1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users. 2 3This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>. 4See end of file for further details. For commonly done items, please see the 5COMMON ITEMS: section later in the file. These instructions assume that you 6basically know what you are doing. If not, then please consult the FreeBSD 7handbook: 8 9 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html 10 11Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in 12/usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before running portupgrade. 13 14NOTE: FreeBSD has switched from gcc to clang. If you have trouble bootstrapping 15from older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG and WITH_GCC to bootstrap to 16the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process 17from older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile. 18 19NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW: 20 FreeBSD 12.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel 21 and userland. These features attempt to detect incorrect use of 22 system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity 23 checking and fail stop semantics. They also substantially impact 24 system performance. If you want to do performance measurement, 25 benchmarking, and optimization, you'll want to turn them off. This 26 includes various WITNESS- related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc 27 debugging flags in userland, and various verbose features in the 28 kernel. Many developers choose to disable these features on build 29 machines to maximize performance. (To completely disable malloc 30 debugging, define MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/make.conf, or to merely 31 disable the most expensive debugging functionality run 32 "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) 33 34 35****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ****************************** 36 37 Due to a bug in some versions of clang that's very hard to workaround in 38 the upgrade process, to upgrade to -current you must first upgrade 39 either stable/9 after r286035 or stable/10 after r286033 (including 40 10.3-RELEASE) or current after r286007 (including stable/11 and 41 11.0-RELEASE). These revisions post-date the 10.2 and 9.3 releases, so 42 you'll need to take the unusual step of upgrading to the tip of the 43 stable branch before moving to 11 or -current via a source upgrade. 44 stable/11 and 11.0-RELEASE have working newer compiler. This differs 45 from the historical situation where one could upgrade from anywhere on 46 the last couple of stable branches, so be careful. 47 48 If you're running a hybrid system on 9.x or 10.x with an updated clang 49 compiler or are using an supported external toolchain, the build system 50 will allow the upgrade. Otherwise it will print a reminder. 51 52****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ****************************** 53 5420170424: 55 The NATM framework including the en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and 56 patm(4) devices has been removed. Consumers should plan a 57 migration before the end-of-life date for FreeBSD 11. 58 5920170420: 60 GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some features of GNU 61 diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer version of 62 GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the gdiff name. 63 6420170413: 65 As of r316810 for ipfilter, keep frags is no longer assumed when 66 keep state is specified in a rule. r316810 aligns ipfilter with 67 documentation in man pages separating keep frags from keep state. 68 This allows keep state to be specified without forcing keep frags 69 and allows keep frags to be specified independently of keep state. 70 To maintain previous behaviour, also specify keep frags with 71 keep state (as documented in ipf.conf.5). 72 7320170407: 74 arm64 builds now use the base system LLD 4.0.0 linker by default, 75 instead of requiring that the aarch64-binutils port or package be 76 installed. To continue using aarch64-binutils, set 77 CROSS_BINUTILS_PREFIX=/usr/local/aarch64-freebsd/bin . 78 7920170405: 80 The UDP optimization in entry 20160818 that added the sysctl 81 net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast has been reverted. L2 broadcast 82 packets will no longer be treated as L3 broadcast packets. 83 8420170331: 85 Binds and sends to the loopback addresses, IPv6 and IPv4, will now 86 use any explicitly assigned loopback address available in the jail 87 instead of using the first assigned address of the jail. 88 8920170329: 90 The ctl.ko module no longer implements the iSCSI target frontend: 91 cfiscsi.ko does instead. 92 93 If building cfiscsi.ko as a kernel module, the module can be loaded 94 via one of the following methods: 95 - `cfiscsi_load="YES"` in loader.conf(5). 96 - Add `cfiscsi` to `$kld_list` in rc.conf(5). 97 - ctladm(8)/ctld(8), when compiled with iSCSI support 98 (`WITH_ISCSI=yes` in src.conf(5)) 99 100 Please see cfiscsi(4) for more details. 101 10220170316: 103 The mmcsd.ko module now additionally depends on geom_flashmap.ko. 104 Also, mmc.ko and mmcsd.ko need to be a matching pair built from the 105 same source (previously, the dependency of mmcsd.ko on mmc.ko was 106 missing, but mmcsd.ko now will refuse to load if it is incompatible 107 with mmc.ko). 108 10920170315: 110 The syntax of ipfw(8) named states was changed to avoid ambiguity. 111 If you have used named states in the firewall rules, you need to modify 112 them after installworld and before rebooting. Now named states must 113 be prefixed with colon. 114 11520170311: 116 The old drm (sys/dev/drm/) drivers for i915 and radeon have been 117 removed as the userland we provide cannot use them. The KMS version 118 (sys/dev/drm2) supports the same hardware. 119 12020170302: 121 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 4.0.0. 122 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 123 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 124 12520170221: 126 The code that provides support for ZFS .zfs/ directory functionality 127 has been reimplemented. It's not possible now to create a snapshot 128 by mkdir under .zfs/snapshot/. That should be the only user visible 129 change. 130 13120170216: 132 EISA bus support has been removed. The WITH_EISA option is no longer 133 valid. 134 13520170215: 136 MCA bus support has been removed. 137 13820170127: 139 The WITH_LLD_AS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_AS_LD build knobs have been renamed 140 WITH_LLD_IS_LD / WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD, for consistency with CLANG_IS_CC. 141 14220170112: 143 The EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel configuration option is deprecated now that 144 the em(4) driver conforms to iflib specifications. 145 14620170109: 147 The igb(4), em(4) and lem(4) ethernet drivers are now implemented via 148 IFLIB. If you have a custom kernel configuration that excludes em(4) 149 but you use igb(4), you need to re-add em(4) to your custom configuration. 150 15120161217: 152 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.1. 153 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 154 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 155 15620161124: 157 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.9.0. 158 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 159 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 160 16120161119: 162 The layout of the pmap structure has changed for powerpc to put the pmap 163 statistics at the front for all CPU variations. libkvm(3) and all tools 164 that link against it need to be recompiled. 165 16620161030: 167 isl(4) and cyapa(4) drivers now require a new driver, 168 chromebook_platform(4), to work properly on Chromebook-class hardware. 169 On other types of hardware the drivers may need to be configured using 170 device hints. Please see the corresponding manual pages for details. 171 17220161017: 173 The urtwn(4) driver was merged into rtwn(4) and now consists of 174 rtwn(4) main module + rtwn_usb(4) and rtwn_pci(4) bus-specific 175 parts. 176 Also, firmware for RTL8188CE was renamed due to possible name 177 conflict (rtwnrtl8192cU(B) -> rtwnrtl8192cE(B)) 178 17920161015: 180 GNU rcs has been removed from base. It is available as packages: 181 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 182 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) before it was 183 removed from base. 184 18520161008: 186 Use of the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd, or cc_vegas congestion control 187 modules now requires that the kernel configuration contain the 188 TCP_HHOOK option. (This option is included in the GENERIC kernel.) 189 19020161003: 191 The WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 192 ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is always installed as /usr/bin/objcopy. 193 19420160924: 195 Relocatable object files with the extension of .So have been renamed 196 to use an extension of .pico instead. The purpose of this change is 197 to avoid a name clash with shared libraries on case-insensitive file 198 systems. On those file systems, foo.So is the same file as foo.so. 199 20020160918: 201 GNU rcs has been turned off by default. It can (temporarily) be built 202 again by adding WITH_RCS knob in src.conf. 203 Otherwise, GNU rcs is available from packages: 204 - rcs: Latest GPLv3 GNU rcs version. 205 - rcs57: Copy of the latest version of GNU rcs (GPLv2) from base. 206 20720160918: 208 The backup_uses_rcs functionality has been removed from rc.subr. 209 21020160908: 211 The queue(3) debugging macro, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG, has been split into 212 two separate components, QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRACE and 213 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH. Define both for the original 214 QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG behavior. 215 21620160824: 217 r304787 changed some ioctl interfaces between the iSCSI userspace 218 programs and the kernel. ctladm, ctld, iscsictl, and iscsid must be 219 rebuilt to work with new kernels. