619: 494 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 495 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 496 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 497 49820140606: 499 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 500 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 501 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 502 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 503 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 504 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 505 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 506 "make installworld". 507 508 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 509 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 510 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 511 is run. 512 513 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 514 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 515 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 516 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 517 be removed during a clean upgrade. 518 51920140512: 520 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 521 52220140508: 523 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 524 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 525 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 526 52720140505: 528 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 529 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 530 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 531 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 532 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 533 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 534 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 535 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 536 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 537 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 538 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 539 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 540 541 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 542 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 543 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 544 as well. 545 54620140430: 547 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 548 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 549 55020140424: 551 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 552 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 553 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 554 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 555 build hosts for older releases. 556 557 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 558 r276991, respectively. 559 56020140418: 561 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 562 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 563 will silently lack HESIOD. 564 56520140405: 566 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 567 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 568 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 569 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 570 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 571 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 572 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 573 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 574 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 575 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 576 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 577 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 578 57920140306: 580 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 581 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 582 with command line option -W. 583 58420140226: 585 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 586 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 587 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 588 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 589 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 590 59120140216: 592 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 593 59420140216: 595 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 596 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 597 59820140212: 599 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 600 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 601 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 602 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 603 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 604 60520140204: 606 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 607 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 608 kernel is still highly recommended. 609 61020140131: 611 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 612 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 613 capability mode support in kernel. 614 61520140128: 616 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 617 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 618 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 619 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 620 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 621 62220140110: 623 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 624 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 625 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 626 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 627 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 628 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 629 63020131213: 631 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 632 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 633 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 634 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 635 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 636 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 637 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 638 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 639 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 640 64120131108: 642 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 643 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 644 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 645 should change your settings to use the latter. 646 64720131025: 648 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 649 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 650 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 651 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 652 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 653 65420131014: 655 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 656 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 657 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 658 delete-old-libs": 659 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 660 or 661 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 662 66320131010: 664 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 665 revision r256279. 666 66720131010: 668 The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8) 669 configuration file. The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables 670 for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to 671 /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked. 672 This is transparently backward compatible. See below about some 673 incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details. 674 675 These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration 676 file. One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate 677 a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without 678 running the jail(8) utility. The default pathname of the 679 configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by 680 using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables. 681 682 Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at 683 this moment. Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name 684 with an integer. 685 68620130930: 687 BIND has been removed from the base system. If all you need 688 is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound 689 service instead. Otherwise, several versions of BIND are 690 available in the ports tree. The dns/bind99 port is one example. 691 692 With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base 693 system. Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are 694 in the base system. Alternatively, nslookup and dig can 695 be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port. 696 69720130916: 698 With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now 699 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 700 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 701 70220130911: 703 OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default 704 silently trust signed SSHFP records. This can be controlled with 705 the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting. DNSSEC support 706 can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf. 707 70820130906: 709 The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++) 710 are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system 711 compiler. You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX 712 options in src.conf. 713 71420130905: 715 The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel 716 configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work. 717 If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include 718 'options PROCDESC'. 719 72020130905: 721 The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified 722 in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs 723 have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the 724 following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is 725 advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl, 726 kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq. 727 72820130903: 729 AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc. The AES-NI module 730 has been updated to use this support. A new gcc is required to build 731 the aesni module on both i386 and amd64. 732 73320130821: 734 The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices. 735 Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be 736 used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG". 737 73820130813: 739 WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets. WITH_ICONV now 740 enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default. 741 WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time 742 compatability. Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way. 743 If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely 744 need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT. 745 74620130806: 747 INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and 748 Illumos origin, including ZFS. If you have INVARIANTS in your 749 kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG 750 explicitly. 751 DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS) 752 locks if WITNESS option was set. Because that generated a lot of 753 witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false 754 positives, this is no longer done. New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS 755 can be used to achieve the previous behavior. 756 75720130806: 758 Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead 759 of time_second. Although this is not a user-visible functional 760 change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8), 761 rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated 762 to r253970 or later. 763 76420130802: 765 find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments, 766 instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did 767 not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message 768 would result: 769 770 find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe 771 772 Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented 773 without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing 774 directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the 775 old as well as the new version of find. 776 77720130726: 778 Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed. 779 Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs 780 path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by 781 slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs 782 subdirectories must be reviewed. 