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MidnightBSD is a FreeBSD-derived operating system. A critical goal of the project is to create an easy-to-use desktop environment with graphical ports management, and system configuration using GNUstep. The vast majority of the operating system will maintain a BSD license. MidnightBSD was forked from FreeBSD 6.1 beta.
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| 2023-10-21 |
NEW • Development Release: FreeBSD 14.0-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 14.0. The release process continues as scheduled, with a possible third release candidate expected one week from now and the FreeBSD 14.0 final on 7 November 2023. "The second RC build of the 14.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 14.0-RC1 includes: OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.5p1; OpenSSL has been updated to version 3.0.11; various VFS-related fixes; OpenZFS has been updated to zfs-2.2-release; support for ZFS-backed Azure images has been implemented; a crash with smartpqi(4) or mpi3mr(4) devices has been resolved; an issue building virtual machine images for GCE has been resolved; and various other miscellaneous fixes. A list of changes since 13.2-RELEASE is available in the releng/14.0 release notes." Read the complete release announcement which includes upgrade instructions. Here are the quick download links of installation images for the amd64, i386 and aarch64 architectures: FreeBSD-14.0-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (1,087MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (887MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC2-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (935MB). |
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| FreeBSD is a UNIX-like operating system for the i386, amd64, IA-64, arm, MIPS, powerpc, ppc64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's "4.4BSD-Lite" release, with some "4.4BSD-Lite2" enhancements. It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's "Net/2" to the i386, known as "386BSD", though very little of the 386BSD code remains. FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers, researchers, computer professionals, students and home users all over the world in their work, education and recreation. FreeBSD comes with over 20,000 packages (pre-compiled software that is bundled for easy installation), covering a wide range of areas: from server software, databases and web servers, to desktop software, games, web browsers and business software - all free and easy to install.
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| 2024-09-17 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 13.4 |
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The FreeBSD team have announced the release of FreeBSD 13.4, a maintenance release for the 13.x series which features mostly security improvements and bug fixes. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth release of the stable/13 branch. Since this release is occurring late in a legacy stable branch, there are few new features; rather, the focus is primarily on maintenance. As such, changes since 13.3-RELEASE consist mostly of bug fixes, driver updates, and new versions of externally-maintained software. For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list.... FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. The release announcement offers further details. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-13.4-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (1,073MB, SHA512). |
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| 2024-06-04 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 14.1 |
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Colin Percival has announced the release of FreeBSD 14.1, the latest stable version of the popular operating system used to power modern servers, desktops and embedded platforms: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE. This is the second release of the stable/14 branch. Some of the highlights: the C library now has SIMD implementations of string and memory operations on amd64 for improved performance; improvements to the sound subsystem, including device hotplug; initial native cloud-init (configuration drive) support compatible with OpenStack and many hosters; OpenZFS has been upgraded to version 2.2.4; Clang/LLVM have been upgraded to version 18.1.5; OpenSSH has been upgraded to version 9.7p1. FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64 and riscv64 architectures. Based on the new FreeBSD support model, the FreeBSD 14 release series will be supported until at least January 31, 2026." See the release announcement and the release notes for further details. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-14.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (1,120MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-14.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (914MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-14.1-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (977MB, SHA512). |
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| 2024-05-20 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 14.1-BETA3 |
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Colin Percival has announced that the FreeBSD team have published a new beta snapshot for the project's upcoming 14.1 release. The new beta fixes crashes on i386, addresses large RISC-V binaries, and turns on soft updates by default when using newfs. "The third BETA build of the 14.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since BETA2 includes: newfs now turns on softupdates by default on UFS2; boot breakage on RPi 4 and large amd64 systems fixed; i386 panics with drm-kmod fixed; OpenMP scheduling issues fixed; fixes to kernel handling of userland mutexes; in6_addr fields made visibile to userland; non-UFS vm image build fixes; bogusly large riscv binaries fixed; man page fixes/addition; removeal of accidental GDB_LOG setting; nfsd RFC8881 compliance fixes. A list of changes since 14.0 is available in the releng/14.1 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 14.1-RELEASE cycle progresses." Additional information on the third beta snapshot can be found in the release announcement and in the release notes. Download: FreeBSD-14.1-BETA3-amd64-disc1.iso (1,118MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-14.1-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (915MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-14.1-BETA3-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (977MB, SHA512). |
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| 2024-03-05 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 13.3 |
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Colin Percival has announced the release of FreeBSD 13.3, the production release in the legacy branch of the popular BSD-derived operating system: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the stable/13 branch. Some of the highlights: LLVM and the Clang compiler have been updated to version 17.0.6; OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.6p1; Sendmail has been updated to version 8.18.1; ZFS has been updated to OpenZFS 2.1.14; there have been many stability fixes to native and LinuxKPI-based WiFi drivers; the NFS server can now run in an appropriately configured vnet jail. FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures." Please read the release announcement and the release notes for more information. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-13.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (1,023MB, SHA512, signature), FreeBSD-13.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (842MB, SHA512, signature), FreeBSD-13.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (842MB, SHA512, signature). |
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| 2024-02-21 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 13.3-BETA3 |
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The FreeBSD project has released a new development snapshot for FreeBSD 13.3. The new snapshot, BETA 3, updates Sendmail, fixes a kernel panic bug, and corrects an issue with creating RISCV binaries. The release announcement lists the changes since the previous BETA snapshot: "The third BETA build of the 13.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 13.3-BETA2 includes: a kernel panic fix affecting the net-mgmt/ng_ipacct port; a fix to invalid birthtime values generated by fusefs; an update to the TLS root certificate bundle; Sendmail update to 8.18.1; allowing mac_priority's authorized users to set realtime priority; an update to the source for the leap seconds database; a workaround for an elftoolchain bug which yielded boated RISCV binaries." Additional information is provided in the release notes. Download: FreeBSD-13.3-BETA3-amd64-disc1.iso (1,054MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.3-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (869MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.3-BETA3-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (842MB, SHA512). The installation ISO images are also available for the arm-armv6, arm-armv7, powerpc-powerpc64, powerpc-powerpc64le, powerpc-powerpcspe and riscv-riscv64 architectures. |
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| 2023-11-20 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 14.0 |
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Colin Percival (the new Release Engineering Team Lead) has announced the release of FreeBSD 14.0. It is available for the amd64, aarch64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7 and riscv64 architectures. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/14 branch. Some of the highlights: OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.5p1; OpenSSL has been updated to version 3.0.12, a major upgrade from OpenSSL 1.1.1t in FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE; the bhyve hypervisor now supports TPM and GPU passthrough; FreeBSD supports up to 1024 cores on the amd64 and arm64 platforms; ZFS has been upgraded to OpenZFS release 2.2, providing significant performance improvements; it is now possible to perform background filesystem checks on UFS file systems running with journaled soft updates; experimental ZFS images are now available for AWS and Azure; the default congestion control mechanism for TCP is now CUBIC." For further information please see the release announcement and the release notes. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (1,087MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (886MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (935MB, SHA512). |
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| 2023-11-04 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 14.0-RC4 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the fourth release candidate for FreeBSD 14.0. This snapshot was not part of the original release schedule which means that the final release of FreeBSD 14.0 is now delayed by one week, to 14 November 2023. This late release candidate postpones the removal of the ISA and GIANT-locked drivers to FreeBSD 15 and it also addresses a couple of fixes: "The fourth RC build of the 14.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 14.0-RC3 includes: ISA and GIANT-locked driver removal has been delayed to FreeBSD 15 and system messages have been updated to reflect such; an update to OpenZFS correcting block cloning between encrypted and unencrypted datasets has been included; a fix for Hyper-V emulation within QEMU resulting in system crashes has been addressed. A list of changes since 13.2-RELEASE is available in the releng/14.0 release notes." Read the full release announcement for further details and upgrade instructions. Here are the download links of installation images for the amd64, i386 and aarch64 architectures: FreeBSD-14.0-RC4-amd64-disc1.iso (1,086MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC4-i386-disc1.iso (887MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC4-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (934MB). |
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| 2023-10-28 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 14.0-RC3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third (and likely last) release candidate for FreeBSD 14.0. The product's final release is scheduled for 7 November 2023. This release candidate adds support for the Realtek Killer E2600 Ethernet controller driver and upgrades OpenSSL to the recently-released version 3.0.12. "The third RC build of the 14.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 14.0-RC2 includes: test suite fixes; support for IUTF8 in (s)tty has been added; support for Realtek Killer E2600 has been added; several kernel TLS updates have been added; OpenSSL has been updated to version 3.0.12; other miscellaneous bug fixes and updates. A list of changes since 13.2-RELEASE is available in the releng/14.0 release notes." Continue to the full release announcement for more details and upgrade instructions. Here are the download links of installation images for the amd64, i386 and aarch64 architectures: FreeBSD-14.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso (1,086MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC3-i386-disc1.iso (886MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC3-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (936MB). |
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| 2023-10-14 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 14.0-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the initial release candidate for FreeBSD 14.0, the project's first major release since version 13.0 delivered in April 2021. FreeBSD 14.0 is currently scheduled for final release on 7 November 2023. It is available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64 and riscv64 architectures. "The first RC build of the 14.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 14.0-BETA5 includes: a race condition in swap_pager_swapoff_object() had been fixed; various updates to the Linux KPI, 802.11, iwlwifi, and rtw88; other miscellaneous fixes." Some of the userland configuration changes in FreeBSD 14.0 include: "The default shell for the root user is now sh(1), which now has many features for interactive use; the default mail transport agent is now the Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma(8)), replacing sendmail(8); the mta_start_script configuration variable has been retired in rc.conf(5), along with the othermta startup script; the one-time password facility OPIE, opie(4), has been removed from the base system." Continue to the release announcement for further details and upgrade instructions. Download: FreeBSD-14.0-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (1,087MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (888MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC1-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (935MB). |
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| 2023-04-11 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 13.2 |
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Colin Percival has announced the release of FreeBSD 13.2, the latest stable version of the popular BSD-derived operating system that focuses on features, speed and stability: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE. This is the third release of the stable/13 branch. Some of the highlights: OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.2p1; OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1t; the bhyve hypervisor now supports more than 16 vCPUs in a guest; Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is now enabled for 64-bit executables by default; ZFS has been upgraded to OpenZFS release 2.1.9; it is now possible to take snapshots on UFS filesystems when running with journaled soft updates; the kernel wg(4) WireGuard driver is now available; the kernel netlink(4) network configuration protocol is now available. FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64 and riscv64 architectures. FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory stick." Please read the release announcement and the release notes for more information. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (1,023MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (842MB, SHA512). |
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| 2022-12-06 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 12.4 |
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Glen Barber has announced the release of FreeBSD 12.4, the fourth update to the project's legacy 12.x branch: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth release of the stable/12 branch. Some of the highlights: the ena(4) kernel driver has been updated to 2.6.1; the if_epair(4) driver now allows multiple cores to be used to process traffic to improve performance; the unbound(8) utility has been updated to version 1.16.3; the telnetd(8) daemon has been deprecated; the tcpdump(1) utility now allow users to set a number on rules which will be exposed as part of the pflog header; OpenSSL has been updated to 1.1.1q; OpenSSH has been updated to 9.1p1; the LLVM toolchain suite has been updated to version 13.0.0; the dma(8) utility has been updated to snapshot 2022-01-27; the file(1) utility has been updated to version 5.43. FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures." See the release announcement and the release notes for further information. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-12.4-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (959MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (800MB, SHA512). |
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| 2022-11-12 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.4-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 12.4. According to the published released process, the RC2 might be followed by an RC3 (if needed), while the final release of FreeBSD 12.4 is planned on 5 December 2022. "The second RC build of the 12.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 12.1-RC1 includes: if_vxlan(4) - check the size of data available in mbuf before using them; ofed - allow using IPv6 address in rc_pingpong server; ssh - correct parse_cert_times case for hex 'to' time; ipfw - have NAT steal the TH_RES1 bit, instead of the TH_AE bit. A list of changes since 12.3-RELEASE is available in the releng/12.4 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 12.4-RELEASE cycle progresses." See the full release announcement for more details and upgrade instructions. Interested testers can download the amd64 and i386 installation ISO images from here: FreeBSD-12.4-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (958MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.4-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (801MB, SHA512). |
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| 2022-11-05 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.4-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 12.4, scheduled for final release on 5 December 2022: "The first RC build of the 12.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 12.1-BETA3 includes: a NULL pointer dereference that could lead to a system crash had been fixed; a fix to correctly implement pmap_page_is_mapped() on arm64 and riscv; a fix to tun(4) and tap(4) when destroying interfaces had been added; a fix to krping to notify sleeping threads of device removal had been added; several updates to mlx5core, mlx5en(4), and mlx5ib(4); several fixes in libusb(3) and xhci(4) have been added; several SCTP and TCP fixes have been added. A list of changes since 12.3-RELEASE is available in the releng/12.4 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 12.4-RELEASE cycle progresses." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Quick links to download the amd64 and i386 installation ISO images: FreeBSD-12.4-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (958MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.4-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (800MB, SHA512). |
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| 2022-05-16 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 13.1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the release of FreeBSD 13.1, the second stable build in the project's 13 branch: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE. This is the second release of the stable/13 branch. Some of the highlights: OpenSSH has been updated to version v8.8p1; OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1o; the use of FIDO/U2F hardware authenticators has been enabled in ssh, using the new public key types ecdsa-sk and ed25519-sk, along with corresponding certificate types; the ice(4) driver has been updated to 1.34.2-k, adding firmware logging and initial DCB support; the iwlwifi(4) driver along with a LinuxKPI 802.11 compatibility layer was added to supplement iwm(4) for newer Intel Wireless chipsets; ZFS has been upgraded to OpenZFS release 2.1.4; EC2 images are now built by default to boot using UEFI instead of legacy BIOS." See the release announcement and in the detailed release notes for further information. FreeBSD 13.1 is available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64 and riscv64 architectures; here are the links to download (mirrors) the installation images for the amd64 and i386 architectures: FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (999MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (824MB, SHA512). |
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| 2022-04-15 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 13.1-RC3 |
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The third release candidate for FreeBSD 13.1 is now available for download and testing. The release schedule and the relatively short changelog indicate that this is likely to be the last development build before the final release of FreeBSD 13.1, which is scheduled to happen two weeks from now, on 2 May 2022: "The third RC build of the 13.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 13.1-RC2 includes: a fix to libarchive(3) for zstd support; a build-time issue to resolve handling ldd including preloaded objects has been resolved; a build-time fix to resolve an issue with 'nodevice acpi' in the kernel configuration file; LLE lock leaks in the network stack had been addressed. A list of changes since 13.0-RELEASE is available in the releng/13.1 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 13.1-RELEASE cycle progresses." Continue to the release announcement for further information and upgrade instructions. Here are the download links to the amd64 and i386 installation ISO images: FreeBSD-13.1-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso (997MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.1-RC3-i386-disc1.iso (822MB, SHA512). |
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| 2022-04-08 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 13.1-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 13.1: "The second RC build of the 13.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 13.1-RC1 includes: libc - restore fp state upon flush error in fputc; updates to the bsd-family-tree history file; update contrib/expat to 2.4.7; treat cache write as a read in arm64 data faults; pf - initialize the table entry zone limit at initialization time; mpr/mps/mpt - verify cfg page ioctl lengths; zlib updated to version 1.2.12; cxgbe - fix enabling lro & rxtimestamps; uart(4) - add a concept of 'unique' serial devices; powerpc - implement __clear_cache; fstyp - detect Raspberry Pi Pico boot filesystem as FAT; various LinuxKPI updates, fixes and KBI corrections; net80211 - validate Mesh ID length in ieee80211_parse_beacon; netmap - fix integer overflow in nmreq_copyin; netmap - fix TOCTOU vulnerability in nmreq_copyin; libarchive - merge vendor bug fixes; libbe - pull props for the correct dataset in be_mounted_at(); libbe - fix be_mounted_at() with props after bootonce; various bectl/libbe fixes and updates; mrsas(4) updates...." See the release announcement for a complete list of changes. Download: FreeBSD-13.1-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (999MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.1-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (822MB, SHA512). |
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| 2022-04-01 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 13.1-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first release candidate for the upcoming FreeBSD 13.1, scheduled for final release on 26 April (following two more RC builds): "The first RC build of the 13.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 13.1-BETA3 includes: handle interrupts racing with device suspend with the hdac driver; allow kern.ipc.maxsockets to be set to current value without error; call rtsx_init() on resume in the rtsx(4) driver; fixes to vfs; update to LLVM to fix the lang/rust port build on powerpc; several network-related updates and fixes; several Linux ABI-related updates and fixes; the riscv64sf build had been fixed; OpenZFS 2.1-release had been merged from upstream; updates and fixes to libarchive(3); updates and fixes to devd(8); various 802.11 wireless updates and bug fixes; various LinuxKPI updates and fixes; the kernel build without INET or INET6 had been fixed; several arm64-specific fixes." Here is the complete release announcement. Download links for the amd64 and i386 architectures: FreeBSD-13.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (997MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.1-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (821MB, SHA512). |
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| 2022-03-18 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 13.1-BETA2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second beta release of FreeBSD 13.1, the upcoming new stable version scheduled for final release on 26 April (following one more BETA and three RC builds): "The second BETA build of the 13.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 13.1-BETA1 includes: OpenZFS has been updated to version 2.1.3; fixes to buf_alloc() and __sfvwrite(); support for obtaining early entropy from UEFI has been added; OpenSSL has been updated to prevent a consistent loop under certain circumstances; updates to fsck(8) and fsck_ffs(8) to ensure the correct exit code is returned for missing devices; a race condition in if_epair(4) on multi-core systems has been addressed. A list of changes since 13.0-RELEASE is available in the releng/13.1 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 13.1-RELEASE cycle progresses." Continue to the release announcement for further information and upgrade instructions. Download: FreeBSD-13.1-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso (996MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.1-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso (823MB, SHA512). |
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| 2021-12-08 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 12.3 |
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The FreeBSD team has announced the availability of the third update to the operating system's 12.x branch. FreeBSD 12.3 includes several bug fixes to the kernel, userland updates, and improvements to network drivers. The release announcement reports: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the stable/12 branch. Some of the highlights: updates to various networking drivers; several updates to upstream contributed software; several userland application improvements and kernel bug fixes. For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list. The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE to the memory of Ian Lepore. FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, sparc64, armv6, armv7 and aarch64 architectures. FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory stick." The release notes provide a list of fixes in this release along with their security advisories. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-12.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (937MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (776MB, SHA512). |
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| 2021-04-13 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 13.0 |
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The FreeBSD project has announced the availability of FreeBSD 13.0. After an extended development cycle, FreeBSD has arrived with a number of key improvements and features, in particular ARM64 is now a Tier 1 architecture, meaning it will receive additional support: "Removed the obsolete version of the GNU debugger that was installed to /usr/libexec for use by crashinfo(8). Detailed kernel crash information can be obtained by installing modern GDB from ports or packages. Removed the obsolete binutils 2.17 and gcc(1) 4.2.1 from the tree. All supported architectures now use the LLVM/clang toolchain. The BSD version of grep(1) is now installed by default. The obsolete GNU version that was the previous default has been removed. Removed CU-SeeMe support from libalias(3). The qat(4) driver has been added, supporting some of the cryptographic acceleration functions of the Intel QuickAssist (QAT) device. The qat(4) driver supports the QAT devices integrated with Atom C2000 and C3000 and Xeon C620 and D-1500 platforms, and the Intel QAT Adapter 8950. Several deprecated drivers have been removed. Several drivers have been ported to the PowerPC64 architecture. The kernel now supports in-kernel framing and encryption of Transport Layer Security (TLS) data on TCP sockets for TLS versions 1.0 through 1.3." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download: FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (926MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (755MB, SHA512). |
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| 2021-03-30 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 13.0-RC4 |
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Due to some critical bugs, an unscheduled fourth release candidate for the upcoming FreeBSD 13.0 has been made available for another round of testing. As a result, the final release of FreeBSD 13.0 has been pushed back to 6 April. "The fourth RC build of the 13.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 13.0-RC3 includes: a fix affecting scripted installations has been addressed; several POWERPC fixes have been included; a memory leak in NETMAP_REQ_PORT_INFO_GET has been fixed; an issue with local-unbound and some IPv6 deployment has been fixed; historical output range from random(9) has been restored to previous behavior; OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1k; a fix for validation of RDNSS options has been addressed; other miscellaneous items have been addressed. A list of changes since 12.2-RELEASE is available in the releng/13.0 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 13.0-RELEASE cycle progresses." Here is the full release announcement Download: FreeBSD-13.0-RC4-amd64-disc1.iso (925MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.0-RC4-i386-disc1.iso (756MB, SHA512). |
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| 2021-03-20 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 |
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Glen Barber has announced that the third release candidate for FreeBSD 13.0 is now ready for testing. This should be the final development build before the official release of FreeBSD 13.0 on 30 March: "The third RC build of the 13.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 13.0-RC2 includes: a virtual memory list locking fix has been addressed; a fix for systems running under VirtualBox has been addressed; a fix in the service(8) utility has been addressed; the if_wg(4) pseudo driver has been removed; a fix to TSO for TCP/IPV6 has been addressed in the vtnet(4) driver; several other miscellaneous fixes have been addressed. A list of changes since 12.2-RELEASE is available in the releng/13.0 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 13.0-RELEASE cycle progresses." See the complete release announcement for further information. Download links: FreeBSD-13.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso (927MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.0-RC3-i386-disc1.iso (757MB, SHA512). |
