1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users. 2 3This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>. 4See end of file for further details. For commonly done items, please see the 5COMMON ITEMS: section later in the file. These instructions assume that you 6basically know what you are doing. If not, then please consult the FreeBSD 7handbook: 8 9 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html 10 11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in 12/usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before running portupgrade. 13 14NOTE: FreeBSD has switched from gcc to clang. If you have trouble bootstrapping 15from older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG and WITH_GCC to bootstrap to 16the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process 17from older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile. 18 19NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW: 20 FreeBSD 12.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel 21 and userland. These features attempt to detect incorrect use of 22 system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity 23 checking and fail stop semantics. They also substantially impact 24 system performance. If you want to do performance measurement, 25 benchmarking, and optimization, you'll want to turn them off. This 26 includes various WITNESS- related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc 27 debugging flags in userland, and various verbose features in the 28 kernel. Many developers choose to disable these features on build 29 machines to maximize performance. (To completely disable malloc 30 debugging, define MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/make.conf, or to merely 31 disable the most expensive debugging functionality run 32 "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) 33 34 35****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ****************************** 36 37 Due to a bug in some versions of clang that's very hard to workaround in 38 the upgrade process, to upgrade to -current you must first upgrade 39 either stable/9 after r286035 or stable/10 after r286033 (including 40 10.3-RELEASE) or current after r286007 (including stable/11 and 41 11.0-RELEASE). These revisions post-date the 10.2 and 9.3 releases, so 42 you'll need to take the unusual step of upgrading to the tip of the 43 stable branch before moving to 11 or -current via a source upgrade. 44 stable/11 and 11.0-RELEASE have working newer compiler. This differs 45 from the historical situation where one could upgrade from anywhere on 46 the last couple of stable branches, so be careful. 47 48 If you're running a hybrid system on 9.x or 10.x with an updated clang 49 compiler or are using an supported external toolchain, the build system 50 will allow the upgrade. Otherwise it will print a reminder. 51 52****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ****************************** 53 5420170413: 55 As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when 56 keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with 57 documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state. 58 This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags 59 and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state. 60 To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with 61 keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5). 62 6320170407: 64 arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default, 65 instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be 66 installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set 67 CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin . 68 6920170331: 70 Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now 71 use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail 72 instead of using the first assigned address of the jail. 73 7420170329: 75 The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend: 76 cfiscsi.ko does instead. 77 78 If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded 79 via one of the following methods: 80 - `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5). 81 - Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5). 82 - ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support 83 (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5)) 84 85 Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details. 86 8720170316: 88 The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko. 89 Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the 90 same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was 91 missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible 92 with mmc.ko). 93 9420170315: 95 The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity. 96 If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify 97 them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must 98 be prefixed with colon. 99 10020170311: 101 The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been 102 removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version 103 (sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware. 104 10520170302: 106 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0. 107 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 108 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 109 11020170221: 111 The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality 112 has been reimplemented. It's not possible now to create a snapshot 113 by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/. That should be the only user visible 114 change. 115 11620170216: 117 EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer 118 valid. 119 12020170215: 121 MCA bus support has been removed. 122 12320170127: 124 The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed 125 WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC. 126 12720170112: 128 The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that 129 the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications. 130 13120170109: 132 The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via 133 IFLIB. If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4) 134 but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom configuration. 135 13620161217: 137 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1. 138 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 139 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 140 14120161124: 142 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0. 143 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 144 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 145 14620161119: 147 The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap 148 statistics at the front for all CPU variations. libkvm(3) and all tools 149 that link against it need to be recompiled. 150 15120161030: 152 isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver, 153 chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware. 154 On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using 155 device hints. Please see the corresponding manual pages for details. 156 15720161017: 158 The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of 159 rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific 160 parts. 161 Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name 162 conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B)) 163 16420161015: 165 GNU rcs has been removed from base. It is available as packages: 166 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 167 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was 168 removed from base. 169 17020161008: 171 Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control 172 modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the 173 TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.) 174 17520161003: 176 The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 177 ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy. 178 17920160924: 180 Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed 181 to use an extension of .pico instead. The purpose of this change is 182 to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file 183 systems. On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so. 184 18520160918: 186 GNU rcs has been turned off by default. It can (temporarily) be built 187 again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf. 188 Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages: 189 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 190 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base. 191 19220160918: 193 The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr. 194 19520160908: 196 The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into 197 two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and 198 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH. Define both for the original 199 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior. 200 20120160824: 202 r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace 203 programs and the kernel. ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be 204 rebuilt to work with new kernels. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped 205 to 1200005. 206 20720160818: 208 The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP 209 packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3 210 broadcast packets. It is not expected that this will affect any 211 standards-conforming UDP application. The new behaviour can be 212 disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to 213 0. 214 21520160818: 216 Remove the openbsd_poll system call. 217 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 218 21920160622: 220 The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with 221 a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2) 222 system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include 223 "options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the 224 default). Users should ensure that this option is enabled in 225 their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their 226 kernel. 227 22820160527: 229 CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers. 230 This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using 231 those disk's diskid device nodes. For example, if /etc/fstab 232 previously contained a line like 233 "/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should 234 change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456". Users of geom 235 transforms like gmirror may also be affected. ZFS users should 236 generally be fine. 237 23820160523: 239 The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and 240 improved performance. But it is binary-incompatible with the old API. 241 Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects 242 built with the old headers. 243 24420160520: 245 The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64. 