The final version for this branch is really close to an official release

Aug 27, 2013 11:37 GMT  ·  By

FreeBSD 9.2 RC3, an operating system for x86, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures, has been released and it's now available for testing.

The FreeBSD 9.2 branch has already gone through a few development versions and a few important features have been implemented. This latest release only integrates a small number of fixes.

According to the developers, an integer overflow in computing the size of a temporary buffer, which can result in a buffer which is too small for the requested operation, has been fixed.

The official changelog comes with a complete list of fixes and modifications. Download FreeBSD 9.2 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.