Re: November 2025 stabilization week

Hello everyone,

This is an update on the current November 2025 stabilization week on our
Netflix A/B test deployment.
We had one significant finding:
dhw@ noticed a regression (higher system CPU utilization), which was
quickly troubleshooted by gallatin@, patched by chs@, and pushed by imp@.
This was excellent teamwork!
The fix is in the following commit:
"git: 2b4dbad2db57 - main - nda: fix setting of unmappedio flag"

On my end, my personal build machine, Workstation, NAS, and laptop have all
been upgraded, and I have not observed any further regressions.

Separately, reading the -current mailing list, thj@ reported an issue with
the 20251124 16-CURRENT snapshot, which appears to be very close to the
stabweek state. You can view the report here:
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2025-November/009491.html

I will keep the stabilization window open for one more day to allow for any
final reports before officially closing the stabweek.

Regards,

Olivier

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote:

>   Hi FreeBSD/main users & developers:
>
> This is an automated email to inform you that the November 2025
> stabilization week
> started with FreeBSD/main at main-n282109-a067eb525e10, which was tagged as
> main-stabweek-2025-Nov.
>
> Those who want to participate in the stabilization week are encouraged to
> update to the above revision/tag and test their systems.
>
> The tag main-stabweek-2025-Nov has been published at Gleb Smirnoff's
> github repo.
> To connect this repo as an additional remote you need to run:
>
>   git remote add glebius https://github.com/glebius/FreeBSD
>
> Once remote is configured, to checkout the tag run:
>
>   git fetch glebius --tags
>   git checkout main-stabweek-2025-Nov
>
> If you want to use only the official FreeBSD repo, then update to
> the revision:
>
>   git pull
>   git checkout a067eb525e10
>
> Developers are encouraged to avoid pushing new features to FreeBSD/main
> during
> the stabilization week, but focus on bugfixes instead.  The stabilization
> week
> runs up to Friday 18:00 UTC, but if there is consensus that any regressions
> discovered by participants have been fixed, it will end early.
>
> Once that happens, the advisory freeze of FreeBSD/main branch is thawed.
>
> --
> Gleb Smirnoff
>
>