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The third RC build of the 12.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available.
Installation images are available for:
o 12.2-RC3 amd64 GENERIC
o 12.2-RC3 i386 GENERIC
o 12.2-RC3 powerpc GENERIC
o 12.2-RC3 powerpc64 GENERIC64
o 12.2-RC3 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE
o 12.2-RC3 sparc64 GENERIC
o 12.2-RC3 armv6 RPI-B
o 12.2-RC3 armv7 BANANAPI
o 12.2-RC3 armv7 CUBIEBOARD
o 12.2-RC3 armv7 CUBIEBOARD2
o 12.2-RC3 armv7 CUBOX-HUMMINGBOARD
o 12.2-RC3 armv7 RPI2
o 12.2-RC3 armv7 WANDBOARD
o 12.2-RC3 armv7 GENERICSD
o 12.2-RC3 aarch64 GENERIC
o 12.2-RC3 aarch64 RPI3
o 12.2-RC3 aarch64 PINE64
o 12.2-RC3 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/12.2/
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/12.2" branch.
A summary of changes since 12.2-RC2 includes:
o Report what console the boot loader is telling the kernel to use and
allow toggling between them.
o Allow slow USB devices to be given more time to return their USB
descriptors.
o Allow using zstd and encryption in the loader.
A list of changes since 12.1-RELEASE is available in the releng/12.2
release notes:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/relnotes.html
Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be
updated on an ongoing basis as the 12.2-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/12.2-RC3/
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:
af-south-1 region: ami-065628edc90b48910
eu-north-1 region: ami-0ec660d1f229f1285
ap-south-1 region: ami-0da9dc039c3a70499
eu-west-3 region: ami-0db9b4c7ccbfee1ce
eu-west-2 region: ami-00f3b5281ff9ae644
eu-south-1 region: ami-00964123f8324d38a
eu-west-1 region: ami-0b90c7c3b1576dc88
ap-northeast-2 region: ami-0be3e51637a30850b
me-south-1 region: ami-09c551834bc40ff4d
ap-northeast-1 region: ami-0edc3d5b90b757741
sa-east-1 region: ami-0d638f39650c561b6
ca-central-1 region: ami-06b72f68a639c1c10
ap-east-1 region: ami-0a22cdeb670adcd10
ap-southeast-1 region: ami-0233bad7a0096fedd
ap-southeast-2 region: ami-032ee425c050a8a2d
eu-central-1 region: ami-07b30af3ccfeaafd4
us-east-1 region: ami-0a69134840af655e3
us-east-2 region: ami-04a13b9ecbce36963
us-west-1 region: ami-08ac9ed5cb7c2dec9
us-west-2 region: ami-027e23f7e321cc546
FreeBSD/aarch64 EC2 AMIs are available in the following regions:
af-south-1 region: ami-073bd11cbff991e79
eu-north-1 region: ami-0cbaee93306001c9f
ap-south-1 region: ami-02246d1fa71c73635
eu-west-3 region: ami-0fa386e909cb4bd20
eu-west-2 region: ami-08bf784959759f61e
eu-south-1 region: ami-05b4deb12e6441cd6
eu-west-1 region: ami-06c37c6efd801732a
ap-northeast-2 region: ami-06902d40ebc5ba4f4
me-south-1 region: ami-0b806352bf0933696
ap-northeast-1 region: ami-0c63027154717a659
sa-east-1 region: ami-0d4bc208ff9a23509
ca-central-1 region: ami-0c5a5f80fefa06a8f
ap-east-1 region: ami-0117e106d7575f340
ap-southeast-1 region: ami-073b80af2d7731099
ap-southeast-2 region: ami-0fd35327ad718df97
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