1 Updating 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/makeworld.html 10 11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in 12/usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before running portupgrade. 13 14NOTE: FreeBSD has switched from gcc to clang. If you have trouble bootstrapping 15from older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG and WITH_GCC to bootstrap to 16the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process 17from older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile. 18 19NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 13.x IS SLOW: 20 FreeBSD 13.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 3420181009: 35 OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1. This update included 36 additional various API changes througout the base system. It is 37 important to rebuild third-party software after upgrading. The value 38 of __FreeBSD_version has been bumped accordingly. 39 4020181006: 41 The legacy DRM modules and drivers have now been added to the loader's 42 module blacklist, in favor of loading them with kld_list in rc.conf(5). 43 The module blacklist may be overridden with the loader.conf(5) 44 'module_blacklist' variable, but loading them via rc.conf(5) is strongly 45 encouraged. 46 4720181002: 48 The cam(4) based nda(4) driver will be used over nvd(4) by default on 49 powerpc64. You may set 'options NVME_USE_NVD=1' in your kernel conf or 50 loader tunable 'hw.nvme.use_nvd=1' if you wish to use the existing 51 driver. Make sure to edit /boot/etc/kboot.conf and fstab to use the 52 nda device name. 53 5420180913: 55 Reproducible build mode is now on by default, in preparation for 56 FreeBSD 12.0. This eliminates build metadata such as the user, 57 host, and time from the kernel (and uname), unless the working tree 58 corresponds to a modified checkout from a version control system. 59 The previous behavior can be obtained by setting the /etc/src.conf 60 knob WITHOUT_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD. 61 6220180826: 63 The Yarrow CSPRNG has been removed from the kernel as it has not been 64 supported by its designers since at least 2003. Fortuna has been the 65 default since FreeBSD-11. 66 6720180822: 68 devctl freeze/thaw have gone into the tree, the rc scripts have been 69 updated to use them and devmatch has been changed. You should update 70 kernel, userland and rc scripts all at the same time. 71 7220180818: 73 The default interpreter has been switched from 4th to Lua. 74 LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP, documented in build(7), will override the default 75 interpreter. If you have custom FORTH code you will need to set 76 LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP=4th (valid values are 4th, lua or simp) in 77 src.conf for the build. This will create default hard links between 78 loader and loader_4th instead of loader and loader_lua, the new default. 79 If you are using UEFI it will create the proper hard link to loader.efi. 80 81 bhyve uses userboot.so. It remains 4th-only until some issues are solved 82 regarding coexisting with multiple versions of FreeBSD are resolved. 83 8420180815: 85 ls(1) now respects the COLORTERM environment variable used in other 86 systems and software to indicate that a colored terminal is both 87 supported and desired. If ls(1) is suddenly emitting colors, they may 88 be disabled again by either removing the unwanted COLORTERM from your 89 environment, or using `ls --color=never`. The ls(1) specific CLICOLOR 90 may not be observed in a future release. 91 9220180808: 93 The default pager for most commands has been changed to "less". To 94 restore the old behavior, set PAGER="more" and MANPAGER="more -s" in 95 your environment. 96 9720180731: 98 The jedec_ts(4) driver has been removed. A superset of its functionality 99 is available in the jedec_dimm(4) driver, and the manpage for that 100 driver includes migration instructions. If you have "device jedec_ts" 101 in your kernel configuration file, it must be removed. 102 10320180730: 104 amd64/GENERIC now has EFI runtime services, EFIRT, enabled by default. 105 This should have no effect if the kernel is booted via BIOS/legacy boot. 106 EFIRT may be disabled via a loader tunable, efi.rt.disabled, if a system 107 has a buggy firmware that prevents a successful boot due to use of 108 runtime services. 109 11020180727: 111 Atmel AT91RM9200 and AT91SAM9, Cavium CNS 11xx and XScale 112 support has been removed from the tree. These ports were 113 obsolete and/or known to be broken for many years. 114 11520180723: 116 loader.efi has been augmented to participate more fully in the 117 UEFI boot manager protocol. loader.efi will now look at the 118 BootXXXX environment variable to determine if a specific kernel 119 or root partition was specified. XXXX is derived from BootCurrent. 120 efibootmgr(8) manages these standard UEFI variables. 121 12220180720: 123 zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader. 124 zfsloader is no longer necessary once you've updated your 125 boot blocks. For a transition period, we will install a 126 hardlink for zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition 127 until the boot blocks can be updated (hard link because old 128 zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks). 129 13020180719: 131 ARM64 now have efifb support, if you want to have serial console 132 on your arm64 board when an screen is connected and the bootloader 133 setup a frambuffer for us to use, just add : 134 boot_serial=YES 135 boot_multicons=YES 136 in /boot/loader.conf 137 For Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI) users, this is needed even if you don't have 138 an screen connected as the firmware will setup a framebuffer are that 139 u-boot will expose as an EFI framebuffer. 140 14120180719: 142 New uid:gid added, ntpd:ntpd (123:123). Be sure to run mergemaster 143 or take steps to update /etc/passwd before doing installworld on 144 existing systems. Do not skip the "mergemaster -Fp" step before 145 installworld, as described in the update procedures near the bottom 146 of this document. Also, rc.d/ntpd now starts ntpd(8) as user ntpd 147 if the new mac_ntpd(4) policy is available, unless ntpd_flags or 148 the ntp config file contain options that change file/dir locations. 149 When such options (e.g., "statsdir" or "crypto") are used, ntpd can 150 still be run as non-root by setting ntpd_user=ntpd in rc.conf, after 151 taking steps to ensure that all required files/dirs are accessible 152 by the ntpd user. 153 15420180717: 155 Big endian arm support has been removed. 156 15720180711: 158 The static environment setup in kernel configs is no longer mutually 159 exclusive with the loader(8) environment by default. In order to 160 restore the previous default behavior of disabling the loader(8) 161 environment if a static environment is present, you must specify 162 loader_env.disabled=1 in the static environment. 163 16420180705: 165 The ABI of syscalls used by management tools like sockstat and 166 netstat has been broken to allow 32-bit binaries to work on 167 64-bit kernels without modification. These programs will need 168 to match the kernel in order to function. External programs may 169 require minor modifications to accommodate a change of type in 170 structures from pointers to 64-bit virtual addresses. 171 17220180702: 173 On i386 and amd64 atomics are now inlined. Out of tree modules using 174 atomics will need to be rebuilt. 175 17620180701: 177 The '%I' format in the kern.corefile sysctl limits the number of 178 core files that a process can generate to the number stored in the 179 debug.ncores sysctl. The '%I' format is replaced by the single digit 180 index. Previously, if all indexes were taken the kernel would overwrite 181 only a core file with the highest index in a filename. 182 Currently the system will create a new core file if there is a free 183 index or if all slots are taken it will overwrite the oldest one. 184 18520180630: 186 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 187 6.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 188 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 189 or higher. 190 19120180628: 192 r335753 introduced a new quoting method. However, etc/devd/devmatch.conf 193 needed to be changed to work with it. This change was made with r335763 194 and requires a mergemaster / etcupdate / etc to update the installed file. 195 19620180612: 197 r334930 changed the interface between the NFS modules, so they all 198 need to be rebuilt. r335018 did a __FreeBSD_version bump for this. 199 20020180530: 201 As of r334391 lld is the default amd64 system linker; it is installed 202 as /usr/bin/ld. Kernel build workarounds (see 20180510 entry) are no 203 longer necessary. 204 20520180530: 206 The kernel / userland interface for devinfo changed, so you'll 207 need a new kernel and userland as a pair for it to work (rebuilding 208 lib/libdevinfo is all that's required). devinfo and devmatch will 209 not work, but everything else will when there's a mismatch. 210 21120180523: 212 The on-disk format for hwpmc callchain records has changed to include 213 threadid corresponding to a given record. This changes the field offsets 214 and thus requires that libpmcstat be rebuilt before using a kernel 215 later than r334108. 216 21720180517: 218 The vxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was introduced into 219 HEAD one week before the Exar left the Ethernet market and is not 220 known to be used. If you have device vxge in your kernel config file 221 it must be removed. 