UPDATING revision 296465
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 1420160303 p37 FreeBSD-SA-16:12.openssl 15 16 Fix multiple vulnerabilities of OpenSSL. 17 1820160130 p36 FreeBSD-SA-16:11.openssl 19 20 Fix OpenSSL SSLv2 ciphersuite downgrade vulnerability. [SA-16:11] 21 2220160127 p35 FreeBSD-SA-16:08.bind 23 FreeBSD-SA-16:09.ntp 24 FreeBSD-SA-16:10.linux 25 26 Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-16:08] 27 28 Fix multiple vulnerabilities of ntp. [SA-16:09] 29 30 Fix Linux compatibility layer issetugid(2) system call 31 vulnerability. [SA-16:10] 32 3320160114 p34 FreeBSD-SA-16:07.openssh 34 35 Fix OpenSSH client information leak. [SA-16:07] 36 3720160114 p33 FreeBSD-EN-16:02.pf 38 FreeBSD-EN-16:03.yplib 39 FreeBSD-SA-16:01.sctp 40 FreeBSD-SA-16:02.ntp 41 FreeBSD-SA-16:03.linux 42 FreeBSD-SA-16:04.linux 43 FreeBSD-SA-16:05.tcp 44 FreeBSD-SA-16:06.bsnmpd 45 46 Fix pf(4) generating bad TCP checksums. [EN-16:02] 47 Fix infinite loop in YP/NIS client library. [EN-16:03] 48 Fix remote denial of service in SCTP. [SA-16:01] 49 Update NTP to 4.2.8p5. [SA-16:02] 50 Fix kernel memory diclosure in Linux compatibility layer. [SA-16:03] 51 Fix kernel memory overwrite in Linux compatibility layer. [SA-16:04] 52 Fix crash in TCP MD5 signatures. [SA-16:05] 53 Fix insecure default permissions for snmpd.config. [SA-16:06] 54 5520151216 p32 FreeBSD-SA-15:27.bind 56 Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:27] 57 5820151205 p31 FreeBSD-SA-15:26.openssl 59 60 Fix OpenSSL X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak. [SA-15:26] 61 6220151104 p30 FreeBSD-SA-15:25.ntp [revised] 63 FreeBSD-EN-15:19.kqueue 64 FreeBSD-EN-15:20.vm 65 66 Fix regression of ntpq(8) utility exiting due to trap 6 in 67 9.3-RELEASE-p29. [SA-15:25] 68 69 Fix regression in ntpd(8) lacking support for RAWDCF reference 70 clock in 9.3-RELEASE-p29. [SA-15:25] 71 72 Fix kqueue write events never fired for files greater 2GB. [EN-15:19] 73 74 Fix applications exiting due to segmentation violation on a correct 75 memory address. [EN-15:20] 76 7720151026: p29 FreeBSD-SA-15:25.ntp 78 79 Fix multiple NTP vulnerabilities. New NTP version is 4.2.8p4. 80 81 The configuration file syntax has been changed, thus mergemaster 82 run is recommended. Now the "kod" parameter requires "limited" 83 parameter. If the ntp.conf is not updated, the ntpd will run 84 successfully, but with KoD disabled. 85 8620151002: p28 FreeBSD-SA-15:24.rpcbind [revised] 87 Revised patch to address a regression that prevents NIS from working. 88 8920150929: p27 FreeBSD-SA-15:24.rpcbind 90 91 Fix rpcbind(8) remote denial of service. [SA-15:24] 92 9320150916: p26 FreeBSD-EN-15:18.pkg 94 95 Implement pubkey support for pkg(7) bootstrap. [EN-15:18] 96 9720150902: p25 FreeBSD-SA-15:23.bind 98 99 Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:23] 100 10120150825: p24 FreeBSD-SA-15:21.amd64 102 FreeBSD-SA-15:22.openssh 103 FreeBSD-EN-15:15.pkg 104 105 Fix local privilege escalation in IRET handler. [SA-15:21] 106 107 Fix OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-15:22] 108 109 Fix insufficient check of unsupported pkg(7) signature methods. 110 [EN-15:15] 111 11220150818: p23 FreeBSD-SA-15:20.expat 113 114 Fix multiple integer overflows in expat (libbsdxml) XML parser. 115 [SA-15:20] 116 11720150805: p22 FreeBSD-SA-15:19.routed 118 119 Fix routed remote denial of service vulnerability. 120 12120150728: p21 FreeBSD-SA-15:15.tcp 122 FreeBSD-SA-15:16.openssh 123 FreeBSD-SA-15:17.bind 124 125 Fix resource exhaustion in TCP reassembly. [SA-15:15] 126 127 Fix OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-15:16] 128 129 Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:17] 130 13120150721: p20 FreeBSD-SA-15:13.tcp 132 133 Fix resource exhaustion due to sessions stuck in LAST_ACK state. 134 [SA-15:13] 135 13620150707: p19 FreeBSD-SA-15:11.bind 137 Fix BIND resolver remote denial of service when validating. 138 13920150630: p18 FreeBSD-EN-15:08.sendmail [revised] 140 FreeBSD-EN-15:09.xlocale 141 142 Improvements to sendmail TLS/DH interoperability. [EN-15:08] 143 144 Fix inconsistency between locale and rune locale states. 145 [EN-15:09] 146 14720150618: p17 FreeBSD-EN-15:08.sendmail 148 Improvements to sendmail TLS/DH interoperability. [EN-15:08] 149 15020150612: p16 FreeBSD-SA-15:10.openssl 151 Fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. [SA-15:10] 152 15320150609: p15 FreeBSD-EN-15:06.file 154 155 Updated base system file(1) to 5.22 to address multiple denial 156 of service issues. 157 15820150513: p14 FreeBSD-EN-15:04.freebsd-update 159 160 Fix bug with freebsd-update(8) that does not ensure the previous 161 upgrade was completed. [EN-15:04] 162 16320150407: p13 FreeBSD-SA-15:04.igmp [revised] 164 FreeBSD-SA-15:07.ntp 165 FreeBSD-SA-15:09.ipv6 166 167 Improved patch for SA-15:04.igmp. 168 169 Fix multiple vulnerabilities of ntp. [SA-15:07] 170 171 Fix Denial of Service with IPv6 Router Advertisements. [SA-15:09] 172 17320150320: p12 174 Fix patch for SA-15:06.openssl. 175 17620150319: p11 FreeBSD-SA-15:06.openssl 177 Fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. [SA-15:06] 178 17920150225: p10 FreeBSD-SA-15:04.igmp 180 FreeBSD-SA-15:05.bind 181 FreeBSD-EN-15:01.vt 182 FreeBSD-EN-15:02.openssl 183 FreeBSD-EN-15:03.freebsd-update 184 185 Fix integer overflow in IGMP protocol. [SA-15:04] 186 187 Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-15:05] 188 189 Fix vt(4) crash with improper ioctl parameters. [EN-15:01] 190 191 Updated base system OpenSSL to 0.9.8zd. [EN-15:02] 192 193 Fix freebsd-update libraries update ordering issue. [EN-15:03] 194 19520150127: p9 FreeBSD-SA-15:02.kmem 196 FreeBSD-SA-15:03.sctp 197 198 Fix SCTP SCTP_SS_VALUE kernel memory corruption and disclosure 199 vulnerability. [SA-15:02] 200 201 Fix SCTP stream reset vulnerability. [SA-15:03] 202 20320150114: p8 FreeBSD-SA-15:01.openssl 204 Fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. [SA-15:01] 205 20620141223: p7 FreeBSD-SA-14:31.ntp 207 FreeBSD-EN-14:13.freebsd-update 208 209 Fix multiple vulnerabilities in NTP suite. [SA-14:31] 210 Fix directory deletion issue in freebsd-update. [EN-14:13] 211 21220141210: p6 FreeBSD-SA-14:28.file 213 FreeBSD-SA-14:29.bind 214 215 Fix multiple vulnerabilities in file(1) and libmagic(3). 216 [SA-14:28] 217 218 Fix BIND remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-14:29] 219 22020141104: p5 FreeBSD-SA-14:25.setlogin 221 FreeBSD-SA-14:26.ftp 222 FreeBSD-EN-14:12.zfs 223 224 Fix kernel stack disclosure in setlogin(2) / getlogin(2). 225 [SA-14:25] 226 227 Fix remote command execution in ftp(1). [SA-14:26] 228 229 Fix NFSv4 and ZFS cache consistency issue. [EN-14:12] 230 23120141022: p4 FreeBSD-EN-14:10.tzdata 232 FreeBSD-EN-14:11.crypt 233 234 Time zone data file update. [EN-14:10] 235 236 Change crypt(3) default hashing algorithm back to DES. [EN-14:11] 237 23820141021: p3 FreeBSD-SA-14:20.rtsold 239 FreeBSD-SA-14:21.routed 240 FreeBSD-SA-14:22.namei 241 FreeBSD-SA-14:23.openssl 242 243 Fix rtsold(8) remote buffer overflow vulnerability. [SA-14:20] 244 245 Fix routed(8) remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-14:21] 246 247 Fix memory leak in sandboxed namei lookup. [SA-14:22] 248 249 Fix OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-14:23] 250 25120140916: p2 FreeBSD-SA-14:19.tcp 252 Fix Denial of Service in TCP packet processing. [SA-14:19] 253 25420140909: p1 FreeBSD-SA-14:18.openssl 255 Fix OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities. [SA-14:18] 256 25720140716: 258 9.3-RELEASE. 259 26020140608: 261 On i386 and amd64 systems, the onifconsole flag is now set by default 262 in /etc/ttys for ttyu0. This causes ttyu0 to be automatically enabled 263 as a login TTY if it is set in the bootloader as an active kernel 264 console. No changes in behavior should result otherwise. To revert to 265 the previous behavior, set ttyu0 to "off" in /etc/ttys. 266 26720140512: 268 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4.1 release. 269 27020140321: 271 Clang and llvm have been upgraded to 3.4 release. 272 27320140216: 274 The nve(4) driver for NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet adapters has 275 been deprecated and will not be part of FreeBSD 11.0 and later 276 releases. If you use this driver, please consider switching to 277 the nfe(4) driver instead. 278 27920131216: 280 The behavior of gss_pseudo_random() for the krb5 mechanism 281 has changed, for applications requesting a longer random string 282 than produced by the underlying enctype's pseudo-random() function. 283 In particular, the random string produced from a session key of 284 enctype aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 or aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 will 285 be different at the 17th octet and later, after this change. 286 The counter used in the PRF+ construction is now encoded as a 287 big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402. 288 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 902505. 289 29020130930: 291 9.2-RELEASE. 292 29320130823: 294 Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed. 295 Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs 296 path and slash characters must be explicitly matched by 297 slashes in pattern (FNM_PATHNAME). Rulesets involving devfs 298 subdirectories must be reviewed. 299 30020130705: 301 hastctl(8)'s `status' command output changed to terse one-liner format. 302 Scripts using this should switch to `list' command or be rewritten. 303 30420130618: 305 Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write 306 to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space 307 even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had 308 write access to that file. 309 31020130605: 311 Added ZFS TRIM support which is enabled by default. To disable 312 ZFS TRIM support set vfs.zfs.trim.enabled=0 in loader.conf. 313 314 Creating new ZFS pools and adding new devices to existing pools 315 first performs a full device level TRIM which can take a significant 316 amount of time. The sysctl vfs.zfs.vdev.trim_on_init can be set to 0 317 to disable this behaviour. 