Software Update: FreeBSD 11.4

Members of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team have released the fifth and final update to version 11 of FreeBSD. FreeBSD was created in 1993 and is developed as a whole, unlike, say, Linux distributions where the 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. Extensive release notes can be found on this page are found, these are briefly the most important changes:

Some of the highlights:

• The clang, llvm, lld, lldb, and compiler-rt utilities as well as libc++ have been updated to upstream version 10.0.0.
• OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.2u.
• Unbound has been updated to version 1.9.6.
• The pkg(8) utility has been updated to version 1.13.2.
• The KDE desktop environment has been updated to version 5.18.4.1.19.12.3.
• The GNOME desktop environment has been updated to version 3.28.
• Support for renaming ZFS bookmarks has been added.
• The certctl(8) utility has been added.
• Several feature additions and updates to userland applications.
• Warnings for features deprecated in future releases will now be printed on all FreeBSD versions.
• Warnings have been added for Kerberos GSS API algorithms deprecated in RFCs 6649 and 8429.
• And more…

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