git: ff0c7816db69 - main - Remove UPDATING entries from old branches.
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 09:23:36 UTC
The branch main has been updated by netchild:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=ff0c7816db696d31adc437134dcad45a70ad5889
commit ff0c7816db696d31adc437134dcad45a70ad5889
Author: Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-11-25 09:17:14 +0000
Commit: Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2022-11-25 09:17:14 +0000
Remove UPDATING entries from old branches.
We only support updates from major version N to N+1:
stable/13 was branched on 20210122, remove all old entries from stable/10
branch point in 2013 to 20210122.
---
UPDATING | 2175 --------------------------------------------------------------
1 file changed, 2175 deletions(-)
diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 3782692c2a49..83e97246b964 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -275,2181 +275,6 @@ https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2021-June/000153.html
Please update your drm-kmod port to after the __FreeBSD_version 1400003
update.
-20210108:
- PC Card attachments for all devices have been removed. In the case of
- wi and cmx, the entire drivers were removed because they were only
- PC Card devices. FreeBSD_version 1300134 should be used for this
- since it was bumped so recently.
-
-20210107:
- Transport-independent parts of HID support have been split off the USB
- code in to separate subsystem. Kernel configs which include one of
- ums, ukbd, uhid, atp, wsp, wmt, uaudio, ugold or ucycom drivers should
- be updated with adding of "device hid" line.
-
-20210105:
- ncurses installation has been modified to only keep the widechar
- enabled version. Incremental build is broken for that change, so it
- requires a clean build.
-
-20201223:
- The FreeBSD project has migrated from Subversion to Git. Temporary
- instructions can be found at
- https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/src-cvt.md
- and other documents in that repo.
-
-20201216:
- The services database has been updated to cover more of the basic
- services expected in a modern system. The database is big enough
- that it will cause issues in mergemaster in Releases previous to
- 12.2 and 11.3, or in very old current systems from before r358154.
-
-20201215:
- Obsolete in-tree GDB 6.1.1 has been removed. GDB (including kgdb)
- may be installed from ports or packages.
-
-20201124:
- ping6 has been merged into ping. It can now be called as "ping -6".
- See ping(8) for details.
-
-20201108:
- Default value of net.add_addr_allfibs has been changed to 0.
- If you have multi-fib configuration and rely on existence of all
- interface routes in every fib, you need to set the above sysctl to 1.
-
-20201030:
- The internal pre-processor in the calendar(1) program has been
- extended to support more C pre-processor commands (e.g. #ifdef, #else,
- and #undef) and to detect unbalanced conditional statements.
- Error messages have been extended to include the filename and line
- number if processing stops to help fixing malformed data files.
-
-20201026:
- All the data files for the calendar(1) program, except calendar.freebsd,
- have been moved to the deskutils/calendar-data port, much like the
- jewish calendar entries were moved to deskutils/hebcal years ago. After
- make delete-old-files, you need to install it to retain full
- functionality. calendar(1) will issue a reminder for files it can't
- find.
-
-20200923:
- LINT files are no longer generated. We now include the relevant NOTES
- files. Note: This may cause conflicts with updating in some cases.
- find sys -name LINT\* -delete
- is suggested across this commit to remove the generated LINT files.
-
- If you have tried to update with generated files there, the svn
- command you want to un-auger the tree is
- cd sys/amd64/conf
- svn revert -R .
- and then do the above find from the top level. Substitute 'amd64'
- above with where the error message indicates a conflict.
-
-20200824:
- OpenZFS support has been integrated. Do not upgrade root pools until
- the loader is updated to support zstd. Furthermore, we caution against
- 'zpool upgrade' for the next few weeks. The change should be transparent
- unless you want to use new features.
-
- Not all "NO_CLEAN" build scenarios work across these changes. Many
- scenarios have been tested and fixed, but rebuilding kernels without
- rebuilding world may fail.
-
- The ZFS cache file has moved from /boot to /etc to match the OpenZFS
- upstream default. A fallback to /boot has been added for mountroot.
-
- Pool auto import behavior at boot has been moved from the kernel module
- to an explicit "zpool import -a" in one of the rc scripts enabled by
- zfs_enable=YES. This means your non-root zpools won't auto import until
- you upgrade your /etc/rc.d files.
-
-20200824:
- The resume code now notifies devd with the 'kernel' system
- rather than the old 'kern' subsystem to be consistent with
- other use. The old notification will be created as well, but
- will be removed prior to FreeBSD 14.0.
-
-20200821:
- r362275 changed the internal API between the kernel RPC and the
- NFS modules. As such, all the modules must be recompiled from
- sources.
-
-20200817:
- r364330 modified the internal API used between the NFS modules.
- As such, all the NFS modules must be re-compiled from sources.
-
-20200816:
- Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
- been upgraded to 11.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for
- information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
- using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
-
-20200810:
- r364092 modified the internal ABI used between the kernel NFS
- modules. As such, all of these modules need to be rebuilt
- from sources, so a version bump was done.
