FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE Now Available [REVISED]
14 August, 2015 by gjb@FreeBSD.org | freebsd
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE Announcement The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE. 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(8) 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(8) script, growfs, has been added, which will resize the root filesystem on boot if the /firstboot file exists. * The Linux(R) compatibility version has been updated to support Centos(TM) 6 ports. * The drm code has been updated to match Linux(R) 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. * And much more... 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/10.2R/relnotes.html * https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.2R/errata.html For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see: * https://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/ Availability FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, sparc64, and armv6 architectures. FreeBSD 10.2-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, memory stick, and SD card images are included at the bottom of this message. PGP-signed checksums for the release images are also available at: * https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.2R/signatures.html A PGP-signed version of this announcement is available at: * https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.2R/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-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img \ of=/dev/da0 bs=1m 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-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memstick.img \ of=/dev/da0 bs=1m conv=sync Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct. FreeBSD/arm SD card images These can be written to an SD card and used to boot the supported arm system. The SD card image contains the full FreeBSD installation, and can be installed onto SD cards as small as 512Mb. For convenience for those without console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of freebsdis available by default for ssh(1) access. Additionally, the root user password is set to root, which it is strongly recommended to change the password for both users after gaining access to the system. To write the FreeBSD/arm image to an SD card, use the dd(1) utility, replacing KERNEL with the appropriate kernel configuration name for the system. # dd if=FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-arm-armv6-KERNEL.img \ of=/dev/da0 bs=1m conv=sync Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct. FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from several vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 10.2-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 10.2-RELEASE amd64 is also available on these cloud hosting platforms: * Amazon(R) EC2(TM): AMIs are available in the following regions: us-east-1 region: ami-f709a29c us-west-1 region: ami-bbc43aff us-west-2 region: ami-2b88821b sa-east-1 region: ami-49ef6754 eu-west-1 region: ami-5c4c112b eu-central-1 region: ami-2235323f ap-northeast-1 region: ami-94209b94 ap-southeast-1 region: ami-fe6c62ac ap-southeast-2 region: ami-1bc28121 AMIs are also expected to be available in the Amazon(R) Marketplace at: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00KSS55FY/ * Microsoft(R) Azure(TM): For deployment instructions, see: https://vmdepot.msopentech.com/Vhd/Show?vhdIdV718 * Google(R) Compute Engine(TM): Instances can be deployed using the gcloud utility: % gcloud compute instances create INSTANCE \ --image freebsd-10-2-release-amd64 \ --image-project=freebsd-org-cloud-dev % gcloud compute ssh INSTANCE Replace INSTANCE with the name of the Google Compute Engine instance. * Hashicorp/Atlas(R) Vagrant(TM): Instances can be deployed using the vagrant utility: % vagrant init freebsd/FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE % vagrant up FTP FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE may be downloaded via ftp from the following site: * ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.2/ 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 10.2-RELEASE virtual machine images may be downloaded via ftp