246 Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these 247 functions and should be updated to the latest version before 248 installing a new libc. 249 25020160517: 251 The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support 252 for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system 253 is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT. 254 This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld 255 and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New 256 packages will be needed. 257 258 To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add 259 TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 260 and the install steps. 261 26220160510: 263 Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to 264 installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. Many kernel 265 modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode 266 KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules. However, 267 manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will 268 now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. 269 27020160414: 271 The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be 272 no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the 273 list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt 274 data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data 275 corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete: 276 277 o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 278 o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 279 o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware 280 o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares 281 o FCCT M500 all firmwares 282 283 Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware 284 with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for 285 updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these 286 drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given 287 this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no 288 other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above 289 vendors work. 290 291 To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your 292 drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting: 293 kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2" 294 in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the 295 quirks entry to 0x3. 296 29720160330: 298 The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is 299 now the one true way. The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has 300 been removed. See 20160311 for further details. 301 30220160317: 303 Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t. All 304 drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled. 305 30620160311: 307 WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree 308 builds. It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the 309 'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran 310 when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before 311 building anything else. Dependencies are gathered at compile time with 312 -MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file. Users should 313 run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older 314 stale .depend files. 315 31620160306: 317 On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into 318 kernel modules. Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time, 319 please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before 320 rebooting, e.g.: 321 322 make buildworld 323 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 324 make -C sys/boot install 325 <reboot in single user> 326 327 Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section, 328 below. 329 33020160305: 331 Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0. Please 332 see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 333 upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 334 33520160301: 336 The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The 337 VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed. 338 Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only 339 permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable 340 asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the 341 vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value. 342 34320160226: 344 The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the 345 ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a 346 drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The 347 (temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set 348 to obtain the GNU version if necessary. 349 35020160129: 351 Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default. That 352 feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks. 353 Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will 354 still work, even if the guest is using ZFS. Legacy behavior can be 355 restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1. 356 35720160119: 358 The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH. They are 359 still available in the security/openssh-portable port. 360 36120160113: 362 With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required 363 during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user 364 prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 365 36620151216: 367 The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a 368 consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp 369 server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the 370 other loaders. 371 37220151211: 373 The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has 374 been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel, 375 a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced 376 for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild 377 the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or 378 later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding. 379 38020151207: 381 Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and 382 installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but 383 requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed 384 world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes 385 in src.conf(5). 386 38720151130: 388 r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and 389 nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether. 390 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 391 39220151108: 393 Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of 394 order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old 395 behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C". 396 397 Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given 398 collation results will be different. 399 400 Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient 401 locales before running make installworld. 402 403 rm -rf /usr/share/locale/* 404 40520151030: 406 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d. Any binaries requiring 407 libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled. 408 40920151020: 410 Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0. 411 Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and 412 should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively. 413 41420151017: 415 The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into 416 sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and 417 'make -n -n' to recursively show commands. Now 'make -n' will recurse 418 and 'make -N' will not. 419 42020151012: 421 If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster 422 and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now 423 updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld. If you had 424 excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may 425 want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install". 426 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of 427 whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used. If you are not using 428 SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior. 429 43020151011: 431 Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. 432 It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases 433 and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.* 434 environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links. 435 43620151006: 437 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 438 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 439 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 440 44120150924: 442 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 443 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 444 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 445 userland debug files. 446 447 When using the supported kernel installation method the 448 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 449 as is done with /boot/kernel. 450 451 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 452 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 453 45420150827: 455 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 456 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 457 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 458 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 459 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 460 rc.d scripts in /etc. 461 46220150827: 463 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 464 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 465 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 466 46720150817: 468 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 469 them, the kernel must have 470 471 device random 472 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 473 474 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 475 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 476 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 477 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 478 479 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 480 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 481 48220150813: 483 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 484 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 485 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 486 48720150810: 488 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 489 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 490 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 491 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 492 493 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 494 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 495 difference with this change. 496 497 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 498 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 499 remove that workaround. 