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 https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-src.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 5420170623: 55 Forward compatibility for the "ino64" project have been committed. This 56 will allow most new binaries to run on older kernels in a limited 57 fashion. This prevents many of the common foot-shooting actions in the 58 upgrade as well as the limited ability to roll back the kernel across 59 the ino64 upgrade. Complicated use cases may not work properly, though 60 enough simpler ones work to allow recovery in most situations. There is an 61 issue with dependencies which may not properly rebuild everything needed 62 when doing a NO_CLEAN build. Removing *stat*o in lib/libc obj tree is 63 sufficient to avoid this issue. 64 6520170620: 66 Switch back to the BSDL dtc (Device Tree Compiler). Set WITH_GPL_DTC 67 if you require the GPL compiler. 68 6920170618: 70 The internal ABI used for communication between the NFS kernel modules 71 was changed by r320085, so __FreeBSD_version was bumped to 72 ensure all the NFS related modules are updated together. 73 7420170617: 75 The ABI of struct event was changed by extending the data 76 member to 64bit and adding ext fields. For upgrade, same 77 precautions as for the entry 20170523 "ino64" must be 78 followed. 79 8020170531: 81 The GNU roff toolchain has been removed from base. To render manpages 82 which are not supported by mandoc(1), man(1) can fallback on GNU roff 83 from ports (and recommends to install it). 84 To render roff(7) documents, consider using GNU roff from ports or the 85 heirloom doctools roff toolchain from ports via pkg install groff or 86 via pkg install heirloom-doctools. 87 8820170524: 89 The ath(4) and ath_hal(4) modules now build piecemeal to allow for 90 smaller runtime footprint builds. This is useful for embedded systems 91 which only require one chipset support. 92 93 If you load it as a module, make sure this is in /boot/loader.conf: 94 95 if_ath_load="YES" 96 97 This will load the HAL, all chip/RF backends and if_ath_pci. 98 If you have if_ath_pci in /boot/loader.conf, ensure it is after 99 if_ath or it will not load any HAL chipset support. 100 101 If you want to selectively load things (eg on ye cheape ARM/MIPS 102 platforms where RAM is at a premium) you should: 103 104 * load ath_hal 105 * load the chip modules in question 106 * load ath_rate, ath_dfs 107 * load ath_main 108 * load if_ath_pci and/or if_ath_ahb depending upon your particular 109 bus bind type - this is where probe/attach is done. 110 111 For further comments/feedback, poke adrian@ . 112 11320170523: 114 The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends 115 a number of types to 64 bits. Upgrading in place requires care and 116 adherence to the documented upgrade procedure. 117 118 If using a custom kernel configuration ensure that the 119 COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option is included (as during the upgrade the 120 system will be running the ino64 kernel with the existing world). 121 122 For the safest in-place upgrade begin by removing previous build 123 artifacts via "rm -rf /usr/obj/*". Then, carefully follow the 124 full procedure documented below under the heading "To rebuild 125 everything and install it on the current system." Specifically, 126 a reboot is required after installing the new kernel before 127 installing world. 128 12920170424: 130 The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and 131 patm(4) devices has been removed. Consumers should plan a 132 migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11. 133 13420170420: 135 GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU 136 diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of 137 GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name. 138 13920170413: 140 As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when 141 keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with 142 documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state. 143 This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags 144 and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state. 145 To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with 146 keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5). 147 14820170407: 149 arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default, 150 instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be 151 installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set 152 CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin . 153 15420170405: 155 The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl 156 net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted. L2 broadcast 157 packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets. 158 15920170331: 160 Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now 161 use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail 162 instead of using the first assigned address of the jail. 163 16420170329: 165 The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend: 166 cfiscsi.ko does instead. 167 168 If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded 169 via one of the following methods: 170 - `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5). 171 - Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5). 172 - ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support 173 (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5)) 174 175 Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details. 176 17720170316: 178 The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko. 179 Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the 180 same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was 181 missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible 182 with mmc.ko). 183 18420170315: 185 The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity. 186 If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify 187 them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must 188 be prefixed with colon. 189 19020170311: 191 The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been 192 removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version 193 (sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware. 194 19520170302: 196 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0. 197 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 198 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 199 20020170221: 201 The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality 202 has been reimplemented. It's not possible now to create a snapshot 203 by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/. That should be the only user visible 204 change. 205 20620170216: 207 EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer 208 valid. 209 21020170215: 211 MCA bus support has been removed. 212 21320170127: 214 The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed 215 WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC. 216 21720170112: 218 The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that 219 the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications. 220 22120170109: 222 The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via 223 IFLIB. If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4) 224 but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom configuration. 225 22620161217: 227 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1. 228 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 229 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 230 23120161124: 232 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0. 233 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 234 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 235 23620161119: 237 The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap 238 statistics at the front for all CPU variations. libkvm(3) and all tools 239 that link against it need to be recompiled. 240 24120161030: 242 isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver, 243 chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware. 244 On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using 245 device hints. Please see the corresponding manual pages for details. 246 24720161017: 248 The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of 249 rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific 250 parts. 251 Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name 252 conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B)) 253 25420161015: 255 GNU rcs has been removed from base. It is available as packages: 256 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 257 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was 258 removed from base. 259 26020161008: 261 Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control 262 modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the 263 TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.) 264 26520161003: 266 The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 267 ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy. 268 26920160924: 270 Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed 271 to use an extension of .pico instead. The purpose of this change is 272 to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file 273 systems. On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so. 274 27520160918: 276 GNU rcs has been turned off by default. It can (temporarily) be built 277 again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf. 278 Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages: 279 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 280 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base. 281 28220160918: 283 The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr. 284 28520160908: 286 The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into 287 two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and 288 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH. Define both for the original 289 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior. 290 29120160824: 292 r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace 293 programs and the kernel. ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be 294 rebuilt to work with new kernels. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped 295 to 1200005. 296 29720160818: 298 The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP 299 packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3 300 broadcast packets. It is not expected that this will affect any 301 standards-conforming UDP application. The new behaviour can be 302 disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to 303 0. 304 30520160818: 306 Remove the openbsd_poll system call. 307 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 308 30920160622: 310 The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with 311 a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2) 312 system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include 313 "options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the 314 default). Users should ensure that this option is enabled in 315 their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their 316 kernel. 317 31820160527: 319 CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers. 320 This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using 321 those disk's diskid device nodes. For example, if /etc/fstab 322 previously contained a line like 323 "/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should 324 change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456". Users of geom 325 transforms like gmirror may also be affected. ZFS users should 326 generally be fine. 327 32820160523: 329 The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and 330 improved performance. But it is binary-incompatible with the old API. 331 Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects 332 built with the old headers. 333 33420160520: 335 The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64. 336 Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these 337 functions and should be updated to the latest version before 338 installing a new libc. 339 34020160517: 341 The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support 342 for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system 343 is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT. 344 This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld 345 and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New 346 packages will be needed. 347 348 To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add 349 TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 350 and the install steps. 351 35220160510: 353 Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to 354 installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. Many kernel 355 modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode 356 KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules. However, 357 manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will 358 now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. 359 36020160414: 361 The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be 362 no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the 363 list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt 364 data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data 365 corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete: 366 367 o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 368 o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 369 o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware 370 o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares 371 o FCCT M500 all firmwares 372 373 Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware 374 with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for 375 updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these 376 drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given 377 this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no 378 other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above 379 vendors work. 380 381 To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your 382 drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting: 383 kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2" 384 in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the 385 quirks entry to 0x3. 386 38720160330: 388 The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is 389 now the one true way. The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has 390 been removed. See 20160311 for further details. 391 39220160317: 393 Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t. All 394 drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled. 395 39620160311: 397 WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree 398 builds. It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the 399 'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran 400 when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before 401 building anything else. Dependencies are gathered at compile time with 402 -MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file. Users should 403 run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older 404 stale .depend files. 405 40620160306: 407 On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into 408 kernel modules. Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time, 409 please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before 410 rebooting, e.g.: 411 412 make buildworld 413 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 414 make -C sys/boot install 415 <reboot in single user> 416 417 Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section, 418 below. 419 42020160305: 421 Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0. Please 422 see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 423 upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 424 42520160301: 426 The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The 427 VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed. 428 Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only 429 permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable 430 asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the 431 vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value. 432 43320160226: 434 The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the 435 ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a 436 drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The 437 (temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set 438 to obtain the GNU version if necessary. 439 44020160129: 441 Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default. That 442 feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks. 443 Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will 444 still work, even if the guest is using ZFS. Legacy behavior can be 445 restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1. 446 44720160119: 448 The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH. They are 449 still available in the security/openssh-portable port. 450 45120160113: 452 With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required 453 during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user 454 prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 455 45620151216: 457 The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a 458 consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp 459 server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the 460 other loaders. 461 46220151211: 463 The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has 464 been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel, 465 a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced 466 for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild 467 the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or 468 later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding. 469 47020151207: 471 Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and 472 installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but 473 requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed 474 world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes 475 in src.conf(5). 476 47720151130: 478 r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and 479 nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether. 480 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 481 48220151108: 483 Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of 484 order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old 485 behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C". 486 487 Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given 488 collation results will be different. 489 490 Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient 491 locales before running make installworld. 492 493 rm -rf /usr/share/locale/* 494 49520151030: 496 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d. Any binaries requiring 497 libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled. 498 49920151020: 500 Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0. 501 Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and 502 should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively. 