tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23885165480678759432024-03-14T01:53:29.697-07:00FreeBSD Now!What's new in the world of FreeBSD.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-57702919136801415962014-11-23T18:10:00.000-08:002014-11-23T18:10:35.677-08:00FreeBSD 9.2 Feature Highlight: ZFS General ImprovementsAlong with the many user facing changes discussed previously, there are also a number of internal changes to ZFS that will be available with the release of FreeBSD 9.2.<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Asynchronous destruction of datasets - ZFS will no longer make you wait while it does the house keeping to destroy a dataset and free the space that was formerly used by that dataset, the zfs command will return and the work will continue in the background</li>
<li>Structural changes to the way snapshots track blocks that have changed and are no longer part of the snapshot, these changes result in higher performance when there are many snapshots and also reduce the space utilized by snapshots</li>
<li>Single Copy ARC - The ZFS ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache) is where ZFS caches data and metadata to improve performance. In previous versions of ZFS, if you accessed the same block from a dataset, and then from a clone or snapshot of that dataset, that block would end up in the ARC twice. With this improvement the block will only be stored in the ARC once allowing more unique blocks to be cached at one time</li>
<li>ZIO nop-write - If your dataset has a cryptographically secure hash (SHA256) and dataset compression enabled, ZFS will now compare the checksum of the compressed block with the existing block before it is written. If the hashes match then the block is not written, saving I/O as well as reducing space consumption (if there were any snapshots of the block that would have changed, then additional space would have been consumed)</li>
<li>Parallel processing of free operations - Previous versions of ZFS only used a single thread to reclaim free space. The new system now frees blocks asynchronously in parallel</li>
<li>Spacemap improvements - The latest version of ZFS includes enhancements that greatly improve write performance to highly fragmented pools </li>
<li>Improved DTrace support - A number of new DTrace probes have been added to ZFS to make it easier to track what is happening inside ZFS. Additionally a new error probe has been implemented throughout ZFS that will make it easier to pinpoint the source of any error messages </li>
</ul>
<br />
<br />
In addition to the above, it is also now possible to add a comment to a zpool which is output as part of the list returned by the zpool import command.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08661894485809686710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-61341309367734650172014-11-14T11:30:00.000-08:002014-11-14T11:30:19.091-08:00FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE Now Available<h1>
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE Announcement</h1>
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.<br />
<br />
Some of the highlights:<br />
<ul>
<li>
The new console driver, vt(4), has been added.<br />
</li>
<li>
Support for FreeBSD/i386 guests has been added to
bhyve(4).<br />
</li>
<li>
The bhyve(4) hypervisor now supports booting from a zfs(8)
filesystem.<br />
</li>
<li>
Support for SMP was added to the <tt>armv6</tt> kernels and
enabled by default in the configuration files for all
platforms that contain multi-core CPUs.<br />
</li>
<li>
Initial support for UEFI boot has been added for the
FreeBSD/amd64 architecture.<br />
</li>
<li>
Support has been added to cache geli(8) passphrases during
system boot.<br />
</li>
<li>
Support for the UDP-Lite protocol (RFC 3828) has been added
to the IPv4 and IPv6 stacks.<br />
</li>
<li>
The new filesystem automount facility, autofs(5), has been
merged from FreeBSD-CURRENT.<br />
</li>
<li>
The sshd(8) rc.d(8) startup script now generates ED25519
sshd(8) host keys if keys do not already exist when
<tt>ssh_keygen_alg()</tt> is invoked.<br />
</li>
<li>
OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.6p1.<br />
</li>
<li>
The nc(1) utility has been updated to match the version in
OpenBSD 5.5.<br />
</li>
<li>
Sendmail has been updated to 8.14.9.<br />
</li>
<li>
The unbound(8) caching resolver and ldns have been updated
to version 1.4.22.<br />
</li>
<li>
OpenPAM has been updated to Ourouparia (20140912).<br />
</li>
<li>
OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.1j.<br />
</li>
<li>
The pkg(8) package management utility has been updated to
version 1.3.8.<br />
</li>
</ul>
For a complete list of new features and known problems, please
see the online release notes and errata list, available at:<br />
<ul>
<li><tt><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/relnotes.html" shape="rect">https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.1R/relnotes.html</a></tt></li>
<li><tt><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/errata.html" shape="rect">https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.1R/errata.html</a></tt></li>
</ul>
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering
activities, please see:<br />
<ul>
<li><tt><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releng/" shape="rect">https://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/</a></tt></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="availability">
</h3>
<h3 id="availability">
Availability</h3>
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE is now available for the amd64,
i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, sparc64, and armv6
architectures.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
SHA256 and MD5 hashes for the release ISO and memory stick
images are included in the PGP-signed version of this announcement, available at:<br />
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/announce.asc" shape="rect">https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.1R/announce.asc</a>
</li>
</ul>
Additional UEFI-capable images are available for the amd64
(x86_64) architecture.<br />
<br />
The purpose of the images provided as part of the release are
as follows:<br />
<dl>
<dt>dvd1</dt>
<dd>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.</dd>
<dt>disc1</dt>
<dd>This contains the base FreeBSD operating system. It also
supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. There
are no pre-built packages.</dd>
<dt>bootonly</dt>
<dd>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.</dd>
<dt>memstick</dt>
<dd>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.<br />
<br />
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:<br />
<br />
<pre xml:space="preserve"> # dd if=FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img \
of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync
</pre>
Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=)
correct.</dd>
<dt>mini-memstick</dt>
<dd>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.<br />
<br />
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:<br />
<br />
<pre style="autoflow: auto;" xml:space="preserve"> # dd if=FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memstick.img \
of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync
</pre>
Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=)
correct.</dd>
</dl>
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:<br />
<ul>
<li>
FreeBSD Mall, Inc.<tt> <a href="https://www.freebsdmall.com/" shape="rect">https://www.freebsdmall.com</a></tt></li>
</ul>
Pre-installed virtual machine images are also available for the
amd64 (x86_64) and i386 (x86_32) architectures in
<tt>QCOW2</tt>, <tt>VHD</tt>, and <tt>VMDK</tt> disk image
formats, as well as raw (unformatted) images.<br />
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
FTP</h3>
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE may be downloaded via ftp from
the following site:<br />
<ul>
<li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/" shape="rect">ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/</a></tt></li>
</ul>
However before trying this site, please check your regional
mirror(s) first by going to:<br />
<ul>
<li><tt><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" shape="rect">ftp://ftp.<your_country_code>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</a></tt></li>
</ul>
Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so
on.<br />
<br />
More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found
at:<br />
<ul>
<li><tt><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html" shape="rect">https://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html</a></tt></li>
</ul>
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE virtual machine images may be
downloaded via ftp from:<br />
<ul>
<li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/10.1-RELEASE/" shape="rect">ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/10.1-RELEASE/</a></tt></li>
</ul>
For instructions on installing FreeBSD or updating an existing
machine to 10.1-RELEASE please see:<br />
<ul>
<li><tt><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/installation.html" shape="rect">https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.1R/installation.html</a></tt></li>
</ul>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
Support</h3>
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE will be supported until
January 1, 2017. The End-of-Life dates can be found at:<br />
<ul>
<li><tt><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/security/" shape="rect">https://www.FreeBSD.org/security/</a></tt></li>
</ul>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
Other Projects Based on FreeBSD</h3>
There are many "third party" Projects based on
FreeBSD. The Projects range from re-packaging FreeBSD into a more
"novice friendly" distribution to making FreeBSD
available on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure. For more information
about these Third Party Projects see:<br />
<ul>
<li><tt><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/3rdPartyProjects" shape="rect">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/3rdPartyProjects</a></tt></li>
</ul>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
Acknowledgments</h3>
Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours
to support the release engineering activities for
FreeBSD 10.1 including The FreeBSD Foundation,