318 319 ZFS TRIM requires the underlying device support BIO_DELETE which 320 is currently provided by methods such as ATA TRIM and SCSI UNMAP 321 via CAM, which are typically supported by SSD's. 322 323 Stats for ZFS TRIM can be monitored by looking at the sysctl's 324 under kstat.zfs.misc.zio_trim. 325 32620130524: 327 `list' command has been added to hastctl(8). For now, it is full 328 equivalent of `status' command. 329 WARNING: in the near future the output of hastctl's status command 330 will change to more terse format. If you use `hastctl status' 331 for parsing in your scripts, switch to `hastctl list'. 332 33320130430: 334 The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX 335 rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in 336 order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as 337 install and mtree. When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where 338 the install command does not support -l, you will need to 339 install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required. 340 This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster 341 && make install). 342 343 Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build 344 and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL 345 make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the 346 command line. If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs 347 you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or 348 /etc/src.conf. 349 35020130429: 351 Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files. 352 35320130315: 354 The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an 355 argument that is a file or path to append logs to. In the 356 unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line 357 and the command line contained at least two files and a target 358 directory the first file will have logs appended to it. The -M 359 option served little practical purpose in the last decade so it's 360 used expected to be extremely rare. 361 36220130225: 363 A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to. Please refer to 364 zpool-features(7) for more information. 365 366 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 367 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 368 36920121224: 370 The VFS KBI was changed with the merge of several nullfs 371 optimizations and fixes. All filesystem modules must be 372 recompiled. 373 37420121218: 375 With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now 376 depended on during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add 377 the user prior to installworld, as documented in the handbook. 378 37920121205: 380 9.1-RELEASE. 381 38220121129: 383 A new version of ZFS (pool version 5000) has been merged to 9-STABLE. 384 Starting with this version the old system of ZFS pool versioning 385 is superseded by "feature flags". This concept enables forward 386 compatibility against certain future changes in functionality of ZFS 387 pools. The first two read-only compatible "feature flags" for ZFS 388 pools are "com.delphix:async_destroy" and "com.delphix:empty_bpobj". 389 For more information read the new zpool-features(7) manual page. 390 Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information 391 on upgrading boot ZFS pools. 392 39320121114: 394 The commit introducing bsd.compiler.mk breaks the traditional 395 building of kernels before this point. Add -m ${SRC}/share/mk 396 (for the right value of SRC) to your command lines to work 397 around; update your useland to a point after this; or use the 398 buildkernel/installkernel top-level targets. See also 20120829. 399 40020121102: 401 The IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed. Its 402 functionality now turned on by default. 403 40420120913: 405 The random(4) support for the VIA hardware random number 406 generator (`PADLOCK') is no longer enabled unconditionally. 407 Add the PADLOCK_RNG option in the custom kernel config if 408 needed. The GENERIC kernels on i386 and amd64 do include the 409 option, so the change only affects the custom kernel 410 configurations. 411 41220120829: 413 The amd64 kernel now uses xsetbv, xrstor instructions. To compile with 414 the traditional method, you must update your system with an installworld 415 before the kernel will build. The documented make buildkernel/installkernel 416 interfaces (coupled with fresh make kernel-toolchain) continue to work. 417 41820120727: 419 The sparc64 ZFS loader has been changed to no longer try to auto- 420 detect ZFS providers based on diskN aliases but now requires these 421 to be explicitly listed in the OFW boot-device environment variable. 422 42320120422: 424 Now unix domain sockets behave "as expected" on nullfs(5). Previously 425 nullfs(5) did not pass through all behaviours to the underlying layer, 426 as a result if we bound to a socket on the lower layer we could connect 427 only to the lower path; if we bound to the upper layer we could connect 428 only to the upper path. The new behavior is one can connect to both the 429 lower and the upper paths regardless what layer path one binds to. 430 43120120109: 432 The acpi_wmi(4) status device /dev/wmistat has been renamed to 433 /dev/wmistat0. 434 43520120106: 436 A new VOP_ADVISE() was added to support posix_fadvise(2). All 437 filesystem modules must be recompiled. 438 43920120106: 440 The interface of the VOP_VPTOCNP(9) changed, now the returned 441 vnode shall be referenced, previously it was required to be 442 only held. All in-tree filesystems are converted. 443 44420120106: 445 9.0-RELEASE. 446 44720111101: 448 The broken amd(4) driver has been replaced with esp(4) in the amd64, 449 i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel configuration files. 450 45120110913: 452 This commit modifies vfs_register() so that it uses a hash 453 calculation to set vfc_typenum, which is enabled by default. 454 The first time a system is booted after this change, the 455 vfc_typenum values will change for all file systems. The 456 main effect of this is a change to the NFS server file handles 457 for file systems that use vfc_typenum in their fsid, such as ZFS. 458 It will, however, prevent vfc_typenum from changing when file 459 systems are loaded in a different order for subsequent reboots. 460 To disable this, you can set vfs.typenumhash=0 in /boot/loader.conf 461 until you are ready to remount all NFS clients after a reboot. 462 46320110828: 464 Bump the shared library version numbers for libraries that 465 do not use symbol versioning, have changed the ABI compared 466 to stable/8 and which shared library version was not bumped. 467 Done as part of 9.0-RELEASE cycle. 468 46920110815: 470 During the merge of Capsicum features, the fget(9) KPI was modified. 471 This may require the rebuilding of out-of-tree device drivers -- 472 issues have been reported specifically with the nVidia device driver. 473 __FreeBSD_version is bumped to 900041. 474 475 Also, there is a period between 20110811 and 20110814 where the 476 special devices /dev/{stdin,stdout,stderr} did not work correctly. 477 Building world from a kernel during that window may not work. 478 47920110628: 480 The packet filter (pf) code has been updated to OpenBSD 4.5. 481 You need to update userland tools to be in sync with kernel. 482 This update breaks backward compatibility with earlier pfsync(4) 483 versions. Care must be taken when updating redundant firewall setups. 484 48520110608: 486 The following sysctls and tunables are retired on x86 platforms: 487 machdep.hlt_cpus 488 machdep.hlt_logical_cpus 489 The following sysctl is retired: 490 machdep.hyperthreading_allowed 491 The sysctls were supposed to provide a way to dynamically offline and 492 online selected CPUs on x86 platforms, but the implementation has not 493 been reliable especially with SCHED_ULE scheduler. 494 machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable is still available to ignore 495 hyperthreading CPUs at OS level. 496 Individual CPUs can be disabled using hint.lapic.X.disabled tunable, 497 where X is an APIC ID of a CPU. Be advised, though, that disabling 498 CPUs in non-uniform fashion will result in non-uniform topology and 499 may lead to sub-optimal system performance with SCHED_ULE, which is 500 a default scheduler. 501 50220110607: 503 cpumask_t type is retired and cpuset_t is used in order to describe 504 a mask of CPUs. 505 50620110531: 507 Changes to ifconfig(8) for dynamic address family detection mandate 508 that you are running a kernel of 20110525 or later. Make sure to 509 follow the update procedure to boot a new kernel before installing 510 world. 511 51220110513: 513 Support for sun4v architecture is officially dropped 514 51520110503: 516 Several KPI breaking changes have been committed to the mii(4) layer, 517 the PHY drivers and consequently some Ethernet drivers using mii(4). 518 This means that miibus.ko and the modules of the affected Ethernet 519 drivers need to be recompiled. 520 521 Note to kernel developers: Given that the OUI bit reversion problem 522 was fixed as part of these changes all mii(4) commits related to OUIs, 523 i.e. to sys/dev/mii/miidevs, PHY driver probing and vendor specific 524 handling, no longer can be merged verbatim to stable/8 and previous 525 branches. 526 52720110430: 528 Users of the Atheros AR71xx SoC code now need to add 'device ar71xx_pci' 529 into their kernel configurations along with 'device pci'. 530 53120110427: 532 The default NFS client is now the new NFS client, so fstype "newnfs" 533 is now "nfs" and the regular/old NFS client is now fstype "oldnfs". 534 Although mounts via fstype "nfs" will usually work without userland 535 changes, it is recommended that the mount(8) and mount_nfs(8) 536 commands be rebuilt from sources and that a link to mount_nfs called 537 mount_oldnfs be created. The new client is compiled into the 538 kernel with "options NFSCL" and this is needed for diskless root 539 file systems. The GENERIC kernel configs have been changed to use 540 NFSCL and NFSD (the new server) instead of NFSCLIENT and NFSSERVER. 541 To use the regular/old client, you can "mount -t oldnfs ...". For 542 a diskless root file system, you must also include a line like: 543 544 vfs.root.mountfrom="oldnfs:" 545 546 in the boot/loader.conf on the root fs on the NFS server to make 547 a diskless root fs use the old client. 