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. 61 6220170620: 63 Switch back to the BSDL dtc (Device Tree Compiler). Set WITH_GPL_DTC 64 if you require the GPL compiler. 65 6620170618: 67 The internal ABI used for communication between the NFS kernel modules 68 was changed by r320085, so __FreeBSD_version was bumped to 69 ensure all the NFS related modules are updated together. 70 7120170617: 72 The ABI of struct event was changed by extending the data 73 member to 64bit and adding ext fields. For upgrade, same 74 precautions as for the entry 20170523 "ino64" must be 75 followed. 76 7720170531: 78 The GNU roff toolchain has been removed from base. To render manpages 79 which are not supported by mandoc(1), man(1) can fallback on GNU roff 80 from ports (and recommends to install it). 81 To render roff(7) documents, consider using GNU roff from ports or the 82 heirloom doctools roff toolchain from ports via pkg install groff or 83 via pkg install heirloom-doctools. 84 8520170524: 86 The ath(4) and ath_hal(4) modules now build piecemeal to allow for 87 smaller runtime footprint builds. This is useful for embedded systems 88 which only require one chipset support. 89 90 If you load it as a module, make sure this is in /boot/loader.conf: 91 92 if_ath_load="YES" 93 94 This will load the HAL, all chip/RF backends and if_ath_pci. 95 If you have if_ath_pci in /boot/loader.conf, ensure it is after 96 if_ath or it will not load any HAL chipset support. 97 98 If you want to selectively load things (eg on ye cheape ARM/MIPS 99 platforms where RAM is at a premium) you should: 100 101 * load ath_hal 102 * load the chip modules in question 103 * load ath_rate, ath_dfs 104 * load ath_main 105 * load if_ath_pci and/or if_ath_ahb depending upon your particular 106 bus bind type - this is where probe/attach is done. 107 108 For further comments/feedback, poke adrian@ . 109 11020170523: 111 The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends 112 a number of types to 64 bits. Upgrading in place requires care and 113 adherence to the documented upgrade procedure. 114 115 If using a custom kernel configuration ensure that the 116 COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option is included (as during the upgrade the 117 system will be running the ino64 kernel with the existing world). 118 119 For the safest in-place upgrade begin by removing previous build 120 artifacts via "rm -rf /usr/obj/*". Then, carefully follow the 121 full procedure documented below under the heading "To rebuild 122 everything and install it on the current system." Specifically, 123 a reboot is required after installing the new kernel before 124 installing world. 125 12620170424: 127 The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and 128 patm(4) devices has been removed. Consumers should plan a 129 migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11. 130 13120170420: 132 GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU 133 diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of 134 GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name. 135 13620170413: 137 As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when 138 keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with 139 documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state. 140 This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags 141 and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state. 142 To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with 143 keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5). 144 14520170407: 146 arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default, 147 instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be 148 installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set 149 CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin . 150 15120170405: 152 The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl 153 net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted. L2 broadcast 154 packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets. 155 15620170331: 157 Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now 158 use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail 159 instead of using the first assigned address of the jail. 160 16120170329: 162 The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend: 163 cfiscsi.ko does instead. 164 165 If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded 166 via one of the following methods: 167 - `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5). 168 - Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5). 169 - ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support 170 (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5)) 171 172 Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details. 173 17420170316: 175 The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko. 176 Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the 177 same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was 178 missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible 179 with mmc.ko). 180 18120170315: 182 The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity. 183 If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify 184 them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must 185 be prefixed with colon. 186 18720170311: 188 The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been 189 removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version 190 (sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware. 191 19220170302: 193 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0. 194 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 195 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 196 19720170221: 198 The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality 199 has been reimplemented. It's not possible now to create a snapshot 200 by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/. That should be the only user visible 201 change. 202 20320170216: 204 EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer 205 valid. 206 20720170215: 208 MCA bus support has been removed. 209 21020170127: 211 The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed 212 WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC. 213 21420170112: 215 The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that 216 the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications. 217 21820170109: 219 The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via 220 IFLIB. If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4) 221 but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom configuration. 222 22320161217: 224 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1. 225 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 226 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 227 22820161124: 229 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0. 230 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 231 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 232 23320161119: 234 The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap 235 statistics at the front for all CPU variations. libkvm(3) and all tools 236 that link against it need to be recompiled. 237 23820161030: 239 isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver, 240 chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware. 241 On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using 242 device hints. Please see the corresponding manual pages for details. 243 24420161017: 245 The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of 246 rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific 247 parts. 248 Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name 249 conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B)) 250 25120161015: 252 GNU rcs has been removed from base. It is available as packages: 253 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 254 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was 255 removed from base. 256 25720161008: 258 Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control 259 modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the 260 TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.) 261 26220161003: 263 The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 264 ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy. 265 26620160924: 267 Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed 268 to use an extension of .pico instead. The purpose of this change is 269 to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file 270 systems. On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so. 271 27220160918: 273 GNU rcs has been turned off by default. It can (temporarily) be built 274 again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf. 275 Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages: 276 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 277 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base. 278 27920160918: 280 The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr. 281 28220160908: 283 The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into 284 two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and 285 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH. Define both for the original 286 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior. 287 28820160824: 289 r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace 290 programs and the kernel. ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be 291 rebuilt to work with new kernels. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped 292 to 1200005. 