Yahoo!, NetApp, Internet Systems Consortium, ByteMark Hosting,
Sentex Communications, New York Internet, Juniper Networks,
NLNet Labs, iXsystems, and Yandex.<br />
<br />
The release engineering team for 10.1-RELEASE
includes:<br />
<br />
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Glen Barber <<a href="mailto:gjb@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">gjb@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Release Engineering Lead, 10.1-RELEASE Release Engineer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Konstantin Belousov <<a href="mailto:kib@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">kib@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Joel Dahl <<a href="mailto:joel@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">joel@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Baptiste Daroussin <<a href="mailto:bapt@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">bapt@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Package Building</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Bryan Drewery <<a href="mailto:bdrewery@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">bdrewery@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Package Building</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Marc Fonvieille <<a href="mailto:blackend@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">blackend@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Release Engineering, Documentation</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Steven Kreuzer <<a href="mailto:skreuzer@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">skreuzer@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Xin Li <<a href="mailto:delphij@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">delphij@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Release Engineering, Security Officer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Josh Paetzel <<a href="mailto:jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Colin Percival <<a href="mailto:cperciva@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">cperciva@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Security Officer Emeritus</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Craig Rodrigues <<a href="mailto:rodrigc@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">rodrigc@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Hiroki Sato <<a href="mailto:hrs@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">hrs@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Release Engineering, Documentation</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Gleb Smirnoff <<a href="mailto:glebius@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">glebius@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Ken Smith <<a href="mailto:kensmith@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">kensmith@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Dag-Erling Smørgrav <<a href="mailto:des@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">des@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Security Officer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Marius Strobl <<a href="mailto:marius@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">marius@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" rowspan="1">Robert Watson <<a href="mailto:rwatson@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">rwatson@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Release Engineering, Security</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
Trademark</h3>
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.<br />
<br />
Love FreeBSD? Support this and future releases with a <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/" shape="rect">donation</a>
to The FreeBSD Foundation!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-21471115172040019152014-11-02T11:48:00.000-08:002014-11-02T11:48:41.321-08:00FreeBSD 10.1-RC4 Now AvailableThe fourth RC build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
This is anticipated to be the final RC build of the 10.1-RELEASE cycle.<br />
<br />
The image checksums follow are included in the original <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-November/080872.html">announcement email.</a> <br />
<br />
Installer images and memory stick images are available <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.<br />
<br />
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "releng/10.1" branch.<br />
<br />
A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available <a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/relnotes.html">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Changes between 10.1-RC3 and 10.1-RC4 include:<br />
<ul>
<li> Fix ATA CF ERASE breakage for certain CF cards.</li>
<li> Fix a race in pmap_emulate_accessed_dirty() that could trigger a EPT misconfiguration VM-exit.</li>
</ul>
Important note to ZFS users on the i386 architecture: Using multi-disk ZFS configurations on i386 (mirror, raidz-1, raidz-2, etc.) may cause<br />a kernel panic on boot.<br /><br />Adding 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' to the kernel configuration is observed to resolve the problem. Please *do* *not* upgrade your system with freebsd-update(8) if using a multi-disk ZFS setup, since this will override the kernel configuration with the GENERIC kernel.<br /><br />This is also mentioned in the 10.1-RELEASE <a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/errata.html">Errata Documentation</a>.<br />
<ul></ul>
Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.1-RC4 are also available for amd64 and i386 architectures. The images are located <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/10.1-BETA1/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB, which decompress to a 20GB sparse image.<br />
<br />
The partition layout is:<br />
<ul>
<li>512k - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label)</li>
<li>1GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label)</li>
<li>~17GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)</li>
</ul>
To install packages from the dvd1.iso installer, create and mount the /dist directory:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># mkdir -p /dist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /dist</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next, install pkg(8) from the DVD:<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg bootstrap</span><br /><br />At this point, pkg-add(8) can be used to install additional packages from the DVD. Please note, the REPOS_DIR environment variable should be used each time using the DVD as the package repository, otherwise conflicts with packages from the upstream mirrors may occur when they are fetched. For example, to install Gnome and Xorg, run:<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg install \</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> xorg-server xorg gnome2 [...]</span><br /><br />The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier<br />FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.1-RC4</span><br /><br />During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically<br />performed merging was done correctly.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br /><br />The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span><br /><br />After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br />
It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications if possible, especially if upgrading from an earlier FreeBSD release, for example,<br />
FreeBSD 9.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/compat9x and other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted<br />
into the new userland:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span><br />
<br />
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br />
<br />
Love FreeBSD? Support this and future releases with a <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/">donation</a> to the FreeBSD Foundation!<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-3338994129970993662014-10-23T10:59:00.002-07:002014-10-23T10:59:57.429-07:00FreeBSD 10.1-RC3 Now AvailableThe third RC build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
The image checksums follow are included in the original <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-October/080701.html">announcement email.</a> <br />
<br />
Installer images and memory stick images are available <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.<br />
<br />
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "releng/10.1" branch.<br />
<br />
A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available <a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/relnotes.html">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Changes between 10.1-RC2 and 10.1-RC3 include:<br />
<ul>
<li>Several fixes to the UDPLite protocol implementation.</li>
<li>The vt(4) driver has been updated to save and restore keyboard mode and LED states when switching windows.</li>
<li>Several fixes to the SCTP protocol implementation.</li>
<li>A potential race condition in obtaining a file pointer has been corrected.</li>
<li>Fix ZFS ZVOL deadlock and rename issues.</li>
<li>Restore libopie.so ABI compatibility with 10.0-RELEASE.</li>
<li>Removed the last vestige of MD5 password hashes.</li>
<li>Several rc(8) script updates and fixes.</li>
<li>bsdinstall(8) has been updated to allow selecting local_unbound in the default services to enable at first boot.</li>
<li>Prevent ZFS leaking pool free space.</li>
<li>Fix rtsold(8) remote buffer overflow vulnerability. [SA-14:20]</li>
<li>Fix routed(8) remote denial of service vulnerability. [SA-14:21]</li>
<li>Fix memory leak in sandboxed namei lookup. [SA-14:22]</li>
<li>OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.1j. [SA-14:23]</li>
<li>Fix an issue where a FreeBSD virtual machine provisioned in the Microsoft Azure service does not recognize the second attached disk on the system.</li>
</ul>
<ul></ul>
Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.1-RC3 are also available for amd64 and i386 architectures. The images are located <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/10.1-BETA1/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB, which decompress to a 20GB sparse image.<br />
<br />
The partition layout is:<br />
<ul>
<li>512k - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label)</li>
