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Archive => 23.7 Legacy Series => Topic started by: bsdfans on November 15, 2023, 01:44:16 AM

Title: Would you like to upgrade to FreeBSD 14 after it released today?
Post by: bsdfans on November 15, 2023, 01:44:16 AM
FreeBSD 14 released today.
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/14.0-RELEASE/
Title: Re: Would you like to upgrade to FreeBSD 14 after it released today?
Post by: franco on November 15, 2023, 08:00:29 AM
14.1 for sure. ;)


Cheers,
Franco
Title: Re: Would you like to upgrade to FreeBSD 14 after it released today?
Post by: Patrick M. Hausen on November 15, 2023, 09:06:47 AM
As of now FreeBSD 14.0 has not yet been released. The release engineering team being quite a bit annoyed by premature third party release announcements made it abundantly clear on the mailing lists that a new version is released when there is a PGP signed announcement email.

I admit I found the freebsd-update packages to be available and I am also guilty as charged:

(https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=37013.0;attach=30892;image)
Title: Re: Would you like to upgrade to FreeBSD 14 after it released today?
Post by: franco on November 15, 2023, 10:05:47 AM
To be fair, offering an expected/actual date table is not the greatest idea and leads to confusion...

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/schedule/


Cheers,
Franco
Title: Re: Would you like to upgrade to FreeBSD 14 after it released today?
Post by: bsdfans on November 22, 2023, 03:24:18 PM
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/announce/
Title: Re: Would you like to upgrade to FreeBSD 14 after it released today?
Post by: almodovaris on November 23, 2023, 04:58:03 AM
I run FreeBSD 14.0 on my Microsoft Volterra. Web (Epiphany) crashes sometimes, Otter browser crashes often, Firefox and Thunderbird do not work. Gnome does not work (I use LXDE). Of course, much has to do with lack of support for my hardware. But they had a lot of time to fix it before releasing it.
Title: Re: Would you like to upgrade to FreeBSD 14 after it released today?
Post by: Patrick M. Hausen on November 23, 2023, 08:15:01 AM
I run FreeBSD 14 on my Lenovo netbook and have no issues whatsoever. Similar for my coworker on a Tuxedo laptop. What are you implying? They should "fix" the fact that your hardware is not supported? Donate one to the developers and that might even happen.
Title: Re: Would you like to upgrade to FreeBSD 14 after it released today?
Post by: bsdfans on November 23, 2023, 12:25:45 PM
Quote from: franco on November 15, 2023, 08:00:29 AM
14.1 for sure. ;)


Cheers,
Franco

nod , 14.1 maybe the better choice :)
Title: Re: Would you like to upgrade to FreeBSD 14 after it released today?
Post by: bsdfans on November 23, 2023, 12:28:12 PM
Quote from: almodovaris on November 23, 2023, 04:58:03 AM
I run FreeBSD 14.0 on my Microsoft Volterra. Web (Epiphany) crashes sometimes, Otter browser crashes often, Firefox and Thunderbird do not work. Gnome does not work (I use LXDE). Of course, much has to do with lack of support for my hardware. But they had a lot of time to fix it before releasing it.

You can try xfce , but I will not use FreeBSD as the desktop OS instead of server.