293 29420160818: 295 The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP 296 packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3 297 broadcast packets. It is not expected that this will affect any 298 standards-conforming UDP application. The new behaviour can be 299 disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to 300 0. 301 30220160818: 303 Remove the openbsd_poll system call. 304 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 305 30620160622: 307 The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with 308 a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2) 309 system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include 310 "options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the 311 default). Users should ensure that this option is enabled in 312 their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their 313 kernel. 314 31520160527: 316 CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers. 317 This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using 318 those disk's diskid device nodes. For example, if /etc/fstab 319 previously contained a line like 320 "/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should 321 change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456". Users of geom 322 transforms like gmirror may also be affected. ZFS users should 323 generally be fine. 324 32520160523: 326 The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and 327 improved performance. But it is binary-incompatible with the old API. 328 Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects 329 built with the old headers. 330 33120160520: 332 The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64. 333 Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these 334 functions and should be updated to the latest version before 335 installing a new libc. 336 33720160517: 338 The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support 339 for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system 340 is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT. 341 This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld 342 and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New 343 packages will be needed. 344 345 To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add 346 TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 347 and the install steps. 348 34920160510: 350 Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to 351 installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. Many kernel 352 modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode 353 KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules. However, 354 manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will 355 now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. 356 35720160414: 358 The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be 359 no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the 360 list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt 361 data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data 362 corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete: 363 364 o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 365 o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 366 o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware 367 o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares 368 o FCCT M500 all firmwares 369 370 Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware 371 with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for 372 updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these 373 drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given 374 this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no 375 other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above 376 vendors work. 377 378 To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your 379 drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting: 380 kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2" 381 in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the 382 quirks entry to 0x3. 383 38420160330: 385 The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is 386 now the one true way. The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has 387 been removed. See 20160311 for further details. 388 38920160317: 390 Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t. All 391 drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled. 392 39320160311: 394 WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree 395 builds. It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the 396 'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran 397 when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before 398 building anything else. Dependencies are gathered at compile time with 399 -MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file. Users should 400 run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older 401 stale .depend files. 402 40320160306: 404 On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into 405 kernel modules. Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time, 406 please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before 407 rebooting, e.g.: 408 409 make buildworld 410 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 411 make -C sys/boot install 412 <reboot in single user> 413 414 Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section, 415 below. 416 41720160305: 418 Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0. Please 419 see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 420 upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 421 42220160301: 423 The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The 424 VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed. 425 Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only 426 permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable 427 asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the 428 vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value. 429 43020160226: 431 The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the 432 ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a 433 drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The 434 (temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set 435 to obtain the GNU version if necessary. 436 43720160129: 438 Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default. That 439 feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks. 440 Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will 441 still work, even if the guest is using ZFS. Legacy behavior can be 442 restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1. 443 44420160119: 445 The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH. They are 446 still available in the security/openssh-portable port. 447 44820160113: 449 With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required 450 during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user 451 prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 452 45320151216: 454 The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a 455 consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp 456 server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the 457 other loaders. 458 45920151211: 460 The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has 461 been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel, 462 a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced 463 for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild 464 the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or 465 later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding. 466 46720151207: 468 Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and 469 installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but 470 requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed 471 world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes 472 in src.conf(5). 473 47420151130: 475 r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and 476 nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether. 477 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 478 47920151108: 480 Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of 481 order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old 482 behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C". 483 484 Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given 485 collation results will be different. 486 487 Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient 488 locales before running make installworld. 489 490 rm -rf /usr/share/locale/* 491 49220151030: 493 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d. Any binaries requiring 494 libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled. 495 49620151020: 497 Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0. 498 Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and 499 should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively. 500 50120151017: 502 The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into 503 sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and 504 'make -n -n' to recursively show commands. Now 'make -n' will recurse 505 and 'make -N' will not. 506 50720151012: 508 If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster 509 and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now 510 updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld. If you had 511 excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may 512 want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install". 