Re: August 2025 stabilization week

  Hi,

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 01:00:07AM -0700, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
T> This is an automated email to inform you that the August 2025 stabilization week
T> started with FreeBSD/main at main-n279838-6c45a5dad0a0, which was tagged as
T> main-stabweek-2025-Aug.

This stabilization cycle is expected to be more bumpy than usually.

1) We got major upgrade - OpenSSL 3.5.1. One known issue is that the legacy
provider is broken.

2) The default Kerberos now is MIT.  We have already checked that a Kerberized
NFS client can migrate from Heimdal to MIT.  We did not check Kerberized NFS
server, but should be fine.  There is no yet an official way to migrate kdc
from Heimdal to MIT.  So, if you are upgrading a machine that is kdc, you need
WITHOUT_MITKRB5="yes" in your src.conf.

3) The official pkg repo is now almost empty, see email from Colin [1]. So, do
not rush with 'make delete-old-libs', unless you are ready to build a lot of
packages yourself.

4) The unfortunate coincidence with 3) is ABI breakage in the
setgroups(2)/getgroups(2) syscalls compared to the July stabilization point.
Some packages would dump core.  These packages need to be rebuilt.

5) At Netflix our A/B testing capacities are overloaded, and we may not be able
to start testing immediately today.

Anyway, all this challenges are not a reason to delay or skip the stabilization
week.  The purpose of the week is to get CURRENT in a good shape, so let's dive
in and focus on fixing problems.  This week is also more important than
usually, since we are approaching 15.0-RELEASE.

[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2025-August/008458.html

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Gleb Smirnoff