<li>1GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label)</li>
<li>~17GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)</li>
</ul>
To install packages from the dvd1.iso installer, create and mount the /dist directory:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># mkdir -p /dist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /dist</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next, install pkg(8) from the DVD:<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg bootstrap</span><br /><br />At this point, pkg-add(8) can be used to install additional packages from the DVD. Please note, the REPOS_DIR environment variable should be used each time using the DVD as the package repository, otherwise conflicts with packages from the upstream mirrors may occur when they are fetched. For example, to install Gnome and Xorg, run:<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg install \</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> xorg-server xorg gnome2 [...]</span><br /><br />The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier<br />FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.1-RC3</span><br /><br />During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically<br />performed merging was done correctly.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br /><br />The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span><br /><br />After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br />
It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications if possible, especially if upgrading from an earlier FreeBSD release, for example,<br />
FreeBSD 8.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/compat9x and other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted<br />
into the new userland:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span><br />
<br />
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br />
<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-89879762944569164282014-10-13T09:55:00.001-07:002014-10-13T09:55:46.124-07:00FreeBSD 10.1-RC2 Now AvailableThe second RC build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
The image checksums follow are included in the original <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-October/080555.html">announcement email.</a> <br />
<br />
Installer images and memory stick images are available <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.<br />
<br />
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "releng/10.1" branch.<br />
<br />
A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available <a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/relnotes.html">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Changes between 10.1-RC1 and 10.1-RC2 include:<br />
<ul>
<li>Fix XHCI driver for devices which have more than 15 physical root HUB ports.</li>
<li>Fix old iSCSI initiator to work with new CAM locking.</li>
<li>Fix page length reported for Block Limits VPD page.</li>
<li>Add QCOW v1 & v2 support to mkimg(1).</li>
</ul>
Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.1-RC2 are also available for amd64 and i386 architectures. The images are located <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/10.1-BETA1/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB, which decompress to a 20GB sparse image.<br />
<br />
The partition layout is:<br />
<ul>
<li>512k - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label)</li>
<li>1GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label)</li>
<li>~17GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)</li>
</ul>
To install packages from the dvd1.iso installer, create and mount the /dist directory:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># mkdir -p /dist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /dist</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next, install pkg(8) from the DVD:<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg bootstrap</span><br /><br />At this point, pkg-add(8) can be used to install additional packages from the DVD. Please note, the REPOS_DIR environment variable should be used each time using the DVD as the package repository, otherwise conflicts with packages from the upstream mirrors may occur when they are fetched. For example, to install Gnome and Xorg, run:<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg install \</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> xorg-server xorg gnome2 [...]</span><br /><br />The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier<br />FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.1-RC2</span><br /><br />During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically<br />performed merging was done correctly.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br /><br />The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span><br /><br />After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br />
It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications if possible, especially if upgrading from an earlier FreeBSD release, for example,<br />
FreeBSD 8.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/compat9x and other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted<br />
into the new userland:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span><br />
<br />
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br />
<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-10966359291644362132014-10-04T18:34:00.005-07:002014-10-04T18:34:44.444-07:00FreeBSD 10.1-RC1 Now AvailableThe first RC build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
The image checksums follow are included in the original <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-October/080453.html">announcement email.</a> <br />
<br />
Installer images and memory stick images are available <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.<br />
<br />
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "releng/10.1" branch.<br />
<br />
A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available <a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/relnotes.html">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Changes between 10.1-BETA3 and 10.1-RC1 include:<br />
<ul>
<li>A bug that would cause all processes to appear to have the parent PID of '1' has been fixed.</li>
<li>Various updates to bsdinstall(8) and bsdconfig(8).</li>
<li>The Hyper-V KVP (key-value pair) driver has been added, and enabled by default on amd64 and i386 architectures.</li>
</ul>
Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.1-RC1 are also available for amd64 and i386 architectures. The images are located <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/10.1-BETA1/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB, which decompress to a 20GB sparse image.<br />
<br />
The partition layout is:<br />
<ul>
<li>512k - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label)</li>
<li>1GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label)</li>
<li>~17GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)</li>
</ul>
To install packages from the dvd1.iso installer, create and mount the /dist directory:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># mkdir -p /dist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /dist</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next, install pkg(8) from the DVD:<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg bootstrap</span><br /><br />At this point, pkg-add(8) can be used to install additional packages from the DVD. Please note, the REPOS_DIR environment variable should be used each time using the DVD as the package repository, otherwise conflicts with packages from the upstream mirrors may occur when they are fetched. For example, to install Gnome and Xorg, run:<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg install \</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> xorg-server xorg gnome2 [...]</span><br /><br />The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier<br />FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.1-BETA3</span><br /><br />During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically<br />performed merging was done correctly.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br /><br />The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span><br /><br />After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br />
It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications if possible, especially if upgrading from an earlier FreeBSD release, for example,<br />
FreeBSD 8.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/compat9x and other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted<br />
into the new userland:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span><br />
<br />
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br />
<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-69164122684777167032014-09-28T08:53:00.002-07:002014-09-28T08:53:31.717-07:00FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3 Now AvailableThe third BETA build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
This is expected to be the final BETA release of the 10.1-RELEASE cycle.<br />
<br />
The image checksums follow are included in the original <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-September/080264.html">announcement email.</a> <br />
<br />
Installer images and memory stick images are available <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.<br />
<br />
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "stable/10" branch.<br />
<br />
A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available on the stable/10 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/10-STABLE/relnotes/article.html">release notes</a> page.<br />
<br />
Changes between 10.1-BETA2 and 10.1-BETA3 include:<br />
<ul>
<li>Support for serial and null console has been added to the UEFI boot loader.</li>
<li>A potential panic triggered by referencing a device that has been renamed has been fixed in the cam(4) subsystem.</li>
<li>OpenPAM has been updated to the Ourouparia (20140912) release.</li>
<li>New sysctls have been added to vt(4) to enable or disable potentially dangerous key combinations (such as reboot, halt, and break to debugger).</li>
<li>The mkimg(1) utility has been updated to allow creating empty partition entries.</li>
<li>The GEOM_ELI class will now cache passphrases for disk decryption, which allows the system to boot after the first passphrase entry if the remaining disks on the system use the same passphrase.</li>
