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 to bootstrap to the tip of 16head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process from 17older version of current is a bit fragile. 18 19NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 10.x IS SLOW: 20 FreeBSD 10.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 3420130618: 35 Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write 36 to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space 37 even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had 38 write access to that file. 39 4020130615: 41 CVS has been removed from the base system. An exact copy 42 of the code is available from the devel/cvs port. 43 4420130613: 45 Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake: 46 47 make: illegal option -- J 48 usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable] 49 ... 50 *** [buildworld] Error code 2 51 52 this likely due to an old instance of make in 53 ${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE}) 54 which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if 55 you see the above error: 56 57 rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH` 58 59 should resolve it. 60 6120130516: 62 Use bmake by default. 63 Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via 64 -DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old 65 make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE. 66 67 It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command 68 line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the 69 command line. Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer 70 than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent 71 behavior in parallel build. 72 7320130429: 74 Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files. 75 7620130426: 77 The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because 78 the IDEA patent expired. 79 8020130426: 81 The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed 82 from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been 83 enabled by default. 84 8520130425: 86 The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX 87 rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in 88 order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as 89 install and mtree. When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where 90 the install command does not support -l, you will need to 91 install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required. 92 This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster 93 && make install). 94 9520130404: 96 Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since 97 FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources. Kernel modules 98 atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are 99 removed. Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled 100 and removed. 101 10220130319: 103 SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2) 104 and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may 105 automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting 106 binaries will not work on older kernels. 107 10820130308: 109 CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further 110 information, see the respective 20130304 entry). 111 11220130304: 113 Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout, 114 so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions 115 in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced 116 by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild 117 is requested. 118 119 The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64, 120 but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE 121 option) to save memory. To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE 122 option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 123 in /boot/loader.conf. 124 12520130301: 126 The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64. 127 This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system 128 initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if 129 a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system 130 unusable on 128MB or less of RAM. 131 13220130208: 133 A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please 134 refer to zpool-features(7) for more information. 135 136 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 137 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 138 13920130129: 140 A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed 141 as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch. 142 To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default, 143 while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild 144 and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set. 145 14620130121: 147 Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build 148 and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL 149 make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the 150 command line. If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs 151 you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or 152 /etc/src.conf. 153 15420130118: 155 The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an 156 argument that is a file or path to append logs to. In the 157 unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line 158 and the command line contained at least two files and a target 159 directory the first file will have logs appended to it. The -M 160 option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its 161 use is expected to be extremely rare. 162 16320121223: 164 After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS 165 on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics. 166 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations. 167 16820121222: 169 GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata. 170 Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters, 171 '%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to 172 be updated. 173 17420121217: 175 By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved. To 176 restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps 177 stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf: 178 179 savecore_flags="" 180 18120121201: 182 With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now 183 depended on during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add 184 the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 185 18620121117: 187 The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now 188 filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via 189 sysctl or routing socket. This means the KAME-specific embedded scope 190 id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application. 191 This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid. 192 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025. 193 19420121105: 195 On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default. 196 This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang 197 and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++, 198 and /usr/bin/cpp. To disable this behavior and revert to building 199 with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions 200 of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang 201 build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable 202 branch point). 203 20420121102: 205 The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its 206 functionality now turned on by default. 207 20820121023: 209 The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and 210 split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP. 211 NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write 212 mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes. 213 NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current 214 driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage. 215 Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under 216 consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal 217 of the two kernel options. 218 21920121023: 220 The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte 221 order. The following modules need to be recompiled together 222 with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4), 223 pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4). 224 22520121022: 226 Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The 227 VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be 228 recompiled. 229 23020121018: 231 All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from 232 the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs, 233 portalfs, smbfs, xfs. 234 23520121016: 236 The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following 237 modules need to be recompiled together with kernel: 238 ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4), 239 vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4), 240 faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4). 241 24220121015: 243 The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host 244 Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver). 245 No kernel config modifications are required, but if you 246 load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead. 247 24820121014: 249 Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system. 250 25120121013: 252 The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed 253 sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious 254 problems have been reported. The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT 255 knob has also gone. 256 25720121006: 258 The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet 259 filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled 260 with new kernel. 261 26220121001: 263 The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver 264 PS-POLL and power-save support. All wireless drivers need to be 265 recompiled to work with the new kernel. 266 26720120913: 268 The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number 269 generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally. 270 Add the PADLOCK_RNG option in the custom kernel config if 271 needed. The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the 272 option, so the change only affects the custom kernel 273 configurations. 