500 50120150809: 502 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 503 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 504 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 505 with: 506 507 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 508 50920150806: 510 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 511 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 512 loader.rc.local instead. 513 51420150805: 515 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 516 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 517 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 518 51920150728: 520 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 521 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 522 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 523 524 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 525 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 526 52720150706: 528 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 529 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 530 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 531 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 532 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 533 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 534 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 535 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 536 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 537 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 538 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 539 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 540 54120150630: 542 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 543 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 544 545 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 546 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 547 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 548 549 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 550 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 551 552 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 553 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 554 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 555 556 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 557 entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 558 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 559 and it is assumed you know what you need. 560 561 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 562 habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 563 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 564 behaviour from your security subsystems. 565 566 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 567 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 568 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 569 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 570 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 571 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 572 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 573 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 574 will never happen. 575 57620150623: 577 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 578 entry below has been been committed in revision 284717. 579 58020150616: 581 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 582 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 583 58420150615: 585 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 586 below has been been committed in revision 284436. The work 587 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 588 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 589 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 590 59120150614: 592 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 593 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 594 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 595 with Kyuafile and kyua. 596 59720150614: 598 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 599 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 600 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 601 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 602 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 603 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 604 2048 bit DH parameter by: 605 606 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 607 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 608 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 609 replace it with '2'. 610 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 611 a file path, create a new file with: 612 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 613 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 614 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 615 5. Restart sendmail: 616 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 617 618 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 619 updated. 620 62120150604: 622 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 623 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 624 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 625 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 626 5.x. 627 628 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 629 63020150525: 631 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 632 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 633 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 634 63520150521: 636 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 637 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 638 and Pandaboard: 639 640 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 641 same but content is different now 642 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 643 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 644 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 645 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 646 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 647 64820150501: 649 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 650 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 651 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 652 65320150423: 654 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 655 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 656 65720150415: 658 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 659 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 660 66120150416: 662 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 663 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 664 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 665 66620150324: 667 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 668 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 669 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 670 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 671 67220150315: 673 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 674 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 675 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 676 67720150307: 678 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 679 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 680 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 681 kernel before rebooting. 682 68320150217: 684 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 685 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 686 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 687 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 688 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 689 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 690 69120150210: 692 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 693 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 694 with the new kernel. 695 69620150131: 697 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 698 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 699 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 700 70120150118: 702 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 703 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 704 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 705 are not already using 3.5.0. 706 70720150107: 708 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 709 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 710 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 711 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 712 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 713 71420150105: 715 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 716 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 717 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 718 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 719 72020150102: 721 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 722 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 723 72420141231: 725 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 726 727 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 728 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 729 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 730 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 731 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 732 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 733 later. 734 735 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 736 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 737 of the box. 738 739 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 740 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 741 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 742 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 743 744 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 745 the instructions for 9.x above. 746 747 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 748 default, and do not build clang. 749 750 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 751 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 752 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 753 754 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 755 the following are most likely to appear: 756 757 -Wabsolute-value 758 759 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 760 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 761 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 762 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 763 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 764 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 765 cast, or disable the warning. 766 767 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 768 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 769 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 770 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 771 side-effects. 