<li>Support for controlling mfi(4) controller properties has been added to mfiutil(8).</li>
<li>The /usr/lib32/compat shared library directory has been added to the default ld-elf32.so.1 path.</li>
<li>Use of "no" for a Norwegian keymap file is now permitted in rc.conf(5).</li>
<li>Several bug fixes to autofs(5) have been implemented.</li>
</ul>
Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.1-BETA3 are also available for amd64 and i386 architectures. The images are located <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/10.1-BETA1/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB, which decompress to a 20GB sparse image.<br />
<br />
The partition layout is:<br />
<ul>
<li>512k - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label)</li>
<li>1GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label)</li>
<li>~17GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)</li>
</ul>
To install packages from the dvd1.iso installer, create and mount the /dist directory:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># mkdir -p /dist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /dist</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next, install pkg(8) from the DVD:<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg bootstrap</span><br /><br />At this point, pkg-add(8) can be used to install additional packages from the DVD. Please note, the REPOS_DIR environment variable should be used each time using the DVD as the package repository, otherwise conflicts with packages from the upstream mirrors may occur when they are fetched. For example, to install Gnome and Xorg, run:<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg install \</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> xorg-server xorg gnome2 [...]</span><br /><br />The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier<br />FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.1-BETA3</span><br /><br />During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically<br />performed merging was done correctly.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br /><br />The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span><br /><br />After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br />
It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications if possible, especially if upgrading from an earlier FreeBSD release, for example,<br />
FreeBSD 8.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/compat9x and other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted<br />
into the new userland:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span><br />
<br />
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br />
<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-80236979998413628302014-09-21T10:12:00.000-07:002014-09-21T10:12:22.046-07:00FreeBSD 10.1-BETA2 Now AvailableThe second BETA build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
The image checksums follow are included in the original <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-September/080177.html">announcement email.</a> <br />
<br />
Installer images and memory stick images are available <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.<br />
<br />
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "stable/10" branch.<br />
<br />
A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available on the stable/10 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/10-STABLE/relnotes/article.html">release notes</a> page.<br />
<br />
Changes between 10.1-BETA1 and 10.1-BETA2 include:<br />
<ul>
<li>UEFI-capable memory stick images and CDROM/DVDROM images are now build by default for the 10.1-RELEASE cycle.</li>
<li>The gssapi_krb5 library is now included in the gssapi(3) build.</li>
<li>The default motd(5) text has been changed to clarify the included information and including references to additional resources.</li>
<li>A potential crash in ctld(8) has been fixed when a getaddrinfo(3) call fails.</li>
<li>Fix Denial of Service in TCP packet processing. [SA-14:19.tcp]</li>
<li>Support for Promise TX8660 8-port 3Gbps HBA has been added.</li>
<li>A crash in clang(1) triggered by debuginfo has been fixed.</li>
<li>The kern.features sysctl(8) will now report if SCTP is available in the running kernel.</li>
<li>Parsing IPv6 nameserver lines in unbound(8) has been fixed.</li>
<li>A crash in pam(3) has been fixed if neither PAM_RHOST or PAM_TTY are set.</li>
<li>Several bug fixes and improvements to the vt(4) driver have been merged from FreeBSD-Current.</li>
<li>The bsdinstall(8) screen prompting if the user would like to use a chroot(8) shell within the newly-installed system for further configuration now defaults to 'No.'</li>
<li>Several optimizations to the math(3) library have been merged, including new implementations for C99 functions expl(), coshl(), sinhl(), tanhl(), erfl() and erfcl().</li>
</ul>
Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.1-BETA2 are also available for amd64 and i386 architectures. The images are located <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/10.1-BETA1/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB, which decompress to a 20GB sparse image.<br />
<br />
The partition layout is:<br />
<ul>
<li>512k - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label)</li>
<li>1GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label)</li>
<li>~17GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)</li>
</ul>
To install packages from the dvd1.iso installer, create and mount the /dist directory:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># mkdir -p /dist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /dist</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next, install pkg(8) from the DVD:<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg add \</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> /dist/packages/freebsd:10:*:*/All/pkg-*.txz</span><br /><br />At this point, pkg-add(8) can be used to install additional packages from the DVD. Please note, the REPOS_DIR environment variable should be used each time using the DVD as the package repository, otherwise conflicts with packages from the upstream mirrors may occur when they are fetched. For example, to install the Subversion, Gnome, and Xorg, run:<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg install \</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> xorg-server xorg gnome2 [...]</span><br /><br />The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier<br />FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.1-BETA2</span><br /><br />During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically<br />performed merging was done correctly.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br /><br />The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span><br /><br />After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br />
It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications if possible, especially if upgrading from an earlier FreeBSD release, for example,<br />
FreeBSD 8.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/compat9x and other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted<br />
into the new userland:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span><br />
<br />
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br />
<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-43246497884643070212014-09-14T11:22:00.000-07:002014-09-14T11:22:21.615-07:00FreeBSD 10.1-BETA1 Now AvailableThe first BETA build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
The image checksums follow are included in the original <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-September/080106.html">announcement email</a>.<br />
<br />
Installer images and memory stick images are available <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.<br />
<br />
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "stable/10" branch.<br />
<br />
A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available on the stable/10 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/10-STABLE/relnotes/article.html">release notes</a> page.<br />
<br />
Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.1-BETA1 are also available for amd64 and i386 architectures. The images are located <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/10.1-BETA1/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB, which decompress to a 20GB sparse image.<br />
<br />
The partition layout is:<br />
<ul>
<li>512k - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label)</li>
<li>1GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label)</li>
<li>~17GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)</li>
</ul>
Note to consumers of the dvd1.iso image: The packages included on the dvd do not have a corresponding pkg(8) repository due to an incompatibility with pkg-1.2.x and pkg-1.3.x. This will be fixed for BETA2.<br />
<br />
The packages will not be recognized by bsdconfig(8), however can be installed manually.<br />
<br />
To install packages from the dvd1.iso installer, create and mount the /dist directory:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># mkdir -p /dist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"># mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /dist</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next, install pkg(8) from the DVD:<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg add /dist/packages/freebsd:10:*:*/All/pkg-*.txz</span><br /><br />At this point, pkg-add(8) can be used to install additional packages from the DVD. Please note, the REPOS_DIR environment variable should be used each time using the DVD as the package repository, otherwise conflicts with packages from the upstream mirrors may occur when they are fetched. For example, to install the Subversion, Gnome, and Xorg, run:<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg add /dist/packages/freebsd:10:*:*/subversion [...]</span><br /><br />The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier<br />FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.1-BETA1</span><br /><br />During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically<br />performed merging was done correctly.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br /><br />The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span><br /><br />After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br />