274 27520120908: 276 The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and 277 snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel. 278 27920120828: 280 A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged 281 to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be 282 imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support 283 this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5) 284 manual page. 285 28620120727: 287 The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto- 288 detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these 289 to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable. 290 29120120712: 292 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c. Any binaries requiring 293 libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled. Also, there are 294 configuration changes. Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf. 295 29620120712: 297 The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency 298 with other variables: 299 kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered 300 kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered 301 30220120628: 303 The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort. For now, GNU sort 304 is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to 305 GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT. In this case, BSD sort will be 306 installed as "bsdsort". 307 30820120611: 309 A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD. 310 Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning 311 is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward 312 compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS 313 pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools 314 is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information 315 read the new zpool-features(5) manual page. 316 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 317 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 318 31920120417: 320 The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported 321 as contrib/jemalloc. The most disruptive API change is to 322 /etc/malloc.conf. If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf, 323 delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the 324 new format after rebooting. See malloc.conf(5) for details 325 (specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL 326 NAMESPACE section). 327 32820120328: 329 Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb". mips64eb 330 is now spelled mips64. mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32. mipseb is 331 now spelled mips. This is to aid compatibility with third-party 332 software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3). Little-endian 333 settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine 334 from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in 335 your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine. 336 33720120306: 338 Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported 339 platforms. 340 34120120229: 342 Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on nullfs(5). Previously 343 nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer, 344 as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect 345 only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect 346 only to the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the 347 lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to. 348 34920120211: 350 The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored. 351 If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to 352 recompile libc again with your kernel. You still need to recompile 353 world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already 354 comes from 20111215. 355 35620120114: 357 The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr. All 358 base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a 359 port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either 360 hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port. 361 362 An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d: 363 rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i 364 36520120109: 366 panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts 367 on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running. 368 This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic 369 tunable/sysctl. 370 The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic. 371 37220111215: 373 The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration 374 of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format 375 of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages 376 for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently 377 not supported anymore. 378 379 Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User 380 utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8), 381 need to be recompiled. 382 38320111122: 384 The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to 385 /dev/wmistat0. 386 38720111108: 388 The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to 389 explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems. 390 It is on by default for all supported platform at this present 391 time. 392 39320111101: 394 The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64, 395 i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files. 396 39720110930: 398 sysinstall has been removed 399 40020110923: 401 The stable/9 branch created in subversion. This corresponds to the 402 RELENG_9 branch in CVS. 403 40420110913: 405 This commit modifies vfs_register() so that it uses a hash 406 calculation to set vfc_typenum, which is enabled by default. 407 The first time a system is booted after this change, the 408 vfc_typenum values will change for all file systems. The 409 main effect of this is a change to the NFS server file handles 410 for file systems that use vfc_typenum in their fsid, such as ZFS. 411 It will, however, prevent vfc_typenum from changing when file 412 systems are loaded in a different order for subsequent reboots. 413 To disable this, you can set vfs.typenumhash=0 in /boot/loader.conf 414 until you are ready to remount all NFS clients after a reboot. 415 41620110828: 417 Bump the shared library version numbers for libraries that 418 do not use symbol versioning, have changed the ABI compared 419 to stable/8 and which shared library version was not bumped. 420 Done as part of 9.0-RELEASE cycle. 421 42220110815: 423 During the merge of Capsicum features, the fget(9) KPI was modified. 424 This may require the rebuilding of out-of-tree device drivers -- 425 issues have been reported specifically with the nVidia device driver. 426 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 900041. 427 428 Also, there is a period between 20110811 and 20110814 where the 429 special devices /dev/{stdin,stdout,stderr} did not work correctly. 430 Building world from a kernel during that window may not work. 431 43220110628: 433 The packet filter (pf) code has been updated to OpenBSD 4.5. 434 You need to update userland tools to be in sync with kernel. 435 This update breaks backward compatibility with earlier pfsync(4) 436 versions. Care must be taken when updating redundant firewall setups. 437 43820110608: 439 The following sysctls and tunables are retired on x86 platforms: 440 machdep.hlt_cpus 441 machdep.hlt_logical_cpus 442 The following sysctl is retired: 443 machdep.hyperthreading_allowed 444 The sysctls were supposed to provide a way to dynamically offline and 445 online selected CPUs on x86 platforms, but the implementation has not 446 been reliable especially with SCHED_ULE scheduler. 447 machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable is still available to ignore 448 hyperthreading CPUs at OS level. 449 Individual CPUs can be disabled using hint.lapic.X.disabled tunable, 450 where X is an APIC ID of a CPU. Be advised, though, that disabling 451 CPUs in non-uniform fashion will result in non-uniform topology and 452 may lead to sub-optimal system performance with SCHED_ULE, which is 453 a default scheduler. 454 45520110607: 456 cpumask_t type is retired and cpuset_t is used in order to describe 457 a mask of CPUs. 458 45920110531: 460 Changes to ifconfig(8) for dynamic address family detection mandate 461 that you are running a kernel of 20110525 or later. Make sure to 462 follow the update procedure to boot a new kernel before installing 463 world. 464 46520110513: 466 Support for sun4v architecture is officially dropped 467 46820110503: 469 Several KPI breaking changes have been committed to the mii(4) layer, 470 the PHY drivers and consequently some Ethernet drivers using mii(4). 471 This means that miibus.ko and the modules of the affected Ethernet 472 drivers need to be recompiled. 473 474 Note to kernel developers: Given that the OUI bit reversion problem 475 was fixed as part of these changes all mii(4) commits related to OUIs, 476 i.e. to sys/dev/mii/miidevs, PHY driver probing and vendor specific 477 handling, no longer can be merged verbatim to stable/8 and previous 478 branches. 479 48020110430: 481 Users of the Atheros AR71xx SoC code now need to add 'device ar71xx_pci' 482 into their kernel configurations along with 'device pci'. 483 48420110427: 485 The default NFS client is now the new NFS client, so fstype "newnfs" 486 is now "nfs" and the regular/old NFS client is now fstype "oldnfs". 487 Although mounts via fstype "nfs" will usually work without userland 488 changes, it is recommended that the mount(8) and mount_nfs(8) 489 commands be rebuilt from sources and that a link to mount_nfs called 490 mount_oldnfs be created. The new client is compiled into the 491 kernel with "options NFSCL" and this is needed for diskless root 492 file systems. The GENERIC kernel configs have been changed to use 493 NFSCL and NFSD (the new server) instead of NFSCLIENT and NFSSERVER. 494 To use the regular/old client, you can "mount -t oldnfs ...". For 495 a diskless root file system, you must also include a line like: 496 497 vfs.root.mountfrom="oldnfs:" 498 499 in the boot/loader.conf on the root fs on the NFS server to make 500 a diskless root fs use the old client. 