TrueOS 2017-02-22 is now the newest stable release of the OS

Feb 26, 2017 22:38 GMT  ·  By

The developers of the FreeBSD-based TrueOS operating system (formerly PC-BSD) announced the release and general availability of a new stable build versioned 2017-02-22.

TrueOS 2017-02-22 is now the newest stable release of the BSD operating system, and it looks like it brings quite a bunch of changes, starting with the implementation of new Jail utilities and Automounting feature. However, it also brings numerous other services, functionality improvements, and a collection of bug fixes.

"This new feature allows autodetection and mounting of inserted USB devices. It also automatically unmounts USB devices when the user ceases accessing the device," explained the developers. "New jail utilities jbootstrap (requires being run once to fetch base packages), jinit, and jdestroy are available."

Contains FreeBSD's latest security updates as of February 19, 2017

As expected, the software repository of TrueOS was synchronized with those of the FreeBSD operating system, bringing all of its security updates as of February 19, 2017, as well as a bunch of up-to-date components, such Qt 5.7.1. The about tool was also improved in this release, and the pc-mounttray utility replaced with autofs and automounter.

The plexmediaserver, musicpd, open-vm-tools, isc-dhcpd34, tcpproxy, iocage, and miniupnp services have been added in the recently released TrueOS 2017-02-22 install medium as well, along with fixes package upgrading, FreeBSD-examples upgrading, Lumina 4K wallpaper, D-Bus service status, and SysAdm service bugs.

Last but not least, it looks like the latest upstream OpenRC patches have been imported in TrueOS for service status and supervision. Existing users need only to update their installations via the official repos to receive all these improvements, but newcomers can download the TrueOS 2017-02-22 Desktop and Server 64-bit ISOs right now from our website.