772 773 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 774 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 775 776 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 777 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 778 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 779 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 780 781 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 782 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 783 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 784 unreachable could be optimized away. 785 78620141222: 787 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 788 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 789 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 790 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 791 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 792 the utilities will report errors. 793 79420141121: 795 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 796 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 797 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 798 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 799 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 800 LOCAL_DIRS. 801 80220141109: 803 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 804 has been obsolete for a very long time. 805 80620141104: 807 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 808 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 809 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 810 drivers. 811 812 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 813 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 814 indicate what you need to do. 815 816 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 817 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 818 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 819 820 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 821 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 822 kern.vty=sc 823 82420141102: 825 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 826 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 827 execute it. 828 82920141009: 830 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 831 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 832 devel/gperf port. 833 83420140923: 835 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 836 contrib/pjdfstest . 837 83820140922: 839 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 840 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 841 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 842 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 843 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 844 their next update cycle. 845 84620140729: 847 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 848 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 849 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 850 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 851 1.12.4_8 or newer. 852 85320140723: 854 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 855 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 856 85720140719: 858 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 859 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 860 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 861 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 862 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 863 new configuration. 864 86520140709: 866 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 867 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 868 them again. 869 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 870 87120140708: 872 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 873 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 874 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 875 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 876 requires readline. 877 87820140702: 879 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 880 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 881 architecture. 882 88320140701: 884 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 885 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 886 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 887 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 888 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 889 89020140629: 891 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 892 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 893 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 894 89520140619: 896 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 897 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 898 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 899 90020140606: 901 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 902 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 903 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 904 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 905 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 906 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 907 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 908 "make installworld". 909 910 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 911 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 912 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 913 is run. 914 915 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 916 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 917 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 918 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 919 be removed during a clean upgrade. 920 92120140512: 922 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 923 92420140508: 925 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 926 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 927 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 928 92920140505: 930 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 931 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 932 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 933 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 934 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 935 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 936 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 937 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 938 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 939 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 940 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 941 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 942 943 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 944 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 945 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 946 as well. 947 94820140430: 949 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 950 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 951 95220140424: 953 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 954 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 955 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 956 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 957 build hosts for older releases. 958 959 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 960 r276991, respectively. 961 96220140418: 963 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 964 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 965 will silently lack HESIOD. 966 96720140405: 968 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 969 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 970 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 971 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 972 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 973 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 974 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 975 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 976 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 977 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 978 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 979 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 980 98120140306: 982 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 983 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 984 with command line option -W. 985 98620140226: 987 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 988 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 989 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 990 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 991 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 992 99320140216: 994 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 995 99620140216: 997 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 998 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 999 100020140212: 1001 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 1002 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 1003 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 1004 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 1005 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 1006 100720140204: 1008 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 1009 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 1010 kernel is still highly recommended. 1011 101220140131: 1013 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 1014 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 1015 capability mode support in kernel. 1016 101720140128: 1018 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 1019 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 1020 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 1021 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 1022 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 1023 102420140110: 1025 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 1026 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 1027 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 1028 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 1029 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 1030 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 1031 103220131213: 1033 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 1034 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 1035 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 1036 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 1037 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 1038 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 1039 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 1040 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 1041 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 1042 104320131108: 1044 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 1045 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 1046 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 1047 should change your settings to use the latter. 