222 22320180510: 224 The amd64 kernel now requires a ld that supports ifunc to produce a 225 working kernel, either lld or a newer binutils. lld is built by default 226 on amd64, and the 'buildkernel' target uses it automatically. However, 227 it is not the default linker, so building the kernel the traditional 228 way requires LD=ld.lld on the command line (or LD=/usr/local/bin/ld for 229 binutils port/package). lld will soon be default, and this requirement 230 will go away. 231 232 NOTE: As of r334391 lld is the default system linker on amd64, and no 233 workaround is necessary. 234 23520180508: 236 The nxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for PCI-X 10g 237 cards made by s2io/Neterion. The company was aquired by Exar and 238 no longer sells or supports Ethernet products. If you have device 239 nxge in your kernel config file it must be removed. 240 24120180504: 242 The tz database (tzdb) has been updated to 2018e. This version more 243 correctly models time stamps in time zones with negative DST such as 244 Europe/Dublin (from 1971 on), Europe/Prague (1946/7), and 245 Africa/Windhoek (1994/2017). This does not affect the UT offsets, only 246 time zone abbreviations and the tm_isdst flag. 247 24820180502: 249 The ixgb(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for an early and 250 uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a single ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel 251 quickly shifted to the long lived ixgbe family. If you have device 252 ixgb in your kernel config file it must be removed. 253 25420180501: 255 The lmc(4) driver has been removed. This was a WAN interface 256 card that was already reportedly rare in 2003, and had an ambiguous 257 license. If you have device lmc in your kernel config file it must 258 be removed. 259 26020180413: 261 Support for Arcnet networks has been removed. If you have device 262 arcnet or device cm in your kernel config file they must be 263 removed. 264 26520180411: 266 Support for FDDI networks has been removed. If you have device 267 fddi or device fpa in your kernel config file they must be 268 removed. 269 27020180406: 271 In addition to supporting RFC 3164 formatted messages, the 272 syslogd(8) service is now capable of parsing RFC 5424 formatted 273 log messages. The main benefit of using RFC 5424 is that clients 274 may now send log messages with timestamps containing year numbers, 275 microseconds and time zone offsets. 276 277 Similarly, the syslog(3) C library function has been altered to 278 send RFC 5424 formatted messages to the local system logging 279 daemon. On systems using syslogd(8), this change should have no 280 negative impact, as long as syslogd(8) and the C library are 281 updated at the same time. On systems using a different system 282 logging daemon, it may be necessary to make configuration 283 adjustments, depending on the software used. 284 285 When using syslog-ng, add the 'syslog-protocol' flag to local 286 input sources to enable parsing of RFC 5424 formatted messages: 287 288 source src { 289 unix-dgram("/var/run/log" flags(syslog-protocol)); 290 } 291 292 When using rsyslog, disable the 'SysSock.UseSpecialParser' option 293 of the 'imuxsock' module to let messages be processed by the 294 regular RFC 3164/5424 parsing pipeline: 295 296 module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.UseSpecialParser="off") 297 298 Do note that these changes only affect communication between local 299 applications and syslogd(8). The format that syslogd(8) uses to 300 store messages on disk or forward messages to other systems 301 remains unchanged. syslogd(8) still uses RFC 3164 for these 302 purposes. Options to customize this behaviour will be added in the 303 future. Utilities that process log files stored in /var/log are 304 thus expected to continue to function as before. 305 306 __FreeBSD_version has been incremented to 1200061 to denote this 307 change. 308 30920180328: 310 Support for token ring networks has been removed. If you 311 have "device token" in your kernel config you should remove 312 it. No device drivers supported token ring. 313 31420180323: 315 makefs was modified to be able to tag ISO9660 El Torito boot catalog 316 entries as EFI instead of overloading the i386 tag as done previously. 317 The amd64 mkisoimages.sh script used to build amd64 ISO images for 318 release was updated to use this. This may mean that makefs must be 319 updated before "make cdrom" can be run in the release directory. This 320 should be as simple as: 321 322 $ cd $SRCDIR/usr.sbin/makefs 323 $ make depend all install 324 32520180212: 326 FreeBSD boot loader enhanced with Lua scripting. It's purely opt-in for 327 now by building WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH in /etc/src.conf. 328 Co-existance for the transition period will come shortly. Booting is a 329 complex environment and test coverage for Lua-enabled loaders has been 330 thin, so it would be prudent to assume it might not work and make 331 provisions for backup boot methods. 332 33320180211: 334 devmatch functionality has been turned on in devd. It will automatically 335 load drivers for unattached devices. This may cause unexpected drivers to 336 be loaded. Please report any problems to current@ and imp@freebsd.org. 337 33820180114: 339 Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 340 6.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about 341 prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 342 or higher. 343 34420180110: 345 LLVM's lld linker is now used as the FreeBSD/amd64 bootstrap linker. 346 This means it is used to link the kernel and userland libraries and 347 executables, but is not yet installed as /usr/bin/ld by default. 348 349 To revert to ld.bfd as the bootstrap linker, in /etc/src.conf set 350 WITHOUT_LLD_BOOTSTRAP=yes 351 35220180110: 353 On i386, pmtimer has been removed. Its functionality has been folded 354 into apm. It was a no-op on ACPI in current for a while now (but was still 355 needed on i386 in FreeBSD 11 and earlier). Users may need to remove it 356 from kernel config files. 357 35820180104: 359 The use of RSS hash from the network card aka flowid has been 360 disabled by default for lagg(4) as it's currently incompatible with 361 the lacp and loadbalance protocols. 362 363 This can be re-enabled by setting the following in loader.conf: 364 net.link.lagg.default_use_flowid="1" 365 36620180102: 367 The SW_WATCHDOG option is no longer necessary to enable the 368 hardclock-based software watchdog if no hardware watchdog is 369 configured. As before, SW_WATCHDOG will cause the software 370 watchdog to be enabled even if a hardware watchdog is configured. 371 37220171215: 373 r326887 fixes the issue described in the 20171214 UPDATING entry. 374 r326888 flips the switch back to building GELI support always. 375 37620171214: 377 r362593 broke ZFS + GELI support for reasons unknown. However, 378 it also broke ZFS support generally, so GELI has been turned off 379 by default as the lesser evil in r326857. If you boot off ZFS and/or 380 GELI, it might not be a good time to update. 381 38220171125: 383 PowerPC users must update loader(8) by rebuilding world before 384 installing a new kernel, as the protocol connecting them has 385 changed. Without the update, loader metadata will not be passed 386 successfully to the kernel and users will have to enter their 387 root partition at the kernel mountroot prompt to continue booting. 388 Newer versions of loader can boot old kernels without issue. 389 39020171110: 391 The LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT build variable as been renamed to 392 WITH/OUT_LOADER_FIREWIRE. LOADER_{NO_,}GELI_SUPPORT has been renamed 393 to WITH/OUT_LOADER_GELI. 394 39520171106: 396 The naive and non-compliant support of posix_fallocate(2) in ZFS 397 has been removed as of r325320. The system call now returns EINVAL 398 when used on a ZFS file. Although the new behavior complies with the 399 standard, some consumers are not prepared to cope with it. 400 One known victim is lld prior to r325420. 401 40220171102: 403 Building in a FreeBSD src checkout will automatically create object 404 directories now rather than store files in the current directory if 405 'make obj' was not ran. Calling 'make obj' is no longer necessary. 406 This feature can be disabled by setting WITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ=yes in 407 /etc/src-env.conf (not /etc/src.conf), or passing the option in the 408 environment. 409 41020171101: 411 The default MAKEOBJDIR has changed from /usr/obj/<srcdir> for native 412 builds, and /usr/obj/<arch>/<srcdir> for cross-builds, to a unified 413 /usr/obj/<srcdir>/<arch>. This behavior can be changed to the old 414 format by setting WITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR=yes in /etc/src-env.conf, 415 the environment, or with -DWITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR when building. 416 The UNIFIED_OBJDIR option is a transitional feature that will be 417 removed for 12.0 release; please migrate to the new format for any 418 tools by looking up the OBJDIR used by 'make -V .OBJDIR' means rather 419 than hardcoding paths. 420 42120171028: 422 The native-xtools target no longer installs the files by default to the 423 OBJDIR. Use the native-xtools-install target with a DESTDIR to install 424 to ${DESTDIR}/${NXTP} where NXTP defaults to /nxb-bin. 425 42620171021: 427 As part of the boot loader infrastructure cleanup, LOADER_*_SUPPORT 428 options are changing from controlling the build if defined / undefined 429 to controlling the build with explicit 'yes' or 'no' values. They will 430 shift to WITH/WITHOUT options to match other options in the system. 431 43220171010: 433 libstand has turned into a private library for sys/boot use only. 434 It is no longer supported as a public interface outside of sys/boot. 435 43620171005: 437 The arm port has split armv6 into armv6 and armv7. armv7 is now 438 a valid TARGET_ARCH/MACHINE_ARCH setting. If you have an armv7 system 439 and are running a kernel from before r324363, you will need to add 440 MACHINE_ARCH=armv7 to 'make buildworld' to do a native build. 