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FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE is out, we look at building at BSD home router, how to be your own OpenBSD VPN provider, and find that glob matching can be simple and fast.

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FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE

• FreeBSD 11.1 was released on July 26th
• You can download it as an ISO or USB image, a prebuilt VM Image (vmdk, vhd, qcow2, or raw), and it is available as a cloud image (Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, Vagrant)
• Thanks to everyone, including the release engineering team who put so much time and effort into managing this release and making sure it came out on schedule, all of the FreeBSD developers who contributed the features, the companies that sponsored that development, and the users who tested the betas and release candidates.
• Support for blacklistd(8) has been added to OpenSSH
• The cron(8) utility has been updated to add support for including files within /etc/cron.d and /usr/local/etc/cron.d by default.
• The syslogd(8) utility has been updated to add the include keyword which allows specifying a directory containing configuration files to be included in addition to syslog.conf(5). The default syslog.conf(5) has been updated to include /etc/syslog.d and /usr/local/etc/syslog.d by default.
• The zfsbootcfg(8) utility has been added, providing one-time boot.config(5)-style options
• The efivar(8) utility has been added, providing an interface to manage UEFI variables.
• The ipsec and tcpmd5 kernel modules have been added, these can now be loaded without having to recompile the kernel
• A number of new IPFW modules including Network Prefix Translation for IPv6 as defined in RFC 6296, stateless and stateful NAT64, and a module to modify the TCP-MSS of packets
• A huge array of driver updates and additions
• The NFS client now supports the Amazon® Elastic File System™ (EFS)
• The new ZFS Compressed ARC feature was added, and is enabled by default
• The EFI loader has been updated to support TFTPFS, providing netboot support without requiring an NFS server
• For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:
  • FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE Release Notes
  • FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE Errata
  • For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see: Release Engineering Information
• Availability
  • FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, sparc64, armv6, and aarch64 architectures.
  • FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory stick. The required files can be downloaded as described in the section below.
  • SHA512 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO, memory stick, and SD card images are included at the bottom of this message.
  • PGP-signed checksums for the release images are also available at:

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