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The third BETA build of the 11.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available.
Installation images are available for:
o 11.3-BETA3 amd64 GENERIC
o 11.3-BETA3 i386 GENERIC
o 11.3-BETA3 powerpc GENERIC
o 11.3-BETA3 powerpc64 GENERIC64
o 11.3-BETA3 sparc64 GENERIC
o 11.3-BETA3 armv6 BANANAPI
o 11.3-BETA3 armv6 BEAGLEBONE
o 11.3-BETA3 armv6 CUBIEBOARD
o 11.3-BETA3 armv6 CUBIEBOARD2
o 11.3-BETA3 armv6 CUBOX-HUMMINGBOARD
o 11.3-BETA3 armv6 RPI-B
o 11.3-BETA3 armv6 RPI2
o 11.3-BETA3 armv6 PANDABOARD
o 11.3-BETA3 armv6 WANDBOARD
o 11.3-BETA3 aarch64 GENERIC
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/11.3/
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 "stable/11" branch.
A summary of changes since 11.3-BETA2 includes:
o Support for the IPV6_NEXTHOP option has been restored.
o Warnings for IPsec algorithms deprecated in RFC 8221 have been added.
o Fix for FC-Tape bugs.
o A fix in jail_getid(3) for jail(8) ID 0.
o Warnings for weaker geli(4) algorithms have been added.
o Various updates and fixes in libarchive(3).
o A fix in cxgbe(4) to address a connection hang when running iozone
over an NFS-mounted share.
o A fix to the zfs(8) 'userspace' subcommand where all unresolved UIDs
after the first were ignored.
o An apm(8) fix to correct battery life calculation.
o The default size of Vagrant images has been increased.
o Reporting on deprecated features for all major FreeBSD versions has
been merged.
A list of changes since 11.2-RELEASE is available in the stable/11
release notes:
https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/11-STABLE/relnotes/article.html
Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be
updated on an ongoing basis as the 11.3-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 FTP mirrors):
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/11.3-BETA3/
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::,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-07fd27786377bc6fd
ap-south-1 region: ami-01f208a9f001a22e2
eu-west-3 region: ami-085439f21755d95a4
eu-west-2 region: ami-0993e4ba21a62262d
eu-west-1 region: ami-0f2f6a13b79dd804b
ap-northeast-2 region: ami-07164fb9df8db807f
ap-northeast-1 region: ami-0c1b2bbd0b1cced6e
sa-east-1 region: ami-0d51b7b8c6a2f8a57
ca-central-1 region: ami-054c4785980cbfbb4
ap-southeast-1 region: ami-07cbfed103b47434a
ap-southeast-2 region: ami-06e7f111242f4a03e
eu-central-1 region: ami-05b82446f270f2c7e
us-east-1 region: ami-0b3ea59d3140af471
us-east-2 region: ami-0b59f21c8a159bf51
us-west-1 region: ami-0a6d215b372bd8a86
us-west-2 region: ami-0861887499c7e29c3
=== Vagrant Images ===
FreeBSD/amd64 images are available on the Hashicorp Atlas site, and can
be installed by running:
% vagrant init freebsd/FreeBSD-11.3-BETA3
% 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 11.3-BETA3
During this process,