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped 220 to 1200005. 221 22220160818: 223 The UDP receive code has been updated to only treat incoming UDP 224 packets that were addressed to an L2 broadcast address as L3 225 broadcast packets. It is not expected that this will affect any 226 standards-conforming UDP application. The new behaviour can be 227 disabled by setting the sysctl net.inet.udp.require_l2_bcast to 228 0. 229 23020160818: 231 Remove the openbsd_poll system call. 232 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 233 23420160622: 235 The libc stub for the pipe(2) system call has been replaced with 236 a wrapper that calls the pipe2(2) system call and the pipe(2) 237 system call is now only implemented by the kernels that include 238 "options COMPAT_FREEBSD10" in their config file (this is the 239 default). Users should ensure that this option is enabled in 240 their kernel or upgrade userspace to r302092 before upgrading their 241 kernel. 242 24320160527: 244 CAM will now strip leading spaces from SCSI disks' serial numbers. 245 This will affect users who create UFS filesystems on SCSI disks using 246 those disk's diskid device nodes. For example, if /etc/fstab 247 previously contained a line like 248 "/dev/diskid/DISK-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ABCDEFG0123456", you should 249 change it to "/dev/diskid/DISK-ABCDEFG0123456". Users of geom 250 transforms like gmirror may also be affected. ZFS users should 251 generally be fine. 252 25320160523: 254 The bitstring(3) API has been updated with new functionality and 255 improved performance. But it is binary-incompatible with the old API. 256 Objects built with the new headers may not be linked against objects 257 built with the old headers. 258 25920160520: 260 The brk and sbrk functions have been removed from libc on arm64. 261 Binutils from ports has been updated to not link to these 262 functions and should be updated to the latest version before 263 installing a new libc. 264 26520160517: 266 The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support 267 for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system 268 is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT. 269 This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld 270 and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New 271 packages will be needed. 272 273 To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add 274 TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build 275 and the install steps. 276 27720160510: 278 Kernel modules compiled outside of a kernel build now default to 279 installing to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. Many kernel 280 modules built this way (such as those in ports) already overrode 281 KMODDIR explicitly to install into /boot/modules. However, 282 manually building and installing a module from /sys/modules will 283 now install to /boot/modules instead of /boot/kernel. 284 28520160414: 286 The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to the kernel. There should be 287 no user visible impact. This does enable NCQ Trim on ada SSDs. While the 288 list of known rogues that claim support for this but actually corrupt 289 data is believed to be complete, be on the lookout for data 290 corruption. The known rogue list is believed to be complete: 291 292 o Crucial MX100, M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 293 o Micron M510 and M550 drives with MU01 firmware. 294 o Micron M500 prior to MU07 firmware 295 o Samsung 830, 840, and 850 all firmwares 296 o FCCT M500 all firmwares 297 298 Crucial has firmware http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-firmware 299 with working NCQ TRIM. For Micron branded drives, see your sales rep for 300 updated firmware. Black listed drives will work correctly because these 301 drives work correctly so long as no NCQ TRIMs are sent to them. Given 302 this list is the same as found in Linux, it's believed there are no 303 other rogues in the market place. All other models from the above 304 vendors work. 305 306 To be safe, if you are at all concerned, you can quirk each of your 307 drives to prevent NCQ from being sent by setting: 308 kern.cam.ada.X.quirks="0x2" 309 in loader.conf. If the drive requires the 4k sector quirk, set the 310 quirks entry to 0x3. 311 31220160330: 313 The FAST_DEPEND build option has been removed and its functionality is 314 now the one true way. The old mkdep(1) style of 'make depend' has 315 been removed. See 20160311 for further details. 316 31720160317: 318 Resource range types have grown from unsigned long to uintmax_t. All 319 drivers, and anything using libdevinfo, need to be recompiled. 320 32120160311: 322 WITH_FAST_DEPEND is now enabled by default for in-tree and out-of-tree 323 builds. It no longer runs mkdep(1) during 'make depend', and the 324 'make depend' stage can safely be skipped now as it is auto ran 325 when building 'make all' and will generate all SRCS and DPSRCS before 326 building anything else. Dependencies are gathered at compile time with 327 -MF flags kept in separate .depend files per object file. Users should 328 run 'make cleandepend' once if using -DNO_CLEAN to clean out older 329 stale .depend files. 330 33120160306: 332 On amd64, clang 3.8.0 can now insert sections of type AMD64_UNWIND into 333 kernel modules. Therefore, if you load any kernel modules at boot time, 334 please install the boot loaders after you install the kernel, but before 335 rebooting, e.g.: 336 337 make buildworld 338 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 339 make -C sys/boot install 340 <reboot in single user> 341 342 Then follow the usual steps, described in the General Notes section, 343 below. 344 34520160305: 346 Clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt have been upgraded to 3.8.0. Please 347 see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 348 upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 349 35020160301: 351 The AIO subsystem is now a standard part of the kernel. The 352 VFS_AIO kernel option and aio.ko kernel module have been removed. 353 Due to stability concerns, asynchronous I/O requests are only 354 permitted on sockets and raw disks by default. To enable 355 asynchronous I/O requests on all file types, set the 356 vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl to a non-zero value. 357 35820160226: 359 The ELF object manipulation tool objcopy is now provided by the 360 ELF Tool Chain project rather than by GNU binutils. It should be a 361 drop-in replacement, with the addition of arm64 support. The 362 (temporary) src.conf knob WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY knob may be set 363 to obtain the GNU version if necessary. 364 36520160129: 366 Building ZFS pools on top of zvols is prohibited by default. That 367 feature has never worked safely; it's always been prone to deadlocks. 368 Using a zvol as the backing store for a VM guest's virtual disk will 369 still work, even if the guest is using ZFS. Legacy behavior can be 370 restored by setting vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1. 371 37220160119: 373 The NONE and HPN patches has been removed from OpenSSH. They are 374 still available in the security/openssh-portable port. 375 37620160113: 377 With the addition of ypldap(8), a new _ypldap user is now required 378 during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add the user 379 prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 380 38120151216: 382 The tftp loader (pxeboot) now uses the option root-path directive. As a 383 consequence it no longer looks for a pxeboot.4th file on the tftp 384 server. Instead it uses the regular /boot infrastructure as with the 385 other loaders. 386 38720151211: 388 The code to start recording plug and play data into the modules has 389 been committed. While the old tools will properly build a new kernel, 390 a number of warnings about "unknown metadata record 4" will be produced 391 for an older kldxref. To avoid such warnings, make sure to rebuild 392 the kernel toolchain (or world). Make sure that you have r292078 or 393 later when trying to build 292077 or later before rebuilding. 394 39520151207: 396 Debug data files are now built by default with 'make buildworld' and 397 installed with 'make installworld'. This facilitates debugging but 398 requires more disk space both during the build and for the installed 399 world. Debug files may be disabled by setting WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=yes 400 in src.conf(5). 401 40220151130: 403 r291527 changed the internal interface between the nfsd.ko and 404 nfscommon.ko modules. As such, they must both be upgraded to-gether. 405 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped because of this. 406 40720151108: 408 Add support for unicode collation strings leads to a change of 409 order of files listed by ls(1) for example. To get back to the old 410 behaviour, set LC_COLLATE environment variable to "C". 411 412 Databases administrators will need to reindex their databases given 413 collation results will be different. 414 415 Due to a bug in install(1) it is recommended to remove the ancient 416 locales before running make installworld. 417 418 rm -rf /usr/share/locale/* 419 42020151030: 421 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.2d. Any binaries requiring 422 libcrypto.so.7 or libssl.so.7 must be recompiled. 423 42420151020: 425 Qlogic 24xx/25xx firmware images were updated from 5.5.0 to 7.3.0. 426 Kernel modules isp_2400_multi and isp_2500_multi were removed and 427 should be replaced with isp_2400 and isp_2500 modules respectively. 428 42920151017: 430 The build previously allowed using 'make -n' to not recurse into 431 sub-directories while showing what commands would be executed, and 432 'make -n -n' to recursively show commands. Now 'make -n' will recurse 433 and 'make -N' will not. 434 43520151012: 436 If you specify SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF in make.conf, mergemaster 437 and etcupdate will now use this file. A custom sendmail.cf is now 438 updated via this mechanism rather than via installworld. If you had 439 excluded sendmail.cf in mergemaster.rc or etcupdate.conf, you may 440 want to remove the exclusion or change it to "always install". 