-
-20200807:
- Makefile.inc has been updated to work around the issue documented in
- 20200729. It was a case where the optimization of using symbolic links
- to point to binaries created a situation where we'd run new binaries
- with old libraries starting midway through the installworld process.
-
-20200729:
- r363679 has redefined some undefined behavior in regcomp(3); notably,
- extraneous escapes of most ordinary characters will no longer be
- accepted. An exp-run has identified all of the problems with this in
- ports, but other non-ports software may need extra escapes removed to
- continue to function.
-
- Because of this change, installworld may encounter the following error
- from rtld: Undefined symbol "regcomp@FBSD_1.6" -- It is imperative that
- you do not halt installworld. Instead, let it run to completion (whether
- successful or not) and run installworld once more.
-
-20200627:
- A new implementation of bc and dc has been imported in r362681. This
- implementation corrects non-conformant behavior of the previous bc
- and adds GNU bc compatible options. It offers a number of extensions,
- is much faster on large values, and has support for message catalogs
- (a number of languages are already supported, contributions of further
- languages welcome). The option WITHOUT_GH_BC can be used to build the
- world with the previous versions of bc and dc.
-
-20200625:
- r362639 changed the internal API used between the NFS kernel modules.
- As such, they all need to be rebuilt from sources.
-
-20200613:
- r362158 changed the arguments for VFS_CHECKEXP(). As such, any
- out of tree file systems need to be modified and rebuilt.
- Also, any file systems that are modules must be rebuilt.
-
-20200604:
- read(2) of a directory fd is now rejected by default. root may
- re-enable it for system root only on non-ZFS filesystems with the
- security.bsd.allow_read_dir sysctl(8) MIB if
- security.bsd.suser_enabled=1.
-
- It may be advised to setup aliases for grep to default to `-d skip` if
- commonly non-recursively grepping a list that includes directories and
- the potential for the resulting stderr output is not tolerable. Example
- aliases are now installed, commented out, in /root/.cshrc and
- /root/.shrc.
-
-20200523:
- Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
- been upgraded to 10.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for
- information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
- using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
-
-20200512:
- Support for obsolete compilers has been removed from the build system.
- Clang 6 and GCC 6.4 are the minimum supported versions.
-
-20200424:
- closefrom(2) has been moved under COMPAT12, and replaced in libc with a
- stub that calls close_range(2). If using a custom kernel configuration,
- you may want to ensure that the COMPAT_FREEBSD12 option is included, as
- a slightly older -CURRENT userland and older FreeBSD userlands may not
- be functional without closefrom(2).
-
-20200414:
- Upstream DTS from Linux 5.6 was merged and they now have the SID
- and THS (Secure ID controller and THermal Sensor) node present.
- The DTB overlays have now been removed from the tree for the H3/H5 and
- A64 SoCs and the aw_sid and aw_thermal driver have been updated to
- deal with upstream DTS. If you are using those overlays you need to
- remove them from loader.conf and update the DTBs on the FAT partition.
-
-20200310:
- Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
- been upgraded to 10.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for
- information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
- using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
-
-20200309:
- The amd(8) automount daemon has been removed from the source tree.
- As of FreeBSD 10.1 autofs(5) is the preferred tool for automounting.
- amd is still available in the sysutils/am-utils port.
-
-20200301:
- Removed brooktree driver (bktr.4) from the tree.
-
-20200229:
- The WITH_GPL_DTC option has been removed. The BSD-licenced device tree
- compiler in usr.bin/dtc is used on all architectures which use dtc, and
- the GPL dtc is available (if needed) from the sysutils/dtc port.
-
-20200229:
- The WITHOUT_LLVM_LIBUNWIND option has been removed. LLVM's libunwind
- is used by all supported CPU architectures.
-
-20200229:
- GCC 4.2.1 has been removed from the tree. The WITH_GCC,
- WITH_GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and WITH_GNUCXX options are no longer available.
- Users who wish to build FreeBSD with GCC must use the external toolchain
- ports or packages.
-
-20200220:
- ncurses has been updated to a newer version (6.2-20200215). Given the ABI
- has changed, users will have to rebuild all the ports that are linked to
- ncurses.
-
-20200217:
- The size of struct vnet and the magic cookie have changed.
- Users need to recompile libkvm and all modules using VIMAGE
- together with their new kernel.
-
-20200212:
- Defining the long deprecated NO_CTF, NO_DEBUG_FILES, NO_INSTALLLIB,
- NO_MAN, NO_PROFILE, and NO_WARNS variables is now an error. Update
- your Makefiles and scripts to define MK_<var>=no instead as required.
-
- One exception to this is that program or library Makefiles should
- define MAN to empty rather than setting MK_MAN=no.
-
-20200108:
- Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler and LLD the default
- linker for riscv64.