503 50420151017: 505 The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into 506 sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and 507 'make -n -n' to recursively show commands. Now 'make -n' will recurse 508 and 'make -N' will not. 509 51020151012: 511 If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster 512 and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now 513 updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld. If you had 514 excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may 515 want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install". 516 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of 517 whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used. If you are not using 518 SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior. 519 52020151011: 521 Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. 522 It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases 523 and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.* 524 environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links. 525 52620151006: 527 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 528 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 529 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 530 53120150924: 532 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 533 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 534 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 535 userland debug files. 536 537 When using the supported kernel installation method the 538 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 539 as is done with /boot/kernel. 540 541 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 542 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 543 54420150827: 545 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 546 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 547 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 548 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 549 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 550 rc.d scripts in /etc. 551 55220150827: 553 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 554 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 555 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 556 55720150817: 558 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 559 them, the kernel must have 560 561 device random 562 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 563 564 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 565 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 566 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 567 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 568 569 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 570 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 571 57220150813: 573 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 574 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 575 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 576 57720150810: 578 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 579 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 580 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 581 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 582 583 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 584 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 585 difference with this change. 586 587 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 588 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 589 remove that workaround. 590 59120150809: 592 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 593 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 594 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 595 with: 596 597 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 598 59920150806: 600 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 601 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 602 loader.rc.local instead. 603 60420150805: 605 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 606 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 607 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 608 60920150728: 610 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 611 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 612 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 613 614 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 615 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 616 61720150706: 618 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 619 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 620 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 621 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 622 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 623 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 624 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 625 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 626 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 627 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 628 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 629 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 630 63120150630: 632 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 633 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 634 635 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 636 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 637 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 638 639 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 640 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 641 642 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 643 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 644 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 645 646 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 647 entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 648 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 649 and it is assumed you know what you need. 650 651 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 652 habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 653 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 654 behaviour from your security subsystems. 655 656 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 657 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 658 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 659 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 660 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 661 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 662 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 663 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 664 will never happen. 665 66620150623: 667 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 668 entry below has been been committed in revision 284717. 669 67020150616: 671 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 672 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 673 67420150615: 675 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 676 below has been been committed in revision 284436. The work 677 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 678 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 679 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 680 68120150614: 682 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 683 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 684 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 685 with Kyuafile and kyua. 686 68720150614: 688 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 689 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 690 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 691 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 692 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 693 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 694 2048 bit DH parameter by: 695 696 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 697 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 698 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 699 replace it with '2'. 700 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 701 a file path, create a new file with: 702 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 703 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 704 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 705 5. Restart sendmail: 706 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 707 708 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 709 updated. 710 71120150604: 712 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 713 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 714 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 715 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 716 5.x. 717 718 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 719 72020150525: 721 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 722 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 723 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 724 72520150521: 726 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 727 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 728 and Pandaboard: 729 730 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 731 same but content is different now 732 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 733 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 734 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 735 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 736 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 737 73820150501: 739 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 740 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 741 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 742 74320150423: 744 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 745 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 746 74720150415: 748 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 749 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 750 75120150416: 752 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 753 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 754 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 755 75620150324: 757 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 758 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 759 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 760 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 761 76220150315: 763 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 764 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 765 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 766 76720150307: 768 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 769 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 770 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 771 kernel before rebooting. 