FreeBSD 9.3 Released

First time accepted submitter k4w0ru writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the stable/9 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: ZFS bookmarks, OpenSSL 0.9.8za, OpenSSH 6.6p1, SNI, BIND 9.9.5. For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list.

Re:Haven't used FreeBSD in years.

[mi]

There is a FreeBSD/arm project [freebsd.org]. Whether it will work on your particular hardware — and recognize all of the peripherals you care for, that's another topic...

It is a "Tier 2" — so there are no official builds for it, for example.

It is a "Tier 1" for NetBSD [netbsd.org], so you may have better luck there. They even distinguish between "ARM evaluation boards" (evbarm [netbsd.org]) and "StrongARM based Windows CE PDA machines" (hpcarm [netbsd.org]). I'm sure, OpenBSD is similar in this regard, but I'm tired of copy-pasting links...

upgrade of stable

[Anonymous Coward]

9.2 EOL has been moved to the end of the year allowing a longer migration period for those still running the stable 9 branch.
I'm running 10 with zfs-on-boot in production. working excellently .. as expected ..thanks BSD.
For the usual knockers, give it go ! - though i do admit that non-tier-1 such as ARM, could pose challenging.
like all choices, fit for purpose.

Re:LOL

[Anonymous Coward]

LibreSSL is not even a mature project. FreeBSD doesn't change things on a whim... well sometimes they do but they warn users like 2 years in advance:
Dropping GCC for Clang
putting LZMA into the base system (thereby screwing up everyone upgrading from 8.x to 8.3 and beyond)
Changing all the version numbers in the source code for no damn reason.