1 Release notes for FreeBSD 15.0.
3 This file describes new user-visible features, changes and updates relevant to
4 users of binary FreeBSD releases. Each entry should describe the change in no
5 more than several sentences and should reference manual pages where an
6 interested user can find more information. Entries should wrap after 80
7 columns. Each entry should begin with one or more commit IDs on one line,
8 specified as a comma separated list and/or range, followed by a colon and a
9 newline. Entries should be separated by a newline.
11 Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
14 This commit added some statistics collection to the NFS-over-TLS
15 code in the NFS server so that sysadmins can moditor usage.
16 The statistics are available via the kern.rpc.tls.* sysctls.
19 Mountd has been modified to use strunvis(3) to decode directory
20 names in exports(5) file(s). This allows special characters,
21 such as blanks, to be embedded in the directory name(s).
22 "vis -M" may be used to encode such directory name(s).
25 bhyve(8) has a new network backend, "slirp", which makes use of the
26 libslirp package to provide a userspace network stack. This backend
27 makes it possible to access the guest network from the host without
28 requiring any extra network configuration on the host.
31 Set the IUTF8 flag by default in tty(4).
33 128f63cedc14 and 9e589b093857 added proper UTF-8 backspacing handling
34 in the tty(4) driver, which is enabled by setting the new IUTF8 flag
35 through stty(1). Since the default locale is UTF-8, enable IUTF8 by
39 dialog(1) has been replaced by bsddialog(1)
42 FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms.
43 However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit
46 Support for executing 32-bit binaries on 64-bit platforms via
47 COMPAT_FREEBSD32 will remain supported for at least the
48 stable/15 and stable/16 branches.
50 Support for compiling individual 32-bit applications via
51 `cc -m32` will also be supported for at least the stable/15
52 branch which includes suitable headers in /usr/include and
53 libraries in /usr/lib32.
55 Support for 32-bit platforms in ports for 15.0 and later
56 releases is also deprecated, and these future releases may not
57 include binary packages for 32-bit platforms or support for
58 building 32-bit applications from ports.
60 stable/14 and earlier branches will retain existing 32-bit
61 kernel and world support. Ports will retain existing support
62 for building ports and packages for 32-bit systems on stable/14
63 and earlier branches as long as those branches are supported
64 by the ports system. However, all 32-bit platforms are Tier-2
65 or Tier-3 and support for individual ports should be expected
66 to degrade as upstreams deprecate 32-bit platforms.
68 With the current support schedule, stable/14 will be EOLed 5
69 years after the release of 14.0. The EOL of stable/14 would
70 mark the end of support for 32-bit platforms including source
71 releases, pre-built packages, and support for building
72 applications from ports. Given an estimated release date of
73 October 2023 for 14.0, support for 32-bit platforms would end
76 The project may choose to alter this approach when 15.0 is
77 released by extending some level of 32-bit support for one or
78 more platforms in 15.0 or later. Users should use the
79 stable/14 branch to migrate off of 32-bit platforms.