772 77320150217: 774 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 775 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 776 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 777 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 778 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 779 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 780 78120150210: 782 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 783 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 784 with the new kernel. 785 78620150131: 787 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 788 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 789 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 790 79120150118: 792 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 793 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 794 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 795 are not already using 3.5.0. 796 79720150107: 798 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 799 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 800 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 801 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 802 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 803 80420150105: 805 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 806 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 807 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 808 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 809 81020150102: 811 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 812 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 813 81420141231: 815 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 816 817 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 818 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 819 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 820 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 821 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 822 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 823 later. 824 825 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 826 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 827 of the box. 828 829 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 830 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 831 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 832 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 833 834 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 835 the instructions for 9.x above. 836 837 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 838 default, and do not build clang. 839 840 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 841 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 842 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 843 844 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 845 the following are most likely to appear: 846 847 -Wabsolute-value 848 849 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 850 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 851 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 852 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 853 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 854 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 855 cast, or disable the warning. 856 857 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 858 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 859 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 860 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 861 side-effects. 862 863 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 864 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 865 866 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 867 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 868 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 869 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 870 871 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 872 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 873 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 874 unreachable could be optimized away. 875 87620141222: 877 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 878 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 879 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 880 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 881 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 882 the utilities will report errors. 883 88420141121: 885 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 886 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 887 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 888 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 889 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 890 LOCAL_DIRS. 891 89220141109: 893 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 894 has been obsolete for a very long time. 895 89620141104: 897 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 898 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 899 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 900 drivers. 901 902 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 903 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 904 indicate what you need to do. 905 906 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 907 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 908 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 909 910 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 911 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 912 kern.vty=sc 913 91420141102: 915 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 916 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 917 execute it. 918 91920141009: 920 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 921 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 922 devel/gperf port. 923 92420140923: 925 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 926 contrib/pjdfstest . 927 92820140922: 929 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 930 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 931 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 932 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 933 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 934 their next update cycle. 935 93620140729: 937 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 938 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 939 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 940 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 941 1.12.4_8 or newer. 942 94320140723: 944 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 945 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 946 94720140719: 948 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 949 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 950 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 951 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 952 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 953 new configuration. 954 95520140709: 956 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 957 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 958 them again. 959 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 960 96120140708: 962 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 963 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 964 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 965 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 966 requires readline. 967 96820140702: 969 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 970 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 971 architecture. 972 97320140701: 974 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 975 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 976 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 977 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 978 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 979 98020140629: 981 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 982 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 983 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 984 98520140619: 986 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 987 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 988 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 989 99020140606: 991 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 992 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 993 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 994 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 995 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 996 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 997 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 998 "make installworld". 