Once 11 months after the release of 11.3 and 7 months since the release of 12.1 the release of FreeBSD 11.4, which para arquitecturas amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, sparc64, aarch64 y armv6 (BEAGLEBONE, CUBIEBOARD, CUBIEBOARD2, CUBOX-HUMMINGBOARD, Raspberry Pi B, Raspberry Pi 2, PANDABOARD, WANDBOARD). Además, se han preparado imágenes para sistemas de virtualización (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) y entornos en la nube de Amazon EC2.
FreeBSD 11.4 will be the last release in the 11.x series. Support for release 11.3 will end in 3 months, while support for FreeBSD 11.4 and the entire 11-STABLE branch will continue until September 30, 2021. The release of FreeBSD 12.2 is on October 27.
Mejoras clave :
- Los componentes Clang, libc++, compiler-rt, LLDB, LLD y LLVM se han actualizado a la versión ;
- En ZFS the ability to rename to snapshots. Latencies during synchronous writing of 128KB blocks have been reduced. The ability to adjust the maximum size of the ZFS ZIL (ZFS intent log) has been provided;
- The utility for managing certificates and blacklists of revoked certificates has been included;
- Support for CGN subnets has been added to the libalias library and the ipfw packet filter (, );
- Support for Accessible Max Address Configuration (AMA) has been added to the camcontrol utility, and the command "" has been implemented to add block descriptors;
- The size of the YPMAXRECORD parameter in the subsystem has been increased from 1M to 16M for compatibility with Linux;
- A command has been added to the usbconfig utility, ;
- En la utilidad which adds the ability to output an infinite stream of random data within specified bounds;
- In the freebsd-update utility, new commands updatesready for checking the completion of updates installation and showconfig for displaying settings have been added;
- Flags "-n" and "-q" have been implemented in crontab to disable email sending and log output during command execution;
- A command dump_stats has been added to usbconfig;
- In fsck_ffs and newfs, Flags "-L" and "-U" have been added to the env command to set the environment for a specified user from login.conf files and ~/ .login_conf;
- Support for filters based on has been added to syslogd,
- The netatalk protocol has been removed from the network service database (/etc/services); ;
- Support for
- attachment Support for hardware has been updated. The snd_hda sound driver has added support for Intel Cannon Lake chips. Versions of the aacraid 3.2.10 and ena 2.2.0 drivers have been updated. Support for JMicron JMB582 and JMB585 AHCI controllers has been added. Support for D-Link DWM-222 LTE modems has been added.
- Support for the crypto driver has added a warning about the upcoming discontinuation of support for the ARC4, Blowfish, CAST128, DES, 3DES, MD5-HMAC, and Skipjack algorithms. A warning about the deprecation of algorithms defined in RFC 6649 and 8429 in the "SHOULD NOT" section has been added to the Kerberos GSS API.
- deprecated and will be removed in FreeBSD 13.0, the driver
- ubsec , que ofrece soporte para los aceleradores de criptografía Broadcom y BlueSteel uBsec 5x0x;
- Se han actualizado las versiones pkg 1.13.2, OpenSSL 1.0.2u, Unbound 1.9.6, ntpd 4.2.8p14, WPA Supplicant 2.9, tcsh 6.21.0;
- Se ofrecen entornos de escritorio KDE 5.18.4 y GNOME 3.28 en los puertos.
Fuente: opennet.ru
