FreeBSD 11.4 released, Unix-like operating system

FreeBSD is a UNIX-like operating system based on the “4.4BSD-Lite” released by the University of California at Berkeley with some “4.4BSD-Lite2” enhancements for i386, amd64, IA-64, arm, MIPS, PowerPC, ppc64, PC -98, UltraSPARC, and other platforms.

FreeBSD includes a number of other great features:

• Firewalls: The base system includes IPFW and IPFilter, as well as a modified version of the popular pf with improved SMP performance. IPFW also includes the dummynet feature, allowing network administrators to simulate adverse network conditions, including latency, jitter, packet loss and limited bandwidth.
• Jails are a light-weight alternative to virtualization. Allowing processes to be restricted to a namespace with access only to the file systems and network addresses assigned to that namespace. Jails are also Hierarchical, allowing jails-within-jails.
• Linux emulation provides a system call translation layer that allows unmodified Linux binaries to be run on FreeBSD systems.
• DTrace provides a comprehensive framework for tracing and troubleshooting kernel and application performance issues while under live load.
• The Ports Collection is a set of more than 23,000 third party applications that can be easily installed and run on FreeBSD. The ports architecture also allows for easy customization of the compile time options of many of the applications.
• Network Virtualization: A container (“vimage”) has been implemented, extending the FreeBSD kernel to maintain multiple independent instances of networking state. Vimage facilities can be used independently to create fully virtualized network topologies, and jail(8) can directly take advantage of a fully virtualized network stack.

FreeBSD 11.4 was released.

Changelog

Some of the highlights:

• The clang, llvm, lld, lldb, and compiler-rt utilities as well as libc++ have been updated to upstream version 10.0.0.
• OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.2u.
• Unbound has been updated to version 1.9.6.
• The pkg(8) utility has been updated to version 1.13.2.
• The KDE desktop environment has been updated to version 5.18.4.1.19.12.3.
• The GNOME desktop environment has been updated to version 3.28.
• Support for renaming ZFS bookmarks has been added.
• The certctl(8) utility has been added.
• Several feature additions and updates to userland applications.
• Warnings for features deprecated in future releases will now be printed on all FreeBSD versions.
• Warnings have been added for Kerberos GSS API algorithms deprecated in RFCs 6649 and 8429.
• And more…

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