999 1000 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 1001 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 1002 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 1003 is run. 1004 1005 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 1006 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 1007 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 1008 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 1009 be removed during a clean upgrade. 1010 101120140512: 1012 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 1013 101420140508: 1015 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 1016 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 1017 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 1018 101920140505: 1020 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 1021 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 1022 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 1023 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 1024 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 1025 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 1026 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 1027 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 1028 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 1029 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 1030 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 1031 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 1032 1033 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 1034 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 1035 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 1036 as well. 1037 103820140430: 1039 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 1040 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 1041 104220140424: 1043 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 1044 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 1045 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 1046 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 1047 build hosts for older releases. 1048 1049 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 1050 r276991, respectively. 1051 105220140418: 1053 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 1054 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 1055 will silently lack HESIOD. 1056 105720140405: 1058 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 1059 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 1060 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 1061 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 1062 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 1063 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 1064 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 1065 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 1066 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 1067 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 1068 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 1069 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 1070 107120140306: 1072 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 1073 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 1074 with command line option -W. 1075 107620140226: 1077 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 1078 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 1079 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 1080 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 1081 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 1082 108320140216: 1084 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 1085 108620140216: 1087 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 1088 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 1089 109020140212: 1091 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 1092 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 1093 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 1094 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 1095 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 1096 109720140204: 1098 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 1099 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 1100 kernel is still highly recommended. 1101 110220140131: 1103 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 1104 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 1105 capability mode support in kernel. 1106 110720140128: 1108 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 1109 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 1110 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 1111 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 1112 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 1113 111420140110: 1115 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 1116 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 1117 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 1118 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 1119 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 1120 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 1121 112220131213: 1123 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 1124 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 1125 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 1126 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 1127 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 1128 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 1129 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 1130 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 1131 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 1132 113320131108: 1134 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 1135 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 1136 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 1137 should change your settings to use the latter. 1138 113920131025: 1140 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 1141 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 1142 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 1143 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 1144 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 1145 114620131014: 1147 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 1148 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 1149 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 1150 delete-old-libs": 1151 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 1152 or 1153 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 1154 115520131010: 1156 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 1157 revision r256279. 1158 115920131010: 1160 The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8) 1161 configuration file. The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables 1162 for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to 1163 /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked. 1164 This is transparently backward compatible. See below about some 1165 incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details. 1166 1167 These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration 1168 file. One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate 1169 a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without 1170 running the jail(8) utility. The default pathname of the 1171 configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by 1172 using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables. 1173 1174 Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at 1175 this moment. Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name 1176 with an integer. 1177 117820130930: 1179 BIND has been removed from the base system. If all you need 1180 is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound 1181 service instead. Otherwise, several versions of BIND are 1182 available in the ports tree. The dns/bind99 port is one example. 1183 1184 With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base 1185 system. Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are 1186 in the base system. Alternatively, nslookup and dig can 1187 be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port. 1188 118920130916: 1190 With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now 1191 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1192 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1193 119420130911: 1195 OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default 1196 silently trust signed SSHFP records. This can be controlled with 1197 the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting. DNSSEC support 1198 can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf. 1199 120020130906: 1201 The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++) 1202 are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system 1203 compiler. You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX 1204 options in src.conf. 1205 120620130905: 1207 The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel 1208 configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work. 1209 If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include 1210 'options PROCDESC'. 