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Helix was a customised distribution based on Ubuntu with excellent hardware detection and many applications dedicated to incident response and forensics.
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| 2023-10-28 |
NEW • Development Release: FreeBSD 14.0-RC3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third (and likely last) release candidate for FreeBSD 14.0. The product's final release is scheduled for 7 November 2023. This release candidate adds support for the Realtek Killer E2600 Ethernet controller driver and upgrades OpenSSL to the recently-released version 3.0.12. "The third RC build of the 14.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 14.0-RC2 includes: test suite fixes; support for IUTF8 in (s)tty has been added; support for Realtek Killer E2600 has been added; several kernel TLS updates have been added; OpenSSL has been updated to version 3.0.12; other miscellaneous bug fixes and updates. A list of changes since 13.2-RELEASE is available in the releng/14.0 release notes." Continue to the full release announcement for more details and upgrade instructions. Here are the download links of installation images for the amd64, i386 and aarch64 architectures: FreeBSD-14.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso (1,086MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC3-i386-disc1.iso (886MB), FreeBSD-14.0-RC3-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (936MB). |
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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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| 2025-03-11 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 13.5 |
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Colin Percival has announced the availability of FreeBSD 13.5, the final maintenance release of the project's legacy "stable/13" branch: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE. This is the sixth and final release of the stable/13 branch. Since this release is occurring late in a legacy stable branch, there are few new features; rather, the focus is primarily on maintenance. As such, changes since 13.4-RELEASE consist mostly of bug fixes, driver updates, and new versions of externally-maintained software. FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, aarch64, armv6, armv7, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe and riscv64 architectures. FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory stick. The required files can be downloaded as described below." See the release announcement and the detailed release notes for further information. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-13.5-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (1,089MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.5-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (899MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.5-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (865MB, SHA512). |
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| 2025-02-15 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 13.5-BETA2 |
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The FreeBSD project has announced a new development snapshot for FreeBSD 13.5. The snapshot, which is labelled version 13.5-BETA2, introduces extended timestamps for the UFS file system, updates cloud images, and smooths out the rate limits on ICMP network requests. "The second BETA build of the 13.5-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since BETA1 includes: cloud images no longer ship with (out of date) copies of the FreeBSD pkg repository database; UFS1 now supports dates up to 2106; 'make delete-old' now removes obsolete clang/aarch64 files which were previously forgotten; rate limits on ICMP responses are now individually jittered; bug fixes to unifdef and sysctl string handling. A list of changes since 13.4 will be available in the releng/13.5 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 13.5-RELEASE cycle progresses." Additional information is provided in FreeBSD's release announcement. This beta is available for amd64, i386, arm64, PowerPC, and RISC-V architectures. Download: FreeBSD-13.5-BETA3-amd64-disc1.iso (1.089MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.5-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso (896MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.5-BETA1-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (863MB, SHA512). |
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| 2024-12-03 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 14.2 |
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The FreeBSD team have announced the release of FreeBSD 14.2. The new release includes several minor changes, mostly in the realm of updated hardware drivers, an update to OpenZFS 2.2.6, and a reduction in size to the boot loader. "The BIOS boot loader added back support for gzip and bzip2, but removed support for graphics mode (by default) to address size problems; the EFI boot loader is unchanged with support for all of those; lots of improvements to the network stack, including performance improvements and bug fixes for the sctp(4) stack; descriptors returned by sctp_peeloff(2) now inherit capabilities from the parent socket; AIM (Adaptive Interrupt Moderation) support has been added to the igc(4) driver, this feature has also been added to the lem(4), em(4) and igb(4) drivers; a major regression in UDP performance introduced in FreeBSD 12.0, including NFS over UDP, is believed to be fixed with this change; the LinuxKPI, particularly for 802.11, has been enhanced to improve the stability of wireless drivers such as iwlwifi(4)...." Additional information can be found in the release announcement and in the release notes. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (1,249MB, SHA512, signature), FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (1,038MB, SHA512, signature). |
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| 2024-11-09 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 14.2-BETA2 |
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Colin Percival has announced the release of a new development snapshot for FreeBSD. The new beta snapshot, FreeBSD 14.2 BETA2, includes a handful of bug fixes and a few new features before the release candidate freeze. The release announcement summarizes the changes and provides a list of supported platforms. "The second BETA build of the 14.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since BETA1 includes: adding support for GPIO _AEI events; fixing boot loader 'text mode graphics' when BIOS booting; adding support for OpenStack network configuration in nuageinit; unbreaking the -A option to ndp(8); fixing the terminal bell pitch in vt(4); fixing a kernel panic in sctp(4). A list of changes since 14.1 is available in the releng/14.2 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 14.2-RELEASE cycle progresses." The announcement goes on to offer updating instructions and tips for reporting bugs before the final 14.2 release. Download: FreeBSD-14.2-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso (1,127MB, SHA512). |
