the second beta release of FreeBSD 12.1. The FreeBSD 12.1-BETA2 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 on November 4th. An overview of what's new can be found at first beta release.
Compared to the first beta version, bugs in fusefs, strip, mpr, mps, ping6, jme, bhyve uart have been fixed. Added build modes WITH_PIE and WITH_BIND_NOW. The freebsd-update utility has new 'updatesready' and 'showconfig' commands. Improved 'devtype' command in camcontrol when working with SATL devices.
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