441 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is now managed the same way regardless of 442 whether SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF is used. If you are not using 443 SENDMAIL_MC/SENDMAIL_CF there should be no change in behavior. 444 44520151011: 446 Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. 447 It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases 448 and kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases loader tunables, kern.devalias.* 449 environment variables, /dev/ad* and /dev/ar* symbolic links. 450 45120151006: 452 Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to 3.7.0. 453 Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites 454 and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0 or higher. 455 45620150924: 457 Kernel debug files have been moved to /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel/, 458 and renamed from .symbols to .debug. This reduces the size requirements 459 on the boot partition or file system and provides consistency with 460 userland debug files. 461 462 When using the supported kernel installation method the 463 /usr/lib/debug/boot/kernel directory will be renamed (to kernel.old) 464 as is done with /boot/kernel. 465 466 Developers wishing to maintain the historical behavior of installing 467 debug files in /boot/kernel/ can set KERN_DEBUGDIR="" in src.conf(5). 468 46920150827: 470 The wireless drivers had undergone changes that remove the 'parent 471 interface' from the ifconfig -l output. The rc.d network scripts 472 used to check presence of a parent interface in the list, so old 473 scripts would fail to start wireless networking. Thus, etcupdate(3) 474 or mergemaster(8) run is required after kernel update, to update your 475 rc.d scripts in /etc. 476 47720150827: 478 pf no longer supports 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' 479 These configurations are now automatically interpreted as 480 'scrub fragment reassemble'. 481 48220150817: 483 Kernel-loadable modules for the random(4) device are back. To use 484 them, the kernel must have 485 486 device random 487 options RANDOM_LOADABLE 488 489 kldload(8) can then be used to load random_fortuna.ko 490 or random_yarrow.ko. Please note that due to the indirect 491 function calls that the loadable modules need to provide, 492 the build-in variants will be slightly more efficient. 493 494 The random(4) kernel option RANDOM_DUMMY has been retired due to 495 unpopularity. It was not all that useful anyway. 496 49720150813: 498 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS src.conf(5) knob has been retired. 499 Control over building the ELF Tool Chain tools is now provided by 500 the WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN knob. 501 50220150810: 503 The polarity of Pulse Per Second (PPS) capture events with the 504 uart(4) driver has been corrected. Prior to this change the PPS 505 "assert" event corresponded to the trailing edge of a positive PPS 506 pulse and the "clear" event was the leading edge of the next pulse. 507 508 As the width of a PPS pulse in a typical GPS receiver is on the 509 order of 1 millisecond, most users will not notice any significant 510 difference with this change. 511 512 Anyone who has compensated for the historical polarity reversal by 513 configuring a negative offset equal to the pulse width will need to 514 remove that workaround. 515 51620150809: 517 The default group assigned to /dev/dri entries has been changed 518 from 'wheel' to 'video' with the id of '44'. If you want to have 519 access to the dri devices please add yourself to the video group 520 with: 521 522 # pw groupmod video -m $USER 523 52420150806: 525 The menu.rc and loader.rc files will now be replaced during 526 upgrades. Please migrate local changes to menu.rc.local and 527 loader.rc.local instead. 528 52920150805: 530 GNU Binutils versions of addr2line, c++filt, nm, readelf, size, 531 strings and strip have been removed. The src.conf(5) knob 532 WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS no longer provides the binutils tools. 533 53420150728: 535 As ZFS requires more kernel stack pages than is the default on some 536 architectures e.g. i386, it now warns if KSTACK_PAGES is less than 537 ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES (which is 4 at the time of writing). 538 539 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=X' where X is greater 540 than or equal to ZFS_MIN_KSTACK_PAGES i.e. 4 in such configurations. 541 54220150706: 543 sendmail has been updated to 8.15.2. Starting with FreeBSD 11.0 544 and sendmail 8.15, sendmail uses uncompressed IPv6 addresses by 545 default, i.e., they will not contain "::". For example, instead 546 of ::1, it will be 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1. This permits a zero subnet 547 to have a more specific match, such as different map entries for 548 IPv6:0:0 vs IPv6:0. This change requires that configuration 549 data (including maps, files, classes, custom ruleset, etc.) must 550 use the same format, so make certain such configuration data is 551 upgrading. As a very simple check search for patterns like 552 'IPv6:[0-9a-fA-F:]*::' and 'IPv6::'. To return to the old 553 behavior, set the m4 option confUSE_COMPRESSED_IPV6_ADDRESSES or 554 the cf option UseCompressedIPv6Addresses. 555 55620150630: 557 The default kernel entropy-processing algorithm is now 558 Fortuna, replacing Yarrow. 559 560 Assuming you have 'device random' in your kernel config 561 file, the configurations allow a kernel option to override 562 this default. You may choose *ONE* of: 563 564 options RANDOM_YARROW # Legacy /dev/random algorithm. 565 options RANDOM_DUMMY # Blocking-only driver. 566 567 If you have neither, you get Fortuna. For most people, 568 read no further, Fortuna will give a /dev/random that works 569 like it always used to, and the difference will be irrelevant. 570 571 If you remove 'device random', you get *NO* kernel-processed 572 entropy at all. This may be acceptable to folks building 573 embedded systems, but has complications. Carry on reading, 574 and it is assumed you know what you need. 575 576 *PLEASE* read random(4) and random(9) if you are in the 577 habit of tweaking kernel configs, and/or if you are a member 578 of the embedded community, wanting specific and not-usual 579 behaviour from your security subsystems. 580 581 NOTE!! If you use RANDOM_DUMMY and/or have no 'device 582 random', you will NOT have a functioning /dev/random, and 583 many cryptographic features will not work, including SSH. 584 You may also find strange behaviour from the random(3) set 585 of library functions, in particular sranddev(3), srandomdev(3) 586 and arc4random(3). The reason for this is that the KERN_ARND 587 sysctl only returns entropy if it thinks it has some to 588 share, and with RANDOM_DUMMY or no 'device random' this 589 will never happen. 590 59120150623: 592 An additional fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail 593 entry below has been been committed in revision 284717. 594 59520150616: 596 FreeBSD's old make (fmake) has been removed from the system. It is 597 available as the devel/fmake port or via pkg install fmake. 598 59920150615: 600 The fix for the issue described in the 20150614 sendmail entry 601 below has been been committed in revision 284436. The work 602 around described in that entry is no longer needed unless the 603 default setting is overridden by a confDH_PARAMETERS configuration 604 setting of '5' or pointing to a 512 bit DH parameter file. 605 60620150614: 607 ALLOW_DEPRECATED_ATF_TOOLS/ATFFILE support has been removed from 608 atf.test.mk (included from bsd.test.mk). Please upgrade devel/atf 609 and devel/kyua to version 0.20+ and adjust any calling code to work 610 with Kyuafile and kyua. 611 61220150614: 613 The import of openssl to address the FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 614 security advisory includes a change which rejects handshakes 615 with DH parameters below 768 bits. sendmail releases prior 616 to 8.15.2 (not yet released), defaulted to a 512 bit 617 DH parameter setting for client connections. To work around 618 this interoperability, sendmail can be configured to use a 619 2048 bit DH parameter by: 620 621 1. Edit /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc 622 2. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS does not exist or 623 exists and is set to a string beginning with '5', 624 replace it with '2'. 625 3. If a setting for confDH_PARAMETERS exists and is set to 626 a file path, create a new file with: 627 openssl dhparam -out /path/to/file 2048 628 4. Rebuild the .cf file: 629 cd /etc/mail/; make; make install 630 5. Restart sendmail: 631 cd /etc/mail/; make restart 632 633 A sendmail patch is coming, at which time this file will be 634 updated. 635 63620150604: 637 Generation of legacy formatted entries have been disabled by default 638 in pwd_mkdb(8), as all base system consumers of the legacy formatted 639 entries were converted to use the new format by default when the new, 640 machine independent format have been added and supported since FreeBSD 641 5.x. 642 643 Please see the pwd_mkdb(8) manual page for further details. 644 64520150525: 646 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.6.1 release. Please see the 647 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, 648 if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 649 65020150521: 651 TI platform code switched to using vendor DTS files and this update 652 may break existing systems running on Beaglebone, Beaglebone Black, 653 and Pandaboard: 654 655 - dtb files should be regenerated/reinstalled. Filenames are the 656 same but content is different now 657 - GPIO addressing was changed, now each GPIO bank (32 pins per bank) 658 has its own /dev/gpiocX device, e.g. pin 121 on /dev/gpioc0 in old 659 addressing scheme is now pin 25 on /dev/gpioc3. 