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FreeBSD 14.2-BETA2 Now Available

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 14, 2024

The second BETA build of the 14.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available.

Installation images are available for:
o 14.2-BETA2 amd64 GENERIC o 14.2-BETA2 i386 GENERIC o 14.2-BETA2 powerpc GENERIC o 14.2-BETA2 powerpc64 GENERIC64 o 14.2-BETA2 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE o 14.2-BETA2 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE o 14.2-BETA2 armv7 GENERICSD o 14.2-BETA2 aarch64 GENERIC o 14.2-BETA2 aarch64 RPI o 14.2-BETA2 aarch64 PINE64 o 14.2-BETA2 aarch64 PINE64-LTS o 14.2-BETA2 aarch64 PINEBOOK o 14.2-BETA2 aarch64 ROCK64 o 14.2-BETA2 aarch64 ROCKPRO64 o 14.2-BETA2 riscv64 GENERIC o 14.2-BETA2 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/14.2/
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/14.2" branch.
A summary of changes since BETA1 includes:
o Adding support for GPIO _AEI events
o Fixing boot loader "text mode graphics" when BIOS booting
o Adding support for OpenStack network config in nuageinit
o Unbreaking the -A option to ndp(8)
o Fixing the terminal bell pitch in vt(4)
o Fixing a kernel panic in sctp(4).
A list of changes since 14.1 is available in the releng/14.2 release notes:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/relnotes/
Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 14.2-RELEASE cycle progresses.
=== Virtual Machine Disk Images ===
VM disk images are available for the amd64, i386, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. Disk images may be downloaded from the following URL (or any of the FreeBSD download mirrors):
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/VM-IMAGES/14.2-BETA2/
BASIC-CI images can be found at:
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/CI-IMAGES/14.2-BETA2/
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.

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