1048 104920131025: 1050 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 1051 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 1052 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 1053 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 1054 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 1055 105620131014: 1057 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 1058 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 1059 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 1060 delete-old-libs": 1061 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 1062 or 1063 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 1064 106520131010: 1066 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 1067 revision r256279. 1068 106920131010: 1070 The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8) 1071 configuration file. The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables 1072 for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to 1073 /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked. 1074 This is transparently backward compatible. See below about some 1075 incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details. 1076 1077 These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration 1078 file. One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate 1079 a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without 1080 running the jail(8) utility. The default pathname of the 1081 configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by 1082 using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables. 1083 1084 Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at 1085 this moment. Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name 1086 with an integer. 1087 108820130930: 1089 BIND has been removed from the base system. If all you need 1090 is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound 1091 service instead. Otherwise, several versions of BIND are 1092 available in the ports tree. The dns/bind99 port is one example. 1093 1094 With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base 1095 system. Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are 1096 in the base system. Alternatively, nslookup and dig can 1097 be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port. 1098 109920130916: 1100 With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now 1101 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1102 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1103 110420130911: 1105 OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default 1106 silently trust signed SSHFP records. This can be controlled with 1107 the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting. DNSSEC support 1108 can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf. 1109 111020130906: 1111 The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++) 1112 are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system 1113 compiler. You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX 1114 options in src.conf. 1115 111620130905: 1117 The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel 1118 configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work. 1119 If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include 1120 'options PROCDESC'. 1121 112220130905: 1123 The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified 1124 in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs 1125 have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the 1126 following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is 1127 advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl, 1128 kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq. 1129 113020130903: 1131 AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc. The AES-NI module 1132 has been updated to use this support. A new gcc is required to build 1133 the aesni module on both i386 and amd64. 1134 113520130821: 1136 The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices. 1137 Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be 1138 used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG". 1139 114020130813: 1141 WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets. WITH_ICONV now 1142 enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default. 1143 WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time 1144 compatibility. Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way. 1145 If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely 1146 need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT. 1147 114820130806: 1149 INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and 1150 Illumos origin, including ZFS. If you have INVARIANTS in your 1151 kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG 1152 explicitly. 1153 DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS) 1154 locks if WITNESS option was set. Because that generated a lot of 1155 witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false 1156 positives, this is no longer done. New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS 1157 can be used to achieve the previous behavior. 1158 115920130806: 1160 Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead 1161 of time_second. Although this is not a user-visible functional 1162 change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8), 1163 rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated 1164 to r253970 or later. 1165 116620130802: 1167 find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments, 1168 instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did 1169 not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message 1170 would result: 1171 1172 find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe 1173 1174 Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented 1175 without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing 1176 directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the 1177 old as well as the new version of find. 1178 117920130726: 1180 Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed. 1181 Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs 1182 path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by 1183 slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs 1184 subdirectories must be reviewed. 1185 118620130716: 1187 The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is 1188 incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will 1189 need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 1190 1191 To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set. 1192 1193 NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and 1194 users are advised to upgrade. 1195 119620130709: 1197 pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it 1198 you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5). 1199 120020130709: 1201 Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able 1202 keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking 1203 statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.) 1204 120520130618: 1206 Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write 1207 to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space 1208 even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had 1209 write access to that file. 1210 121120130615: 1212 CVS has been removed from the base system. An exact copy 1213 of the code is available from the devel/cvs port. 1214 121520130613: 1216 Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake: 1217 1218 make: illegal option -- J 1219 usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable] 1220 ... 1221 *** [buildworld] Error code 2 1222 1223 this likely due to an old instance of make in 1224 ${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE}) 1225 which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if 1226 you see the above error: 1227 1228 rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH` 1229 1230 should resolve it. 1231 123220130516: 1233 Use bmake by default. 1234 Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via 1235 -DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old 1236 make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE. 1237 1238 It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command 1239 line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the 1240 command line. Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer 1241 than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent 1242 behavior in parallel build. 1243 124420130429: 1245 Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files. 1246 124720130426: 1248 The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because 1249 the IDEA patent expired. 1250 125120130426: 1252 The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed 1253 from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been 1254 enabled by default. 1255 125620130425: 1257 The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX 1258 rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in 1259 order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as 1260 install and mtree. When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where 1261 the install command does not support -l, you will need to 1262 install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required. 1263 This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster 1264 && make install). 1265 126620130404: 1267 Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since 1268 FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources. Kernel modules 1269 atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are 1270 removed. Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled 1271 and removed. 1272 127320130319: 1274 SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2) 1275 and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may 1276 automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting 1277 binaries will not work on older kernels. 1278 127920130308: 1280 CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further 1281 information, see the respective 20130304 entry). 1282 128320130304: 1284 Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout, 1285 so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions 1286 in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced 1287 by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild 1288 is requested. 1289 1290 The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64, 1291 but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE 1292 option) to save memory. To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE 1293 option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 1294 in /boot/loader.conf. 1295 129620130301: 1297 The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64. 