FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE Announcement
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the stable/9 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE and introduces some new features.Some of the highlights:
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The zfs(8) filesystem has been updated to support the
bookmarks feature.
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The uname(1) utility has been updated to include the -U and
-K flags, which print the __FreeBSD_version for the running
userland and kernel, respectively.
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The fetch(3) library has been updated to support SNI
(Server Name Identification), allowing to use virtual hosts
on HTTPS.
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Several updates to gcc(1) have been imported from
Google.
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The hastctl(8) utility has been updated to output the
current queue sizes.
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The protect(1) command has been added, which allows
exempting processes from being killed when swap is
exhausted.
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The etcupdate(8) utility, a tool for managing updates to
files in /etc, has been merged from head/.
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A new shared library directory, /usr/lib/private, has been
added for internal-use shared libraries.
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OpenPAM has been updated to Nummularia (20130907).
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A new flag, "onifconsole" has been added to /etc/ttys. This
allows the system to provide a login prompt via serial
console if the device is an active kernel console, otherwise
it is equivalent to off.
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Sendmail has been updated to version 8.14.9.
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BIND has been updated to version 9.9.5.
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The xz(1) utility has been updated to a post-5.0.5
snapshot.
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OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.6p1.
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OpenSSL has been updated to version 0.9.8za.
- https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/relnotes.html
- https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.3R/errata.html
Availability
FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures.FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory stick. The required files can be downloaded via FTP as described in the section below. While some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all architectures, they will all generally contain the more common ones such as amd64 and i386.
SHA256 and MD5 hashes for the release ISO and memory stick images are included at the bottom of this message. A PGP-signed version of this announcement is available at:
Please refer to the official announcement email for the full details regarding FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE.
Acknowledgments
Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to support the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 9.3 including The FreeBSD Foundation, Yahoo!, NetApp, Internet Systems Consortium, ByteMark Hosting, Sentex Communications, New York Internet, Juniper Networks, NLNet Labs, iXsystems, and Yandex.The release engineering team for 9.3-RELEASE includes:
| Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering Lead, 9.3-RELEASE Release Engineer |
| Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering |
| Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering |
| Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> | Package Building |
| Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> | Package Building |
| Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering, Documentation |
| Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering |
| Xin Li <delphij@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering, Security Officer |
| Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering |
| Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> | Security Officer Emeritus |
| Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering |
| Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering, Documentation |
| Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering |
| Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering |
| Dag-Erling Smøgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> | Security Officer |
| Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering |
| Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering, Security |
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