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FreeBSD 11.0-RC2 Available
The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.2.4 pre-alpha snapshots now available.
pfSense® software version 2.4 pre-alpha snapshots are now available.
pfSense 2.4 will use FreeBSD 11 as a base, and 11.0-RELEASE has not yet occurred. There will be additional work to use 11.0-RELEASE as a base.
More work at “reduction of technical debt” is occurring in 2.4. We have decided to not carry forward the kernel patches for Captive Portal. Instead, it is being re-written to use stock IPFW. That work is only about 75% complete. Simultaneously, work is occurring to convert several subsystems (e.g. radius) to use the PEAR equivalents:
New features and changes are listed here.
Full change list:
* source and build tools
* ports
* FreeBSD source
Outstanding bugs/features/todo items:
* Everything else
We advise that you do not use this on a production system yet. If you have the time and interest, we encourage you to try this on a scratch system or VM and provide feedback for any issues you find.
pfSense 2.4 will use FreeBSD 11 as a base, and 11.0-RELEASE has not yet occurred. There will be additional work to use 11.0-RELEASE as a base.
More work at “reduction of technical debt” is occurring in 2.4. We have decided to not carry forward the kernel patches for Captive Portal. Instead, it is being re-written to use stock IPFW. That work is only about 75% complete. Simultaneously, work is occurring to convert several subsystems (e.g. radius) to use the PEAR equivalents:
- We now use pear-XML_RPC2. As a result of the rework, you can now set a username field in HA settings to connect to the other HA partner. Previously this was always ‘admin’. The previous xmlrpc, inc, xmprpc_client.inc and xmprpc_server.inc have been removed.
- We removed a hack used to sort extensions.ini
- We removed static IPv6.inc and started using pear-Net_IPv6
- We removed static CHAP.inc and started using pear-Crypt_CHAP from ports
- We removed static PEAR.inc and started using pear from ports
- We removed static smtp.inc and started using pear-Mail
- We converted the code from notices.inc to use pear-Mail since smtp.inc was deprecated
- We removed static _sasl_client.inc and sasl.inc that were used by smtp.inc
- We removed the former static growl.class and started using pear-Net_Growl
- Created a new FreeBSD port for pear-Net_Growl
- Converted code from notices.inc to use pear-Net_Growl
New features and changes are listed here.
Full change list:
* source and build tools
* ports
* FreeBSD source
Outstanding bugs/features/todo items:
* Everything else
We advise that you do not use this on a production system yet. If you have the time and interest, we encourage you to try this on a scratch system or VM and provide feedback for any issues you find.
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This week on BSDNow, Allan is back from his UK trip & we’ll
get to hear his thoughts on the developer summit. That plus all the
latest news & an interview with Drew Gurkowski discussing tutorial
writing for FreeBSD. Keep it tuned to your place to B...SD!
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