14 DAY TRIAL // The first point release of the FreeBSD 11 operating system is about to be unleashed very soon as developer Glen Barber just announced the release of the third RC development milestone.
FreeBSD 11.1 was in development for only a month, during which it received three Beta and three RC builds that users could download and test out on their personal computers to report bugs or any other issues. And now that the third RC is out, it looks like it might also be the last one for this cycle.
"The third RC build of the 11.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. This is expected to be the final RC build of the 11.1-RELEASE cycle," said Glen Barber in the mailing list announcement. "If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list."
What's new in FreeBSD 11.1 RC3
Quite a bunch of changes have been added in FreeBSD 11.1 RC3 compared to the second and even the first RC, and among some that caught our eye we can mention support for the Capsicum sandbox framework in bhyve(4), better support for Intel SDHCI/eMMC controllers, and a working Heimdal KDC-REP service encrypted ticket.
This third, and probably the last, RC of FreeBSD 11.1 also restores the layout of the vm_map_entry struct, fixes a loop termination in the vm_map_find_min() function, adds deprecation notices for multiple components, including wlconfig(8), sicontrol(8), gdb(1), kgdb(1), and various drivers that won't make their way in FreeBSD 12.0.
A rare truncation case in the runtime linker was fixed as well in FreeBSD 11.1 RC3, which corrects the signatures of some pthread(3) stubs. Those interested in test driving this last scheduled RC of FreeBSD 11.1, which is expected to land very soon, can download the installation images right now from through our web portal.