783 78420130716: 785 The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is 786 incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will 787 need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 788 789 To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set. 790 791 NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and 792 users are advised to upgrade. 793 79420130709: 795 pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it 796 you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5). 797 79820130709: 799 Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able 800 keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking 801 statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.) 802 80320130629: 804 Fix targets that run multiple make's to use && rather than ; 805 so that subsequent steps depend on success of previous. 806 807 NOTE: if building 'universe' with -j* on stable/8 or stable/9 808 it would be better to start the build using bmake, to avoid 809 overloading the machine. 810 81120130618: 812 Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write 813 to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space 814 even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had 815 write access to that file. 816 81720130615: 818 CVS has been removed from the base system. An exact copy 819 of the code is available from the devel/cvs port. 820 82120130613: 822 Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake: 823 824 make: illegal option -- J 825 usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable] 826 ... 827 *** [buildworld] Error code 2 828 829 this likely due to an old instance of make in 830 ${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE}) 831 which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if 832 you see the above error: 833 834 rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH` 835 836 should resolve it. 837 83820130516: 839 Use bmake by default. 840 Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via 841 -DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old 842 make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE. 843 844 It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command 845 line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the 846 command line. Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer 847 than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent 848 behavior in parallel build. 849 85020130429: 851 Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files. 852 85320130426: 854 The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because 855 the IDEA patent expired. 856 85720130426: 858 The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed 859 from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been 860 enabled by default. 861 86220130425: 863 The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX 864 rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in 865 order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as 866 install and mtree. When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where 867 the install command does not support -l, you will need to 868 install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required. 869 This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster 870 && make install). 871 87220130404: 873 Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since 874 FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources. Kernel modules 875 atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are 876 removed. Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled 877 and removed. 878 87920130319: 880 SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2) 881 and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may 882 automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting 883 binaries will not work on older kernels. 884 88520130308: 886 CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further 887 information, see the respective 20130304 entry). 888 88920130304: 890 Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout, 891 so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions 892 in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced 893 by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild 894 is requested. 895 896 The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64, 897 but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE 898 option) to save memory. To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE 899 option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 900 in /boot/loader.conf. 901 90220130301: 903 The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64. 904 This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system 905 initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if 906 a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system 907 unusable on 128MB or less of RAM. 908 90920130208: 910 A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please 911 refer to zpool-features(7) for more information. 912 913 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 914 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 915 91620130129: 917 A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed 918 as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch. 919 To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default, 920 while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild 921 and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set. 922 92320130121: 924 Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build 925 and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL 926 make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the 927 command line. If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs 928 you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or 929 /etc/src.conf. 930 93120130118: 932 The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an 933 argument that is a file or path to append logs to. In the 934 unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line 935 and the command line contained at least two files and a target 936 directory the first file will have logs appended to it. The -M 937 option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its 938 use is expected to be extremely rare. 939 94020121223: 941 After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS 942 on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics. 943 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations. 944 94520121222: 946 GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata. 947 Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters, 948 '%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to 949 be updated. 950 95120121217: 952 By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved. To 953 restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps 954 stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf: 955 956 savecore_flags="" 957 95820121201: 959 With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now 960 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 961 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 962 96320121117: 964 The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now 965 filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via 966 sysctl or routing socket. This means the KAME-specific embedded scope 967 id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application. 968 This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid. 969 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025. 970 97120121105: 972 On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default. 973 This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang 974 and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++, 975 and /usr/bin/cpp. To disable this behavior and revert to building 976 with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions 977 of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang 978 build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable 979 branch point). 980 98120121102: 982 The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its 983 functionality now turned on by default. 984 98520121023: 986 The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and 987 split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP. 988 NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write 989 mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes. 990 NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current 991 driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage. 992 Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under 993 consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal 994 of the two kernel options. 995 99620121023: 997 The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte 998 order. The following modules need to be recompiled together 999 with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4), 1000 pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4). 1001 100220121022: 1003 Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The 1004 VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be 1005 recompiled. 1006 100720121018: 1008 All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from 1009 the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs, 1010 portalfs, smbfs, xfs. 1011 101220121016: 1013 The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following 1014 modules need to be recompiled together with kernel: 1015 ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4), 1016 vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4), 1017 faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4). 1018 101920121015: 1020 The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host 1021 Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver). 1022 No kernel config modifications are required, but if you 1023 load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead. 1024 102520121014: 1026 Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system. 1027 102820121013: 1029 The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed 1030 sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious 1031 problems have been reported. The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT 1032 knob has also gone. 1033 103420121006: 1035 The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet 1036 filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled 1037 with new kernel. 1038 103920121001: 1040 The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver 1041 PS-POLL and power-save support. All wireless drivers need to be 1042 recompiled to work with the new kernel. 1043 104420120913: 1045 The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number 1046 generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally. 1047 Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if 1048 needed. The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the 1049 device, so the change only affects the custom kernel 1050 configurations. 1051 105220120908: 1053 The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and 1054 snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel. 1055 105620120828: 1057 A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged 1058 to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be 1059 imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support 1060 this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5) 1061 manual page. 1062 106320120727: 1064 The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto- 1065 detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these 1066 to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable. 1067 106820120712: 1069 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c. Any binaries requiring 1070 libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled. Also, there are 1071 configuration changes. Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf. 1072 107320120712: 1074 The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency 1075 with other variables: 1076 kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered 1077 kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered 1078 107920120628: 1080 The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort. For now, GNU sort 1081 is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to 1082 GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT. In this case, BSD sort will be 1083 installed as "bsdsort". 