501 50220110424: 503 The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new 504 CAM-based ATA stack. It means that all legacy ATA drivers were 505 removed and replaced by respective CAM drivers. If you are using 506 ATA device names in /etc/fstab or other places, make sure to update 507 them respectively (adX -> adaY, acdX -> cdY, afdX -> daY, astX -> saY, 508 where 'Y's are the sequential numbers starting from zero for each type 509 in order of detection, unless configured otherwise with tunables, 510 see cam(4)). There will be symbolic links created in /dev/ to map 511 old adX devices to the respective adaY. They should provide basic 512 compatibility for file systems mounting in most cases, but they do 513 not support old user-level APIs and do not have respective providers 514 in GEOM. Consider using updated management tools with new device names. 515 516 It is possible to load devices ahci, ata, siis and mvs as modules, 517 but option ATA_CAM should remain in kernel configuration to make ata 518 module work as CAM driver supporting legacy ATA controllers. Device ata 519 still can be used in modular fashion (atacore + ...). Modules atadisk 520 and atapi* are not used and won't affect operation in ATA_CAM mode. 521 Note that to use CAM-based ATA kernel should include CAM devices 522 scbus, pass, da (or explicitly ada), cd and optionally others. All of 523 them are parts of the cam module. 524 525 ataraid(4) functionality is now supported by the RAID GEOM class. 526 To use it you can load geom_raid kernel module and use graid(8) tool 527 for management. Instead of /dev/arX device names, use /dev/raid/rX. 528 529 No kernel config options or code have been removed, so if a problem 530 arises, please report it and optionally revert to the old ATA stack. 531 In order to do it you can remove from the kernel config: 532 options ATA_CAM 533 device ahci 534 device mvs 535 device siis 536 , and instead add back: 537 device atadisk # ATA disk drives 538 device ataraid # ATA RAID drives 539 device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives 540 device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives 541 device atapist # ATAPI tape drives 542 54320110423: 544 The default NFS server has been changed to the new server, which 545 was referred to as the experimental server. If you need to switch 546 back to the old NFS server, you must now put the "-o" option on 547 both the mountd and nfsd commands. This can be done using the 548 mountd_flags and nfs_server_flags rc.conf variables until an 549 update to the rc scripts is committed, which is coming soon. 550 55120110418: 552 The GNU Objective-C runtime library (libobjc), and other Objective-C 553 related components have been removed from the base system. If you 554 require an Objective-C library, please use one of the available ports. 555 55620110331: 557 ath(4) has been split into bus- and device- modules. if_ath contains 558 the HAL, the TX rate control and the network device code. if_ath_pci 559 contains the PCI bus glue. For Atheros MIPS embedded systems, if_ath_ahb 560 contains the AHB glue. Users need to load both if_ath_pci and if_ath 561 in order to use ath on everything else. 562 563 TO REPEAT: if_ath_ahb is not needed for normal users. Normal users only 564 need to load if_ath and if_ath_pci for ath(4) operation. 565 56620110314: 567 As part of the replacement of sysinstall, the process of building 568 release media has changed significantly. For details, please re-read 569 release(7), which has been updated to reflect the new build process. 570 57120110218: 572 GNU binutils 2.17.50 (as of 2007-07-03) has been merged to -HEAD. This 573 is the last available version under GPLv2. It brings a number of new 574 features, such as support for newer x86 CPU's (with SSE-3, SSSE-3, SSE 575 4.1 and SSE 4.2), better support for powerpc64, a number of new 576 directives, and lots of other small improvements. See the ChangeLog 577 file in contrib/binutils for the full details. 578 57920110218: 580 IPsec's HMAC_SHA256-512 support has been fixed to be RFC4868 581 compliant, and will now use half of hash for authentication. 582 This will break interoperability with all stacks (including all 583 actual FreeBSD versions) who implement 584 draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-sha-256-00 (they use 96 bits of hash for 585 authentication). 586 The only workaround with such peers is to use another HMAC 587 algorithm for IPsec ("phase 2") authentication. 588 58920110207: 590 Remove the uio_yield prototype and symbol. This function has 591 been misnamed since it was introduced and should not be 592 globally exposed with this name. The equivalent functionality 593 is now available using kern_yield(curthread->td_user_pri). 594 The function remains undocumented. 595 59620110112: 597 A SYSCTL_[ADD_]UQUAD was added for unsigned uint64_t pointers, 598 symmetric with the existing SYSCTL_[ADD_]QUAD. Type checking 599 for scalar sysctls is defined but disabled. Code that needs 600 UQUAD to pass the type checking that must compile on older 601 systems where the define is not present can check against 602 __FreeBSD_version >= 900030. 603 604 The system dialog(1) has been replaced with a new version previously 605 in ports as devel/cdialog. dialog(1) is mostly command-line compatible 606 with the previous version, but the libdialog associated with it has 607 a largely incompatible API. As such, the original version of libdialog 608 will be kept temporarily as libodialog, until its base system consumers 609 are replaced or updated. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900030. 610 61120110103: 612 If you are trying to run make universe on a -stable system, and you get 613 the following warning: 614 "Makefile", line 356: "Target architecture for i386/conf/GENERIC 615 unknown. config(8) likely too old." 616 or something similar to it, then you must upgrade your -stable system 617 to 8.2-Release or newer (really, any time after r210146 7/15/2010 in 618 stable/8) or build the config from the latest stable/8 branch and 619 install it on your system. 620 621 Prior to this date, building a current universe on 8-stable system from 622 between 7/15/2010 and 1/2/2011 would result in a weird shell parsing 623 error in the first kernel build phase. A new config on those old 624 systems will fix that problem for older versions of -current. 625 62620101228: 627 The TCP stack has been modified to allow Khelp modules to interact with 628 it via helper hook points and store per-connection data in the TCP 629 control block. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900029. User space tools that 630 rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to 631 be recompiled. 632 63320101114: 634 Generic IEEE 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support has been 635 added to mii(4) and bge(4), bce(4), msk(4), nfe(4) and stge(4) along 636 with brgphy(4), e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy() have been converted 637 to take advantage of it instead of using custom implementations. This 638 means that these drivers now no longer unconditionally advertise 639 support for flow control but only do so if flow control is a selected 640 media option. This was implemented in the generic support that way in 641 order to allow flow control to be switched on and off via ifconfig(8) 642 with the PHY specific default to typically off in order to protect 643 from unwanted effects. Consequently, if you used flow control with 644 one of the above mentioned drivers you now need to explicitly enable 645 it, for example via: 646 ifconfig bge0 media auto mediaopt flowcontrol 647 648 Along with the above mentioned changes generic support for setting 649 1000baseT master mode also has been added and brgphy(4), ciphy(4), 650 e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy(4) have been converted to take 651 advantage of it. This means that these drivers now no longer take the 652 link0 parameter for selecting master mode but the master media option 653 has to be used instead, for example like in the following: 654 ifconfig bge0 media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,master 655 656 Selection of master mode now is also available with all other PHY 657 drivers supporting 1000baseT. 658 65920101111: 660 The TCP stack has received a significant update to add support for 661 modularised congestion control and generally improve the clarity of 662 congestion control decisions. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900025. User 663 space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g. 664 sockstat) need to be recompiled. 665 66620101002: 667 The man(1) utility has been replaced by a new version that no longer 668 uses /etc/manpath.config. Please consult man.conf(5) for how to 669 migrate local entries to the new format. 670 67120100928: 672 The copyright strings printed by login(1) and sshd(8) at the time of a 673 new connection have been removed to follow other operating systems and 674 upstream sshd. 675 67620100915: 677 A workaround for a fixed ld bug has been removed in kernel code, 678 so make sure that your system ld is built from sources after 679 revision 210245 from 2010-07-19 (r211583 if building head kernel 680 on stable/8, r211584 for stable/7; both from 2010-08-21). 681 A symptom of incorrect ld version is different addresses for 682 set_pcpu section and __start_set_pcpu symbol in kernel and/or modules. 683 68420100913: 685 The $ipv6_prefer variable in rc.conf(5) has been split into 686 $ip6addrctl_policy and $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces. 687 688 The $ip6addrctl_policy is a variable to choose a pre-defined 689 address selection policy set by ip6addrctl(8). A value 690 "ipv4_prefer", "ipv6_prefer" or "AUTO" can be specified. The 691 default is "AUTO". 692 693 The $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces specifies whether IFDISABLED 694 flag (see an entry of 20090926) is set on an interface with no 695 corresponding $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 line. The default is "NO" for 696 security reason. If you want IPv6 link-local address on all 697 interfaces by default, set this to "YES". 698 699 The old ipv6_prefer="YES" is equivalent to 700 ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" and 701 ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer". 