Download FreeBSD 11.1

Members of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team have released the first update for version 11 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:

• Clang, LLVM, LLD, LLDB, and libc++ have been updated to version 4.0.0.
• Many third-party (contributed) software updates, such as the Elf Tool Chain, ACPICA, libarchive(3), ntpd(8), unbound(8), and more.
• Support for blacklistd(8) has been added to OpenSSH.
• The zfsbootcfg(8) utility has been added, providing one-time boot.config(5)-style options for zfsboot(8).
• The efivar(8) utility has been added, providing an interface to manage UEFI variables.
• Support for Microsoft Hyper-V Generation 2 virtual machines has been added.
• The ena(4) driver has been added, providing support for “next generation” Enhanced Networking on the Amazon EC2 platform.
• The NFS client now supports the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).
• The EFI loader can now access remote files via TFTP in addition to NFS as a runtime configuration option.
• ZFS now stores compressed data in cache, improving cache hit rates and performance.
• Several updates to provide build reproducibility.

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