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 Set the IUTF8 flag by default in tty(4).
16 128f63cedc14 and 9e589b093857 added proper UTF-8 backspacing handling
17 in the tty(4) driver, which is enabled by setting the new IUTF8 flag
18 through stty(1). Since the default locale is UTF-8, enable IUTF8 by
22 dialog(1) has been replaced by bsddialog(1)
25 FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms.
26 However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit
29 Support for executing 32-bit binaries on 64-bit platforms via
30 COMPAT_FREEBSD32 will remain supported for at least the
31 stable/15 and stable/16 branches.
33 Support for compiling individual 32-bit applications via
34 `cc -m32` will also be supported for at least the stable/15
35 branch which includes suitable headers in /usr/include and
36 libraries in /usr/lib32.
38 Support for 32-bit platforms in ports for 15.0 and later
39 releases is also deprecated, and these future releases may not
40 include binary packages for 32-bit platforms or support for
41 building 32-bit applications from ports.
43 stable/14 and earlier branches will retain existing 32-bit
44 kernel and world support. Ports will retain existing support
45 for building ports and packages for 32-bit systems on stable/14
46 and earlier branches as long as those branches are supported
47 by the ports system. However, all 32-bit platforms are Tier-2
48 or Tier-3 and support for individual ports should be expected
49 to degrade as upstreams deprecate 32-bit platforms.
51 With the current support schedule, stable/14 will be EOLed 5
52 years after the release of 14.0. The EOL of stable/14 would
53 mark the end of support for 32-bit platforms including source
54 releases, pre-built packages, and support for building
55 applications from ports. Given an estimated release date of
56 October 2023 for 14.0, support for 32-bit platforms would end
59 The project may choose to alter this approach when 15.0 is
60 released by extending some level of 32-bit support for one or
61 more platforms in 15.0 or later. Users should use the
62 stable/14 branch to migrate off of 32-bit platforms.