Thursday, January 2, 2014

FreeBSD 10.0-RC4 Now Available

The fourth RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.

This is expected to be the final RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

The image checksums follow at the end of this email.

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


If you notice problems you can report them through the normal GNATS PR system or here on the freebsd-stable mailing list.

Important note to freebsd-update(8) users:  Please be sure to follow the instructions in the following FreeBSD Errata Notices before upgrading the system to 10.0-RC4:
Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.0-RC4 are also available for amd64 and i386 architectures.

Changes between 10.0-RC3 and 10.0-RC4 include:
  • Tighten default restrictions for ntpd(8) server.
  • Fix kernel crash discovered with recent Java port update.
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