660 - Pandaboard: /etc/ttys should be updated, serial console device is 661 now /dev/ttyu2, not /dev/ttyu0 662 66320150501: 664 soelim(1) from gnu/usr.bin/groff has been replaced by usr.bin/soelim. 665 If you need the GNU extension from groff soelim(1), install groff 666 from package: pkg install groff, or via ports: textproc/groff. 667 66820150423: 669 chmod, chflags, chown and chgrp now affect symlinks in -R mode as 670 defined in symlink(7); previously symlinks were silently ignored. 671 67220150415: 673 The const qualifier has been removed from iconv(3) to comply with 674 POSIX. The ports tree is aware of this from r384038 onwards. 675 67620150416: 677 Libraries specified by LIBADD in Makefiles must have a corresponding 678 DPADD_<lib> variable to ensure correct dependencies. This is now 679 enforced in src.libnames.mk. 680 68120150324: 682 From legacy ata(4) driver was removed support for SATA controllers 683 supported by more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4). 684 Kernel modules ataahci and ataadaptec were removed completely, 685 replaced by ahci and mvs modules respectively. 686 68720150315: 688 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.6.0 release. Please see 689 the 20141231 entry below for information about prerequisites and 690 upgrading, if you are not already using 3.5.0 or higher. 691 69220150307: 693 The 32-bit PowerPC kernel has been changed to a position-independent 694 executable. This can only be booted with a version of loader(8) 695 newer than January 31, 2015, so make sure to update both world and 696 kernel before rebooting. 697 69820150217: 699 If you are running a -CURRENT kernel since r273872 (Oct 30th, 2014), 700 but before r278950, the RNG was not seeded properly. Immediately 701 upgrade the kernel to r278950 or later and regenerate any keys (e.g. 702 ssh keys or openssl keys) that were generated w/ a kernel from that 703 range. This does not affect programs that directly used /dev/random 704 or /dev/urandom. All userland uses of arc4random(3) are affected. 705 70620150210: 707 The autofs(4) ABI was changed in order to restore binary compatibility 708 with 10.1-RELEASE. The automountd(8) daemon needs to be rebuilt to work 709 with the new kernel. 710 71120150131: 712 The powerpc64 kernel has been changed to a position-independent 713 executable. This can only be booted with a new version of loader(8), 714 so make sure to update both world and kernel before rebooting. 715 71620150118: 717 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.5.1 release. This is a bugfix 718 only release, no new features have been added. Please see the 20141231 719 entry below for information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you 720 are not already using 3.5.0. 721 72220150107: 723 ELF tools addr2line, elfcopy (strip), nm, size, and strings are now 724 taken from the ELF Tool Chain project rather than GNU binutils. They 725 should be drop-in replacements, with the addition of arm64 support. 726 The WITHOUT_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS= knob may be used to obtain the 727 binutils tools, if necessary. See 20150805 for updated information. 728 72920150105: 730 The default Unbound configuration now enables remote control 731 using a local socket. Users who have already enabled the 732 local_unbound service should regenerate their configuration 733 by running "service local_unbound setup" as root. 734 73520150102: 736 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. 737 To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. 738 73920141231: 740 Clang, llvm and lldb have been upgraded to 3.5.0 release. 741 742 As of this release, a prerequisite for building clang, llvm and lldb is 743 a C++11 capable compiler and C++11 standard library. This means that to 744 be able to successfully build the cross-tools stage of buildworld, with 745 clang as the bootstrap compiler, your system compiler or cross compiler 746 should either be clang 3.3 or later, or gcc 4.8 or later, and your 747 system C++ library should be libc++, or libdstdc++ from gcc 4.8 or 748 later. 749 750 On any standard FreeBSD 10.x or 11.x installation, where clang and 751 libc++ are on by default (that is, on x86 or arm), this should work out 752 of the box. 753 754 On 9.x installations where clang is enabled by default, e.g. on x86 and 755 powerpc, libc++ will not be enabled by default, so libc++ should be 756 built (with clang) and installed first. If both clang and libc++ are 757 missing, build clang first, then use it to build libc++. 758 759 On 8.x and earlier installations, upgrade to 9.x first, and then follow 760 the instructions for 9.x above. 761 762 Sparc64 and mips users are unaffected, as they still use gcc 4.2.1 by 763 default, and do not build clang. 764 765 Many embedded systems are resource constrained, and will not be able to 766 build clang in a reasonable time, or in some cases at all. In those 767 cases, cross building bootable systems on amd64 is a workaround. 768 769 This new version of clang introduces a number of new warnings, of which 770 the following are most likely to appear: 771 772 -Wabsolute-value 773 774 This warns in two cases, for both C and C++: 775 * When the code is trying to take the absolute value of an unsigned 776 quantity, which is effectively a no-op, and almost never what was 777 intended. The code should be fixed, if at all possible. If you are 778 sure that the unsigned quantity can be safely cast to signed, without 779 loss of information or undefined behavior, you can add an explicit 780 cast, or disable the warning. 781 782 * When the code is trying to take an absolute value, but the called 783 abs() variant is for the wrong type, which can lead to truncation. 784 If you want to disable the warning instead of fixing the code, please 785 make sure that truncation will not occur, or it might lead to unwanted 786 side-effects. 787 788 -Wtautological-undefined-compare and 789 -Wundefined-bool-conversion 790 791 These warn when C++ code is trying to compare 'this' against NULL, while 792 'this' should never be NULL in well-defined C++ code. However, there is 793 some legacy (pre C++11) code out there, which actively abuses this 794 feature, which was less strictly defined in previous C++ versions. 795 796 Squid and openjdk do this, for example. The warning can be turned off 797 for C++98 and earlier, but compiling the code in C++11 mode might result 798 in unexpected behavior; for example, the parts of the program that are 799 unreachable could be optimized away. 800 80120141222: 802 The old NFS client and server (kernel options NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER) 803 kernel sources have been removed. The .h files remain, since some 804 utilities include them. This will need to be fixed later. 805 If "mount -t oldnfs ..." is attempted, it will fail. 806 If the "-o" option on mountd(8), nfsd(8) or nfsstat(1) is used, 807 the utilities will report errors. 808 80920141121: 810 The handling of LOCAL_LIB_DIRS has been altered to skip addition of 811 directories to top level SUBDIR variable when their parent 812 directory is included in LOCAL_DIRS. Users with build systems with 813 such hierarchies and without SUBDIR entries in the parent 814 directory Makefiles should add them or add the directories to 815 LOCAL_DIRS. 816 81720141109: 818 faith(4) and faithd(8) have been removed from the base system. Faith 819 has been obsolete for a very long time. 820 82120141104: 822 vt(4), the new console driver, is enabled by default. It brings 823 support for Unicode and double-width characters, as well as 824 support for UEFI and integration with the KMS kernel video 825 drivers. 826 827 You may need to update your console settings in /etc/rc.conf, 828 most probably the keymap. During boot, /etc/rc.d/syscons will 829 indicate what you need to do. 830 831 vt(4) still has issues and lacks some features compared to 832 syscons(4). See the wiki for up-to-date information: 833 https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons 834 835 If you want to keep using syscons(4), you can do so by adding 836 the following line to /boot/loader.conf: 837 kern.vty=sc 838 83920141102: 840 pjdfstest has been integrated into kyua as an opt-in test suite. 841 Please see share/doc/pjdfstest/README for more details on how to 842 execute it. 843 84420141009: 845 gperf has been removed from the base system for architectures 846 that use clang. Ports that require gperf will obtain it from the 847 devel/gperf port. 848 84920140923: 850 pjdfstest has been moved from tools/regression/pjdfstest to 851 contrib/pjdfstest . 852 85320140922: 854 At svn r271982, The default linux compat kernel ABI has been adjusted 855 to 2.6.18 in support of the linux-c6 compat ports infrastructure 856 update. If you wish to continue using the linux-f10 compat ports, 857 add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 to your local sysctl.conf. Users are 858 encouraged to update their linux-compat packages to linux-c6 during 859 their next update cycle. 860 86120140729: 862 The ofwfb driver, used to provide a graphics console on PowerPC when 863 using vt(4), no longer allows mmap() of all physical memory. This 864 will prevent Xorg on PowerPC with some ATI graphics cards from 865 initializing properly unless x11-servers/xorg-server is updated to 866 1.12.4_8 or newer. 867 86820140723: 869 The xdev targets have been converted to using TARGET and 870 TARGET_ARCH instead of XDEV and XDEV_ARCH. 871 87220140719: 873 The default unbound configuration has been modified to address 874 issues with reverse lookups on networks that use private 875 address ranges. If you use the local_unbound service, run 876 "service local_unbound setup" as root to regenerate your 877 configuration, then "service local_unbound reload" to load the 878 new configuration. 879 88020140709: 881 The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages are not built and installed 882 anymore, WITH_INFO knob has been added to allow to built and install 883 them again. 884 UPDATE: see 20150102 entry on texinfo's removal 885 88620140708: 887 The GNU readline library is now an INTERNALLIB - that is, it is 888 statically linked into consumers (GDB and variants) in the base 889 system, and the shared library is no longer installed. The 890 devel/readline port is available for third party software that 891 requires readline. 