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FreeBSD 12.1 Beta Started

Prepared first beta release of FreeBSD 12.1. The FreeBSD 12.1-BETA1 release is available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64 and armv6, armv7 and aarch64 architectures. Additionally prepared images for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments. FreeBSD 12.1 release is planned on November 4st.

Of the changes noted:

  • Library included libomp (implementation of runtime OpenMP);
  • Updated list of IDs of supported PCI devices;
  • Added cdceem driver to support USB virtual NICs provided in iLO 5 on HPE Proliant servers;
  • Added commands to camcontrol utility to change ATA power modes;
  • Added support for the ZFS option "com.delphix:removing" to the bootloader;
  • Added support for NAT64 CLAT (RFC6877) implemented by engineers from Yandex to the network stack;
  • Added sysctl net.inet.tcp.rexmit_initial to set the RTO.Initial parameter used in TCP;
  • Added support for GRE-in-UDP encapsulation (RFC8086);
  • The BearSSL cryptographic library is included in the base system;
  • IPv6 support 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 enabled by default;
  • Disabled by default the "-Werror" flag in gcc;
  • Added trim utility to remove block content from Flash using wear minimization algorithms;
  • The pipefail option has been added to the sh utility, when set, the final return code includes the error code that occurred in any of the applications in the call chain;
  • Added firmware update functionality for Mellanox ConnectX-5, ConnectX-4 and ConnectX-5 to mlx6tool utility;
  • Added posixshmcontrol utility;
  • Added "resv" command to nvmecontrol utility to manage redundancy for NVMe;
  • In the camcontrol utility, in the "modepage" command, support for block descriptors has appeared;
  • The bzip2recover utility is included. Support for the xz compression algorithm has been added to gzip;
  • The ctm and timed utilities have been deprecated and will be removed in FreeBSD 13.

Source: opennet.ru

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