FreeBSD 14.1-BETA1 Now Available
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FreeBSD 14.1-BETA1 Now Available
The first BETA build of the 14.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available.
Installation images are available for:
o 14.1-BETA1 amd64 GENERIC o 14.1-BETA1 i386 GENERIC o 14.1-BETA1 powerpc GENERIC o 14.1-BETA1 powerpc64 GENERIC64 o 14.1-BETA1 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE o 14.1-BETA1 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE o 14.1-BETA1 armv7 GENERICSD o 14.1-BETA1 aarch64 GENERIC o 14.1-BETA1 aarch64 RPI o 14.1-BETA1 aarch64 PINE64 o 14.1-BETA1 aarch64 PINE64-LTS o 14.1-BETA1 aarch64 PINEBOOK o 14.1-BETA1 aarch64 ROCK64 o 14.1-BETA1 aarch64 ROCKPRO64 o 14.1-BETA1 riscv64 GENERICSD
Note regarding arm SD card images: For convenience for those without console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access. Additionally, the root user password is set to root. It is strongly recommended to change the password for both users after gaining access to the system.
Installer images and memory stick images are available here:
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.1/
The image checksums follow at the end of this e-mail.
If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.
If you would like to use Git to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "releng/14.1" branch.
A list of changes since 14.0 will be available in the releng/14.1 release notes:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.1R/relnotes/
Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 14.1-RELEASE cycle progresses.
=== Virtual Machine Disk Images ===
VM disk images are available for the amd64, i386, and aarch64 architectures. Disk images may be downloaded from the following URL (or any of the FreeBSD download mirrors):
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/VM-IMAGES/14.1-BETA1/
BASIC-CI images can be found at:
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/CI-IMAGES/14.1-BETA1/
The partition layout is:
~ 16 kB - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label) ~ 1 GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label) ~ 20 GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)
The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB and 165 MB respectively (amd64/i386), decompressing to a 21 GB sparse image.
Note regarding arm64/aarch64 virtual machine images: a modified QEMU EFI loader file is needed for qemu-system-aarch64 to be able to boot the virtual machine images. See this page for more information:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/QEMU
To boot the VM image, run:
% qemu-system-aarch64 -m 4096M -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt \ -bios QEMU_EFI.fd -serial telnet::4444,server -nographic \ -drive if=none,file=VMDISK,id=hd0 \ -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \ -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \ -netdev user,id=net0
Be sure to replace "VMDISK" with the path to the virtual machine image. -
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE Release Notes
The release notes for FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the FreeBSD base system on the 14-STABLE development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the FreeBSD kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.
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FreeBSD 14.1 Release Process
This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 14.1. For more information about the release engineering process, please see the Release Engineering section of the web site.
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