FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE Now Available

If anyone has a torrent or magnet link established, I'd be happy to throw it some seed bandwidth. Haven't seen one show up on the wiki yet.
 
I just got done installing it on my SunFire V100's using a custom UFS+ZFS script (I like my mounts the same as a standard x86/64 install, yay OCD). Took me a few days, but I figured it out. I'll post it in the unsupported area soon.

/boot is UFS (80MB UFS partition) and the rest is ZFS. It's running rather well.
 
install in a thinkpad t400 and 2 desktops machines very smooth
in the Release Notes they says

Code: 
The vt(4) driver has been updated with performance improvements, drawing text at rates ranging from 2- to 6-times faster.

i think that i'am in the 6 times faster :D:D
and the boot time is faster...i love it
 
Simba7 said:
I did notice that the i386, amd64, and powerpc64 images will not fit on a standard CD-R anymore.
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Right honorable member Simba7, indeed. A careful observer you are. Sourcing a 800MB recordable compact disk locally is an obstacle, the damn things are like hens teeth around here.
I am using the hint cdrecord gives at this time.

To append to the above writing, I have now read Release Errata. Marching forward, section 4 Open issues gives:

[2018-12-13]
Code: 
Due to the size of the base system of FreeBSD 12.0, the disc1.iso images for amd64 and i386 do
not fit onto a 700 MB CD-ROM. As of FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE, however, disc1.iso for these
architectures can be written to a flash drive, or to a DVD.
See PR 233989 for more information.
 
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Code: 
Due to the size of the base system of FreeBSD 12.0, the disc1.iso images for amd64 and i386 do
not fit onto a 700 MB CD-ROM. As of FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE, however, disc1.iso for these
architectures can be written to a flash drive, or to a DVD.
Then.. what's the point of having a disc1 if you can only burn it to a DVD? Why not just use dvd1?
 
you can burn it in 900mb cds . (99min)

can i upgrade my 11.2 installation with kde4 to 12.0 ? or i have to install kde5 ?
 
Simba7 said:
Code: 
Due to the size of the base system of FreeBSD 12.0, the disc1.iso images for amd64 and i386 do
not fit onto a 700 MB CD-ROM. As of FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE, however, disc1.iso for these
architectures can be written to a flash drive, or to a DVD.
Then.. what's the point of having a disc1 if you can only burn it to a DVD? Why not just use dvd1?
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Well, disc1 is still much smaller than dvd1. So, for people with slow and/or expensive internet (there are people who pay per MB), disc1 is still useful, even though you cannot write it to a standard CD-R. It should also be noted that DVD-Rs are rather cheap nowadays, and even USB memory sticks in the GB range aren't all that uncommon. And even if you have to use a CD-R for some reason, you can use the bootonly.iso image to get a system up and running.
 
rjohn said:
Can I upgrade my 11.2 installation with KDE4 to 12.0? Or do I have to install KDE5?
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All (supported) versions of FreeBSD use the exact same ports tree and thus have the exact same third party software available to them. There are only a handful of exceptions to this rule. An application might require functionality not found on older kernels for example, but that's not the case here.

This is a stark contrast compared to most Linux distributions where upgrading the distribution also upgrades a whole bunch of third party software (like KDE, Gnome, PHP, etc).
 
Going to be upgrading several systems to this, but I'm wondering if anyone has played with the "WITH_KERNEL_RETPOLINE" option to mitigate spectre. Mostly I'm curious about the performance difference (though I suspect it depends on your workload) with it on vs off, though I know it's supposed to have a relatively low impact compared to the other options available.

So, has anyone done any testing?
 
Just updated an old T60. Suspend works. \0/
C states don't, but heck. We can't have everything.
 
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