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 and familiarize yourself with the change request guidelines.
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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)
- tcp: improve KASSERT in limited retransmit (tuexen)
- Make in_systm.h and bpf.h self-contained (markj)
- nuageinit: implement chpasswd (bapt)
- xz update to 5.8.1 (delphij)
- wireless bug fixes (bz)
Before BETA3:
- DVD images no longer contain broken (compiled for 14.2) drm kmods (cperciva)
- DVD images contain kde (cperciva)
- mpi3mr no longer accidentally built with -g (imp)
- documentation and tests fallout from change to ps (olce)
- debug.sizeof sysctl refactoring (olce)
- queue(3) man page update (olce)
- call PCM_RELEASE() if pcm_addchan() fails (christos)
post-install shell has incorrect PATH https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50297 (des)
- powerpc: Always use BE tag in nexus_map_resource (jhibbits)
- GCE images broken(?) due to py-google-compute-engine port no longer existing. (delphij)
- Azure uploads failing because py-azure-cli port won't build (python-cython conflicts). (cperciva)
- Oracle aarch64 builds failing due to no sudo@default package. (pkgmgr)
- LinuxKPI: 802.11: make sure AUTH frames are not being sent if BSS changed (bz)
- remove broken_txfifo setting from EC2 images to avoid ena(4) timeouts (cperciva)
Before BETA4:
- Update to xen(4) man page (royger)
- Update to iwlwifi(4) and iwlwififw(4) man pages (bz)
- Livelock because of vnode depletion on a probable runaway reclaim (olce)
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)
Incorrect exit code from man(1) https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50302 (des)
namei(9) man page is 2+ years out of date https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50375 (des)
- snd_hda: Add shutdown method (christos)
- many man page updates (ziaee)
- Fix to dependencies in pkgbase (ivy)
Before RC1:
- zoneinfo shouldn't install "version" file (philip)
- OCI images need thermite.sh plumbing to create official merged architecture images (dch, cperciva)
- mac_do assertion failure under INVARIANTS (olce)
- LinuxKPI ieee80211 structs need to be packed (bz)
- systat/top: Update ZFS sysctl names (mav)
PR 286342, <locale> broken with -fmodules. (dim)
- Add FreeBSD-kmods to the default pkg.conf file (cperciva)
- sound: Terminate stream properly when closing vchans (christos)
Bad verbose check in certctl https://bugs.freebsd.org/287156 (des)
Before RELEASE:
- updates to ure.4 and puc.4 man pages to add HARDWARE sections (cperciva)
- Fix incorrect version introduced in manual pages (imp)
Won't fix
The issue won't be fixed in the release (it's too late and not critical enough to delay the release).
installer produces a non-booting system with ZFS+MBR (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=286655)
- SCTP can use deprecated addresses when it shouldn't.
- multiple libusb issues
- panic kldunloading snd_dummy
- when "restarting" the FreeBSD installation via bsdinstall, some values are remembered and not re-prompted
- net80211: fix TKIP trailer trimming w/ no rx parameters given