In-flight issues for FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE
Issues being tracked leading up to FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE. Please email re@ **as soon as you become aware of an issue**.
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Fixed in 14.2-BETA1:
enable Oracle UFS & ZFS builds and switch to raw format (dch) #c61104166084
rename OCI->Oracle for dfr to re-use (dch) #1be84d745bcc
- Oracle images need larger VMSIZE (dch)
makefs -t zfs produces filesystems which boot slowly (markj)
ncurses: Fix codegen for key names and codes (lwhsu, aokblast)
Fixed in 14.2-BETA2:
- Need _AEI support in order for poweroff to work on EC2 arm64 instances (cperciva)
- libcxxrt update (emaste)
- vt issue with bell frequency (bsdimp / emaste)
- add deprecation notice for syscons (emaste)
- resolver.5: Fix example DNS server (emaste)
- Cirrus-CI: Switch from FreeBSD 13.2 to 13.3 (emaste)
makefs -t zfs should no longer be marked experimental (markj)
- fix definition of xdr_void (markj)
- -Wno-error=cast-function-type-mismatch for clang 19+ (dim)
- boot loader text mode menu drawing issues (bsdimp)
- dvd image -dbg distribution exclusion was broken; remove it properly (cperciva)
- nuageinit fetching cloud-init data from the network (bapt)
- SCTP panic fixes (tuexen)
- ndp missing implementation for -A option (zlei)
Fixed in 14.2-BETA3:
- Remove SHA2 interceptions for NetBSD/FreeBSD (markj)
- Clear IFCAP_MEXTPG on bridges containing unsupportive interfaces (markj)
hms breakage (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=280290) (trasz, wulf)
- vm_object: do not assume that un_pager.devp.dev is cdev (kib)
- Provide OCI (container, not Oracle) packages (dfr)
- vn_alloc_cyclecount is always zero (avg / kirk / pho)
Fixed in 14.2-RC1:
- Compile fix for drm-kmod 5.10-lts (bz)
- Add wifi-firmware-kmod to packages on DVD (bz)
- Add -q (quiet) option to fwget (bz)
- wifi man page updates (bz)
gpiospi(4) module can't be loaded (D47570, 79af8f72b3af, 3bcbd391dd7e, 80b9b4dacd65)
- Need to include driver firmware packages on install media (bz)
- Missing libraries in "minimal" OCI image breaks pkg bootstrap (dfr)
PR282910 14.2-BETA3 amd64 ISOs dont work in vSphere, works in RC1 (dch)
Won't fix
The issue won't be fixed in the release (it's too late and not critical enough to delay the release).
- Oracle images need an upload script (dch)
include Equinix images in build (dch) https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44767
- _utmx_op: don't recurse on chain busy (kevans)
Panics on isp devices (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=281177)
- Devices disabled via loader hints break suspend/resume (jhb / imp)
- e1000: Improve igb(4) SFP support