-
-20200107:
- make universe no longer uses GCC 4.2.1 on any architectures.
- Architectures not supported by in-tree Clang/LLVM require an
- external toolchain package.
-
-20200104:
- GCC 4.2.1 is now not built by default, as part of the GCC 4.2.1
- retirement plan. Specifically, the GCC, GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and GNUCXX
- options default to off for all supported CPU architectures. As a
- short-term transition aid they may be enabled via WITH_* options.
- GCC 4.2.1 is expected to be removed from the tree on 2020-03-31.
-
-20200102:
- Support for armv5 has been disconnected and is being removed. The
- machine combination MACHINE=arm MACHINE_ARCH=arm is no longer valid.
- You must now use a MACHINE_ARCH of armv6 or armv7. The default
- MACHINE_ARCH for MACHINE=arm is now armv7.
-
-20191226:
- Clang/LLVM is now the default compiler for all powerpc architectures.
- LLD is now the default linker for powerpc64. The change for powerpc64
- also includes a change to the ELFv2 ABI, incompatible with the existing
- ABI.
-
-20191226:
- Kernel-loadable random(4) modules are no longer unloadable.
-
-20191222:
- Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
- been upgraded to 9.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for
- information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
- using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
-
-20191212:
- r355677 has modified the internal interface used between the
- NFS modules in the kernel. As such, they must all be upgraded
- simultaneously. I will do a version bump for this.
-
-20191205:
- The root certificates of the Mozilla CA Certificate Store have been
- imported into the base system and can be managed with the certctl(8)
- utility. If you have installed the security/ca_root_nss port or package
- with the ETCSYMLINK option (the default), be advised that there may be
- differences between those included in the port and those included in
- base due to differences in nss branch used as well as general update
- frequency. Note also that certctl(8) cannot manage certs in the
- format used by the security/ca_root_nss port.
-
-20191120:
- The amd(8) automount daemon has been disabled by default, and will be
- removed in the future. As of FreeBSD 10.1 the autofs(5) is available
- for automounting.
-
-20191107:
- The nctgpio and wbwd drivers have been moved to the superio bus.
- If you have one of these drivers in a kernel configuration, then
- you should add device superio to it. If you use one of these drivers
- as a module and you compile a custom set of modules, then you should
- add superio to the set.
-
-20191021:
- KPIs for network drivers to access interface addresses have changed.
- Users need to recompile NIC driver modules together with kernel.
-
-20191021:
- The net.link.tap.user_open sysctl no longer prevents user opening of
- already created /dev/tapNN devices. Access is still controlled by
- node permissions, just like tun devices. The net.link.tap.user_open
- sysctl is now used only to allow users to perform devfs cloning of
- tap devices, and the subsequent open may not succeed if the user is not
- in the appropriate group. This sysctl may be deprecated/removed
- completely in the future.
-
-20191009:
- mips, powerpc, and sparc64 are no longer built as part of
- universe / tinderbox unless MAKE_OBSOLETE_GCC is defined. If
- not defined, mips, powerpc, and sparc64 builds will look for
- the xtoolchain binaries and if installed use them for universe
- builds. As llvm 9.0 becomes vetted for these architectures, they
- will be removed from the list.
-
-20191009:
- Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
- been upgraded to 9.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for
- information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
- using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
-
-20191003:
- The hpt27xx, hptmv, hptnr, and hptrr drivers have been removed from
- GENERIC. They are available as modules and can be loaded by adding
- to /boot/loader.conf hpt27xx_load="YES", hptmv_load="YES",
- hptnr_load="YES", or hptrr_load="YES", respectively.
-
-20190913:
- ntpd no longer by default locks its pages in memory, allowing them
- to be paged out by the kernel. Use rlimit memlock to restore
- historic BSD behaviour. For example, add "rlimit memlock 32"
- to ntp.conf to lock up to 32 MB of ntpd address space in memory.
-
-20190823:
- Several of ping6's options have been renamed for better consistency
- with ping. If you use any of -ARWXaghmrtwx, you must update your
- scripts. See ping6(8) for details.
-
-20190727:
- The vfs.fusefs.sync_unmount and vfs.fusefs.init_backgrounded sysctls
- and the "-o sync_unmount" and "-o init_backgrounded" mount options have
- been removed from mount_fusefs(8). You can safely remove them from
- your scripts, because they had no effect.
-
- The vfs.fusefs.fix_broken_io, vfs.fusefs.sync_resize,
- vfs.fusefs.refresh_size, vfs.fusefs.mmap_enable,
- vfs.fusefs.reclaim_revoked, and vfs.fusefs.data_cache_invalidate
- sysctls have been removed. If you felt the need to set any of them to
- a non-default value, please tell asomers@FreeBSD.org why.