548 54920110424: 550 The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new 551 CAM-based ATA stack. It means that all legacy ATA drivers were 552 removed and replaced by respective CAM drivers. If you are using 553 ATA device names in /etc/fstab or other places, make sure to update 554 them respectively (adX -> adaY, acdX -> cdY, afdX -> daY, astX -> saY, 555 where 'Y's are the sequential numbers starting from zero for each type 556 in order of detection, unless configured otherwise with tunables, 557 see cam(4)). There will be symbolic links created in /dev/ to map 558 old adX devices to the respective adaY. They should provide basic 559 compatibility for file systems mounting in most cases, but they do 560 not support old user-level APIs and do not have respective providers 561 in GEOM. Consider using updated management tools with new device names. 562 563 It is possible to load devices ahci, ata, siis and mvs as modules, 564 but option ATA_CAM should remain in kernel configuration to make ata 565 module work as CAM driver supporting legacy ATA controllers. Device ata 566 still can be used in modular fashion (atacore + ...). Modules atadisk 567 and atapi* are not used and won't affect operation in ATA_CAM mode. 568 Note that to use CAM-based ATA kernel should include CAM devices 569 scbus, pass, da (or explicitly ada), cd and optionally others. All of 570 them are parts of the cam module. 571 572 ataraid(4) functionality is now supported by the RAID GEOM class. 573 To use it you can load geom_raid kernel module and use graid(8) tool 574 for management. Instead of /dev/arX device names, use /dev/raid/rX. 575 576 No kernel config options or code have been removed, so if a problem 577 arises, please report it and optionally revert to the old ATA stack. 578 In order to do it you can remove from the kernel config: 579 options ATA_CAM 580 device ahci 581 device mvs 582 device siis 583 , and instead add back: 584 device atadisk # ATA disk drives 585 device ataraid # ATA RAID drives 586 device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives 587 device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives 588 device atapist # ATAPI tape drives 589 59020110423: 591 The default NFS server has been changed to the new server, which 592 was referred to as the experimental server. If you need to switch 593 back to the old NFS server, you must now put the "-o" option on 594 both the mountd and nfsd commands. This can be done using the 595 mountd_flags and nfs_server_flags rc.conf variables until an 596 update to the rc scripts is committed, which is coming soon. 597 59820110418: 599 The GNU Objective-C runtime library (libobjc), and other Objective-C 600 related components have been removed from the base system. If you 601 require an Objective-C library, please use one of the available ports. 602 60320110331: 604 ath(4) has been split into bus- and device- modules. if_ath contains 605 the HAL, the TX rate control and the network device code. if_ath_pci 606 contains the PCI bus glue. For Atheros MIPS embedded systems, if_ath_ahb 607 contains the AHB glue. Users need to load both if_ath_pci and if_ath 608 in order to use ath on everything else. 609 610 TO REPEAT: if_ath_ahb is not needed for normal users. Normal users only 611 need to load if_ath and if_ath_pci for ath(4) operation. 612 61320110314: 614 As part of the replacement of sysinstall, the process of building 615 release media has changed significantly. For details, please re-read 616 release(7), which has been updated to reflect the new build process. 617 61820110218: 619 GNU binutils 2.17.50 (as of 2007-07-03) has been merged to -HEAD. This 620 is the last available version under GPLv2. It brings a number of new 621 features, such as support for newer x86 CPU's (with SSE-3, SSSE-3, SSE 622 4.1 and SSE 4.2), better support for powerpc64, a number of new 623 directives, and lots of other small improvements. See the ChangeLog 624 file in contrib/binutils for the full details. 625 62620110218: 627 IPsec's HMAC_SHA256-512 support has been fixed to be RFC4868 628 compliant, and will now use half of hash for authentication. 629 This will break interoperability with all stacks (including all 630 actual FreeBSD versions) who implement 631 draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-sha-256-00 (they use 96 bits of hash for 632 authentication). 633 The only workaround with such peers is to use another HMAC 634 algorithm for IPsec ("phase 2") authentication. 635 63620110207: 637 Remove the uio_yield prototype and symbol. This function has 638 been misnamed since it was introduced and should not be 639 globally exposed with this name. The equivalent functionality 640 is now available using kern_yield(curthread->td_user_pri). 641 The function remains undocumented. 642 64320110112: 644 A SYSCTL_[ADD_]UQUAD was added for unsigned uint64_t pointers, 645 symmetric with the existing SYSCTL_[ADD_]QUAD. Type checking 646 for scalar sysctls is defined but disabled. Code that needs 647 UQUAD to pass the type checking that must compile on older 648 systems where the define is not present can check against 649 __FreeBSD_version >= 900030. 650 651 The system dialog(1) has been replaced with a new version previously 652 in ports as devel/cdialog. dialog(1) is mostly command-line compatible 653 with the previous version, but the libdialog associated with it has 654 a largely incompatible API. As such, the original version of libdialog 655 will be kept temporarily as libodialog, until its base system consumers 656 are replaced or updated. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900030. 657 65820110103: 659 If you are trying to run make universe on a -stable system, and you get 660 the following warning: 661 "Makefile", line 356: "Target architecture for i386/conf/GENERIC 662 unknown. config(8) likely too old." 663 or something similar to it, then you must upgrade your -stable system 664 to 8.2-Release or newer (really, any time after r210146 7/15/2010 in 665 stable/8) or build the config from the latest stable/8 branch and 666 install it on your system. 667 668 Prior to this date, building a current universe on 8-stable system from 669 between 7/15/2010 and 1/2/2011 would result in a weird shell parsing 670 error in the first kernel build phase. A new config on those old 671 systems will fix that problem for older versions of -current. 672 67320101228: 674 The TCP stack has been modified to allow Khelp modules to interact with 675 it via helper hook points and store per-connection data in the TCP 676 control block. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900029. User space tools that 677 rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to 678 be recompiled. 679 68020101114: 681 Generic IEEE 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support has been 682 added to mii(4) and bge(4), bce(4), msk(4), nfe(4) and stge(4) along 683 with brgphy(4), e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy() have been converted 684 to take advantage of it instead of using custom implementations. This 685 means that these drivers now no longer unconditionally advertise 686 support for flow control but only do so if flow control is a selected 687 media option. This was implemented in the generic support that way in 688 order to allow flow control to be switched on and off via ifconfig(8) 689 with the PHY specific default to typically off in order to protect 690 from unwanted effects. Consequently, if you used flow control with 691 one of the above mentioned drivers you now need to explicitly enable 692 it, for example via: 693 ifconfig bge0 media auto mediaopt flowcontrol 694 695 Along with the above mentioned changes generic support for setting 696 1000baseT master mode also has been added and brgphy(4), ciphy(4), 697 e1000phy(4) as well as ip1000phy(4) have been converted to take 698 advantage of it. This means that these drivers now no longer take the 699 link0 parameter for selecting master mode but the master media option 700 has to be used instead, for example like in the following: 701 ifconfig bge0 media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,master 702 703 Selection of master mode now is also available with all other PHY 704 drivers supporting 1000baseT. 705 70620101111: 707 The TCP stack has received a significant update to add support for 708 modularised congestion control and generally improve the clarity of 709 congestion control decisions. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900025. User 710 space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g. 711 sockstat) need to be recompiled. 712 71320101002: 714 The man(1) utility has been replaced by a new version that no longer 715 uses /etc/manpath.config. Please consult man.conf(5) for how to 716 migrate local entries to the new format. 717 71820100928: 719 The copyright strings printed by login(1) and sshd(8) at the time of a 720 new connection have been removed to follow other operating systems and 721 upstream sshd. 722 72320100915: 724 A workaround for a fixed ld bug has been removed in kernel code, 725 so make sure that your system ld is built from sources after 726 revision 210245 from 2010-07-19 (r211583 if building head kernel 727 on stable/8, r211584 for stable/7; both from 2010-08-21). 728 A symptom of incorrect ld version is different addresses for 729 set_pcpu section and __start_set_pcpu symbol in kernel and/or modules. 730 73120100913: 732 The $ipv6_prefer variable in rc.conf(5) has been split into 733 $ip6addrctl_policy and $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces. 734 735 The $ip6addrctl_policy is a variable to choose a pre-defined 736 address selection policy set by ip6addrctl(8). A value 737 "ipv4_prefer", "ipv6_prefer" or "AUTO" can be specified. The 738 default is "AUTO". 739 740 The $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces specifies whether IFDISABLED 741 flag (see an entry of 20090926) is set on an interface with no 742 corresponding $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 line. The default is "NO" for 743 security reason. If you want IPv6 link-local address on all 744 interfaces by default, set this to "YES". 745 746 The old ipv6_prefer="YES" is equivalent to 747 ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" and 748 ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer". 