Download FreeBSD 10.1

Members of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team have released the first update for version 10 of FreeBSD. FreeBSD was created in 1993 and is developed as a whole, unlike, say, Linux, whose kernel is maintained by one group of developers and certain applications by others. Because of this, FreeBSD is generally considered more stable and robust than several other operating systems. Extensive release notes can be found on this page are found, these are briefly the most important changes:

Some of the highlights:

• The new console driver, vt(4), has been added.
• Support for FreeBSD/i386 guests has been added to bhyve(4).
• The bhyve(4) hypervisor now supports booting from a zfs(8) filesystem.
• Support for SMP was added to the armv6 kernels and enabled by default in the configuration files for all platforms that contain multi-core CPUs.
• Initial support for UEFI boot has been added for the FreeBSD/amd64 architecture.
• Support has been added to cache geli(8) passphrases during system boot.
• Support for the UDP-Lite protocol (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 stacks.
• The new filesystem automount facility, autofs(5), has been added.
• The sshd(8) rc.d(8) startup script now generates ED25519 sshd(8) host keys if keys do not already exist when ssh_keygen_alg() is invoked.
• OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.6p1.
• The nc(1) utility has been updated to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.
• Sendmail has been updated to 8.14.9.
• The unbound(8) caching resolver and ldns have been updated to version 1.4.22.
• OpenPAM has been updated to Ourouparia (20140912).
• OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.1j.
• The pkg(8) package management utility has been updated to version 1.3.8.

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see: