Category: FreeBSD
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“The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE. This is the third release of the stable/14 branch.
The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE to the memory of Mike Karels, who spent more than 40 years contributing to BSD and was the Deputy Release Engineering Lead at the time of his passing.”
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The official release announcement is tomorrow on 3rd of December.
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“A summary of changes since BETA3 includes:
- The “minimal” OCI container image now contains libraries required
for pkg(8) to operate. - The disc1 and dvd images now include more wifi firmware, allowing wifi to be used from the installer on more systems.
- The installer is now able to download and install firmware packages.”
- The “minimal” OCI container image now contains libraries required
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Steps for a version upgrade eg. from 14.2-BETA2 to BETA3:
- sudo freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.2-BETA3
- sudo freebsd-update install
- sudo reboot
- sudo freebsd-update install
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Now with OCI container images.
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“The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 14.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.”
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audit installed packages against known vulnerabilities
First time you execute this command you need to force fetch the http://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/vuln.xml.xz. file. using: pkg audit -F
vuln is an xml file containing 226K lines of vulnerabilities since 2003.
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