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| 2021-03-13 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 13.0-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 13.0, the second last release candidate before the expected final release on 30 March: "The second RC build of the 13.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 13.0-RC1 includes: miscellaneous loader fixes; mixes to if_wg(4) have been added; the growfs(8) utility has been updated to allow operating on read/write filesystems; several ZFS fixes; several TCP fixes; the bc(1) utility has been updated to version 3.3.3; an arm64 AES-XTS regression has been fixed; fix for VLAN hardware filtering in ixl(4) has been fixed; the ice(4) driver has been updated to version 0.28.1-k. A list of changes since 12.2-RELEASE is available in the releng/13.0 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 13.0-RELEASE cycle progresses." The final release of FreeBSD 13.0 is now scheduled for 30 March 2021. Here is the complete release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-13.0-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (928MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.0-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (757MB, SHA512). |
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| 2021-03-06 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 13.0-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 13.0: "The first RC build of the 13.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 13.0-BETA4 includes: an update to handle partial data resending on ktls/sendfile has been added; a bug fix in iflib; a fix to pf(4) for incorrect fragment handling; a TCP performance improvement when using TCP_NOOPT has been added; several SCTP fixes and improvements; several other miscellaneous fixes and improvements. A list of changes since 12.2-RELEASE is available in the releng/13.0 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 13.0-RELEASE cycle progresses." The final release of FreeBSD 13.0 is now scheduled for 30 March 2021. Please read the full release announcement for further information. Download: FreeBSD-13.0-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (928MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.0-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (757MB, SHA512). |
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| 2021-02-27 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 13.0-BETA4 |
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The fourth beta snapshot of FreeBSD 13.0 is now available for download and testing. This is an unplanned release which means that the final build of FreeBSD 13.0 has been rescheduled to arrive a week later than originally envisaged, on 30 March. "The fourth BETA build of the 13.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 13.0-BETA3 includes: a possible race between jail_remove(2) and fork(2) had been fixed; an issue with the pf(4) osfp configuration had been fixed; an update to the ena(4) driver had been added; a bug fix to flex(1) had been addressed; fixes for FreeBSD-SA-21:06.xen and FreeBSD-SA-21:03.pam_login_access had been addressed; a fix to ZFS to address a potential system crash if scrubbing after removing a slog device had been addressed; other miscellaneous fixes." See the release announcement and the (incomplete, work-in-progress) release notes for further information. Download: FreeBSD-13.0-BETA4-amd64-disc1.iso (928MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.0-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso (755MB, SHA512). |
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| 2021-02-21 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 13.0-BETA3 |
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Glen Barber has announced that the third BETA build of the upcoming FreeBSD 13.0 (scheduled for final release on 23 March) is now ready for testing: "The third BETA build of the 13.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 13.0-BETA2 includes: a fix to the virtual memory subsystem to honor the 'noreuse' flag; a fix to arm64 systems to initialize the VFP control register; multiple busdma fixes; a fix to address an ifa refcount leak during route addition; a fix to correctly handle CMCI capability reporting; a fix to wg(4) to fix incorrect allowed-IPs netmask; a fix to UDP6 to prevent a potential system crash; a fix to pf(4) to relax pf_rule_addr validation; OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1j; a fix to ZFS raidz2/raidz3 not healing parity with two or more failing disks; a fix for a lock order reversal in the USB audio driver; the mrsas(4) driver has been enabled in the POWERPC64LE kernel by default; a fix to the vt terminal buffer size with small font." Here is the complete release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-13.0-BETA3-amd64-disc1.iso (927MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.0-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (756MB, SHA512). |
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| 2021-02-13 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second beta snapshot of FreeBSD 13.0, the upcoming new stable version scheduled for final release on 23 March (after one more BETA and three RC builds): "The second BETA build of the 13.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 13.0-BETA1 includes: issues with 32-bit builds have been fixed; shared libraries have been updated following an update to ncurses; support for kernel TLS offload has been added (off by default); the mlx5en(4) driver has been included in the amd64 GENERIC kernel by default; documentation included on installation medium has been removed; a null pointer dereference has been addressed; other miscellaneous bug fixes. A list of changes since 12.2-RELEASE is available in the releng/13.0 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 13.0-RELEASE cycle progresses." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download: FreeBSD-13.0-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso (927MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.0-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso (757MB, SHA512). |
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| 2020-10-27 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 12.2 |
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The FreeBSD team has announced the availability of FreeBSD 12.2. This update to the 12.x series updates Intel networing support, makes it possible to run Linux inside Jail environments, and the Clang compiler has been updated to version 10. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE. This is the third release of the stable/12 branch. Some of the highlights: Updates to the wireless networking stack and various drivers have been introduced to provide better 802.11n and 802.11ac support. The ice(4) driver has been added, supporting Intel 100Gb ethernet cards. The jail(8) utility has been updated to allow running Linux in a jailed environment. OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1h. OpenSSH has been updated to version 7.9p1. The clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt utilities and libc++ have been updated to version 10.0.1." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download: FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (920MB, SHA512, signature), FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (761MB, SHA512, signature). |
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| 2020-10-17 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.2-RC3 |
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The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is on target for the October 27 release of FreeBSD 12.2, with the third (and likely final) release candidate now ready for testing: "The third RC build of the 12.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 12.2-RC2 includes: report what console the boot loader is telling the kernel to use and allow toggling between them; allow slow USB devices to be given more time to return their USB descriptors; allow using zstd and encryption in the loader." The release notes are also getting populated with the usual information, including the list of software upgrades: "The tcsh(1) utility has been updated to version 6.21.00; the less(1) utility has been updated to version v551; the libbsdxml(3) library has been updated to version 2.2.9; the resolvconf(8) utility has been updated to version 3.9.2; the pcap(3) library has been updated to version 1.9.1; the tcpdump(1) utility has been updated to version 4.9.3...." Here are the quick download links to the "disc1" images for amd64 and i383 architectures: Download links: FreeBSD-12.2-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso (920MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.2-RC3-i386-disc1.iso (762MB, SHA512). |
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| 2020-10-10 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.2-RC2 |
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Approaching the final release, the regular snapshots of the FreeBSD 12.2's release cycle continue to arrive at weekly intervals. The second release candidate was announced by Glen Barber earlier today: "The second RC build of the 12.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Please note that the dvd1.iso images for non-x86 architectures that are normally provided are missing from this release candidate due to a human error. They will be provided for 12.2-RC3 if it is deemed necessary, as well as 12.2-RELEASE. We apologize for the inconvenience. A summary of changes since 12.2-RC1 includes: fix yypo in ng_hci_le_connection_complete_ep struct; set up the firmware flowc for the tid before send_abort_rpl in cxgbe(4); fix resuming receive stream to dataset with a mounted clone; fix 'zfs receive' of interrupted stream without '-F'; set the correct HWCAP for arm64/aarch64." See also the (still incomplete) release notes for more detailed information about this version, scheduled for final release on October 27. Download links: FreeBSD-12.2-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (921MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.2-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (762MB, SHA512). |
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| 2020-10-04 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.2-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced that the first release candidate for FreeBSD 12.2 is now ready for testing. This will be followed by two more release candidates before the expected final release on 27 October: "The first RC build of the 12.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Note regarding arm SD card images. For the convenience of those without console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access. Additionally, the root user password is set to root. It is strongly recommended to change the password for both users after gaining access to the system. A summary of changes since 12.2-BETA3 includes: OpenSSL 1.1.1h has been merged; a fix for UFS hash checking had been added; a fix for mmap'd writes in fusefs for writes in direct_io mode had been addressed; Amazon EC2 AMIs for arm64 have been updated to include ebsvnme-id; a fix to NFSv4.1 addressing a locking issue had been addressed; other miscellaneous bug fixes." Read the release announcement and the release notes (still a work-in-progress) for further details. Download: FreeBSD-12.2-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (918MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.2-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (762MB, SHA512). |
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| 2020-09-27 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third beta build of FreeBSD 12.2, the upcoming new stable version scheduled for final release exactly one month from today, on 27 October. This should be the last beta before the start of a release candidate (RC) cycle. As usual, the new snapshot fixes a number of issues: "The third BETA build of the 12.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 12.2-BETA2 includes: an installation issue with certctl(8) had been fixed; read/write kstats for ZFS datasets had been added from OpenZFS; the default vm.max_user_wired value had been increased; the kern.geom.part.check_integrity sysctl(8) had been extended to work on GPT partitions; the cxgbe(4) firmware had been updated to version 1.25.0.0; fixes for em(4) and igb(4) have been addressed; a fix for a potential NFS server crash had been addressed; a lock order reversal between NFS server and server-side krpc had been addressed." See the release announcement and the (incomplete) release notes for further information. Download: FreeBSD-12.2-BETA3-amd64-disc1.iso (918MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.2-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (762MB, SHA512). |
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| 2020-06-16 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 11.4 |
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Glen Barber has announced the release of FreeBSD 11.4, the latest (and final) stable update in the product's legacy branch. It will continue receiving security support until September 2021. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth and final release of the stable/11 branch. Some of the highlights: the Clang, LLVM, lld, lldb and compiler-rt utilities as well as libc++ have been updated to upstream version 10.0.0; OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.2u; Unbound has been updated to version 1.9.6; the pkg(8) utility has been updated to version 1.13.2; the KDE desktop environment has been updated to version 5.18.4; the GNOME desktop environment has been updated to version 3.28; support for renaming ZFS bookmarks has been added; the certctl(8) utility has been added; several feature additions and updates to userland applications; warnings for features deprecated in future releases will now be printed on all FreeBSD versions.... See the release announcement and the release notes for further details. Download: FreeBSD-11.4-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (715MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (618MB, SHA512). |
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| 2019-11-04 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 12.1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the release of FreeBSD 12.1. The new version includes BearSSL, the Clang compiler has been updated to version 8.0.1, and OpenSSL has also been updated. The 12.x series of FreeBSD is expected to receive support through to June 2024. The release announcement states: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE. This is the second release of the stable/12 branch. Some of the highlights: BearSSL has been imported to the base system; yhe clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt utilities and libc++ have been updated to version 8.0.1; OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1d. The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE to the memory of Kurt Lidl. FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64, armv6, armv7 and aarch64 architectures." Additional information on FreeBSD 12.1 and the changes since 12.0 can be found in the project's release notes. Install and upgrade instructions are also available. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (867MB, SHA512), (728MB, SHA512). |
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| 2019-10-19 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.1-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the release of the second of third release candidates for FreeBSD 12.1. The new development snapshot features relatively few changes as the 12.1 branch is nearing its stable launch. The release announcement lists the following adjustments since the first release candidate: "A summary of changes since 12.1-RC1 includes: The loader.efi had been updated to use ioalign for compliance with UEFI specification 2.7A. A null pointer dereference bug had been fixed. A fix to SCTP to reset local variables to their initial values had been added. The ixgbe(4) driver had been updated to prevent a system crash when configuring EEE on X500EM_X devices. The sdhci(4) driver had been updated to fix a boot issue on Beaglebone SoCs." Additional information on the 12.1 branch can be found in the operating system's release notes. Download: FreeBSD-12.1-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (865MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.1-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (727MB, SHA512). |
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| 2019-10-11 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.1-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the release of the first of two scheduled release candidates for FreeBSD 12.1. The release candidate contains just a handful of fixes and improvements since last week's BETA3 snapshot. The release announcement reports: "A summary of changes since 12.1-BETA3 includes: A NULL pointer dereference that could lead to a system crash had been fixed. A fix to correctly implement pmap_page_is_mapped() on ARM64 and RISCV. A fix to tun(4) and tap(4) when destroying interfaces had been added. A fix to krping to notify sleeping threads of device removal had been added. Several updates to mlx5core, mlx5en(4), and mlx5ib(4). Several fixes in libusb(3) and xhci(4) have been added. Several SCTP and TCP fixes have been added." The release candidate is available for i386, AMD64, ARMv7, PowerPC, SPARC64, and AARCH64 processors. More information can be found in the release notes. Download: FreeBSD-12.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (865MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.1-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (726MB, SHA512). |
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| 2019-10-05 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.1-BETA3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the release of a new development build of FreeBSD 12.1. The new beta release, FreeBSD 12.1-BETA3, fixes some build errors in the core operating system, addresses a send bug in ZFS, and there are two new subcommands for the freebsd-update update manager. The release announcement lists the recent changes: "An issue with imx6-based arm boards had been fixed; an issue with 64-bit long double types leading to link failures had been fixed; an overflow logic error had been fixed in fsck_msdosfs(8); an issue in destruction of robust mutexes had been fixed; support for the '-vnP' flags to the zfs send subcommand had been added for bookmarks; the ixgbe(4) driver had been updated to prevent a potential system crash with certain 10Gb Intel NICs; a regression with the zfs send subcommand when using the '-n', '-P', and '-i' flags had been fixed; the freebsd-update(8) utility had been updated to include two new subcommands - updatesready and showconfig; support for 'ps -H' had been added to kvm(3); an issue when compiling certain ports targeting Intel Atom CPUs had been fixed." Additional details can be found in the release notes. Download: FreeBSD-12.1-BETA3-amd64-disc1.iso (867MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.1-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (726MB, SHA512). |
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| 2019-09-28 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.1-BETA2 |
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The FreeBSD team has published a new development snapshot of the project's upcoming 12.1 release. The latest beta fixes a number of problems found in drivers, the ping6 command, and FUSE filesystem support. "A summary of changes since 12.1-BETA1 includes: an off-by-one error in fusefs(5) had been fixed; a problem with in-place strip(1) on msdosfs(5) had been fixed; stability fixes for mpr(4) and mps(4) have been merged from head; note - support for these drivers have been removed for 32-bit powerpc; a regression had been fixed in the ping6(8) utility when the system is built without capsicum(4); a regression in the jme(4) driver had been fixed; a change to the bhyve(4) uart(4) driver had been fixed to support running under syzkaller; the WITH_PIE and WITH_BIND_NOW build knobs have been added; the 'updatesready' and 'showconfig' subcommands have been added to freebsd-update(8); the camcontrol(8) 'devtype' subcommand had been fixed to correctly report SATL devices." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download: FreeBSD-12.1-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso (866MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.1-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso (727MB, SHA512). |
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| 2019-09-21 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.1-BETA1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the first beta snapshot of FreeBSD 12.1. The new beta offers mostly minor updates and fixes over the previous 12.0 release: "The lockf(1) utility has been updated to return EX_UNAVAILABLE if the -n flag is used and the lock file does not exist. The ktrdump(8) utility has been updated to include the -l flag which enables "live" mode when specified. The gzip(1) utility has been updated to add -l support for xz(1) files. The trim(8) utility has been added, which deletes content for blocks on flash-based storage devices that use wear-leveling algorithms. The sh(1) utility has been updated to include a new pipefail option, which when set, changes the exit status of a pipeline to the last non-zero exit status of any command in the pipeline. The mlx5tool(8) utility has been updated to implement firmware update capability for ConnectX-4, ConnectX-5 and ConnectX-6. The posixshmcontrol(1) utility has been added. The swapon(8) utility has been updated to invoke BIO_DELETE to trim swap devices if either the -E flag is used on the command line, or if the trimonce option is included in fstab(5)." Additional information can be found in the release announcement and in the release notes. Download: FreeBSD-12.1-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso (866MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.1-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (726MB, SHA512). |
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| 2019-07-09 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 11.3 |
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The FreeBSD team has announced the launch of an update to the operating system's 11.x series: FreeBSD 11.3. The new version updates build and compiler tools, upgrades the package manager, improves jail logging messages, and updates the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the stable/11 branch. Some of the highlights: The clang, llvm, lld, lldb, and compiler-rt utilities as well as libc++ have been updated to upstream version 8.0.0. The ELF Tool Chain has been updated to version r3614. OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.2s. The ZFS filesystem has been updated to implement parallel mounting. The loader(8) has been updated to extend geli(8) support to all architectures. The pkg(8) utility has been updated to version 1.10.5. The KDE desktop environment has been updated to version 5.15.3. The GNOME desktop environment has been updated to version 3.28. Further details can be found in the release announcement and in the release notes. Download: FreeBSD-11.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (697MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (593MB, SHA512). |
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| 2019-06-15 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.3-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 11.3: "The first RC build of the 11.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 11.3-BETA3 includes: bug fix in the mxl5en(4) driver; minor fix to ipfilter; miscellaneous USB fixes; fix for prio versus nonprio tagged traffic in RDMACM; several zfsboot and bectl(8) fixes; OpenPAM has been updated to the latest upstream version; a system panic when using VIMAGE has been fixed. A list of changes since 11.2-RELEASE is available in the stable/11 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 11.3-RELEASE cycle progresses. VM disk images are available for the amd64, i386 and aarch64 architectures. The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135MB and 165MB respectively (amd64/i386), decompressing to a 21GB sparse image. Note regarding arm64/aarch64 virtual machine images: a modified QEMU EFI loader file is needed for qemu-system-aarch64 to be able to boot the virtual machine images." Here is the full release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-11.3-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (697MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.3-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (592MB, SHA512). |
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| 2019-06-08 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.3-BETA3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third, and final, beta build of FreeBSD 11.3: "The third BETA build of the 11.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 11.3-BETA2 includes: support for the IPV6_NEXTHOP option has been restored; warnings for IPsec algorithms deprecated in RFC 8221 have been added; a fix for FC-Tape bugs; a fix in jail_getid(3) for jail(8) ID 0; warnings for weaker geli(4) algorithms have been added; various updates and fixes in libarchive(3); a fix in cxgbe(4) to address a connection hang when running iozone over an NFS-mounted share; a fix to the zfs(8) 'userspace' subcommand where all unresolved UIDs after the first were ignored; an apm(8) fix to correct battery life calculation; the default size of Vagrant images has been increased; reporting on deprecated features for all major FreeBSD versions has been merged. A list of changes since 11.2-RELEASE is available in the stable/11 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 11.3-RELEASE cycle progresses." The release announcement has further information. Download: FreeBSD-11.3-BETA3-amd64-disc1.iso (696MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.3-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (592MB, SHA512). |
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| 2019-06-01 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.3-BETA2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second beta build of FreeBSD 11.3: "The second BETA build of the 11.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 11.3-BETA1 includes: the fsck_readdir() and dircheck() functions have been rewritten for clarity and correctness; contrib/zlib has been moved to sys/contrib/zlib so that it can be used in the kernel; the bhyve SMBIOS table has been made topology-aware; accessor function for vm->maxcpus have been added; the bectl(8) jail with numeric boot environment (BE) names has been fixed; OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.2s; an update to prevent calling hw_mds_recalculate() from initializecpu(); an upstream LLVM fix has been merged to fix an assertion when building the graphics/mesa-dri port for PowerPC64; a fix to the NDIS driver printing '(null)' when uninitialized when using the '-h' (help) flag; an uart emulation bug has been fixed; increase the VirtIO segment count to support modern Windows guests...." Continue to the release announcement for a full changelog. Download (mirrors): FreeBSD-11.3-BETA2-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,526MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.3-BETA2-i386-dvd1.iso (3,214MB, SHA512). |
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| 2019-05-25 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.3-BETA1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the release of new testing media for FreeBSD. The new development snapshot, FreeBSD 11.3-BETA1, contains mostly minor fixes and improvements for the FreeBSD 11.x series and makes it easier to remotely access ARM-based systems. "The first BETA build of the 11.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Note regarding arm SD card images - for convenience for those without console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of 'freebsd' is available by default for ssh(1) access. Additionally, the root user password is set to root. It is strongly recommended to change the password for both users after gaining access to the system." Barber reports that at this time it is not yet possible to perform a live upgrade to the new beta release, but that is likely to change in the near future. Further information on FreeBSD's 11.x status and development can be found in the project's release notes. Download: FreeBSD-11.3-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,525MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.3-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (3,214MB, SHA512). |
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| 2018-12-11 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 12.0 |
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The FreeBSD team has announced the project's first release in its 12 series. FreeBSD 12.0 features a number of software updates, including OpenSSL 1.1.1, OpenSSH 7.8, and the Clang compiler has been updated to version 6.0.1. TRIM support has been improved for the UFS filesystem and the bhyve virtualization software can now be run inside a jail. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE. This is the first release of the stable/12 branch. Some of the highlights: OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1a (LTS). Unbound has been updated to version 1.8.1, and DANE-TA has been enabled by default. OpenSSH has been updated to version 7.8p1. Additional capsicum(4) support has been added to sshd(8). Clang, LLVM, LLD, LLDB, compiler-rt and libc++ has been updated to version 6.0.1. The vt(4) Terminus BSD Console font has been update to version 4.46. The bsdinstall(8) utility now supports UEFI+GELI as an installation option. The VIMAGE kernel configuration option has been enabled by default." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download: FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (851MB, SHA512, signature), FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (722MB, SHA512, signature). |
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| 2018-12-01 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.0-RC3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third release candidate for FreeBSD 12.0. Unless there are any unexpected showstopper bugs, this should be the last release candidate before the final release on 11th of December: "The third RC build of the 12.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 12.0-RC2 includes: fix for vulnerabilities in NFS server code (FreeBSD-SA-18:13.nfs); the if_ixlv.ko kernel module had been added as a link to if_iavf.ko for backwards compatibility when upgrading from earlier releases; various memory leak fixes; various miscellaneous fixes. A list of changes since 11.2-RELEASE is available in the releng/12.0 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 12.0-RELEASE cycle progresses. Virtual Machine disk images are available for the amd64 and i386 architectures. The partition layout is: 16 kB - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label); 1 GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label); 20 GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download: FreeBSD-12.0-RC3-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,703MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.0-RC3-i386-dvd1.iso (3,191MB, SHA512). |
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| 2018-11-25 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.0-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 12.0, the project's upcoming major version currently scheduled for final release on 11 December: "The second RC build of the 12.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Please note that the 12.0-RC2 armv7 RPI2 build failed, and the cause is being investigated. A summary of changes since 12.0-RC1 includes: kernel debugging support in various kernel configurations has been disabled - this was missed when branching releng/12.0 from stable/12; allow set ether/vlan PCP operation from the VNET jails; align IA32_ARCH_CAP MSR definitions and use with SDM rev. 068; several IFLIB-related fixes; regressions when using 'pciconf -l' were fixed; handle kernel superpage mappings in pmap_remove_l2(); fix /etc/ntp permissions; OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1a; various fixes to libbe(3) and bectl(8); a src.conf knob to build userland with retpoline was added (off by default); various other miscellaneous fixes." Here is the full release announcement as published on the freebsd-stable mailing list. The (currently still incomplete) release notes are also available. Download links: FreeBSD-12.0-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,705MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.0-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (3,188MB, SHA512). |