513 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of 514 whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used. If you are not using 515 SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior. 516 51720151011: 518 Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. 519 It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases 520 and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.* 521 environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links. 522 52320151006: 524 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 525 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 526 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 527 52820150924: 529 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 530 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 531 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 532 userland debug files. 533 534 When using the supported kernel installation method the 535 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 536 as is done with /boot/kernel. 537 538 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 539 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 540 54120150827: 542 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 543 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 544 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 545 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 546 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 547 rc.d scripts in /etc. 548 54920150827: 550 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 551 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 552 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 553 55420150817: 555 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 556 them, the kernel must have 557 558 device random 559 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 560 561 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 562 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 563 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 564 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 565 566 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 567 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 568 56920150813: 570 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 571 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 572 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 573 57420150810: 575 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 576 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 577 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 578 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 579 580 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 581 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 582 difference with this change. 583 584 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 585 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 586 remove that workaround. 587 58820150809: 589 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 590 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 591 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 592 with: 593 594 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 595 59620150806: 597 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 598 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 599 loader.rc.local instead. 600 60120150805: 602 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 603 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 604 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 605 60620150728: 607 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 608 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 609 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 610 611 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 612 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 613 61420150706: 615 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 616 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 617 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 618 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 619 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 620 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 621 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 622 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 623 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 624 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 625 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 626 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 627 62820150630: 629 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 630 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 631 632 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 633 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 634 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 635 636 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 637 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 638 639 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 640 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 641 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 642 643 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 644 entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 645 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 646 and it is assumed you know what you need. 647 648 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 649 habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 650 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 651 behaviour from your security subsystems. 652 653 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 654 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 655 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 656 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 657 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 658 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 659 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 660 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 661 will never happen. 662 66320150623: 664 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 665 entry below has been been committed in revision 284717. 666 66720150616: 668 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 669 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 670 67120150615: 672 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 673 below has been been committed in revision 284436. The work 674 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 675 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 676 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 677 67820150614: 679 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 680 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 681 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 682 with Kyuafile and kyua. 683 68420150614: 685 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 686 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 687 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 688 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 689 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 690 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 691 2048 bit DH parameter by: 692 693 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 694 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 695 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 696 replace it with '2'. 697 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 698 a file path, create a new file with: 699 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 700 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 701 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 702 5. Restart sendmail: 703 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 704 705 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 706 updated. 707 70820150604: 709 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 710 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 711 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 712 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 713 5.x. 714 715 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 716 71720150525: 718 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 719 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 720 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 721 72220150521: 723 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 724 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 725 and Pandaboard: 726 727 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 728 same but content is different now 729 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 730 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 731 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 732 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 733 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 734 73520150501: 736 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 737 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 738 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 739 74020150423: 741 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 742 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 743 74420150415: 745 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 746 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 747 74820150416: 749 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 750 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 751 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 752 75320150324: 754 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 755 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 756 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 757 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 758 75920150315: 760 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 761 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 762 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 763 76420150307: 765 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 766 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 767 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 768 kernel before rebooting. 