892 89320140702: 894 The Itanium architecture (ia64) has been removed from the list of 895 known architectures. This is the first step in the removal of the 896 architecture. 897 89820140701: 899 Commit r268115 has added NFSv4.1 server support, merged from 900 projects/nfsv4.1-server. Since this includes changes to the 901 internal interfaces between the NFS related modules, a full 902 build of the kernel and modules will be necessary. 903 __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 904 90520140629: 906 The WITHOUT_VT_SUPPORT kernel config knob has been renamed 907 WITHOUT_VT. (The other _SUPPORT knobs have a consistent meaning 908 which differs from the behaviour controlled by this knob.) 909 91020140619: 911 Maximal length of the serial number in CTL was increased from 16 to 912 64 chars, that breaks ABI. All CTL-related tools, such as ctladm 913 and ctld, need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 914 91520140606: 916 The libatf-c and libatf-c++ major versions were downgraded to 0 and 917 1 respectively to match the upstream numbers. They were out of 918 sync because, when they were originally added to FreeBSD, the 919 upstream versions were not respected. These libraries are private 920 and not yet built by default, so renumbering them should be a 921 non-issue. However, unclean source trees will yield broken test 922 programs once the operator executes "make delete-old-libs" after a 923 "make installworld". 924 925 Additionally, the atf-sh binary was made private by moving it into 926 /usr/libexec/. Already-built shell test programs will keep the 927 path to the old binary so they will break after "make delete-old" 928 is run. 929 930 If you are using WITH_TESTS=yes (not the default), wipe the object 931 tree and rebuild from scratch to prevent spurious test failures. 932 This is only needed once: the misnumbered libraries and misplaced 933 binaries have been added to OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc so they will 934 be removed during a clean upgrade. 935 93620140512: 937 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 938 93920140508: 940 We bogusly installed src.opts.mk in /usr/share/mk. This file should 941 be removed to avoid issues in the future (and has been added to 942 ObsoleteFiles.inc). 943 94420140505: 945 /etc/src.conf now affects only builds of the FreeBSD src tree. In the 946 past, it affected all builds that used the bsd.*.mk files. The old 947 behavior was a bug, but people may have relied upon it. To get this 948 behavior back, you can .include /etc/src.conf from /etc/make.conf 949 (which is still global and isn't changed). This also changes the 950 behavior of incremental builds inside the tree of individual 951 directories. Set MAKESYSPATH to ".../share/mk" to do that. 952 Although this has survived make universe and some upgrade scenarios, 953 other upgrade scenarios may have broken. At least one form of 954 temporary breakage was fixed with MAKESYSPATH settings for buildworld 955 as well... In cases where MAKESYSPATH isn't working with this 956 setting, you'll need to set it to the full path to your tree. 957 958 One side effect of all this cleaning up is that bsd.compiler.mk 959 is no longer implicitly included by bsd.own.mk. If you wish to 960 use COMPILER_TYPE, you must now explicitly include bsd.compiler.mk 961 as well. 962 96320140430: 964 The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a 965 standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. 966 96720140424: 968 The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls 969 building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) 970 in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a 971 build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for 972 build hosts for older releases. 973 974 This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and 975 r276991, respectively. 976 97720140418: 978 The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for 979 a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds 980 will silently lack HESIOD. 981 98220140405: 983 The uart(4) driver has been changed with respect to its handling 984 of the low-level console. Previously the uart(4) driver prevented 985 any process from changing the baudrate or the CLOCAL and HUPCL 986 control flags. By removing the restrictions, operators can make 987 changes to the serial console port without having to reboot. 988 However, when getty(8) is started on the serial device that is 989 associated with the low-level console, a misconfigured terminal 990 line in /etc/ttys will now have a real impact. 991 Before upgrading the kernel, make sure that /etc/ttys has the 992 serial console device configured as 3wire without baudrate to 993 preserve the previous behaviour. E.g: 994 ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire" vt100 on secure 995 99620140306: 997 Support for libwrap (TCP wrappers) in rpcbind was disabled by default 998 to improve performance. To re-enable it, if needed, run rpcbind 999 with command line option -W. 1000 100120140226: 1002 Switched back to the GPL dtc compiler due to updates in the upstream 1003 dts files not being supported by the BSDL dtc compiler. You will need 1004 to rebuild your kernel toolchain to pick up the new compiler. Core dumps 1005 may result while building dtb files during a kernel build if you fail 1006 to do so. Set WITHOUT_GPL_DTC if you require the BSDL compiler. 1007 100820140216: 1009 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 1010 101120140216: 1012 The nve(4) driver has been removed. Please use the nfe(4) driver 1013 for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters instead. 1014 101520140212: 1016 An ABI incompatibility crept into the libc++ 3.4 import in r261283. 1017 This could cause certain C++ applications using shared libraries built 1018 against the previous version of libc++ to crash. The incompatibility 1019 has now been fixed, but any C++ applications or shared libraries built 1020 between r261283 and r261801 should be recompiled. 1021 102220140204: 1023 OpenSSH will now ignore errors caused by kernel lacking of Capsicum 1024 capability mode support. Please note that enabling the feature in 1025 kernel is still highly recommended. 1026 102720140131: 1028 OpenSSH is now built with sandbox support, and will use sandbox as 1029 the default privilege separation method. This requires Capsicum 1030 capability mode support in kernel. 1031 103220140128: 1033 The libelf and libdwarf libraries have been updated to newer 1034 versions from upstream. Shared library version numbers for 1035 these two libraries were bumped. Any ports or binaries 1036 requiring these two libraries should be recompiled. 1037 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100006. 1038 103920140110: 1040 If a Makefile in a tests/ directory was auto-generating a Kyuafile 1041 instead of providing an explicit one, this would prevent such 1042 Makefile from providing its own Kyuafile in the future during 1043 NO_CLEAN builds. This has been fixed in the Makefiles but manual 1044 intervention is needed to clean an objdir if you use NO_CLEAN: 1045 # find /usr/obj -name Kyuafile | xargs rm -f 1046 104720131213: 1048 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 1049 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 1050 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 1051 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 1052 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 1053 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 1054 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 1055 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 1056 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004. 1057 105820131108: 1059 The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality 1060 has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS. If you were 1061 using the former to disable the build of the ATF libraries, you 1062 should change your settings to use the latter. 1063 106420131025: 1065 The default version of mtree is nmtree which is obtained from 1066 NetBSD. The output is generally the same, but may vary 1067 slightly. If you found you need identical output adding 1068 "-F freebsd9" to the command line should do the trick. For the 1069 time being, the old mtree is available as fmtree. 1070 107120131014: 1072 libbsdyml has been renamed to libyaml and moved to /usr/lib/private. 1073 This will break ports-mgmt/pkg. Rebuild the port, or upgrade to pkg 1074 1.1.4_8 and verify bsdyml not linked in, before running "make 1075 delete-old-libs": 1076 # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean 1077 or 1078 # pkg install pkg; ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg | grep bsdyml 1079 108020131010: 1081 The stable/10 branch has been created in subversion from head 1082 revision r256279. 1083 108420131010: 1085 The rc.d/jail script has been updated to support jail(8) 1086 configuration file. The "jail_<jname>_*" rc.conf(5) variables 1087 for per-jail configuration are automatically converted to 1088 /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf before the jail(8) utility is invoked. 1089 This is transparently backward compatible. See below about some 1090 incompatibilities and rc.conf(5) manual page for more details. 1091 1092 These variables are now deprecated in favor of jail(8) configuration 1093 file. One can use "rc.d/jail config <jname>" command to generate 1094 a jail(8) configuration file in /var/run/jail.<jname>.conf without 1095 running the jail(8) utility. The default pathname of the 1096 configuration file is /etc/jail.conf and can be specified by 1097 using $jail_conf or $jail_<jname>_conf variables. 1098 1099 Please note that jail_devfs_ruleset accepts an integer at 1100 this moment. Please consider to rewrite the ruleset name 1101 with an integer. 1102 110320130930: 1104 BIND has been removed from the base system. If all you need 1105 is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound 1106 service instead. Otherwise, several versions of BIND are 1107 available in the ports tree. The dns/bind99 port is one example. 