FreeBSD 11.4 Release

Eleven months after the release of 11.3 and seven months since the launch of 12.1, is available the release of FreeBSD 11.4, which prepared is for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, sparc64, aarch64, and armv6 (BEAGLEBONE, CUBIEBOARD, CUBIEBOARD2, CUBOX-HUMMINGBOARD, Raspberry Pi B, Raspberry Pi 2, PANDABOARD, WANDBOARD). In addition, images have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments like Amazon EC2.

FreeBSD 11.4 will be the last release in the 11.x series. Support for release 11.3 will be discontinued in 3 months, while support for FreeBSD 11.4 and the entire 11-STABLE branch will last until September 30, 2021. The release of FreeBSD 12.2 it is anticipated is on October 27.

Key innovations:

• The components Clang, libc++, compiler-rt, LLDB, LLD, and LLVM have been updated to version 10.0;
• In ZFS, has added the ability to rename bookmarks for snapshots has been implemented. Latencies for synchronous writing of 128KB blocks have been reduced. The maximum size of the ZFS ZIL (ZFS intent log) block can be configured;
• The utility certctl has been added for managing certificates and blacklists of revoked certificates;
• Support for CGN subnets (Carrier Grade NAT, RFC 6598) has been added to the libalias library and the ipfw packet filter;);
• The camcontrol utility has added support for Accessible Max Address Configuration (AMA) and implemented the command "modepage" to add block descriptors;
• The YPMAXRECORD parameter size in the yp subsystem has been increased from 1M to 16M for compatibility with Linux; The usbconfig utility now includes the command
• detach_kernel_driver. In the utility;
• jot, the ability to output an infinite stream of random data within specified boundaries has been added; In the freebsd-update utility,
• new commands updatesready for checking update installation completion and showconfig for displaying settings have been introduced; added In crontab, flags "-n" and "-q" have been implemented to disable mail sending and logging during command execution;
• In usbconfig, the dump_stats command has been added;
• In fsck_ffs and newfs,
• the search for information about backup superblocks for drives with sector sizes over 4K (up to 64K) has been enabled; In the env command, flags "-L" and "-U" have been added to set the environment for a specified user from the login.conf files and ~/.login_conf; In syslogd, support for filter-based
• The netatalk protocol has been removed from the network services database (/etc/services);
• The ng_nat driver has added support for contentType;
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• to the Ethernet interface; Hardware support has been updated. The sound driver snd_hda has added support for Intel Cannon Lake chips. Versions of the aacraid driver 3.2.10 and ena 2.2.0 have been updated. Support for JMicron JMB582 and JMB585 AHCI controllers has been added. Support for D-Link DWM-222 LTE modems has been included. Overall, this update brings significant enhancements and support improvements to various components.
• These advancements ensure better performance, compatibility, and user experience across the FreeBSD platform.
• The crypto driver now includes a warning about the upcoming deprecation of the ARC4, Blowfish, CAST128, DES, 3DES, MD5-HMAC, and Skipjack algorithms. A warning regarding the deprecation of the algorithms defined in RFC 6649 and 8429 in the 'SHOULD NOT' section has been added to the Kerberos GSS API.
• Marked deprecated and will be removed in FreeBSD 13.0 driver ubsec, providing support for Broadcom and BlueSteel uBsec 5x0x crypto accelerators;
• Updated versions of pkg 1.13.2, OpenSSL 1.0.2u, Unbound 1.9.6, ntpd 4.2.8p14, WPA Supplicant 2.9, tcsh 6.21.0;
• KDE 5.18.4 and GNOME 3.28 desktop environments are offered in the ports.

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