769 77020150217: 771 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 772 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 773 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 774 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 775 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 776 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 777 77820150210: 779 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 780 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 781 with the new kernel. 782 78320150131: 784 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 785 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 786 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 787 78820150118: 789 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 790 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 791 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 792 are not already using 3.5.0. 793 79420150107: 795 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 796 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 797 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 798 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 799 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 800 80120150105: 802 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 803 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 804 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 805 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 806 80720150102: 808 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 809 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 810 81120141231: 812 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 813 814 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 815 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 816 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 817 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 818 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 819 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 820 later. 821 822 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 823 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 824 of the box. 825 826 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 827 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 828 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 829 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 830 831 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 832 the instructions for 9.x above. 833 834 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 835 default, and do not build clang. 836 837 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 838 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 839 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 840 841 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 842 the following are most likely to appear: 843 844 -Wabsolute-value 845 846 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 847 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 848 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 849 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 850 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 851 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 852 cast, or disable the warning. 853 854 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 855 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 856 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 857 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 858 side-effects. 859 860 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 861 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 862 863 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 864 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 865 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 866 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 867 868 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 869 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 870 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 871 unreachable could be optimized away. 872 87320141222: 874 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 875 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 876 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 877 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 878 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 879 the utilities will report errors. 880 88120141121: 882 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 883 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 884 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 885 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 886 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 887 LOCAL_DIRS. 888 88920141109: 890 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 891 has been obsolete for a very long time. 892 89320141104: 894 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 895 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 896 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 897 drivers. 898 899 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 900 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 901 indicate what you need to do. 902 903 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 904 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 905 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 906 907 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 908 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 909 kern.vty=sc 910 91120141102: 912 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 913 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 914 execute it. 915 91620141009: 917 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 918 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 919 devel/gperf port. 920 92120140923: 922 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 923 contrib/pjdfstest . 924 92520140922: 926 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 927 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 928 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 929 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 930 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 931 their next update cycle. 932 93320140729: 934 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 935 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 936 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 937 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 938 1.12.4_8 or newer. 939 94020140723: 941 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 942 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 943 94420140719: 945 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 946 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 947 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 948 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 949 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 950 new configuration. 951 95220140709: 953 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 954 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 955 them again. 956 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 957 95820140708: 959 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 960 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 961 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 962 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 963 requires readline. 964 96520140702: 966 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 967 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 968 architecture. 969 97020140701: 971 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 972 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 973 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 974 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 975 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 976 97720140629: 978 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 979 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 980 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 981 98220140619: 983 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 984 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 985 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 986 98720140606: 988 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 989 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 990 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 991 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 992 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 993 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 994 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 995 "make installworld". 