the first beta release of FreeBSD 12.1. The FreeBSD 12.1-BETA1 release is available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64, armv6, armv7, and aarch64 architectures. Images are also prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments. The release of FreeBSD 12.1 as of November 4.
Changes :
- Included is the library (implementation of OpenMP runtime);
- The list of supported PCI device identifiers has been updated;
- A cdceem driver has been added, supporting virtual network cards with USB interfaces provided in iLO 5 on HPE Proliant servers;
- The camcontrol utility has added commands for changing ATA power management modes;
- ZFS option 'com.delphix:removing' support has been added to the bootloader;
- NAT64 CLAT support (RFC6877) has been added to the network stack, implemented by engineers from Yandex;
- The sysctl net.inet.tcp.rexmit_initial has been added to set the RTO.Initial parameter used in TCP;
- Support for GRE-in-UDP encapsulation (RFC8086) has been added;
- The base system now includes the BearSSL cryptographic library;
- IPv6 support has been added to bsnmpd;
- Updated versions of ntpd 4.2.8p13, OpenSSL 1.1.1c, libarchive 3.4.0, LLVM (clang, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++) 8.0.1, bzip2 1.0.8, WPA 2.9,
- For the i386 architecture, the LLD linker from the LLVM project is activated by default;
- The ‘-Werror’ flag in gcc is disabled by default;
- A trim utility has been added to remove content from Flash blocks using wear leveling algorithms;
- The pipefail option has been added to the sh utility, which, when set, incorporates the error code from any application in the call chain into the final return code;
- The mlx5tool utility has been enhanced with firmware update functions for Mellanox ConnectX-4, ConnectX-5, and ConnectX-6;
- The posixshmcontrol utility has been introduced;
- The nvmecontrol utility has a new ‘resv’ command for managing reservation for NVMe;
- The camcontrol utility now supports block descriptors in the ‘modepage’ command;
- The bzip2recover utility has been included. Gzip has added support for the xz compression algorithm;
- The ctm and timed utilities have been deprecated and will be removed in FreeBSD 13.
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