Seen in the FreeBSD Quarterly Report: gets(3) retirement Contact: Ed Maste <emaste(a)FreeBSD.org> gets is an obsolete C library routine for reading a string from standard input. It was removed from the C standard as of C11 because there was no way to use it safely. Prompted by a comment during Paul Vixie's talk at vBSDCon 2017 I started investigating what it would take to remove gets from libc. The patch was posted to Phabricator and refined several times, and the portmgr team performed several exp-runs to identify ports broken by the removal. Symbol versioning is used to preserve binary compatibility for existing software that uses gets. The change was committed in September, and will be in FreeBSD 13.0. This project was sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation. And the world is a slightly safer place... -- Dave