749 75020100913: 751 DTrace has grown support for userland tracing. Due to this, DTrace is 752 now i386 and amd64 only. 753 dtruss(1) is now installed by default on those systems and a new 754 kernel module is needed for userland tracing: fasttrap. 755 No changes to your kernel config file are necessary to enable 756 userland tracing, but you might consider adding 'STRIP=' and 757 'CFLAGS+=-fno-omit-frame-pointer' to your make.conf if you want 758 to have informative userland stack traces in DTrace (ustack). 759 76020100725: 761 The acpi_aiboost(4) driver has been removed in favor of the new 762 aibs(4) driver. You should update your kernel configuration file. 763 76420100722: 765 BSD grep has been imported to the base system and it is built by 766 default. It is completely BSD licensed, highly GNU-compatible, uses 767 less memory than its GNU counterpart and has a small codebase. 768 However, it is slower than its GNU counterpart, which is mostly 769 noticeable for larger searches, for smaller ones it is measurable 770 but not significant. The reason is complex, the most important factor 771 is that we lack a modern and efficient regex library and GNU 772 overcomes this by optimizing the searches internally. Future work 773 on improving the regex performance is planned, for the meantime, 774 users that need better performance, can build GNU grep instead by 775 setting the WITH_GNU_GREP knob. 776 77720100713: 778 Due to the import of powerpc64 support, all existing powerpc kernel 779 configuration files must be updated with a machine directive like this: 780 machine powerpc powerpc 781 782 In addition, an updated config(8) is required to build powerpc kernels 783 after this change. 784 78520100713: 786 A new version of ZFS (version 15) has been merged to -HEAD. 787 This version uses a python library for the following subcommands: 788 zfs allow, zfs unallow, zfs groupspace, zfs userspace. 789 For full functionality of these commands the following port must 790 be installed: sysutils/py-zfs 791 79220100429: 793 'vm_page's are now hashed by physical address to an array of mutexes. 794 Currently this is only used to serialize access to hold_count. Over 795 time the page queue mutex will be peeled away. This changes the size 796 of pmap on every architecture. And requires all callers of vm_page_hold 797 and vm_page_unhold to be updated. 798 79920100402: 800 WITH_CTF can now be specified in src.conf (not recommended, there 801 are some problems with static executables), make.conf (would also 802 affect ports which do not use GNU make and do not override the 803 compile targets) or in the kernel config (via "makeoptions 804 WITH_CTF=yes"). 805 When WITH_CTF was specified there before this was silently ignored, 806 so make sure that WITH_CTF is not used in places which could lead 807 to unwanted behavior. 808 80920100311: 810 The kernel option COMPAT_IA32 has been replaced with COMPAT_FREEBSD32 811 to allow 32-bit compatibility on non-x86 platforms. All kernel 812 configurations on amd64 and ia64 platforms using these options must 813 be modified accordingly. 814 81520100113: 816 The utmp user accounting database has been replaced with utmpx, 817 the user accounting interface standardized by POSIX. 818 Unfortunately the semantics of utmp and utmpx don't match, 819 making it practically impossible to support both interfaces. 820 The user accounting database is used by tools like finger(1), 821 last(1), talk(1), w(1) and ac(8). 822 823 All applications in the base system use utmpx. This means only 824 local binaries (e.g. from the ports tree) may still use these 825 utmp database files. These applications must be rebuilt to make 826 use of utmpx. 827 828 After the system has been upgraded, it is safe to remove the old 829 log files (/var/run/utmp, /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/wtmp*), 830 assuming their contents is of no importance anymore. Old wtmp 831 databases can only be used by last(1) and ac(8) after they have 832 been converted to the new format using wtmpcvt(1). 833 83420100108: 835 Introduce the kernel thread "deadlock resolver" (which can be enabled 836 via the DEADLKRES option, see NOTES for more details) and the 837 sleepq_type() function for sleepqueues. 838 83920091202: 840 The rc.firewall and rc.firewall6 were unified, and 841 rc.firewall6 and rc.d/ip6fw were removed. 842 According to the removal of rc.d/ip6fw, ipv6_firewall_* rc 843 variables are obsoleted. Instead, the following new rc 844 variables are added to rc.d/ipfw: 845 846 firewall_client_net_ipv6, firewall_simple_iif_ipv6, 847 firewall_simple_inet_ipv6, firewall_simple_oif_ipv6, 848 firewall_simple_onet_ipv6, firewall_trusted_ipv6 849 850 The meanings correspond to the relevant IPv4 variables. 851 85220091125: 853 8.0-RELEASE. 854 85520091113: 856 The default terminal emulation for syscons(4) has been changed 857 from cons25 to xterm on all platforms except pc98. This means 858 that the /etc/ttys file needs to be updated to ensure correct 859 operation of applications on the console. 860 861 The terminal emulation style can be toggled per window by using 862 vidcontrol(1)'s -T flag. The TEKEN_CONS25 kernel configuration 863 options can be used to change the compile-time default back to 864 cons25. 865 866 To prevent graphical artifacts, make sure the TERM environment 867 variable is set to match the terminal emulation that is being 868 performed by syscons(4). 869 87020091109: 871 The layout of the structure ieee80211req_scan_result has changed. 872 Applications that require wireless scan results (e.g. ifconfig(8)) 873 from net80211 need to be recompiled. 874 875 Applications such as wpa_supplicant(8) may require a full world 876 build without using NO_CLEAN in order to get synchronized with the 877 new structure. 878 87920091025: 880 The iwn(4) driver has been updated to support the 5000 and 5150 series. 881 There's one kernel module for each firmware. Adding "device iwnfw" 882 to the kernel configuration file means including all three firmware 883 images inside the kernel. If you want to include just the one for 884 your wireless card, use the devices iwn4965fw, iwn5000fw or 885 iwn5150fw. 886 88720090926: 888 The rc.d/network_ipv6, IPv6 configuration script has been integrated 889 into rc.d/netif. The changes are the following: 890 891 1. To use IPv6, simply define $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 like $ifconfig_IF 892 for IPv4. For aliases, $ifconfig_IF_aliasN should be used. 893 Note that both variables need the "inet6" keyword at the head. 894 895 Do not set $ipv6_network_interfaces manually if you do not 896 understand what you are doing. It is not needed in most cases. 897 898 $ipv6_ifconfig_IF and $ipv6_ifconfig_IF_aliasN still work, but 899 they are obsolete. 900 901 2. $ipv6_enable is obsolete. Use $ipv6_prefer and 902 "inet6 accept_rtadv" keyword in ifconfig(8) instead. 903 904 If you define $ipv6_enable=YES, it means $ipv6_prefer=YES and 905 all configured interfaces have "inet6 accept_rtadv" in the 906 $ifconfig_IF_ipv6. These are for backward compatibility. 907 908 3. A new variable $ipv6_prefer has been added. If NO, IPv6 909 functionality of interfaces with no corresponding 910 $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 is disabled by using "inet6 ifdisabled" flag, 911 and the default address selection policy of ip6addrctl(8) 912 is the IPv4-preferred one (see rc.d/ip6addrctl for more details). 913 Note that if you want to configure IPv6 functionality on the 914 disabled interfaces after boot, first you need to clear the flag by 915 using ifconfig(8) like: 916 917 ifconfig em0 inet6 -ifdisabled 918 919 If YES, the default address selection policy is set as 920 IPv6-preferred. 921 922 The default value of $ipv6_prefer is NO. 923 924 4. If your system need to receive Router Advertisement messages, 925 define "inet6 accept_rtadv" in $ifconfig_IF_ipv6. The rc(8) 926 scripts automatically invoke rtsol(8) when the interface becomes 927 UP. The Router Advertisement messages are used for SLAAC 928 (State-Less Address AutoConfiguration). 929 93020090922: 931 802.11s D3.03 support was committed. This is incompatible with the 932 previous code, which was based on D3.0. 933 93420090912: 935 A sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv now sets the default value 936 of a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV, not a global knob to 937 control whether accepting Router Advertisement messages or not. 938 Also, a per-interface flag ND6_IFF_AUTO_LINKLOCAL has been added and 939 a sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal is its default value. 940 The ifconfig(8) utility now supports these flags. 941 94220090910: 943 ZFS snapshots are now mounted with MNT_IGNORE flag. Use -v option for 944 mount(8) and -a option for df(1) to see them. 945 94620090825: 947 The old tunable hw.bus.devctl_disable has been superseded by 948 hw.bus.devctl_queue. hw.bus.devctl_disable=1 in loader.conf should be 949 replaced by hw.bus.devctl_queue=0. The default for this new tunable 950 is 1000. 951 95220090813: 953 Remove the option STOP_NMI. The default action is now to use NMI only 954 for KDB via the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and 955 maintain stop_cpus() to just use a normal IPI_STOP on ia32 and amd64. 956 95720090803: 958 The stable/8 branch created in subversion. This corresponds to the 959 RELENG_8 branch in CVS. 960 96120090719: 962 Bump the shared library version numbers for all libraries that do not 963 use symbol versioning as part of the 8.0-RELEASE cycle. Bump 964 __FreeBSD_version to 800105. 965 96620090714: 967 Due to changes in the implementation of virtual network stack support, 968 all network-related kernel modules must be recompiled. As this change 969 breaks the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800104. 970 97120090713: 972 The TOE interface to the TCP syncache has been modified to remove 973 struct tcpopt (<netinet/tcp_var.h>) from the ABI of the network stack. 974 The cxgb driver is the only TOE consumer affected by this change, and 975 needs to be recompiled along with the kernel. As this change breaks 976 the ABI, bump __FreeBSD_version to 800103. 