702 70320100913: 704 DTrace has grown support for userland tracing. Due to this, DTrace is 705 now i386 and amd64 only. 706 dtruss(1) is now installed by default on those systems and a new 707 kernel module is needed for userland tracing: fasttrap. 708 No changes to your kernel config file are necessary to enable 709 userland tracing, but you might consider adding 'STRIP=' and 710 'CFLAGS+=-fno-omit-frame-pointer' to your make.conf if you want 711 to have informative userland stack traces in DTrace (ustack). 712 71320100725: 714 The acpi_aiboost(4) driver has been removed in favor of the new 715 aibs(4) driver. You should update your kernel configuration file. 716 71720100722: 718 BSD grep has been imported to the base system and it is built by 719 default. It is completely BSD licensed, highly GNU-compatible, uses 720 less memory than its GNU counterpart and has a small codebase. 721 However, it is slower than its GNU counterpart, which is mostly 722 noticeable for larger searches, for smaller ones it is measurable 723 but not significant. The reason is complex, the most important factor 724 is that we lack a modern and efficient regex library and GNU 725 overcomes this by optimizing the searches internally. Future work 726 on improving the regex performance is planned, for the meantime, 727 users that need better performance, can build GNU grep instead by 728 setting the WITH_GNU_GREP knob. 729 73020100713: 731 Due to the import of powerpc64 support, all existing powerpc kernel 732 configuration files must be updated with a machine directive like this: 733 machine powerpc powerpc 734 735 In addition, an updated config(8) is required to build powerpc kernels 736 after this change. 737 73820100713: 739 A new version of ZFS (version 15) has been merged to -HEAD. 740 This version uses a python library for the following subcommands: 741 zfs allow, zfs unallow, zfs groupspace, zfs userspace. 742 For full functionality of these commands the following port must 743 be installed: sysutils/py-zfs 744 74520100429: 746 'vm_page's are now hashed by physical address to an array of mutexes. 747 Currently this is only used to serialize access to hold_count. Over 748 time the page queue mutex will be peeled away. This changes the size 749 of pmap on every architecture. And requires all callers of vm_page_hold 750 and vm_page_unhold to be updated. 751 75220100402: 753 WITH_CTF can now be specified in src.conf (not recommended, there 754 are some problems with static executables), make.conf (would also 755 affect ports which do not use GNU make and do not override the 756 compile targets) or in the kernel config (via "makeoptions 757 WITH_CTF=yes"). 758 When WITH_CTF was specified there before this was silently ignored, 759 so make sure that WITH_CTF is not used in places which could lead 760 to unwanted behavior. 761 76220100311: 763 The kernel option COMPAT_IA32 has been replaced with COMPAT_FREEBSD32 764 to allow 32-bit compatibility on non-x86 platforms. All kernel 765 configurations on amd64 and ia64 platforms using these options must 766 be modified accordingly. 767 76820100113: 769 The utmp user accounting database has been replaced with utmpx, 770 the user accounting interface standardized by POSIX. 771 Unfortunately the semantics of utmp and utmpx don't match, 772 making it practically impossible to support both interfaces. 773 The user accounting database is used by tools like finger(1), 774 last(1), talk(1), w(1) and ac(8). 775 776 All applications in the base system use utmpx. This means only 777 local binaries (e.g. from the ports tree) may still use these 778 utmp database files. These applications must be rebuilt to make 779 use of utmpx. 780 781 After the system has been upgraded, it is safe to remove the old 782 log files (/var/run/utmp, /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/wtmp*), 783 assuming their contents is of no importance anymore. Old wtmp 784 databases can only be used by last(1) and ac(8) after they have 785 been converted to the new format using wtmpcvt(1). 786 78720100108: 788 Introduce the kernel thread "deadlock resolver" (which can be enabled 789 via the DEADLKRES option, see NOTES for more details) and the 790 sleepq_type() function for sleepqueues. 791 79220091202: 793 The rc.firewall and rc.firewall6 were unified, and 794 rc.firewall6 and rc.d/ip6fw were removed. 795 According to the removal of rc.d/ip6fw, ipv6_firewall_* rc 796 variables are obsoleted. Instead, the following new rc 797 variables are added to rc.d/ipfw: 798 799 firewall_client_net_ipv6, firewall_simple_iif_ipv6, 800 firewall_simple_inet_ipv6, firewall_simple_oif_ipv6, 801 firewall_simple_onet_ipv6, firewall_trusted_ipv6 802 803 The meanings correspond to the relevant IPv4 variables. 804 80520091125: 806 8.0-RELEASE. 807 80820091113: 809 The default terminal emulation for syscons(4) has been changed 810 from cons25 to xterm on all platforms except pc98. This means 811 that the /etc/ttys file needs to be updated to ensure correct 812 operation of applications on the console. 813 814 The terminal emulation style can be toggled per window by using 815 vidcontrol(1)'s -T flag. The TEKEN_CONS25 kernel configuration 816 options can be used to change the compile-time default back to 817 cons25. 818 819 To prevent graphical artifacts, make sure the TERM environment 820 variable is set to match the terminal emulation that is being 821 performed by syscons(4). 822 82320091109: 824 The layout of the structure ieee80211req_scan_result has changed. 825 Applications that require wireless scan results (e.g. ifconfig(8)) 826 from net80211 need to be recompiled. 827 828 Applications such as wpa_supplicant(8) may require a full world 829 build without using NO_CLEAN in order to get synchronized with the 830 new structure. 831 83220091025: 833 The iwn(4) driver has been updated to support the 5000 and 5150 series. 834 There's one kernel module for each firmware. Adding "device iwnfw" 835 to the kernel configuration file means including all three firmware 836 images inside the kernel. If you want to include just the one for 837 your wireless card, use the devices iwn4965fw, iwn5000fw or 838 iwn5150fw. 839 84020090926: 841 The rc.d/network_ipv6, IPv6 configuration script has been integrated 842 into rc.d/netif. The changes are the following: 843 844 1. To use IPv6, simply define $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 like $ifconfig_IF 845 for IPv4. For aliases, $ifconfig_IF_aliasN should be used. 846 Note that both variables need the "inet6" keyword at the head. 847 848 Do not set $ipv6_network_interfaces manually if you do not 849 understand what you are doing. It is not needed in most cases. 850 851 $ipv6_ifconfig_IF and $ipv6_ifconfig_IF_aliasN still work, but 852 they are obsolete. 853 854 2. $ipv6_enable is obsolete. Use $ipv6_prefer and 855 "inet6 accept_rtadv" keyword in ifconfig(8) instead. 856 857 If you define $ipv6_enable=YES, it means $ipv6_prefer=YES and 858 all configured interfaces have "inet6 accept_rtadv" in the 859 $ifconfig_IF_ipv6. These are for backward compatibility. 860 861 3. A new variable $ipv6_prefer has been added. If NO, IPv6 862 functionality of interfaces with no corresponding 863 $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 is disabled by using "inet6 ifdisabled" flag, 864 and the default address selection policy of ip6addrctl(8) 865 is the IPv4-preferred one (see rc.d/ip6addrctl for more details). 866 Note that if you want to configure IPv6 functionality on the 867 disabled interfaces after boot, first you need to clear the flag by 868 using ifconfig(8) like: 869 870 ifconfig em0 inet6 -ifdisabled 871 872 If YES, the default address selection policy is set as 873 IPv6-preferred. 874 875 The default value of $ipv6_prefer is NO. 876 877 4. If your system need to receive Router Advertisement messages, 878 define "inet6 accept_rtadv" in $ifconfig_IF_ipv6. The rc(8) 879 scripts automatically invoke rtsol(8) when the interface becomes 880 UP. The Router Advertisement messages are used for SLAAC 881 (State-Less Address AutoConfiguration). 882 88320090922: 884 802.11s D3.03 support was committed. This is incompatible with the 885 previous code, which was based on D3.0. 886 88720090912: 888 A sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv now sets the default value 889 of a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV, not a global knob to 890 control whether accepting Router Advertisement messages or not. 891 Also, a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_AUTO_LINKLOCAL has been added and 892 a sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal is its default value. 893 The ifconfig(8) utility now supports these flags. 894 89520090910: 896 ZFS snapshots are now mounted with MNT_IGNORE flag. Use -v option for 897 mount(8) and -a option for df(1) to see them. 898 89920090825: 900 The old tunable hw.bus.devctl_disable has been superseded by 901 hw.bus.devctl_queue. hw.bus.devctl_disable=1 in loader.conf should be 902 replaced by hw.bus.devctl_queue=0. The default for this new tunable 903 is 1000. 904 90520090813: 906 Remove the option STOP_NMI. The default action is now to use NMI only 907 for KDB via the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and 908 maintain stop_cpus() to just use a normal IPI_STOP on ia32 and amd64. 909 91020090803: 911 The stable/8 branch created in subversion. This corresponds to the 912 RELENG_8 branch in CVS. 913 91420090719: 915 Bump the shared library version numbers for all libraries that do not 916 use symbol versioning as part of the 8.0-RELEASE cycle. Bump 917 __FreeBSD_version to 800105. 918 91920090714: 920 Due to changes in the implementation of virtual network stack support, 921 all network-related kernel modules must be recompiled. As this change 922 breaks the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800104. 923 92420090713: 925 The TOE interface to the TCP syncache has been modified to remove 926 struct tcpopt (<netinet/tcp_var.h>) from the ABI of the network stack. 927 The cxgb driver is the only TOE consumer affected by this change, and 928 needs to be recompiled along with the kernel. As this change breaks 929 the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800103. 