996 997 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 998 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 999 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 1000 is run. 1001 1002 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 1003 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 1004 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 1005 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 1006 be removed during a clean upgrade. 1007 100820140512: 1009 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 1010 101120140508: 1012 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 1013 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 1014 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 1015 101620140505: 1017 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 1018 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 1019 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 1020 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 1021 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 1022 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 1023 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 1024 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 1025 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 1026 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 1027 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 1028 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 1029 1030 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 1031 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 1032 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 1033 as well. 1034 103520140430: 1036 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 1037 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 1038 103920140424: 1040 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 1041 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 1042 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 1043 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 1044 build hosts for older releases. 1045 1046 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 1047 r276991, respectively. 1048 104920140418: 1050 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 1051 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 1052 will silently lack HESIOD. 1053 105420140405: 1055 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 1056 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 1057 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 1058 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 1059 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 1060 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 1061 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 1062 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 1063 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 1064 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 1065 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 1066 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 1067 106820140306: 1069 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 1070 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 1071 with command line option -W. 1072 107320140226: 1074 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 1075 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 1076 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 1077 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 1078 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 1079 108020140216: 1081 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 1082 108320140216: 1084 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 1085 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 1086 108720140212: 1088 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 1089 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 1090 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 1091 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 1092 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 1093 109420140204: 1095 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 1096 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 1097 kernel is still highly recommended. 1098 109920140131: 1100 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 1101 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 1102 capability mode support in kernel. 1103 110420140128: 1105 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 1106 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 1107 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 1108 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 1109 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 1110 111120140110: 1112 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 1113 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 1114 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 1115 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 1116 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 1117 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 1118 111920131213: 1120 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 1121 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 1122 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 1123 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 1124 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 1125 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 1126 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 1127 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 1128 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 1129 113020131108: 1131 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 1132 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 1133 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 1134 should change your settings to use the latter. 1135 113620131025: 1137 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 1138 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 1139 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 1140 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 1141 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 1142 114320131014: 1144 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 1145 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 1146 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 1147 delete-old-libs": 1148 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 1149 or 1150 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 1151 115220131010: 1153 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 1154 revision r256279. 1155 115620131010: 1157 The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8) 1158 configuration file. The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables 1159 for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to 1160 /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked. 1161 This is transparently backward compatible. See below about some 1162 incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details. 1163 1164 These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration 1165 file. One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate 1166 a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without 1167 running the jail(8) utility. The default pathname of the 1168 configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by 1169 using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables. 1170 1171 Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at 1172 this moment. Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name 1173 with an integer. 1174 117520130930: 1176 BIND has been removed from the base system. If all you need 1177 is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound 1178 service instead. Otherwise, several versions of BIND are 1179 available in the ports tree. The dns/bind99 port is one example. 1180 1181 With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base 1182 system. Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are 1183 in the base system. Alternatively, nslookup and dig can 1184 be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port. 1185 118620130916: 1187 With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now 1188 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1189 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1190 119120130911: 1192 OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default 1193 silently trust signed SSHFP records. This can be controlled with 1194 the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting. DNSSEC support 1195 can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf. 1196 119720130906: 1198 The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++) 1199 are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system 1200 compiler. You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX 1201 options in src.conf. 1202 120320130905: 1204 The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel 1205 configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work. 1206 If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include 1207 'options PROCDESC'. 1208 120920130905: 1210 The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified 1211 in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs 1212 have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the 1213 following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is 1214 advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl, 1215 kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq. 1216 121720130903: 1218 AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc. The AES-NI module 1219 has been updated to use this support. A new gcc is required to build 1220 the aesni module on both i386 and amd64. 