1298 This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system 1299 initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if 1300 a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system 1301 unusable on 128MB or less of RAM. 1302 130320130208: 1304 A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please 1305 refer to zpool-features(7) for more information. 1306 1307 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1308 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1309 131020130129: 1311 A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed 1312 as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch. 1313 To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default, 1314 while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild 1315 and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set. 1316 131720130121: 1318 Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build 1319 and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL 1320 make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the 1321 command line. If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs 1322 you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or 1323 /etc/src.conf. 1324 132520130118: 1326 The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an 1327 argument that is a file or path to append logs to. In the 1328 unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line 1329 and the command line contained at least two files and a target 1330 directory the first file will have logs appended to it. The -M 1331 option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its 1332 use is expected to be extremely rare. 1333 133420121223: 1335 After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS 1336 on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics. 1337 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations. 1338 133920121222: 1340 GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata. 1341 Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters, 1342 '%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to 1343 be updated. 1344 134520121217: 1346 By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved. To 1347 restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps 1348 stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf: 1349 1350 savecore_flags="" 1351 135220121201: 1353 With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now 1354 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1355 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1356 135720121117: 1358 The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now 1359 filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via 1360 sysctl or routing socket. This means the KAME-specific embedded scope 1361 id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application. 1362 This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid. 1363 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025. 1364 136520121105: 1366 On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default. 1367 This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang 1368 and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++, 1369 and /usr/bin/cpp. To disable this behavior and revert to building 1370 with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions 1371 of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang 1372 build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable 1373 branch point). 1374 137520121102: 1376 The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its 1377 functionality now turned on by default. 1378 137920121023: 1380 The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and 1381 split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP. 1382 NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write 1383 mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes. 1384 NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current 1385 driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage. 1386 Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under 1387 consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal 1388 of the two kernel options. 1389 139020121023: 1391 The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte 1392 order. The following modules need to be recompiled together 1393 with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4), 1394 pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4). 1395 139620121022: 1397 Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The 1398 VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be 1399 recompiled. 1400 140120121018: 1402 All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from 1403 the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs, 1404 portalfs, smbfs, xfs. 1405 140620121016: 1407 The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following 1408 modules need to be recompiled together with kernel: 1409 ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4), 1410 vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4), 1411 faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4). 1412 141320121015: 1414 The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host 1415 Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver). 1416 No kernel config modifications are required, but if you 1417 load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead. 1418 141920121014: 1420 Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system. 1421 142220121013: 1423 The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed 1424 sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious 1425 problems have been reported. The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT 1426 knob has also gone. 1427 142820121006: 1429 The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet 1430 filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled 1431 with new kernel. 1432 143320121001: 1434 The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver 1435 PS-POLL and power-save support. All wireless drivers need to be 1436 recompiled to work with the new kernel. 1437 143820120913: 1439 The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number 1440 generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally. 1441 Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if 1442 needed. The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the 1443 device, so the change only affects the custom kernel 1444 configurations. 1445 144620120908: 1447 The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and 1448 snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel. 1449 145020120828: 1451 A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged 1452 to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be 1453 imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support 1454 this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5) 1455 manual page. 1456 145720120727: 1458 The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto- 1459 detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these 1460 to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable. 1461 146220120712: 1463 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c. Any binaries requiring 1464 libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled. Also, there are 1465 configuration changes. Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf. 1466 146720120712: 1468 The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency 1469 with other variables: 1470 kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered 1471 kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered 1472 147320120628: 1474 The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort. For now, GNU sort 1475 is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to 1476 GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT. In this case, BSD sort will be 1477 installed as "bsdsort". 1478 147920120611: 1480 A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD. 1481 Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning 1482 is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward 1483 compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS 1484 pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools 1485 is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information 1486 read the new zpool-features(5) manual page. 1487 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1488 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1489 149020120417: 1491 The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported 1492 as contrib/jemalloc. The most disruptive API change is to 1493 /etc/malloc.conf. If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf, 1494 delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the 1495 new format after rebooting. See malloc.conf(5) for details 1496 (specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL 1497 NAMESPACE section). 1498 149920120328: 1500 Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb". mips64eb 1501 is now spelled mips64. mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32. mipseb is 1502 now spelled mips. This is to aid compatibility with third-party 1503 software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3). Little-endian 1504 settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine 1505 from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in 1506 your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine. 1507 150820120306: 1509 Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported 1510 platforms. 1511 151220120229: 1513 Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on nullfs(5). Previously 1514 nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer, 1515 as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect 1516 only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect 1517 only to the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the 1518 lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to. 1519 152020120211: 1521 The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored. 1522 If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to 1523 recompile libc again with your kernel. You still need to recompile 1524 world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already 1525 comes from 20111215. 1526 152720120114: 1528 The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr. All 1529 base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a 1530 port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either 1531 hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port. 1532 1533 An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d: 1534 rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i 1535 153620120109: 1537 panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts 1538 on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running. 1539 This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic 1540 tunable/sysctl. 