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| 2018-11-17 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.0-RC1 |
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The first release candidate for the upcoming FreeBSD 12.0 is now ready for download and testing: "The first RC build of the 12.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 12.0-BET4 includes: NFSv4 ACL inheritance flags are no longer set on non-directories; new keywords, enable, disable and delete, were added to rc(8); fix freebsd32 mknod(at); fix some problems that manifest when NUMA domain 0 is empty; the ctm(1) utility has been marked as deprecated; the amdsmn(4) and amdtemp(4) drivers has been updated to attach to Ryzen 2 hostbridges; the amdtemp(4) driver temperature reporting on AMD 2990WX has been fixed; printing of 64-bit counters on 32-bit powerpc platforms has been fixed; fixes to netmap(4) support with vtnet(4); handling of allow.mount.fusefs in jailparam_init() has been fixed; miscellaneous IPv6 fixes; various other miscellaneous fixes...." See the release announcement and the (draft) release notes for further information. Quick links to download the installation DVD images for the amd64 and i386 architectures: FreeBSD-12.0-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,700MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.0-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (3,190MB, SHA512). |
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| 2018-11-10 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.0-BETA4 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the (originally unscheduled) fourth beta release of FreeBSD 12.0. This means that the stable 12.0 release gets another reschedule - to 11 December. From the release announcement: "The fourth beta build of the 12.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 12.0-BETA3 includes: the number of fans supported from 8 to 12 for the powerpc architecture; a VIMAGE fix to correct carpstats; the bectl(8) utility has been added to rescue(8), as well as a fix to prevent an error when attempting to activate the currently active boot environment; the dvd1.iso pkg(8) as well as the default pkg(8) configuration file has been updated to use the quarterly package set (note to armv6, armv7 and aarch64 users - packages against the quarterly ports branch (2018Q4) are in progress, and should be complete over the next few days); the icwhd(4) driver has been updated to add TCO watchdog timer support in Lewisburg PCH (C620) chipsets; a local_unbound_tls variable has been added to the default rc.conf(5), set to "NO" by default; a fix to detect "stolen memory" not properly reserved in some Intel device BIOSes has been added; fixes to lualoader...." Download links: FreeBSD-12.0-BETA4-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,705MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.0-BETA4-i386-dvd1.iso (3,190MB, SHA512). |
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| 2018-11-04 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.0-BETA3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third beta build of FreeBSD 12.0: "The third beta build of the 12.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 12.0-BETA2 includes: SPE exception handling was implemented for the powerpcspe architecture (the powerpcspe build failed for BETA3 for reasons unrelated to source code changes and is being investigated); the localedef(1) utility was updated to add '-b' and '-l' options to specify output endianness, and now used when building share/ctypedef and share/colldef; the uplcom(4) driver has been updated to add support for formula-based arbitrary baud rates; the cxgbe(4) driver has been updated to use automatic cidx updates with ofld and ctrl queues; backwards compatibility for the geli(8) 'attach' subcommand has been added, allowing older geli(8) binaries to attach newer geli(4)-backed devices; the timezone database files have been updated to version 2018g; Bhyve has been updated to allow the VNC server to listen for incoming IPv6 connections; various fixes and updates to lualoader...." Read the release announcement for more information. Download: FreeBSD-12.0-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,705MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.0-BETA3-i386-dvd1.iso (3,192MB, SHA512). |
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| 2018-10-27 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.0-BETA2 |
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The FreeBSD project is making progress toward releasing FreeBSD 12.0. The developers have released a new development snapshot, FreeBSD 12.0-BETA2, which removes some debugging options, updates the time zone database, and improves the Linux compatibility layer. "The ability to prevent interrupting the boot process without entering the password in loader.conf(5) had been fixed. Several drivers originally targeted for removal in 12.0-RELEASE had been removed from the GENERIC kernel configuration on amd64 and i386. An off-by-one error that could lead to a system panic with the sound(4) driver had been fixed. The mlx5(4) driver had been updated to notify when a port on ConnectX-6 network cards had been turned off due to insufficient power. The filter_reloc() function in objcopy(1) had been restored, which fixes building GCC. The shared library version of OpenSSL in the base system had been increased from '9' to '111' in order to prevent shared library version collisions with OpenSSL installed via pkg(8) or the Ports Collection. Updates to the Linux compatibility layer." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-12.0-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso (849MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.0-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso (721MB, SHA512). |
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| 2018-10-21 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 12.0-BETA1 |
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Following ten alpha releases and several schedule adjustments, the development process of FreeBSD 12.0 is back on track with the arrival of the first beta build. The supported architectures include amd64, i386, aarch64, armv6, armv7, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64. Documentation, such release notes or changelogs for the new release, are largely non-existent at this time, but the release announcement provides some information for beta testers, including a note about bug reporting: "If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -current mailing list. If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "stable/12" branch. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 12.0-RELEASE cycle progresses." One known issue affecting those who'd like to upgrade from FreeBSD 11 is also mentioned: "Please note, freebsd-update(8) binary upgrade bits are still in progress and not yet available. A follow-up to this email will be sent when they are available." Installation ISO images and virtual machine disk images are available for download from FreeBSD mirrors; here are two quick links to the amd64 and i386 installation DVDs: FreeBSD-12.0-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,869MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.0-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (1,339MB, SHA512). The final release of FreeBSD 12.0 is scheduled for 4 December 2018. |
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| 2018-06-27 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 11.2 |
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The FreeBSD team has announced an update for the operating system's 11.x series. The new version, FreeBSD 11.2, introduces updates to OpenSSL and OpenSSH in the base system, includes version 6 of the Clang compiler and makes new versions of KDE4 and GNOME Shell available through the project's ports tree. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE. This is the third release of the stable/11 branch. Some of the highlights: OpenSSH has been updated to version 7.5p1. OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.2o. The clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt utilities have been updated to version 6.0.0. The libarchive(3) library has been updated to version 3.3.2. The libxo(3) library has been updated to version 0.9.0. Device driver updates to cxgbe(4), ixl(4), and ng_pppoe(4), and the new mlx5io(4), ocs_fw(4), and smartpqi(4) drivers have been added. The dwatch(1), efibootmgr(8), and etdump(1) utilities have been added. Various miscellaneous kernel, userland application, and library updates. KDE has been updated to version 4.14.3. GNOME has been updated to version 3.18.0." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download: FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,054MB, SHA512, signature), FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (578MB, SHA512, signature). |
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| 2017-10-03 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 10.4 |
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The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the availability of a new update to FreeBSD's 10.x production series. The new version, FreeBSD 10.4, includes support for eMMC storage and expands Wake-On-LAN support for Intel networking cards. In addition, the GNOME desktop has been updated to version 3.18. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce availability of FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth release of the stable/10 branch, building upon the stability and reliability of 10.3-RELEASE and introducing new features. Some of the highlights: 10.4-RELEASE is the first FreeBSD release to feature full support for eMMC storage, including eMMC partitions, TRIM and bus speed modes up to HS400. Please note, though, that availability of especially the DDR52, HS200 and HS400 modes requires support in the actual sdhci(4) front-end as well as by the hardware used. Also note, that the SDHCI controller part of Intel Apollo Lake chipsets is affected by several severe silicon bugs. Apparently, it depends on the particular Apollo Lake platform whether the workarounds in place so far are sufficient to avoid timeouts on attaching sdhci(4) there." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement and release notes. Download: FreeBSD-10.4-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,899MB, SHA512, signature), FreeBSD-10.4-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2,682MB, SHA512, signature). |
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| 2017-09-24 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.4-RC2 |
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Less than a week after the first release candidate (RC) was made available, the second RC build of FreeBSD 10.4 is now also ready for testing. Some of the recent noteworthy changes include: "Given that the amd64 disc1 image was overflowing, more of the base components installed into the disc1 (live) file systems had to be disabled. Most notably, this removed the compiler toolchain from the disc1 images. All disabled tools are still available with the dvd1 images, though. The aesni(4) driver now no longer shares a single FPU context across multiple sessions in multiple threads, addressing problems seen when employing aesni(4) for ipsec(4). Support for netmap(4) by the ixgbe(4) driver has been brought into line with the netmap(4) API present in stable/10. Also, ixgbe(4) now correctly handles VFs in its netmap(4) support again instead of treating these as PFs. During the creation of amd64 and i386 VM images, etcupdate(8) and mergemaster(8) databases now are bootstrapped, akin to what happens along the extraction of base.txz as part of a new installation via bsdinstall(8)." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download: FreeBSD-10.4-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,900MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-10.4-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (2,680MB, SHA512). |
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| 2017-09-17 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.4-RC1 |
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Marius Strobl has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 10.4, an upcoming new stable release in the project's legacy 10.x branch: "The first RC build of the 10.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Noteworthy changes since 10.4-BETA4: an upstream fix for zlib compression has been merged, the bug had caused the embedded Tomcat web server of UniFi Controllers to send out incorrectly compressed responses; the Linux statfs ftype is now aware of ZFS; abug in bsdinstall(8) causing ifconfig_$INTERFACE lines to be added to /etc/rc.conf for unsuccessful DHCP attempts has been addressed; the usermod command of the pw(8) utility now correctly handles empty secondary group lists and its useradd command will no longer add entries with invalid user names, e. g. ones containing spaces; the zfs(8) error message displayed when rejecting a checksum selection now no longer suggests unsupported hash algorithms itself." See the full release announcement for further information. Here are the download links for the amd64 and i386 architectures: FreeBSD-10.4-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,901MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-10.4-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (2,683MB, SHA512). |
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| 2017-07-26 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 11.1 |
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The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the availability of FreeBSD 11.1. The 11.1 release is the latest stable version of the venerable FreeBSD operating system. The new version features updates to the project's compiler and linking tools, ZFS now supports compressed cache and the efivar utility has been added for managing UEFI variables. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE. This is the second release of the stable/11 branch. Some of the highlights: Clang, LLVM, LLD, LLDB, and libc++ have been updated to version 4.0.0. Many third-party (contributed) software updates, such as the Elf Tool Chain, ACPICA, libarchive(3), ntpd(8), unbound(8), and more. Support for blacklistd(8) has been added to OpenSSH. The zfsbootcfg(8) utility has been added, providing one-time boot.config(5)-style options for zfsboot(8). The efivar(8) utility has been added, providing an interface to manage UEFI variables. Support for Microsoft Hyper-V Generation 2 virtual machines has been added. The ena(4) driver has been added, providing support for "next generation" Enhanced Networking on the Amazon EC2 platform. The NFS client now supports the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). The EFI loader can now access remote files via TFTP in addition to NFS as a run-time configuration option. ZFS now stores compressed data in cache, improving cache hit rates and performance." Details can be found in the project's release announcement and release notes. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,193MB, SHA512, signature), FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2,867MB, SHA512, signature). |
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| 2017-07-15 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.1-RC3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of a new development snapshot for the FreeBSD operating system. The new snapshot, FreeBSD 11.1-RC3, will likely be the project's final release candidate before 11.1 is published. The snapshot features mostly small adjustments and fixes: "A summary of changes since 11.1-RC2 includes: A rare truncation case has been fixed in the runtime linker. Signatures of several pthread stubs have been corrected. Deprecation notices have been added to gdb, kgdb, sicontrol, wlconfig, as well as several drivers that have been removed from 12.0. Loop termination in vm_map_find_min() has been fixed. The layout of the vm_map_entry struct has been restored. The Heimdal KDC-REP service encrypted ticket usage has been fixed. An issue where some Intel SDHCI/eMMC controllers can fail on the first attempt after a D3 to D0 transition has been fixed. Capsicum support has been added to bhyve." Additional information can be found in the release announcement and in the project's release notes. Download: FreeBSD-11.1-RC3-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,194MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.1-RC3-i386-dvd1.iso (2,867MB, SHA512). |
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| 2017-07-09 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.1-RC2 |
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As the FreeBSD team prepares fr the release f FreeBSD 11.1, the developers have been hard at work fixing lingering bugs. The FreeBSD team has announced a new release candidate, 11.1-RC2, for testing. The new development snapshot includes a number of bug fixes since the previous release candidate: "A summary of changes since 11.1-RC1 includes: VM subsystem fixes. A double-free in RPC code has been corrected, as well as a sanity check ensuring the return value of seteuid() is evaluated. A gpart issue with systems with SD cards as the primary drive has been corrected. A fix to correct IPv6 header parsing. A fix to correct REPORT ZONE commands sent to the da driver. A possible panic in camperiphfree() has been fixed. A potential panic on boot triggered by ACPI taskqueue creation has been fixed. Bug fixes in C++ symbol demangling. The ena driver has been added. MAP_GUARD has been added for stack grow area protection." Further details and a list of supported hardware architectures can be found in Glen Barber's release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-11.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,193MB, SHA512, FreeBSD-11.1-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (2,868MB, SHA512). |
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| 2017-07-01 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.1-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first release candidate snapshot of the FreeBSD operating system. The new development snapshot, FreeBSD 11.1-RC1, is available for x86, ARM, PowerPC and Sparc64 architectures. A number of bug fixes have been introduced into the release candidate: "The first RC build of the 11.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since BETA3 includes: several build toolchain related fixes; a use-after-free in RPC client code has been corrected; the ntpd leap-seconds file has been updated; various VM subsystem fixes; the '_' character is now allowed in newfs labels; a potential sleep while holding a mutex has been corrected in the sa driver; a memory leak in an ioctl handler has been fixed in the ses driver. A list of changes since 11.0-RELEASE are available in the releng/11.1 release notes." Further information, upgrade instructions and information on using the project's ARM images in headless environments can be found in the release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-11.1-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,193MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.1-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (2,869MB, SHA512). |
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| 2017-06-24 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.1-BETA3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of a new beta snapshot of the FreeBSD operating system. The new development version, FreeBSD 11.1-BETA3, is available for x86, ARM, PowerPC and Sparc64 architectures. Several fixes and improvements have been introduced since the previous beta, including: "The mlx4en driver has been updated to use static device numbering instead of dynamic numbering. The patch(1) utility has been updated to fix an infinite loop when failing to read the specified input. The bsdinstall utility has been updated to use consistent EFI partition configuration across all supported platforms. A system panic when booting a single CPU system has been corrected. The vmxnet3 driver has been updated to fix a system crash when LRO (large receive offloading) was enabled. An issue where an ethernet adapter would not report 'no carrier' after
disconnecting the network cable has been corrected. The qlnxe driver firmware has been updated to version 8.30.0.0." Information on testing and providing feedback for this beta release can be found in Barber's release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-11.1-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,193MB, SHA512). |
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| 2017-06-17 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.1-BETA2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the release of a new development snapshot of FreeBSD. The new snapshot, FreeBSD 11.1-BETA2, is available for x86, AMD64, PowerPC and ARM architectures and includes several fixes and improvements since the previous beta release. "The pcib driver has been updated for Hyper-V virtual machines to use device serial numbers instead of the GUID for persistent devices. A possible null pointer reference has been corrected. A buffer length issue in RPC code has been corrected. SMBFS has been fixed with saved passwords longer than 18 characters. Various swap pager fixes. top has been updated to change the way the ZFS ARC compression ratio is calculated, and remove overhead statistics, already included in other counters. bsdinstall has been updated to make ZFS min_auto_ashift adjustment persistent, as well as support Auto ZFS mode for ARM64. Possible transmission breakage of files longer than 4GB on 32-bit architectures has been fixed." Additional information, including the default account names and passwords for embedded devices, can be found in the release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-11.1-BETA2-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,191MB, SHA512). |
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| 2017-06-10 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.1-BETA1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the initial beta build of the upcoming FreeBSD 11.1. As usual, ISO images are available for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. The release announcement includes a special note for the users of the arm architecture: "Note regarding arm/armv6 images - for the convenience of those without console access to the system, a 'freebsd' user with a password of 'freebsd' is available by default for ssh(1) access. Additionally, the root user password is set to 'root'. It is strongly recommended to change the password for both users after gaining access to the system." The release notes are a work in progress at this stage and the announcement only links to the 11.0-STABLE notes: "A list of changes since 11.0-RELEASE are available on the stable/11 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 11.1-RELEASE cycle progresses." For those readers interested in testing the new FreeBSD version, here are the download links for the amd64 and i386 installation DVDs: FreeBSD-11.1-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,190MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.1-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (2,869MB, SHA512). The final release of FreeBSD 11.1 is scheduled for 26 July 2017. |
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| 2016-10-10 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 11.0 |
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The FreeBSD project has announced a new stable release of the project's operating system. The new release, FreeBSD 11.0, drops support for the ageing OpenSSH Protocol 1, adds wireless support for 802.11n, provides native graphics support for the operating system's bhyve hypervisor and an arm64 architecture port has been added. "Please note, as a result of the timing between the withdrawn FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE images being available before the official announcement and several last-minute issues being discovered, uname(1) will display FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1, as the images were generated from a patch-level revision of the releng/11.0 branch. Users that have installed FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE from the images originally available on the mirrors or from freebsd-update(8) prior to the rebuild of the final release are urged to upgrade their systems to FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1 immediately." The release announcement has more information on upgrading older builds of FreeBSD or obtaining fresh installation media. Detailed changes available in 11.0 can be found in the release notes. Download: FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,795MB, SHA256, signature, pkglist), FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2,523MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2016-09-18 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.0-RC3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third release candidate for FreeBSD, an unscheduled build of the upcoming (and delayed) 11.0-RELEASE: "The second RC build of the 11.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since RC2 includes: a boot issue affecting booting from large volumes has been fixed; a boot issue affecting powerpc/powerpc64 has been fixed; debugging options have been turned off for arm64/aarch64; the libarchive(3) library has been updated; the cron(8) utility has been updated to include a bug fix; an ipfw(4) 'set enable/disable' bug has been fixed; the arm64/aarch64 kernel has been updated to print a warning when running on pass 1.1 hardware." Here is the full release announcement as published on the freebsd-stable mailing list. Interested testers can from download the RC3 from here: FreeBSD-11.0-RC3-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,793MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.0-RC3-i386-dvd1.iso (2,523MB, SHA512). The target release date of FreeBSD 11.0 has now been shifted to 28 September, ten days from today. |
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| 2016-08-25 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.0-RC2 |
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The delayed second release candidate for FreeBSD 11.0 is finally out. The problem, as reported on the project's mailing lists last week, was caused by two IPv6-related bugs, both of which have now been resolved. The release announcement provides the usual details: "The second RC build of the 11.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since RC1 includes: support for 'nat global' has been restored in ipfw(4); a hang in vtnet(4) when max_virtqueue_pairs > VTNET_MAX_QUEUE_PAIR has been fixed; detection bridges that are not really HotPlug capable has been fixed; various Clang fixes; L2 caching for UDP over IPv6 has been disabled; various build fixes; various other fixes since RC1. A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available in the releng/11.0 release notes." A long list of images for several architectures is available for download from the many FreeBSD mirrors. Quick links to the amd64 and i386 installation DVD images: FreeBSD-11.0-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,793MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.0-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (2,522MB, SHA512). |
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| 2016-08-13 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.0-RC1 |
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The first release candidate for the upcoming FreeBSD 11.0 is ready for testing: "The first RC build of the 11.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since BETA4 includes: a NULL pointer dereference in IPSEC has been fixed; support for SSH protocol 1 has been removed; OpenSSH DSA keys have been disabled by default, users upgrading from prior FreeBSD versions are urged to update their SSH keys to RSA or ECDSA keys before upgrading to 11.0-RC1; PCI-e hotplug on bridges with power controllers has been disabled; a loader tunable (hw.pci.enable_pcie_hp) to disable PCI-e HotPlug has been added; a VESA panic on suspend has been fixed; Google Compute Engine image publication has been fixed; an AES-ICM heap corruption typo bug has been fixed; a regression in pf.conf while parsing the 'interval' keyword has been fixed; a ZFS/VFS deadlock has been fixed." See the release announcement for further information. Download links: FreeBSD-11.0-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,811MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.0-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (2,533MB, SHA512). |
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| 2016-08-07 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.0-BETA4 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the fourth (and likely final) beta build of FreeBSD 11.0. This will be followed by a series of release candidates until the stable build scheduled for 9 September in the recently-revised release schedule. From the announcement: "The fourth BETA build of the 11.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 11.0-BETA3 includes: the mtx_trylock_spin(9) kernel synchronization primitive was added; the machdep.disable_msix_migration loader tunable has been re-enabled for EC2 AMIs; the iwm(4) and iwmfw(4) drivers have been updated; the new system hardening options have been fixed to avoid overwriting other options selected during install time; several build-related fixes; several miscellaneous bug fixes. A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available on the stable/11 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 11.0-RELEASE cycle progresses." Download links: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA4-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,812MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.0-BETA4-i386-dvd1.iso (2,534MB, SHA512). |
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| 2016-07-30 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.0-BETA3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third beta build of FreeBSD 11.0, the project's new major release scheduled for final release in September: "The third BETA build of the 11.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 11.0-BETA2 includes: improvements to libunwind; updates to locales; increase the vt(4) framebuffer maximum size; bsdinstall(8) updates to prompt for the date and time during install, as well as prompting to enable various system hardening tuning options; various other updates and fixes. A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available on the stable/11 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 11.0-RELEASE cycle progresses." Here is the full release announcement as published on the "freebsd-stable" mailing list. Download: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,807MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.0-BETA3-i386-dvd1.iso (2,530MB, SHA512). |
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| 2016-07-25 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.0-BETA2 |
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The development of the upcoming major version of FreeBSD, whose final release is scheduled for early September, continues at a fast pace. Although delayed by a week, the 11.0-BETA2 build was finally announced yesterday: "The second BETA build of the 11.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 11.0-BETA1 includes: several build- and toolchain-related fixes; WITNESS and INVARIANTS have been disabled on powerpc, powerpc64, arm and armv6 architectures; freebsd-update(8) has been updated to allow '*-dbg' distribution sets; ctld(8) no longer exits when reloading the configuration with invalid initiator-portal clauses; GENERIC-NODEBUG kernel configurations have been removed; the callout code has been updated to avoid a system panic with TCP timers; several other changes." See also the (incomplete) release notes which are still work-in-progress. Quick links to download the amd64 and i386 installation DVD images: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA2-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,479MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.0-BETA2-i386-dvd1.iso (2,203MB, SHA512). |
