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Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
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1 files changed, 70 insertions, 8 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 +27,68 @@ 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".) +20251002: + Audio-related utilities including mixer(8) and virtual_oss(8) have + moved to the new FreeBSD-sound package. If you have set-optional or + set-base installed this package will be installed automatically, + otherwise you should install it manually if you need these utilities. + +20250929: + Both drm-kmod and nividia-drm ports had to be updated to either no + longer conflict on LinuxKPI vs. native PCI changes and/or to keep + working after some LinuxKPI PCI adjustments which were previously + hidden behind native PCI. + Bump __FreeBSD_version 1600001 so users will pick up updated packages. + +20250929: + The deprecated ftpd(8) has been removed. Users who still need ftpd + can install the ftp/freebsd-ftpd port. pkgbase users should remove + the orphaned FreeBSD-ftpd package. + +20250923: + Several changes which affect pkgbase users (only): + + powerd has been moved to a new FreeBSD-powerd package. If you have + FreeBSD-set-minimal installed, the new package will be installed + automatically, otherwise you may want to install it by hand. + + libpmc and related utilities (/usr/sbin/pmc*) have moved to the new + FreeBSD-pmc package. If you use these, you may want to install the + package. + + The libbz2 package has been renamed to bzip2, and /usr/bin/bzip2 has + been moved to the new package. If you have set-minimal installed, + the new package will be added automatically, otherwise you may want + to manually install it. + + This only affects pkgbase users. + +20250918: + mandoc (including /usr/bin/man) has been moved to a new package, + FreeBSD-mandoc. If you have the minimal set installed, this package + will be installed automatically, otherwise you may want to install it. + + Kyua has been moved to the FreeBSD-kyua package, and ATF has been moved + to the FreeBSD-atf* packages. If you have FreeBSD-tests installed, + these packages will be installed automatically, otherwise you should + manually install them if you need these tools. + + This only affects pkgbase users. + +20250912: + If SRCCONF is unset and a file named src.conf is present at + the top of the source tree, it will now be used instead of + /etc/src.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. @@ -319,8 +381,8 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW: 20250106: A new SOC_ROCKCHIP options appeared, so if you have a custom kernel configuration - targetting Rockchip SoC you need to add it so shared and mandatory drivers for - this SoC familly will be selected. + targeting Rockchip SoC you need to add it so shared and mandatory drivers for + this SoC family will be selected. Also a new rk8xx device was added, this select the base driver for Rockchip PMIC. 20241223: @@ -515,7 +577,7 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW: 20230817: Serial communication (in boot loaders, kernel, and userland) has been changed to default to 115200 bps, in line with common industry - practice and typcial firmware serial console redirection + practice and typical firmware serial console redirection configuration. Note that the early x86 BIOS bootloader (i.e., boot0sio) does not @@ -599,7 +661,7 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW: runs make -j${JOB_MAX} buildworld > ../buildworld.log 2>&1 - where JOB_MAX is derrived from ncpus in local.sys.mk if not set in env. + where JOB_MAX is derived from ncpus in local.sys.mk if not set in env. 20230316: Video related devices for some arm devices have been renamed. @@ -627,7 +689,7 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW: 20230130: As of commit 7c40e2d5f685, the dependency on netlink(4) has been added to the linux_common(4) module. Users relying on linux_common may need - to complile netlink(4) module if it is not present in their kernel. + to compile netlink(4) module if it is not present in their kernel. 20230126: The WITHOUT_CXX option has been removed. C++ components in the base @@ -647,7 +709,7 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW: 20221205: dma(8) has replaced sendmail(8) as the default mta. For people willing - to reenable sendmail(8): + to re-enable sendmail(8): $ cp /usr/share/examples/sendmail/mailer.conf /etc/mail/mailer.conf |