-
-20190713:
- Default permissions on the /var/account/acct file (and copies of it
- rotated by periodic daily scripts) are changed from 0644 to 0640
- because the file contains sensitive information that should not be
- world-readable. If the /var/account directory must be created by
- rc.d/accounting, the mode used is now 0750. Admins who use the
- accounting feature are encouraged to change the mode of an existing
- /var/account directory to 0750 or 0700.
-
-20190620:
- Entropy collection and the /dev/random device are no longer optional
- components. The "device random" option has been removed.
- Implementations of distilling algorithms can still be made loadable
- with "options RANDOM_LOADABLE" (e.g., random_fortuna.ko).
-
-20190612:
- Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
- been upgraded to 8.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for
- information about prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already
- using clang 3.5.0 or higher.
-
-20190608:
- A fix was applied to i386 kernel modules to avoid panics with
- dpcpu or vnet. Users need to recompile i386 kernel modules
- having pcpu or vnet sections or they will refuse to load.
-
-20190513:
- User-wired pages now have their own counter,
- vm.stats.vm.v_user_wire_count. The vm.max_wired sysctl was renamed
- to vm.max_user_wired and changed from an unsigned int to an unsigned
- long. bhyve VMs wired with the -S are now subject to the user
- wiring limit; the vm.max_user_wired sysctl may need to be tuned to
- avoid running into the limit.
-
-20190507:
- The IPSEC option has been removed from GENERIC. Users requiring
- ipsec(4) must now load the ipsec(4) kernel module.
-
-20190507:
- The tap(4) driver has been folded into tun(4), and the module has been
- renamed to tuntap. You should update any kld_list="if_tap" or
- kld_list="if_tun" entries in /etc/rc.conf, if_tap_load="YES" or
- if_tun_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf to load the if_tuntap
- module instead, and "device tap" or "device tun" entries in kernel
- config files to select the tuntap device instead.
-
-20190418:
- The following knobs have been added related to tradeoffs between
- safe use of the random device and availability in the absence of
- entropy:
-
- kern.random.initial_seeding.bypass_before_seeding: tunable; set
- non-zero to bypass the random device prior to seeding, or zero to
- block random requests until the random device is initially seeded.
- For now, set to 1 (unsafe) by default to restore pre-r346250 boot
- availability properties.
-
- kern.random.initial_seeding.read_random_bypassed_before_seeding:
- read-only diagnostic sysctl that is set when bypass is enabled and
- read_random(9) is bypassed, to enable programmatic handling of this
- initial condition, if desired.
-
- kern.random.initial_seeding.arc4random_bypassed_before_seeding:
- Similar to the above, but for arc4random(9) initial seeding.
-
- kern.random.initial_seeding.disable_bypass_warnings: tunable; set
- non-zero to disable warnings in dmesg when the same conditions are
- met as for the diagnostic sysctls above. Defaults to zero, i.e.,
- produce warnings in dmesg when the conditions are met.
-
-20190416:
- The loadable random module KPI has changed; the random_infra_init()
- routine now requires a 3rd function pointer for a bool (*)(void)
- method that returns true if the random device is seeded (and
- therefore unblocked).
-
-20190404:
- r345895 reverts r320698. This implies that an nfsuserd(8) daemon
- built from head sources between r320757 (July 6, 2017) and
- r338192 (Aug. 22, 2018) will not work unless the "-use-udpsock"
- is added to the command line.
- nfsuserd daemons built from head sources that are post-r338192 are
- not affected and should continue to work.
-
-20190320:
- The fuse(4) module has been renamed to fusefs(4) for consistency with
- other filesystems. You should update any kld_load="fuse" entries in
- /etc/rc.conf, fuse_load="YES" entries in /boot/loader.conf, and
- "options FUSE" entries in kernel config files.
-
-20190304:
- Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
- 8.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
- prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
- or higher.
-
-20190226:
- geom_uzip(4) depends on the new module xz. If geom_uzip is statically
- compiled into your custom kernel, add 'device xz' statement to the
- kernel config.
-
-20190219:
- drm and drm2 have been removed from the tree. Please see
- https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics for the latest information on
- migrating to the drm ports.
-
-20190131:
- Iflib is no longer unconditionally compiled into the kernel. Drivers
- using iflib and statically compiled into the kernel, now require
- the 'device iflib' config option. For the same drivers loaded as
- modules on kernels not having 'device iflib', the iflib.ko module
- is loaded automatically.
-
-20190125:
- The IEEE80211_AMPDU_AGE and AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 kernel configuration
- options no longer exist since r343219 and r343427 respectively;
- nothing uses them, so they should be just removed from custom
- kernel config files.
-
-20181230:
- r342635 changes the way efibootmgr(8) works by requiring users to add
- the -b (bootnum) parameter for commands where the bootnum was previously
- specified with each option. For example 'efibootmgr -B 0001' is now
- 'efibootmgr -B -b 0001'.
