14 DAY TRIAL // A few minutes ago, Glen Barber informed the FreeBSD community that they should not hurry and install the ISO images of the FreeBSD 11.0 operating system made available a few days ago on the official FTP mirrors.
These images aren't safe to use and contain various security vulnerabilities that need to be fixed before the FreeBSD Project officially unveils the final release of the FreeBSD 11.0 operating system in the coming days. According to the release schedule, FreeBSD 11.0 should hit the streets later today, September 29, 2016.
However, until then, the FreeBSD development team is hard at work patching those nasty security issues and rebuilding the final ISO images, which will be made available on the respective FTP mirrors later today as FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1. If you're already running FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE, you will soon be provided with instructions to safely update your system.
"Although the FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE has not yet been officially announced, many have found images on the Project FTP mirrors. However, please be aware the final 11.0-RELEASE will be rebuilt and republished on the Project mirrors as a result of a few last-minute security fixes we feel are imperative to include in the final release," says Glen Barber in the announcement.
Therefore, if you've downloaded the FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE ISO images and installed them on your machines because some media outlets informed you about their availability on the official FTP mirrors ahead of the official launch of the operating system, you need to wait for the update instructions, which will be published in the final release announcement. If not, wait for the FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1 ISOs on October 5.