FreeBSD 12.1-RC2 Now Available
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 The second RC build of the 12.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Installation images are available for: o 12.1-RC2 amd64 GENERIC o 12.1-RC2 i386 GENERIC o 12.1-RC2 powerpc GENERIC o 12.1-RC2 powerpc64 GENERIC64 o 12.1-RC2 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE o 12.1-RC2 sparc64 GENERIC o 12.1-RC2 armv6 RPI-B o 12.1-RC2 armv7 BANANAPI o 12.1-RC2 armv7 BEAGLEBONE o 12.1-RC2 armv7 CUBIEBOARD o 12.1-RC2 armv7 CUBIEBOARD2 o 12.1-RC2 armv7 CUBOX-HUMMINGBOARD o 12.1-RC2 armv7 RPI2 o 12.1-RC2 armv7 PANDABOARD o 12.1-RC2 armv7 WANDBOARD o 12.1-RC2 armv7 GENERICSD o 12.1-RC2 aarch64 GENERIC o 12.1-RC2 aarch64 RPI3 o 12.1-RC2 aarch64 PINE64 o 12.1-RC2 aarch64 PINE64-LTS Note regarding arm SD card images: For convenience for those without console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access. Additionally, the root user password is set to root. It is strongly recommended to change the password for both users after gaining access to the system. Installer images and memory stick images are available here: https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/12.1/ The image checksums follow at the end of this e-mail. If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list. If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "releng/12.1" branch. A summary of changes since 12.1-RC1 includes: o The loader.efi had been updated to use ioalign for compliance with UEFI specification 2.7A. o A null pointer dereference bug had been fixed. o A fix to SCTP to reset local variables to their initial values had been added. o The ixgbe(4) driver had been updated to prevent a system crash when configuring EEE on X500EM_X devices. o The sdhci(4) driver had been updated to fix a boot issue on Beaglebone SoCs. A list of changes since 12.0-RELEASE is available in the releng/12.1 release notes: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/relnotes.html Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 12.1-RELEASE cycle progresses. === Virtual Machine Disk Images === VM disk images are available for the amd64, i386, and aarch64 architectures. Disk images may be downloaded from the following URL (or any of the FreeBSD download mirrors): https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/12.1-RC2/ The partition layout is: ~ 16 kB - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label) ~ 1 GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label) ~ 20 GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label) The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB and 165 MB respectively (amd64/i386), decompressing to a 21 GB sparse image. Note regarding arm64/aarch64 virtual machine images: a modified QEMU EFI loader file is needed for qemu-system-aarch64 to be able to boot the virtual machine images. See this page for more information: https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/QEMU To boot the VM image, run: % qemu-system-aarch64 -m 4096M -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt \ -bios QEMU_EFI.fd -serial telnet::4444,server -nographic \ -drive if=none,file=VMDISK,id=hd0 \ -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \ -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \ -netdev user,id=net0 Be sure to replace "VMDISK" with the path to the virtual machine image. === Amazon EC2 AMI Images === FreeBSD/amd64 EC2 AMIs are available in the following regions: eu-north-1 region: ami-0186d6a5fbc8766f2 ap-south-1 region: ami-0b6bef3551f1b0f70 eu-west-3 region: ami-062495360178ede5e eu-west-2 region: ami-0ccfe49c85e5f8cc0 eu-west-1 region: ami-0e2730782e7462f98 ap-northeast-2 region: ami-053ddd72fc1feb00a ap-northeast-1 region: ami-06cd2e1981334f254 sa-east-1 region: ami-08acf6b9b1df41f34 ca-central-1 region: ami-064249d804369c668 ap-east-1 region: ami-020c406cb2f52030b ap-southeast-1 region: ami-08264f040bf980098 ap-southeast-2 region: ami-0da02f500e46cac8f eu-central-1 region: ami-05458e84d05b820e8 us-east-1 region: ami-06f6cbd134064befb us-east-2 region: ami-0cfe92105f4fee6a8 us-west-1 region: ami-0bb63fac9c5ec153a us-west-2 region: ami-00a29b19544968928 FreeBSD/aarch64 EC2 AMIs are available in the following regions: eu-north-1 region: ami-0ea4448b9b547107c ap-south-1 region: ami-07a9fd713466fe63f eu-west-3 region: ami-02e84241865e90f54 eu-west-2 region: ami-0b707024f9aadb94f eu-west-1 region: ami-0abf12b852be4e776 ap-northeast-2 region: ami-086547036e5a47816 ap-northeast-1 region: ami-038017fcbf85e7669 sa-east-1 region: ami-0da52f30dd7d86ef5 ca-central-1 region: ami-092ee6a89213c15a2 ap-east-1 region: ami-0db28099cf79bf65d ap-southeast-1 region: ami-0852402b94d58adf8 ap-southeast-2 region: ami-01f869cc877cef54f eu-central-1 region: ami-04d008006fdb7e720 us-east-1 region: ami-0411db3e8715d4352 us-east-2 region: ami-01e68c35d7ddcac3e us-west-1 region: ami-02dcdcd99bf7fde1f us-west-2 region: ami-09ce8334b595dff30 === Vagrant Images === FreeBSD/amd64 images are available on the Hashicorp Atlas site, and can be installed by running: % vagrant init freebsd/FreeBSD-12.1-RC2 % vagrant up === Upgrading === The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows: # freebsd-update upgrade -r 12.1-RC2 During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging was done correctly. # freebsd-update install The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing. # shutdown -r now After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components: # freebsd-update install It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications if possible, especially if upgrading from an earlier FreeBSD release, for example, FreeBSD 11.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/compat11x and other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted into the new userland: # shutdown -r now Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files: # freebsd-update install
Also: FreeBSD 12.1-RC2 Has Update For UEFI 2.7A, Various Bug Fixes
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