977 97820090712: 979 Padding has been added to struct tcpcb, sackhint and tcpstat in 980 <netinet/tcp_var.h> to facilitate future MFCs and bug fixes whilst 981 maintaining the ABI. However, this change breaks the ABI, so bump 982 __FreeBSD_version to 800102. User space tools that rely on the size of 983 any of these structs (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled. 984 98520090630: 986 The NFS_LEGACYRPC option has been removed along with the old kernel 987 RPC implementation that this option selected. Kernel configurations 988 may need to be adjusted. 989 99020090629: 991 The network interface device nodes at /dev/net/<interface> have been 992 removed. All ioctl operations can be performed the normal way using 993 routing sockets. The kqueue functionality can generally be replaced 994 with routing sockets. 995 99620090628: 997 The documentation from the FreeBSD Documentation Project (Handbook, 998 FAQ, etc.) is now installed via packages by sysinstall(8) and under 999 the /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd directory instead of /usr/share/doc. 1000 100120090624: 1002 The ABI of various structures related to the SYSV IPC API have been 1003 changed. As a result, the COMPAT_FREEBSD[456] and COMPAT_43 kernel 1004 options now all require COMPAT_FREEBSD7. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1005 800100. 1006 100720090622: 1008 Layout of struct vnet has changed as routing related variables were 1009 moved to their own Vimage module. Modules need to be recompiled. Bump 1010 __FreeBSD_version to 800099. 1011 101220090619: 1013 NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS have been increased from 16 to 1023 and 1024 1014 respectively. As long as no more than 16 groups per process are used, 1015 no changes should be visible. When more than 16 groups are used, old 1016 binaries may fail if they call getgroups() or getgrouplist() with 1017 statically sized storage. Recompiling will work around this, but 1018 applications should be modified to use dynamically allocated storage 1019 for group arrays as POSIX.1-2008 does not cap an implementation's 1020 number of supported groups at NGROUPS_MAX+1 as previous versions did. 1021 1022 NFS and portalfs mounts may also be affected as the list of groups is 1023 truncated to 16. Users of NFS who use more than 16 groups, should 1024 take care that negative group permissions are not used on the exported 1025 file systems as they will not be reliable unless a GSSAPI based 1026 authentication method is used. 1027 102820090616: 1029 The compiling option ADAPTIVE_LOCKMGRS has been introduced. This 1030 option compiles in the support for adaptive spinning for lockmgrs 1031 which want to enable it. The lockinit() function now accepts the flag 1032 LK_ADAPTIVE in order to make the lock object subject to adaptive 1033 spinning when both held in write and read mode. 1034 103520090613: 1036 The layout of the structure returned by IEEE80211_IOC_STA_INFO has 1037 changed. User applications that use this ioctl need to be rebuilt. 1038 103920090611: 1040 The layout of struct thread has changed. Kernel and modules need to 1041 be rebuilt. 1042 104320090608: 1044 The layout of structs ifnet, domain, protosw and vnet_net has changed. 1045 Kernel modules need to be rebuilt. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097. 1046 104720090602: 1048 window(1) has been removed from the base system. It can now be 1049 installed from ports. The port is called misc/window. 1050 105120090601: 1052 The way we are storing and accessing `routing table' entries has 1053 changed. Programs reading the FIB, like netstat, need to be 1054 re-compiled. 1055 105620090601: 1057 A new netisr implementation has been added for FreeBSD 8. Network 1058 file system modules, such as igmp, ipdivert, and others, should be 1059 rebuilt. 1060 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800096. 1061 106220090530: 1063 Remove the tunable/sysctl debug.mpsafevfs as its initial purpose is no 1064 more valid. 1065 106620090530: 1067 Add VOP_ACCESSX(9). File system modules need to be rebuilt. 1068 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800094. 1069 107020090529: 1071 Add mnt_xflag field to 'struct mount'. File system modules need to be 1072 rebuilt. 1073 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800093. 1074 107520090528: 1076 The compiling option ADAPTIVE_SX has been retired while it has been 1077 introduced the option NO_ADAPTIVE_SX which handles the reversed logic. 1078 The KPI for sx_init_flags() changes as accepting flags: 1079 SX_ADAPTIVESPIN flag has been retired while the SX_NOADAPTIVE flag has 1080 been introduced in order to handle the reversed logic. 1081 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800092. 1082 108320090527: 1084 Add support for hierarchical jails. Remove global securelevel. 1085 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800091. 1086 108720090523: 1088 The layout of struct vnet_net has changed, therefore modules 1089 need to be rebuilt. 1090 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800090. 1091 109220090523: 1093 The newly imported zic(8) produces a new format in the output. Please 1094 run tzsetup(8) to install the newly created data to /etc/localtime. 1095 109620090520: 1097 The sysctl tree for the usb stack has renamed from hw.usb2.* to 1098 hw.usb.* and is now consistent again with previous releases. 1099 110020090520: 1101 802.11 monitor mode support was revised and driver api's were changed. 1102 Drivers dependent on net80211 now support DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO instead 1103 of DLT_IEEE802_11. No user-visible data structures were changed but 1104 applications that use DLT_IEEE802_11 may require changes. 1105 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800088. 1106 110720090430: 1108 The layout of the following structs has changed: sysctl_oid, 1109 socket, ifnet, inpcbinfo, tcpcb, syncache_head, vnet_inet, 1110 vnet_inet6 and vnet_ipfw. Most modules need to be rebuild or 1111 panics may be experienced. World rebuild is required for 1112 correctly checking networking state from userland. 1113 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800085. 1114 111520090429: 1116 MLDv2 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged 1117 to the IPv6 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used. 1118 The implementation of SSM within FreeBSD's IPv6 stack closely 1119 follows the IPv4 implementation. 1120 1121 For kernel developers: 1122 1123 * The most important changes are that the ip6_output() and 1124 ip6_input() paths no longer take the IN6_MULTI_LOCK, 1125 and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex. 1126 1127 * As with the changes to the IPv4 stack to support SSM, filtering 1128 of inbound multicast traffic must now be performed by transport 1129 protocols within the IPv6 stack. This does not apply to TCP and 1130 SCTP, however, it does apply to UDP in IPv6 and raw IPv6. 1131 1132 * The KPIs used by IPv6 multicast are similar to those used by 1133 the IPv4 stack, with the following differences: 1134 * im6o_mc_filter() is analogous to imo_multicast_filter(). 1135 * The legacy KAME entry points in6_joingroup and in6_leavegroup() 1136 are shimmed to in6_mc_join() and in6_mc_leave() respectively. 1137 * IN6_LOOKUP_MULTI() has been deprecated and removed. 1138 * IPv6 relies on MLD for the DAD mechanism. KAME's internal KPIs 1139 for MLDv1 have an additional 'timer' argument which is used to 1140 jitter the initial membership report for the solicited-node 1141 multicast membership on-link. 1142 * This is not strictly needed for MLDv2, which already jitters 1143 its report transmissions. However, the 'timer' argument is 1144 preserved in case MLDv1 is active on the interface. 1145 1146 * The KAME linked-list based IPv6 membership implementation has 1147 been refactored to use a vector similar to that used by the IPv4 1148 stack. 1149 Code which maintains a list of its own multicast memberships 1150 internally, e.g. carp, has been updated to reflect the new 1151 semantics. 1152 1153 * There is a known Lock Order Reversal (LOR) due to in6_setscope() 1154 acquiring the IF_AFDATA_LOCK and being called within ip6_output(). 1155 Whilst MLDv2 tries to avoid this otherwise benign LOR, it is an 1156 implementation constraint which needs to be addressed in HEAD. 1157 1158 For application developers: 1159 1160 * The changes are broadly similar to those made for the IPv4 1161 stack. 1162 1163 * The use of IPv4 and IPv6 multicast socket options on the same 1164 socket, using mapped addresses, HAS NOT been tested or supported. 1165 1166 * There are a number of issues with the implementation of various 1167 IPv6 multicast APIs which need to be resolved in the API surface 1168 before the implementation is fully compatible with KAME userland 1169 use, and these are mostly to do with interface index treatment. 1170 1171 * The literature available discusses the use of either the delta / ASM 1172 API with setsockopt(2)/getsockopt(2), or the full-state / ASM API 1173 using setsourcefilter(3)/getsourcefilter(3). For more information 1174 please refer to RFC 3768, 'Socket Interface Extensions for 1175 Multicast Source Filters'. 1176 1177 * Applications which use the published RFC 3678 APIs should be fine. 1178 1179 For systems administrators: 1180 1181 * The mtest(8) utility has been refactored to support IPv6, in 1182 addition to IPv4. Interface addresses are no longer accepted 1183 as arguments, their names must be used instead. The utility 1184 will map the interface name to its first IPv4 address as 1185 returned by getifaddrs(3). 1186 1187 * The ifmcstat(8) utility has also been updated to print the MLDv2 1188 endpoint state and source filter lists via sysctl(3). 1189 1190 * The net.inet6.ip6.mcast.loop sysctl may be tuned to 0 to disable 1191 loopback of IPv6 multicast datagrams by default; it defaults to 1 1192 to preserve the existing behaviour. Disabling multicast loopback is 1193 recommended for optimal system performance. 1194 1195 * The IPv6 MROUTING code has been changed to examine this sysctl 1196 instead of attempting to perform a group lookup before looping 1197 back forwarded datagrams. 1198 1199 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800084. 1200 120120090422: 1202 Implement low-level Bluetooth HCI API. 1203 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800083. 1204 120520090419: 1206 The layout of struct malloc_type, used by modules to register new 1207 memory allocation types, has changed. Most modules will need to 1208 be rebuilt or panics may be experienced. 