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FreeBSD 14.1 Bringing Reproducibly Built Kernels, OpenZFS 2.2.4

([BSD] 6 Hours Ago FreeBSD 14.1 Beta 2)


Following last week's release of [1]FreeBSD 14.1 Beta 1 , this weekend brought the second beta candidate right on time.

FreeBSD 14.1 continues working toward release in mid-June as this point release of the FreeBSD operating system to succeed last November's FreeBSD 14.0. FreeBSD 14.1 is bringing fixes back-ported from FreeBSD 15 development along with other changes like the date program now supporting nanoseconds, updated OpenSSH and other application updates, various device driver updates, and more.

With the new FreeBSD 14.1 Beta 2 release, there are some additional changes tacked on over the past week:

- LLVM/clang/etc update to 18.1.5

- OpenZFS update to 2.2.4

- Bug fix to the adduser utility

- Removal of remnants of portsnap

- Kernels are now built reproducibly.

The LLVM toolchain updates against v18.1.5 upstream are nice, [2]OpenZFS 2.2.4 is good, and it's exciting to see the FreeBSD kernels are now built reproducibly given all the ongoing open-source efforts around reproducible builds and ensuring binaries aren't tampered with or otherwise altered.

Downloads and more details on the FreeBSD 14.1 Beta 2 release via [3]the FreeBSD-Stable mailing list . Look for FreeBSD 14.1 to be officially released around mid-June while until then will be a few more beta and release candidates.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.1-Beta-1

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.2.4-Released

[3] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2024-May/002133.html


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After this was written there appeared a remarkable posthumous memoir that
throws some doubt on Millikan's leading role in these experiments. Harvey
Fletcher (1884-1981), who was a graduate student at the University of Chicago,
at Millikan's suggestion worked on the measurement of electronic charge for
his doctoral thesis, and co-authored some of the early papers on this subject
with Millikan. Fletcher left a manuscript with a friend with instructions
that it be published after his death; the manuscript was published in
Physics Today, June 1982, page 43. In it, Fletcher claims that he was the
first to do the experiment with oil drops, was the first to measure charges on
single droplets, and may have been the first to suggest the use of oil.
According to Fletcher, he had expected to be co-authored with Millikan on
the crucial first article announcing the measurement of the electronic
charge, but was talked out of this by Millikan.
-- Steven Weinberg, "The Discovery of Subatomic Particles"

Robert Millikan is generally credited with making the first really
precise measurement of the charge on an electron and was awarded the
Nobel Prize in 1923.