1221 122220130821: 1223 The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices. 1224 Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be 1225 used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG". 1226 122720130813: 1228 WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets. WITH_ICONV now 1229 enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default. 1230 WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time 1231 compatibility. Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way. 1232 If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely 1233 need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT. 1234 123520130806: 1236 INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and 1237 Illumos origin, including ZFS. If you have INVARIANTS in your 1238 kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG 1239 explicitly. 1240 DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS) 1241 locks if WITNESS option was set. Because that generated a lot of 1242 witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false 1243 positives, this is no longer done. New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS 1244 can be used to achieve the previous behavior. 1245 124620130806: 1247 Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead 1248 of time_second. Although this is not a user-visible functional 1249 change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8), 1250 rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated 1251 to r253970 or later. 1252 125320130802: 1254 find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments, 1255 instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did 1256 not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message 1257 would result: 1258 1259 find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe 1260 1261 Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented 1262 without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing 1263 directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the 1264 old as well as the new version of find. 1265 126620130726: 1267 Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed. 1268 Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs 1269 path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by 1270 slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs 1271 subdirectories must be reviewed. 1272 127320130716: 1274 The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is 1275 incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will 1276 need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 1277 1278 To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set. 1279 1280 NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and 1281 users are advised to upgrade. 1282 128320130709: 1284 pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it 1285 you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5). 1286 128720130709: 1288 Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able 1289 keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking 1290 statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.) 1291 129220130618: 1293 Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write 1294 to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space 1295 even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had 1296 write access to that file. 1297 129820130615: 1299 CVS has been removed from the base system. An exact copy 1300 of the code is available from the devel/cvs port. 1301 130220130613: 1303 Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake: 1304 1305 make: illegal option -- J 1306 usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable] 1307 ... 1308 *** [buildworld] Error code 2 1309 1310 this likely due to an old instance of make in 1311 ${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE}) 1312 which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if 1313 you see the above error: 1314 1315 rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH` 1316 1317 should resolve it. 1318 131920130516: 1320 Use bmake by default. 1321 Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via 1322 -DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old 1323 make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE. 1324 1325 It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command 1326 line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the 1327 command line. Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer 1328 than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent 1329 behavior in parallel build. 1330 133120130429: 1332 Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files. 1333 133420130426: 1335 The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because 1336 the IDEA patent expired. 1337 133820130426: 1339 The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed 1340 from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been 1341 enabled by default. 1342 134320130425: 1344 The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX 1345 rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in 1346 order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as 1347 install and mtree. When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where 1348 the install command does not support -l, you will need to 1349 install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required. 1350 This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster 1351 && make install). 1352 135320130404: 1354 Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since 1355 FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources. Kernel modules 1356 atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are 1357 removed. Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled 1358 and removed. 1359 136020130319: 1361 SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2) 1362 and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may 1363 automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting 1364 binaries will not work on older kernels. 1365 136620130308: 1367 CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further 1368 information, see the respective 20130304 entry). 1369 137020130304: 1371 Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout, 1372 so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions 1373 in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced 1374 by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild 1375 is requested. 1376 1377 The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64, 1378 but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE 1379 option) to save memory. To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE 1380 option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 1381 in /boot/loader.conf. 1382 138320130301: 1384 The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64. 1385 This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system 1386 initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if 1387 a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system 1388 unusable on 128MB or less of RAM. 1389 139020130208: 1391 A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please 1392 refer to zpool-features(7) for more information. 1393 1394 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1395 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1396 139720130129: 1398 A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed 1399 as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch. 1400 To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default, 1401 while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild 1402 and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set. 1403 140420130121: 1405 Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build 1406 and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL 1407 make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the 1408 command line. If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs 1409 you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or 1410 /etc/src.conf. 1411 141220130118: 1413 The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an 1414 argument that is a file or path to append logs to. In the 1415 unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line 1416 and the command line contained at least two files and a target 1417 directory the first file will have logs appended to it. The -M 1418 option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its 1419 use is expected to be extremely rare. 1420 142120121223: 1422 After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS 1423 on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics. 1424 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations. 1425 142620121222: 1427 GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata. 1428 Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters, 1429 '%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to 1430 be updated. 1431 143220121217: 1433 By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved. To 1434 restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps 1435 stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf: 1436 1437 savecore_flags="" 1438 143920121201: 1440 With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now 1441 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1442 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1443 144420121117: 1445 The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now 1446 filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via 1447 sysctl or routing socket. This means the KAME-specific embedded scope 1448 id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application. 