Solved full 11 release date

[nedry]

Hello,

Any idea when the full release of FreeBSD 11 will be out? I have looked on the website but it says the 5th and it's the 6th today. Are there any last minute issues with the release? Looking forward to downloading and using it.
nedry

 

[SirDice]

There were some last minute issues just before the original release date, apparently it's taking longer to fix and/or test.

 

[T-Daemon]

The RELEASE is already out. I’m running on a machine 11.0-RELEASE-p1. I installed from a
FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso, which were pulled back from the servers
because of fixes, from September 29 and did a freebsd-update today. The update should
be available from FreeBSD-11.0-RC3 as well, at this time for the amd64 and i386 platforms only.
The official RELEASE images might be released any time soon.

 

[nedry]

cool does FreeBSD-update download your installed ports and recompile and reinstall them? or is it just pre-compiled binaries?
thanks
nedry

 

[T-Daemon]

freebsd-update() is a tool for binary! updates to the base system only. To update ports I suggest an port management tool like ports-mgmt/portmaster, Handbook - Upgrading Ports Using Portmaster.

 

[tobik@]

The release is planned for October 10 now: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2016-October/085844.html

To update ports I suggest an port management tool like portmaster(), Handbook - Upgrading Ports Using Portmaster.

Or use ports-mgmt/synth.

 

[acheron]

The final release announcement is planned for Monday, October 10
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2016-October/063541.html

 

[Deleted member 48958]

Just upgraded my FreeBSD 10.3 system to 11 RELEASE with
# freebsd-update -r 11.0-RELEASE upgrade


https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html

Huge thanks to all FreeBSD developers, maintainers and community!
FreeBSD is the Best!

 

[reo7189]

# freebsd-update -r 11.0-RELEASE upgrade
...
...
...
Fetching 1 metadata files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file.

Any idea of this?

 

[SirDice]

Usually a bad connection, try removing the downloaded files and try again: rm -rf /var/db/freebsd-update/*.

If you continue to have problems please open a new thread.

 

[reo7189]

Usually a bad connection, try removing the downloaded files and try again: rm -rf /var/db/freebsd-update/*.

If you continue to have problems please open a new thread.

Thank you, very much indeed. Solved.

 

[drhowarddrfine]

Just upgraded my FreeBSD 10.3 system to 11 RELEASE

No you didn't. 11-RELEASE isn't out yet.

 

[gkontos]

I would wait for the official announcement before upgrading any production systems.

 

[SirDice]

Not officially. The announcement usually comes a few days after it's ready. This is to allow all mirrors to catch up before announcing the availability. There was also a brief period where a 11.0-RELEASE was available but that one was revoked due to the last minute issues that were discovered.

Long story short, it's best to wait for the official announcement before jumping in.

 

[Deleted member 48958]

No you didn't. 11-RELEASE isn't out yet.

Yes, 11-RELEASE "isn't out yet", but it works fine for me

 

[kpa]

The release that finally gets announced might be 11.0-RELEASE-p2 and you can update to that using freebsd-update(8) without a need to reinstall.

 

[gkontos]

I am running 11.0-RELEASE on my laptop. I can install any *nix OS there and be ready in around ~30 minutes. But I would never risk that on a server.

 

[GreenMeanie]

MOD_FCGID is messed up in RC3 for me.
Hopefully that gets fixed.

 

[ANOKNUSA]

Subscribe to the FreeBSD Announcements mailing list. When a new release or security/bug-fix updates are available, you'll know.

You can ask questions about the direction and status of the project here if you want, but the only useful information you'll ever get is what other people have read on the mailing lists. If you care about that information, subscribe. If you don't, then why ask?

 

[phoenix]

It has been officially released. 11-RELEASE-p1 is the final, official release version.

 

[nedry]

Hello I am running FreeBSD Release 11. I have run bsdinfo and i have the following output:

I have noticed you are running 11.0-RELEASE-p1. Will there be another ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso that via ftp provides the 11.0-RELEASE-p1.
nedry.

 

[phoenix]

Download that image, and you will get -p1 now. The installation images were pulled and new ones generated.

Or, just run freebsd-update(1) to get updated to -p1.