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Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
| -rw-r--r-- | UPDATING | 32 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in /usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before updating system packages and/or ports. -NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW: - FreeBSD 15.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel +NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 16.x IS SLOW: + FreeBSD 16.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel and userland. These features attempt to detect incorrect use of system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity checking and fail stop semantics. They also substantially impact @@ -27,6 +27,26 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW: world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) +20250907: + The MANSPLITPKG knob has been turned off by default, so pkgbase builds + will no longer generate "-man" subpackages; instead the manpages will + be shipped in the packages they belong to. If you want to continue + building split man packages, set WITH_MANSPLITPKG=1. + +20250905: + FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT. + +20250903: + The BLOAT_KERNEL_WITH_EXTERR kernel config option has been renamed to + EXTERR_STRINGS. + +20250827: + The names of pkg repositories defined in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf have + changed: "FreeBSD" is now "FreeBSD-ports", and "FreeBSD-kmods" is now + "FreeBSD-ports-kmods". Users with /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos files + which override these will need to adjust their configuration to match + the new names. + 20250823: The set of pkgbase packages for Kerberos and OpenSSL has changed. After updating past 250e77d4f0a5, you should check 'pkg orphans' @@ -74,10 +94,16 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW: require libmilter, you can now remove it. 20250815: + The [gs]etgroups(2)syscalls have changed. To maintain backwards + compatibility with existing programs, you need COMPAT_FREEBSD14 in + your kernel config until all applications which use this are + rebuild/reinstalled. + +20250815: jemalloc 5.3.0 has been committed to the tree. 20250815: - The removal of Secure RPC DES authentication notced in 20250810 + The removal of Secure RPC DES authentication noted in 20250810 has been reverted. (However, it is still non-functional.) 20250813: |