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| 2016-06-18 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 11.0-ALPHA4 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of a new development snapshot for FreeBSD. The new testing release, FreeBSD 11.0-ALPHA4, is available for over a dozen platforms, including several ARM devices. "New FreeBSD development branch installation ISO images and virtual machine disk images have been uploaded to the FTP mirrors. Note regarding arm and armv6 images - for the convenience for those without console access to the system, a 'freebsd' user with a password of 'freebsd' is available by default for SSH access. Additionally, the 'root' user password is set to 'root' and it is strongly recommended to change the password for both users after gaining access to the system." The announcement also requests people testing FreeBSD 11.0-ALPHA4 install the "sysutils/panicmail" port which will help FreeBSD developers gain useful information in the event of a system crash. Further information can be found in the release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-11.0-ALPHA4-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,803MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.0-ALPHA4-i386-dvd1.iso (2,803MB, SHA512). |
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| 2016-04-04 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 10.3 |
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The FreeBSD project has announced the availability of a new version of their stable branch. The new release, FreeBSD 10.3 improves UEFI support, introduces ZFS boot environments and the ability to run 64-bit Linux applications on 64-bit x86 builds of FreeBSD. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE. This is the third release of the stable/10 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: The UEFI boot loader received several improvements: It now follows /boot/config and /boot.config files, multi-device boot support works and command line arguments are parsed. Additionally, its framebuffer driver has been enhanced with GOP (Graphics Output Protocol) and UGA (Universal Graphics Adapter) handling, allowing to set the current graphics mode on systems using one of these methods. Moreover, ZFS boot capability has been added to the UEFI boot loader, including support for multiple ZFS Boot Environments (BEs), e. g. those provided by sysutils/beadm..." Additional information can be found in the release announcement and in the detailed release notes. Download: FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,635MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2016-03-21 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.3-RC3 |
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Marius Strobl has announced the availability of the third release candidate for FreeBSD 10.3: "The third release candidate build of the 10.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Noteworthy changes since 10.3-RC2: the requirement that for a root-on-ZFS setup, ZFS needs to account for at least 50 percent of the resulting partition table was removed from zfsboot; build configurations of csh(1) and tcsh(1) were changed to activate the SAVESIGVEC option, i. e. saving and restoring of signal handlers before/after executing an external command; FreeBSD SA-16:15 and CVE-2016-1885 have been resolved; the netwait rc(8) script has been changed to require firewall setup to be completed, otherwise a ping(8) to the IP address specified via the netwait_ip option may not succeed; in order to be able to work on upcoming Intel Purley platform system, including Skylake Xeon servers, the x86 kernels now align the XSAVE area to a multiple of 64 bytes...." Continue to the release announcement for a full changelog. Download: FreeBSD-10.3-RC3-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,637MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.3-RC3-i386-dvd1.iso (2,447MB, SHA256). |
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| 2016-03-13 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.3-RC2 |
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Marius Strobl has announced the availability of the second release candidate for the upcoming stable release of FreeBSD 10.3: "The second release candidate build of the 10.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Noteworthy changes since 10.3-RC1: under certain circumstances, 'zfs send -i', i. e. incremental ZFS send, could lead to data corruption, which has been addressed by importing an upstream fix; boot loaders and kernel have been taught to handle ELF sections of type SHT_AMD64_UNWIND just the same as SHT_PROGBITS when loading modules; while not directly relevant for 10.3-RELEASE, CLANG as of version 3.8 started to produce sections of the former type in amd64 modules and this changes will simplify upgrades from 10.3-RELEASE to 11.0-RELEASE later on; as part of closing or syncing a hash(3)-based database file, fsync(2) now is called on the latter - this ensures that changes are on disk when shutting down a machine, which previously was not always the case with soft updates in place." See the complete release announcement for further details. Download the amd64 and i386 installation DVD images from here: FreeBSD-10.3-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,636MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.3-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (2,446MB, SHA256). |
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| 2016-03-05 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.3-RC1 |
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Marius Strobl has announced that the first release candidate for FreeBSD 10.3 is now ready for testing: "The first release candidate build of the 10.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Noteworthy changes since 10.3-BETA3: in the pf(4) DIOCRSETADDRS IOCTL, a possible out-of-bounds write has been corrected; OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.1s, which provides security fixes for CVE-2016-0702, CVE-2016-0705, CVE-2016-0797, CVE-2016-0798, CVE-2016-0799 and CVE-2016-0780; Hyper-V drivers - hv_netvsc(4) and hv_vmbus(4) in particular - now wait longer for hypervisor results, which avoids attach failures of network and storage devices; a regression in the INTx handler of nvme(4) introduced mid-January 2016 onto the stable/10 branch has been addressed - the most likely scenario to hit the panic caused by that flaw was to run FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine with a local SSD as NVMe." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download the amd64 and i386 installation DVD images from here: FreeBSD-10.3-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,635MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.3-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (2,446MB, SHA256). |
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| 2016-02-28 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.3-BETA3 |
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Marius Strobl has announced the availability of the third beta of the upcoming release of FreeBSD 10.3: "The third BETA build of the 10.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Noteworthy changes since 10.3-BETA2: the em(4) and igb(4) drivers have been updated to version 7.6.1 and 2.5.3 respectively - this brought support for i219/ i219(2)/ i219(3) hardware found with Skylake generation and newer chipsets as well as an IPv6 workaround for a silicon erratum of 1G server products driven by igb(4); the firmware for qlxgbe(4) has been updated to version 5.4.56, bringing the driver to version 3.10.26; for 82598, ix(4) incorrectly announced support for SCTP checksum offloading, which has been addressed; the SCTP stack received several fixes, some of which resolve bugs that were unveiled by PVS-Studio; a regression preventing the none protocol to be used with lagg(4) has been remedied...." Continue to the release announcement to read the full list of noteworthy changes. Download links to the amd64 and i386 installation DVD images: FreeBSD-10.3-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,633MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.3-BETA3-i386-dvd1.iso (2,448MB, SHA256). |
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| 2016-02-15 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.3-BETA2 |
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Marius Strobl has announced the availability of the second beta build of FreeBSD 10.3: "The second BETA build of the 10.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Noteworthy changes since 10.3-BETA1: OpenSSH has been upgraded to 7.1p2; a bug in bsnmpd(1) causing breakage on platforms with strict alignment requirements has been fixed; a leak of routing table allocations occurring when shutting down VNET-enabled jails has been fixed; the tty(4) layer now prohibits opening the callout device when the corresponding callin device (in disguise as the console device) is already opened; corruption of coredumps due to procstat notes changing size during coredump generation have been fixed; a leap-seconds file for ntpd(8) now is installed by default and ntpd.conf(5) as well as the corresponding rc(8) files have been updated accordingly; the UEFI ZFS loader has been updated to support the latest ZFS Boot Environment (BE) loader menu features...." Please see the release announcement for more details. Quick links to download the installation DVD images for the amd64 and i386 architectures: FreeBSD-10.3-BETA2-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,636MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.3-BETA2-i386-dvd1.iso (2,448MB, SHA256). |
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| 2016-02-06 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.3-BETA1 |
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Marius Strobl has announced the availability of the initial beta of FreeBSD 10.3: "The first beta build of the 10.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available." The release announcement provides little information about any new features other than the usual bug reporting and system upgrading notes: "If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list. If you would like to use SVN to do a source-based update of an existing system, use the 'stable/10' branch. A list of changes since 10.2-RELEASE are available on the stable/10 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 10.3-RELEASE cycle progresses. VM disk images are available for the amd64 and i386 architectures." Here are the quick download links to the installation DVD images for the amd64 and i386 architectures: FreeBSD-10.3-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,633MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.3-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (2,442MB, SHA256). |
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| 2015-08-14 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 10.2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of a new FreeBSD release. The new version, FreeBSD 10.2, is the third release in the 10.x series and offers a number of improvements. Some of the key changes include updated compatibility for Linux applications, ZFS improvements and new versions of the GNOME and KDE desktops. "This is the third release of the stable/10 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: The resolvconf utility has been updated to version 3.7.0, with improvements to protect DNS privacy. The ntp suite has been updated to version 4.2.8p3. A new rc script, growfs, has been added, which will resize the root file system on boot if the /firstboot file exists. The Linux compatibility version has been updated to support CentOS 6 ports. The DRM code has been updated to match Linux version 3.8.13, allowing running multiple X servers simultaneously. Several enhancements and updates for improved FreeBSD/ARM support. Several ZFS performance and reliability improvements. GNOME has been updated to version 3.14.2. KDE has been updated to version 4.14.3." More information is available in the release announcement and the detailed release notes. Errata notes have also been provided. Download: FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,611MB, SHA256). |
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| 2015-08-08 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.2-RC3 |
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Glen Barber has announced that the third (and likely the last) release candidate for FreeBSD 10.2 is now ready for testing: "The third RC build of the 10.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available. This is expected to be the final RC build of this release cycle. Changes since 10.2-RC2: An issue with mlock(2) and truncation of file backing the wired regions was fixed; an error that would cause bsdinstall(8) to improperly validate the checksums of remote distribution sets has been corrected; the pms(4) driver has been updated to prevent attaching to invalid devices, which would lead to a system panic on boot; an error resulting in the kern.racct.enable tunable not taking effect has been corrected; a patch(1) shell vulnerability has been fixed; a routed(8) remote denial of service vulnerability has been fixed; a segmentation fault in pw(8) when changing the UID of a user has been fixed." See the release announcement and release notes further details. Download: FreeBSD-10.2-RC3-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,612MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.2-RC3-i386-dvd1.iso (2,427MB, SHA256). |
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| 2015-08-01 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.2-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of a test release for FreeBSD 10.2. The new release candidate, version 10.2-RC2, offers users a number of improvements to UEFI support, laptop suspend/resume and driver updates. Security updates discovered since the previous release candidate have been patched and more work has been done on the 10.2 release notes, which are a work in progress. Work has also been done to make the live images for ARM devices more accessible: "For convenience for those without console access to supported ARM devices, a default 'freebsd' user exists for ssh login. The password is 'freebsd', which it is strongly recommended to change after gaining access to the system. Additionally, the 'root' user password is 'root', which is also recommended to change." More information, along with upgrade instructions for people running previous releases of FreeBSD, can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-10.2-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,612MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.2-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (2,428MB, SHA256). |
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| 2015-07-25 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.2-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced that the first release candidate for the upcoming FreeBSD 10.2 is now ready for testing: "The first RC build of the 10.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Changes Since 10.2-BETA2: tcpdump(8) has been updated to obtain capsicum(4) rights for dump file rotation; the ixgbe(4) driver has been updated to fix setting sysctl(8) tunable entries in loader.conf(5); the ZFS txg_quiesce() function has been updated to use __noinline(), allowing DTrace monitoring for txg_quiesce() calls; bsdinstall(8) has been updated to align partitions on 1MB boundaries when ZFS is the selected filesystem, as well as a number of other changes, including detecting BIOS versions to determine when the 'active' flag should be set on the boot partition; the quota(1) utility has been updated to support IPv6; the xen(4) netfront interface has been updated to preserve configurations across virtual machine migrations...." Continue to the release announcement to find out more. Download: FreeBSD-10.2-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,615MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.2-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (2,432MB, SHA256). |
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| 2015-07-18 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.2-BETA2 |
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Less than a week after the release of the initial beta, Glen Barber has announced the availability of FreeBSD 10.2-BETA2: "The first BETA build of the 10.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Changes Since 10.2-BETA1: the missing GEOM_LABEL in the GUMSTIX and PANDABOARD kernel configuration files that prevented the '/dev/ufs/rootfs' fstab(5) entry to mount the root filesystem has been fixed; correctly handle rare events of transient write errors to the cylinder group blocks; an incorrect implementation of kvasprintf() in the Linux compatibility and emulation code has been fixed; setting the initial system clock time for systems with a CMOS clock set before the year 2000 has been fixed; the pw(8) utility has been updated to allow creating users with UID 0, in addition to other miscellaneous updates; the MIB names in the 'user' sysctl(3) tree have been fixed to no longer return '0' or empty values...." See the release announcement for a complete list of changes. Download: FreeBSD-10.2-BETA2-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,602MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.2-BETA2-i386-dvd1.iso (1,990MB, SHA256). |
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| 2015-07-12 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.2-BETA1 |
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The FreeBSD 10.2 development cycle begins with the initial beta release: "The first BETA build of the 10.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Installation images are available for: amd64 GENERIC, i386 GENERIC, ia64 GENERIC, powerpc GENERIC, powerpc64 GENERIC64, sparc64 GENERIC, BEAGLEBONE, CUBOX-HUMMINGBOARD, armv6 RPI-B, armv6 WANDBOARD. If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list. If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the 'stable/10' branch. A list of changes since 10.1-RELEASE are available on the stable/10 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 10.2-RELEASE cycle progresses. VM disk images are available for the amd64 and i386 architectures." Here is the complete release announcement, with much more details provided in the above mentioned release notes. Quick links to download the installation DVD images for the amd64 and i386 architectures: FreeBSD-10.2-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,565MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.2-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (1,951MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-11-14 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 10.1 |
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FreeBSD 10.1 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE. This is the second release of the stable/10 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: the new console driver, vt(4), has been added; support for FreeBSD/i386 guests has been added to bhyve(4); the bhyve(4) hypervisor now supports booting from a zfs(8) file system; support for SMP was added to the armv6 kernels and enabled by default in the configuration files for all platforms that contain multi-core CPUs; initial support for UEFI boot has been added for the FreeBSD/amd64 architecture...." See the release announcement and the release notes for a full list of changes. Download: FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,465MB, SHA256, pkglist), FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2,261MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-11-02 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.1-RC4 |
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Contrary to expectation, Glen Barber today announced the availability of the fourth release candidate for FreeBSD 10.1: "The fourth RC build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. This is anticipated to be the final RC build of the 10.1-RELEASE cycle. Some of the changes between 10.1-RC3 and 10.1-RC4 include: fix ATA CF ERASE breakage for certain CF cards; fix a race in pmap_emulate_accessed_dirty() that could trigger a EPT misconfiguration VM-exit. Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.1-RC4 are also available for amd64 and i386 architectures. The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB, which decompress to a 20 GB sparse image." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download: FreeBSD-10.1-RC4-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,463MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.1-RC4-i386-dvd1.iso (2,260MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-10-24 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.1-RC3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third and final release candidate for FreeBSD 10.1: "The third RC build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Some of the changes between 10.1-RC2 and 10.1-RC3 include: several fixes to the UDPLite protocol implementation; the vt(4) driver has been updated to save and restore keyboard mode and LED states when switching windows; several fixes to the SCTP protocol implementation; a potential race condition in obtaining a file pointer has been corrected; fix ZFS ZVOL deadlock and rename issues; restore libopie.so ABI compatibility with 10.0-RELEASE; removed the last vestige of MD5 password hashes; several rc(8) script updates and fixes...." Read the release announcement for further information. Download: FreeBSD-10.1-RC3-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,467MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.1-RC3-i386-dvd1.iso (2,299MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-10-13 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.1-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 10.1: "The second RC build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Some of the changes between 10.1-RC1 and 10.1-RC2 include: fix XHCI driver for devices which have more than 15 physical root HUB ports; fix old iSCSI initiator to work with new CAM locking; fix page length reported for Block Limits VPD page; add QCOW v1 & v2 support to mkimg(1). Note to consumers of the i386 DVD installer: as result of a package build failure, the X.Org-related ports (including GNOME 2) are not available on the 10.1-RC2 i386 DVD. This will not be an issue for the 10.1-RC3 DVD, nor the 10.1-RELEASE DVD." Continue to the release announcement for more details. Download: FreeBSD-10.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,666MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.1-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (1,068MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-10-05 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.1-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 10.1 - with an important note to the users of the ZFS file system: "The first RC build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Some of the changes between 10.1-BETA3 and 10.1-RC1 include: a bug that would cause all processes to appear to have the parent PID of '1' has been fixed; various updates to bsdinstall(8) and bsdconfig(8); the Hyper-V KVP (key-value pair) driver has been added, and enabled by default on amd64 and i386 architectures. Important note to ZFS users on the i386 architecture: a regression has been discovered that affects multi-disk (mirror, raidz-1, raidz-2) installations that may cause a kernel panic on boot." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download: FreeBSD-10.1-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,665MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.1-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (1,507MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-09-28 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third beta of FreeBSD 10.1: "The third beta build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Changes between 10.1-BETA2 and 10.1-BETA3 include: support for serial and null console has been added to the UEFI boot loader; a potential panic triggered by referencing a device that has been renamed has been fixed in the cam(4) subsystem; OpenPAM has been updated to the Ourouparia (20140912) release; new sysctls have been added to vt(4) to enable or disable potentially dangerous key combinations (such as reboot, halt, and break to debugger); the mkimg(1) utility has been updated to allow creating empty partition entries...." Here is the complete release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-10.1-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,666MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.1-BETA3-i386-dvd1.iso (1,509MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-09-21 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.1-BETA2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second beta build of FreeBSD 10.1: "The second beta build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Changes between 10.1-BETA1 and 10.1-BETA2 include: UEFI-capable memory stick images and CDROM/DVDROM images are now build by default for the 10.1-RELEASE cycle; the gssapi_krb5 library is now included in the gssapi(3) build; the default motd(5) text has been changed to clarify the included information and including references to additional resources; a potential crash in ctld(8) has been fixed when a getaddrinfo(3) call fails; fix Denial of Service in TCP packet processing; support for Promise TX8660 8-port 3Gbps HBA has been added...." Continue to the release announcement for a detailed list of changes and other information. Download: FreeBSD-10.1-BETA2-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,666MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.1-BETA2-i386-dvd1.iso (1,509MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-09-14 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.1-BETA1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the initial beta release of FreeBSD 10.1: "The first beta build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available on the stable/10 release notes page. Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.1-BETA1 are also available for amd64 and i386 architectures. The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB, which decompress to a 20 GB sparse image. Note to consumers of the dvd1.iso image: the packages included on the DVD do not have a corresponding pkg(8) repository due to an incompatibility with pkg-1.2.x and pkg-1.3.x. This will be fixed for BETA2." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download: FreeBSD-10.1-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,665MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.1-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (1,508MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-07-15 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 9.3 |
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FreeBSD 9.3, the latest update to the project's legacy branch, has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the stable/9 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: the zfs(8) filesystem has been updated to support the bookmarks feature; the uname(1) utility has been updated to include the -U and -K flags, which print the FreeBSD_version for the running userland and kernel, respectively; the fetch(3) library has been updated to support SNI, allowing to use virtual hosts on HTTPS; several updates to gcc(1) have been imported from Google." See the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download: FreeBSD-9.3-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,718MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.3-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (1,581MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-07-06 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.3-RC3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third (and likely last) release candidate for FreeBSD 9.3: "The third RC build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. This is expected to be the final RC build of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle. Changes between 9.3-RC2 and 9.3-RC3 include: bug fix for axge(4) range checks and receive loop header parsing; bug fix to exclude loopback addresses rather than loopback interfaces has been fixed; bug fix in uhso(4) to prevent memory use after free() and mtx_destroy(); bug fix in bsdinstall(8) where certain conditions could prevent directory creation before use; bug fix for DNS-based load balancing; vendor update to oce(4)." Read the complete release announcement for more information. Download: FreeBSD-9.3-RC3-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,716MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.3-RC3-i386-dvd1.iso (1,581MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-06-28 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.3-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 9.3: "The second RC build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Changes between 9.3-RC1 and 9.3-RC2 include: a bug in the fast rx buffer recycle path has been fixed in the cxgbe(4) driver; a bug that would incorrectly allow two listening SCTP sockets on the same port bound to the wildcard address has been fixed; multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in file(1) and ibmagic(3); a workaround has been implemented to fix serial ports on certain motherboards, in particular the Intel D2500CCE board; a bug in bsdgrep(1) that would prevent certain pattern matching has been fixed...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download: FreeBSD-9.3-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,663MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.3-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (1,526MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-06-21 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.3-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 9.3: "The first RC build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Changes between 9.3-BETA3 and 9.3-RC1 include: various bug fixes in the hptrr(4) driver; time zone data has been updated to tzdata2014e; handling of the '-P' flag without '-p' or '-r' has been fixed in the daemon(8) utility; a bug in the nvme(4) controller initialization path has been fixed; a bug in the fast receive buffer recycle path has been fixed in the cxgbe(4) driver. Note to consumers of the dvd1.iso image: the version of bsdconfig(8) in the releng/9.3 branch does not yet support pkg(7)-format packages. This is planned to be fixed in -RC2." See the release announcement for further details. Download: FreeBSD-9.3-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,709MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.3-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (1,573MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-06-14 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.3-BETA3 |
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Another week and another beta release in FreeBSD's legacy branch: "The third BETA build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Changes between 9.3-BETA2 and 9.3-BETA3 include: a new ttys(5) flag, onifconsole, has been added, which activates ttyu0 if the device is an active kernel console; the NFSv4 server now allows creating a hard link to a symbolic link, as was allowed in NFSv3; OpenSSL has been updated to 0.9.8za; a deadlock caused by incorrect reference counts has been fixed in the usb(4) driver; the arc4random(3) library has been updated to match that in FreeBSD-CURRENT; the amount of data collected by hwpmc(4) has been increased to work with modern processors and available RAM...." Here is the full release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-9.3-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,712MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.3-BETA3-i386-dvd1.iso (1,576MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-06-08 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.3-BETA2 |
