FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE Now Available
27 June, 2018 by gjb@FreeBSD.org | freebsd
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE Announcement 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. 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/11.2R/relnotes.html * https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/11.2R/errata.html For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see: * https://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/ Availability FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, sparc64, armv6, and aarch64 architectures. FreeBSD 11.2-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 as described in the section below. SHA512 and SHA256 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/11.2R/signatures.html A PGP-signed version of this announcement is available at: * https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/11.2R/announce.asc 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, debugging distribution sets, 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 HTTP or 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-11.2-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-11.2-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 2GB. 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, 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-11.2-RELEASE-arm-armv6-KERNEL.img \ of=/dev/da0 bs=1m conv=sync Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct. FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from several vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 11.2-based products is: * FreeBSD Mall, Inc. https://www.freebsdmall.com Pre-installed virtual machine images are also available for the amd64 (x86_64), i386 (x86_32), and AArch64 (arm64) architectures in QCOW2, VHD, and VMDK disk image formats, as well as raw (unformatted) images. FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE amd64 is also available on these cloud hosting platforms: * Amazon(R) EC2(TM): AMIs are available in the following regions: ap-south-1 region: ami-941520fb eu-west-3 region: ami-fcf54581 eu-west-2 region: ami-ccb75eab eu-west-1 region: ami-cb202e21 ap-northeast-2 region: ami-54bd083a ap-northeast-1 region: ami-3e25f341 sa-east-1 region: ami-7147621d ca-central-1 region: ami-a2f97bc6 ap-southeast-1 region: ami-57f0f22b ap-southeast-2 region: ami-2e25fc4c eu-central-1 region: ami-2b97a8c0 us-east-1 region: ami-e83e6c97 us-east-2 region: ami-3bd2eb5e us-west-1 region: ami-f0df3993 us-west-2 region: ami-37df964f AMIs will also available in the Amazon(R) Marketplace once they have completed third-party specific validation at: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01LWSWRED/ * Google(R) Compute Engine(TM): Instances can be deployed using the gcloud utility: % gcloud compute instances create INSTANCE \ --image freebsd-11-2-release-amd64 \ --image-project=freebsd-org-cloud-dev % gcloud compute ssh INSTANCE Replace INSTANCE with the name of the Google Compute Engine instance. FreeBSD will also available in the Google Compute Engine(TM) Marketplace once they have completed third-party specific validation at: https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher/browse?filterĘtegory:os&filter=price:free * Hashicorp/Atlas(R) Vagrant(TM): Instances can be deployed using the vagrant utility: % vagrant init freebsd/FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE % vagrant up * Microsoft(R) Azure(TM): FreeBSD virtual machine images will be available once they have completed third-party specific validation at: https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/marketplace/apps/Microsoft.FreeBSD112?tab=Overview Download FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE may be downloaded via https from the following site: * https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/11.2/ FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE virtual machine images may be downloaded