930 93120090712: 932 Padding has been added to struct tcpcb, sackhint and tcpstat in 933 <netinet/tcp_var.h> to facilitate future MFCs and bug fixes whilst 934 maintaining the ABI. However, this change breaks the ABI, so bump 935 __FreeBSD_version to 800102. User space tools that rely on the size of 936 any of these structs (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled. 937 93820090630: 939 The NFS_LEGACYRPC option has been removed along with the old kernel 940 RPC implementation that this option selected. Kernel configurations 941 may need to be adjusted. 942 94320090629: 944 The network interface device nodes at /dev/net/<interface> have been 945 removed. All ioctl operations can be performed the normal way using 946 routing sockets. The kqueue functionality can generally be replaced 947 with routing sockets. 948 94920090628: 950 The documentation from the FreeBSD Documentation Project (Handbook, 951 FAQ, etc.) is now installed via packages by sysinstall(8) and under 952 the /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd directory instead of /usr/share/doc. 953 95420090624: 955 The ABI of various structures related to the SYSV IPC API have been 956 changed. As a result, the COMPAT_FREEBSD[456] and COMPAT_43 kernel 957 options now all require COMPAT_FREEBSD7. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 958 800100. 959 96020090622: 961 Layout of struct vnet has changed as routing related variables were 962 moved to their own Vimage module. Modules need to be recompiled. Bump 963 __FreeBSD_version to 800099. 964 96520090619: 966 NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS have been increased from 16 to 1023 and 1024 967 respectively. As long as no more than 16 groups per process are used, 968 no changes should be visible. When more than 16 groups are used, old 969 binaries may fail if they call getgroups() or getgrouplist() with 970 statically sized storage. Recompiling will work around this, but 971 applications should be modified to use dynamically allocated storage 972 for group arrays as POSIX.1-2008 does not cap an implementation's 973 number of supported groups at NGROUPS_MAX+1 as previous versions did. 974 975 NFS and portalfs mounts may also be affected as the list of groups is 976 truncated to 16. Users of NFS who use more than 16 groups, should 977 take care that negative group permissions are not used on the exported 978 file systems as they will not be reliable unless a GSSAPI based 979 authentication method is used. 980 98120090616: 982 The compiling option ADAPTIVE_LOCKMGRS has been introduced. This 983 option compiles in the support for adaptive spinning for lockmgrs 984 which want to enable it. The lockinit() function now accepts the flag 985 LK_ADAPTIVE in order to make the lock object subject to adaptive 986 spinning when both held in write and read mode. 987 98820090613: 989 The layout of the structure returned by IEEE80211_IOC_STA_INFO has 990 changed. User applications that use this ioctl need to be rebuilt. 991 99220090611: 993 The layout of struct thread has changed. Kernel and modules need to 994 be rebuilt. 995 99620090608: 997 The layout of structs ifnet, domain, protosw and vnet_net has changed. 998 Kernel modules need to be rebuilt. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097. 999 100020090602: 1001 window(1) has been removed from the base system. It can now be 1002 installed from ports. The port is called misc/window. 1003 100420090601: 1005 The way we are storing and accessing `routing table' entries has 1006 changed. Programs reading the FIB, like netstat, need to be 1007 re-compiled. 1008 100920090601: 1010 A new netisr implementation has been added for FreeBSD 8. Network 1011 file system modules, such as igmp, ipdivert, and others, should be 1012 rebuilt. 1013 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800096. 1014 101520090530: 1016 Remove the tunable/sysctl debug.mpsafevfs as its initial purpose is no 1017 more valid. 1018 101920090530: 1020 Add VOP_ACCESSX(9). File system modules need to be rebuilt. 1021 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800094. 1022 102320090529: 1024 Add mnt_xflag field to 'struct mount'. File system modules need to be 1025 rebuilt. 1026 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800093. 1027 102820090528: 1029 The compiling option ADAPTIVE_SX has been retired while it has been 1030 introduced the option NO_ADAPTIVE_SX which handles the reversed logic. 1031 The KPI for sx_init_flags() changes as accepting flags: 1032 SX_ADAPTIVESPIN flag has been retired while the SX_NOADAPTIVE flag has 1033 been introduced in order to handle the reversed logic. 1034 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800092. 1035 103620090527: 1037 Add support for hierarchical jails. Remove global securelevel. 1038 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800091. 1039 104020090523: 1041 The layout of struct vnet_net has changed, therefore modules 1042 need to be rebuilt. 1043 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800090. 1044 104520090523: 1046 The newly imported zic(8) produces a new format in the output. Please 1047 run tzsetup(8) to install the newly created data to /etc/localtime. 1048 104920090520: 1050 The sysctl tree for the usb stack has renamed from hw.usb2.* to 1051 hw.usb.* and is now consistent again with previous releases. 1052 105320090520: 1054 802.11 monitor mode support was revised and driver api's were changed. 1055 Drivers dependent on net80211 now support DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO instead 1056 of DLT_IEEE802_11. No user-visible data structures were changed but 1057 applications that use DLT_IEEE802_11 may require changes. 1058 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800088. 1059 106020090430: 1061 The layout of the following structs has changed: sysctl_oid, 1062 socket, ifnet, inpcbinfo, tcpcb, syncache_head, vnet_inet, 1063 vnet_inet6 and vnet_ipfw. Most modules need to be rebuild or 1064 panics may be experienced. World rebuild is required for 1065 correctly checking networking state from userland. 1066 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800085. 1067 106820090429: 1069 MLDv2 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged 1070 to the IPv6 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used. 1071 The implementation of SSM within FreeBSD's IPv6 stack closely 1072 follows the IPv4 implementation. 1073 1074 For kernel developers: 1075 1076 * The most important changes are that the ip6_output() and 1077 ip6_input() paths no longer take the IN6_MULTI_LOCK, 1078 and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex. 1079 1080 * As with the changes to the IPv4 stack to support SSM, filtering 1081 of inbound multicast traffic must now be performed by transport 1082 protocols within the IPv6 stack. This does not apply to TCP and 1083 SCTP, however, it does apply to UDP in IPv6 and raw IPv6. 1084 1085 * The KPIs used by IPv6 multicast are similar to those used by 1086 the IPv4 stack, with the following differences: 1087 * im6o_mc_filter() is analogous to imo_multicast_filter(). 1088 * The legacy KAME entry points in6_joingroup and in6_leavegroup() 1089 are shimmed to in6_mc_join() and in6_mc_leave() respectively. 1090 * IN6_LOOKUP_MULTI() has been deprecated and removed. 1091 * IPv6 relies on MLD for the DAD mechanism. KAME's internal KPIs 1092 for MLDv1 have an additional 'timer' argument which is used to 1093 jitter the initial membership report for the solicited-node 1094 multicast membership on-link. 1095 * This is not strictly needed for MLDv2, which already jitters 1096 its report transmissions. However, the 'timer' argument is 1097 preserved in case MLDv1 is active on the interface. 1098 1099 * The KAME linked-list based IPv6 membership implementation has 1100 been refactored to use a vector similar to that used by the IPv4 1101 stack. 1102 Code which maintains a list of its own multicast memberships 1103 internally, e.g. carp, has been updated to reflect the new 1104 semantics. 1105 1106 * There is a known Lock Order Reversal (LOR) due to in6_setscope() 1107 acquiring the IF_AFDATA_LOCK and being called within ip6_output(). 1108 Whilst MLDv2 tries to avoid this otherwise benign LOR, it is an 1109 implementation constraint which needs to be addressed in HEAD. 1110 1111 For application developers: 1112 1113 * The changes are broadly similar to those made for the IPv4 1114 stack. 1115 1116 * The use of IPv4 and IPv6 multicast socket options on the same 1117 socket, using mapped addresses, HAS NOT been tested or supported. 1118 1119 * There are a number of issues with the implementation of various 1120 IPv6 multicast APIs which need to be resolved in the API surface 1121 before the implementation is fully compatible with KAME userland 1122 use, and these are mostly to do with interface index treatment. 1123 1124 * The literature available discusses the use of either the delta / ASM 1125 API with setsockopt(2)/getsockopt(2), or the full-state / ASM API 1126 using setsourcefilter(3)/getsourcefilter(3). For more information 1127 please refer to RFC 3768, 'Socket Interface Extensions for 1128 Multicast Source Filters'. 1129 1130 * Applications which use the published RFC 3678 APIs should be fine. 1131 1132 For systems administrators: 1133 1134 * The mtest(8) utility has been refactored to support IPv6, in 1135 addition to IPv4. Interface addresses are no longer accepted 1136 as arguments, their names must be used instead. The utility 1137 will map the interface name to its first IPv4 address as 1138 returned by getifaddrs(3). 1139 1140 * The ifmcstat(8) utility has also been updated to print the MLDv2 1141 endpoint state and source filter lists via sysctl(3). 1142 1143 * The net.inet6.ip6.mcast.loop sysctl may be tuned to 0 to disable 1144 loopback of IPv6 multicast datagrams by default; it defaults to 1 1145 to preserve the existing behaviour. Disabling multicast loopback is 1146 recommended for optimal system performance. 1147 1148 * The IPv6 MROUTING code has been changed to examine this sysctl 1149 instead of attempting to perform a group lookup before looping 1150 back forwarded datagrams. 1151 1152 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800084. 1153 115420090422: 1155 Implement low-level Bluetooth HCI API. 1156 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800083. 