FreeBSD git weekly: 2026-03-02 to 2026-03-08

Introduction

This is a display of mostly-automatically-classified git commits from 2026-03-02 to 2026-03-08.

This report is still in progress.

Table of contents and commits per category:

Highlighted commits Expand section Collapse section

For extra visibility, these are copies of commits found in other sections. Most (if not all) come from the commit message containing "Relnotes:", or commits modifying UPDATING.

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Userland programs Expand section Collapse section

Commits about commands found in man section 1 (other than networking).

Use exit status 2 for errors, 1 only to indicate that differences were
found between the inputs (in some operating modes).

MFC after:      1 week
Sponsored by:   Klara, Inc.
Reviewed by:    ngie, bapt
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55608

Documentation Expand section Collapse section

Man pages, release notes, etc.

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Hardware support Expand section Collapse section

Hardware drivers and architecture-specific code.

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Networking Expand section Collapse section

Network-related commands, library, and kernel.

release the refcount of link-local prefix information to ensure
it gets freed when the address is deleted.

Reviewed By: zlei, ivy
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55593

System administration Expand section Collapse section

Stuff in man section 8 (other than networking).

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Libraries Expand section Collapse section

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Filesystems Expand section Collapse section

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Kernel Expand section Collapse section

Kernel stuff (other than networking, filesystems, and drivers).

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Build system Expand section Collapse section

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Internal organizational stuff Expand section Collapse section

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Testing Expand section Collapse section

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Style, typos, and comments Expand section Collapse section

These could go in other categories, but it's more clear if they're here instead.

style.mdoc: Li macro is undeprecated for some time

Previously, the mdoc linter warned against using Li as it was deprecated
upstream. However, upstream undeprecated it since last year. As usual
when it comes to style, the best thing to do is to follow the existing
style of the page. We have many manuals which prefer double quotes.

MFC after:              3 days
Citation:               https://cvsweb.bsd.lv/mandoc/mdoc.7?rev=1.297
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55297

style.mdoc: Remove synopsis formatting advice

Remove incorrect advice. The first rule was no spaces padding pipes
when showing alternates. Almost universally we not do this, and third
party manuals do not either. The second was using Cm to mark up symbols.
This advice is in conflict with mdoc(7), and the extended documentation
on mdoc linked below, which is also linked at the bottom of mdoc(7).

Conflicting information in our docs is a natural result of documentation
proliferation. The most important thing we can do to reduce technical
debt in the documentation is reduce the amount of doc overlap. Excessive
technical debt and conflicting rules is a barrier to new contributors.
This type of work requires thorough expertise, is not glamorous at all,
and to add insult to injury, is socially unsafe. To get new contributors
to the docs project, we must deduplicate documentation.

We have the mdoc manual, examples/mdoc, style.mdoc, and the fdp chapter
on manual pages. With this many, they will inevitably come to contain
conflicting information, and people will learn not to read them or work
on them.

MFC after:              3 days
Ref:                    https://mandoc.bsd.lv/mdoc/style/commands.html
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55298

style.mdoc: Left angle bracket is not less-than

MFC after:              3 days
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55300

Contrib code Expand section Collapse section

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Reverted commits Expand section Collapse section

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Unclassified commits Expand section Collapse section

Not classified automatically, and waiting for manual attention.

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Technical notes

Dates:

• The dates are "approximate" because git has no record of exactly when each commit was added. The "author date" and "commit date" are text fields controlled by each committer, not the actual date the commit reaches cgit.freebsd.org/src. Git accurately records the order of commits, but not their dates.

Automatic grouping:

• "Commit & revert pair" groups were automatically grouped when a commit's (full) message contained

  This reverts commit \\b([0-9a-fA-F]{40})\\b

  and the hash was found in this week's commits.
• "Commit group #" groups were automatically grouped when 3 or more consecutive commits by the same author had the same category and summary prefix.

Automatic categories:

• Commits were (mostly) automatically classified based on regex pattern-matching on the commit's modified files, summary, or the whole commit message. The goal is to have the system automatically classify 95% of the commits, with 95% accuracy; then we'll manually check the results and fix the incorrectly-classified and unclassified commits.

Source code:

• https://github.com/Tarsnap/freebsd-git-weekly