1211 121220130905: 1213 The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified 1214 in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs 1215 have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the 1216 following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is 1217 advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl, 1218 kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq. 1219 122020130903: 1221 AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc. The AES-NI module 1222 has been updated to use this support. A new gcc is required to build 1223 the aesni module on both i386 and amd64. 1224 122520130821: 1226 The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices. 1227 Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be 1228 used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG". 1229 123020130813: 1231 WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets. WITH_ICONV now 1232 enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default. 1233 WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time 1234 compatibility. Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way. 1235 If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely 1236 need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT. 1237 123820130806: 1239 INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and 1240 Illumos origin, including ZFS. If you have INVARIANTS in your 1241 kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG 1242 explicitly. 1243 DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS) 1244 locks if WITNESS option was set. Because that generated a lot of 1245 witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false 1246 positives, this is no longer done. New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS 1247 can be used to achieve the previous behavior. 1248 124920130806: 1250 Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead 1251 of time_second. Although this is not a user-visible functional 1252 change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8), 1253 rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated 1254 to r253970 or later. 1255 125620130802: 1257 find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments, 1258 instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did 1259 not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message 1260 would result: 1261 1262 find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe 1263 1264 Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented 1265 without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing 1266 directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the 1267 old as well as the new version of find. 1268 126920130726: 1270 Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed. 1271 Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs 1272 path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by 1273 slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs 1274 subdirectories must be reviewed. 1275 127620130716: 1277 The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is 1278 incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will 1279 need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 1280 1281 To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set. 1282 1283 NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and 1284 users are advised to upgrade. 1285 128620130709: 1287 pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it 1288 you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5). 1289 129020130709: 1291 Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able 1292 keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking 1293 statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.) 1294 129520130618: 1296 Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write 1297 to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space 1298 even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had 1299 write access to that file. 1300 130120130615: 1302 CVS has been removed from the base system. An exact copy 1303 of the code is available from the devel/cvs port. 1304 130520130613: 1306 Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake: 1307 1308 make: illegal option -- J 1309 usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable] 1310 ... 1311 *** [buildworld] Error code 2 1312 1313 this likely due to an old instance of make in 1314 ${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE}) 1315 which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if 1316 you see the above error: 1317 1318 rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH` 1319 1320 should resolve it. 1321 132220130516: 1323 Use bmake by default. 1324 Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via 1325 -DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old 1326 make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE. 1327 1328 It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command 1329 line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the 1330 command line. Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer 1331 than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent 1332 behavior in parallel build. 1333 133420130429: 1335 Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files. 1336 133720130426: 1338 The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because 1339 the IDEA patent expired. 1340 134120130426: 1342 The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed 1343 from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been 1344 enabled by default. 1345 134620130425: 1347 The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX 1348 rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in 1349 order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as 1350 install and mtree. When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where 1351 the install command does not support -l, you will need to 1352 install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required. 1353 This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster 1354 && make install). 1355 135620130404: 1357 Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since 1358 FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources. Kernel modules 1359 atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are 1360 removed. Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled 1361 and removed. 1362 136320130319: 1364 SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2) 1365 and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may 1366 automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting 1367 binaries will not work on older kernels. 1368 136920130308: 1370 CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further 1371 information, see the respective 20130304 entry). 1372 137320130304: 1374 Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout, 1375 so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions 1376 in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced 1377 by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild 1378 is requested. 1379 1380 The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64, 1381 but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE 1382 option) to save memory. To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE 1383 option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 1384 in /boot/loader.conf. 1385 138620130301: 1387 The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64. 1388 This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system 1389 initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if 1390 a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system 1391 unusable on 128MB or less of RAM. 1392 139320130208: 1394 A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please 1395 refer to zpool-features(7) for more information. 1396 1397 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1398 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1399 140020130129: 1401 A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed 1402 as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch. 1403 To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default, 1404 while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild 1405 and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set. 1406 140720130121: 1408 Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build 1409 and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL 1410 make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the 1411 command line. If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs 1412 you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or 1413 /etc/src.conf. 1414 141520130118: 1416 The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an 1417 argument that is a file or path to append logs to. In the 1418 unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line 1419 and the command line contained at least two files and a target 1420 directory the first file will have logs appended to it. The -M 1421 option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its 1422 use is expected to be extremely rare. 1423 142420121223: 1425 After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS 1426 on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics. 1427 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations. 1428 142920121222: 1430 GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata. 1431 Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters, 1432 '%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to 1433 be updated. 1434 143520121217: 1436 By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved. To 1437 restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps 1438 stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf: 1439 1440 savecore_flags="" 1441 144220121201: 1443 With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now 1444 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1445 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1446 144720121117: 1448 The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now 1449 filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via 1450 sysctl or routing socket. This means the KAME-specific embedded scope 1451 id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application. 