FreeBSD git weekly: 2026-08-03 to 2026-08-09

Introduction

This is a display of mostly-automatically-classified git commits from 2026-08-03 to 2026-08-09.

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).

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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.

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System administration Expand section Collapse section

Stuff in man section 8 (other than networking).

Populate stand/libsa/bootp.c's bootp_response global from the UEFI PXE
Base Code Protocol's cached DhcpAck, so bootp() can enter RFC 2131
INIT-REBOOT and skip DISCOVER/OFFER instead of running a fresh DHCP
transaction after the firmware has already done one.

Libraries Expand section Collapse section

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Filesystems Expand section Collapse section

Commit 4d80d4913e79 added a check for nfsess_defunct already
being set.  This was incorrect because, once set, nfsess_defunct
remains set and an additional recovery might be needed.

This patch reverts this part of 4d80d4913e79.

PR:     https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=297252
Suggested by:   olivier
MFC after:      3 days
Fixes:  https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=4d80d4913e79 ("nfs: Fix argument typo to avoid a crash")

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.

Fix compiler warnings related to the Fx macro, as well as all other
mechanical typos that were visible within one screenful of them. These
cause rendering glitches on various toolchains with various of the five
and a half decades of rich output formats and tooling manpages scale to.

The *x macro set specifies operating systems. These macros take the rest
of the line as an argument. Sometimes, a space was not used to separate
the argument of Fx and the trailing period. Another, FreeBSD Foundation
was misrepresented as an operating system version instead of an author.
Two more had other parts of the sentence supplied as an argument to Fx.

While I had those open, fix the other mechancial typos visible on those
specific screenfulls. Fix a list width glitch, correct section typo
AUTHOR to AUTHORS, and switch AUTHORS sections containing prose to
prose-mode so that they wrap freely when rendered.

PR:             https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=297248
MFC after:      3 days
Fixes:          https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=d39e310c7d6a ("man/man3: add stdbit.3")
Fixes:          https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=d790b16bbf0c ("add man pages for stdbit functions")
Fixes:          https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=b61850c4e6f6 ("net.link.bridge.member_ifaddrs to false")
Reported by:    wosch (groff is complaining about incorrect Fx usage)

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