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Less than a week after the release of the initial beta, Glen Barber announced the availability of the second beta build of FreeBSD 9.3, the upcoming new version of the project's legacy branch: "The second BETA build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Changes between 9.3-BETA1 and 9.3-BETA2 include: fixes for the following security advisories - FreeBSD-SA-14:08.tcp, FreeBSD-SA-14:11.sendmail, FreeBSD-SA-14:12.ktrace, FreeBSD-SA-14:13.pam, FreeBSD-SA-14:14.openssl; a system crash caused by destroying an if_tap(4) device while in use has been fixed. Note to consumers of the dvd1.iso image: the version of bsdconfig(8) in the stable/9 branch does not yet support pkg(7)-format packages." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and upgrade instructions. Download: FreeBSD-9.3-BETA2-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,712MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.3-BETA2-i386-dvd1.iso (1,576MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-06-02 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.3-BETA1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first beta release of FreeBSD 9.3, the upcoming new update of the project's legacy branch: "The first beta build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. If you notice problems you can report them through the normal GNATS PR system or on the -stable mailing list. Please note, as the FreeBSD bug tracking system is undergoing maintenance, the PR system may be unavailable. Problem reports submitted during this maintenance period are being queued for later processing. If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the 'stable/9' branch." Here is the brief release announcement with upgrade information and checksums. Download links: FreeBSD-9.3-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso (638MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.3-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (581MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-01-20 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 10.0 |
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Following a long development process, FreeBSD 10.0, the latest stable version of the popular UNIX-like operating system, has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE. This is the first release of the stable/10 branch. Some of the highlights: GCC is no longer installed by default on architectures where clang(1) is the default compiler; unbound has been imported to the base system as the local caching DNS resolver; BIND has been removed from the base system; make(1) has been replaced with NetBSD's bmake(1); pkg(7) is now the default package management utility; pkg_add(1), pkg_delete(1) and related tools have been removed; major enhancements in virtualization...." See the release announcement and release notes for a detailed list of changes. Download: FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,370MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2,210MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-01-09 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.0-RC5 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the fifth release candidate for FreeBSD 10.0: "The fifth release candidate build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. This is expected to be the final RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle. Changes between -RC4 and -RC5 include: fix an IPv4 multicast regression; fixes OpenSSL for CVE-2013-4353, CVE-2013-6449, CVE-2013-6450; revert a change to the kinfo_file structure to preserve ABI; fix a race condition which could prevent the file descriptor table from being properly updated." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details and upgrade information. Download the installation DVD images from here: FreeBSD-10.0-RC5-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,366MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.0-RC5-i386-dvd1.iso (2,203MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-01-02 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.0-RC4 |
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The long and intensive development cycle of FreeBSD 10.0 continues today with the fourth (and probably last) release candidate: "The fourth RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. This is expected to be the final RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle. Changes between -RC4 and -RC4 include: tighten default restrictions for ntpd(8) server; fix kernel crash discovered with recent Java port update. Important note to freebsd-update(8) users - please be sure to follow the instructions in the following FreeBSD errata notices before upgrading the system to 10.0-RC4." Read Glen Barber's release announcement for more information, upgrade instructions and related links. Download: FreeBSD-10.0-RC4-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,369MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.0-RC4-i386-dvd1.iso (2,207MB, SHA256). The final release of FreeBSD 10.0 is now expected on 14 January 2014. |
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| 2013-12-26 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third release candidate for the upcoming FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE: "The third RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Changes between -RC2 and -RC3 include: several minor bug fixes and functionality enhancements to bhyve; add new sysctl, kern.supported_archs, containing the list of FreeBSD MACHINE_ARCH values whose binaries this kernel can run; add a pkg(8) repository configuration file for cdrom-based package installation; implement a fix to allow bsdconfig(8) to be able to install packages included on the DVD; fix pkg(8) multi-repository support by properly respecting 'enabled' flag; fix Xen build without INET; several bugfixes to bsdinstall(8); fix a ZFS-related panic triggered by an incorrect assertion...." Here is the full release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-10.0-RC3-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,368MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.0-RC3-i386-dvd1.iso (2,207MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-12-16 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.0-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the second release candidate for the upcoming stable release of FreeBSD 10.0: "The second RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Note to those downloading dvd1.iso. While packages are available on dvd1.iso, the version of bsdconfig(8) provided with 10.0-RC2 will not be able to install them by default; this will be fixed for 10.0-RC3. As a workaround for installing packages from the DVD, create a directory to serve as the temporary pkg(8) repository configuration directory, and fetch the configuration file that will be included on the next set of -RC builds." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and a brief list of changes since the 10.0-RC1 release. Download links: FreeBSD-10.0-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,746MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.0-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (2,212MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-12-09 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.0-RC1 |
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The first release candidate for the upcoming stable release of FreeBSD 10.0 is now ready for download and testing: "The first RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Changes between -BETA4 and -RC1 include: fix to a regression in bsdinstall(8) that prevents ZFS on GELI installation from working correctly; build Hyper-V kernel modules by default for i386; update oce(4) driver to support 40Gbps devices; improve robustness of the Xen balloon driver; fix accounting for hw.realmem on the i386 and amd64 platforms; fix poweroff(8) on XenServer; fix powerd/states on AMD CPUs; fix PKG_ABI detection in bsdconfig(8) after pkg-1.2; fix emulated jail_v0 byte order...." Continue to the release announcement for a full list of important changes. Download: FreeBSD-10.0-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (727MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.0-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (589MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-12-03 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.0-BETA4 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the fourth beta release of FreeBSD 10.0: "The fourth BETA build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Changes between -BETA3 and -BETA4 include: add preliminary support for RTL8106E, RTL8168G, RTL8168GU, RTL8411B and RTL8168EP; enable fingerprint checking in pkg(8) for FreeBSD-provided binary packages; remove the WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT build option; update nvi to 2.1.2; various iconv(3) fixes; fix mergemaster -U by forcing FreeBSD 9 compatibility in mtree when mtree is nmtree; fix to freebsd-update(8) in generating the list of old files/directories versus new files/directories." Here is the full release announcement as published on one of the project's mailing lists. Download: FreeBSD-10.0-BETA4-amd64-disc1.iso (727MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.0-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso (589MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-11-05 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.0-BETA3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third beta release of FreeBSD 10.0: "The third beta build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Changes between -BETA2 and -BETA3 include: several small fixes for the amd64 minidump code; add a 'pkg bootstrap' command which will bootstrap pkg(8) without forwarding any command to it after installation; fix make(1) warning output with 'make delete-old' and 'make delete-old-libs'; add kernel side support for large TLB on BERI/CHERI; add loader.conf(5) entries to import bootpool after boot when using full-disk encryption and ZFS; switch the default mtree to nmtree our new NetBSD derived mtree; remove the (unused) isf(4) driver...." Continue to the release announcement for a full list of major changes. Download: FreeBSD-10.0-BETA3-amd64-disc1.iso (695MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.0-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (556MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-10-28 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.0-BETA2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second beta release of FreeBSD 10.0: "The second beta build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Changes between -BETA1 and -BETA2 include: fix AHCI ATAPI emulation when backed with /dev/cd0 in virtio; improve XHCI stability; fix 'make delete-old-libs' and 'make check-libs' to delete .debug files; upgrade to the latest version of mtree from NetBSD; enable the automatic creation of a certificate for Sendmail; add support for 'first boot' rc.d scripts; fix jail_parallel_start, ip[46].addr when interface parameter is not defined and a bug which prevented jails from starting when $jail_conf was used and no jail name was specified; disable the Xen userland event channel driver, which is not yet ready...." Here is the full release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-10.0-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso (727MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.0-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso (588MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-10-14 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.0-BETA1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first beta release of FreeBSD 10.0: "The first beta build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Due to the size of the images, the ports.txz distribution is not included in 10.0-BETA1, however is expected to be included with disc1.iso for subsequent builds during the release cycle. Changes between -ALPHA5 and -BETA1 include: introduce freebsd-version(1), which is intended to be used as an auditing tool to determine the userland patch level when it differs from what 'uname -r' reports; improve ZFS lzjb decompress performance; add two new MIPS CPU families - mips24k and mips74k; remove most of the ATF tools and the _atf user...." Continue to the release announcement for a full list of changes and update instructions. Download: FreeBSD-10.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso (693MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (555MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-10-07 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA5 |
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The intensive testing period of the upcoming FreeBSD 10.0 stable release continues today with the just-announced alpha 5 build: "The fifth alpha build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. The 10.0-ALPHA5 builds correlate to svn revision r256092 of the head/ branch. If you notice problems you can report them through the normal GNATS PR system or here on the -current mailing list. Changes between -ALPHA4 and -ALPHA5 include: removal of BIND from the base system; replacements may be found within the Ports collection; bug fix introduced with the latest infiniband update; the GNU ar(1) and ranlib(1) have been removed from the base system; bug fixes and updates to the base LLVM; various bhyve enhancements; various XEN enhancements." Read Glen Barber's release announcement for further information and upgrade notes. Download: FreeBSD-10.0-ALPHA5-amd64-disc1.iso (701MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.0-ALPHA5-i386-disc1.iso (564MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-10-01 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 9.2 |
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FreeBSD 9.2, the latest update in the stable 9 branch, has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE. This is the second release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 9.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: The ZFS file system now supports TRIM when used on solid state drives; the virtio(4) drivers have been added to the GENERIC kernel configuration for amd64 and i386 architectures; the ZFS file system now supports lz4 compression; OpenSSL has been updated to version 0.9.8y; DTrace hooks have been enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel; DTrace has been updated to version 1.9.0; Sendmail has been updated to version 8.14.7; OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.2p2; import unmapped I/O support from head/." See the release announcement and release notes for more information. Download: FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,436MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2,272MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-09-30 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA4 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the fourth alpha release of FreeBSD 10: "The fourth alpha build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Note: due to build issues within the head/ branch, alpha 3 ISO builds were skipped. Changes between -ALPHA2 and -ALPHA4 include: update OFED to Linux 3.7 and update Mellanox drivers; add driver for the PAPR VSCSI virtual SCSI controller; disable ISC BIND build by default and enable LDNS/unbound; correct a NULL pointer deference in nslookup and nsupdate; update the CAM version to 18, this includes compatibility shims to the previous version; introduce a kern.geom.notaste sysctl that can be used to temporarily disable GEOM tasting to avoid the 'bouncing GEOM' problem where, when you shut down the consumer of a provider which can be viewed in multiple ways; update OpenSSH to 6.3p1...." See the release announcement for a list of changes. Download: FreeBSD-10.0-ALPHA4-amd64-disc1.iso (705MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.0-ALPHA4-i386-disc1.iso (569MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-09-18 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second alpha release of FreeBSD 10, just days after the initial alpha build: "The second ALPHA build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. The 10.0-ALPHA2 builds are based on svn revision r255659 of the head/ branch. Important note to freebsd-update users: freebsd-update is not a supported upgrade path for the 10.0-ALPHA builds. Changes between -ALPHA1 and -ALPHA2 include: add -stdlib=libstdc++ to CXXFLAGS when building libstdc++ and libsupc++ with clang; fix an issue that caused Integrated RAID volumes on LSI mps(4) controllers to not get scanned on boot; fix a panic during pageout observed on some powerpc64 systems; import Hyper-V paravirtualized drivers from projects/hyperv branch...." Here is the full release announcement. Download links to the amd64 and i386 installation images: FreeBSD-10.0-ALPHA2-amd64-disc1.iso (736MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.0-ALPHA2-i386-disc1.iso (601MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-09-14 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the initial alpha release of FreeBSD 10, the upcoming major update currently scheduled for release on 24 November 2013: "The first alpha build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc and sparc64 architectures." Disappointingly, the release announcement provides no information about the planned features and improvements that are likely to be present in the new release, but here are a couple of other useful links: release notes (last updated nearly three months ago) and What's New on the FreeBSD wiki. The latter resource provides a list of changes, such as: "GCC is no longer built as part of the base system; Raspberry Pi support; support for AMD GPUs kernel modesetting...." The introduction of "bhyve", the BSD Hypervisor developed from scratch to offer a light-weight low-level HVM virtualization on FreeBSD, is another noteworthy feature. Quick links to download the amd64 and i386 installation images: FreeBSD-10.0-ALPHA1-amd64-disc1.iso (728MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.0-ALPHA1-i386-disc1.iso (597MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-09-12 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.2-RC4 |
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Development work on FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE continues with the latest release candidate as announced by Glen Barber earlier today: "The fourth release candidate builds of the 9.2-RELEASE release cycle are now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures. This is expected to be the final release candidate for the 9.2-RELEASE cycle. Changes between -RC3 and -RC4 include: revert the tribute boot loader logo as the default logo; fix a file system bug that would cause removed files to fail to dereference vnodes until the file system was forcibly unmounted and remounted; fix a rtadvd(8) segmentation fault on service reload; create and correct ownership and permissions of /var/authpf in the standard mtree; fix a NFS deadlock; stop SIOCSIFADDR, SIOCSIFBRDADDR, SIOCSIFDSTADDR and SIOCSIFNETMASK at the socket layer rather than pass them on to the link layer without validation or credential checks...." Download: FreeBSD-9.2-RC4-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,435MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.2-RC4-i386-dvd1.iso (985MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-08-26 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third (and likely final) release candidate for FreeBSD 9.2: "The third release candidate builds of the 9.2-RELEASE release cycle are now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures. This is expected to be the final release candidate for the 9.2-RELEASE cycle. Changes between -RC2 and -RC3 include: fix an integer overflow in computing the size of a temporary buffer which can result in a buffer which is too small for the requested operation; revert fixes and improvements to sendfile(2), which uncovered a bug in the NFS implementation that in turn can cause deadlocks; default net.inet.tcp.experimental.initcwnd10 to off." See the release announcement for further information and upgrade instructions. Download links for the amd64 and i386 architectures: FreeBSD-9.2-RC3-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,112MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.2-RC3-i386-dvd1.iso (985MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-08-17 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.2-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the second release candidate of the FreeBSD 9.2 release cycle: "Changes between -RC1 and -RC2 include: Fix a boot issue caused by some GPT partitioning tools; Fix a regression that caused some PCI disk controllers disappearing during boot; Fix the FTP path used to fetch distribution packages when installing from the bootonly.iso; Fix a regression in sendmail that caused problems between the resolver and Microsoft DNS servers with AAAA lookups; Disable MSIs with Adaptec 2230S and 2820SA (aac(4)); Update FTP mirror list used by bsdinstall(8) and bsdconfig(8); Fix panics caused by early interrupts in igb(4); Fix panics when downing or unloading the mlx(4) driver." Read the full release announcement for full information. Download: FreeBSD-9.2-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (698MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.2-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (578MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-08-05 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.2-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the first release candidate build for the FreeBSD 9.2 release cycle: "The first release candidate builds of the 9.2-RELEASE release cycle are now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures. Changes between -BETA2 and -RC1 include: Expand the list of devices claimed by cxgbe(4); Fix a panic in the racct code when munlock(2) is called with incorrect values; Remove ctl(4) from GENERIC. ctladm(8) now automatically loads the corresponding module as necessary - This reduces the default memory footprint and allows FreeBSD to work on i386 machines with 128 MB of RAM out of the box; Fix zfs send -D hang after processing requiring a CTRL+C to interrupt." Read the full release announcement for further information including source based or binary upgrade. Download: FreeBSD-9.2-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (697MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.2-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (579MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-07-29 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.2-BETA2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second beta build of FreeBSD 9.2: "The second beta build of the 9.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Changes between -BETA1 and -BETA2 include: fix an interoperability problem between FreeBSD NFS Server (version 4) and Linux NFS (version 4) clients; fix nvme(4) and nvd(4) to support non 512-byte sector sizes; Fix freebsd-update(8) for -BETA2 by removing a file with non-POSIX characters in its name, this file is not needed for FreeBSD builds, and caused freebsd-update(8) to error on -BETA1; fix an XHCI regression; fix a bug in ipv6_prefix_I; fix address range specification with various ifconfig(8) options.; fix denial of service vulnerability in named(8)." Read the full release announcement for more information and upgrade instructions. Download: FreeBSD-9.2-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso (699MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.2-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso (579MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-07-22 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.2-BETA1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the initial beta build of FreeBSD 9.2 which, according to the release schedule, should become the new stable release on 31 August 2013: "The first beta build of the 9.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and ia64 architectures. If you notice problems you can report them through the normal GNATS PR system or here on the -stable mailing list. If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system use "stable/9". Please be aware that cvsup and CVS are both deprecated, and are not supported methods of updating the src/ tree. Important note to freebsd-update(8) users - due to a last-minute problem found in the 9.2-BETA1 freebsd-update(8) builds, freebsd-update(8) is NOT supported for 9.2-BETA1 upgrades. Please do not use freebsd-update(8) to upgrade to 9.2-BETA1." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-9.2-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso (700MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.2-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (580MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-06-08 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 8.4 |
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Glen Barber has announced the release of FreeBSD 8.4, the new production release of the project's legacy 8.x branch: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.3 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: GNOME version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.10.1; feature flags 5,000 version of the ZFS filesystem; support for all shipping LSI storage controllers. FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE is now available for the amd64 and i386 architectures. Images for the pc98 architecture should be available within the next 24 hours. FreeBSD 8.4 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network." See the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download links: FreeBSD-8.4-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,626MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.4-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2,323MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-04-22 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.4-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 8.4, the upcoming new stable version of the project's legacy branch: "The second RC build of the 8.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. If you notice problems you can report them through the normal GNATS PR system or here on the 'stable' mailing list. If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system use 'releng/8.4'. If you would like to use csup/cvsup mechanisms instead the branch tag to use is 'RELENG_8_4'. Please be aware that cvsup and CVS are both deprecated, and while upgrades using CVS or cvsup may work now they will not be supported for security updates through the life of 8.4." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-8.4-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,626MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.4-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (2,147MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-04-10 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.4-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 8.4, the upcoming new stable version of the project's legacy branch: "The first RC build of the 8.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system use 'releng/8.4'. If you would like to use csup/cvsup mechanisms instead the branch tag to use is 'RELENG_8_4'. Important notice when upgrading from 8.4-BETA1 to 8.4-RC1: there was an accidental breakage in the OpenSSL ABI in the BETA1 build that was fixed before this RC build. Applications built against OpenSSL may need to be rebuilt after upgrading to 8.4-RC1 from 8.4-BETA1." Read the rest of the release announcement for upgrade instructions. Download: FreeBSD-8.4-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,641MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.4-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (2,161MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-03-23 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.4-BETA1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first beta build of FreeBSD 8.4, in the project's legacy branch: "The first BETA build of the 8.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. Since the stable/8 branch is relatively mature we hope there will only be one BETA build for this release cycle. If testing does not turn up any show-stopper caliber problems the next test build will be RC1. The following known issues are present in 8.4-BETA1: due to a change in sshd, sshd does not look for authorized_keys2 in addition to authorized_keys, this will be fixed prior the next release; selecting 'All' on the 'Choose Distributions' screen attempts to install a DEBUG kernel which is not present in the image so the installation will fail." Read the rest of the release announcement which includes update instructions. Download: FreeBSD-8.4-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (720MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.4-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (601MB, SHA256). |
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| 2012-12-31 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 9.1 |
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FreeBSD 9.1 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 9.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: new Intel GPU driver with GEM/KMS support; netmap(4) fast userspace packet I/O framework; ZFS improvements from Illumos project; CAM Target Layer, a disk and processor device emulation subsystem; optional new C++11 stack including LLVM libc++ and libcxxrt; jail devfs, nullfs, zfs mounting and configuration file support; POSIX2008 extended locale support, including compatibility with Darwin extensions; oce(4) driver for Emulex OneConnect 10Gbit Ethernet card...." Read the release announcement for highlights and the release notes for a detailed description of new features. Download: FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2,407MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,551MB, SHA256). |
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| 2012-11-04 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the third release candidate for FreeBSD 9.1: "The third release candidate of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. This is expected to be the last release candidate. Unless a majorshow-stopper is discovered within the next few days the final release builds will be started. If you notice any problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the -stable mailing list. If you want to do a source-based update to an existing system using SVN the branch to use is releng/9.1. If you would like to use CVS instead use RELENG_9_1." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and upgrade instructions. Quick download links for the i386 and amd64 architectures: FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-i386-disc1.iso (572MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso (686MB, SHA256). |
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| 2012-10-10 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 9.1: "The second release candidate of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and powerpc64. A third RC build has been decided on, currently scheduled for a week from now. The release builds themselves will begin about a week after RC3. There was enough 'community push-back' from the decision to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS that the decision has been reversed. A firm decision has been made that 10.X release activity will not be exported to CVS. It hasn't been decided yet if the upcoming 8.X and/or 9.X (past 9.1) release activity will be exported. More information about that will get posted as decisions get made." Read the full release announcement for more information and upgrade instructions. Download: FreeBSD-9.1-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (571MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.1-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (685MB, SHA256). |
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| 2012-08-23 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 9.1: "The first release candidate of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for amd64, i386 and powerpc64. Current plans are for there to be one more RC build, followed by the release itself. If you notice any problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the 'stable' mailing list. With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not available for updating to 9.1-RC1. If you would like to use SVN the branch to use is releng/9.1. The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-9.1-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (524MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (637MB, SHA256).
