Introduction

List and status of features, components or modules in FreeBSD base (src) that have been proposed, or accepted and scheduled for removal.

Deprecation Policy

In-lieu of a future official and documented deprecation policy, Deprecation Proposals must be:

  1. Listed on this page

    1. Have at minimum an Initiator and Schedule (FreeBSD Branch(es) and Date)

  2. Communicated publicly (via relevant mailing list(s))

  3. Accepted 1 before being implemented

Additional notes:

  1. Proposals should include a Testing / Testers section if appropriate.

FreeBSD 15

Feature

Initiator

Announced

Discussion/Voting

Accepted

Removed

Release Notes

GBDE

PoulHenningKamp

-current

gvinum

EdMaste

stable, D29424

fdisk

EdMaste

bsdlabel

EdMaste

FreeBSD 14

Feature

Initiator

Announced

Discussion/Voting

Accepted

Removed

Release Notes

MIPS Architecture

WarnerLosh

freebsd-arch: FreeBSD mips support

(./)

(./)

ndis(4) driver

BrooksDavis

-net, -arch, r368561, D28049

request to delay removal to 14

(./)

(./)

mn driver

EdMaste

D23928, r368397

(./)

(./)

ce, cp drivers

EdMaste

-stable, D23928

(./)

ftpd

EdMaste

D26447

PROFILE option

EdMaste

-hackers, D30833

(./)

disabled fe52b7f60ef4

old iSCSI initiator

EdMaste

D32673

(./) 48cb3fee2586

smbfs

EdMaste

D32707, -current, -stable

armv6

WarnerLosh

-arch@

Plan Proposed

ISA sound

EdMaste

-current@ -stable@ D34604

(./)

ad1816 ess gusc mss sbc/sb8/sb16

telnetd

BrooksDavis.

D36619

build bsdbox inetd.conf manpages

OPIE

DagErlingSmørgrav

freebsd-security D36592

(./)

0aa27001

Firewire Bootloader support

WarnerLosh

-arch@ D37334

(./)

Planned december 2022

OpenFirmwware Network Boot support in /boot/loader

WarnerLosh

-arch@ and -powerpc@

proposed

ETA December 2022

NgATM - netgraph ATM

BrooksDavis

-net@ D38877

NgATM ng_atmllc

Mergemaster

EdMaste

PR252417

FreeBSD 13

Feature

Initiator

Announced

Discussion/Voting

Accepted

Removed

Release Notes

amd(8)

EdMaste

(./)

GCC 4.2.1

WarnerLosh

-arch

(./)

arm v5

WarnerLosh

(./)

sparc64

WarnerLosh

(./)

cx, ctau drivers

EdMaste

-stable, r358554

(./)

GDB 6.1.1

EdMaste

-current, -toolchain, -stable

D27610

(./)

(./)

aout userland support

EdMaste

D27478 D27480 D27481

(./)

pccard

WarnerLosh

-arch

(same, no pushback)

(./)

(./)

(./)

hme(4) driver

BrooksDavis

r357788

(./)

(./)

gnugrep

KyleEvans

-arch

(no pushback)

(./)

(./)

FreeBSD 12

Feature

Initiator

Announced

Discussion/Voting

armeb

ATM/NATM

FreeBSD 11

Feature

Initiator

Announced

Discussion/Voting

IPX

glebius

Oct 28, 2013

on developers@

AppleTalk

glebius

Oct 28, 2013

on developers@

See Also


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  1. The definition of Accepted for the purposes of this page is intentionally not been prescribed (1)

DeprecationPlan (last edited 2024-01-24T20:28:33+0000 by EdMaste)