FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE Now Available
11 December, 2018 by gjb@FreeBSD.org | freebsd
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE Announcement 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. * Additonal 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. * The NUMA option has been enabled by default in the amd64 GENERIC and MINIMAL kernel configurations. * The netdump(4) driver has been added, providing a facility through which kernel crash dumps can be transmitted to a remote host after a system panic. * The vt(4) driver has been updated with performance improvements, drawing text at rates ranging from 2- to 6-times faster. * Various improvements to graphics support for current generation hardware. * Support for capsicum(4) has been enabled on armv6 and armv7 by default. * The UFS/FFS filesystem has been updated to consolidate TRIM/BIO_DELETE commands, reducing read/write requests due to fewer TRIM messages being sent simultaneously. * The NFS version 4.1 server has been updated to include pNFS server support. * The pf(4) packet filter is now usable within a jail(8) using vnet(9). * The bhyve(8) utility has been updated to add NVMe device emulation. * The bhyve(8) utility is now able to be run withing a jail(8). * Various Lua loader(8) improvements. * KDE has been updated to version 5.12.5. * And 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/12.0R/relnotes.html * https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/12.0R/errata.html For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see: * https://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/ Availability FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64, armv6, armv7, and aarch64 architectures. FreeBSD 12.0-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/12.0R/signatures.html A PGP-signed version of this announcement is available at: * https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/12.0R/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. Additionally, this can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive) for the amd64 architecture and used to do an install on machines capable of booting off USB drives. It also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. 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-12.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso \ of=/dev/da0 bs=1m conv=sync Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct. disc1 This contains the base FreeBSD operating system. It also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. There are no pre-built packages. Additionally, this can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive) for the amd64 architecture 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-12.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso \ of=/dev/da0 bs=1m conv=sync Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct. 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. Additionally, this can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive) for the amd64 architecture 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-12.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso \ of=/dev/da0 bs=1m conv=sync Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct. 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-12.0-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-12.0-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 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-12.0-RELEASE-arm-armv7-KERNEL.img \ of=/dev/da0 bs=1m conv=sync Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct. FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from several vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 12.0-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 12.0-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-024f703d85c3b1012 eu-west-3 region: ami-04243f83cbdff155e eu-west-2 region: ami-019ecda9be40c3dc1 eu-west-1 region: ami-01fe4421da59ecb30 ap-northeast-2 region: ami-00714e1048e4f0d07 ap-northeast-1 region: ami-07b604cf5a1d2d2e8 sa-east-1 region: ami-05dd76ac6637fb42d ca-central-1 region: ami-03bb92c67ff9aaf90 ap-southeast-1 region: ami-09f5032f4642114c0 ap-southeast-2 region: ami-0e0c8be22c4801d9b eu-central-1 region: ami-01b35a0a834759fc1 us-east-1 region: ami-03b0f822e17669866 us-east-2 region: ami-0842e35b91bf08aa5 us-west-1 region: ami-0519471b49bca30b3 us-west-2 region: ami-04331586c79df8e01 AMIs are also available in the Amazon(R) Marketplace at: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07L6QV354/ * Google(R) Compute Engine(TM): Instances can be deployed using the gcloud utility: % gcloud compute instances create INSTANCE \ --image freebsd-12-0-release-amd64 \ --image-project=freebsd-org-cloud-dev % gcloud compute ssh INSTANCE Replace INSTANCE with the name of the Google Compute Engine instance. FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE 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-12.0-RELEASE % vagrant up Download FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE may be downloaded via https from the following site: * https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/ FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE virtual machine images may be downloaded