FreeBSD 11.2 Release Notes

61 points by Bino 7 years ago | 9 comments

Still no TLS sendfile unfortunately. Apparently TLS sendfile is being used at Netflix to push over 150Gb/s on a single box. I can't wait until it's open sourced.

ksec 7 years ago | |

I am wondering, if a Netflix flavoured FreeBSD, a BSD that is Network, File Server oriented would help the adoption of FreeBSD. Something like NodeBSD.

macdice 7 years ago | | |

Why do people think that there should be a separate distribution for different classes of user? I never really understood that. The community is thin, fragmentation is bad, setting up a server for workload X should consist of installing ports A, B, C, not installing FrankenBSD!

trasz 7 years ago | | |

What would be the difference compared to stock FreeBSD?

jlgaddis 7 years ago |

Note that 11.2-RELEASE isn't technically out yet.

The "official" announcement is scheduled for tomorrow and, until it hits, the ISO images, etc., are still subject to change.

macdice 7 years ago | |

Seems to be frozen now. D'oh, I was too late to get my first FreeBSD feature (woohoo!) added to the 11.2 release notes. So I'll just randomly post it here in case anyone cares:

The procctl(2) syscall has been updated to support PROC_PDEATHSIG_CTL, similar to Linux® PR_SET_PDEATHSIG. [r333162]

trasz 7 years ago | |

The RELEASE is functionally equal to the last Release Candidate (eg RC3); any functional change - eg anything other than documentation - would trigger another RC.

Bino 7 years ago |

See https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.2R/relnotes.html for release notes

sctb 7 years ago | |

Thanks, we've gone with this instead of http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/11.2/.