-
-20181220:
- r342286 modifies the NFSv4 server so that it obeys vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport
- in the same as it is applied to NFSv2 and 3. This implies that NFSv4
- servers that have vfs.nfsd.nfs_privport set will only allow mounts
- from clients using a reserved port. Since both the FreeBSD and Linux
- NFSv4 clients use reserved ports by default, this should not affect
- most NFSv4 mounts.
-
-20181219:
- The XLP config has been removed. We can't support 64-bit atomics in this
- kernel because it is running in 32-bit mode. XLP users must transition
- to running a 64-bit kernel (XLP64 or XLPN32).
-
- The mips GXEMUL support has been removed from FreeBSD. MALTA* + qemu is
- the preferred emulator today and we don't need two different ones.
-
- The old sibyte / swarm / Broadcom BCM1250 support has been
- removed from the mips port.
-
-20181211:
- Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
- 7.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
- prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
- or higher.
-
-20181211:
- Remove the timed and netdate programs from the base tree. Setting
- the time with these daemons has been obsolete for over a decade.
-
-20181126:
- On amd64, arm64 and armv7 (architectures that install LLVM's ld.lld
- linker as /usr/bin/ld) GNU ld is no longer installed as ld.bfd, as
- it produces broken binaries when ifuncs are in use. Users needing
- GNU ld should install the binutils port or package.
-
-20181123:
- The BSD crtbegin and crtend code has been enabled by default. It has
- had extensive testing on amd64, arm64, and i386. It can be disabled
- by building a world with -DWITHOUT_BSD_CRTBEGIN.
-
-20181115:
- The set of CTM commands (ctm, ctm_smail, ctm_rmail, ctm_dequeue)
- has been converted to a port (misc/ctm) and will be removed from
- FreeBSD-13. It is available as a package (ctm) for all supported
- FreeBSD versions.
-
-20181110:
- The default newsyslog.conf(5) file has been changed to only include
- files in /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ and /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ if
- the filenames end in '.conf' and do not begin with a '.'.
-
- You should check the configuration files in these two directories match
- this naming convention. You can verify which configuration files are
- being included using the command:
- $ newsyslog -Nrv
-
-20181015:
- Ports for the DRM modules have been simplified. Now, amd64 users should
- just install the drm-kmod port. All others should install
- drm-legacy-kmod.
-
- Graphics hardware that's newer than about 2010 usually works with
- drm-kmod. For hardware older than 2013, however, some users will need
- to use drm-legacy-kmod if drm-kmod doesn't work for them. Hardware older
- than 2008 usually only works in drm-legacy-kmod. The graphics team can
- only commit to hardware made since 2013 due to the complexity of the
- market and difficulty to test all the older cards effectively. If you
- have hardware supported by drm-kmod, you are strongly encouraged to use
- that as you will get better support.
-
- Other than KPI chasing, drm-legacy-kmod will not be updated. As outlined
- elsewhere, the drm and drm2 modules will be eliminated from the src base
- soon (with a limited exception for arm). Please update to the package
- asap and report any issues to x11@freebsd.org.
-
- Generally, anybody using the drm*-kmod packages should add
- WITHOUT_DRM_MODULE=t and WITHOUT_DRM2_MODULE=t to avoid nasty
- cross-threading surprises, especially with automatic driver
- loading from X11 startup. These will become the defaults in 13-current
- shortly.
-
-20181012:
- The ixlv(4) driver has been renamed to iavf(4). As a consequence,
- custom kernel and module loading configuration files must be updated
- accordingly. Moreover, interfaces previous presented as ixlvN to the
- system are now exposed as iavfN and network configuration files must
- be adjusted as necessary.
-
-20181009:
- OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1. This update included
- additional various API changes throughout the base system. It is
- important to rebuild third-party software after upgrading. The value
- of __FreeBSD_version has been bumped accordingly.
-
-20181006:
- The legacy DRM modules and drivers have now been added to the loader's
- module blacklist, in favor of loading them with kld_list in rc.conf(5).
- The module blacklist may be overridden with the loader.conf(5)
- 'module_blacklist' variable, but loading them via rc.conf(5) is strongly
- encouraged.
-
-20181002:
- The cam(4) based nda(4) driver will be used over nvd(4) by default on
- powerpc64. You may set 'options NVME_USE_NVD=1' in your kernel conf or
- loader tunable 'hw.nvme.use_nvd=1' if you wish to use the existing
- driver. Make sure to edit /boot/etc/kboot.conf and fstab to use the
- nda device name.
-
-20180913:
- Reproducible build mode is now on by default, in preparation for
- FreeBSD 12.0. This eliminates build metadata such as the user,
- host, and time from the kernel (and uname), unless the working tree
- corresponds to a modified checkout from a version control system.
- The previous behavior can be obtained by setting the /etc/src.conf
- knob WITHOUT_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD.
-
-20180826:
- The Yarrow CSPRNG has been removed from the kernel as it has not been
- supported by its designers since at least 2003. Fortuna has been the
- default since FreeBSD-11.