1449 This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid. 1450 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025. 1451 145220121105: 1453 On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default. 1454 This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang 1455 and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++, 1456 and /usr/bin/cpp. To disable this behavior and revert to building 1457 with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions 1458 of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang 1459 build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable 1460 branch point). 1461 146220121102: 1463 The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its 1464 functionality now turned on by default. 1465 146620121023: 1467 The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and 1468 split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP. 1469 NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write 1470 mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes. 1471 NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current 1472 driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage. 1473 Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under 1474 consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal 1475 of the two kernel options. 1476 147720121023: 1478 The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte 1479 order. The following modules need to be recompiled together 1480 with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4), 1481 pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4). 1482 148320121022: 1484 Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The 1485 VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be 1486 recompiled. 1487 148820121018: 1489 All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from 1490 the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs, 1491 portalfs, smbfs, xfs. 1492 149320121016: 1494 The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following 1495 modules need to be recompiled together with kernel: 1496 ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4), 1497 vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4), 1498 faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4). 1499 150020121015: 1501 The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host 1502 Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver). 1503 No kernel config modifications are required, but if you 1504 load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead. 1505 150620121014: 1507 Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system. 1508 150920121013: 1510 The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed 1511 sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious 1512 problems have been reported. The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT 1513 knob has also gone. 1514 151520121006: 1516 The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet 1517 filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled 1518 with new kernel. 1519 152020121001: 1521 The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver 1522 PS-POLL and power-save support. All wireless drivers need to be 1523 recompiled to work with the new kernel. 1524 152520120913: 1526 The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number 1527 generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally. 1528 Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if 1529 needed. The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the 1530 device, so the change only affects the custom kernel 1531 configurations. 1532 153320120908: 1534 The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and 1535 snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel. 1536 153720120828: 1538 A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged 1539 to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be 1540 imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support 1541 this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5) 1542 manual page. 1543 154420120727: 1545 The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto- 1546 detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these 1547 to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable. 1548 154920120712: 1550 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c. Any binaries requiring 1551 libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled. Also, there are 1552 configuration changes. Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf. 1553 155420120712: 1555 The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency 1556 with other variables: 1557 kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered 1558 kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered 1559 156020120628: 1561 The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort. For now, GNU sort 1562 is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to 1563 GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT. In this case, BSD sort will be 1564 installed as "bsdsort". 1565 156620120611: 1567 A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD. 1568 Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning 1569 is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward 1570 compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS 1571 pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools 1572 is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information 1573 read the new zpool-features(5) manual page. 1574 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1575 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1576 157720120417: 1578 The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported 1579 as contrib/jemalloc. The most disruptive API change is to 1580 /etc/malloc.conf. If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf, 1581 delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the 1582 new format after rebooting. See malloc.conf(5) for details 1583 (specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL 1584 NAMESPACE section). 1585 158620120328: 1587 Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb". mips64eb 1588 is now spelled mips64. mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32. mipseb is 1589 now spelled mips. This is to aid compatibility with third-party 1590 software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3). Little-endian 1591 settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine 1592 from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in 1593 your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine. 1594 159520120306: 1596 Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported 1597 platforms. 1598 159920120229: 1600 Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on nullfs(5). Previously 1601 nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer, 1602 as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect 1603 only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect 1604 only to the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the 1605 lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to. 1606 160720120211: 1608 The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored. 1609 If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to 1610 recompile libc again with your kernel. You still need to recompile 1611 world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already 1612 comes from 20111215. 1613 161420120114: 1615 The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr. All 1616 base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a 1617 port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either 1618 hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port. 1619 1620 An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d: 1621 rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i 1622 162320120109: 1624 panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts 1625 on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running. 1626 This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic 1627 tunable/sysctl. 1628 The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic. 1629 163020111215: 1631 The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration 1632 of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format 1633 of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages 1634 for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently 1635 not supported anymore. 1636 1637 Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User 1638 utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8), 1639 need to be recompiled. 1640 164120111122: 1642 The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to 1643 /dev/wmistat0. 1644 164520111108: 1646 The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to 1647 explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems. 1648 It is on by default for all supported platform at this present 1649 time. 1650 165120111101: 1652 The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64, 1653 i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files. 