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The first BETA build of the 12.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available.
Installation images are available for:
o 12.1-BETA1 amd64 GENERIC
o 12.1-BETA1 i386 GENERIC
o 12.1-BETA1 powerpc GENERIC
o 12.1-BETA1 powerpc64 GENERIC64
o 12.1-BETA1 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE
o 12.1-BETA1 sparc64 GENERIC
o 12.1-BETA1 armv6 RPI-B
o 12.1-BETA1 armv7 BANANAPI
o 12.1-BETA1 armv7 BEAGLEBONE
o 12.1-BETA1 armv7 CUBIEBOARD
o 12.1-BETA1 armv7 CUBIEBOARD2
o 12.1-BETA1 armv7 CUBOX-HUMMINGBOARD
o 12.1-BETA1 armv7 RPI2
o 12.1-BETA1 armv7 PANDABOARD
o 12.1-BETA1 armv7 WANDBOARD
o 12.1-BETA1 armv7 GENERICSD
o 12.1-BETA1 aarch64 GENERIC
o 12.1-BETA1 aarch64 RPI3
o 12.1-BETA1 aarch64 PINE64
o 12.1-BETA1 aarch64 PINE64-LTS
Note regarding arm SD card images: For convenience for those without
console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of
freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access. Additionally,
the root user password is set to root. It is strongly recommended
to change the password for both users after gaining access to the
system.
Installer images and memory stick images are available here:
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/12.1/
The image checksums follow at the end of this e-mail.
If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR
system or on the -stable mailing list.
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing
system, use the "releng/12.1" branch.
A list of changes since 12.0-RELEASE is available in the 12.1-RELEASE
release notes:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/relnotes.html
Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be
updated on an ongoing basis as the 12.1-RELEASE cycle progresses.
=== Virtual Machine Disk Images ===
VM disk images are available for the amd64, i386, and aarch64
architectures. Disk images may be downloaded from the following URL
(or any of the FreeBSD download mirrors):
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/12.1-BETA1/
The partition layout is:
~ 16 kB - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label)
~ 1 GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label)
~ 20 GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)
The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image
formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB and 165 MB
respectively (amd64/i386), decompressing to a 21 GB sparse image.
Note regarding arm64/aarch64 virtual machine images: a modified QEMU EFI
loader file is needed for qemu-system-aarch64 to be able to boot the
virtual machine images. See this page for more information:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/QEMU
To boot the VM image, run:
% qemu-system-aarch64 -m 4096M -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt \
-bios QEMU_EFI.fd -serial telnet::,server -nographic \
-drive if=none,file=VMDISK,id=hd0 \
-device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
-device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \
-netdev user,id=net0
Be sure to replace "VMDISK" with the path to the virtual machine image.
=== Amazon EC2 AMI Images ===
FreeBSD/amd64 EC2 AMIs are available in the following regions:
eu-north-1 region: ami-02f0fe6bcdb334f74
ap-south-1 region: ami-06382aed9b31a5ea2
eu-west-3 region: ami-07f2fd00301f6e0e1
eu-west-2 region: ami-00923c84cd41f
eu-west-1 region: ami-037b544ffbe0b485b
ap-northeast-2 region: ami-0f4ede71d1f268e0a
ap-northeast-1 region: ami-04d03e150c2b8a3ee
sa-east-1 region: ami-06ad5c3476f043710
ca-central-1 region: ami-050e1c35fc494c246
ap-east-1 region: ami-0ece88ff86d76be46
ap-southeast-1 region: ami-094e4954ab05ca1ee
ap-southeast-2 region: ami-054d755976ce3f736
eu-central-1 region: ami-0ac9f7b0de5f04b4f
us-east-1 region: ami-0e0e63a7aeb6a3588
us-east-2 region: ami-09fde5a449116fbf3
us-west-1 region: ami-03c096a425533950d
us-west-2 region: ami-0eecbfd8937b7aa9f
FreeBSD/aarch64 EC2 AMIs are available in the following regions:
eu-north-1 region: ami-0d962da327a537e82
ap-south-1 region: ami-0dd1db24b776274ea
eu-west-3 region: ami-0f6c7916c2d36128d
eu-west-2 region: ami-0c0bae14faf007016
eu-west-1 region: ami-0b11b3ca303e6dff2
ap-northeast-2 region: ami-0dbc70738cedf3c59
ap-northeast-1 region: ami-0ef12d18daaf1c2c8
sa-east-1 region: ami-052f6dfc4a99d640e
ca-central-1 region: ami-0cee2dce666160d13
ap-east-1 region: ami-0c5f133a15ba227c9
ap-southeast-1 region: ami-047e5ff29255867e4
ap-southeast-2 region: ami-04834e6080ce7475a
eu-central-1 region: ami-0e0541ff31a3b101f
us-east-1 region: ami-02f7354d7b2063e8c
us-east-2 region: ami-08a4ca58c7231d655
us-west-1 region: ami-0c7b7cb8337409f70
us-west-2 region: ami-04cf17d973b21712e
=== Vagrant Images ===
FreeBSD/amd64 images are available on the Hashicorp Atlas site, and can
be installed by running:
% vagrant init freebsd/FreeBSD-12.1-BETA1
% vagrant up
=== Upgrading ===
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of a