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| 2012-07-17 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 |
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Although a bit behind the schedule, Ken Smith today announced the first beta version of FreeBSD 9.1, the upcoming release of the project's stable branch: "The first test build of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for amd64, i386, powerpc64, and sparc64. We hope this will be the only BETA build, to be followed by two Release Candidate builds and then the release itself. If you notice any problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or here on the -stable mailing list. If you would like to use csup/cvsup mechanisms to do a source-based update of an existing system the branch tag to use is 'RELENG_9'. If you would like to use SVN instead use 'stable/9'. Note that if you do an update that way the system will call itself '9.1-PRERELEASE'." Check the full release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-9.1-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (523MB, MD5), FreeBSD-9.1-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso (637MB, MD5).
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| 2012-04-18 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 8.3 |
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FreeBSD 8.3 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.2 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: usb(4) now supports the USB packet filter; TCP/IP stack now supports the mod_cc(9) pluggable congestion control framework; graid(8) GEOM class added to support various BIOS-based software RAID controllers (replacement for ataraid(4)); ZFS subsystem updated to SPA version 28; GNOME version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.7.4. FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures." For further details please see the release announcement and the detailed release notes. Quick download links for the i386 and amd64 architectures: FreeBSD-8.3-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2,211MB, SHA256, torrent), FreeBSD-8.3-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,347MB, SHA256, torrent).
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| 2012-04-02 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.3-RC2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second and (most likely) final release candidate for FreeBSD 8.3, an upcoming stable release the project's legacy branch: "The second release candidate build of the 8.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. What will likely be the package sets for the upcoming release have been placed on the RC2 images. For the disc1 images due to size issues only the English documentation package is available. The 'memstick' images include the documentation packages for all languages but no other packages. The DVD images include all of the documentation packages as well as enough packages to set up a basic graphical workstation. Unless a show-stopper caliber problem is found this will be the last test build of the 8.3-RELEASE cycle." The release announcement. Download links for the i386 and amd64 DVD images: FreeBSD-8.3-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (2,211MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.3-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,347MB, SHA256).
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| 2012-03-07 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.3-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 8.3, the project's legacy stable branch: "The first release candidate build of the 8.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. We hope to have one more release candidate build, followed by the release itself. If you notice any problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or here on the -stable mailing list. If you would like to use csup/cvsup mechanisms to do a source-based update of an existing system the branch tag to use is now 'RELENG_8_3'. If you would like to use SVN instead use 'releng/8.3'. As part of preparing for RC1 'releng/8.3' was branched. The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases." Here is the full release announcement. Quick links to download the installation DVD images for the two most popular architectures: FreeBSD-8.3-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (892MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.3-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,009MB, SHA256).
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| 2012-02-20 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.3-BETA1 |
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The legacy production branch of FreeBSD, version 8, is receiving one more update - to version 8.3. The first beta build is now ready for testing: "The first beta build of the 8.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. Since the stable/8 branch is relatively mature we hope there will only be one BETA build for this release cycle. If testing does not turn up any show-stopper caliber problems the next test build will be RC1. If you notice problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or here on the -stable mailing list. If you would like to use csup/cvsup mechanisms to do a source-based update of an existing system the branch tag to use is 'RELENG_8'. If you would like to use SVN instead use 'stable/8'. Read the rest of the release announcement for more info and update instructions. Download: FreeBSD-8.3-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (886MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.3-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,003MB, SHA256).
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| 2012-01-12 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 9.0 |
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The FreeBSD Engineering Team has announced the release of FreeBSD 9.0, a major new version of the BSD operating featuring a brand-new system installer: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on stable/8 and adds many new features. Some of the highlights: a new installer, bsdinstall(8) has been added and is the installer used by the ISO images provided as part of this release; the Fast file system now supports softupdates journaling; ZFS updated to version 28; updated ATA/SATA drivers support AHCI, moved into updated CAM framework; Highly Available Storage (HAST) framework; kernel support for Capsicum Capability Mode, an experimental set of features for sandboxing support; user-level DTrace...." Read the release announcement for highlights and the release notes for a detailed description of new features. Download: FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2,140MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,278MB, SHA256).
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| 2011-12-09 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the third release candidate for FreeBSD 9.0: "The third and what should be final release candidate build for the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. This should be the last of the test builds. We hope to begin the final release builds in about a week. The 9.0-RELEASE cycle will be tracked here. The location of the FTP install tree and ISO images is the same as it has been for BETA2, BETA3, RC1 and RC2. The layout to a large degree is being dictated by the new build infrastructure and installer. But it's not particularly well-suited to humans so I've added a shorter pathway to the ISO images. Unless there are lots of complaints about the layout we'll stick with this for the release." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and notes about upgrading from a previous release. Download: FreeBSD-9.0-RC3-i386-disc1.iso (502MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso (612MB, SHA256).
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| 2011-11-17 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 9.0: "The second of the release candidate builds for the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available." According to the FreeBSD 9.0 release engineering page, this will be followed by one more release candidate before the final build which is currently scheduled for 7 December. The release announcement has more details, plus important notes on upgrading from previous a version: "The FreeBSD kernel, which previously could appear in either /boot/kernel or /boot/GENERIC, now only appears as /boot/kernel. As a result, any kernel appearing in /boot/GENERIC will be deleted. Please carefully read the output printed by freebsd-update and confirm that an updated kernel will be placed into /boot/kernel before proceeding beyond this point." Download the i386 and amd64 installation ISO images from here: FreeBSD-9.0-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (502MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.0-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (612MB, SHA256).
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| 2011-10-23 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the delayed release candidate one for FreeBSD 9.0. According to the release schedule, it will be followed by two more release candidates before the final build on 13 November. From the release announcement: "The first of the Release Candidate builds of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Wrapping up RC1 was a bit delayed due to a bug found during the initial testing of the RC1 images and a few glitches that came up as part of making FreeBSD-Update available. We'll update the schedule soon." See the above-mentioned announcement for detailed upgrade information. Quick download links for the i386 and amd64 installation ISO images: FreeBSD-9.0-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (499MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.0-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (608MB, SHA256).
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| 2011-09-29 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the third beta release of FreeBSD 9.0: "The third beta build of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. The 9.0-RELEASE cycle will be tracked here though the schedule listed there is still way off. We'll re-work the schedule some time soon. The location of the FTP install tree and ISO images is the same as it was for BETA2, though we are still deciding if this will be the layout we switch to for the release. At this point FreeBSD Update is still not available, in part to help encourage testing the installer. We hope to start the release candidate phase of the release cycle with the next test build." Here is the brief release announcement as published on one of the project's mailing lists. Download links for the i386 and amd64 installation ISO images: FreeBSD-9.0-BETA3-i386-dvd1.iso (500MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.0-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso (610MB, SHA256).
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| 2011-09-08 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second beta of FreeBSD 9.0, more than a month later than planned: "The second beta build of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Note: the location of the FTP install tree and ISOs have changed slightly. What we used for BETA2 reflects a directory structure that would let us fully utilize building and distributing a wider variety of architectures. The new layout does add some extra complexity, so we're actively discussing whether or not to change the layout from previous releases, and if we do change it whether or not to change it this much. What's there now can be viewed as an almost 'worst-case' scenario. It's entirely possible we'll back off and revert to the old layout despite that layout potentially limiting." There is much more information in the release announcement, including notes on what to test. Download links for the i386 and amd64 ISO images: FreeBSD-9.0-BETA2-i386-dvd1.iso (498MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.0-BETA2-amd64-dvd1.iso (607MB, SHA256).
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| 2011-08-01 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first beta release of FreeBSD 9.0: "The first beta build of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Due to lack of support for boot floppies and issues with the new ATA_CAM infrastructure the pc98 architecture is being dropped to Tier-2 status. Note that some time between now and beta 2 we will finalize the list of shared libraries that need to have their versions bumped (only a subset of libraries have been converted to symbol-versioning) and take care of doing the bumps. So at the moment packages built for current should work. But when the bump happens you will need to recompile any applications you have installed and there will likely be a delay for suitable pre-built packages to become available on the FTP sites." The release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (498MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso (607MB, SHA256).
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| 2011-02-24 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 8.2, 7.4 |
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Ken Smith has announced the release of FreeBSD 8.2: "The FreeBSD release engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: Xen HVM support in FreeBSD/amd64 and Xen PV support in FreeBSD/i386 improved; ZFS on-disk format updated to version 15; aesni driver for Intel AESNI crypto instruction set; BIND and OpenSSL updates; GNOME updated to 2.32.1; KDE updated to 4.5.5; many miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes." Read the release announcement and release notes for further information; there is also an errata page with a late-breaking news about an OpenSSL issue. Download the installation DVD images for the i386 and amd64 architectures from here: FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz (1,971MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.xz (2,033MB, SHA256). FreeBSD 7.4, a new update to the project's legacy branch, is also available.
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| 2011-02-04 |
Development Releases: FreeBSD 8.2-RC3, 7.4-RC3 |
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The third release candidates for FreeBSD 8.2 (production branch) and 7.4 (legacy production branch) have been released: "The third release candidate for the 8.2/7.4 release cycle is now available. For 8.2-RC3 the amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, powerpc and sparc64 architectures are available. For 7.4-RC3 the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures are available. An initial set of pre-built packages are available on the 8.2-RC3 DVD images for both amd64 and i386. At this point we do not know of any issues large enough to hold up the release. Unless further testing uncovers such an issue the release should happen in a week or so." The release announcement contains links to to-do pages and upgrade instructions. Quick download links for the i386 and amd64 architectures: FreeBSD-8.2-RC3-i386-dvd1.iso.xz (1,971MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.2-RC3-amd64-dvd1.iso.xz (2,033MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-7.4-RC3-i386-dvd1.iso (1,644MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-7.4-RC3-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (2,029MB, SHA256).
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| 2011-01-23 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.4-RC2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 7.4, the latest update of the project's "production legacy" branch: "The second release candidate for the FreeBSD 7.4 release cycle is now available. An initial set of pre-build packages are available on the DVD and CD-ROM images for the amd64 architecture. At the time the i386 images were created the two large meta-packages that are the bulk of what we normally provide (GNOME and KDE) were not available so there are some packages on the i386 images but what is there is not a reflection of what we expect to include with the final release. Several bugs we feel are critical enough to warrant fixing before the 8.2/7.4 releases are finalized, so the release will be delayed and we will be providing a third release candidate about a week from now." The release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-7.4-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (1,145MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-7.4-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (2,029MB, SHA256).
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| 2011-01-16 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.2-RC2 |
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Ken Smith has announced that the second release candidate for FreeBSD 8.2 is available and ready for testing: "The second release candidate for the FreeBSD 8.2 release cycle is now available. Initial testing of the 7.4-RC2 install images turned up an issue with the pre-built packages that will take a few more days to address. For this build only the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures are available. An initial set of pre-built packages are available on the DVD images for the amd64 and i386 architectures. Due to a limitation in the mechanism used in some of our FTP mirror site infrastructure we are still limited to a 2 GB maximum file size (we hope that issue will be addressed before the next release), the package set on the DVD image is a bit sparse - basically just the GNOME and KDE meta-packages. The images are also compressed using xz to maximize the compression." Here is the full release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-8.2-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso.xz (1,873MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.2-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso.xz (2,033MB, SHA256).
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| 2010-12-27 |
Development Releases: FreeBSD 8.2-RC1, 7.4-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidates for FreeBSD 8.2 and 7.4: "The first release candidate for the FreeBSD 7.4/8.2 release cycle is now available. For 7.4-RC1 the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures are available, for 8.2-RC1 those architectures plus ia64 and powerpc are available. Files suitable for creating installation media or doing FTP based installs through the network are available on the FreeBSD mirror sites. For this release candidate no packages (except for the doc package set for 8.2-RC1) have been provided in any of the images. If you are updating an already running machine the CVS branch tag for 8.2-RC1 is RELENG_8_2, for 7.4-RC1 it is RELENG_7_4. If you prefer SVN use 'releng/8.2' or 'releng/7.4'." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-8.2-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (861MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.2-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (973MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-7.4-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (967MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-7.4-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,063MB, SHA256).
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| 2010-12-11 |
Development Releases: FreeBSD 8.2-BETA1, 7.4-BETA1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first beta releases of FreeBSD 8.2 and 7.4, new upcoming versions in the production (version 8) and legacy production (version 7) series: "The first of the test builds for the 8.2/7.4 release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. Files suitable for creating installation media or doing FTP-based installs through the network should be on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. The ISO images for this build do not include packages other than the docs. For amd64 and i386 'memstick' images are available that can be copied to a USB 'memory stick' and used for installs on machines that support booting from that type of media." Read the rest of the release announcement for details on how to upgrade from previous versions and where to report bugs. Quick download links for the i386 and amd64 architectures: FreeBSD-8.2-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (861MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.2-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (973MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-7.4-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (967MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-7.4-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,063MB, SHA256).
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| 2010-07-24 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 8.1 |
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FreeBSD 8.1 was formally announced after a few days of its appearance on world-wide mirrors: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: zfsloader added; zpool version of ZFS subsystem updated to version 14; NFSv4 ACL support in UFS and ZFS; support added to cp(1), find(1), getfacl(1), mv(1), and setfacl(1) utilities; UltraSPARC IV/IV+, SPARC64 V support; SMP support in PowerPC G5; BIND 9.6.2-P2; sendmail updated to 8.14.4; OpenSSH updated to 5.4p1; GNOME 2.30.1, KDE 4.4.5. For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download: FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (645MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (682MB, SHA256). The released ISOs images are also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2010-07-02 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.1-RC2 |
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The second release candidate for FreeBSD 8.1 is out and ready for final testing: "The second and most likely final release candidate for the FreeBSD 8.1 release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures. There was a recent regression fix related to Atheros AR9280 cards being detected incorrectly, making them unusable. If you were having problems with a wireless card that had worked before not working with the earlier test builds; hopefully this will fix the problem. Testing of this fix would be appreciated. At this time DVD images are not available. There was a fairly serious security issue with the PNG graphics package. We will generate DVD images when the rebuilt packages become available, that will be announced when the images are ready." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details and upgrade instructions. Download: FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (644MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (680MB, SHA256).
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| 2010-06-18 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 8.1: "The first release candidate for the FreeBSD 8.1 release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures. Files suitable for creating installation media or doing FTP-based installs through the network should be available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. For the amd64 and i386 architectures the DVD images have a preliminary set of packages in the ISO files. Unfortunately due to some limitations of the FTP mirroring system we are limited to images no larger than 2 GB so the packages available on the installation media is limited (almost down to just GNOME/KDE). We will work to remove that limitation but that won't happen before 8.1 is to become available." Read the full release announcement for further details and upgrade instructions. Download: FreeBSD-8.1-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (1,900MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.1-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,971MB, SHA256).
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| 2010-05-29 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.1-BETA1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first beta release of FreeBSD 8.1: "The first of the test builds for the FreeBSD 8.1 release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. Files suitable for creating installation media or doing FTP based installs through the network should be on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites by now. The ISO images for this build do not include packages other than the docs. For amd64 and i386 'memstick' images are also available that can be copied to a USB 'memory stick' (also called 'thumb drive') and used for installs on machines that support booting from that type of media. If you are updating an already running machine the CVS branch tag is RELENG_8, or if you prefer SVN use 'stable/8'." Read the full release announcement for further details and upgrade instructions. Download: FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (851MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.1-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (961MB, SHA256).
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| 2010-03-23 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 7.3 |
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FreeBSD 7.3, the latest update of the project's older, legacy series, has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.2 and introduces a few new features. There will be one more release from this branch to allow future improvements to be made available in the 7-STABLE branch but at this point most developers are focused on 8-STABLE. Some of the highlights: ZFS updated to version 13; new boot loader gptzfsboot supports GPT and ZFS; hwpmc enhancements; new mfiutil and mptutil tools for widely-used RAID controllers; NULL pointer vulnerability mitigation; BIND updated to 9.4-ESV; GNOME updated to 2.28.2, KDE to 4.3.5 and Perl to 5.10." See the release announcement and release notes for a complete list of new features. Download (torrents): FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,929MB, SHA256, torrent), FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (2,000MB, SHA256, torrent).
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| 2010-03-04 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.3-RC2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 7.3: "The third and what should be last of the test builds for the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, 7.3-RC2, is available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. The target schedule, as well as the current status of the release is available here. The schedule has slipped by a bit over a week so the actual target for the release announcement is really about a week and a half from now. If you notice problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the freebsd-stable mailing list. There are known issues with the Radeon video driver that have caused some people problems. The problems have been nebulous enough that we have decided to not hold up the release due to that specific issue." Read the rest of the release announcement for additional notes. Download: FreeBSD-7.3-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,927MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-7.3-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,998MB, SHA256).
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| 2010-02-16 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.3-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the release candidate of FreeBSD 7.3, a new version of the project's legacy branch: "The second of the test builds for the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, 7.3-RC1, is now available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. The schedule has slipped by about a week but so far it looks like we are on track for just having one more public test build (7.3-RC2) followed by the release itself. If you notice problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the freebsd-stable mailing list. There have been some significant changes to the ports that are not incorporated in this set of pre-built packages (e.g. the default version of Perl has been updated to 5.10). If you are using csup/cvsup methods to update an older system the branch tag to use is now RELENG_7_3. The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases." Here is the full release announcement with details on how to upgrade existing systems like FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x. Download: FreeBSD-7.3-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,931MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-7.3-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (2,001MB, SHA256).
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| 2010-01-30 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.3-BETA1 |
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Ken Smith has announced that the first beta release of FreeBSD 7.3, a new version of the project's legacy branch, is now available for testing: "FreeBSD 7.3-BETA1, the first test build of the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, is now available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. For now we plan on BETA1 being followed by two release candidates, then the release itself. If you notice problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the freebsd-stable mailing list. For this BETA build no packages were included on any of the ISO images. An initial pass at providing packages will be done for the first release candidate. If you are using csup/cvsup methods to update an older system the branch tag to use is RELENG_7." Here is the full release announcement with details on how to upgrade existing systems. Download: FreeBSD-7.3-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (950MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-7.3-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,045MB, SHA256).
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| 2009-11-26 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 8.0 |
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FreeBSD 8.0, a major new update of the popular operating system for servers, desktops and embedded devices, has been officially released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. This release starts off the new 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.X and introduces many new features. Some of the highlights: Xen Dom-U, VirtualBox guest and host, hierarchal jails; NFSv3 GSSAPI support, experimental NFSv4 client and server; 802.11s D3.03 wireless mesh networking and Virtual Access Point support; ZFS no longer in experimental status; ground-up rewrite of USB, including USB target support; continued SMP scalability improvements in many areas, especially VFS; revised network link layer subsystem; experimental MIPS architecture support." Read the release announcement, release highlights and release notes for additional information. Download (torrents): 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,784MB, SHA256, torrent), 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,848MB, SHA256, torrent).
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| 2009-11-12 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.0-RC3 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the third and final release candidate for FreeBSD 8.0: "The third and hopefully last of the release candidates for the FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle is now available. Unless something catastrophic comes up within the next couple of days we will begin the final builds for 8.0-RELEASE. There is one known issue with the igb(4) driver we are still deciding whether or not to fix it as part of 8.0-RELEASE versus doing an errata notice for it some time after the release is out. It has been patched in head, and the SVN commit for it is r199192. If any of you are able to give that patch a try on a machine with the igb(4) NIC it would be appreciated. ISO images for all supported architectures are available on the FTP sites, and a 'memory stick' image is available for amd64/i386 architectures." Here is the full release announcement. Download: 8.0-RC3-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,784MB, MD5), 8.0-RC3-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,848MB, MD5).
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| 2009-10-28 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 8.0: "The second of the release candidates for the FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle is now available. At this point we feel most of what has been discovered during public testing that is feasible to fix as part of the release process has been addressed. So the current plan is to have 8.0-RC3 in about two weeks. ISO images for all supported architectures are available on the FTP sites, and a 'memory stick' image is available for amd64/i386 architectures. For amd64/i386 architectures the CD-ROM and memory stick images include the documentation packages but no other packages. The DVD image includes the packages that will probably be available on the official release media." Here is the complete release announcement. Download: 8.0-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,784MB, SHA256), 8.0-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,848MB, MD5).
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| 2009-09-21 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 |
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The first release candidate for FreeBSD 8.0 is ready for testing: "The first of the release candidates for the FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle is now available. How many RCs we have will depend on how well 8.0-RC1 does. At the moment only one more RC is on the schedule but odds are fairly high we will wind up inserting at least one more RC. Between BETA4 and RC1 a lot of work has gone into IPv6 issues as well as many other issues that have been brought up from the public testing. And a patch set was committed by the people who handle porting ZFS to FreeBSD that they felt makes ZFS production-ready. There are two known problems with 8.0-RC1: local IPv6 link-local addresses are not reachable and the flowtable may direct packets to the wrong interface under certain routing conditions." Here is the full release announcement. Download: 8.0-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,776MB, SHA256), 8.0-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,841MB, SHA256).
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| 2009-09-07 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the fourth beta release of FreeBSD 8.0: "The fourth and most likely final BETA build for the FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle is now available. Since BETA3 many bugs that were identified from testing done so far were addressed. Some of the bigger issues were an mbuf leak along with work done in the general IPv6, jail, and USB subsystems. Issues in other areas have been addressed as well. Due to the issues identified in this early phase of testing, the schedule for release has been pushed back. The current target for the release itself is September 29th, with two RC builds between now and then. ISO images for all supported architectures are available on the FTP sites and a 'memory stick' images are available for the amd64 and i386 architectures." Read the rest of the release announcement for additional details. Download: 8.0-BETA4-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,773MB, SHA256), 8.0-BETA4-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,837MB, SHA256).