1157 115820090419: 1159 The layout of struct malloc_type, used by modules to register new 1160 memory allocation types, has changed. Most modules will need to 1161 be rebuilt or panics may be experienced. 1162 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800081. 1163 116420090415: 1165 Anticipate overflowing inp_flags - add inp_flags2. 1166 This changes most offsets in inpcb, so checking v4 connection 1167 state will require a world rebuild. 1168 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800080. 1169 117020090415: 1171 Add an llentry to struct route and struct route_in6. Modules 1172 embedding a struct route will need to be recompiled. 1173 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800079. 1174 117520090414: 1176 The size of rt_metrics_lite and by extension rtentry has changed. 1177 Networking administration apps will need to be recompiled. 1178 The route command now supports show as an alias for get, weighting 1179 of routes, sticky and nostick flags to alter the behavior of stateful 1180 load balancing. 1181 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800078. 1182 118320090408: 1184 Do not use Giant for kbdmux(4) locking. This is wrong and 1185 apparently causing more problems than it solves. This will 1186 re-open the issue where interrupt handlers may race with 1187 kbdmux(4) in polling mode. Typical symptoms include (but 1188 not limited to) duplicated and/or missing characters when 1189 low level console functions (such as gets) are used while 1190 interrupts are enabled (for example geli password prompt, 1191 mountroot prompt etc.). Disabling kbdmux(4) may help. 1192 119320090407: 1194 The size of structs vnet_net, vnet_inet and vnet_ipfw has changed; 1195 kernel modules referencing any of the above need to be recompiled. 1196 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800075. 1197 119820090320: 1199 GEOM_PART has become the default partition slicer for storage devices, 1200 replacing GEOM_MBR, GEOM_BSD, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_GPT slicers. It 1201 introduces some changes: 1202 1203 MSDOS/EBR: the devices created from MSDOS extended partition entries 1204 (EBR) can be named differently than with GEOM_MBR and are now symlinks 1205 to devices with offset-based names. fstabs may need to be modified. 1206 1207 BSD: the "geometry does not match label" warning is harmless in most 1208 cases but it points to problems in file system misalignment with 1209 disk geometry. The "c" partition is now implicit, covers the whole 1210 top-level drive and cannot be (mis)used by users. 1211 1212 General: Kernel dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices 1213 whose partition types indicate they are meant to be used for file 1214 systems (or, in case of MSDOS partitions, as something else than 1215 the "386BSD" type). 1216 1217 Most of these changes date approximately from 200812. 1218 121920090319: 1220 The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows 1221 Linux removing theirs in 2.6 and making libusb the default interface 1222 (supported by sane). 1223 122420090319: 1225 The multicast forwarding code has been cleaned up. netstat(1) 1226 only relies on KVM now for printing bandwidth upcall meters. 1227 The IPv4 and IPv6 modules are split into ip_mroute_mod and 1228 ip6_mroute_mod respectively. The config(5) options for statically 1229 compiling this code remain the same, i.e. 'options MROUTING'. 1230 123120090315: 1232 Support for the IFF_NEEDSGIANT network interface flag has been 1233 removed, which means that non-MPSAFE network device drivers are no 1234 longer supported. In particular, if_ar, if_sr, and network device 1235 drivers from the old (legacy) USB stack can no longer be built or 1236 used. 1237 123820090313: 1239 POSIX.1 Native Language Support (NLS) has been enabled in libc and 1240 a bunch of new language catalog files have also been added. 1241 This means that some common libc messages are now localized and 1242 they depend on the LC_MESSAGES environmental variable. 1243 124420090313: 1245 The k8temp(4) driver has been renamed to amdtemp(4) since 1246 support for Family 10 and Family 11 CPU families was added. 1247 124820090309: 1249 IGMPv3 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged 1250 to the IPv4 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used. 1251 1252 For kernel developers, the most important changes are that the 1253 ip_output() and ip_input() paths no longer take the IN_MULTI_LOCK(), 1254 and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex. 1255 1256 Transport protocols (UDP, Raw IP) are now responsible for filtering 1257 inbound multicast traffic according to group membership and source 1258 filters. The imo_multicast_filter() KPI exists for this purpose. 1259 Transports which do not use multicast (SCTP, TCP) already reject 1260 multicast by default. Forwarding and receive performance may improve 1261 as a mutex acquisition is no longer needed in the ip_input() 1262 low-level input path. in_addmulti() and in_delmulti() are shimmed 1263 to new KPIs which exist to support SSM in-kernel. 1264 1265 For application developers, it is recommended that loopback of 1266 multicast datagrams be disabled for best performance, as this 1267 will still cause the lock to be taken for each looped-back 1268 datagram transmission. The net.inet.ip.mcast.loop sysctl may 1269 be tuned to 0 to disable loopback by default; it defaults to 1 1270 to preserve the existing behaviour. 1271 1272 For systems administrators, to obtain best performance with 1273 multicast reception and multiple groups, it is always recommended 1274 that a card with a suitably precise hash filter is used. Hash 1275 collisions will still result in the lock being taken within the 1276 transport protocol input path to check group membership. 1277 1278 If deploying FreeBSD in an environment with IGMP snooping switches, 1279 it is recommended that the net.inet.igmp.sendlocal sysctl remain 1280 enabled; this forces 224.0.0.0/24 group membership to be announced 1281 via IGMP. 1282 1283 The size of 'struct igmpstat' has changed; netstat needs to be 1284 recompiled to reflect this. 1285 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800070. 1286 128720090309: 1288 libusb20.so.1 is now installed as libusb.so.1 and the ports system 1289 updated to use it. This requires a buildworld/installworld in order to 1290 update the library and dependencies (usbconfig, etc). Its advisable to 1291 rebuild all ports which uses libusb. More specific directions are given 1292 in the ports collection UPDATING file. Any /etc/libmap.conf entries for 1293 libusb are no longer required and can be removed. 1294 129520090302: 1296 A workaround is committed to allow the creation of System V shared 1297 memory segment of size > 2 GB on the 64-bit architectures. 1298 Due to a limitation of the existing ABI, the shm_segsz member 1299 of the struct shmid_ds, returned by shmctl(IPC_STAT) call is 1300 wrong for large segments. Note that limits must be explicitly 1301 raised to allow such segments to be created. 1302 130320090301: 1304 The layout of struct ifnet has changed, requiring a rebuild of all 1305 network device driver modules. 1306 130720090227: 1308 The /dev handling for the new USB stack has changed, a 1309 buildworld/installworld is required for libusb20. 1310 131120090223: 1312 The new USB2 stack has now been permanently moved in and all kernel and 1313 module names reverted to their previous values (eg, usb, ehci, ohci, 1314 ums, ...). The old usb stack can be compiled in by prefixing the name 1315 with the letter 'o', the old usb modules have been removed. 1316 Updating entry 20090216 for xorg and 20090215 for libmap may still 1317 apply. 1318 131920090217: 1320 The rc.conf(5) option if_up_delay has been renamed to 1321 defaultroute_delay to better reflect its purpose. If you have 1322 customized this setting in /etc/rc.conf you need to update it to 1323 use the new name. 1324 132520090216: 1326 xorg 7.4 wants to configure its input devices via hald which does not 1327 yet work with USB2. If the keyboard/mouse does not work in xorg then 1328 add 1329 Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" 1330 to your ServerLayout section. This will cause X to use the configured 1331 kbd and mouse sections from your xorg.conf. 1332 133320090215: 1334 The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new USB2 1335 stack. No kernel config options or code have been removed so if a 1336 problem arises please report it and optionally revert to the old USB 1337 stack. If you are loading USB kernel modules or have a custom kernel 1338 that includes GENERIC then ensure that usb names are also changed over, 1339 eg uftdi -> usb2_serial_ftdi. 1340 1341 Older programs linked against the ports libusb 0.1 need to be 1342 redirected to the new stack's libusb20. /etc/libmap.conf can 1343 be used for this: 1344 # Map old usb library to new one for usb2 stack 1345 libusb-0.1.so.8 libusb20.so.1 1346 134720090209: 1348 All USB ethernet devices now attach as interfaces under the name ueN 1349 (eg. ue0). This is to provide a predictable name as vendors often 1350 change usb chipsets in a product without notice. 1351 135220090203: 1353 The ichsmb(4) driver has been changed to require SMBus slave 1354 addresses be left-justified (xxxxxxx0b) rather than right-justified. 1355 All of the other SMBus controller drivers require left-justified 1356 slave addresses, so this change makes all the drivers provide the 1357 same interface. 1358 135920090201: 1360 INET6 statistics (struct ip6stat) was updated. 1361 netstat(1) needs to be recompiled. 1362 136320090119: 1364 NTFS has been removed from GENERIC kernel on amd64 to match 1365 GENERIC on i386. Should not cause any issues since mount_ntfs(8) 1366 will load ntfs.ko module automatically when NTFS support is 1367 actually needed, unless ntfs.ko is not installed or security 1368 level prohibits loading kernel modules. If either is the case, 1369 "options NTFS" has to be added into kernel config. 1370 137120090115: 1372 TCP Appropriate Byte Counting (RFC 3465) support added to kernel. 1373 New field in struct tcpcb breaks ABI, so bump __FreeBSD_version to 1374 800061. User space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in 1375 tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled. 1376 137720081225: 1378 ng_tty(4) module updated to match the new TTY subsystem. 