The stable FreeBSD 9.3 release is around the corner

Jul 7, 2014 10:05 GMT  ·  By

Glen Barber has announced the immediate availability for download of the third and probably the last RC (Release Candidate) version of the upcoming FreeBSD 9.3 operating system.

FreeBSD 9.3 RC3 fixes a bug for axge range checks, as well as for loop header parsing, fixes a bug related to the “exclude loopback addresses rather than loopback interfaces” functionality, and updates the oce package.

In addition, it fixes a bug in uhso that will prevent memory use after mtx_destroy() and free(), fixes a directory creation issue in the bsdinstall script under certain conditions, and brings a fix for DNS-based load balancing.

“The third RC build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. This is expected to be the final RC build of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle. The image checksums follow at the end of this email,” Glen Barber said in the official release announcement.

Users can download and test the FreeBSD 9.3 RC3 operating system right now from Softpedia. It is distributed as installable-only ISO images for many architectures, including 32-bit, 64-bit, PPC, PPC64, and SPARC64. Please note that this is an unstable release and it should not be installed on production machines.