1108 1109 With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base 1110 system. Users should instead use host(1) and drill(1) which are 1111 in the base system. Alternatively, nslookup and dig can 1112 be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port. 1113 111420130916: 1115 With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now 1116 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1117 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1118 111920130911: 1120 OpenSSH is now built with DNSSEC support, and will by default 1121 silently trust signed SSHFP records. This can be controlled with 1122 the VerifyHostKeyDNS client configuration setting. DNSSEC support 1123 can be disabled entirely with the WITHOUT_LDNS option in src.conf. 1124 112520130906: 1126 The GNU Compiler Collection and C++ standard library (libstdc++) 1127 are no longer built by default on platforms where clang is the system 1128 compiler. You can enable them with the WITH_GCC and WITH_GNUCXX 1129 options in src.conf. 1130 113120130905: 1132 The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel 1133 configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work. 1134 If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include 1135 'options PROCDESC'. 1136 113720130905: 1138 The API and ABI related to the Capsicum framework was modified 1139 in backward incompatible way. The userland libraries and programs 1140 have to be recompiled to work with the new kernel. This includes the 1141 following libraries and programs, but the whole buildworld is 1142 advised: libc, libprocstat, dhclient, tcpdump, hastd, hastctl, 1143 kdump, procstat, rwho, rwhod, uniq. 1144 114520130903: 1146 AES-NI intrinsic support has been added to gcc. The AES-NI module 1147 has been updated to use this support. A new gcc is required to build 1148 the aesni module on both i386 and amd64. 1149 115020130821: 1151 The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices. 1152 Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be 1153 used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG". 1154 115520130813: 1156 WITH_ICONV has been split into two feature sets. WITH_ICONV now 1157 enables just the iconv* functionality and is now on by default. 1158 WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT enables the libiconv api and link time 1159 compatibility. Set WITHOUT_ICONV to build the old way. 1160 If you have been using WITH_ICONV before, you will very likely 1161 need to turn on WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT. 1162 116320130806: 1164 INVARIANTS option now enables DEBUG for code with OpenSolaris and 1165 Illumos origin, including ZFS. If you have INVARIANTS in your 1166 kernel configuration, then there is no need to set DEBUG or ZFS_DEBUG 1167 explicitly. 1168 DEBUG used to enable witness(9) tracking of OpenSolaris (mostly ZFS) 1169 locks if WITNESS option was set. Because that generated a lot of 1170 witness(9) reports and all of them were believed to be false 1171 positives, this is no longer done. New option OPENSOLARIS_WITNESS 1172 can be used to achieve the previous behavior. 1173 117420130806: 1175 Timer values in IPv6 data structures now use time_uptime instead 1176 of time_second. Although this is not a user-visible functional 1177 change, userland utilities which directly use them---ndp(8), 1178 rtadvd(8), and rtsold(8) in the base system---need to be updated 1179 to r253970 or later. 1180 118120130802: 1182 find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments, 1183 instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did 1184 not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message 1185 would result: 1186 1187 find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe 1188 1189 Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented 1190 without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing 1191 directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the 1192 old as well as the new version of find. 1193 119420130726: 1195 Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed. 1196 Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs 1197 path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by 1198 slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs 1199 subdirectories must be reviewed. 1200 120120130716: 1202 The default ARM ABI has changed to the ARM EABI. The old ABI is 1203 incompatible with the ARM EABI and all programs and modules will 1204 need to be rebuilt to work with a new kernel. 1205 1206 To keep using the old ABI ensure the WITHOUT_ARM_EABI knob is set. 1207 1208 NOTE: Support for the old ABI will be removed in the future and 1209 users are advised to upgrade. 1210 121120130709: 1212 pkg_install has been disconnected from the build if you really need it 1213 you should add WITH_PKGTOOLS in your src.conf(5). 1214 121520130709: 1216 Most of network statistics structures were changed to be able 1217 keep 64-bits counters. Thus all tools, that work with networking 1218 statistics, must be rebuilt (netstat(1), bsnmpd(1), etc.) 1219 122020130618: 1221 Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write 1222 to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space 1223 even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had 1224 write access to that file. 1225 122620130615: 1227 CVS has been removed from the base system. An exact copy 1228 of the code is available from the devel/cvs port. 1229 123020130613: 1231 Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake: 1232 1233 make: illegal option -- J 1234 usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable] 1235 ... 1236 *** [buildworld] Error code 2 1237 1238 this likely due to an old instance of make in 1239 ${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE}) 1240 which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if 1241 you see the above error: 1242 1243 rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH` 1244 1245 should resolve it. 1246 124720130516: 1248 Use bmake by default. 1249 Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via 1250 -DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old 1251 make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE. 1252 1253 It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command 1254 line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the 1255 command line. Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer 1256 than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent 1257 behavior in parallel build. 1258 125920130429: 1260 Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files. 1261 126220130426: 1263 The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because 1264 the IDEA patent expired. 1265 126620130426: 1267 The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed 1268 from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been 1269 enabled by default. 1270 127120130425: 1272 The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX 1273 rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in 1274 order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as 1275 install and mtree. When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where 1276 the install command does not support -l, you will need to 1277 install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required. 1278 This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster 1279 && make install). 1280 128120130404: 1282 Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since 1283 FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources. Kernel modules 1284 atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are 1285 removed. Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled 1286 and removed. 1287 128820130319: 1289 SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2) 1290 and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may 1291 automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting 1292 binaries will not work on older kernels. 1293 129420130308: 1295 CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further 1296 information, see the respective 20130304 entry). 1297 129820130304: 1299 Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout, 1300 so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions 1301 in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced 1302 by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild 1303 is requested. 1304 1305 The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64, 1306 but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE 1307 option) to save memory. To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE 1308 option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 1309 in /boot/loader.conf. 1310 131120130301: 1312 The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64. 1313 This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system 1314 initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if 1315 a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system 1316 unusable on 128MB or less of RAM. 1317 131820130208: 1319 A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please 1320 refer to zpool-features(7) for more information. 1321 1322 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1323 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1324 132520130129: 1326 A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed 1327 as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch. 1328 To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default, 1329 while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild 1330 and install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set. 1331 133220130121: 1333 Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build 1334 and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL 1335 make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the 1336 command line. If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs 1337 you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or 1338 /etc/src.conf. 1339 134020130118: 1341 The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an 1342 argument that is a file or path to append logs to. In the 1343 unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line 1344 and the command line contained at least two files and a target 1345 directory the first file will have logs appended to it. The -M 1346 option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its 1347 use is expected to be extremely rare. 1348 134920121223: 1350 After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS 1351 on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics. 1352 Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations. 