1379 Due to API change, user-level applications must be updated. 1380 New API support added to mpd5 CVS and expected to be present 1381 in next mpd5.3 release. 1382 138320081219: 1384 With __FreeBSD_version 800060 the makefs tool is part of 1385 the base system (it was a port). 1386 138720081216: 1388 The afdata and ifnet locks have been changed from mutexes to 1389 rwlocks, network modules will need to be re-compiled. 1390 139120081214: 1392 __FreeBSD_version 800059 incorporates the new arp-v2 rewrite. 1393 RTF_CLONING, RTF_LLINFO and RTF_WASCLONED flags are eliminated. 1394 The new code reduced struct rtentry{} by 16 bytes on 32-bit 1395 architecture and 40 bytes on 64-bit architecture. The userland 1396 applications "arp" and "ndp" have been updated accordingly. 1397 The output from "netstat -r" shows only routing entries and 1398 none of the L2 information. 1399 140020081130: 1401 __FreeBSD_version 800057 marks the switchover from the 1402 binary ath hal to source code. Users must add the line: 1403 1404 options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 1405 1406 to their kernel config files when specifying: 1407 1408 device ath_hal 1409 1410 The ath_hal module no longer exists; the code is now compiled 1411 together with the driver in the ath module. It is now 1412 possible to tailor chip support (i.e. reduce the set of chips 1413 and thereby the code size); consult ath_hal(4) for details. 1414 141520081121: 1416 __FreeBSD_version 800054 adds memory barriers to 1417 <machine/atomic.h>, new interfaces to ifnet to facilitate 1418 multiple hardware transmit queues for cards that support 1419 them, and a lock-less ring-buffer implementation to 1420 enable drivers to more efficiently manage queueing of 1421 packets. 1422 142320081117: 1424 A new version of ZFS (version 13) has been merged to -HEAD. 1425 This version has zpool attribute "listsnapshots" off by 1426 default, which means "zfs list" does not show snapshots, 1427 and is the same as Solaris behavior. 1428 142920081028: 1430 dummynet(4) ABI has changed. ipfw(8) needs to be recompiled. 1431 143220081009: 1433 The uhci, ohci, ehci and slhci USB Host controller drivers have 1434 been put into separate modules. If you load the usb module 1435 separately through loader.conf you will need to load the 1436 appropriate *hci module as well. E.g. for a UHCI-based USB 2.0 1437 controller add the following to loader.conf: 1438 1439 uhci_load="YES" 1440 ehci_load="YES" 1441 144220081009: 1443 The ABI used by the PMC toolset has changed. Please keep 1444 userland (libpmc(3)) and the kernel module (hwpmc(4)) in 1445 sync. 1446 144720081009: 1448 atapci kernel module now includes only generic PCI ATA 1449 driver. AHCI driver moved to ataahci kernel module. 1450 All vendor-specific code moved into separate kernel modules: 1451 ataacard, ataacerlabs, ataadaptec, ataamd, ataati, atacenatek, 1452 atacypress, atacyrix, atahighpoint, ataintel, ataite, atajmicron, 1453 atamarvell, atamicron, atanational, atanetcell, atanvidia, 1454 atapromise, ataserverworks, atasiliconimage, atasis, atavia 1455 145620080820: 1457 The TTY subsystem of the kernel has been replaced by a new 1458 implementation, which provides better scalability and an 1459 improved driver model. Most common drivers have been migrated to 1460 the new TTY subsystem, while others have not. The following 1461 drivers have not yet been ported to the new TTY layer: 1462 1463 PCI/ISA: 1464 cy, digi, rc, rp, sio 1465 1466 USB: 1467 ubser, ucycom 1468 1469 Line disciplines: 1470 ng_h4, ng_tty, ppp, sl, snp 1471 1472 Adding these drivers to your kernel configuration file shall 1473 cause compilation to fail. 1474 147520080818: 1476 ntpd has been upgraded to 4.2.4p5. 1477 147820080801: 1479 OpenSSH has been upgraded to 5.1p1. 1480 1481 For many years, FreeBSD's version of OpenSSH preferred DSA 1482 over RSA for host and user authentication keys. With this 1483 upgrade, we've switched to the vendor's default of RSA over 1484 DSA. This may cause upgraded clients to warn about unknown 1485 host keys even for previously known hosts. Users should 1486 follow the usual procedure for verifying host keys before 1487 accepting the RSA key. 1488 1489 This can be circumvented by setting the "HostKeyAlgorithms" 1490 option to "ssh-dss,ssh-rsa" in ~/.ssh/config or on the ssh 1491 command line. 1492 1493 Please note that the sequence of keys offered for 1494 authentication has been changed as well. You may want to 1495 specify IdentityFile in a different order to revert this 1496 behavior. 1497 149820080713: 1499 The sio(4) driver has been removed from the i386 and amd64 1500 kernel configuration files. This means uart(4) is now the 1501 default serial port driver on those platforms as well. 1502 1503 To prevent collisions with the sio(4) driver, the uart(4) driver 1504 uses different names for its device nodes. This means the 1505 onboard serial port will now most likely be called "ttyu0" 1506 instead of "ttyd0". You may need to reconfigure applications to 1507 use the new device names. 1508 1509 When using the serial port as a boot console, be sure to update 1510 /boot/device.hints and /etc/ttys before booting the new kernel. 1511 If you forget to do so, you can still manually specify the hints 1512 at the loader prompt: 1513 1514 set hint.uart.0.at="isa" 1515 set hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8" 1516 set hint.uart.0.flags="0x10" 1517 set hint.uart.0.irq="4" 1518 boot -s 1519 152020080609: 1521 The gpt(8) utility has been removed. Use gpart(8) to partition 1522 disks instead. 1523 152420080603: 1525 The version that Linuxulator emulates was changed from 2.4.2 1526 to 2.6.16. If you experience any problems with Linux binaries 1527 please try to set sysctl compat.linux.osrelease to 2.4.2 and 1528 if it fixes the problem contact emulation mailing list. 1529 153020080525: 1531 ISDN4BSD (I4B) was removed from the src tree. You may need to 1532 update a your kernel configuration and remove relevant entries. 1533 153420080509: 1535 I have checked in code to support multiple routing tables. 1536 See the man pages setfib(1) and setfib(2). 1537 This is a hopefully backwards compatible version, 1538 but to make use of it you need to compile your kernel 1539 with options ROUTETABLES=2 (or more up to 16). 1540 154120080420: 1542 The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss 1543 operation on devices that are capable. The underlying device 1544 is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are 1545 cloned with ifconfig. This requires changes to rc.conf files. 1546 For example, change: 1547 ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP" 1548 to 1549 wlans_ath0=wlan0 1550 ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" 1551 see rc.conf(5) for more details. In addition, mergemaster of 1552 /etc/rc.d is highly recommended. Simultaneous update of userland 1553 and kernel wouldn't hurt either. 1554 1555 As part of the multi-bss changes the wlan_scan_ap and wlan_scan_sta 1556 modules were merged into the base wlan module. All references 1557 to these modules (e.g. in kernel config files) must be removed. 1558 155920080408: 1560 psm(4) has gained write(2) support in native operation level. 1561 Arbitrary commands can be written to /dev/psm%d and status can 1562 be read back from it. Therefore, an application is responsible 1563 for status validation and error recovery. It is a no-op in 1564 other operation levels. 1565 156620080312: 1567 Support for KSE threading has been removed from the kernel. To 1568 run legacy applications linked against KSE libmap.conf may 1569 be used. The following libmap.conf may be used to ensure 1570 compatibility with any prior release: 1571 1572 libpthread.so.1 libthr.so.1 1573 libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2 1574 libkse.so.3 libthr.so.3 1575 157620080301: 1577 The layout of struct vmspace has changed. This affects libkvm 1578 and any executables that link against libkvm and use the 1579 kvm_getprocs() function. In particular, but not exclusively, 1580 it affects ps(1), fstat(1), pkill(1), systat(1), top(1) and w(1). 1581 The effects are minimal, but it's advisable to upgrade world 1582 nonetheless. 1583 158420080229: 1585 The latest em driver no longer has support in it for the 1586 82575 adapter, this is now moved to the igb driver. The 1587 split was done to make new features that are incompatible 1588 with older hardware easier to do. 1589 159020080220: 1591 The new geom_lvm(4) geom class has been renamed to geom_linux_lvm(4), 1592 likewise the kernel option is now GEOM_LINUX_LVM. 1593 159420080211: 1595 The default NFS mount mode has changed from UDP to TCP for 1596 increased reliability. If you rely on (insecurely) NFS 1597 mounting across a firewall you may need to update your 1598 firewall rules. 1599 160020080208: 1601 Belatedly note the addition of m_collapse for compacting 1602 mbuf chains. 1603 160420080126: 1605 The fts(3) structures have been changed to use adequate 1606 integer types for their members and so to be able to cope 1607 with huge file trees. The old fts(3) ABI is preserved 1608 through symbol versioning in libc, so third-party binaries 1609 using fts(3) should still work, although they will not take 1610 advantage of the extended types. At the same time, some 1611 third-party software might fail to build after this change 1612 due to unportable assumptions made in its source code about 1613 fts(3) structure members. Such software should be fixed 1614 by its vendor or, in the worst case, in the ports tree. 1615 FreeBSD_version 800015 marks this change for the unlikely 1616 case that a portable fix is impossible. 