-
-20180822:
- devctl freeze/thaw have gone into the tree, the rc scripts have been
- updated to use them and devmatch has been changed. You should update
- kernel, userland and rc scripts all at the same time.
-
-20180818:
- The default interpreter has been switched from 4th to Lua.
- LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP, documented in build(7), will override the default
- interpreter. If you have custom FORTH code you will need to set
- LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP=4th (valid values are 4th, lua or simp) in
- src.conf for the build. This will create default hard links between
- loader and loader_4th instead of loader and loader_lua, the new default.
- If you are using UEFI it will create the proper hard link to loader.efi.
-
- bhyve uses userboot.so. It remains 4th-only until some issues are solved
- regarding coexisting with multiple versions of FreeBSD are resolved.
-
-20180815:
- ls(1) now respects the COLORTERM environment variable used in other
- systems and software to indicate that a colored terminal is both
- supported and desired. If ls(1) is suddenly emitting colors, they may
- be disabled again by either removing the unwanted COLORTERM from your
- environment, or using `ls --color=never`. The ls(1) specific CLICOLOR
- may not be observed in a future release.
-
-20180808:
- The default pager for most commands has been changed to "less". To
- restore the old behavior, set PAGER="more" and MANPAGER="more -s" in
- your environment.
-
-20180731:
- The jedec_ts(4) driver has been removed. A superset of its functionality
- is available in the jedec_dimm(4) driver, and the manpage for that
- driver includes migration instructions. If you have "device jedec_ts"
- in your kernel configuration file, it must be removed.
-
-20180730:
- amd64/GENERIC now has EFI runtime services, EFIRT, enabled by default.
- This should have no effect if the kernel is booted via BIOS/legacy boot.
- EFIRT may be disabled via a loader tunable, efi.rt.disabled, if a system
- has a buggy firmware that prevents a successful boot due to use of
- runtime services.
-
-20180727:
- Atmel AT91RM9200 and AT91SAM9, Cavium CNS 11xx and XScale
- support has been removed from the tree. These ports were
- obsolete and/or known to be broken for many years.
-
-20180723:
- loader.efi has been augmented to participate more fully in the
- UEFI boot manager protocol. loader.efi will now look at the
- BootXXXX environment variable to determine if a specific kernel
- or root partition was specified. XXXX is derived from BootCurrent.
- efibootmgr(8) manages these standard UEFI variables.
-
-20180720:
- zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader.
- zfsloader is no longer necessary once you've updated your
- boot blocks. For a transition period, we will install a
- hardlink for zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition
- until the boot blocks can be updated (hard link because old
- zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks).
-
-20180719:
- ARM64 now have efifb support, if you want to have serial console
- on your arm64 board when an screen is connected and the bootloader
- setup a frame buffer for us to use, just add :
- boot_serial=YES
- boot_multicons=YES
- in /boot/loader.conf
- For Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI) users, this is needed even if you don't have
- an screen connected as the firmware will setup a frame buffer are that
- u-boot will expose as an EFI frame buffer.
-
-20180719:
- New uid:gid added, ntpd:ntpd (123:123). Be sure to run mergemaster
- or take steps to update /etc/passwd before doing installworld on
- existing systems. Do not skip the "mergemaster -Fp" step before
- installworld, as described in the update procedures near the bottom
- of this document. Also, rc.d/ntpd now starts ntpd(8) as user ntpd
- if the new mac_ntpd(4) policy is available, unless ntpd_flags or
- the ntp config file contain options that change file/dir locations.
- When such options (e.g., "statsdir" or "crypto") are used, ntpd can
- still be run as non-root by setting ntpd_user=ntpd in rc.conf, after
- taking steps to ensure that all required files/dirs are accessible
- by the ntpd user.
-
-20180717:
- Big endian arm support has been removed.
-
-20180711:
- The static environment setup in kernel configs is no longer mutually
- exclusive with the loader(8) environment by default. In order to
- restore the previous default behavior of disabling the loader(8)
- environment if a static environment is present, you must specify
- loader_env.disabled=1 in the static environment.
-
-20180705:
- The ABI of syscalls used by management tools like sockstat and
- netstat has been broken to allow 32-bit binaries to work on
- 64-bit kernels without modification. These programs will need
- to match the kernel in order to function. External programs may
- require minor modifications to accommodate a change of type in
- structures from pointers to 64-bit virtual addresses.
-
-20180702:
- On i386 and amd64 atomics are now inlined. Out of tree modules using
- atomics will need to be rebuilt.
-
-20180701:
- The '%I' format in the kern.corefile sysctl limits the number of
- core files that a process can generate to the number stored in the
- debug.ncores sysctl. The '%I' format is replaced by the single digit
- index. Previously, if all indexes were taken the kernel would overwrite
- only a core file with the highest index in a filename.