1654 165520110930: 1656 sysinstall has been removed 1657 165820110923: 1659 The stable/9 branch created in subversion. This corresponds to the 1660 RELENG_9 branch in CVS. 1661 1662COMMON ITEMS: 1663 1664 General Notes 1665 ------------- 1666 Avoid using make -j when upgrading. While generally safe, there are 1667 sometimes problems using -j to upgrade. If your upgrade fails with 1668 -j, please try again without -j. From time to time in the past there 1669 have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This 1670 is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one 1671 that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when 1672 several months have passed on the -current branch). 1673 1674 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 1675 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 1676 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 1677 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 1678 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 1679 1680 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to 1681 upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then 1682 do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path, 1683 and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try this 1684 approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade. Since 1685 the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgade from 1686 anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the 1687 last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's 1688 an exception. 1689 1690 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 1691 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 1692 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 1693 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 1694 1695 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 1696 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 1697 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 1698 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 1699 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 1700 should write them with this in mind. 1701 1702 ZFS notes 1703 --------- 1704 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 1705 these two steps: 1706 1707 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 1708 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 1709 1710 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 1711 1712 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first 1713 partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 1714 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0" 1715 1716 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 1717 1718 To build a kernel 1719 ----------------- 1720 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 1721 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 1722 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 1723 1724 make kernel-toolchain 1725 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1726 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1727 1728 To test a kernel once 1729 --------------------- 1730 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 1731 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 1732 debugging information) run 1733 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 1734 nextboot -k testkernel 1735 1736 To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up 1737 -------------------------------------------------------------- 1738 This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system. Replace 1739 ${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386", 1740 "arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc). 1741 1742 cd src/sys/${arch}/conf 1743 config KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1744 cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1745 make depend 1746 make 1747 make install 1748 1749 If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section. 1750 1751 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 1752 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1753 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 1754 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 1755 1756 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1757 make buildworld 1758 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1759 [1] 1760 <reboot in single user> [3] 1761 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1762 make installworld 1763 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1764 make delete-old [6] 1765 <reboot> 1766 1767 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 1768 -------------------------------------------------- 1769 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 1770 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 1771 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 1772 # size. 1773 1774 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1775 <boot into -stable> 1776 make buildworld 1777 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1778 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 1779 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 1780 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 1781 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 1782 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1783 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 1784 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 1785 <reboot into current> 1786 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 1787 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 1788 <reboot> 1789 1790 1791 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 1792 ---------------------------------------------- 1793 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1794 make buildworld [9] 1795 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 1796 [1] 1797 <reboot in single user> [3] 1798 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1799 make installworld 1800 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1801 make delete-old [6] 1802 <reboot> 1803 1804 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 1805 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 1806 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 1807 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 1808 the UPDATING entries. 1809 1810 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 1811 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 1812 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 1813 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 1814 much fewer pitfalls. 1815 1816 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you 1817 should disable them at this point so they don't crash your 1818 system on reboot. 1819 1820 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 1821 fsck -p 1822 mount -u / 1823 mount -a 1824 cd src 1825 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 1826 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that 1827 you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. 1828 1829 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 1830 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 1831 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 1832 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 1833 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 1834 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 1835 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 1836 1837 [5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time 1838 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 1839 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 1840 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 1841 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 1842 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 1843 1844 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 1845 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 1846 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 1847 1848 [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to 1849 do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in 1850 your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is 1851 hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is 1852 required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on 1853 for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7. 1854 1855 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 1856 last time you updated your kernel config file. 1857 1858 [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have 1859 cvs prune empty directories. 1860 1861 If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 1862 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 1863 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 1864 1865 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 1866 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 1867 warn if it is improperly defined. 1868FORMAT: 1869 1870This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 1871breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 1872list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011. 1873If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 1874to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 1875 1876Copyright information: 1877 1878Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. 1879 1880Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without 1881modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this 1882document are permitted without further permission from the author. 1883 1884THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY WARNER LOSH ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 1885IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 1886WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 1887DISCLAIMED. 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