1541 The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic. 1542 154320111215: 1544 The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration 1545 of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format 1546 of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages 1547 for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently 1548 not supported anymore. 1549 1550 Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User 1551 utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8), 1552 need to be recompiled. 1553 155420111122: 1555 The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to 1556 /dev/wmistat0. 1557 155820111108: 1559 The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to 1560 explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems. 1561 It is on by default for all supported platform at this present 1562 time. 1563 156420111101: 1565 The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64, 1566 i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files. 1567 156820110930: 1569 sysinstall has been removed 1570 157120110923: 1572 The stable/9 branch created in subversion. This corresponds to the 1573 RELENG_9 branch in CVS. 1574 1575COMMON ITEMS: 1576 1577 General Notes 1578 ------------- 1579 Avoid using make -j when upgrading. While generally safe, there are 1580 sometimes problems using -j to upgrade. If your upgrade fails with 1581 -j, please try again without -j. From time to time in the past there 1582 have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This 1583 is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one 1584 that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when 1585 several months have passed on the -current branch). 1586 1587 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 1588 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 1589 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 1590 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 1591 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 1592 1593 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to 1594 upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then 1595 do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path, 1596 and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try this 1597 approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade. Since 1598 the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgade from 1599 anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the 1600 last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's 1601 an exception. 1602 1603 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 1604 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 1605 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 1606 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 1607 1608 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 1609 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 1610 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 1611 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 1612 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 1613 should write them with this in mind. 1614 1615 ZFS notes 1616 --------- 1617 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 1618 these two steps: 1619 1620 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 1621 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 1622 1623 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 1624 1625 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first 1626 partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 1627 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0" 1628 1629 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 1630 1631 To build a kernel 1632 ----------------- 1633 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 1634 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 1635 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 1636 1637 make kernel-toolchain 1638 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1639 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1640 1641 To test a kernel once 1642 --------------------- 1643 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 1644 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 1645 debugging information) run 1646 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 1647 nextboot -k testkernel 1648 1649 To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up 1650 -------------------------------------------------------------- 1651 This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system. Replace 1652 ${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386", 1653 "arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc). 1654 1655 cd src/sys/${arch}/conf 1656 config KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1657 cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1658 make depend 1659 make 1660 make install 1661 1662 If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section. 1663 1664 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 1665 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1666 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 1667 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 1668 1669 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1670 make buildworld 1671 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1672 [1] 1673 <reboot in single user> [3] 1674 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1675 make installworld 1676 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1677 make delete-old [6] 1678 <reboot> 1679 1680 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 1681 -------------------------------------------------- 1682 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 1683 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 1684 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 1685 # size. 1686 1687 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1688 <boot into -stable> 1689 make buildworld 1690 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1691 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 1692 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 1693 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 1694 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 1695 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1696 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 1697 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 1698 <reboot into current> 1699 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 1700 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 1701 <reboot> 1702 1703 1704 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 1705 ---------------------------------------------- 1706 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1707 make buildworld [9] 1708 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 1709 [1] 1710 <reboot in single user> [3] 1711 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1712 make installworld 1713 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1714 make delete-old [6] 1715 <reboot> 1716 1717 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 1718 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 1719 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 1720 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 1721 the UPDATING entries. 1722 1723 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 1724 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 1725 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 1726 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 1727 much fewer pitfalls. 1728 1729 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you 1730 should disable them at this point so they don't crash your 1731 system on reboot. 1732 1733 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 1734 fsck -p 1735 mount -u / 1736 mount -a 1737 cd src 1738 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 1739 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that 1740 you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. 1741 1742 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 1743 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 1744 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 1745 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 1746 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 1747 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 1748 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 1749 1750 [5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time 1751 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 1752 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 1753 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 1754 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 1755 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 1756 1757 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 1758 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 1759 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 1760 1761 [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to 1762 do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in 1763 your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is 1764 hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is 1765 required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on 1766 for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7. 1767 1768 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 1769 last time you updated your kernel config file. 1770 1771 [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have 1772 cvs prune empty directories. 1773 1774 If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 1775 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 1776 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 1777 1778 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 1779 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 1780 warn if it is improperly defined. 1781FORMAT: 1782 1783This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 1784breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 1785list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011. 1786If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 1787to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 1788 1789Copyright information: 1790 1791Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. 1792 1793Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without 1794modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this 1795document are permitted without further permission from the author. 1796 1797THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY WARNER LOSH ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 1798IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 1799WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 1800DISCLAIMED. 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