It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications if possible, especially if upgrading from an earlier FreeBSD release, for example,<br />
FreeBSD 8.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/compat9x and other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted<br />
into the new userland:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span><br />
<br />
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span><br />
<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-51456384688350705082014-07-15T09:38:00.000-07:002014-07-15T09:38:53.147-07:00FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE Now Available<div id="contentwrap">
<h1>
FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE Announcement</h1>
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth
release of the stable/9 branch, which improves on the
stability of FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE and introduces some new
features.<br />
<br />
Some of the highlights:<br />
<ul>
<li>
The zfs(8) filesystem has been updated to support the
bookmarks feature.<br />
</li>
<li>
The uname(1) utility has been updated to include the -U and
-K flags, which print the __FreeBSD_version for the running
userland and kernel, respectively.<br />
</li>
<li>
The fetch(3) library has been updated to support SNI
(Server Name Identification), allowing to use virtual hosts
on HTTPS.<br />
</li>
<li>
Several updates to gcc(1) have been imported from
Google.<br />
</li>
<li>
The hastctl(8) utility has been updated to output the
current queue sizes.<br />
</li>
<li>
The protect(1) command has been added, which allows
exempting processes from being killed when swap is
exhausted.<br />
</li>
<li>
The etcupdate(8) utility, a tool for managing updates to
files in /etc, has been merged from head/.<br />
</li>
<li>
A new shared library directory, /usr/lib/private, has been
added for internal-use shared libraries.<br />
</li>
<li>
OpenPAM has been updated to Nummularia (20130907).<br />
</li>
<li>
A new flag, "onifconsole" has been added to /etc/ttys. This
allows the system to provide a login prompt via serial
console if the device is an active kernel console, otherwise
it is equivalent to off.<br />
</li>
<li>
Sendmail has been updated to version 8.14.9.<br />
</li>
<li>
BIND has been updated to version 9.9.5.<br />
</li>
<li>
The xz(1) utility has been updated to a post-5.0.5
snapshot.<br />
</li>
<li>
OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.6p1.<br />
</li>
<li>
OpenSSL has been updated to version 0.9.8za.<br />
</li>
</ul>
For a complete list of new features and known problems, please
see the online release notes and errata list, available at:<br />
<ul>
<li><tt><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.3R/relnotes.html" shape="rect">https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/relnotes.html</a></tt></li>
<li><tt><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.3R/errata.html" shape="rect">https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/errata.html</a></tt></li>
</ul>
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering
activities, please see:<br />
<ul>
<li><tt><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releng/" shape="rect">https://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/</a> </tt></li>
</ul>
<h2>
</h2>
<h2>
Availability</h2>
FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386,
ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
FreeBSD 9.3-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.<br />
<br />
SHA256 and MD5 hashes for the release ISO and memory stick
images are included at the bottom of <a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.3R/announce.html">this message</a>. A PGP-signed version of this announcement is available at:<br />
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.3R/announce.asc" shape="rect">https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/announce.asc</a>
</li>
</ul>
Please refer to the official announcement email for the full details
regarding FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE.<br />
<h2>
</h2>
<h2>
Acknowledgments</h2>
Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours
to support the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 9.3
including The FreeBSD Foundation, Yahoo!, NetApp, Internet Systems
Consortium, ByteMark Hosting, Sentex Communications, New York
Internet, Juniper Networks, NLNet Labs, iXsystems, and Yandex.<br />
<br />
The release engineering team for 9.3-RELEASE includes:<br />
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Glen Barber <<a href="mailto:gjb@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">gjb@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Release Engineering Lead, 9.3-RELEASE Release Engineer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Konstantin Belousov <<a href="mailto:kib@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">kib@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Joel Dahl <<a href="mailto:joel@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">joel@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Baptiste Daroussin <<a href="mailto:bapt@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">bapt@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Package Building</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Bryan Drewery <<a href="mailto:bdrewery@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">bdrewery@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Package Building</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Marc Fonvieille <<a href="mailto:blackend@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">blackend@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Release Engineering, Documentation</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Steven Kreuzer <<a href="mailto:skreuzer@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">skreuzer@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Xin Li <<a href="mailto:delphij@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">delphij@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Release Engineering, Security Officer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Josh Paetzel <<a href="mailto:jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Colin Percival <<a href="mailto:cperciva@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">cperciva@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Security Officer Emeritus</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Craig Rodrigues <<a href="mailto:rodrigc@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">rodrigc@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Hiroki Sato <<a href="mailto:hrs@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">hrs@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Release Engineering, Documentation</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Gleb Smirnoff <<a href="mailto:glebius@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">glebius@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Ken Smith <<a href="mailto:kensmith@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">kensmith@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Dag-Erling Smøgrav <<a href="mailto:des@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">des@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Security Officer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Marius Strobl <<a href="mailto:marius@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">marius@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Robert Watson <<a href="mailto:rwatson@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">rwatson@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Release Engineering, Security</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div id="contentwrap">
<h2>
</h2>
<h2>
Trademark</h2>
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-82791658205055396682014-07-06T14:59:00.000-07:002014-07-06T14:59:08.696-07:00FreeBSD 9.3-RC3 Now Available<b>FreeBSD 9.3-RC3 Now Available</b><br />
<br />
<b><br /></b>
The third RC build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
The image checksums can be found in the PGP-signed <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-July/079239.html">announcement email</a>.<br />
<br />
ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are available here:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/">http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/</a><br />
<br />
(or any of the FreeBSD mirror sites).<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the normal Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.<br />
<br />
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "releng/9.3" branch.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div>
A list of changes since 9.2-RELEASE are available on the 9.3-RELEASE release notes page here:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.3R/relnotes.html">http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.3R/relnotes.html</a></div>
<div>
<br />
Changes between 9.3-RC2 and 9.3-RC3 include:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Bug fix for axge(4) range checks and receive loop header parsing.</li>
<li>Bug fix to exclude loopback addresses rather than loopback interfaces has been fixed.</li>
<li>Bug fix in uhso(4) to prevent memory use after free() and mtx_destroy().</li>
<li>Bug fix in bsdinstall(8) where certain conditions could prevent directory creation before use.</li>
<li>Bug fix for DNS-based load balancing.</li>
<li>Vendor update to oce(4).</li>
</ul>
<br />
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
# <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.3-RC3</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging was done correctly.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
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 misc/compat8x port can be installed to provide other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted into the new userland:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br />
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</div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-87935374995582447422014-06-28T09:04:00.000-07:002014-06-28T09:04:03.955-07:00FreeBSD 9.3-RC2 Now Available<b>FreeBSD 9.3-RC2 Now Available</b><br />
<br />
<b><br /></b>
