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FreeBSD 11.0-RC1 Available

• FreeBSD is marching onwards to 11.0, and with it the first RC1 was released. In addition to the usual amd64 architectures, you may want to give it
  a whirl on your various ARM boards as well, as it includes images for the following systems:

  • 11.0-RC1 amd64 GENERIC
  • 11.0-RC1 i386 GENERIC
  • 11.0-RC1 powerpc GENERIC
  • 11.0-RC1 powerpc64 GENERIC64
  • 11.0-RC1 sparc64 GENERIC
  • 11.0-RC1 armv6 BANANAPI
  • 11.0-RC1 armv6 BEAGLEBONE
  • 11.0-RC1 armv6 CUBIEBOARD
  • 11.0-RC1 armv6 CUBIEBOARD2
  • 11.0-RC1 armv6 CUBOX-HUMMINGBOARD
  • 11.0-RC1 armv6 GUMSTIX
  • 11.0-RC1 armv6 RPI-B
  • 11.0-RC1 armv6 RPI2
  • 11.0-RC1 armv6 PANDABOARD
  • 11.0-RC1 armv6 WANDBOARD
  • 11.0-RC1 aarch64 GENERIC

• For those wondering the list of changes between this and BETA4, we have that as well:

  • A NULL pointer dereference in IPSEC has been fixed.
  • Support for SSH Protocol 1 has been removed.
  • OpenSSH DSA keys have been disabled by default. Users upgrading from prior FreeBSD versions are urged to update their SSH keys to RSA or ECDSA keys before upgrading to 11.0-RC1.
  • PCI-e hotplug on bridges with power controllers has been disabled.
  • A loader tunable (hw.pci.enable_pcie_hp) to disable PCI-e HotPlug has been added.
  • A VESA panic on suspend has been fixed.
  • Google Compute Engine image publication has been fixed.
  • An AES-ICM heap corruption typo bug has been fixed.
  • A regression in pf.conf while parsing the 'interval' keyword has been fixed.
  • A ZFS/VFS deadlock has been fixed.

• RC2 is delayed while some issues are sorted out

• RC2 is looming large, but was pushed back a few days while the following bugs are sorted out:

  • Issue with IPv6 UDP traffic being sent from wrong MAC address
  • Layer2 violation with IPv6 ***

OpenBSD just added initial support for the RaspberryPi 2 and 3 devices

• It’s a good time to be an ARM and BSD enthusiast. In addition to all the ARM images in FreeBSD 11.0, we also have word that initial support for RPi2 and RPi3 has started to land in OpenBSD.
• Mark Kettenis has posted the following with his Commit:

Initial support for Raspberry Pi 2/3. All the hard work done by patrick@, I just cleaned things up a bit. Any bugs introduced in that process are entirely mine.

This doesn't work yet. But when it does, you'll need recent firmware from the Raspberry Pi Foundation git repository at:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware

The device tree for the Raspberry Pi is somewhat in flux as bits and pieces to support the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 are committed to the mainline Linux kernel.“

• Exciting news! We will