441 44220171003: 443 When building multiple kernels using KERNCONF, non-existent KERNCONF 444 files will produce an error and buildkernel will fail. Previously 445 missing KERNCONF files silently failed giving no indication as to 446 why, only to subsequently discover during installkernel that the 447 desired kernel was never built in the first place. 448 44920170912: 450 The default serial number format for CTL LUNs has changed. This will 451 affect users who use /dev/diskid/* device nodes, or whose FibreChannel 452 or iSCSI clients care about their LUNs' serial numbers. Users who 453 require serial number stability should hardcode serial numbers in 454 /etc/ctl.conf . 455 45620170912: 457 For 32-bit arm compiled for hard-float support, soft-floating point 458 binaries now always get their shared libraries from 459 LD_SOFT_LIBRARY_PATH (in the past, this was only used if 460 /usr/libsoft also existed). Only users with a hard-float ld.so, but 461 soft-float everything else should be affected. 462 46320170826: 464 The geli password typed at boot is now hidden. To restore the previous 465 behavior, see geli(8) for configuration options. 466 46720170825: 468 Move PMTUD blackhole counters to TCPSTATS and remove them from bare 469 sysctl values. Minor nit, but requires a rebuild of both world/kernel 470 to complete. 471 47220170814: 473 "make check" behavior (made in ^/head@r295380) has been changed to 474 execute from a limited sandbox, as opposed to executing from 475 ${TESTSDIR}. 476 477 Behavioral changes: 478 - The "beforecheck" and "aftercheck" targets are now specified. 479 - ${CHECKDIR} (added in commit noted above) has been removed. 480 - Legacy behavior can be enabled by setting 481 WITHOUT_MAKE_CHECK_USE_SANDBOX in src.conf(5) or the environment. 482 483 If the limited sandbox mode is enabled, "make check" will execute 484 "make distribution", then install, execute the tests, and clean up the 485 sandbox if successful. 486 487 The "make distribution" and "make install" targets are typically run as 488 root to set appropriate permissions and ownership at installation time. 489 The end-user should set "WITH_INSTALL_AS_USER" in src.conf(5) or the 490 environment if executing "make check" with limited sandbox mode using 491 an unprivileged user. 492 49320170808: 494 Since the switch to GPT disk labels, fsck for UFS/FFS has been 495 unable to automatically find alternate superblocks. As of r322297, 496 the information needed to find alternate superblocks has been 497 moved to the end of the area reserved for the boot block. 498 Filesystems created with a newfs of this vintage or later 499 will create the recovery information. If you have a filesystem 500 created prior to this change and wish to have a recovery block 501 created for your filesystem, you can do so by running fsck in 502 foreground mode (i.e., do not use the -p or -y options). As it 503 starts, fsck will ask ``SAVE DATA TO FIND ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS'' 504 to which you should answer yes. 505 50620170728: 507 As of r321665, an NFSv4 server configuration that services 508 Kerberos mounts or clients that do not support the uid/gid in 509 owner/owner_group string capability, must explicitly enable 510 the nfsuserd daemon by adding nfsuserd_enable="YES" to the 511 machine's /etc/rc.conf file. 512 51320170722: 514 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 5.0.0. 515 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 516 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 517 51820170701: 519 WITHOUT_RCMDS is now the default. Set WITH_RCMDS if you need the 520 r-commands (rlogin, rsh, etc.) to be built with the base system. 521 52220170625: 523 The FreeBSD/powerpc platform now uses a 64-bit type for time_t. This is 524 a very major ABI incompatible change, so users of FreeBSD/powerpc must 525 be careful when performing source upgrades. It is best to run 526 'make installworld' from an alternate root system, either a live 527 CD/memory stick, or a temporary root partition. Additionally, all ports 528 must be recompiled. powerpc64 is largely unaffected, except in the case 529 of 32-bit compatibility. All 32-bit binaries will be affected. 530 53120170623: 532 Forward compatibility for the "ino64" project have been committed. This 533 will allow most new binaries to run on older kernels in a limited 534 fashion. This prevents many of the common foot-shooting actions in the 535 upgrade as well as the limited ability to roll back the kernel across 536 the ino64 upgrade. Complicated use cases may not work properly, though 537 enough simpler ones work to allow recovery in most situations. 538 53920170620: 540 Switch back to the BSDL dtc (Device Tree Compiler). Set WITH_GPL_DTC 541 if you require the GPL compiler. 542 54320170618: 544 The internal ABI used for communication between the NFS kernel modules 545 was changed by r320085, so __FreeBSD_version was bumped to 546 ensure all the NFS related modules are updated together. 547 54820170617: 549 The ABI of struct event was changed by extending the data 550 member to 64bit and adding ext fields. For upgrade, same 551 precautions as for the entry 20170523 "ino64" must be 552 followed. 553 55420170531: 555 The GNU roff toolchain has been removed from base. To render manpages 556 which are not supported by mandoc(1), man(1) can fallback on GNU roff 557 from ports (and recommends to install it). 558 To render roff(7) documents, consider using GNU roff from ports or the 559 heirloom doctools roff toolchain from ports via pkg install groff or 560 via pkg install heirloom-doctools. 561 56220170524: 563 The ath(4) and ath_hal(4) modules now build piecemeal to allow for 564 smaller runtime footprint builds. This is useful for embedded systems 565 which only require one chipset support. 566 567 If you load it as a module, make sure this is in /boot/loader.conf: 568 569 if_ath_load="YES" 570 571 This will load the HAL, all chip/RF backends and if_ath_pci. 572 If you have if_ath_pci in /boot/loader.conf, ensure it is after 573 if_ath or it will not load any HAL chipset support. 574 575 If you want to selectively load things (eg on ye cheape ARM/MIPS 576 platforms where RAM is at a premium) you should: 577 578 * load ath_hal 579 * load the chip modules in question 580 * load ath_rate, ath_dfs 581 * load ath_main 582 * load if_ath_pci and/or if_ath_ahb depending upon your particular 583 bus bind type - this is where probe/attach is done. 584 585 For further comments/feedback, poke adrian@ . 586 58720170523: 588 The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends 589 a number of types to 64 bits. Upgrading in place requires care and 590 adherence to the documented upgrade procedure. 591 592 If using a custom kernel configuration ensure that the 593 COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option is included (as during the upgrade the 594 system will be running the ino64 kernel with the existing world). 595 596 For the safest in-place upgrade begin by removing previous build 597 artifacts via "rm -rf /usr/obj/*". Then, carefully follow the 598 full procedure documented below under the heading "To rebuild 599 everything and install it on the current system." Specifically, 600 a reboot is required after installing the new kernel before 601 installing world. 602 60320170424: 604 The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and 605 patm(4) devices has been removed. Consumers should plan a 606 migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11. 607 60820170420: 609 GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU 610 diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of 611 GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name. 612 61320170413: 614 As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when 615 keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with 616 documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state. 617 This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags 618 and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state. 619 To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with 620 keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5). 621 62220170407: 623 arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default, 624 instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be 625 installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set 626 CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin . 627 62820170405: 629 The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl 630 net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted. L2 broadcast 631 packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets. 632 63320170331: 634 Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now 635 use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail 636 instead of using the first assigned address of the jail. 637 63820170329: 639 The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend: 640 cfiscsi.ko does instead. 641 642 If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded 643 via one of the following methods: 644 - `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5). 645 - Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5). 646 - ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support 647 (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5)) 648 649 Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details. 650 65120170316: 652 The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko. 653 Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the 654 same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was 655 missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible 656 with mmc.ko). 657 65820170315: 659 The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity. 660 If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify 661 them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must 662 be prefixed with colon. 