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| 2024-09-17 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 13.4 |
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The FreeBSD team have announced the release of FreeBSD 13.4, a maintenance release for the 13.x series which features mostly security improvements and bug fixes. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth release of the stable/13 branch. Since this release is occurring late in a legacy stable branch, there are few new features; rather, the focus is primarily on maintenance. As such, changes since 13.3-RELEASE consist mostly of bug fixes, driver updates, and new versions of externally-maintained software. For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list.... FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. The release announcement offers further details. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-13.4-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (1,073MB, SHA512). |
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| 2024-06-04 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 14.1 |
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Colin Percival has announced the release of FreeBSD 14.1, the latest stable version of the popular operating system used to power modern servers, desktops and embedded platforms: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE. This is the second release of the stable/14 branch. Some of the highlights: the C library now has SIMD implementations of string and memory operations on amd64 for improved performance; improvements to the sound subsystem, including device hotplug; initial native cloud-init (configuration drive) support compatible with OpenStack and many hosters; OpenZFS has been upgraded to version 2.2.4; Clang/LLVM have been upgraded to version 18.1.5; OpenSSH has been upgraded to version 9.7p1. FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64 and riscv64 architectures. Based on the new FreeBSD support model, the FreeBSD 14 release series will be supported until at least January 31, 2026." See the release announcement and the release notes for further details. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-14.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (1,120MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-14.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (914MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-14.1-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (977MB, SHA512). |
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| 2024-05-20 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 14.1-BETA3 |
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Colin Percival has announced that the FreeBSD team have published a new beta snapshot for the project's upcoming 14.1 release. The new beta fixes crashes on i386, addresses large RISC-V binaries, and turns on soft updates by default when using newfs. "The third BETA build of the 14.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since BETA2 includes: newfs now turns on softupdates by default on UFS2; boot breakage on RPi 4 and large amd64 systems fixed; i386 panics with drm-kmod fixed; OpenMP scheduling issues fixed; fixes to kernel handling of userland mutexes; in6_addr fields made visibile to userland; non-UFS vm image build fixes; bogusly large riscv binaries fixed; man page fixes/addition; removeal of accidental GDB_LOG setting; nfsd RFC8881 compliance fixes. A list of changes since 14.0 is available in the releng/14.1 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 14.1-RELEASE cycle progresses." Additional information on the third beta snapshot can be found in the release announcement and in the release notes. Download: FreeBSD-14.1-BETA3-amd64-disc1.iso (1,118MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-14.1-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (915MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-14.1-BETA3-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (977MB, SHA512). |
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| 2024-03-05 |
BSD Release: FreeBSD 13.3 |
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Colin Percival has announced the release of FreeBSD 13.3, the production release in the legacy branch of the popular BSD-derived operating system: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the stable/13 branch. Some of the highlights: LLVM and the Clang compiler have been updated to version 17.0.6; OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.6p1; Sendmail has been updated to version 8.18.1; ZFS has been updated to OpenZFS 2.1.14; there have been many stability fixes to native and LinuxKPI-based WiFi drivers; the NFS server can now run in an appropriately configured vnet jail. FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures." Please read the release announcement and the release notes for more information. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-13.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (1,023MB, SHA512, signature), FreeBSD-13.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (842MB, SHA512, signature), FreeBSD-13.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (842MB, SHA512, signature). |
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| 2024-02-21 |
Development Release: FreeBSD 13.3-BETA3 |
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The FreeBSD project has released a new development snapshot for FreeBSD 13.3. The new snapshot, BETA 3, updates Sendmail, fixes a kernel panic bug, and corrects an issue with creating RISCV binaries. The release announcement lists the changes since the previous BETA snapshot: "The third BETA build of the 13.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 13.3-BETA2 includes: a kernel panic fix affecting the net-mgmt/ng_ipacct port; a fix to invalid birthtime values generated by fusefs; an update to the TLS root certificate bundle; Sendmail update to 8.18.1; allowing mac_priority's authorized users to set realtime priority; an update to the source for the leap seconds database; a workaround for an elftoolchain bug which yielded boated RISCV binaries." Additional information is provided in the release notes. Download: FreeBSD-13.3-BETA3-amd64-disc1.iso (1,054MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.3-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (869MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.3-BETA3-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (842MB, SHA512). The installation ISO images are also available for the arm-armv6, arm-armv7, powerpc-powerpc64, powerpc-powerpc64le, powerpc-powerpcspe and riscv-riscv64 architectures. |
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