Manual Pages  — DEVELOPMENT

.Lk https://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/

Ports, described further in ports(7), are the way to build, package, and install third party software. To read more, see:

.Lk https://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/

The last one, src, revolves around the source code for the base system, consisting of the kernel, and the libraries and utilities commonly called the world.

The Committer's Guide, describing topics relevant to all committers, can be found at:

.Lk https://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/

FreeBSD src development takes place in the CURRENT branch in Subversion, located at:

.Lk https://svn.FreeBSD.org/base/head

There is also a read-only GitHub mirror at:

.Lk https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd

Changes are first committed to CURRENT and then usually merged back to STABLE. Every few years the CURRENT branch is renamed to STABLE, and a new CURRENT is branched, with an incremented major version number. Releases are then branched off STABLE and numbered with consecutive minor numbers.

Layout of the source tree is described in hier(7). Build instructions can be found in build(7) and release(7). Kernel programming interfaces (KPIs) are documented in section 9 manual pages; use ‘apropos -s 9 ''’ for a list. Regression test suite is described in tests(7). For coding conventions, see style(9).

To ask questions regarding development, use the mailing lists, such as freebsd-arch@ and freebsd-hackers@:

.Lk https://lists.FreeBSD.org/

To get your patches integrated into the main FreeBSD repository use Phabricator; it is a code review tool that allows other developers to review the changes, suggest improvements, and, eventually, allows them to pick up the change and commit it:

.Lk https://reviews.FreeBSD.org/

To check the latest FreeBSD build and test status of CURRENT and STABLE branches, the continuous integration system is at:

.Lk https://ci.FreeBSD.org

svnlite co https://svn.FreeBSD.org/base/head src
cd src
make -j8 buildworld buildkernel installkernel
reboot

After reboot:

cd src
make -j8 installworld
reboot