663 66420170311: 665 The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been 666 removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version 667 (sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware. 668 66920170302: 670 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0. 671 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 672 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 673 67420170221: 675 The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality 676 has been reimplemented. It's not possible now to create a snapshot 677 by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/. That should be the only user visible 678 change. 679 68020170216: 681 EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer 682 valid. 683 68420170215: 685 MCA bus support has been removed. 686 68720170127: 688 The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed 689 WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC. 690 69120170112: 692 The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that 693 the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications. 694 69520170109: 696 The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via 697 IFLIB. If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4) 698 but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom configuration. 699 70020161217: 701 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1. 702 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 703 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 704 70520161124: 706 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0. 707 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 708 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 709 71020161119: 711 The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap 712 statistics at the front for all CPU variations. libkvm(3) and all tools 713 that link against it need to be recompiled. 714 71520161030: 716 isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver, 717 chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware. 718 On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using 719 device hints. Please see the corresponding manual pages for details. 720 72120161017: 722 The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of 723 rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific 724 parts. 725 Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name 726 conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B)) 727 72820161015: 729 GNU rcs has been removed from base. It is available as packages: 730 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 731 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was 732 removed from base. 733 73420161008: 735 Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control 736 modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the 737 TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.) 738 73920161003: 740 The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 741 ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy. 742 74320160924: 744 Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed 745 to use an extension of .pico instead. The purpose of this change is 746 to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file 747 systems. On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so. 748 74920160918: 750 GNU rcs has been turned off by default. It can (temporarily) be built 751 again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf. 752 Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages: 753 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 754 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base. 755 75620160918: 757 The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr. 758 75920160908: 760 The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into 761 two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and 762 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH. Define both for the original 763 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior. 764 76520160824: 766 r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace 767 programs and the kernel. ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be 768 rebuilt to work with new kernels. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped 769 to 1200005. 770 77120160818: 772 The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP 773 packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3 774 broadcast packets. It is not expected that this will affect any 775 standards-conforming UDP application. The new behaviour can be 776 disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to 777 0. 778 77920160818: 780 Remove the openbsd_poll system call. 781 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 782 78320160708: 784 The stable/11 branch has been created from head@r302406. 785 78620160622: 787 The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with 788 a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2) 789 system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include 790 "options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the 791 default). Users should ensure that this option is enabled in 792 their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their 793 kernel. 794 79520160527: 796 CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers. 797 This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using 798 those disk's diskid device nodes. For example, if /etc/fstab 799 previously contained a line like 800 "/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should 801 change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456". Users of geom 802 transforms like gmirror may also be affected. ZFS users should 803 generally be fine. 804 80520160523: 806 The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and 807 improved performance. But it is binary-incompatible with the old API. 808 Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects 809 built with the old headers. 810 81120160520: 812 The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64. 813 Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these 814 functions and should be updated to the latest version before 815 installing a new libc. 816 81720160517: 818 The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support 819 for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system 820 is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT. 821 This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld 822 and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New 823 packages will be needed. 824 825 To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add 826 TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 827 and the install steps. 828 82920160510: 830 Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to 831 installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. Many kernel 832 modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode 833 KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules. However, 834 manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will 835 now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. 836 83720160414: 838 The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be 839 no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the 840 list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt 841 data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data 842 corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete: 843 844 o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 845 o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 846 o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware 847 o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares 848 o FCCT M500 all firmwares 849 850 Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware 851 with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for 852 updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these 853 drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given 854 this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no 855 other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above 856 vendors work. 857 858 To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your 859 drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting: 860 kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2" 861 in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the 862 quirks entry to 0x3. 863 86420160330: 865 The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is 866 now the one true way. The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has 867 been removed. See 20160311 for further details. 868 86920160317: 870 Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t. All 871 drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled. 872 87320160311: 874 WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree 875 builds. It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the 876 'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran 877 when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before 878 building anything else. Dependencies are gathered at compile time with 879 -MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file. Users should 880 run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older 881 stale .depend files. 882 88320160306: 884 On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into 885 kernel modules. Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time, 886 please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before 887 rebooting, e.g.: 888 889 make buildworld 890 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 891 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 892 make -C sys/boot install 893 <reboot in single user> 894 895 Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section, 896 below. 