1353 135420121222: 1355 GEOM_LABEL now mangles label names read from file system metadata. 1356 Mangling affect labels containing spaces, non-printable characters, 1357 '%' or '"'. Device names in /etc/fstab and other places may need to 1358 be updated. 1359 136020121217: 1361 By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved. To 1362 restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps 1363 stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf: 1364 1365 savecore_flags="" 1366 136720121201: 1368 With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now 1369 required during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to 1370 add the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 1371 137220121117: 1373 The sin6_scope_id member variable in struct sockaddr_in6 is now 1374 filled by the kernel before passing the structure to the userland via 1375 sysctl or routing socket. This means the KAME-specific embedded scope 1376 id in sin6_addr.s6_addr[2] is always cleared in userland application. 1377 This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.deembed_scopeid. 1378 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1000025. 1379 138020121105: 1381 On i386 and amd64 systems WITH_CLANG_IS_CC is now the default. 1382 This means that the world and kernel will be compiled with clang 1383 and that clang will be installed as /usr/bin/cc, /usr/bin/c++, 1384 and /usr/bin/cpp. To disable this behavior and revert to building 1385 with gcc, compile with WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC. Really old versions 1386 of current may need to bootstrap WITHOUT_CLANG first if the clang 1387 build fails (its compatibility window doesn't extend to the 9 stable 1388 branch point). 1389 139020121102: 1391 The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its 1392 functionality now turned on by default. 1393 139420121023: 1395 The ZERO_COPY_SOCKET kernel option has been removed and 1396 split into SOCKET_SEND_COW and SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP. 1397 NB: SOCKET_SEND_COW uses the VM page based copy-on-write 1398 mechanism which is not safe and may result in kernel crashes. 1399 NB: The SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP mechanism is useless as no current 1400 driver supports disposeable external page sized mbuf storage. 1401 Proper replacements for both zero-copy mechanisms are under 1402 consideration and will eventually lead to complete removal 1403 of the two kernel options. 1404 140520121023: 1406 The IPv4 network stack has been converted to network byte 1407 order. The following modules need to be recompiled together 1408 with kernel: carp(4), divert(4), gif(4), siftr(4), gre(4), 1409 pf(4), ipfw(4), ng_ipfw(4), stf(4). 1410 141120121022: 1412 Support for non-MPSAFE filesystems was removed from VFS. The 1413 VFS_VERSION was bumped, all filesystem modules shall be 1414 recompiled. 1415 141620121018: 1417 All the non-MPSAFE filesystems have been disconnected from 1418 the build. The full list includes: codafs, hpfs, ntfs, nwfs, 1419 portalfs, smbfs, xfs. 1420 142120121016: 1422 The interface cloning API and ABI has changed. The following 1423 modules need to be recompiled together with kernel: 1424 ipfw(4), pfsync(4), pflog(4), usb(4), wlan(4), stf(4), 1425 vlan(4), disc(4), edsc(4), if_bridge(4), gif(4), tap(4), 1426 faith(4), epair(4), enc(4), tun(4), if_lagg(4), gre(4). 1427 142820121015: 1429 The sdhci driver was split in two parts: sdhci (generic SD Host 1430 Controller logic) and sdhci_pci (actual hardware driver). 1431 No kernel config modifications are required, but if you 1432 load sdhc as a module you must switch to sdhci_pci instead. 1433 143420121014: 1435 Import the FUSE kernel and userland support into base system. 1436 143720121013: 1438 The GNU sort(1) program has been removed since the BSD-licensed 1439 sort(1) has been the default for quite some time and no serious 1440 problems have been reported. The corresponding WITH_GNU_SORT 1441 knob has also gone. 1442 144320121006: 1444 The pfil(9) API/ABI for AF_INET family has been changed. Packet 1445 filtering modules: pf(4), ipfw(4), ipfilter(4) need to be recompiled 1446 with new kernel. 1447 144820121001: 1449 The net80211(4) ABI has been changed to allow for improved driver 1450 PS-POLL and power-save support. All wireless drivers need to be 1451 recompiled to work with the new kernel. 1452 145320120913: 1454 The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number 1455 generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally. 1456 Add the padlock_rng device in the custom kernel config if 1457 needed. The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the 1458 device, so the change only affects the custom kernel 1459 configurations. 1460 146120120908: 1462 The pf(4) packet filter ABI has been changed. pfctl(8) and 1463 snmp_pf module need to be recompiled to work with new kernel. 1464 146520120828: 1466 A new ZFS feature flag "com.delphix:empty_bpobj" has been merged 1467 to -HEAD. Pools that have empty_bpobj in active state can not be 1468 imported read-write with ZFS implementations that do not support 1469 this feature. For more information read the zpool-features(5) 1470 manual page. 1471 147220120727: 1473 The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto- 1474 detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these 1475 to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable. 1476 147720120712: 1478 The OpenSSL has been upgraded to 1.0.1c. Any binaries requiring 1479 libcrypto.so.6 or libssl.so.6 must be recompiled. Also, there are 1480 configuration changes. Make sure to merge /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf. 1481 148220120712: 1483 The following sysctls and tunables have been renamed for consistency 1484 with other variables: 1485 kern.cam.da.da_send_ordered -> kern.cam.da.send_ordered 1486 kern.cam.ada.ada_send_ordered -> kern.cam.ada.send_ordered 1487 148820120628: 1489 The sort utility has been replaced with BSD sort. For now, GNU sort 1490 is also available as "gnusort" or the default can be set back to 1491 GNU sort by setting WITH_GNU_SORT. In this case, BSD sort will be 1492 installed as "bsdsort". 1493 149420120611: 1495 A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to -HEAD. 1496 Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning 1497 is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward 1498 compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS 1499 pools. The first read-only compatible "feature flag" for ZFS pools 1500 is named "com.delphix:async_destroy". For more information 1501 read the new zpool-features(5) manual page. 1502 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 1503 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 1504 150520120417: 1506 The malloc(3) implementation embedded in libc now uses sources imported 1507 as contrib/jemalloc. The most disruptive API change is to 1508 /etc/malloc.conf. If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf, 1509 delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the 1510 new format after rebooting. See malloc.conf(5) for details 1511 (specifically the TUNING section and the "opt.*" entries in the MALLCTL 1512 NAMESPACE section). 1513 151420120328: 1515 Big-endian MIPS TARGET_ARCH values no longer end in "eb". mips64eb 1516 is now spelled mips64. mipsn32eb is now spelled mipsn32. mipseb is 1517 now spelled mips. This is to aid compatibility with third-party 1518 software that expects this naming scheme in uname(3). Little-endian 1519 settings are unchanged. If you are updating a big-endian mips64 machine 1520 from before this change, you may need to set MACHINE_ARCH=mips64 in 1521 your environment before the new build system will recognize your machine. 1522 152320120306: 1524 Disable by default the option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE for all supported 1525 platforms. 1526 152720120229: 1528 Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on nullfs(5). Previously 1529 nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer, 1530 as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect 1531 only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect 1532 only to the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the 1533 lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to. 1534 153520120211: 1536 The getifaddrs upgrade path broken with 20111215 has been restored. 1537 If you have upgraded in between 20111215 and 20120209 you need to 1538 recompile libc again with your kernel. You still need to recompile 1539 world to be able to configure CARP but this restriction already 1540 comes from 20111215. 1541 154220120114: 1543 The set_rcvar() function has been removed from /etc/rc.subr. All 1544 base and ports rc.d scripts have been updated, so if you have a 1545 port installed with a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d you can either 1546 hand-edit the rcvar= line, or reinstall the port. 1547 1548 An easy way to handle the mass-update of /etc/rc.d: 1549 rm /etc/rc.d/* && mergemaster -i 1550 155120120109: 1552 panic(9) now stops other CPUs in the SMP systems, disables interrupts 1553 on the current CPU and prevents other threads from running. 1554 This behavior can be reverted using the kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic 1555 tunable/sysctl. 1556 The new behavior can be incompatible with kern.sync_on_panic. 