Download FreeBSD 12.2

Members of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team have released version 12.2 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. Extended release notes can be found on this page are found, these are briefly the most important changes:

FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE Announcement

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE. This is the third release of the stable/12 branch.

Some of the highlights:

• Updates to the wireless networking stack and various drivers have been introduced to provide better 802.11n and 802.11ac support.
• The ice(4) driver has been added, supporting Intel® 100Gb ethernet cards.
• The jail(8) utility has been updated to allow running Linux® in a jailed environment.
• OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1h.
• OpenSSH has been updated to version 7.9p1.
• The clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt utilities and libc++ have been updated to version 10.0.1.
• And much more…

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

• https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/12.2R/relnotes.html
• https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/12.2R/errata.html

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

• https://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/