A new development version for the FreeBSD 10.0 branch has been released

Nov 6, 2013 12:26 GMT  ·  By

FreeBSD 10.0 Beta 3, an operating system for x86, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98, and UltraSPARC architectures, is now available for download and testing.

The developers have advised users that, on systems running FreeBSD 10.0 BETA1 (and only systems running 10.0-BETA1), they have to run the following command before using freebsd-update:

sed -i '' -e 's/%@/%~@/' /usr/sbin/freebsd-update

Highlights of FreeBSD 10.0 Beta 3:

• Several small fixes for the amd64 minidump code have been implemented; • A “pkg bootstrap” command, which will bootstrap pkg without forwarding any command to it after installation, has been added; • Kernel side support has been added for large TLB on BERI/CHERI; • The (unused) isf(4) driver has been removed; • A deadlock that occurred when trying to power off a USB device has been corrected.

The official changelog comes with a complete list of fixes and modifications. Download FreeBSD 10.0 Beta 3 right now from Softpedia.

Remember that this is a development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.