DeprecationPlan - FreeBSD Wiki

Introduction

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

Contents

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

Listed on this page
1. Have at minimum an Initiator and Schedule (FreeBSD Branch(es) and Date)
Communicated publicly (via relevant mailing list(s))
Accepted ¹ before being implemented

Additional notes:

Feature	Initiator	Announced	Discussion/Voting	Accepted	Removed	Release Notes
syscons	emaste		D47396

Feature	Initiator	Announced	Discussion/Voting	Accepted	Removed	Release Notes
GBDE	PoulHenningKamp	-current
gvinum	EdMaste	stable, D29424
fdisk	EdMaste
bsdlabel	EdMaste
routed/rout6d	Lexi Winter	-arch, -net
ftpd	EdMaste	D26447
smbfs	EdMaste	D32707, -current, -stable
armv6	WarnerLosh	-arch@	Plan Proposed
Mergemaster	EdMaste	PR252417	D45622		commit
Firewire Bootloader support	WarnerLosh	-arch@ D37334			Planned december 2022
OpenFirmwware Network Boot support in /boot/loader	WarnerLosh	-arch@ and -powerpc@	proposed		ETA December 2022

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
PROFILE option	EdMaste	-hackers, D30833			disabled fe52b7f60ef4
old iSCSI initiator	EdMaste	D32673			48cb3fee2586
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
NgATM - netgraph ATM	BrooksDavis	-net@ D38877			NgATM ng_atmllc