January 9, 2014
The fifth RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.
This is expected to be the final RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.
The image checksums follow at the end of this email.
Important note to freebsd-update(8) users: Please be sure to follow the instructions in the following FreeBSD Errata Notices before upgrading the system to 10.0-RC5:
Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.0-RC5 are also available for amd64 and i386 architectures.
Changes between -RC4 and -RC5 include:
- Fix an IPv4 multicast regression.
- Fixes OpenSSL for CVE-2013-4353, CVE-2013-6449, CVE-2013-6450.
- Revert a change to the kinfo_file structure to preserve ABI.
- Fix a race condition which could prevent the file descriptor table from being properly updated.
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.0-RC5
During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging was done correctly.
# freebsd-update install
The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.
# shutdown -r now
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:
# freebsd-update install
It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications if possible, especially if up grading from an earlier FreeBSD release, for example, FreeBSD 9.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/compat9x and other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted into the new userland:
# shutdown -r now
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:
# freebsd-update install
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