LLVM/Clang compiler updated to version 4.0.0

Jul 26, 2017 10:16 GMT  ·  By

The FreeBSD Project announced today the release and immediate availability of the first incremental update to the FreeBSD 11 operating system series, FreeBSD 11.1.

It's been more than nine months since FreeBSD 11 was released as the latest and most advanced version of the widely-used and most popular BSD operating system on the market, and now, FreeBSD 11.1 is here with a bunch of new features across multiple components, as well as all the latest security and bug fixes.

New features include support for 2nd generation Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines, support for blacklistd(8) in OpenSSH, support for the "next generation" Enhanced Networking technologies on the Amazon EC2 platform through the ena(4) driver, and support for the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) in the NFS client.

FreeBSD 11.1 improves the EFI loader to allow it to access remote files via TFTP, too, not only NFS, as a runtime configuration option, updates the LLVM/Clang, along with the LLD, LLDB, and libc++ components, to version 4.0.0, and introduces the zfsbootcfg(8) and efivar(8) utilities, the latter can be used to manage UEFI variables.

The cache hit rates and performance was improved as well as ZFS support has been updated to store compressed data in cache. Third-party tools like ACPICA, Elf Tool Chain, libarchive(3), ntpd(8), and unbound(8) were added in this release. Also, to provide build reproducibility, FreeBSD 11.1 updates several other components.

FreeBSD 11.1 installation images are available for download right now for the 64-bit (amd64), 32-bit (i386), PowerPC (PPC), PowerPC 64-bit (PPC64), SPARC64, ARMv6, and AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) hardware architectures. FreeBSD 11.1 will be supported for at least three months after the next point release, FreeBSD 11.2.