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FreeBSD 11.2 has been released, setting up an MTA behind Tor, running pfsense on DigitalOcean, one year of C, using OpenBGPD to announce VM networks, the power to serve, and a BSDCan trip report.

##Headlines
###FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE Available

• FreeBSD 11.2 was released today (June 27th) and is ready for download
• Highlights:

OpenSSH has been updated to version 7.5p1.
OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.2o.
The clang, llvm, lldb and compiler-rt utilities have been updated to version 6.0.0.
The libarchive(3) library has been updated to version 3.3.2.
The libxo(3) library has been updated to version 0.9.0.
Major Device driver updates to:

• cxgbe(4) – Chelsio 10/25/40/50/100 gigabit NICs – version 1.16.63.0 supports T4, T5 and T6
• ixl(4) – Intel 10 and 40 gigabit NICs, updated to version 1.9.9-k
• ng_pppoe(4) – driver has been updated to add support for user-supplied Host-Uniq tags

New drivers:
+ drm-next-kmod driver supporting integrated Intel graphics with the i915 driver.

• mlx5io(4) – a new IOCTL interface for Mellanox ConnectX-4 and ConnectX-5 10/20/25/40/50/56/100 gigabit NICs
• ocs_fc(4) – Emulex Fibre Channel 8/16/32 gigabit Host Adapters
• smartpqi(4) – HP Gen10 Smart Array Controller Family

The newsyslog(8) utility has been updated to support RFC5424-compliant messages when rotating system logs
The diskinfo(8) utility has been updated to include two new flags, -s which displays the disk identity (usually the serial number), and -p which displays the physical path to the disk in a storage controller.
The top(1) utility has been updated to allow filtering on multiple user names when the -U flag is used
The umount(8) utility has been updated to include a new flag, -N, which is used to forcefully unmount an NFS mounted filesystem.
The ps(1) utility has been updated to display if a process is running with capsicum(4) capability mode, indicated by the flag ‘C’
The service(8) utility has been updated to include a new flag, -j, which is used to interact with services running within a jail(8). The argument to -j can be either the name or numeric jail ID
The mlx5tool(8) utility has been added, which is used to manage Connect-X 4 and Connect-X 5 devices supported by mlx5io(4).
The ifconfig(8) utility has been updated to include a random option, which when used with the ether option, generates a random MAC address for an interface.
The dwatch(1) utility has been introduced
The efibootmgr(8) utility has been added, which is used to manipulate the EFI boot manager.
The etdump(1) utility has been added, which is used to view El Torito boot catalog information.
The linux(4) ABI compatibility layer has been updated to include support for musl consumers.
The fdescfs(5) filesystem has been updated to support Linux®-specific fd(4) /dev/fd and /proc/self/fd behavior
Support for virtio_console(4) has been added to bhyve(4).
The length of GELI passphrases entered when booting a system with encrypted disks is now hidden by default. See the configuration options in geli(8) to restore the previous behavior.

• In addition to the usual CD/DVD ISO, Memstick, and prebuilt VM images (raw, qcow2, vhd, and vmdk), FreeBSD 11.2 is also available on:
  • Amazon EC2
  • Google Compute Engine
  • Hashicorp/Atlas Vagrant
  • Microsoft Azure



• In addition to a generic ARM64 image for devices like the Pine64 and Raspberry Pi 3, specific images are provided for:
  • GUMSTIX
  • BANANAPI
  • BEAGLEBONE
  • CUBIEBOARD
  • CUBIEBOARD2
  • CUBOX-HUMMINGBOARD
  • RASPBERRY PI 2
  • PANDABOARD
  • WANDBOARD