The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE. This is the
first release of the stable/12 branch.
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OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1a (LTS).
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Unbound has been updated to version 1.8.1, and DANE-TA has
been enabled by default.
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OpenSSH has been updated to version 7.8p1.
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Additonal capsicum(4) support has been added to
sshd(8).
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Clang, LLVM, LLD, LLDB, compiler-rt and libc++ has been
updated to version 6.0.1.
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The vt(4) Terminus BSD Console font has been updated to
version 4.46.
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The bsdinstall(8) utility now supports UEFI+GELI as an
installation option.
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The VIMAGE kernel configuration option has been enabled by
default.
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The NUMA option has been enabled by default in the amd64
GENERIC and MINIMAL kernel configurations.
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The netdump(4) driver has been added, providing a facility
through which kernel crash dumps can be transmitted to
a remote host after a system panic.
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The vt(4) driver has been updated with performance
improvements, drawing text at rates ranging from 2- to
6-times faster.
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Various improvements to graphics support for current
generation hardware.
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Support for capsicum(4) has been enabled on armv6 and armv7
by default.
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The UFS/FFS filesystem has been updated to consolidate
TRIM/BIO_DELETE commands, reducing read/write requests due
to fewer TRIM messages being sent simultaneously.
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The NFS version 4.1 server has been updated to include pNFS
server support.
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The pf(4) packet filter is now usable within a jail(8)
using vnet(9).
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The bhyve(8) utility has been updated to add NVMe device
emulation.
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The bhyve(8) utility is now able to be run within
a jail(8).
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Various Lua loader(8) improvements.
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KDE has been updated to version 5.12.5.
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And more...
