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The second BETA build of the 12.1-RELEASE release cycle is now
available.
Installation images are available for:
o 12.1-BETA2 amd64 GENERIC
o 12.1-BETA2 i386 GENERIC
o 12.1-BETA2 powerpc GENERIC
o 12.1-BETA2 powerpc64 GENERIC64
o 12.1-BETA2 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE
o 12.1-BETA2 sparc64 GENERIC
o 12.1-BETA2 armv6 RPI-B
o 12.1-BETA2 armv7 BANANAPI
o 12.1-BETA2 armv7 BEAGLEBONE
o 12.1-BETA2 armv7 CUBIEBOARD
o 12.1-BETA2 armv7 CUBIEBOARD2
o 12.1-BETA2 armv7 CUBOX-HUMMINGBOARD
o 12.1-BETA2 armv7 RPI2
o 12.1-BETA2 armv7 PANDABOARD
o 12.1-BETA2 armv7 WANDBOARD
o 12.1-BETA2 armv7 GENERICSD
o 12.1-BETA2 aarch64 GENERIC
o 12.1-BETA2 aarch64 RPI3
o 12.1-BETA2 aarch64 PINE64
o 12.1-BETA2 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-BETA1 includes:
o An off-by-one error in fusefs(5) had been fixed.
o A problem with in-place strip(1) on msdosfs(5) had been fixed.
o Stability fixes for mpr(4) and mps(4) have been merged from head.
Note, support for these drivers have been removed for 32-bit powerpc.
o A regression had been fixed in the ping6(8) utility when the system is
built without capsicum(4).
o A regression in the jme(4) driver had been fixed.
o A change to the bhyve(4) uart(4) driver had been fixed to support
running under syzkaller.
o The WITH_PIE and WITH_BIND_NOW build knobs have been added.
o The 'updatesready' and 'showconfig' subcommands have been added to
freebsd-update(8).
o The camcontrol(8) 'devtype' subcommand had been fixed to correctly
report SATL devices.
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-BETA2/
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-0fde974647f2afb71
ap-south-1 region: ami-08c5b6c3c6766
eu-west-3 region: ami-0d2295cb848b04044
eu-west-2 region: ami-0defe97a58c32e336
eu-west-1 region: ami-04794e03ec4994477
ap-northeast-2 region: ami-0376260338b9a442c
ap-northeast-1 region: ami-030b542da16e02b36
sa-east-1 region: ami-09fef4294a171f081
ca-central-1 region: ami-0444d3dbbb3d973d2
ap-east-1 region: ami-01870b4cd52cd63f5
ap-southeast-1 region: ami-0ef470ae9dddc6d31
ap-southeast-2 region: ami-0eb87756562803e37
eu-central-1 region: ami-0d4f1151306798937
us-east-1 region: ami-0aa4feba66441f8cb
us-east-2 region: ami-073aac094f7a1e753
us-west-1 region: ami-0b702fd3bc6987d9e
us-west-2 region: ami-01e70706d53dcbd16
FreeBSD/aarch64 EC2 AMIs are available in the following regions:
eu-north-1 region: ami-004e595acdaea9f8a
ap-south-1 region: ami-043ee11f276cbac49
eu-west-3 region: ami-0a3ca0207e9a78b42
eu-west-2 region: ami-04cf3e3951b03f
