Software Update: FreeBSD 11.0

Members of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team have released version 11 of FreeBSD. FreeBSD was created in 1993 and is developed as a whole, unlike, say, Linux, whose kernel is maintained by one group of developers and certain applications by others. Because of this, FreeBSD is generally considered more stable and robust than several other operating systems. Extended release notes can be found on this page are found, these are briefly the most important changes:

Some of the highlights:

• OpenSSH DSA key generation has been disabled by default. It is important to update OpenSSH keys prior to upgrading. Additionally, Protocol 1 support has been removed.
• OpenSSH has been updated to 7.2p2.
• Wireless support for 802.11n has been added.
• By default, the ifconfig(8) utility will set the default regulatory domain to FCC on wireless interfaces. As a result, newly created wireless interfaces with default settings will have less chance to violate country-specific regulations.
• The svnlite(1) utility has been updated to version 1.9.4.
• The libblacklist(3) library and applications have been ported from the NetBSD Project.
• Support for the AARch64 (arm64) architecture has been added.
• Native graphics support has been added to the bhyve(8) hypervisor.
• Broader wireless network driver support has been added.

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list†