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FreeBSD 8.4 RC3 Gets Various Fixes and Is Ready for Testing

The final 8.4 branch has just received the third Release Candidate

May 9, 2013 06:54 GMT  ·  By
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FreeBSD, an operating system for x86, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures, is now at version 8.4 RC3.

The developers of FreeBSD have moved forward with their distribution and have launched the third Release Candidate.

Highlights of FreeBSD 8.4 RC3:

• A bug, that allowed NFS clients to issue READDIR on files, has been fixed; • sendmail has been updated to version 8.14.7; • The rtld(1) $ORIGIN length has been fixed; • Randomly-changing default routes have been fixed.

Users who have a previous version of FreeBSD installed can upgrade with a simple command in a terminal:

freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.4-RC3

More details about this release can be found in the official announcement.

Download FreeBSD 8.4 RC3 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.