897 89820160305: 899 Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0. Please 900 see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 901 upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 902 90320160301: 904 The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The 905 VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed. 906 Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only 907 permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable 908 asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the 909 vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value. 910 91120160226: 912 The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the 913 ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a 914 drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The 915 (temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set 916 to obtain the GNU version if necessary. 917 91820160129: 919 Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default. That 920 feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks. 921 Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will 922 still work, even if the guest is using ZFS. Legacy behavior can be 923 restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1. 924 92520160119: 926 The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH. They are 927 still available in the security/openssh-portable port. 928 92920160113: 930 With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required 931 during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user 932 prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 933 93420151216: 935 The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a 936 consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp 937 server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the 938 other loaders. 939 94020151211: 941 The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has 942 been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel, 943 a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced 944 for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild 945 the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or 946 later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding. 947 94820151207: 949 Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and 950 installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but 951 requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed 952 world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes 953 in src.conf(5). 954 95520151130: 956 r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and 957 nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether. 958 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 959 96020151108: 961 Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of 962 order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old 963 behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C". 964 965 Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given 966 collation results will be different. 967 968 Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient 969 locales before running make installworld. 970 971 rm -rf /usr/share/locale/* 972 97320151030: 974 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d. Any binaries requiring 975 libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled. 976 97720151020: 978 Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0. 979 Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and 980 should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively. 981 98220151017: 983 The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into 984 sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and 985 'make -n -n' to recursively show commands. Now 'make -n' will recurse 986 and 'make -N' will not. 987 98820151012: 989 If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster 990 and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now 991 updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld. If you had 992 excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may 993 want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install". 994 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of 995 whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used. If you are not using 996 SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior. 997 99820151011: 999 Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. 1000 It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases 1001 and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.* 1002 environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links. 1003 100420151006: 1005 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 1006 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 1007 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 1008 100920150924: 1010 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 1011 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 1012 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 1013 userland debug files. 1014 1015 When using the supported kernel installation method the 1016 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 1017 as is done with /boot/kernel. 1018 1019 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 1020 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 1021 102220150827: 1023 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 1024 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 1025 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 1026 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 1027 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 1028 rc.d scripts in /etc. 1029 103020150827: 1031 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 1032 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 1033 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 1034 103520150817: 1036 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 1037 them, the kernel must have 1038 1039 device random 1040 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 1041 1042 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 1043 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 1044 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 1045 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 1046 1047 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 1048 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 1049 105020150813: 1051 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 1052 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 1053 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 1054 105520150810: 1056 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 1057 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 1058 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 1059 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 1060 1061 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 1062 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 1063 difference with this change. 1064 1065 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 1066 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 1067 remove that workaround. 1068 106920150809: 1070 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 1071 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 1072 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 1073 with: 1074 1075 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 1076 107720150806: 1078 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 1079 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 1080 loader.rc.local instead. 1081 108220150805: 1083 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 1084 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 1085 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 1086 108720150728: 1088 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 1089 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 1090 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 1091 1092 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 1093 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 1094 109520150706: 1096 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 1097 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 1098 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 1099 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 1100 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 1101 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 1102 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 1103 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 1104 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 1105 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 1106 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 1107 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 1108 110920150630: 1110 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 1111 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 1112 1113 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 1114 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 1115 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 1116 1117 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 1118 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 1119 1120 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 1121 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 1122 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 1123 1124 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 1125 entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 1126 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 1127 and it is assumed you know what you need. 1128 1129 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 1130 habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 1131 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 1132 behaviour from your security subsystems. 