1452 This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid. 1453 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025. 1454 145520121105: 1456 On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default. 1457 This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang 1458 and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++, 1459 and /usr/bin/cpp. To disable this behavior and revert to building 1460 with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions 1461 of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang 1462 build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable 1463 branch point). 1464 146520121102: 1466 The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its 1467 functionality now turned on by default. 1468 146920121023: 1470 The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and 1471 split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP. 1472 NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write 1473 mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes. 1474 NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current 1475 driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage. 1476 Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under 1477 consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal 1478 of the two kernel options. 1479 148020121023: 1481 The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte 1482 order. The following modules need to be recompiled together 1483 with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4), 1484 pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4). 1485 148620121022: 1487 Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The 1488 VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be 1489 recompiled. 1490 149120121018: 1492 All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from 1493 the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs, 1494 portalfs, smbfs, xfs. 1495 149620121016: 1497 The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following 1498 modules need to be recompiled together with kernel: 1499 ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4), 1500 vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4), 1501 faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4). 1502 150320121015: 1504 The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host 1505 Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver). 1506 No kernel config modifications are required, but if you 1507 load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead. 1508 150920121014: 1510 Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system. 1511 151220121013: 1513 The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed 1514 sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious 1515 problems have been reported. The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT 1516 knob has also gone. 1517 151820121006: 1519 The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet 1520 filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled 1521 with new kernel. 1522 152320121001: 1524 The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver 1525 PS-POLL and power-save support. All wireless drivers need to be 1526 recompiled to work with the new kernel. 1527 152820120913: 1529 The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number 1530 generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally. 1531 Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if 1532 needed. The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the 1533 device, so the change only affects the custom kernel 1534 configurations. 1535 153620120908: 1537 The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and 1538 snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel. 1539 154020120828: 1541 A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged 1542 to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be 1543 imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support 1544 this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5) 1545 manual page. 1546 154720120727: 1548 The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto- 1549 detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these 1550 to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable. 1551 155220120712: 1553 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c. Any binaries requiring 1554 libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled. Also, there are 1555 configuration changes. Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf. 1556 155720120712: 1558 The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency 1559 with other variables: 1560 kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered 1561 kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered 1562 156320120628: 1564 The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort. For now, GNU sort 1565 is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to 1566 GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT. In this case, BSD sort will be 1567 installed as "bsdsort". 1568 156920120611: 1570 A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD. 1571 Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning 1572 is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward 1573 compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS 1574 pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools 1575 is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information 1576 read the new zpool-features(5) manual page. 1577 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1578 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1579 158020120417: 1581 The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported 1582 as contrib/jemalloc. The most disruptive API change is to 1583 /etc/malloc.conf. If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf, 1584 delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the 1585 new format after rebooting. See malloc.conf(5) for details 1586 (specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL 1587 NAMESPACE section). 1588 158920120328: 1590 Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb". mips64eb 1591 is now spelled mips64. mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32. mipseb is 1592 now spelled mips. This is to aid compatibility with third-party 1593 software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3). Little-endian 1594 settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine 1595 from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in 1596 your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine. 1597 159820120306: 1599 Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported 1600 platforms. 1601 160220120229: 1603 Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on nullfs(5). Previously 1604 nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer, 1605 as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect 1606 only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect 1607 only to the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the 1608 lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to. 1609 161020120211: 1611 The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored. 1612 If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to 1613 recompile libc again with your kernel. You still need to recompile 1614 world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already 1615 comes from 20111215. 1616 161720120114: 1618 The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr. All 1619 base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a 1620 port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either 1621 hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port. 1622 1623 An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d: 1624 rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i 1625 162620120109: 1627 panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts 1628 on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running. 1629 This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic 1630 tunable/sysctl. 1631 The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic. 1632 163320111215: 1634 The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration 1635 of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format 1636 of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages 1637 for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently 1638 not supported anymore. 1639 1640 Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User 1641 utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8), 1642 need to be recompiled. 1643 164420111122: 1645 The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to 1646 /dev/wmistat0. 1647 164820111108: 1649 The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to 1650 explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems. 1651 It is on by default for all supported platform at this present 1652 time. 1653 165420111101: 1655 The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64, 1656 i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files. 