1557 155820111215: 1559 The carp(4) facility has been changed significantly. Configuration 1560 of the CARP protocol via ifconfig(8) has changed, as well as format 1561 of CARP events submitted to devd(8) has changed. See manual pages 1562 for more information. The arpbalance feature of carp(4) is currently 1563 not supported anymore. 1564 1565 Size of struct in_aliasreq, struct in6_aliasreq has changed. User 1566 utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8), 1567 need to be recompiled. 1568 156920111122: 1570 The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to 1571 /dev/wmistat0. 1572 157320111108: 1574 The option VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option has been added in order to 1575 explicitely support non-MPSAFE filesystems. 1576 It is on by default for all supported platform at this present 1577 time. 1578 157920111101: 1580 The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64, 1581 i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files. 1582 158320110930: 1584 sysinstall has been removed 1585 158620110923: 1587 The stable/9 branch created in subversion. This corresponds to the 1588 RELENG_9 branch in CVS. 1589 1590COMMON ITEMS: 1591 1592 General Notes 1593 ------------- 1594 Avoid using make -j when upgrading. While generally safe, there are 1595 sometimes problems using -j to upgrade. If your upgrade fails with 1596 -j, please try again without -j. From time to time in the past there 1597 have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This 1598 is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one 1599 that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when 1600 several months have passed on the -current branch). 1601 1602 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 1603 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 1604 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 1605 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 1606 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 1607 1608 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to 1609 upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then 1610 do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path, 1611 and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try this 1612 approach if you encounter problems with a major version upgrade. Since 1613 the stable 4.x branch point, one has generally been able to upgade from 1614 anywhere in the most recent stable branch to head / current (or even the 1615 last couple of stable branches). See the top of this file when there's 1616 an exception. 1617 1618 When upgrading a live system, having a root shell around before 1619 installing anything can help undo problems. Not having a root shell 1620 around can lead to problems if pam has changed too much from your 1621 starting point to allow continued authentication after the upgrade. 1622 1623 This file should be read as a log of events. When a later event changes 1624 information of a prior event, the prior event should not be deleted. 1625 Instead, a pointer to the entry with the new information should be 1626 placed in the old entry. Readers of this file should also sanity check 1627 older entries before relying on them blindly. Authors of new entries 1628 should write them with this in mind. 1629 1630 ZFS notes 1631 --------- 1632 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 1633 these two steps: 1634 1635 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 1636 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 1637 1638 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 1639 1640 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first 1641 partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: 1642 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0" 1643 1644 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 1645 1646 To build a kernel 1647 ----------------- 1648 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 1649 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 1650 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 1651 1652 make kernel-toolchain 1653 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1654 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1655 1656 To test a kernel once 1657 --------------------- 1658 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 1659 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 1660 debugging information) run 1661 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 1662 nextboot -k testkernel 1663 1664 To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up 1665 -------------------------------------------------------------- 1666 This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system. Replace 1667 ${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386", 1668 "arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc). 1669 1670 cd src/sys/${arch}/conf 1671 config KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1672 cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1673 make depend 1674 make 1675 make install 1676 1677 If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section. 1678 1679 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 1680 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1681 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 1682 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 1683 1684 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1685 make buildworld 1686 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1687 [1] 1688 <reboot in single user> [3] 1689 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1690 make installworld 1691 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1692 make delete-old [6] 1693 <reboot> 1694 1695 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 1696 -------------------------------------------------- 1697 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 1698 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 1699 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 1700 # size. 1701 1702 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1703 <boot into -stable> 1704 make buildworld 1705 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1706 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 1707 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 1708 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} -DDB_FROM_SRC 1709 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 1710 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1711 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 1712 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 1713 <reboot into current> 1714 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 1715 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 1716 <reboot> 1717 1718 1719 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 1720 ---------------------------------------------- 1721 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1722 make buildworld [9] 1723 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 1724 [1] 1725 <reboot in single user> [3] 1726 mergemaster -Fp [5] 1727 make installworld 1728 mergemaster -Fi [4] 1729 make delete-old [6] 1730 <reboot> 1731 1732 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 1733 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 1734 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 1735 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 1736 the UPDATING entries. 1737 1738 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 1739 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 1740 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 1741 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 1742 much fewer pitfalls. 1743 1744 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you 1745 should disable them at this point so they don't crash your 1746 system on reboot. 1747 1748 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 1749 fsck -p 1750 mount -u / 1751 mount -a 1752 cd src 1753 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 1754 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that 1755 you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. 1756 1757 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 1758 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 1759 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 1760 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 1761 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 1762 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 1763 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 1764 1765 [5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time 1766 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 1767 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 1768 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 1769 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 1770 from current before 20130425 or from -stable before 20130430. 1771 1772 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 1773 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 1774 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 1775 1776 [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to 1777 do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in 1778 your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is 1779 hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is 1780 required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on 1781 for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7. 1782 1783 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 1784 last time you updated your kernel config file. 1785 1786 [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have 1787 cvs prune empty directories. 1788 1789 If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 1790 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 1791 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 1792 1793 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 1794 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 1795 warn if it is improperly defined. 1796FORMAT: 1797 1798This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 1799breakages in tracking -current. 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