The second RC build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
The image checksums can be found in the PGP-signed <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-June/079092.html">announcement email</a>.<br />
<br />
ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are available here:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/">http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/</a><br />
<br />
(or any of the FreeBSD mirror sites).<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the normal Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.<br />
<br />
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "releng/9.3" branch.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div>
A list of changes since 9.2-RELEASE are available on the 9.3-RELEASE release notes page here:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.3R/relnotes.html">http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.3R/relnotes.html</a></div>
<div>
<br />
Changes between 9.3-RC1 and 9.3-RC2 include:<br />
<ul>
<li></li>
<li>A bug in the fast rx buffer recycle path has been fixed in the cxgbe(4) driver.</li>
<li></li>
<li>A bug that would incorrectly allow two listening SCTP sockets on the same port bound to the wildcard address has been fixed.</li>
<li>Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in file(1) and libmagic(3). [FreeBSD-SA-14:16.file]</li>
<li>A workaround has been implemented to fix serial ports on certain motherboards, in particular the Intel D2500CCE board.</li>
<li>A bug in bsdgrep(1) that would prevent certain pattern matching has been fixed.</li>
<li>The bsdconfig(8) utility has been updated to support pkg(8)-format packages.</li>
<li>Firmware for the cxgbe(4) Chelsio T4 and T5 cards has been updated to version 1.11.27.0.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div>
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
# <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.3-RC2</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging was done correctly.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
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 misc/compat8x port can be installed to provide other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted into the new userland:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-3102790139391791572014-06-21T07:06:00.001-07:002014-06-21T07:06:45.387-07:00FreeBSD 9.3-RC1 Now Available<b>FreeBSD 9.3-RC1 Now Available</b><br />
<br />
<b><br /></b>
The first RC build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
The image checksums can be found in the PGP-signed <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-June/079024.html">announcement email</a>.<br />
<br />
ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are available here:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/">http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/</a><br />
<br />
(or any of the FreeBSD mirror sites).<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the normal Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.<br />
<br />
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "releng/9.3" branch.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div>
A list of changes since 9.2-RELEASE are available on the stable/9 release notes page here:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.3R/relnotes.html">http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.3R/relnotes.html</a></div>
<div>
<br />
Changes between 9.3-BETA3 and 9.3-RC1 include:<br />
<ul>
<li>Various bug fixes in the hptrr(4) driver.</li>
<li>Time zone data has been updated to tzdata2014e.</li>
<li>Handling of the '-P' flag without '-p' or '-r' has been fixed in the daemon(8) utility.</li>
<li>A bug in the nvme(4) controller initialization path has been fixed.</li>
<li>A bug in the fast receive buffer recycle path has been fixed in the cxgbe(4) driver.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div>
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
# <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.3-RC1</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging was done correctly.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
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 misc/compat8x port can be installed to provide other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted into the new userland:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br />
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</div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-69364637355125912982014-06-14T09:06:00.001-07:002014-06-14T09:06:59.079-07:00FreeBSD 9.3-BETA3 Now Available<b>FreeBSD 9.3-BETA3 Now Available</b><br />
<br />
<b><br /></b>
The third BETA build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
The image checksums can be found in the PGP-signed <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-June/078959.html">announcement email</a>.<br />
<br />
ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are available here:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/">http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/</a><br />
<br />
(or any of the FreeBSD mirror sites).<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the normal GNATS PR system or on the -stable mailing list.<br />
<br />
Please note, as the FreeBSD bug tracking system is undergoing maintenance, the PR system may be unavailable. Problem reports submitted this maintenance period are being queued for later processing.<br />
<br />
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "stable/9" branch.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div>
A list of changes since 9.2-RELEASE are available on the stable/9 release notes page here:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/9-STABLE/relnotes/article.html">http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/9-STABLE/relnotes/article.html</a></div>
<div>
<br />
Changes between 9.3-BETA2 and 9.3-BETA3 include:<br />
<ul>
<li>A new ttys(5) flag, onifconsole, has been added, which activates ttyu0 if the device is an active kernel console.</li>
<li>The NFSv4 server now allows creating a hard link to a symbolic link, as was allowed in NFSv3.</li>
<li>OpenSSL has been updated to 0.9.8za.</li>
<li>A deadlock caused by incorrect reference counts has been fixed in the usb(4) driver.</li>
<li>The arc4random(3) library has been updated to match that in FreeBSD-CURRENT.</li>
<li>The amount of data collected by hwpmc(4) has been increased to work with modern processors and available RAM.</li>
<li>A new pmcstat(8) flag, '-l', has been added, which ends event collection after the specified number of seconds.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div>
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.3-BETA3</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging was done correctly.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
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 misc/compat8x port can be installed to provide other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted into the new userland:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br />
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</div>
</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-27645324943477845622014-06-02T17:48:00.000-07:002014-06-02T17:48:38.032-07:00FreeBSD 9.3-BETA1 Now Available<b>FreeBSD 9.3-BETA1 Now Available</b><br />
<br />
<b><br /></b>
The first BETA build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
The image checksums can be found in the PGP-signed <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-June/078827.html">announcement email</a>.<br />
<br />
ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are available here:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/">http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/</a><br />
<br />
(or any of the FreeBSD mirror sites).<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the normal GNATS PR system or on the -stable mailing list.<br />
<br />
Please note, as the FreeBSD bug tracking system is undergoing maintenance, the PR system may be unavailable. Problem reports submitted this maintenance period are being queued for later processing.<br />
<br />
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "stable/9" branch.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div>
A list of changes since 9.2-RELEASE are available on the stable/9 release notes page here:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/9-STABLE/relnotes/article.html">http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/9-STABLE/relnotes/article.html</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.3-BETA1</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging was done correctly.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
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 misc/compat8x port can be installed to</div>
<div>
provide other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted into the new userland:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
Love FreeBSD? Support this and future releases with a donation to the FreeBSD Foundation! <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/</a></div>
</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-60375406861841396382014-03-11T17:50:00.002-07:002014-03-14T01:04:30.248-07:00FreeBSD Participating in Google Summer of CodeFreeBSD is pleased to announce that once again we have been selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. This gives University students the opportunity to earn a $5,500 USD stipend in exchange for working on Open Source software over their Summer break. Students have around 12 weeks to work on their project, and will be mentored by existing FreeBSD committers. Participating organisations will earn $500 USD per student mentored.<br />
<br />
FreeBSD's organisation page may be found <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2014/freebsd">here</a> and a list of possible project ideas may be found <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014">here</a>. Please note that projects do not have to come from the ideas list, and indeed students are encouraged to produce their own project ideas - the majority of past projects have been thought up by the participants themselves. More details about FreeBSD's participation in Google Summer of Code including contact details can be found <a href="http://gsoc.freebsd.org/">here.</a><br />