1209 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800081. 1210 121120090415: 1212 Anticipate overflowing inp_flags - add inp_flags2. 1213 This changes most offsets in inpcb, so checking v4 connection 1214 state will require a world rebuild. 1215 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800080. 1216 121720090415: 1218 Add an llentry to struct route and struct route_in6. Modules 1219 embedding a struct route will need to be recompiled. 1220 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800079. 1221 122220090414: 1223 The size of rt_metrics_lite and by extension rtentry has changed. 1224 Networking administration apps will need to be recompiled. 1225 The route command now supports show as an alias for get, weighting 1226 of routes, sticky and nostick flags to alter the behavior of stateful 1227 load balancing. 1228 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800078. 1229 123020090408: 1231 Do not use Giant for kbdmux(4) locking. This is wrong and 1232 apparently causing more problems than it solves. This will 1233 re-open the issue where interrupt handlers may race with 1234 kbdmux(4) in polling mode. Typical symptoms include (but 1235 not limited to) duplicated and/or missing characters when 1236 low level console functions (such as gets) are used while 1237 interrupts are enabled (for example geli password prompt, 1238 mountroot prompt etc.). Disabling kbdmux(4) may help. 1239 124020090407: 1241 The size of structs vnet_net, vnet_inet and vnet_ipfw has changed; 1242 kernel modules referencing any of the above need to be recompiled. 1243 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800075. 1244 124520090320: 1246 GEOM_PART has become the default partition slicer for storage devices, 1247 replacing GEOM_MBR, GEOM_BSD, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_GPT slicers. It 1248 introduces some changes: 1249 1250 MSDOS/EBR: the devices created from MSDOS extended partition entries 1251 (EBR) can be named differently than with GEOM_MBR and are now symlinks 1252 to devices with offset-based names. fstabs may need to be modified. 1253 1254 BSD: the "geometry does not match label" warning is harmless in most 1255 cases but it points to problems in file system misalignment with 1256 disk geometry. The "c" partition is now implicit, covers the whole 1257 top-level drive and cannot be (mis)used by users. 1258 1259 General: Kernel dumps are now not allowed to be written to devices 1260 whose partition types indicate they are meant to be used for file 1261 systems (or, in case of MSDOS partitions, as something else than 1262 the "386BSD" type). 1263 1264 Most of these changes date approximately from 200812. 1265 126620090319: 1267 The uscanner(4) driver has been removed from the kernel. This follows 1268 Linux removing theirs in 2.6 and making libusb the default interface 1269 (supported by sane). 1270 127120090319: 1272 The multicast forwarding code has been cleaned up. netstat(1) 1273 only relies on KVM now for printing bandwidth upcall meters. 1274 The IPv4 and IPv6 modules are split into ip_mroute_mod and 1275 ip6_mroute_mod respectively. The config(5) options for statically 1276 compiling this code remain the same, i.e. 'options MROUTING'. 1277 127820090315: 1279 Support for the IFF_NEEDSGIANT network interface flag has been 1280 removed, which means that non-MPSAFE network device drivers are no 1281 longer supported. In particular, if_ar, if_sr, and network device 1282 drivers from the old (legacy) USB stack can no longer be built or 1283 used. 1284 128520090313: 1286 POSIX.1 Native Language Support (NLS) has been enabled in libc and 1287 a bunch of new language catalog files have also been added. 1288 This means that some common libc messages are now localized and 1289 they depend on the LC_MESSAGES environmental variable. 1290 129120090313: 1292 The k8temp(4) driver has been renamed to amdtemp(4) since 1293 support for Family 10 and Family 11 CPU families was added. 1294 129520090309: 1296 IGMPv3 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) have been merged 1297 to the IPv4 stack. VIMAGE hooks are in but not yet used. 1298 1299 For kernel developers, the most important changes are that the 1300 ip_output() and ip_input() paths no longer take the IN_MULTI_LOCK(), 1301 and this lock has been downgraded to a non-recursive mutex. 1302 1303 Transport protocols (UDP, Raw IP) are now responsible for filtering 1304 inbound multicast traffic according to group membership and source 1305 filters. The imo_multicast_filter() KPI exists for this purpose. 1306 Transports which do not use multicast (SCTP, TCP) already reject 1307 multicast by default. Forwarding and receive performance may improve 1308 as a mutex acquisition is no longer needed in the ip_input() 1309 low-level input path. in_addmulti() and in_delmulti() are shimmed 1310 to new KPIs which exist to support SSM in-kernel. 1311 1312 For application developers, it is recommended that loopback of 1313 multicast datagrams be disabled for best performance, as this 1314 will still cause the lock to be taken for each looped-back 1315 datagram transmission. The net.inet.ip.mcast.loop sysctl may 1316 be tuned to 0 to disable loopback by default; it defaults to 1 1317 to preserve the existing behaviour. 1318 1319 For systems administrators, to obtain best performance with 1320 multicast reception and multiple groups, it is always recommended 1321 that a card with a suitably precise hash filter is used. Hash 1322 collisions will still result in the lock being taken within the 1323 transport protocol input path to check group membership. 1324 1325 If deploying FreeBSD in an environment with IGMP snooping switches, 1326 it is recommended that the net.inet.igmp.sendlocal sysctl remain 1327 enabled; this forces 224.0.0.0/24 group membership to be announced 1328 via IGMP. 1329 1330 The size of 'struct igmpstat' has changed; netstat needs to be 1331 recompiled to reflect this. 1332 Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800070. 1333 133420090309: 1335 libusb20.so.1 is now installed as libusb.so.1 and the ports system 1336 updated to use it. This requires a buildworld/installworld in order to 1337 update the library and dependencies (usbconfig, etc). Its advisable to 1338 rebuild all ports which uses libusb. More specific directions are given 1339 in the ports collection UPDATING file. Any /etc/libmap.conf entries for 1340 libusb are no longer required and can be removed. 1341 134220090302: 1343 A workaround is committed to allow the creation of System V shared 1344 memory segment of size > 2 GB on the 64-bit architectures. 1345 Due to a limitation of the existing ABI, the shm_segsz member 1346 of the struct shmid_ds, returned by shmctl(IPC_STAT) call is 1347 wrong for large segments. Note that limits must be explicitly 1348 raised to allow such segments to be created. 1349 135020090301: 1351 The layout of struct ifnet has changed, requiring a rebuild of all 1352 network device driver modules. 1353 135420090227: 1355 The /dev handling for the new USB stack has changed, a 1356 buildworld/installworld is required for libusb20. 1357 135820090223: 1359 The new USB2 stack has now been permanently moved in and all kernel and 1360 module names reverted to their previous values (eg, usb, ehci, ohci, 1361 ums, ...). The old usb stack can be compiled in by prefixing the name 1362 with the letter 'o', the old usb modules have been removed. 1363 Updating entry 20090216 for xorg and 20090215 for libmap may still 1364 apply. 1365 136620090217: 1367 The rc.conf(5) option if_up_delay has been renamed to 1368 defaultroute_delay to better reflect its purpose. If you have 1369 customized this setting in /etc/rc.conf you need to update it to 1370 use the new name. 1371 137220090216: 1373 xorg 7.4 wants to configure its input devices via hald which does not 1374 yet work with USB2. If the keyboard/mouse does not work in xorg then 1375 add 1376 Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" 1377 to your ServerLayout section. This will cause X to use the configured 1378 kbd and mouse sections from your xorg.conf. 1379 138020090215: 1381 The GENERIC kernels for all architectures now default to the new USB2 1382 stack. No kernel config options or code have been removed so if a 1383 problem arises please report it and optionally revert to the old USB 1384 stack. If you are loading USB kernel modules or have a custom kernel 1385 that includes GENERIC then ensure that usb names are also changed over, 1386 eg uftdi -> usb2_serial_ftdi. 1387 1388 Older programs linked against the ports libusb 0.1 need to be 1389 redirected to the new stack's libusb20. /etc/libmap.conf can 1390 be used for this: 1391 # Map old usb library to new one for usb2 stack 1392 libusb-0.1.so.8 libusb20.so.1 1393 139420090209: 1395 All USB ethernet devices now attach as interfaces under the name ueN 1396 (eg. ue0). This is to provide a predictable name as vendors often 1397 change usb chipsets in a product without notice. 1398 139920090203: 1400 The ichsmb(4) driver has been changed to require SMBus slave 1401 addresses be left-justified (xxxxxxx0b) rather than right-justified. 1402 All of the other SMBus controller drivers require left-justified 1403 slave addresses, so this change makes all the drivers provide the 1404 same interface. 1405 140620090201: 1407 INET6 statistics (struct ip6stat) was updated. 1408 netstat(1) needs to be recompiled. 1409 141020090119: 1411 NTFS has been removed from GENERIC kernel on amd64 to match 1412 GENERIC on i386. Should not cause any issues since mount_ntfs(8) 1413 will load ntfs.ko module automatically when NTFS support is 1414 actually needed, unless ntfs.ko is not installed or security 1415 level prohibits loading kernel modules. If either is the case, 1416 "options NTFS" has to be added into kernel config. 1417 141820090115: 1419 TCP Appropriate Byte Counting (RFC 3465) support added to kernel. 1420 New field in struct tcpcb breaks ABI, so bump __FreeBSD_version to 1421 800061. User space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in 1422 tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled. 1423 142420081225: 1425 ng_tty(4) module updated to match the new TTY subsystem. 1426 Due to API change, user-level applications must be updated. 