1133 1134 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 1135 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 1136 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 1137 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 1138 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 1139 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 1140 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 1141 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 1142 will never happen. 1143 114420150623: 1145 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 1146 entry below has been committed in revision 284717. 1147 114820150616: 1149 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 1150 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 1151 115220150615: 1153 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 1154 below has been committed in revision 284436. The work 1155 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 1156 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 1157 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 1158 115920150614: 1160 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 1161 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 1162 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 1163 with Kyuafile and kyua. 1164 116520150614: 1166 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 1167 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 1168 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 1169 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 1170 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 1171 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 1172 2048 bit DH parameter by: 1173 1174 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 1175 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 1176 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 1177 replace it with '2'. 1178 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 1179 a file path, create a new file with: 1180 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 1181 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 1182 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 1183 5. Restart sendmail: 1184 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 1185 1186 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 1187 updated. 1188 118920150604: 1190 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 1191 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 1192 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 1193 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 1194 5.x. 1195 1196 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 1197 119820150525: 1199 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 1200 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 1201 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 1202 120320150521: 1204 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 1205 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 1206 and Pandaboard: 1207 1208 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 1209 same but content is different now 1210 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 1211 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 1212 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 1213 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 1214 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 1215 121620150501: 1217 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 1218 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 1219 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 1220 122120150423: 1222 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 1223 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 1224 122520150415: 1226 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 1227 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 1228 122920150416: 1230 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 1231 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 1232 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 1233 123420150324: 1235 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 1236 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 1237 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 1238 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 1239 124020150315: 1241 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 1242 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 1243 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 1244 124520150307: 1246 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 1247 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 1248 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 1249 kernel before rebooting. 1250 125120150217: 1252 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 1253 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 1254 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 1255 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 1256 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 1257 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 1258 125920150210: 1260 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 1261 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 1262 with the new kernel. 1263 126420150131: 1265 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 1266 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 1267 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 1268 126920150118: 1270 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 1271 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 1272 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 1273 are not already using 3.5.0. 1274 127520150107: 1276 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 1277 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 1278 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 1279 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 1280 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 1281 128220150105: 1283 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 1284 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 1285 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 1286 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 1287 128820150102: 1289 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 1290 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 1291 129220141231: 1293 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 1294 1295 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 1296 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 1297 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 1298 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 1299 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 1300 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 1301 later. 1302 1303 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 1304 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 1305 of the box. 1306 1307 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 1308 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 1309 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 1310 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 1311 1312 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 1313 the instructions for 9.x above. 1314 1315 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 1316 default, and do not build clang. 1317 1318 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 1319 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 1320 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 1321 1322 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 1323 the following are most likely to appear: 1324 1325 -Wabsolute-value 1326 1327 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 1328 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 1329 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 1330 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 1331 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 1332 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 1333 cast, or disable the warning. 1334 1335 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 1336 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 1337 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 1338 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 1339 side-effects. 1340 1341 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 1342 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 1343 1344 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 1345 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 1346 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 1347 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 1348 1349 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 1350 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 1351 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 1352 unreachable could be optimized away. 1353 135420141222: 1355 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 1356 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 1357 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 1358 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 1359 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 1360 the utilities will report errors. 1361 136220141121: 1363 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 1364 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 1365 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 1366 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 1367 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 1368 LOCAL_DIRS. 1369 137020141109: 1371 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 1372 has been obsolete for a very long time. 1373 137420141104: 1375 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 1376 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 1377 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 1378 drivers. 