<br />
Students are also encouraged to visit the <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/">GSoC website</a> to view more details of the program, including eligibility requirements, and a list of other participating organisations.<br />
<br />
Please also help us advertise Google Summer of Code and FreeBSD at your<br />
local university or college campus using <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/projects/2014-freebsd-gsoc.pdf">this poster</a>.<br />
<br />
The application deadline is March 21st 19:00 UTC.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-63424525985531291522014-01-20T08:53:00.001-08:002014-01-20T08:53:55.930-08:00FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Now AvailableThe FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE. This is the first release of the stable/10 branch.<br />
<br />
Some of the highlights:<br />
<ul>
<li>GCC is no longer installed by default on architectures where clang(1) is the default compiler.</li>
<li>Unbound has been imported to the base system as the local caching DNS resolver.</li>
<li>BIND has been removed from the base system.</li>
<li>make(1) has been replaced with bmake(1), obtained from the NetBSD Project.</li>
<li>pkg(7) is now the default package management utility.</li>
<li>pkg_add(1), pkg_delete(1), and related tools have been removed.</li>
<li>Major enhancements in virtualization, including the addition of bhyve(8), virtio(4), and native paravirtualized drivers providing support for FreeBSD as a guest operating system on Microsoft Hyper-V.</li>
<li>TRIM support for Solid State Drive has been added to ZFS.</li>
<li>Support for the high-performance LZ4 compression algorithm has been added to ZFS.</li>
</ul>
<div>
See the full 10.0-RELEASE announcement <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/announce.html">here</a>.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-31350188078471434842014-01-09T08:46:00.000-08:002014-01-09T08:46:07.950-08:00FreeBSD 10.0-RC5 Now AvailableThe fifth RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-January/076800.html">now available</a> on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
This is expected to be the final RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.<br />
<br />
The image checksums follow at the end of <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-January/076800.html">this email</a>.<br />
<br />
Important note to freebsd-update(8) users: Please be sure to follow the instructions in the following FreeBSD Errata Notices before upgrading the system to 10.0-RC5:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-13:04.freebsd-update.asc">EN-13:04.freebsd-update</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-13:05.freebsd-update.asc">EN-13:05.freebsd-update</a></li>
</ul>
<div>
Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.0-RC5 are also <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/10.0-RC5/">available</a> for amd64 and i386 architectures.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Changes between -RC4 and -RC5 include:</div>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Fix an IPv4 multicast regression.</li>
<li>Fixes OpenSSL for CVE-2013-4353, CVE-2013-6449, CVE-2013-6450.</li>
<li>Revert a change to the kinfo_file structure to preserve ABI.</li>
<li>Fix a race condition which could prevent the file descriptor table from being properly updated.</li>
</ul>
<div>
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:</div>
</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.0-RC5</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by </span>merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging was done correctly.</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before </span>continuing.</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new </span>userland components:</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications if possible, </span>especially if upgrading from an earlier FreeBSD release, for example, FreeBSD 9.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/compat9x and other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted into the new userland:</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># shutdown -r now</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove </span>stale files:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"># freebsd-update install</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love FreeBSD? Support this and future releases with a <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/">donation</a> to the FreeBSD Foundation!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-79171205263655159292014-01-02T05:38:00.000-08:002014-01-02T05:38:48.780-08:00FreeBSD 10.0-RC4 Now AvailableThe fourth RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/">now available</a> on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
This is expected to be the final RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.<br />
<br />
The image checksums follow at the end of <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-January/076681.html">this email</a>.<br />
<br />
ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are available here.<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the normal GNATS PR system or here on the freebsd-stable mailing list.<br />
<br />
Important note to freebsd-update(8) users: Please be sure to follow the instructions in the following FreeBSD Errata Notices before upgrading the system to 10.0-RC4:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-13:04.freebsd-update.asc">EN-13:04.freebsd-update</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-13:05.freebsd-update.asc">EN-13:05.freebsd-update</a></li>
</ul>
<div>
Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.0-RC4 are also <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/10.0-RC4/">available</a> for amd64 and i386 architectures.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Changes between 10.0-RC3 and 10.0-RC4 include:</div>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Tighten default restrictions for ntpd(8) server.</li>
<li>Fix kernel crash discovered with recent Java port update.</li>
</ul>
<div>
Love FreeBSD? Support this and future releases with a <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/">donation</a> to the FreeBSD Foundation!</div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-26774195647342522812013-12-26T08:37:00.000-08:002013-12-26T08:37:02.101-08:00FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 Now AvailableThe third RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
The image checksums follow at the end of <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-December/076590.html">this</a> email.<br />
<br />
ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are available <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Important note to freebsd-update(8) users: Please be sure to follow the instructions in the following FreeBSD Errata Notices before upgrading the system to 10.0-RC3:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-13:04.freebsd-update.asc">EN-13:04.freebsd-update</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-13:05.freebsd-update.asc">EN-13:05.freebsd-update</a></li>
</ul>
<br />
<div>
Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.0-RC3 are also <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/10.0-RC3/">available</a> for amd64 and i386 architectures.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Changes between -RC2 and -RC3 include:</div>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Several minor bugfixes and functionality enhancements to bhyve.</li>
<li>Add new sysctl, kern.supported_archs, containing the list of FreeBSD MACHINE_ARCH values whose binaries this kernel can run.</li>
<li>Add a pkg(8) repository configuration file for cdrom-based package installation.</li>
<li>Implement a fix to allow bsdconfig(8) to be able to install packages included on the DVD.</li>
<li>Fix pkg(8) multi-repository support by properly respecting 'enabled' flag.</li>
<li>Fix Xen build without INET.</li>
<li>Several bugfixes to bsdinstall(8).</li>
<li>Fix a ZFS-related panic triggered by an incorrect assertion.</li>
<li>Fix mountroot> prompt eating most of the characters by not enabling RXRDY interrupts in the attach routine.</li>
<li>Fix a regression in ng_ksocket(4).</li>
<li>Apply patch from upstream Heimdal for encoding fix.</li>
</ul>
<div>
Love FreeBSD? Support this and future releases with a <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/">donation</a> to the FreeBSD Foundation!</div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-70130297339893268612013-12-16T07:49:00.000-08:002013-12-16T07:49:02.741-08:00FreeBSD 10.0-RC2 Now AvailableThe second RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.0">now available</a> on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
See the <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-December/076480.html">release announcement</a> email for image checksums.<br />
<br />
Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.0-RC2 are also <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/10.0-RC2/">available</a> for amd64 and i386 architectures.<br />
<br />
Changes between -RC1 and -RC2 include:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Fix a crash when attempting to use a non-disk device as an iSCSI LUN.</li>
<li>Fix handling of empty iSCSI authentication groups.</li>
<li>Fix a regression in bsdinstall(8) that prevented the system from decrypting GELI providers when installing ZFS on GELI.</li>
<li>Several Radeon KMS bug fixes.</li>
<li>Several wireless bug fixes.</li>
<li>Several clang bug fixes.</li>
</ul>
<br />
<div>
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:</div>
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# freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.0-RC2</div>
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During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging was done correctly.</div>
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# freebsd-update install</div>
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The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.</div>
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# shutdown -r now</div>
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After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:</div>
