14 DAY TRIAL // FreeBSD's Glen Barber announced the other day that the third, and hopefully the last, Released Candidate (RC) build of the upcoming FreeBSD 11.0 operating system is now available for public testing.
On September 12, 2016, we were expecting to see the announcement for the final release of FreeBSD 11.0, but it didn't happen. Why? Most probably because of some last minute issues that proved to be a show stopper for the end user. Therefore, we're now getting yet another Release Candidate development milestone to test and report bugs.
"The third RC build of the 11.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list," says Glen Barber in the release announcement. "If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the 'releng/11.0' branch."
As for the changes included in FreeBSD 11.0 RC3, we can mention fixes for boot issues that affect PowerPC (PPC) systems, as well as booting from large disk drivers, a recent update to the libarchive library, along with the latest version of the cron utility. Moreover, there's a fix for an issue with ipfw's "set enable/disable" command.
Last but not least, FreeBSD 11.0 RC3 comes with the debugging options disabled by default for the AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) hardware architecture, which received a new kernel image to allow printing of warning messages whenever you're running the OS on pass 1.1 hardware. Enough chit-chat, go ahead and download FreeBSD 11.0 RC3 right now via our website and report any issues you might discover.