1427 New API support added to mpd5 CVS and expected to be present 1428 in next mpd5.3 release. 1429 143020081219: 1431 With __FreeBSD_version 800060 the makefs tool is part of 1432 the base system (it was a port). 1433 143420081216: 1435 The afdata and ifnet locks have been changed from mutexes to 1436 rwlocks, network modules will need to be re-compiled. 1437 143820081214: 1439 __FreeBSD_version 800059 incorporates the new arp-v2 rewrite. 1440 RTF_CLONING, RTF_LLINFO and RTF_WASCLONED flags are eliminated. 1441 The new code reduced struct rtentry{} by 16 bytes on 32-bit 1442 architecture and 40 bytes on 64-bit architecture. The userland 1443 applications "arp" and "ndp" have been updated accordingly. 1444 The output from "netstat -r" shows only routing entries and 1445 none of the L2 information. 1446 144720081130: 1448 __FreeBSD_version 800057 marks the switchover from the 1449 binary ath hal to source code. Users must add the line: 1450 1451 options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 1452 1453 to their kernel config files when specifying: 1454 1455 device ath_hal 1456 1457 The ath_hal module no longer exists; the code is now compiled 1458 together with the driver in the ath module. It is now 1459 possible to tailor chip support (i.e. reduce the set of chips 1460 and thereby the code size); consult ath_hal(4) for details. 1461 146220081121: 1463 __FreeBSD_version 800054 adds memory barriers to 1464 <machine/atomic.h>, new interfaces to ifnet to facilitate 1465 multiple hardware transmit queues for cards that support 1466 them, and a lock-less ring-buffer implementation to 1467 enable drivers to more efficiently manage queueing of 1468 packets. 1469 147020081117: 1471 A new version of ZFS (version 13) has been merged to -HEAD. 1472 This version has zpool attribute "listsnapshots" off by 1473 default, which means "zfs list" does not show snapshots, 1474 and is the same as Solaris behavior. 1475 147620081028: 1477 dummynet(4) ABI has changed. ipfw(8) needs to be recompiled. 1478 147920081009: 1480 The uhci, ohci, ehci and slhci USB Host controller drivers have 1481 been put into separate modules. If you load the usb module 1482 separately through loader.conf you will need to load the 1483 appropriate *hci module as well. E.g. for a UHCI-based USB 2.0 1484 controller add the following to loader.conf: 1485 1486 uhci_load="YES" 1487 ehci_load="YES" 1488 148920081009: 1490 The ABI used by the PMC toolset has changed. Please keep 1491 userland (libpmc(3)) and the kernel module (hwpmc(4)) in 1492 sync. 1493 149420081009: 1495 atapci kernel module now includes only generic PCI ATA 1496 driver. AHCI driver moved to ataahci kernel module. 1497 All vendor-specific code moved into separate kernel modules: 1498 ataacard, ataacerlabs, ataadaptec, ataamd, ataati, atacenatek, 1499 atacypress, atacyrix, atahighpoint, ataintel, ataite, atajmicron, 1500 atamarvell, atamicron, atanational, atanetcell, atanvidia, 1501 atapromise, ataserverworks, atasiliconimage, atasis, atavia 1502 150320080820: 1504 The TTY subsystem of the kernel has been replaced by a new 1505 implementation, which provides better scalability and an 1506 improved driver model. Most common drivers have been migrated to 1507 the new TTY subsystem, while others have not. The following 1508 drivers have not yet been ported to the new TTY layer: 1509 1510 PCI/ISA: 1511 cy, digi, rc, rp, sio 1512 1513 USB: 1514 ubser, ucycom 1515 1516 Line disciplines: 1517 ng_h4, ng_tty, ppp, sl, snp 1518 1519 Adding these drivers to your kernel configuration file shall 1520 cause compilation to fail. 1521 152220080818: 1523 ntpd has been upgraded to 4.2.4p5. 1524 152520080801: 1526 OpenSSH has been upgraded to 5.1p1. 1527 1528 For many years, FreeBSD's version of OpenSSH preferred DSA 1529 over RSA for host and user authentication keys. With this 1530 upgrade, we've switched to the vendor's default of RSA over 1531 DSA. This may cause upgraded clients to warn about unknown 1532 host keys even for previously known hosts. Users should 1533 follow the usual procedure for verifying host keys before 1534 accepting the RSA key. 1535 1536 This can be circumvented by setting the "HostKeyAlgorithms" 1537 option to "ssh-dss,ssh-rsa" in ~/.ssh/config or on the ssh 1538 command line. 1539 1540 Please note that the sequence of keys offered for 1541 authentication has been changed as well. You may want to 1542 specify IdentityFile in a different order to revert this 1543 behavior. 1544 154520080713: 1546 The sio(4) driver has been removed from the i386 and amd64 1547 kernel configuration files. This means uart(4) is now the 1548 default serial port driver on those platforms as well. 1549 1550 To prevent collisions with the sio(4) driver, the uart(4) driver 1551 uses different names for its device nodes. This means the 1552 onboard serial port will now most likely be called "ttyu0" 1553 instead of "ttyd0". You may need to reconfigure applications to 1554 use the new device names. 1555 1556 When using the serial port as a boot console, be sure to update 1557 /boot/device.hints and /etc/ttys before booting the new kernel. 1558 If you forget to do so, you can still manually specify the hints 1559 at the loader prompt: 1560 1561 set hint.uart.0.at="isa" 1562 set hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8" 1563 set hint.uart.0.flags="0x10" 1564 set hint.uart.0.irq="4" 1565 boot -s 1566 156720080609: 1568 The gpt(8) utility has been removed. Use gpart(8) to partition 1569 disks instead. 1570 157120080603: 1572 The version that Linuxulator emulates was changed from 2.4.2 1573 to 2.6.16. If you experience any problems with Linux binaries 1574 please try to set sysctl compat.linux.osrelease to 2.4.2 and 1575 if it fixes the problem contact emulation mailing list. 1576 157720080525: 1578 ISDN4BSD (I4B) was removed from the src tree. You may need to 1579 update a your kernel configuration and remove relevant entries. 1580 158120080509: 1582 I have checked in code to support multiple routing tables. 1583 See the man pages setfib(1) and setfib(2). 1584 This is a hopefully backwards compatible version, 1585 but to make use of it you need to compile your kernel 1586 with options ROUTETABLES=2 (or more up to 16). 1587 158820080420: 1589 The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss 1590 operation on devices that are capable. The underlying device 1591 is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are 1592 cloned with ifconfig. This requires changes to rc.conf files. 1593 For example, change: 1594 ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP" 1595 to 1596 wlans_ath0=wlan0 1597 ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" 1598 see rc.conf(5) for more details. In addition, mergemaster of 1599 /etc/rc.d is highly recommended. Simultaneous update of userland 1600 and kernel wouldn't hurt either. 1601 1602 As part of the multi-bss changes the wlan_scan_ap and wlan_scan_sta 1603 modules were merged into the base wlan module. All references 1604 to these modules (e.g. in kernel config files) must be removed. 1605 160620080408: 1607 psm(4) has gained write(2) support in native operation level. 1608 Arbitrary commands can be written to /dev/psm%d and status can 1609 be read back from it. Therefore, an application is responsible 1610 for status validation and error recovery. It is a no-op in 1611 other operation levels. 1612 161320080312: 1614 Support for KSE threading has been removed from the kernel. To 1615 run legacy applications linked against KSE libmap.conf may 1616 be used. The following libmap.conf may be used to ensure 1617 compatibility with any prior release: 1618 1619 libpthread.so.1 libthr.so.1 1620 libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2 1621 libkse.so.3 libthr.so.3 1622 162320080301: 1624 The layout of struct vmspace has changed. This affects libkvm 1625 and any executables that link against libkvm and use the 1626 kvm_getprocs() function. In particular, but not exclusively, 1627 it affects ps(1), fstat(1), pkill(1), systat(1), top(1) and w(1). 1628 The effects are minimal, but it's advisable to upgrade world 1629 nonetheless. 1630 163120080229: 1632 The latest em driver no longer has support in it for the 1633 82575 adapter, this is now moved to the igb driver. The 1634 split was done to make new features that are incompatible 1635 with older hardware easier to do. 1636 163720080220: 1638 The new geom_lvm(4) geom class has been renamed to geom_linux_lvm(4), 1639 likewise the kernel option is now GEOM_LINUX_LVM. 1640 164120080211: 1642 The default NFS mount mode has changed from UDP to TCP for 1643 increased reliability. If you rely on (insecurely) NFS 1644 mounting across a firewall you may need to update your 1645 firewall rules. 1646 164720080208: 1648 Belatedly note the addition of m_collapse for compacting 1649 mbuf chains. 1650 165120080126: 1652 The fts(3) structures have been changed to use adequate 1653 integer types for their members and so to be able to cope 1654 with huge file trees. The old fts(3) ABI is preserved 1655 through symbol versioning in libc, so third-party binaries 1656 using fts(3) should still work, although they will not take 1657 advantage of the extended types. At the same time, some 1658 third-party software might fail to build after this change 1659 due to unportable assumptions made in its source code about 1660 fts(3) structure members. Such software should be fixed 1661 by its vendor or, in the worst case, in the ports tree. 1662 FreeBSD_version 800015 marks this change for the unlikely 1663 case that a portable fix is impossible. 1664 166520080123: 1666 To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running 1667 FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE. Upgrading to -current 1668 from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems. 1669 167020071128: 1671 The ADAPTIVE_GIANT kernel option has been retired because its 1672 functionality is the default now. 1673 167420071118: 1675 The AT keyboard emulation of sunkbd(4) has been turned on 1676 by default. In order to make the special symbols of the Sun 1677 keyboards driven by sunkbd(4) work under X these now have 1678 to be configured the same way as Sun USB keyboards driven 1679 by ukbd(4) (which also does AT keyboard emulation), f.e.: 1680 1681 Option "XkbLayout" "us" 1682 Option "XkbRules" "xorg" 1683 Option "XkbSymbols" "pc(pc105)+sun_vndr/usb(sun_usb)+us" 1684 168520071024: 1686 It has been decided that it is desirable to provide ABI 1687 backwards compatibility to the FreeBSD 4/5/6 versions of the 1688 PCIOCGETCONF, PCIOCREAD and PCIOCWRITE IOCTLs, which was 1689 broken with the introduction of PCI domain support (see the 1690 20070930 entry). Unfortunately, this required the ABI of 1691 PCIOCGETCONF to be broken again in order to be able to 1692 provide backwards compatibility to the old version of that 1693 IOCTL. Thus consumers of PCIOCGETCONF have to be recompiled 1694 again. As for prominent ports this affects neither pciutils 1695 nor xorg-server this time, the hal port needs to be rebuilt 1696 however. 