- Currently the system will create a new core file if there is a free
- index or if all slots are taken it will overwrite the oldest one.
-
-20180630:
- Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
- 6.0.1. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
- prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
- or higher.
-
-20180628:
- r335753 introduced a new quoting method. However, etc/devd/devmatch.conf
- needed to be changed to work with it. This change was made with r335763
- and requires a mergemaster / etcupdate / etc to update the installed
- file.
-
-20180612:
- r334930 changed the interface between the NFS modules, so they all
- need to be rebuilt. r335018 did a __FreeBSD_version bump for this.
-
-20180530:
- As of r334391 lld is the default amd64 system linker; it is installed
- as /usr/bin/ld. Kernel build workarounds (see 20180510 entry) are no
- longer necessary.
-
-20180530:
- The kernel / userland interface for devinfo changed, so you'll
- need a new kernel and userland as a pair for it to work (rebuilding
- lib/libdevinfo is all that's required). devinfo and devmatch will
- not work, but everything else will when there's a mismatch.
-
-20180523:
- The on-disk format for hwpmc callchain records has changed to include
- threadid corresponding to a given record. This changes the field offsets
- and thus requires that libpmcstat be rebuilt before using a kernel
- later than r334108.
-
-20180517:
- The vxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was introduced into
- HEAD one week before the Exar left the Ethernet market and is not
- known to be used. If you have device vxge in your kernel config file
- it must be removed.
-
-20180510:
- The amd64 kernel now requires a ld that supports ifunc to produce a
- working kernel, either lld or a newer binutils. lld is built by default
- on amd64, and the 'buildkernel' target uses it automatically. However,
- it is not the default linker, so building the kernel the traditional
- way requires LD=ld.lld on the command line (or LD=/usr/local/bin/ld for
- binutils port/package). lld will soon be default, and this requirement
- will go away.
-
- NOTE: As of r334391 lld is the default system linker on amd64, and no
- workaround is necessary.
-
-20180508:
- The nxge(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for PCI-X 10g
- cards made by s2io/Neterion. The company was acquired by Exar and
- no longer sells or supports Ethernet products. If you have device
- nxge in your kernel config file it must be removed.
-
-20180504:
- The tz database (tzdb) has been updated to 2018e. This version more
- correctly models time stamps in time zones with negative DST such as
- Europe/Dublin (from 1971 on), Europe/Prague (1946/7), and
- Africa/Windhoek (1994/2017). This does not affect the UT offsets, only
- time zone abbreviations and the tm_isdst flag.
-
-20180502:
- The ixgb(4) driver has been removed. This driver was for an early and
- uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a single ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel
- quickly shifted to the long lived ixgbe family. If you have device
- ixgb in your kernel config file it must be removed.
-
-20180501:
- The lmc(4) driver has been removed. This was a WAN interface
- card that was already reportedly rare in 2003, and had an ambiguous
- license. If you have device lmc in your kernel config file it must
- be removed.
-
-20180413:
- Support for Arcnet networks has been removed. If you have device
- arcnet or device cm in your kernel config file they must be
- removed.
-
-20180411:
- Support for FDDI networks has been removed. If you have device
- fddi or device fpa in your kernel config file they must be
- removed.
-
-20180406:
- In addition to supporting RFC 3164 formatted messages, the
- syslogd(8) service is now capable of parsing RFC 5424 formatted
- log messages. The main benefit of using RFC 5424 is that clients
- may now send log messages with timestamps containing year numbers,
- microseconds and time zone offsets.
-
- Similarly, the syslog(3) C library function has been altered to
- send RFC 5424 formatted messages to the local system logging
- daemon. On systems using syslogd(8), this change should have no
- negative impact, as long as syslogd(8) and the C library are
- updated at the same time. On systems using a different system
- logging daemon, it may be necessary to make configuration
- adjustments, depending on the software used.
-
- When using syslog-ng, add the 'syslog-protocol' flag to local
- input sources to enable parsing of RFC 5424 formatted messages:
-
- source src {
- unix-dgram("/var/run/log" flags(syslog-protocol));
- }
-
- When using rsyslog, disable the 'SysSock.UseSpecialParser' option
- of the 'imuxsock' module to let messages be processed by the
- regular RFC 3164/5424 parsing pipeline:
-
- module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.UseSpecialParser="off")
-
- Do note that these changes only affect communication between local
- applications and syslogd(8). The format that syslogd(8) uses to
- store messages on disk or forward messages to other systems
- remains unchanged. syslogd(8) still uses RFC 3164 for these
- purposes. Options to customize this behaviour will be added in the
- future. Utilities that process log files stored in /var/log are
- thus expected to continue to function as before.
-
- __FreeBSD_version has been incremented to 1200061 to denote this
- change.
-
-20180328:
- Support for token ring networks has been removed. If you
- have "device token" in your kernel config you should remove
- it. No device drivers supported token ring.
