In-flight issues for FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE
Issues being tracked leading up to FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE. Please email re@ **as soon as you become aware of an issue**.
Issue identified
Issues start here.
Issue assigned
A developer is responsible for making sure this is fixed in time for the release.
- wireless bug fixes (bz)
- Livelock because of vnode depletion on a probable runaway reclaim (olce)
Issue diagnosed
A developer is responsible for the issue and we think we know what is wrong.
- OCI images need thermite.sh plumbing to create official merged architecture images (dch, cperciva)
Patch being tested
A developer has a possible fix.
kern.maxfiles is greater than kern.maxvnodes on machines with > ~5GB, allowing runaways processes (such as KDE's Baloo) to exhaust all vnodes and deadlock the machine. (olce)
Patched in HEAD
A patch has gone into HEAD.
- xz update (delphij)
Patched in STABLE
A patch has gone into the stable branch.
Merge approved
The release engineering team has approved merging the patch to the release branch.
- Make in_systm.h and bpf.h self-contained (markj)
- tcp: improve KASSERT in limited retransmit (tuexen)
Patched in release branch
A patch has gone into the release branch (or stable before the release branch is created).
Before BETA1:
OCI images need gtar to fix public registry image uploads (dfr, dch) https://reviews.freebsd.org/D49821
- pcib: Ignore power fault detected if a power controller is not present (jhb)
- Bug in ena driver (akiyano)
use "runtime" instead of "minimal" for images (dch, dch) https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50043 mfc Tuesday 20250429
- Updates to rtw88 and rtw89 (bz)
Before BETA2:
- panic with invalid VM sysctl value (markj)
- NFS issue, bug 286260 (rmacklem)
- arm64 kernel.bin build reproducibility due to locale (cperciva / mmel)
Won't fix
The issue won't be fixed in the release (it's too late and not critical enough to delay the release).