Re: FreeBSD 13.1-RC1 Now Available

On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 2:01 PM Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
wrote:

> Warner Losh:
>
> > This suggests that we've broken the KBI we were trying to keep stable
> > between 13.0
> > and 13.1....
>
> When I updated my stable/13 machine from source, from
> March 16 to March 30, DRM was broken (did nothing).
> Rebuilding graphics/drm-fbsd13-kmod fixed it.
>
> So there was an ABI break in this time window.  This entry from
> UPDATING implicates LinuxKPI changes as a likely candidate:
>
> 20220327:
>         Bump __FreeBSD_verion to 1301501 after merging LinuxKPI and
>         net80211 changes in order to help out-of-tree consumers to deal
>         accordingly.
>

Yes. So there was. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33915 should unbreak the
KPI and give us wiggle room in the future after 13.0 is no longer
supported. That will restore the KBI and we'll pretend that March 27 -
April 2nd/3rd never happened (the least bad of several bad alternatives).

Warner