-
-20180323:
- makefs was modified to be able to tag ISO9660 El Torito boot catalog
- entries as EFI instead of overloading the i386 tag as done previously.
- The amd64 mkisoimages.sh script used to build amd64 ISO images for
- release was updated to use this. This may mean that makefs must be
- updated before "make cdrom" can be run in the release directory. This
- should be as simple as:
-
- $ cd $SRCDIR/usr.sbin/makefs
- $ make depend all install
-
-20180212:
- FreeBSD boot loader enhanced with Lua scripting. It's purely opt-in for
- now by building WITH_LOADER_LUA and WITHOUT_FORTH in /etc/src.conf.
- Co-existence for the transition period will come shortly. Booting is a
- complex environment and test coverage for Lua-enabled loaders has been
- thin, so it would be prudent to assume it might not work and make
- provisions for backup boot methods.
-
-20180211:
- devmatch functionality has been turned on in devd. It will automatically
- load drivers for unattached devices. This may cause unexpected drivers
- to be loaded. Please report any problems to current@ and
- imp@freebsd.org.
-
-20180114:
- Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
- 6.0.0. Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
- prerequisites and upgrading, if you are not already using clang 3.5.0
- or higher.
-
-20180110:
- LLVM's lld linker is now used as the FreeBSD/amd64 bootstrap linker.
- This means it is used to link the kernel and userland libraries and
- executables, but is not yet installed as /usr/bin/ld by default.
-
- To revert to ld.bfd as the bootstrap linker, in /etc/src.conf set
- WITHOUT_LLD_BOOTSTRAP=yes
-
-20180110:
- On i386, pmtimer has been removed. Its functionality has been folded
- into apm. It was a no-op on ACPI in current for a while now (but was
- still needed on i386 in FreeBSD 11 and earlier). Users may need to
- remove it from kernel config files.
-
-20180104:
- The use of RSS hash from the network card aka flowid has been
- disabled by default for lagg(4) as it's currently incompatible with
- the lacp and loadbalance protocols.
-
- This can be re-enabled by setting the following in loader.conf:
- net.link.lagg.default_use_flowid="1"
-
-20180102:
- The SW_WATCHDOG option is no longer necessary to enable the
- hardclock-based software watchdog if no hardware watchdog is
- configured. As before, SW_WATCHDOG will cause the software
- watchdog to be enabled even if a hardware watchdog is configured.
-
-20171215:
- r326887 fixes the issue described in the 20171214 UPDATING entry.
- r326888 flips the switch back to building GELI support always.
-
-20171214:
- r362593 broke ZFS + GELI support for reasons unknown. However,
- it also broke ZFS support generally, so GELI has been turned off
- by default as the lesser evil in r326857. If you boot off ZFS and/or
- GELI, it might not be a good time to update.
-
-20171125:
- PowerPC users must update loader(8) by rebuilding world before
- installing a new kernel, as the protocol connecting them has
- changed. Without the update, loader metadata will not be passed
- successfully to the kernel and users will have to enter their
- root partition at the kernel mountroot prompt to continue booting.
- Newer versions of loader can boot old kernels without issue.
-
-20171110:
- The LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT build variable has been renamed to
- WITH/OUT_LOADER_FIREWIRE. LOADER_{NO_,}GELI_SUPPORT has been renamed
- to WITH/OUT_LOADER_GELI.
-
-20171106:
- The naive and non-compliant support of posix_fallocate(2) in ZFS
- has been removed as of r325320. The system call now returns EINVAL
- when used on a ZFS file. Although the new behavior complies with the
- standard, some consumers are not prepared to cope with it.
- One known victim is lld prior to r325420.
-
-20171102:
- Building in a FreeBSD src checkout will automatically create object
- directories now rather than store files in the current directory if
- 'make obj' was not ran. Calling 'make obj' is no longer necessary.
- This feature can be disabled by setting WITHOUT_AUTO_OBJ=yes in
- /etc/src-env.conf (not /etc/src.conf), or passing the option in the
- environment.
-
-20171101:
- The default MAKEOBJDIR has changed from /usr/obj/<srcdir> for native
- builds, and /usr/obj/<arch>/<srcdir> for cross-builds, to a unified
- /usr/obj/<srcdir>/<arch>. This behavior can be changed to the old
- format by setting WITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR=yes in /etc/src-env.conf,
- the environment, or with -DWITHOUT_UNIFIED_OBJDIR when building.
- The UNIFIED_OBJDIR option is a transitional feature that will be
- removed for 12.0 release; please migrate to the new format for any
- tools by looking up the OBJDIR used by 'make -V .OBJDIR' means rather
- than hardcoding paths.
-
-20171028:
- The native-xtools target no longer installs the files by default to the
- OBJDIR. Use the native-xtools-install target with a DESTDIR to install
- to ${DESTDIR}/${NXTP} where NXTP defaults to /nxb-bin.
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