In-flight issues for FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE

Issues being tracked leading up to FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. Please email re@ as soon as you become aware of an issue and familiarize yourself with the change request guidelines.

This page is primarily maintained by and for the release engineering team -- the *primary* purpose is to make sure that re@ doesn't forget about issues and knows whom to bug about them. As such there isn't much attention paid to providing helpful descriptions of issues here; it suffices that the person assigned to an issue will know what is being referred to. This page should almost certainly not be used as a source for public-facing descriptions of work landing in this FreeBSD release!

Issue identified

Issues start here.

• A bunch of pkgbase related bits need to land.
• Non-root builds need to land (project being managed by FF).
• Possible issues with USB -- needs more testing to track down what if anything is broken.

Issue assigned

A developer is responsible for making sure this is fixed in time for the release.

• FreeBSD-Update-like wrapper for pkg (markj).
• kernel mode USB video capture (lwhsu).
• libusb update (aokblast, lwhsu).
• USB debug host side driver (thj), should land in ALPHA3

• need boot loader on all disks of a mirror (outstanding issue in 14.3, cf https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42150) (imp)

• awk update (imp)
• lua update (imp)
• ongoing OpenZFS updates towards upcoming OpenZFS 2.4 (mm)
• Add "FreeBSD-base" (or maybe "FreeBSD-src") repository to /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf (cperciva)

• Add further container flavours D51471 (dch)

• pkg has some limitations around BACKUP_LIBRARIES which make it unsuitable for pkgbase: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2501 (markj)

• TLS root certificates need to be updated (des)
• Process for root certificates in base system needs documentation (des)
• cxgbe(4) update for new hardware (np)

• Rust has issues on riscv64, to be fixed in https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/pull/4688 (jrtc27, asomers)

Issue diagnosed

A developer is responsible for the issue and we think we know what is wrong.

• In mac_do(4), fix some confused deputy situation arising from the use of vn_fullpath() (olce), should land in ALPHA4

Patch being tested

A developer has a possible fix.

• Fix remaining bugs and polish (e.g., manual pages) the recent effective GID/supplementary groups split (both in the kernel and in user API) (olce), should land in ALPHA4
• In mdo(1), add support for fine-grain control of users and groups (olce), should land in ALPHA4

Patched in HEAD

A patch has gone into HEAD but needs to be merged into the stable branch.

• man -l (des) https://bugs.freebsd.org/289245

• Unbound 1.23.1 (des) https://bugs.freebsd.org/289225

• sockstat -j is broken (https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1842) (asomers)

• bc update to 7.1.0 (se)

Patched in STABLE

A patch has gone into the stable branch but needs to be merged into the release branch.

This section should stay empty until releng/15.0 is created (BETA1); move items directly into the "patched in release branch" section below.

Patched in release branch

A patch has gone into the release branch (or stable before the release branch is created, or HEAD before the stable branch is created).

Before ALPHA1:

• OpenSSL 3.5.1 (khorben).
• jemalloc 5.3.0 (imp).
• rename "FreeBSD" repository in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to "FreeBSD-ports" (cperciva).
• various wifi (bug)fixes (incl. possible KBI break) (bz)
• OpenSSH update (emaste)
• certctl rewrite (des)

• /etc/zfs/ dir is missing after pkgbase installation, preventing additional non-root pools being auto-imported on reboot D52123 (des)

• jail kevent support and jail descriptors (jamie)
• tcopy rewrite (phk)
• checksum offloading support for epair and vtnet (tuexen)
• bridge(4) member_ifaddrs should be set to 1 by default (ivy)
• Switching to evdev moused (see "CFT: evdev-awared moused" on -current) (wulf)

• Keyboards without LEDs don't work with hkbd driver (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288968) https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52101

• eliminate the net80211 tx lock (adrian)

Before ALPHA2:

• REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD was simultaneously on and off (markj)
• pkgbase alpha and beta version numbers were broken (bapt)
• release orchestration tooling confused about snapshot builds vs release builds (cperciva)
• pkgbase repos need to be on disc1 install media (cperciva to enable, work done by others)
• updated leap seconds file (cy)

Won't fix

The issue won't be fixed in the release (it's too late and not critical enough to delay the release).

• vendor imports for LinuxKPI WiFi drivers (bz)

• USB structs changes for LinuxKPI (bz)

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