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# freebsd-update install</div>
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It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications if possible, especially if upgrading from an earlier FreeBSD release, for example, FreeBSD 9.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/compat9x and other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted into the new userland:</div>
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# shutdown -r now</div>
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Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:</div>
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# freebsd-update install</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-67315101364567703452013-12-09T12:41:00.001-08:002013-12-09T12:42:04.224-08:00FreeBSD 10.0-RC1 Now AvailableThe first RC build of the FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE cycle is <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-December/076231.html">now available.</a><br />
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Please see the announcement email for the image checksums.<br />
<br />
<i>Please see the change list for an important note regarding the bsdinstall(8) ZFS on GELI option.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images<br />
<br />
are available <a href="http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/">here.</a><br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the normal GNATS PR<br />
system or here on the -current mailing list.<br />
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Important note to freebsd-update(8) users: Please be sure to follow the</div>
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instructions in the following FreeBSD Errata Notices before upgrading</div>
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the system to 10.0-RC1:</div>
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<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-13:04.freebsd-update.asc">EN-13:04.freebsd-update</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-13:05.freebsd-update.asc">EN-13:05.freebsd-update</a></li>
</ul>
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Changes between -BETA4 and -RC1 include:</div>
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<ul>
<li>Fix to a regression in bsdinstall(8) that prevents ZFS on GELI installation from working correctly.[*]</li>
<ul>
<li>Please note: a last-minute problem was found in 10.0-RC1 testing with this installation option that is still being investigated. Please do <b>not </b>select the GELI encryption option from the installer. Although the installation successfully completes, the GELI passphrase will <b>not</b> decrypt the GELI provider.</li>
</ul>
<li>Build Hyper-V kernel modules by default for i386.</li>
<li>Update oce(4) driver to support 40Gbps devices.</li>
<li>Improve robustness of the Xen balloon driver.</li>
<li>Fix accounting for hw.realmem on the i386 and amd64 platforms.</li>
<li>Fix poweroff(8) on XenServer.</li>
<li>Fix powerd/states on AMD cpus.</li>
<li>Add support for BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787.</li>
<li>Fix PKG_ABI detection in bsdconfig(8) after pkg-1.2.</li>
<li>Fix emulated jail_v0 byte order.</li>
<li>Fix hang on reboot with active iSCSI connections.</li>
<li>Fix a potential system crash if a jail(8) is created and destroyed on systems with VIMAGE.</li>
</ul>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-58962901708000858052013-12-03T08:22:00.001-08:002013-12-03T08:22:19.199-08:00FreeBSD 10.0-BETA4 now availableThe fourth BETA build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now <a href="http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/">available</a> on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
<br />
This is expected to be the final BETA build of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.<br />
<br />
Checksums for the installation images are available in the <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-December/076040.html">announcement email</a>.<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the PR system or on the -current mailing list.<br />
<br />
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "stable/10" branch.<br />
<br />
Important note to freebsd-update(8) users: Please be sure to follow the instructions in the following FreeBSD Errata Notices before upgrading the system to 10.0-BETA4:<br />
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<br />
<ul>
<li>http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-13:04.freebsd-update.asc</li>
<li>http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-13:05.freebsd-update.asc</li>
</ul>
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<br />
Changes between -BETA3 and -BETA4 include:<br />
<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Add preliminary support for RTL8106E, RTL8168G, RTL8168GU, RTL8411B, and RTL8168EP.</li>
<li>Enable fingerprint checking in pkg(8) for FreeBSD-provided binary packages.</li>
<li>Remove the WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT build option.</li>
<li>Update nvi to 2.1.2.</li>
<li>Various iconv(3) fixes.</li>
<li>Fix mergemaster -U by forcing FreeBSD 9 compatiblity in mtree when mtree is nmtree.</li>
<li>Fix to freebsd-update(8) in generating the list of old files/directories versus new files/directories (FreeBSD-EN-13:05.freebsd-update).</li>
</ul>
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Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.0-BETA4 are also <a href="http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/10.0-BETA4/">available</a> for amd64 and i386 architectures.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-89107921791546337612013-11-05T09:21:00.001-08:002013-11-05T09:21:42.365-08:00FreeBSD 10.0-BETA3 now availableThe third BETA build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.<br />
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ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are available <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/">here</a> or at any of the FreeBSD mirror sites.<br />
<br />
Checksums for the installation images are available in the <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-November/075704.html">announcement email</a>.<br />
<br />
If you notice problems you can report them through the PR system or on the -current mailing list.<br />
<br />
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "stable/10" branch.<br />
<br />
Important note to freebsd-update(8) users: be sure to follow the instructions in the EN-13:04.freebsd-update errata notice before upgrading the system to 10.0-BETA3.<br />
<br />
Changes between -BETA2 and -BETA3 include:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Several small fixes for the amd64 minidump code.</li>
<li>Add a 'pkg bootstrap' command which will bootstrap pkg(8) without forwarding any command to it after installation.</li>
<li>Fix make(1) warning output with 'make delete-old' and 'make delete-old-libs'</li>
<li>Add kernel side support for large TLB on BERI/CHERI.</li>
<li>Fix compatibility function for old daily_status_security_${name}_enable variables.</li>
<li>Add loader.conf(5) entries to import bootpool after boot when using full-disk encryption and ZFS.</li>
<li>Switch the default mtree to nmtree our new NetBSD derived mtree.</li>
<li>Remove the (unused) isf(4) driver.</li>
<li>Separate WITHOUT_CLANG and WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC.</li>
<li>Add atse(4), a driver for the Altera Triple Speed Ethernet MegaCore.</li>
<li>Fix a deadlock when trying to power off a USB device.</li>
<li>Support checking signature for pkg bootstrap from remote and for 'pkg add ./pkg.txz'</li>
<li>Fix long-standing issue with incorrect radix mask calculation.</li>
<li>Add support for using "pkg+http://" for the PACKAGESITE.</li>
<li>Add driver for POWER hypervisor interpartition ethernet.</li>
<li>Fix panic in the tap driver when a tap and vmnet interface were created after each other.</li>
</ul>
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Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.0-BETA3 are also <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/10.0-BETA3">available</a> for amd64 and i386 architectures.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063774740731739510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2388516548067875943.post-72096521140492545832013-11-04T14:26:00.000-08:002013-11-04T14:26:52.365-08:00Automated Submission of Kernel Panic ReportsColin Percival has <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-November/046175.html">announced</a> a new port called sysutils/panicmail which users can use to automatically submit panic reports. From the announcement: <br />
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After considerable review on freebsd-hackers (thanks dt71 and jilles!) I have now added sysutils/panicmail to the FreeBSD ports tree. If you install this and add<br />
<i>panicmail_enable="YES"</i><br />
to your /etc/rc.conf, a panic report will be generated and sent to root@ for you to review and submit (via email). You can skip the reviewing step and submit panics automatically by setting <i>panicmail_autosubmit="YES"</i>.<br />
<br />
The panics submitted are encrypted to an RSA key which I hold in order to keep them secure in transit; and I intend to keep the raw panic reports confidential except to the minimum extent necessary for other developers to help me process the incoming reports.<br />
<br />
If I receive enough panic reports to be useful, I hope to provide developers with aggregate statistics. This may include:<br />
<ul>
<li>regular email reports listing the "top panics", to help guide developers towards the most fertile areas for stability improvements;</li>
<li>email to specific developers alerting them to recurring panics in code they maintain (especially if it becomes clear that the panic has been recently introduced); and</li>
<li>guidance to re@ and secteam@ about how often a particular panic occurs if an errata notice is being considered</li>
</ul>
as well as other yet-to-be-imagined reports of a similarly aggregate and anonymized nature.<br />
<br />
So please install the sysutils/panicmail port and enable it in rc.conf! This all depends on getting useful data, and I can't do that without your help.<br />
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