1084 108520120611: 1086 A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD. 1087 Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning 1088 is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward 1089 compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS 1090 pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools 1091 is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information 1092 read the new zpool-features(5) manual page. 1093 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1094 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1095 109620120417: 1097 The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported 1098 as contrib/jemalloc. The most disruptive API change is to 1099 /etc/malloc.conf. If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf, 1100 delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the 1101 new format after rebooting. See malloc.conf(5) for details 1102 (specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL 1103 NAMESPACE section). 1104 110520120328: 1106 Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb". mips64eb 1107 is now spelled mips64. mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32. mipseb is 1108 now spelled mips. This is to aid compatibility with third-party 1109 software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3). Little-endian 1110 settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine 1111 from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in 1112 your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine. 1113 111420120306: 1115 Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported 1116 platforms. 1117 111820120229: 1119 Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on nullfs(5). Previously 1120 nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer, 1121 as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect 1122 only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect 1123 only to the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the 1124 lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to. 1125 112620120211: 1127 The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored. 1128 If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to 1129 recompile libc again with your kernel. You still need to recompile 1130 world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already 1131 comes from 20111215. 1132 113320120114: 1134 The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr. All 1135 base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a 1136 port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either 1137 hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port. 1138 1139 An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d: 1140 rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i 1141 114220120109: 1143 panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts 1144 on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running. 1145 This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic 1146 tunable/sysctl. 1147 The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic. 1148 114920111215: 1150 The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration 1151 of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format 1152 of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages 1153 for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently 1154 not supported anymore. 1155 1156 Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User 1157 utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8), 1158 need to be recompiled. 1159 116020111122: 1161 The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to 1162 /dev/wmistat0. 1163 116420111108: 1165 The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to 1166 explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems. 1167 It is on by default for all supported platform at this present 1168 time. 1169 117020111101: 1171 The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64, 1172 i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files. 1173 117420110930: 1175 sysinstall has been removed 1176 117720110923: 1178 The stable/9 branch created in subversion. This corresponds to the 1179 RELENG_9 branch in CVS. 1180 1181COMMON ITEMS: 1182 1183 General Notes 1184 ------------- 1185 Avoid using make -j when upgrading. While generally safe, there are 1186 sometimes problems using -j to upgrade. If your upgrade fails with 1187 -j, please try again without -j. From time to time in the past there 1188 have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This 1189 is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one 1190 that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when 1191 several months have passed on the -current branch). 1192 1193 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 1194 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 1195 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 1196 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 1197 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 1198 1199 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best 1200 to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, 1201 then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade 1202 path, and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try 1203 this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade. 1204 1205 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 1206 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 1207 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 1208 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 1209 1210 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 1211 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 1212 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 1213 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 1214 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 1215 should write them with this in mind. 1216 1217 ZFS notes 1218 --------- 1219 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 1220 these two steps: 1221 1222 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 1223 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 1224 1225 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 1226 1227 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first 1228 partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 1229 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0" 1230 1231 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 1232 1233 To build a kernel 1234 ----------------- 1235 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 1236 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 1237 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 1238 1239 make kernel-toolchain 1240 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1241 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1242 1243 To test a kernel once 1244 --------------------- 1245 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 1246 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 1247 debugging information) run 1248 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 1249 nextboot -k testkernel 1250 1251 To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up 1252 -------------------------------------------------------------- 1253 This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system. Replace 1254 ${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386", 1255 "arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc). 1256 1257 cd src/sys/${arch}/conf 1258 config KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1259 cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1260 make depend 1261 make 1262 make install 1263 1264 If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section. 1265 1266 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 1267 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1268 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 1269 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 1270 1271 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1272 make buildworld 1273 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1274 [1] 1275 <reboot in single user> [3] 1276 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1277 make installworld 1278 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1279 make delete-old [6] 1280 <reboot> 1281 1282 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 1283 -------------------------------------------------- 1284 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 1285 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 1286 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 1287 # size. 1288 1289 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1290 <boot into -stable> 1291 make buildworld 1292 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1293 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 1294 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 1295 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 1296 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 1297 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1298 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 1299 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 1300 <reboot into current> 1301 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 1302 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 1303 <reboot> 1304 1305 1306 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 1307 ---------------------------------------------- 1308 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1309 make buildworld [9] 1310 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 1311 [1] 1312 <reboot in single user> [3] 1313 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1314 make installworld 1315 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1316 make delete-old [6] 1317 <reboot> 1318 1319 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 1320 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 1321 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 1322 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 1323 the UPDATING entries. 1324 1325 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 1326 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 1327 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 1328 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 1329 much fewer pitfalls. 1330 1331 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you 1332 should disable them at this point so they don't crash your 1333 system on reboot. 1334 1335 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 1336 fsck -p 1337 mount -u / 1338 mount -a 1339 cd src 1340 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 1341 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that 1342 you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. 1343 1344 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 1345 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 1346 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 1347 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 1348 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 1349 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 1350 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 1351 1352 [5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time 1353 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 1354 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 1355 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 1356 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 1357 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 1358 1359 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 1360 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 1361 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 1362 1363 [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to 1364 do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in 1365 your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is 1366 hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is 1367 required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on 1368 for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7. 1369 1370 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 1371 last time you updated your kernel config file. 1372 1373 [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have 1374 cvs prune empty directories. 1375 1376 If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 1377 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 1378 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 1379 1380 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 1381 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 1382 warn if it is improperly defined. 1383FORMAT: 1384 1385This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 1386breakages in tracking -current. 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