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@@ -27,6 +27,18 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 16.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".) +20260722: + The wait_for_pids() function in rc.subr, used by rc scripts + when stopping or restarting a service, has been modified to + use pwait(1)'s new -r option, which requires kernel support. + When upgrading across this change, you should install a new + kernel first, then reboot, then install a new world, run + etcupdate, and reboot again. Otherwise, you may find that + rc.subr is unable to stop services because the running kernel + does not provide the support that the updated pwait(1) needs. + Alternatively, if you deem it safe, you may use fastboot(8) to + reboot without shutting down services first. + 20260620: On powerpc64le, long double is now IEEE 754 binary128 (quad precision, 113-bit mantissa) instead of 64-bit double. This is an |