FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE Available

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[eternal_noob]

Another article from Germany's largest IT magazine:

FreeBSD 14.4 runs much better in the cloud and on notebooks

FreeBSD 14.4 simplifies notebook use with WLAN firmware in the installer, integrates more easily into the cloud, and prepares for FreeBSD 15.

www.heise.de

 

[Alain De Vos]

Why not use 15.0-RELEASE ?

 

[bjs]

Why not use 15.0-RELEASE ?

A lot of people just will not run an x.0 release on production servers, instead waiting until any unforeseen issues are reveled and resolved...

 

[VladiBG]

Because of bugs like this is resolved in x.1 release and no need to risk to run 15.0

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-25:18.freebsd-update.asc

 

[SirDice]

Because of bugs like this is resolved in x.1 release and no need to risk to run 15.0
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-25:18.freebsd-update.asc

That bug was fixed in an ALPHA before 15.0-RELEASE.

And it wasn't so much a bug in 15.0-RELEASE, it was a bug in freebsd-update(8) (on older releases) that failed to account for some changes in 15.

 

[Alain De Vos]

& if you build from source i think you are out of this bug.

 

[blackbird9]

Upgrade from 14.3 to 14.4 went on very smoothly here, zero problems. System was already at 14.3-p9 prior to upgrade.
The commands I ran were:-

# freebsd-update -r 14.4-RELEASE upgrade
# freebsd-update install
# shutdown -r now
# freebsd-update install
# pkg upgrade
# shutdown -r now
The final reboot may have been unnecessary, but I noticed that pkg upgrade put a load of firmware files on, so it can't hurt.

Final verification.
$ freebsd-version -ukr
14.4-RELEASE
14.4-RELEASE
14.4-RELEASE

Very smooth process. During the first stage it askd me to manually edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config, I typed 'ACCEPT' and it went through, that was the only manual intervention I had to make.

Everything seems to be working. Ethernet, wifi, suspend/resume, graphics acceleration, audio, video.

 

[blackbird9]

Video about fast wifi in freebsd 14.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uic0ksaqOwE&t=187s

At my location, speedtest-go reports about the same download speed over wifi as using cable ethernet, in other words, the limiting factor is the broadband, not the wifi. OTOH, I still get much faster xfer speeds over cable ethernet to other computers on the LAN, compared to using wifi.