1379 1380 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 1381 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 1382 indicate what you need to do. 1383 1384 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 1385 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 1386 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 1387 1388 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 1389 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 1390 kern.vty=sc 1391 139220141102: 1393 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 1394 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 1395 execute it. 1396 139720141009: 1398 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 1399 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 1400 devel/gperf port. 1401 140220140923: 1403 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 1404 contrib/pjdfstest . 1405 140620140922: 1407 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 1408 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 1409 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 1410 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 1411 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 1412 their next update cycle. 1413 141420140729: 1415 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 1416 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 1417 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 1418 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 1419 1.12.4_8 or newer. 1420 142120140723: 1422 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 1423 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 1424 142520140719: 1426 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 1427 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 1428 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 1429 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 1430 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 1431 new configuration. 1432 143320140709: 1434 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 1435 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 1436 them again. 1437 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 1438 143920140708: 1440 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 1441 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 1442 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 1443 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 1444 requires readline. 1445 144620140702: 1447 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 1448 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 1449 architecture. 1450 145120140701: 1452 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 1453 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 1454 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 1455 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 1456 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 1457 145820140629: 1459 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 1460 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 1461 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 1462 146320140619: 1464 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 1465 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 1466 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 1467 146820140606: 1469 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 1470 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 1471 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 1472 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 1473 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 1474 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 1475 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 1476 "make installworld". 1477 1478 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 1479 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 1480 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 1481 is run. 1482 1483 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 1484 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 1485 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 1486 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 1487 be removed during a clean upgrade. 1488 148920140512: 1490 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 1491 149220140508: 1493 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 1494 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 1495 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 1496 149720140505: 1498 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 1499 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 1500 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 1501 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 1502 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 1503 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 1504 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 1505 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 1506 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 1507 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 1508 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 1509 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 1510 1511 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 1512 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 1513 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 1514 as well. 1515 151620140430: 1517 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 1518 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 1519 152020140424: 1521 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 1522 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 1523 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 1524 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 1525 build hosts for older releases. 1526 1527 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 1528 r276991, respectively. 1529 153020140418: 1531 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 1532 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 1533 will silently lack HESIOD. 1534 153520140405: 1536 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 1537 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 1538 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 1539 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 1540 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 1541 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 1542 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 1543 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 1544 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 1545 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 1546 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 1547 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 1548 154920140306: 1550 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 1551 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 1552 with command line option -W. 1553 155420140226: 1555 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 1556 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 1557 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 1558 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 1559 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 1560 156120140216: 1562 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 1563 156420140216: 1565 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 1566 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 1567 156820140212: 1569 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 1570 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 1571 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 1572 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 1573 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 1574 157520140204: 1576 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 1577 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 1578 kernel is still highly recommended. 1579 158020140131: 1581 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 1582 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 1583 capability mode support in kernel. 1584 158520140128: 1586 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 1587 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 1588 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 1589 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 1590 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 1591 159220140110: 1593 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 1594 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 1595 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 1596 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 1597 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 1598 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 1599 160020131213: 1601 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 1602 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 1603 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 1604 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 1605 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 1606 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 1607 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 1608 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 1609 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 1610 161120131108: 1612 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 1613 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 1614 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 1615 should change your settings to use the latter. 