In-flight issues for FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE
Issues being tracked leading up to FreeBSD 15.1-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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- document base system upgrade, for beta test announcements, freebsd-base(7) , release notes, and probably in handbook too (dch) help welcomed
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Patched in HEAD
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Patched in STABLE
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Patched in release branch
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Before BETA2:
ifconfig(8) bug with bridge span members: https://bugs.freebsd.org/292634 fix: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56694 (ivy)
tail -r doesn't work on pseudofs files: 4feeca3193c3 (des)
lockf(1) busy-loops when operating on a file descriptor d90513ea + 0733afdb (des)
- vt_core: don't draw the splash if a panic occurred (vexeduxr)
- bsdinstall: Always use pkg.FreeBSD.org (cperciva)
- less v692 (delphij)
- arm64: Define the .iplt section placement (delphij)
- zstd 1.5.7 (delphij)
linuxkpi: Implement module_*() APIs as static functions (dumbbell)
- nuageinit: only parse user_data as yaml when necessary (bapt)
- nlsysevent: add manpage (bapt)
stat(1) may display device nodes incorrectly (des)
- certctl: don't reingest own output (des)
- md5: Don't generate test cases just to skip them (des)
- vis.3: Try to better describe VIS_SAFE (des)
- rtadvd(8): Honor pltime/vltime in interface declarations (pouria)
jail fd leak https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295052 (kevans)
- Fixes to tests (markj)
- nullfs: Clear inotify flags during reclaim (markj)
- so_splice: Fix the KTLS check for the sink socket in so_splice() (markj)
- dtrace: Improve dmesg kernel message prefix (ziaee)
- man: Kill off MANSUBDIRs (ziaee)
- bsdinstall: Improve auto-partition message (ziaee)
- Various man page improvements (ziaee)
Before BETA3:
- unix: Make sure we signal EOF on the write side when disconnecting (markj)
- make large page allocation interruptible (kib)
- fsck_msdosfs: fix FAT header correction not persisting in cache mode (delphij)
ctld: normalize iSCSI TargetName on login (js)
/etc/sysctl.kld.d is in the wrong package (des)
- pkg-stage.sh: Add ext2 and ntfs (cperciva)
- ensure OCI containers use FreeBSD.conf settings consistent with base (dch)
- fdescfs: do not change vnode type on VOP_GETATTR() (kib)
- bsdinstall: do pkgbase installations with the "script" command (asomers)
- bsdinstall.8: Document DISTRIBUTIONS defaults correctly (0mp)
- Fix LOCAL_PEERCRED in 32-bit compat mode (asomers)
- pkgbase: make "make update-packages" idempotent (asomers)
- Update KRB5 to MIT 1.22.2 (cy)
- nuageinit: fix command injection and related issues (bapt)
firstboot-pkg-upgrade package https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56381 (ziaee / cperciva)
- OpenZFS 2.4.2 (mm)
- freebsd-base.7: Document adding a local repo (ziaee)
Before RC1:
- freebsd-update: Skip /etc/ssl/cert.pem (des)
- FreeBSD-SA-26:19 through FreeBSD-SA-26:24
- libc man page updates (fuz)
- ipfw: fix checksum after NAT (tuexen)
- mac_do.4 man page correction (olce)
- linuxulator: fix SO_PEERCRED emulation after 1d24638d3e8 (asomers)
- tcp: improve validation of received TCP over UDP packets (tuexen)
- sctp: fix NOINET build (tuexen)
- fwget: update realtek and intel pci entries (bz)
- wifi driver man page updates (bz)
- ptrace: clear TDP_USERWR after transparent attach only on attach (kib)
- EC2: Don't enable firstboot_pkgs in small flavour (cperciva)
- mtree: Remove unused MANSUBDIRs (des)
Before RC2:
- Add groups.7 and reference it from intro.7 (ziaee)
- unbound: Update to 1.25.1 (des)
syslogd memory leak in casper_ttymsg 295488 & 2222.patch (dch)
- amd64/vmm: Fix ppt_unmap_mmio() after commit 36b855f18925 (markj)
- mtree: usr: Add missing pkg/triggers entry MFS 7669a182c232 (jlduran)
15.1 regression: Via padlock_rng support missing https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295517 (asomers)
Before RC3:
- Fix x86 loader crash which showed up most commonly when loading Intel microcode. (imp)
- amd64: there is no reason to copy ucode around in ucode_load_bsp (kib)
- bsdinstall: script: Fix scripted DISTRIBUTIONS (jlduran)
Won't fix
The issue won't be fixed in the release (it's too late and not critical enough to delay the release).
- OpenSSH update (emaste)
nfs: Fix argument typo to avoid a crash https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=294925 (rmacklen)