FreeBSD 10.4 Released With Full Support For eMMC Storage

Written by Michael Larabel in BSD on 3 October 2017 at 10:13 AM EDT. 3 Comments
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The latest release in the FreeBSD 10 series is now available with some work backported from FreeBSD 11 and other improvements/fixes.

FreeBSD 10.4 happens to be the operating system's first release with full support for eMMC storage. FreeBSD 10.4 also has improvements to its AES-NI driver, better Intel Kabylake device support, em networking driver improvements, various Wake-On-LAN (WoL) improvements to different drivers, updated firmware/microcode files, and more.

On the packaging front is now the GNOME 3.18 desktop, OpenSSH 7.3p1, and X.Org Server 1.18.4, among other updates.

More details on today's FreeBSD 10.4 release can be found at FreeBSD.org.
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