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| 2009-08-24 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the third beta release of FreeBSD 8.0: "The third of the BETA builds for the FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle is now available. All major work related to new features in 8.0 has been completed and we are shifting into 'bug-fix only' mode for the balance of the release cycle. Debugging features (e.g. WITNESS) are still enabled, but will be removed from stable/8 between now and RC1 so performance is still impacted a bit by that. Also note that, as mentioned previously on the mailing lists, we did do a shared library version bump after BETA2 was announced so if you update a system that was last rebuilt earlier than that it would be a good idea to rebuild all user-level applications including the ports/packages." Read the full release announcement for additional details. Download: 8.0-BETA3-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,773MB, SHA256), 8.0-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,837MB, SHA256).
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| 2009-07-18 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second beta release of FreeBSD 8.0: "BETA2 is still a little bit 'rough around the edges' and we still have various debugging tools enabled that cause the system to perform worse than it will when those debugging tools get disabled. We don't know of any issues that will 'eat your data' or anything like that so in that regard it's safe but we don't recommend it for production use quite yet. If you notice problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the freebsd-current mailing list. ISO images for all supported architectures are available on the FTP sites, and a memory stick image is available for amd64 and i386 architectures." Follow the complete release announcement for further details. Download: 8.0-BETA2-i386-dvd1.iso (822MB, MD5), 8.0-BETA2-amd64-dvd1.iso (930MB, MD5).
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| 2009-07-07 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 |
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Ken Smith announced the availability of the first beta release of FreeBSD 8.0: "The first public test build of the FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE test cycle is now available, 8.0-BETA1. Through the next week or so more information about the release will be posted but here is the current target schedule for the other 'major events': BETA2 July 13, 2009; BETA3 July 20, 2009; RC1 July 27, 2009; RC2 August 17, 2009; RELEASE August 31, 2009. At this point it is not quite ready for production systems but mostly because there is still some ongoing work in a few areas that may cause some changes in things like ABI/API. Debugging supports (WITNESS, malloc debugging, etc.) are also still turned on and those tend to cause a performance hit. As far as we know there are no known issues that would cause data corruption or anything like that, just the issues with performance and potential for changes caused by ongoing work." Read the complete release announcement for further details. Download: 8.0-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (531MB, MD5), 8.0-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (636MB, MD5).
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| 2009-05-04 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 7.2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the release of FreeBSD 7.2: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: support for fully transparent use of superpages for application memory; support for multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for jails; csup(1) now supports CVSMode to fetch a complete CVS repository; GNOME updated to 2.26, KDE updated to 4.2.2; sparc64 now supports UltraSparc-III processors. FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures." Read the release announcement and release notes for a detailed list of changes. Download: 7.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,946MB, MD5, torrent), 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (2.009MB, MD5, torrent).
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| 2009-04-25 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 7.2: "The second of the two planed release candidates for the 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. We believe, with the exception of the new bce(4) driver not working with lagg(4), all the major issues that have come up from the testing have been addressed. We will work with the vendor to get that issue addressed post-release. There is one known issue with 7.2-RC2. We switched from KDE3 to KDE4 and during my tests done before uploading the images, a problem with package dependencies for KDE4 was discovered. The kdemultimedia4 package has audio/lame as a runtime dependency but that package cannot be pre-built due to licensing issues. So the install of kdemultimedia4 fails if you choose to install kde4. The ports folks have been notified and will make the necessary adjustments before the final release." Read the complete release announcement for further details. Download: 7.2-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,928MB, MD5), 7.2-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (2,009MB, MD5).
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| 2009-04-17 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.2-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 7.2: "The first of two planned release candidates for the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. Testing of some of the recent work would be particularly appreciated. This includes: bce(4) updated (there is a report that lagg(4) does not work after the update, fixing that may need to be done as an errata notice after the release); testing of the threading libraries; amr(4) should be fixed. A fix for the 'vm_page_insert: page already inserted' panics has been committed to RELENG_7_1 this morning so it missed the 7.2-RC1 builds. If you wind up being hit by that you can try a normal source based update to the current state of RELENG_7_1 and that problem should go away." Read the complete release announcement for more details. Download: 7.2-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,814MB, MD5), 7.2-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,866MB, MD5).
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| 2009-04-03 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.2-BETA1 |
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Ken Smith has announced that the first beta release of FreeBSD 7.2 is now available for testing: "The first of the test builds for the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. Testing of two recent changes to the system would be particularly valuable. The bce(4) network driver was updated a few days ago. And some significant work was done on the threading libraries a short time ago that is known to fix several major issues but testing to see if it introduced any regressions would be appreciated. If you would like to do a source-based update to 7.2-BETA1 from an already installed machine you can update your tree to RELENG_7 using normal cvsup/csup methods. The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases." Read the rest of the release announcement for more update details and known issues. Download (MD5): 7.2-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (2,144MB), 7.2-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,235MB).
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| 2009-01-05 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 7.1 |
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The first big release of the new year is FreeBSD 7.1: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures; support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported from OpenSolaris; a new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client; boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices; the cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command have been added, providing an API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment; KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3; DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures." See the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download (torrents): 7.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,808MB, MD5, torrent), 7.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,806MB, MD5, torrent).
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| 2008-12-25 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the second release candidate for FreeBSD 7.1: "FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 is now available, the second of the release candidates. Unless an as yet undiscovered show-stopper comes along the release itself will be anywhere from a week to two weeks from now. We might be doing it next week since the release test cycle has gone on for quite a while now and the latest thing that delayed the release was a security advisory (SAs don't typically get or need much in the way of public testing). The traffic we're seeing on the lists and in Gnats is certainly stuff we'll pay attention to and deal with but isn't quite severe enough to warrant further delaying an already severely delayed release." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and update instructions. Download: 7.1-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,809MB, MD5), 7.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,807MB, MD5).
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| 2008-12-10 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 7.1: "FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 is now available, the first of the release candidates. There will be at least one more release candidate before the release so the release itself is likely around three weeks from now - if no new show-stoppers are uncovered during testing. In addition to general testing, we're looking for information about potential problems with the boot loader. And a late arrival that's not possible to test without the packages, sysinstall's issues with excessive disc swapping when installing large sets of packages off the CDROMs should be fixed. Testing to make sure that's working would be appreciated." Read the release announcement for more known issues and binary/source upgrade instructions. Download: 7.1-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,808MB, MD5), 7.1-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,806MB, MD5).
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| 2008-11-28 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 6.4 |
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FreeBSD 6.4, a new stable version of the project's legacy 6.x branch, has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE. At this time 6.4-RELEASE is expected to be the last of the 6-STABLE releases. Some of the highlights: new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client; support for the Camellia cipher; boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices with GPT-enabled BIOSes; DVD install ISO images for amd64 and i386; KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3; updates for BIND, Sendmail, OpenPAM, and other packages." Read the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download (torrents): 6.4-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,738MB, MD5), 6.4-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,720MB, MD5).
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| 2008-11-04 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 6.4-RC2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 6.4: "The second release candidate for FreeBSD 6.4 is now available. FreeBSD 6.4-RC2 should be the last of the public test builds for the FreeBSD 6.4 release cycle. Unless a big show-stopper is found from this round of testing we should begin the 6.4-RELEASE builds in about a week and a half. We encourage you to test out 6.4-RC2 and report any problems by submitting PRs or via email to the freebsd-stable list. One of the things that could use some testing is the late-arriving patches to sysinstall that should eliminate the excessive disc swapping that previous releases had if things like GNOME or KDE were installed as part of the initial CD-ROM install." Read the full release announcement for more details. Download: 6.4-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (585MB, MD5), 6.4-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (650MB, MD5).
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| 2008-10-19 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second beta release of FreeBSD 7.1: "As the next step in the release cycle for FreeBSD 7.1 builds for FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 are now available for testing. The ISO images and FTP install trees are available on the FreeBSD mirror sites. The amd64 and i386 sets include a preliminary set of packages, not what is expected to be included with the release itself. The biggest change is that kde-lite was used this time, while the full kde3 will most likely be used for the release. If you would like to do a source-based update to 7.1-BETA2 from an already installed machine you can update your tree to RELENG_7 using normal cvsup/csup methods. The freebsd-update utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download: 7.1-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso (552MB, MD5), 7.1-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso (547MB, MD5).
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| 2008-10-12 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 6.4-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 6.4, the project's production legacy branch: "As the next step in the release of FreeBSD 6.4, the FreeBSD 6.4-RC1 builds are now available for testing. This is the first of an expected two release candidates. We encourage you to test out the release candidates, reporting any problems by submitting PRs or via email to the freebsd-stable list. If you would like to do a source-based update to 6.4-RC1 from an already installed machine you can update your tree to RELENG_6_4 using normal cvsup/csup methods. Note that as a somewhat inconvenient side-effect of the primary FreeBSD source repository now being in SVN the creation of the RELENG_6_4 branch in the CVS repository wound up checking in a 'new' version of every file, in some cases only changing the FBSDID." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download: 6.4-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (580MB, MD5), 6.4-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (629MB, MD5).
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| 2008-02-27 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 7.0 |
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FreeBSD 7.0 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the 7-STABLE branch which introduces many new features along with many improvements to functionality present in the earlier branches. Some of the highlights: dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability shown by various database and other benchmarks; the ULE scheduler is vastly improved, providing improved performance and interactive response; experimental support for Sun's ZFS file system; gjournal can be used to set up journaled file systems, gvirstor can be used as a virtualized storage provider; read-only support for the XFS file system; the Unionfs file system has been fixed...." Read the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download (FTP mirrors, torrents): 7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (509MB, MD5), 7.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (499MB, MD5).
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| 2008-02-22 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.0-RC3 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the third release candidate for FreeBSD 7.0: "We're doing a 'mini-RC3' to encourage testing of the Highpoint driver (hptrr) backout. Testing of 7.0-RC2 showed there were problems with the driver update done between RC1 and RC2. Because it's a 'mini-RC' targeted at testing of one particular thing we have not bothered with setting up FreeBSD Update. You can use the normal cvsup-and-build method of doing an update for machines that are already up and running (branch tag RELENG_7_0) or install from scratch using the ISOs available on the FTP sites. If those who experienced problems related to the hptrr driver update could let us know one way or another whether or not you are still having problems with it that would be appreciated." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: 7.0-RC3-i386-disc1.iso (509MB, MD5), 7.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso (499MB, MD5).
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| 2008-02-12 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.0-RC2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 7.0: "The second Release Candidate for FreeBSD 7.0 is now available on most of the FTP mirror sites. Users of i386 or amd64 systems may wish to perform a binary upgrade to 7.0-RC2 using code recently added to the freebsd-update utility. On systems running 7.0-BETA4 or 7.0-RC1, the instructions for minor upgrades should be followed for this purpose; on systems running older releases or BETAs (including 7.0 BETAs prior to BETA4) the lengthier instructions for major upgrades should be followed. We sincerely hope this will be the last of the public tests for 7.0 and that the -RELEASE builds will start in about a week and a half. If bug(s) considered big enough to be show-stoppers are found we will of course reconsider but hopefully we're in good enough shape now to proceed with the release." Here is the full release announcement. Download: 7.0-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (510MB, MD5), 7.0-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (501MB, MD5).
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| 2008-01-18 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 6.3 |
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FreeBSD 6.3 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.3. This release continues the development of the 6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many bug fixes and new features. Some of the highlights: KDE updated to 3.5.8, GNOME updated to 2.20.1, X.Org updated to 7.3; BIND updated to 9.3.4; Sendmail updated to 8.14.2; lagg driver ported from OpenBSD / NetBSD; Unionfs file system re-implemented; freebsd-update now supports an upgrade command. FreeBSD 6.3 is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Junichiro Hagino for his visionary work on the IPv6 protocol and his many other contributions to the Internet and BSD communities." Read the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download: 6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (625MB, MD5), 6.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (673MB, MD5). Also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2007-12-31 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 6.3-RC2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the second release candidate for FreeBSD 6.3: "Sorry for the delay with this phase of the 6.3 release. A few glitches were found during testing of the 6.3-RC2 ISOs that included pre-built packages. The 6.3-RC2 builds for amd64 and i386 should now be available on the majority of the FreeBSD mirror sites. This is the last planned RC for 6.3. Unless a major show-stopper problem is found, the release of 6.3 should happen in about two weeks. If updating an older system using cvs or c[v]sup based mechanisms, the branch tag to use is RELENG_6_3. Or you can give FreeBSD Update a try, see the instructions here." More info in the release announcement. Download (MD5): 6.3-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (625MB), 6.3-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (673MB).
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| 2007-12-30 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 7.0: "FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 available. The ports team has gotten the release package sets built for most of the architectures (sparc64 is still a long way off) so we have begun including the pre-built packages on the ISOs. Even a very basic post-build test turned up one latent bug in sysinstall, and once that was fixed a more extensive test (load both KDE and GNOME) turned up two more latent bugs. The 7.0-RC1 builds have one of the three bugs fixed in them. The other two bugs aren't fatal to installs on 7.0-RC1 and we have more 7.0-RCs coming so I went ahead with making 7.0-RC1 available as-is." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download: 7.0-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (510MB, MD5), 7.0-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (501MB, MD5).
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| 2007-12-06 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the fourth beta release of FreeBSD 7.0: "The 7.0-BETA4 builds are now available. If you would like to download an ISO image to install from they are available here. If you would like to use cvsup to update an older machine the branch tag to use is still RELENG_7. For users of FreeBSD Update due to some last-minute bumps in system libraries, installed third-party applications must be recompiled as per normal for a 'major' upgrade, even if upgrading from an earlier 7.0 BETA." Here is the brief release announcement. Download the installation CD images from here: 7.0-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso (385MB, MD5), 7.0-BETA4-amd64-disc1.iso (406MB, MD5).
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| 2007-11-29 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 6.3-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the first release candidate for FreeBSD 6.3: "The first of the release candidate builds for FreeBSD 6.3 is now available. There is one more release candidate planned, which will be followed by the release unless a major show-stopper issue crops up during testing. The release branch has been created so if you plan to use cvsup to update an already installed machine you should use the RELENG_6_3 branch. Or you can give FreeBSD Update a try, see the instructions here. The ports folks are getting very close to finishing up the release package builds for a couple of the architectures. I'm planning to fiddle a bit with figuring out the disc1 and disc2 package sets that we will be trying to provide as part of the final release." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5): 6.3-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (499MB, MD5), 6.3-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (580MB, MD5).
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| 2007-11-04 |
Development Releases: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2, 6.3-BETA1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2: "The 7.0-BETA2 builds have completed and are on many of the FreeBSD mirror sites. If you want to update an existing machine using cvsup, use RELENG_7 as the branch tag. Instructions on using FreeBSD Update to perform a binary upgrade from FreeBSD 6.x to 7.0-BETA2 will be provided via the freebsd-stable list when available." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: 7.0-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso (638MB, MD5), 7.0-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso (542MB, MD5). On a related note, the first beta build of FreeBSD 6.3 has also been released: "The 6.3-BETA1 builds got delayed a bit by a last minute MFC (Merged From -Current) causing some undesired ABI breakage. That has been fixed and the 6.3-BETA1 builds for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 have completed."
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| 2007-10-23 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first beta release of FreeBSD 7.0: "We have entered the final phases of the FreeBSD 7.0 Release cycle which also means the beginning of the FreeBSD-6.3 Release cycle. Because the people who support the ports for FreeBSD also need to go through a freeze cycle as part of releases we had decided to combine the two releases to try and minimize the impact on the ports maintainers. The 7.0-BETA1 builds have completed and are on many of the FreeBSD mirror sites. If you want to update an existing machine using cvsup use RELENG_7 as the branch tag. Instructions on using FreeBSD Update to perform a binary upgrade from FreeBSD 6.x to 7.0-BETA1 will be provided via the freebsd-stable list when available." Here is the complete release announcement. Download: 7.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (636MB, MD5), 7.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso (539MB, MD5).
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| 2007-01-15 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 6.2 |
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The FreeBSD project has announced the release of FreeBSD 6.2: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. This release continues the development of the 6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many bug fixes and new features. Some of the highlights: freebsd-update provides officially supported binary updates for security fixes and errata patches; experimental support for CAPP security event auditing; OpenBSM audit command line tool suite and library; KDE updated to 3.5.4, GNOME updated to 2.16.1; csup integrated cvsup client now included...." Read the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download: 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (573MB, MD5), 6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (616MB, MD5).
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| 2006-12-27 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 6.2-RC2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate of FreeBSD 6.2: "Since RC1 we have been working out a few more bugs in device drivers, a few device drivers were updated, BIND was updated, and bugs in several other areas of the kernel have been worked out. We also wound up having hardware problems with the primary distribution machine that took some time to resolve. All problems we felt needed to be addressed before 6.2 could be released have been taken care of. Unless further testing turns up something new RC2, which is available now for downloading, will be the last of the Release Candidates and 6.2-RELEASE should be ready in about 2 weeks." Read the full release announcement for further information. Download (i386, MD5): 6.2-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (573MB), 6.2-RC2-i386-disc2.iso (639MB).
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| 2006-11-17 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of FreeBSD 6.2-RC1: "We have now reached the Release Candidate stage of the FreeBSD 6.2 release cycle. A few significant problems had been discovered during the initial BETA testing and those issues should now be fixed. This is the first point packages have been included with the test builds and a few minor nits have been noticed already. In particular these are known problems which will be addressed before RC2: sysinstall tries to install the wrong package for Linux emulation on i386; if you install gnome2 off the distribution media it will fail to find packages for gmime and gmime-sharp; RC1 distribution media does not include the documentation tree." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (MD5): 6.2-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (519MB), 6.2-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (562MB).
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| 2006-11-01 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 6.2-BETA3 |
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Ken Smith has announced the third beta release of FreeBSD 6.2: "BETA3 for the FreeBSD 6.2 release is now available on most of the FTP mirror sites. There have been a lot of fixes to many things since BETA2. The most important of the things that have been worked on is the driver for em(4). We are hoping people who had been reporting problems with em(4) can test what has been done. Both positive and negative feedback would be appreciated, if you had been experiencing problems that are now gone we would like to know. We are getting much closer to something that is release-able. Your help with the testing up to now has been appreciated, and continued testing would be appreciated even more." The release announcement. Download (i386, MD5): 6.2-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (412MB), 6.2-BETA3-i386-disc2.iso (31MB).
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| 2006-09-20 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 6.2-BETA1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the first beta release of FreeBSD 6.2: "The first Beta build for the FreeBSD-6.2 Release Cycle is now available on most of the FTP mirror sites. If the release cycle goes as planned it is the first of two BETAs, which will be followed by two Release Candidates (RCs) and then the final release. A few things to note about BETA1: be aware that SA-06:21.gzip was released after the -BETA1 builds started; the install media provided for this BETA do not include any packages; the sparc64 build got started before an important bug fix was applied to auditctl(2); no BETA1 for the ia64 platform will be available; the build for Alpha is still in progress; FreeBSD Update, a binary security update tool, was recently imported into the FreeBSD base system." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download (i386, MD5): 6.2-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (687MB) and 6.2-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso (687MB).
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| 2006-05-25 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 5.5 |
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Ken Smith has announced a new stable release of the FreeBSD 5.x series: "It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE. Work done between the 5.4-RELEASE and this release has mostly been bug fixes. Some 'vendor supplied' software has also been updated, mostly due to security concerns (specifically BIND and sendmail). This is the last planned release on the 5-STABLE branch. The FreeBSD development community is currently focusing its efforts on the 6-STABLE and CURRENT codelines. No new major features are planned for the 5-STABLE branch, although minor updates and bug fixes may be merged at the discretion of individual developers." Read the release announcement and consult the release notes for more information. Download (i386, MD5): 5.5-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (511MB), 5.5-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso (579MB).
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| 2006-05-16 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.5-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the release of FreeBSD 5.5-RC1, the latest development build of the project's legacy stable series: "FreeBSD 5.5-RC1 is now available for testing. Things had been going well with the 5.5 BETAs up to the point we suspended making them so we could focus on the balance of the 6.1 release so we think 5.5 is pretty much ready to go. Unless big problems are reported with this RC we will start the 5.5 release builds this coming weekend and do the release early next week." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download the i386 ISO image from here (MD5): 5.5-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (511MB) and 5.5-RC1-i386-disc2.iso (415MB).
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| 2006-05-09 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 6.1 |
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FreeBSD 6.1 has been released: "It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. This release is the next step in the development of the 6.X branch, delivering several performance improvements, many bug fixes, and a few new features. These include: addition of a keyboard multiplexer - this allows USB and PS/2 keyboards to coexist without any special options at boot; many fixes for file system stability; automatic configuration for man Bluetooth devices, as well as automatic support for running WiFi access points; addition of drivers for new ethernet and SAS and SATA RAID controllers...." See the rest of the release announcement for full details. Download (i386, MD5): 6.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (505MB) and 6.1-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso (574MB); also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2006-05-02 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 6.1-RC2 |
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Scott Long has announced the second release candidate of FreeBSD 6.1: "FreeBSD 6.1-RC2 is available for download. This is the last RC before the release. Please test it to make sure that there have been no regressions since the last RC, and to make sure that it there are no new problems with installation. Other than a few cosmetic tweaks, there will be no more changes before 6.1. The list of known issues: using UFS snapshots and quotas at the same time can cause system lockups; under rare and heavily loaded circumstances, there is a possibility to leak PTYs...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (i386, MD5): 6.1-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (505MB), 6.1-RC2-i386-disc2.iso (575MB).