1617 161820080123: 1619 To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running 1620 FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE. Upgrading to -current 1621 from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems. 1622 162320071128: 1624 The ADAPTIVE_GIANT kernel option has been retired because its 1625 functionality is the default now. 1626 162720071118: 1628 The AT keyboard emulation of sunkbd(4) has been turned on 1629 by default. In order to make the special symbols of the Sun 1630 keyboards driven by sunkbd(4) work under X these now have 1631 to be configured the same way as Sun USB keyboards driven 1632 by ukbd(4) (which also does AT keyboard emulation), f.e.: 1633 1634 Option "XkbLayout" "us" 1635 Option "XkbRules" "xorg" 1636 Option "XkbSymbols" "pc(pc105)+sun_vndr/usb(sun_usb)+us" 1637 163820071024: 1639 It has been decided that it is desirable to provide ABI 1640 backwards compatibility to the FreeBSD 4/5/6 versions of the 1641 PCIOCGETCONF, PCIOCREAD and PCIOCWRITE IOCTLs, which was 1642 broken with the introduction of PCI domain support (see the 1643 20070930 entry). Unfortunately, this required the ABI of 1644 PCIOCGETCONF to be broken again in order to be able to 1645 provide backwards compatibility to the old version of that 1646 IOCTL. Thus consumers of PCIOCGETCONF have to be recompiled 1647 again. As for prominent ports this affects neither pciutils 1648 nor xorg-server this time, the hal port needs to be rebuilt 1649 however. 1650 165120071020: 1652 The misnamed kthread_create() and friends have been renamed 1653 to kproc_create() etc. Many of the callers already 1654 used kproc_start().. 1655 I will return kthread_create() and friends in a while 1656 with implementations that actually create threads, not procs. 1657 Renaming corresponds with version 800002. 1658 165920071010: 1660 RELENG_7 branched. 1661 1662COMMON ITEMS: 1663 1664 General Notes 1665 ------------- 1666 Avoid using make -j when upgrading. While generally safe, there are 1667 sometimes problems using -j to upgrade. If your upgrade fails with 1668 -j, please try again without -j. From time to time in the past there 1669 have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This 1670 is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one 1671 that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when 1672 several months have passed on the -current branch). 1673 1674 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 1675 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 1676 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 1677 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 1678 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 1679 1680 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best 1681 to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, 1682 then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade 1683 path, and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try 1684 this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade. 1685 1686 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 1687 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 1688 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 1689 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 1690 1691 ZFS notes 1692 --------- 1693 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 1694 these two steps: 1695 1696 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 1697 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 1698 1699 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 1700 1701 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first 1702 partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ad0: 1703 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0" 1704 1705 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 1706 1707 To build a kernel 1708 ----------------- 1709 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 1710 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 1711 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 1712 1713 make kernel-toolchain 1714 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1715 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1716 1717 To test a kernel once 1718 --------------------- 1719 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 1720 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 1721 debugging information) run 1722 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 1723 nextboot -k testkernel 1724 1725 To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up 1726 -------------------------------------------------------------- 1727 This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system. Replace 1728 ${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386", 1729 "arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc). 1730 1731 cd src/sys/${arch}/conf 1732 config KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1733 cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1734 make depend 1735 make 1736 make install 1737 1738 If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section. 1739 1740 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 1741 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1742 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 1743 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 1744 1745 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1746 make buildworld 1747 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1748 [1] 1749 <reboot in single user> [3] 1750 mergemaster -p [5] 1751 make installworld 1752 mergemaster -i [4] 1753 make delete-old [6] 1754 <reboot> 1755 1756 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 1757 -------------------------------------------------- 1758 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 1759 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 1760 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 1761 # size. 1762 1763 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1764 <boot into -stable> 1765 make buildworld 1766 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1767 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 1768 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 1769 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1770 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 1771 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1772 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 1773 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 1774 <reboot into current> 1775 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 1776 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 1777 <reboot> 1778 1779 1780 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 1781 ---------------------------------------------- 1782 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1783 make buildworld [9] 1784 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 1785 [1] 1786 <reboot in single user> [3] 1787 mergemaster -p [5] 1788 make installworld 1789 mergemaster -i [4] 1790 make delete-old [6] 1791 <reboot> 1792 1793 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 1794 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 1795 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 1796 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 1797 the UPDATING entries. 1798 1799 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 1800 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 1801 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 1802 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 1803 much fewer pitfalls. 1804 1805 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you 1806 should disable them at this point so they don't crash your 1807 system on reboot. 1808 1809 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 1810 fsck -p 1811 mount -u / 1812 mount -a 1813 cd src 1814 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 1815 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that 1816 you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. 1817 1818 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 1819 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 1820 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 1821 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 1822 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 1823 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 1824 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 1825 1826 [5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time 1827 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 1828 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 1829 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 1830 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 1831 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 1832 1833 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 1834 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 1835 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 1836 1837 [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to 1838 do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in 1839 your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is 1840 hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is 1841 required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on 1842 for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7. 1843 1844 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 1845 last time you updated your kernel config file. 1846 1847 [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have 1848 cvs prune empty directories. 1849 1850 If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 1851 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 1852 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 1853 1854 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 1855 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 1856 warn if it is improperly defined. 1857FORMAT: 1858 1859This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 1860breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 1861list of such breakages, and only contains entries since October 10, 2007. 1862If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 1863to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 1864 1865Copyright information: 1866 1867Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. 1868 1869Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without 1870modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this 1871document are permitted without further permission from the author. 1872 1873THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY WARNER LOSH ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 1874IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 1875WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 1876DISCLAIMED. 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