FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE Now Available
14 November, 2014 by gjb@FreeBSD.org | freebsd
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FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE Announcement
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)
filesystem.
* 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.
* Support has been added to cache geli(8) passphrases during system
boot.
* Support for the UDP-Lite protocol (RFC 3828) has been added to the
IPv4 and IPv6 stacks.
* The new filesystem automount facility, autofs(5), has been added.
* The sshd(8) rc.d(8) startup script now generates ED25519 sshd(8) host
keys if keys do not already exist when ssh_keygen_alg() is invoked.
* OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.6p1.
* The nc(1) utility has been updated to match the version in OpenBSD
5.5.
* Sendmail has been updated to 8.14.9.
* The unbound(8) caching resolver and ldns have been updated to version
1.4.22.
* OpenPAM has been updated to Ourouparia (20140912).
* OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.1j.
* The pkg(8) package management utility has been updated to version
1.3.8.
For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
online release notes and errata list, available at:
* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.1R/relnotes.html
* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.1R/errata.html
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please
see:
* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
Availability
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc,
powerpc64, sparc64, and armv6 architectures.
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE can be installed from bootable ISO images or over
the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory
stick. The required files can be downloaded via FTP as described in the
section below. While some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all
architectures, they will all generally contain the more common ones such
as amd64 and i386.
SHA256 and MD5 hashes for the release ISO and memory stick images are
included at the bottom of this message.
A PGP-signed version of this announcement is available at:
* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.1R/announce.asc
Additional UEFI-capable images are available for the amd64 (x86_64)
architecture.
The purpose of the images provided as part of the release are as follows:
dvd1
This contains everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD
operating system, the documentation, and a small set of pre-built
packages aimed at getting a graphical workstation up and running.
It also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. This
should be all you need if you can burn and use DVD-sized media.
disc1
This contains the base FreeBSD operating system. It also supports
booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. There are no pre-built
packages.
bootonly
This supports booting a machine using the CDROM drive but does
not contain the installation distribution sets for installing
FreeBSD from the CD itself. You would need to perform a network
based install (e.g., from an FTP server) after booting from the
CD.
memstick
This can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive) and used
to do an install on machines capable of booting off USB drives.
It also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. There
are no pre-built packages.
As one example of how to use the memstick image, assuming the USB
drive appears as /dev/da0 on your machine something like this
should work:
# dd if=FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img \
of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync
Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct.
mini-memstick
This can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive) and used
to boot a machine, but does not contain the installation
distribution sets on the medium itself, similar to the bootonly
image. It also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue
mode. There are no pre-built packages.
As one example of how to use the mini-memstick image, assuming
the USB drive appears as /dev/da0 on your machine something like
this should work:
# dd if=FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memstick.img \
of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync
Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct.
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from several
vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 10.1-based
products is:
* FreeBSD Mall, Inc. https://www.freebsdmall.com
Pre-installed virtual machine images are also available for the amd64
(x86_64) and i386 (x86_32) architectures in QCOW2, VHD, and VMDK disk
image formats, as well as raw (unformatted) images.
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE is also available on these cloud hosting platforms:
* Amazon(R) EC2(TM) FreeBSD/amd64
* Microsoft(R) Azure(TM) FreeBSD/amd64, FreeBSD/i386
FTP
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE may be downloaded via ftp from the following site:
* ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/
However before trying this site, please check your regional mirror(s)
first by going to:
* ftp://ftp.<your_country_code>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.
More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:
* https://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE virtual machine images may be downloaded via ftp