Mr Glen Barber of FreeBSD foundation has announced availability of FreeBSD 11.0-RC1, first release candidate in FreeBSD 11.0 series. As usual this release is also available for a wide range of architectures including powerpc, intel, arm, and amd systems.
FreeBSD is an independently evolved Unix like operating system, developed in University of Berkeley. It powers a wide range of platforms across the globe including high performance servers, desktop computers, laptops and embedded systems.
The FreeBSD 11.0-RC1, first release candidate in FreeBSD 11.0 series is coming after 4 beta releases and has got fixes for several bugs reported in previous releases. Following are some notable highlights of FreeBSD 11.0-RC1 comparing to previous development release, ie FreeBSD 11.0-Beta4:
FreeBSD is an independently evolved Unix like operating system, developed in University of Berkeley. It powers a wide range of platforms across the globe including high performance servers, desktop computers, laptops and embedded systems.
The FreeBSD 11.0-RC1, first release candidate in FreeBSD 11.0 series is coming after 4 beta releases and has got fixes for several bugs reported in previous releases. Following are some notable highlights of FreeBSD 11.0-RC1 comparing to previous development release, ie FreeBSD 11.0-Beta4:
You may find more details on this release, in release announcement shared through FreeBSD stable mailing list.
- A NULL pointer dereference in IPSEC has been fixed.
- Support for SSH Protocol 1 has been removed.
- OpenSSH DSA keys have been disabled by default. Users upgrading from prior FreeBSD versions are urged to update their SSH keys to DSA or ECDSA keys before upgrading to 11.0-RC1.
- PCI-e hotplug on bridges with power controllers has been disabled.
- A loader tunable (hw.pci.enable_pcie_hp) to disable PCI-e HotPlug has been added.
- A VESA panic on suspend has been fixed.
- Google Compute Engine image publication has been fixed.
- An AES-ICM heap corruption typo bug has been fixed.
- A regression in pf.conf while parsing the 'interval' keyword has been fixed.
- A ZFS/VFS deadlock has been fixed.
Download FreeBSD 11.0-RC1