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| 2006-04-13 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 6.1-RC1 |
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The first release candidate of FreeBSD 6.1 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-RC1. It is meant to be a refinement of the 6-STABLE, branch with few dramatic changes. A lot of bugfixes have been made, some drivers have been updated, and some areas have been tweaked for better performance, etc. but no large changes have been made to the basic architecture. This RC is late in coming due to many more bugs being fixed, as well as a keyboard multiplexer being added." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download (i386, MD5): 6.1-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (504MB) and 6.1-RC1-i386-disc2.iso (575MB).
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| 2006-03-15 |
Development Releases: FreeBSD 6.1-BETA4, 5.5-BETA4 |
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New beta releases of both FreeBSD 6.1 and 5.5 were announced today: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-BETA4 and FreeBSD 5.5-BETA4. A couple of significant changes were made to 6.1-BETA4. First is a large set of fixes to the VFS layer and various filesystems that should significantly help performance under heavy load and also fix problems with forcefully unmounting these filesystems. The second large change is that sysinstall will now install both the GENERIC and SMP kernels and automatically select the appropriate one based on whether it detects one CPU in the system or multiple CPUs." Find more details in the release announcement. Download (i386, MD5): 6.1-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso (443MB), 6.1-BETA4-i386-disc2.iso (171MB).
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| 2006-02-21 |
Development Releases: FreeBSD 6.1-BETA2, 5.5-BETA2 |
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The second beta releases of both the stable FreeBSD 6.x and legacy FreeBSD 5.x series are now available for testing: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-BETA2 and FreeBSD 5.5-BETA2. Both FreeBSD 6.1 and FreeBSD 5.5 are meant to be a refinement of their respective branches with few dramatic changes. A lot of bugfixes have been made, some drivers have been updated, and some areas have been tweaked for better performance, etc. but no large changes have been made to the basic architecture. The FreeBSD 5.5 Release is being done for people who are unable to make the jump to FreeBSD 6.X at this time." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details and known issues. Download (i386, MD5): 6.1-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso (571MB), 6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso (648MB).
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| 2006-02-09 |
Development Releases: FreeBSD 6.1-BETA1 and 5.5-BETA1 |
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The FreeBSD project has announced new beta versions of the stable FreeBSD 6 branch as well as the legacy FreeBSD 5.x series: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the beginning of both the FreeBSD 6.1 and FreeBSD 5.5 release cycles with the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-BETA1 and FreeBSD 5.5-BETA1. Both FreeBSD 6.1 and FreeBSD 5.5 are meant to be a refinement of their respective branches with few dramatic changes. A lot of bugfixes have been made, some drivers have been updated, and some areas have been tweaked for better performance, etc. but no large changes have been made to the basic architecture." Find more details in the release announcement. Download (i386, MD5): 6.1-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (568MB) and 6.1-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso (258MB).
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| 2005-11-04 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 6.0 |
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It's official: FreeBSD 6.0 is here. "It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. This release is the next step in delivering the high performance and enterprise features that have been under development in the FreeBSD 5.x series for that last several years. Some of the many changes since 5.4 include: significant performance improvements to the filesystem and direct disk access layers of the OS; expanded support for wireless networking adapters and new support for the WPA wireless security protocol; experimental support for the PowerPC platform." Read the complete release announcement and release notes for more information. Download (i386, MD5, SHA256): 6.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (552MB) and 6.0-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso (651MB).
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| 2005-10-11 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 |
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The first release candidate of FreeBSD 6.0 has been released: "The release engineering team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0. We encourage everyone to help with testing so any final bugs can be identified and worked out. The following issues are known and will be fixed before the release: a late change in the aac(4) driver may result in the driver failing on some Dell systems; some systems with only USB keyboards might loose keyboard input; some laptops with certain IDE controllers may crash on bootup; the QEMU and VMWare packages are known to expose problems in the IDE CDROM driver during OS install...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (i386, MD5, SHA256): 6.0-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (552MB), 6.0-RC1-i386-disc2.iso (651MB).
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| 2005-08-29 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA3 |
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The third beta of FreeBSD 6.0 has been available from download servers since last week, but the release announcement was only published today: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA3. This BETA includes a full set of packages for amd64 and i386 architectures. Alpha has no packages, sparc64 has everything except for KDE and Gnome. The FTP install trees are available. We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be identified and worked out." Download (i386, MD5): 6.0-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (552MB) and 6.0-BETA3-i386-disc2.iso (652MB).
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| 2005-08-05 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 |
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FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 has just been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2. Because suitable pre-build packages are not widely available (see the Known Issues section below) BETA2 only has disc1 and bootonly ISOs available, and there are no FTP install trees... If you have an older system you want to update using the normal CVS/cvsup source based upgrade the branch tag to use is RELENG_6 (though that will change for the Release Candidates later). Problem reports can be submitted using the send-pr(1) command." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (i386, MD5): 6.0-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso (450MB).
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| 2005-07-15 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 |
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The FreeBSD 6 release cycle is now officially under way: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 6.0 release cycle. FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 branch than the FreeBSD 5 branch was from FreeBSD 4. Much of the work that has gone into 6.0 development has focused on polishing and improving the work from 5.x. These changes include streamlining direct device access in the kernel, providing a multi-threaded SMP-safe UFS/VFS file system layer, implementing WPA and Host-AP 802.11 features, as well as countless bugfixes and device driver improvements." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (i386, MD5): 6.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (447MB) and 6.0-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso (141MB).
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| 2005-05-09 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 5.4 |
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FreeBSD 5.4 has been released: "The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD Stable development branch. Since FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE in November 2004 we have made many improvements in functionality, stability, performance, and device driver support for some hardware, as well as dealt with known security issues and made many bugfixes. FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE supports the i386, amd64, ia64, pc98, sparc64, and alpha architectures and can be installed directly over the net, using bootable media, or copied to a local NFS/FTP server." Find more information in the release announcement and release notes. Download (i386): 5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (538MB) and 5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso (640MB). BitTorrent seeds are also available.
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| 2005-05-03 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.4-RC4 |
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The fourth release candidate of FreeBSD 5.4 is out: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC4, the fourth Release Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. This will be the last Release Candidate, unless a major problem is discovered as part of RC4 testing the final release will be made early next week. This RC contains fixes to all known major issues. We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be identified and worked out. ... The packages being provided as part of RC4 are what is expected to come with the final release for the alpha, amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. There will be a few more adjustments made to the package set for ia64." Here is the complete release announcement. Download (i386): 5.4-RC4-i386-disc1.iso (538MB) and 5.4-RC4-i386-disc2.iso (640MB).
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| 2005-04-19 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 |
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The third release candidate of FreeBSD 5.4 is now available: "Due to one major issue that crops up on large (4-processor) systems under heavy load that is still being debugged there will be at least one more RC added to the schedule. Timing for the extra RC and the new Release date has not been set yet... We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be identified and worked out. At this point the only major problem has been the above mentioned issue..." Find more details in the release announcement. Download (i386): 5.4-RC3-i386-disc1.iso (538MB) and 5.4-RC3-i386-disc2.iso (640MB).
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| 2005-04-12 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.4-RC2 |
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The second release candidate of FreeBSD 5.4 is now available for testing: "We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be identified and worked out. At this point the only major problem has been reports of large server (4 processors or more) hanging under extreme load conditions (varied load of local processes like database and heavy network load). Details to help with debugging have been hard to obtain so if anyone is in a position to help with trying to reproduce this it would be appreciated." Find more details in the release announcement. Download (i386): 5.4-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (538MB) and 5.4-RC2-i386-disc2.iso (640MB).
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| 2005-04-05 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.4-RC1 |
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The first release candidate of FreeBSD 5.4 is now available for testing: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC1, the first Release Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. Much effort has been put into fixing a wide variety of problems identified in FreeBSD 5.3. It is important to check the 'Known Issues' section below. In particular two strictly local security issues came up after the RC1 builds had completed and were made available to mirror sites but before this announcement. We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be identified and worked out." Find more details in the release announcement. Download (i386): 5.4-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (537MB) and 5.4-RC1-i386-disc2.iso (624MB).
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| 2005-03-21 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 |
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The first beta of FreeBSD 5.4 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. This BETA1 release is in the same basic format as the Monthly Snapshots, for this BETA there are no packages on the CDs at all so the install of things like Perl from the installation media will fail. As with the Snapshots there is, however, a full ports tarball it offers to install and you can use that to install the ports (or just download the packages you want from the FTP mirror sites). The Release Candidates posted through the next few weeks will contain the package sets." Here is the full release announcement. Download (i386): 5.4-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (570MB).
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| 2005-01-17 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 |
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The third release candidate of FreeBSD 4.11 is available: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.11-RC3. This will be the last Release Candidate for the FreeBSD 4.11 release unless a 'show-stopper' problem is found while testing RC3. ... It has been decided to provide two disc1 ISO images, one with the KDE windowing system packages on it and the other with the GNOME windowing system packages. They are named disc1-kde and disc1-gnome respectively. Other than which major windowing system is on them they are identical. Most users can choose one of the disc1 ISOs to download and install from. At this time disc1-gnome for Alpha is not available. It may be made available later this week." Here is the full release announcement. Download (i386): 4.11-RC3-i386-disc1-gnome.iso (563MB), 4.11-RC3-i386-disc1-kde.iso (633MB), 4.11-RC3-i386-disc2.iso (310MB).
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| 2005-01-03 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 4.11-RC2 |
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The second release candidate of FreeBSD 4.11 is now available: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.11-RC2. This is the second of three scheduled release candidates. At the moment there are no known severe issues. However the Linux Emulation subsystem (mostly added as a package) has been completely updated based on Red Hat 8.0. We would appreciate people testing the Linux emulation support. In particular testing to see if Linux applications continue to behave correctly if the linux_* packages get installed while using sysinstall(8) during the initial installation of the machine. The package set for disc1 is still being decided on, what is on disc1 for this RC will most likely change before the release." Here is the full release announcement. Download (i386): 4.11-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (649MB) and 4.11-RC2-i386-disc2.iso (307MB).
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| 2004-12-19 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 4.11-RC1 |
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FreeBSD's legacy branch is receiving another update - to version 4.11: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.11-RC1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 4.11 Release Cycle. This will be the last of the FreeBSD 4.X releases. It is meant to give users a little more time to migrate to FreeBSD 5.X, providing some bug fixes as well as a few conservative updates to some of the core pieces of the system." Here is the complete release announcement. Download (i386): 4.11-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (648MB) and 4.11-RC1-i386-disc2.iso (305MB).
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| 2004-11-07 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE |
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Four and a half years after 4-STABLE, the first production release of FreeBSD 5 is now available for your downloading pleasure: "It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. This release marks a milestone in the FreeBSD 5.x series and the beginning of the 5-STABLE branch of releases. Some of the many changes since 5.2.1 include: a binary compatibility interface has been introduced for the i386 platform that allows running Microsoft Windows NDIS network drivers natively in the kernel; the network and socket subsystems are now multi-threaded and reentrant; the development environment has been updated to GCC 3.4.2, Binutils; 2.15, and GDB 6.1; the choices for graphical environments have been updated to include X.org 6.7, GNOME 2.6.2 and KDE 3.3.0." The announcement, release notes, hardware notes and installation instructions. Download (i386): 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (645MB) and 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso (620MB). BitTorrent trackers and ISO images for alpha, amd64, ia64, pc98 and sparc64 are also available.
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| 2004-10-31 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.3-RC2 |
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The second release candidate of FreeBSD 5.3 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RC2. Two critical issues came up during RC1 testing and it is felt the fixes warrant one more RC so they receive widespread testing. If no more show-stopper problems are found this will be the last test release done before 5.3-RELEASE. Fixes and enhancements since RC1: A situation where processes being debugged using a debugger (e.g. gdb) could be left in an unkillable state has been fixed. A situation where a machine under severe network load could stop responding for periods of time due to SACK issues has been fixed." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download: 5.3-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (645MB) and 5.3-RC2-i386-disc2.iso (625MB).
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| 2004-10-20 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 |
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The delayed release candidate of FreeBSD 5.3 is out: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RC1. This will likely be the only Release Candidate before the final release of 5.3. Fixes and enhancements since BETA7: added support for nForce2, nForce3, and ICH3 sound chips; fixed LOR in the socket code; VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX and VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE are now tunables; fixed security hole in syscons related to invalid coordinates; interface renaming events are now logged; PFIL_HOOKS are no longer an option and exist by default; fixed problem with threads sometimes ignoring signals; many fixes to gvinum; fix timecounting on sparc64 SMP...." The complete release announcement. Download: 5.3-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (644MB) and 5.3-RC1-i386-disc2.iso (624MB). The final release of FreeBSD 5.3 is scheduled for 25 October.
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| 2004-10-04 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 |
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The seventh beta of FreeBSD 5.3 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7. This is the seventh and final BETA of the 5.3 release cycle. Fixes and enhancements made since BETA6: fix timekeeping on sparc64 and alpha that would result in the day of the week being stored incorrectly in NVRAM; add support to the fxp driver for the ICH6 chipset; fix the panic on detach problem with USB hubs; import BIND 9.3.0, this completely replaces the old BIND 8.x nameserver in the base system; fix panic when allocating swap on a busy system; fix loader crash when using the 'lsdev' command...." The full release announcement. Download (i386): 5.3-BETA7-i386-disc1.iso (650MB) and 5.3-BETA7-i386-disc2.iso (620MB).
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| 2004-09-26 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 |
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The sixth beta of FreeBSD 5.3 is now available for download and testing: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6. This is the sixth BETA of the 5.3 release cycle. Fixes and Enhancements made since BETA5: many USB device updates; fix a panic when unloading the if_tap module; fix a lock order reversal in the network ioctl code; fix a panic with PF; fix large UID and GID handling in libarchive; the PFIL_HOOKS kernel option is now silently enabled by default; various locking fixes to the network stack; the net.inet.ip.check_interface sysctl is off by default now...." Read the rest of the release announcement. Download (i386): 5.3-BETA6-i386-disc1.iso (644MB) and 5.3-BETA6-i386-disc2.iso (603MB).
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| 2004-09-20 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA5 |
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The fifth beta release of FreeBSD 5.3 is now available for download and testing: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA5. Fixes and enhancements made since BETA4: updated floppy device driver (testers trying out floppies on your systems would be appreciated); fix for panics on certain hardware during boot if no media in the CD-ROM drive; change to pf logging format to handle 64-bit time; many more scheduler fixes, we encourage testers to turn PREEMPTION on; many fixes to bpf locking; if_re locking added...." See the announcement for a complete list of changes. Download: 5.3-BETA5-i386-disc1.iso (657MB); also available via 5.3-BETA5-i386-disc2.iso (290MB).
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| 2004-09-12 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA4 |
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Two days behind the schedule, the fourth beta of FreeBSD 5.3 is out: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA4. This is the fourth BETA of the 5.3 release cycle. Fixed and Enhancements made since BETA3: ATA works on sparc64 and ia64 again; better support for statically linked threaded programs in GDB; support for more Broadcom and Realtek-based NICs; fixes for MSDOS internationalization support; many fixes for ATA including speed fixes for ICH* chips, better error recovery, and better support for devices that respond as both master and slave...." More details in the announcement. Download (i386): 5.3-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso (628MB) and 5.3-BETA4-i386-disc2.iso (290MB).
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| 2004-09-05 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA3 |
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The third beta of FreeBSD 5.3 is now available for download and testing: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA3. Fixes and Enhancements made since BETA2: MP-safe network stack is now enabled by default; add support for loadable modules on AMD64; miscellaneous ACPI fixes; miscellaneous fixes and enhancements to bsdtar; X server configuration has been removed from sysinstall, it is best done post-install; fix to maestro sound card driver; correct a denial-of-service vulnerability in zlib...." Read the full announcement for detailed information about the release. Download (i386): 5.3-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (648MB) and 5.3-BETA3-i386-disc2.iso (307MB).
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| 2004-08-29 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 |
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The second beta of FreeBSD 5.3 is now available for download and testing: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2. This is the second BETA of the 5.3 release cycle. It is intended for early adopters and those wishing to help find and/or fix bugs. The 5.3 release cycle will continue with weekly BETA builds while bugs are being fixed and features finalized. The schedule is here. Be sure to check the 'known issues' below, there are known problems still being worked on at this time." Here is the announcement and changelog. Download: 5.3-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso (648MB) and 5.3-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso (306MB).
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| 2004-08-22 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 |
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The much awaited first stable production release of FreeBSD 5 is getting closer: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1. This is the first BETA of the 5.3 release cycle. It is intended for early adopters and those wishing to help find and/or fix bugs. The 5.3 release cycle will continue with weekly BETA builds while bugs are being fixed and features finalized. Be sure to check the 'Known issues' below, there are known problems still being worked on at this time. Significant improvements in features, performance and stability have been made since FreeBSD 5.2.1 was released last February." Read the announcement and check out the release schedule for details. Download (i386): 5.3-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (648MB) and 5.3-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso (306MB).
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| 2004-08-13 |
Differentiating Among BSD Distros |
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Ever wonder exactly how FreeBSD differs from OpenBSD, or why Mac OS X is considered a BSD? ServerWatch overviews the four main BSD distributions and offer recommendations for both server and desktop based solutions: "The much talked about Linux camp contains a variety of distributions that include different utilities and tool sets. The same is true of the less frequently covered BSD camp. This article compares and contrasts the four main BSD variants... Three of these (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD) are totally free; the fourth (Mac OS X) is technically the core part of an operating system that most wouldn't even consider a BSD variant. To understand the differences between the various versions, let's briefly recap the history of BSD to understand how the different versions have developed." Read the article here.
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| 2004-07-18 |
FreeBSD Install Guide |
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Mad Penguin has published a step-by-step guide to installing FreeBSD 5. It assumes moderate experience with linux and leaves you with a fully updated FreeBSD system: "The first thing to understand about FreeBSD is that there are two lines of development. The -STABLE branch is marked with a 4.x version number and the most recent version is 4.10. It is well tested and very solid, but does not include the most recent technology. The -CURRENT branch, marked with a 5.x version, is the "unstable" branch. However, it is nicely stable at the moment and is coming along quite well. Most users should go with 5.x and these instructions are only valid for that tree." Read the full guide here.
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| 2004-05-27 |
Distribution Release: FreeBSD 4.10 |
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FreeBSD 4.10 has been released: "I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE in October 2003 we have made conservative updates to a number of software programs in the base system, dealt with known security issues, and made many bugfixes. ... The current plans are for one more FreeBSD 4.X release which will be FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE. It is expected the upcoming FreeBSD 5.3 release will have reached the maturity level most users will be able to migrate to 5.X." For more information, please see the release announcement and the release notes. Download (i386): 4.10-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (618MB) and 4.10-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso (273MB).
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| 2004-05-17 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 4.10-RC3 |
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This is the third, and probably the last release candidate of FreeBSD 4.10: "FreeBSD 4.10-RC3 is available. Changes from RC2 include a full package set for Alpha, fixes for the twe(4) driver under load, fixes for the twa drives not being seen by sysinstall, along with various other bug fixes. i386 ISO images are available now, alpha ISO images are uploading to ftp-master now and will be available shortly. We expected this to be the final RC before the full release at the end of this week. So please test this as much as possible and report any problems." The release announcement. Download: 4.10-RC3-i386-disc1.iso (649MB) and 4.10-RC3-i386-disc2.iso (271MB).
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| 2004-05-03 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 4.10-RC2 |
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This is the second release candidate of FreeBSD 4.10: "FreeBSD 4.10-RC2 is available for download. There are only a few changes in this, but it does include the release package set, so please feel free to test things like KDE and Gnome. Due to some late issues that are cropping up, we will probably do an RC3 before the final release. One thing to note about RC2 is that the twe(4) driver appears to be buggy and might hang under heavy i/o load. I posted a candidate patch to fix this problem to stable at freebsd.org a little while ago." The full announcement. Download (i386): 4.10-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (649MB) and 4.10-RC2-i386-disc2.iso (272MB)
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| 2004-04-27 |
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve |
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Following the recent inclusion of BSD distributions on DistroWatch, we are pleased to bring you our first BSD article - a review of the latest release of FreeBSD 5. In the first part of the story we will look at the history of BSD, compare BSD with Linux from a technical perspective, and talk about licensing considerations. The second part will bring you practical information about installing FreeBSD and its applications, followed by a handful of useful tweaks, and configuration examples of various aspects of the operating system. FreeBSD is a superb product. Even if you decide in the end that Linux serves your needs better, there is no reason not to enhance your experience with another open source UNIX and learn about many distinct qualities of the most popular BSD operating system in the process. Article by Robert Storey.
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| 2004-04-23 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 4.10-RC |
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This is from the announcement about the release of FreeBSD 4.10-RC: "The first Release Candidate for 4.10 (both i386 and alpha) is available now on the FTP mirror sites. If you can give it a test drive and provide feedback about any issues we would greatly appreciate it. At this point we are not sure if there will be a need for a second RC build - it will depend on the feedback generated by this first RC." Read the rest of the announcement. Download: 4.10-RC-i386-disc1.iso (650MB) and 4.10-RC-i386-disc2.iso (271MB). ISO images for the alpha architecture are still in the process of being uploaded to FTP servers.
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| 2004-04-13 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 4.10-BETA |
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For those who missed yesterday's DistroWatch Weekly, BSD distributions have now been included in DistroWatch and will be monitored in the same fashion as Linux distributions. Here comes the first announcement - the release of FreeBSD 4.10-BETA on Sunday: "I'm pleased to announce the availability of 4.10-BETA for i386. 4.10-BETA for alpha will be following shortly as we work out some problems. 4.10 is the next step in the 4-STABLE branch, and as such contains primarily bug fixes and incremental functionality improvements. One significant new feature is the merging of the USB stack and drivers from 5.x. This should provide significantly better USB support from what previously existed in 4.x, and I ask everyone to test it out as much as possible in the BETA phase." Read the rest of the announcement. Download: 4.10-BETA-i386-disc1.iso (652MB) and 4.10-BETA-i386-disc2.iso (270MB).
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