PC-BSD 10.2-RELEASE Now Available

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The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of 10.2-RELEASE!

A very special thanks to all the developers, QA, and documentation teams for helping to make this release possible.

PC-BSD 10.2 Notable Changes

• FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE base system
• Many bugfixes and enhancements to installer to dual-boot setups
• New CD-sized network installation media, with Wifi Configuration via GUI
• Switched to “iocage” for jail management backend
• Disk Manager GUI now available via installer GUI
• Bug-fixes and improvements to Life-Preserver replications
• Improved localization options for login manager
• Options to Enable / Disable SSHD or IPv6 at installation
• New “Plugins” system for AppCafe, allowing download of pre-built jail environments
• Improvements to look-n-feel of AppCafe for package management
• Improved fonts and better support for 4K monitor setups
• Enterprise package repo, which only has security updates, allowing users to run a server / desktop or jail with fairly consistent package versions.
• Firefox 40.0_1,1
• Chromium 44.0.2403.130
• Thunderbird 38.1.0
• Lumina 0.8.6
• GNOME 3.16.2

Updating

Users currently running 10.1-RELEASE can now update their system via the updater GUI or “pc-updatemanager” utility to be upgraded to 10.2-RELEASE.

Getting Media

10.2-RELEASE media (Including VM’s and network installers) can be downloaded from this URL via HTTP or Torrent.

Reporting Bugs
Found a bug in 10.2? Please report it (with as much detail as possible) to our bugs database.

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