1697 169820071020: 1699 The misnamed kthread_create() and friends have been renamed 1700 to kproc_create() etc. Many of the callers already 1701 used kproc_start().. 1702 I will return kthread_create() and friends in a while 1703 with implementations that actually create threads, not procs. 1704 Renaming corresponds with version 800002. 1705 170620071010: 1707 RELENG_7 branched. 1708 1709COMMON ITEMS: 1710 1711 General Notes 1712 ------------- 1713 Avoid using make -j when upgrading. While generally safe, there are 1714 sometimes problems using -j to upgrade. If your upgrade fails with 1715 -j, please try again without -j. From time to time in the past there 1716 have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This 1717 is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one 1718 that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when 1719 several months have passed on the -current branch). 1720 1721 Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment 1722 poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its 1723 environment when searching for values for global variables. To run 1724 your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make 1725 commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. 1726 1727 When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best 1728 to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, 1729 then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade 1730 path, and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try 1731 this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade. 1732 1733 ZFS notes 1734 --------- 1735 When upgrading the boot ZFS pool to a new version, always follow 1736 these two steps: 1737 1738 1.) recompile and reinstall the ZFS boot loader and boot block 1739 (this is part of "make buildworld" and "make installworld") 1740 1741 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive 1742 1743 The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first 1744 partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ad0: 1745 "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0" 1746 1747 Non-boot pools do not need these updates. 1748 1749 To build a kernel 1750 ----------------- 1751 If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just 1752 a few days old), you should follow this procedure. It is the most 1753 failsafe as it uses a /usr/obj tree with a fresh mini-buildworld, 1754 1755 make kernel-toolchain 1756 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1757 make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1758 1759 To test a kernel once 1760 --------------------- 1761 If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure 1762 if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide 1763 debugging information) run 1764 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel 1765 nextboot -k testkernel 1766 1767 To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up 1768 -------------------------------------------------------------- 1769 This assumes you are already running a CURRENT system. Replace 1770 ${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386", 1771 "arm", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", "powerpc", "mips", etc). 1772 1773 cd src/sys/${arch}/conf 1774 config KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1775 cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE 1776 make depend 1777 make 1778 make install 1779 1780 If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section. 1781 1782 To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. 1783 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1784 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than 1785 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. 1786 1787 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1788 make buildworld 1789 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1790 [1] 1791 <reboot in single user> [3] 1792 mergemaster -p [5] 1793 make installworld 1794 mergemaster -i [4] 1795 make delete-old [6] 1796 <reboot> 1797 1798 1799 To cross-install current onto a separate partition 1800 -------------------------------------------------- 1801 # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold 1802 # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition 1803 # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in 1804 # size. 1805 1806 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1807 <boot into -stable> 1808 make buildworld 1809 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 1810 <maybe newfs current's root partition> 1811 <mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> 1812 make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1813 make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd 1814 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} 1815 cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd 1816 <edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> 1817 <reboot into current> 1818 <do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> 1819 <maybe install compatibility libraries from ports/misc/compat*> 1820 <reboot> 1821 1822 1823 To upgrade in-place from stable to current 1824 ---------------------------------------------- 1825 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> 1826 make buildworld [9] 1827 make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] 1828 [1] 1829 <reboot in single user> [3] 1830 mergemaster -p [5] 1831 make installworld 1832 mergemaster -i [4] 1833 make delete-old [6] 1834 <reboot> 1835 1836 Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the 1837 tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life 1838 cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own 1839 to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of 1840 the UPDATING entries. 1841 1842 Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to 1843 freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update 1844 your sources that you have read and understood all the recent 1845 messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has 1846 much fewer pitfalls. 1847 1848 [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you 1849 should disable them at this point so they don't crash your 1850 system on reboot. 1851 1852 [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do 1853 fsck -p 1854 mount -u / 1855 mount -a 1856 cd src 1857 adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time 1858 Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that 1859 you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. 1860 1861 [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step 1862 can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the 1863 system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those 1864 that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well 1865 as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists 1866 for potential gotchas. The -U option is also useful to consider. 1867 See mergemaster(8) for more information. 1868 1869 [5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time 1870 you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following 1871 step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to 1872 install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make 1873 install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated 1874 from [78]-stable or 9-stable before 20130430. 1875 1876 [6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries 1877 can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make 1878 sure that no program is using those libraries anymore. 1879 1880 [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to 1881 do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in 1882 your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is 1883 hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is 1884 required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. And so on 1885 for COMPAT_FREEBSD6 and COMPAT_FREEBSD7. 1886 1887 Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the 1888 last time you updated your kernel config file. 1889 1890 [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have 1891 cvs prune empty directories. 1892 1893 If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the 1894 "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can 1895 override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. 1896 1897 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and 1898 not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will 1899 warn if it is improperly defined. 1900FORMAT: 1901 1902This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major 1903breakages in tracking -current. It is not guaranteed to be a complete 1904list of such breakages, and only contains entries since October 10, 2007. 1905If you need to see UPDATING entries from before that date, you will need 1906to fetch an UPDATING file from an older FreeBSD release. 1907 1908Copyright information: 1909 1910Copyright 1998-2009 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. 1911 1912Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without 1913modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this 1914document are permitted without further permission from the author. 1915 1916THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY WARNER LOSH ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 1917IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 1918WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 1919DISCLAIMED. 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