1616 161720131025: 1618 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 1619 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 1620 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 1621 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 1622 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 1623 162420131014: 1625 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 1626 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 1627 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 1628 delete-old-libs": 1629 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 1630 or 1631 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 1632 163320131010: 1634 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 1635 revision r256279. 1636 1637COMMON ITEMS: 1638 1639 General Notes 1640 ------------- 1641 Avoid using make -j when upgrading. While generally safe, there are 1642 sometimes problems using -j to upgrade. If your upgrade fails with 1643 -j, please try again without -j. From time to time in the past there 1644 have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This 1645 is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one 1646 that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when 1647 several months have passed on the -current branch). 1648 1649 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 1650 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 1651 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 1652 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 1653 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 1654 1655 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to 1656 upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then 1657 do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path, 1658 and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try this 1659 approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade. Since 1660 the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgrade from 1661 anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the 1662 last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's 1663 an exception. 1664 1665 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 1666 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 1667 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 1668 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 1669 1670 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 1671 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 1672 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 1673 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 1674 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 1675 should write them with this in mind. 1676 1677 ZFS notes 1678 --------- 1679 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 1680 these two steps: 1681 1682 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 1683 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 1684 1685 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 1686 1687 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first 1688 partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 1689 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0" 1690 1691 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 1692 1693 To build a kernel 1694 ----------------- 1695 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 1696 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 1697 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 1698 1699 make kernel-toolchain 1700 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1701 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1702 1703 To test a kernel once 1704 --------------------- 1705 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 1706 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 1707 debugging information) run 1708 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 1709 nextboot -k testkernel 1710 1711 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 1712 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1713 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 1714 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 1715 1716 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1717 make buildworld 1718 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1719 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1720 [1] 1721 <reboot in single user> [3] 1722 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1723 make installworld 1724 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1725 make delete-old [6] 1726 <reboot> 1727 1728 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 1729 -------------------------------------------------- 1730 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 1731 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 1732 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 1733 # size. 1734 1735 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1736 <boot into -stable> 1737 make buildworld 1738 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1739 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 1740 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 1741 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 1742 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 1743 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1744 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 1745 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 1746 <reboot into current> 1747 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 1748 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 1749 <reboot> 1750 1751 1752 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 1753 ---------------------------------------------- 1754 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1755 make buildworld [9] 1756 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 1757 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1758 [1] 1759 <reboot in single user> [3] 1760 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1761 make installworld 1762 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1763 make delete-old [6] 1764 <reboot> 1765 1766 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 1767 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 1768 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 1769 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 1770 the UPDATING entries. 1771 1772 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 1773 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 1774 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 1775 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 1776 much fewer pitfalls. 1777 1778 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you 1779 should disable them at this point so they don't crash your 1780 system on reboot. 1781 1782 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 1783 fsck -p 1784 mount -u / 1785 mount -a 1786 cd src 1787 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 1788 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that 1789 you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. 1790 1791 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 1792 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 1793 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 1794 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 1795 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 1796 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 1797 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 1798 1799 [5] Usually this step is a no-op. However, from time to time 1800 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 1801 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 1802 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 1803 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 1804 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 1805 1806 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 1807 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 1808 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 1809 1810 [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to 1811 do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in 1812 your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is 1813 hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is 1814 required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on 1815 for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7. 1816 1817 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 1818 last time you updated your kernel config file. 1819 1820 [9] If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 1821 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 1822 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 1823 1824 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 1825 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 1826 warn if it is improperly defined. 1827FORMAT: 1828 1829This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 1830breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 1831list of such breakages, and only contains entries since September 23, 2011. 1832If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 1833to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 1834 1835Copyright information: 1836 1837Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. 1838 1839Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without 1840modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this 1841document are permitted without further permission from the author. 1842 1843THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY WARNER LOSH ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 1844IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 1845WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 1846DISCLAIMED. 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