Re: September 2026 stabilization week

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:12:29 UTC
On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 1:20 PM Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 01:00:31AM -0700, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> T> This is an automated email to inform you that the September 2026
> stabilization week
> T> started with FreeBSD/main at main-n289479-a6deeaa2fb3b, which was
> tagged as
> T> main-stabweek-2026-Sep.
>
> The A/B testing at Netflix did not discover any stability regressions.
> There
> was discovered one performance anomaly with TCP socket buffers, most likely
> caused by 587c6c121504.  This anomaly won't cause any measurable
> performance
> degradations to 99% users.
>
> My personal experience with nVidia desktop, Thinkpad X1 Carbon 7Gen laptop
> and
> a Atom based SOHO router went uneventful.
>
> Given that there are no problem reports, let's consider the stabweek done.
>

We also sometimes get a loader.efi, on a non-clean build maybe, that can't
understand
symbolic links in our BE. It's nothing actionable yet, and I'm trying to
chase down where
or why it happens.

Warner