1657 165820110930: 1659 sysinstall has been removed 1660 166120110923: 1662 The stable/9 branch created in subversion. This corresponds to the 1663 RELENG_9 branch in CVS. 1664 1665COMMON ITEMS: 1666 1667 General Notes 1668 ------------- 1669 Avoid using make -j when upgrading. While generally safe, there are 1670 sometimes problems using -j to upgrade. If your upgrade fails with 1671 -j, please try again without -j. From time to time in the past there 1672 have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This 1673 is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one 1674 that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when 1675 several months have passed on the -current branch). 1676 1677 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 1678 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 1679 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 1680 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 1681 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 1682 1683 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to 1684 upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then 1685 do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path, 1686 and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try this 1687 approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade. Since 1688 the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgade from 1689 anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the 1690 last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's 1691 an exception. 1692 1693 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 1694 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 1695 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 1696 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 1697 1698 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 1699 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 1700 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 1701 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 1702 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 1703 should write them with this in mind. 1704 1705 ZFS notes 1706 --------- 1707 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 1708 these two steps: 1709 1710 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 1711 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 1712 1713 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 1714 1715 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first 1716 partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 1717 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0" 1718 1719 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 1720 1721 To build a kernel 1722 ----------------- 1723 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 1724 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 1725 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 1726 1727 make kernel-toolchain 1728 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1729 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1730 1731 To test a kernel once 1732 --------------------- 1733 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 1734 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 1735 debugging information) run 1736 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 1737 nextboot -k testkernel 1738 1739 To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up 1740 -------------------------------------------------------------- 1741 This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system. Replace 1742 ${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386", 1743 "arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc). 1744 1745 cd src/sys/${arch}/conf 1746 config KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1747 cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1748 make depend 1749 make 1750 make install 1751 1752 If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section. 1753 1754 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 1755 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1756 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 1757 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 1758 1759 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1760 make buildworld 1761 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1762 [1] 1763 <reboot in single user> [3] 1764 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1765 make installworld 1766 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1767 make delete-old [6] 1768 <reboot> 1769 1770 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 1771 -------------------------------------------------- 1772 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 1773 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 1774 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 1775 # size. 1776 1777 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1778 <boot into -stable> 1779 make buildworld 1780 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1781 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 1782 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 1783 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 1784 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 1785 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1786 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 1787 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 1788 <reboot into current> 1789 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 1790 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 1791 <reboot> 1792 1793 1794 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 1795 ---------------------------------------------- 1796 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1797 make buildworld [9] 1798 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 1799 [1] 1800 <reboot in single user> [3] 1801 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1802 make installworld 1803 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1804 make delete-old [6] 1805 <reboot> 1806 1807 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 1808 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 1809 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 1810 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 1811 the UPDATING entries. 1812 1813 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 1814 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 1815 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 1816 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 1817 much fewer pitfalls. 1818 1819 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you 1820 should disable them at this point so they don't crash your 1821 system on reboot. 1822 1823 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 1824 fsck -p 1825 mount -u / 1826 mount -a 1827 cd src 1828 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 1829 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that 1830 you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. 1831 1832 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 1833 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 1834 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 1835 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 1836 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 1837 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 1838 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 1839 1840 [5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time 1841 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 1842 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 1843 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 1844 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 1845 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 1846 1847 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 1848 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 1849 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 1850 1851 [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to 1852 do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in 1853 your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is 1854 hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is 1855 required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on 1856 for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7. 1857 1858 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 1859 last time you updated your kernel config file. 1860 1861 [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have 1862 cvs prune empty directories. 1863 1864 If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 1865 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 1866 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 1867 1868 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 1869 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 1870 warn if it is improperly defined. 1871FORMAT: 1872 1873This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 1874breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 1875list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011. 1876If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 1877to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 1878 1879Copyright information: 1880 1881Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. 1882 1883Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without 1884modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this 1885document are permitted without further permission from the author. 1886 1887THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY WARNER LOSH ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 1888IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 1889WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 1890DISCLAIMED. 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