Download FreeBSD 10.2

Members of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team have released the second 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 are available on this page are found, these are briefly the most important changes:

Some of the highlights:

• The resolvconf(8) utility has been updated to version 3.7.0, with improvements to protect DNS privacy.
• The ntp suite has been updated to version 4.2.8p3.
• A new rc(8) script, growfs, has been added, which will resize the root filesystem on boot if the /firstboot file exists.
• The Linux® compatibility version has been updated to support Centos™ 6 ports.
• The drm code has been updated to match Linux® version 3.8.13, allowing running multiple X servers simultaneously.
• Several enhancements and updates for improved FreeBSD/arm support.
• Several ZFS performance and reliability improvements.
• GNOME has been updated to version 3.14.2.
• KDE has been updated to version 4.14.3.
• And much more…

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: