In-flight issues for FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE
Issues being tracked leading up to FreeBSD 14.4-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:
- Update bmake to bmake-20251111 (sjg)
libc/resolv: Switch default to loopback address 291790 D55011 (des)
Before BETA2:
- PMC events for Intel's Granite Rapids CPU family (bnovkov)
- sockstat: Surround explicit IPv6 addresses with brackets (michaelo)
- amd64/conf: Remove a config committed by accident (markj)
Multiple bugs in diff(1) (des)
- Updates to blacklist/blocklist (jlduran)
- Several updates to qlnxe (zlei)
- FreeBSD 15 kernel compatibility in ipfw (ae)
- Support ACPI_DBG2_16550_WITH_GAS in SPCR (cperciva)
- Makefile.incl1: .WAIT before distribute in etc (cperciva)
- release: Turn off debugging in pkg(8) (cperciva)
Fix null pointer dereference in fetch(3) (des)
Before BETA3:
- BSD.usr.dist: remove obsolete usr/share/examples/drivers entry (des / dim)
- Fix timer livelock (kib)
- Fix flags handling in unmount(2) (kib)
- Buffer length fixes in ngctl (des)
- pw: make manual page more friendly for uid/gid search (marck / ziaee)
- powerpc time_t issue in ZFS (jrtc27 / fuz)
- icmp6: clear csum_flags on mbuf reuse (tuexen)
- tr: fix class handling in unicode world (bapt)
- Update pci_vendors and usb_vendors (bapt)
- ng_ksocket: use new macros to lock socket buffers (pouria / glebius)
Before RC1:
- rtsock: Fix stack overflow (FreeBSD-SA-26:05.route) (markj)
- Add emacs@nox and vim packages to "offline" repo on DVD (cperciva)
- Add ext2 and ntfs packages to "offline" repo on DVD (cperciva)
- nullfs: Fix handling of doomed vnodes in nullfs_unlink_lowervp() (markj)
- bsdinstall: fix EFI boot entry creation (vexeduxr)
- libfetch: Fail hard if interrupted while connecting (des)
Won't fix
The issue won't be fixed in the release (it's too late and not critical enough to delay the release).