The second 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.
ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images
are available here.
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/9.2".
Please be aware that cvsup and CVS are both deprecated, and are not supported methods of updating the src/ tree.
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.
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RC2
During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging was done correctly.
# freebsd-update install
The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.
# shutdown -r now
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:
# freebsd-update install
It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications if possible, especially if upgrading from an earlier FreeBSD release, for example, FreeBSD 8.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/compat8x and other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted into the new userland:
# shutdown -r now
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:
# freebsd-update install
