Saturday, June 21, 2014

FreeBSD 9.3-RC1 Now Available

FreeBSD 9.3-RC1 Now Available


The first RC build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.

The image checksums can be found in the PGP-signed announcement email.

ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are available here:

    http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/

(or any of the FreeBSD mirror sites).

If you notice problems you can report them through the normal 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/9.3" branch.

A list of changes since 9.2-RELEASE are available on the stable/9 release notes page here:


Changes between 9.3-BETA3 and 9.3-RC1 include:
  • Various bug fixes in the hptrr(4) driver.
  • Time zone data has been updated to tzdata2014e.
  • Handling of the '-P' flag without '-p' or '-r' has been fixed in the daemon(8) utility.
  • A bug in the nvme(4) controller initialization path has been fixed.
  • A bug in the fast receive buffer recycle path has been fixed in the cxgbe(4) driver.
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 9.3-RC1

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 8.x.  Alternatively, the misc/compat8x port can be installed to provide 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

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