Download FreeBSD 12.4

The members of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team have released version 12.4 of FreeBSD. FreeBSD was created in 1993 and is developed as a whole, unlike Linux, for example, 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 here this page are being found. These are briefly the most important changes:

FreeBSD 12.4 RELEASE Announcement

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth release of the stable/12 branch.

Some of the highlights:

• The ena(4) kernel driver has been updated to 2.6.1.
• The if_epair(4) driver now allows multiple cores to be used to process traffic to improve performance.
• The unbound(8) utility has been updated to version 1.16.3.
• The telnetd(8) daemon has been deprecated.
• The tcpdump(1) utility now allow users to set a number on rules which will be exposed as part of the pflog header.
• OpenSSL has been updated to 1.1.1q.
• OpenSSH has been updated to 9.1p1.
• The LLVM toolchain suite has been updated to version 13.0.0.
• The dma(8) utility has been updated to snapshot 2022-01-27.
• The file(1) utility has been updated to version 5.43.
• The libarchive(3) library has been updated to version 3.6.0.
• 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/12.4R/relnotes/
• https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/12.4R/errata/

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

• https://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/