FreeBSD 11.1 Debuts With LLVM/Clang 4, ZFS Improvements

Written by Michael Larabel in BSD on 26 July 2017 at 06:13 AM EDT. 13 Comments
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FreeBSD 11.1 is now available as the first point release to FreeBSD 11.

FreeBSD 11.1 updates its LLVM/Clang compiler stack to v4.0, updates many software packages, adds the zfsbootcfg ZFS configuration utility, ZFS now stores compressed data in a cache, a efivar utility has been added to manage UEFI variables, support for Microsoft Hyper-V Gen2, and many other changes.

More details on the changes that made it to FreeBSD 11.1 can be found via the release announcement at FreeBSD.org.
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