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| 2004-09-26 |
NEW • Development Release: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 |
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The sixth beta of FreeBSD 5.3 is now available for download and testing: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6. This is the sixth BETA of the 5.3 release cycle. Fixes and Enhancements made since BETA5: many USB device updates; fix a panic when unloading the if_tap module; fix a lock order reversal in the network ioctl code; fix a panic with PF; fix large UID and GID handling in libarchive; the PFIL_HOOKS kernel option is now silently enabled by default; various locking fixes to the network stack; the net.inet.ip.check_interface sysctl is off by default now...." Read the rest of the release announcement. Download (i386): 5.3-BETA6-i386-disc1.iso (644MB) and 5.3-BETA6-i386-disc2.iso (603MB).
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| FreeBSD is a UNIX-like operating system for the i386, amd64, IA-64, arm, MIPS, powerpc, ppc64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's "4.4BSD-Lite" release, with some "4.4BSD-Lite2" enhancements. It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's "Net/2" to the i386, known as "386BSD", though very little of the 386BSD code remains. FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers, researchers, computer professionals, students and home users all over the world in their work, education and recreation. FreeBSD comes with over 20,000 packages (pre-compiled software that is bundled for easy installation), covering a wide range of areas: from server software, databases and web servers, to desktop software, games, web browsers and business software - all free and easy to install.
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| 2013-04-22 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.4-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 8.4, the upcoming new stable version of the project's legacy branch: "The second RC build of the 8.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. If you notice problems you can report them through the normal GNATS PR system or here on the 'stable' mailing list. If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system use 'releng/8.4'. If you would like to use csup/cvsup mechanisms instead the branch tag to use is 'RELENG_8_4'. Please be aware that cvsup and CVS are both deprecated, and while upgrades using CVS or cvsup may work now they will not be supported for security updates through the life of 8.4." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-8.4-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,626MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.4-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (2,147MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-04-10 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.4-RC1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 8.4, the upcoming new stable version of the project's legacy branch: "The first RC build of the 8.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system use 'releng/8.4'. If you would like to use csup/cvsup mechanisms instead the branch tag to use is 'RELENG_8_4'. Important notice when upgrading from 8.4-BETA1 to 8.4-RC1: there was an accidental breakage in the OpenSSL ABI in the BETA1 build that was fixed before this RC build. Applications built against OpenSSL may need to be rebuilt after upgrading to 8.4-RC1 from 8.4-BETA1." Read the rest of the release announcement for upgrade instructions. Download: FreeBSD-8.4-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,641MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.4-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (2,161MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-03-23 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.4-BETA1 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first beta build of FreeBSD 8.4, in the project's legacy branch: "The first BETA build of the 8.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. Since the stable/8 branch is relatively mature we hope there will only be one BETA build for this release cycle. If testing does not turn up any show-stopper caliber problems the next test build will be RC1. The following known issues are present in 8.4-BETA1: due to a change in sshd, sshd does not look for authorized_keys2 in addition to authorized_keys, this will be fixed prior the next release; selecting 'All' on the 'Choose Distributions' screen attempts to install a DEBUG kernel which is not present in the image so the installation will fail." Read the rest of the release announcement which includes update instructions. Download: FreeBSD-8.4-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (720MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.4-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (601MB, SHA256). |
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| 2012-12-31 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 9.1 |
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FreeBSD 9.1 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 9.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: new Intel GPU driver with GEM/KMS support; netmap(4) fast userspace packet I/O framework; ZFS improvements from Illumos project; CAM Target Layer, a disk and processor device emulation subsystem; optional new C++11 stack including LLVM libc++ and libcxxrt; jail devfs, nullfs, zfs mounting and configuration file support; POSIX2008 extended locale support, including compatibility with Darwin extensions; oce(4) driver for Emulex OneConnect 10Gbit Ethernet card...." Read the release announcement for highlights and the release notes for a detailed description of new features. Download: FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2,407MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,551MB, SHA256). |
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| 2012-11-04 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the third release candidate for FreeBSD 9.1: "The third release candidate of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. This is expected to be the last release candidate. Unless a majorshow-stopper is discovered within the next few days the final release builds will be started. If you notice any problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the -stable mailing list. If you want to do a source-based update to an existing system using SVN the branch to use is releng/9.1. If you would like to use CVS instead use RELENG_9_1." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and upgrade instructions. Quick download links for the i386 and amd64 architectures: FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-i386-disc1.iso (572MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso (686MB, SHA256). |
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| 2012-10-10 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 9.1: "The second release candidate of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and powerpc64. A third RC build has been decided on, currently scheduled for a week from now. The release builds themselves will begin about a week after RC3. There was enough 'community push-back' from the decision to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS that the decision has been reversed. A firm decision has been made that 10.X release activity will not be exported to CVS. It hasn't been decided yet if the upcoming 8.X and/or 9.X (past 9.1) release activity will be exported. More information about that will get posted as decisions get made." Read the full release announcement for more information and upgrade instructions. Download: FreeBSD-9.1-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (571MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.1-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (685MB, SHA256). |
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| 2012-08-23 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 9.1: "The first release candidate of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for amd64, i386 and powerpc64. Current plans are for there to be one more RC build, followed by the release itself. If you notice any problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the 'stable' mailing list. With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not available for updating to 9.1-RC1. If you would like to use SVN the branch to use is releng/9.1. The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-9.1-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (524MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (637MB, SHA256).
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| 2012-07-17 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 |
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Although a bit behind the schedule, Ken Smith today announced the first beta version of FreeBSD 9.1, the upcoming release of the project's stable branch: "The first test build of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for amd64, i386, powerpc64, and sparc64. We hope this will be the only BETA build, to be followed by two Release Candidate builds and then the release itself. If you notice any problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or here on the -stable mailing list. If you would like to use csup/cvsup mechanisms to do a source-based update of an existing system the branch tag to use is 'RELENG_9'. If you would like to use SVN instead use 'stable/9'. Note that if you do an update that way the system will call itself '9.1-PRERELEASE'." Check the full release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-9.1-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (523MB, MD5), FreeBSD-9.1-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso (637MB, MD5).
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| 2012-04-18 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 8.3 |
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FreeBSD 8.3 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.2 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: usb(4) now supports the USB packet filter; TCP/IP stack now supports the mod_cc(9) pluggable congestion control framework; graid(8) GEOM class added to support various BIOS-based software RAID controllers (replacement for ataraid(4)); ZFS subsystem updated to SPA version 28; GNOME version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.7.4. FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures." For further details please see the release announcement and the detailed release notes. Quick download links for the i386 and amd64 architectures: FreeBSD-8.3-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2,211MB, SHA256, torrent), FreeBSD-8.3-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,347MB, SHA256, torrent).
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