Image Release - FreeBSD 13.0
We have updated our FreeBSD distribution image and netboot installer to 13.0. Notable changes include:
- Userland
- optional enforcement of W^X memory mapping policy for user processes
- set sysctls kern.elf32.allow_wx and kern.elf64.allow_wx to 0
- improvements to calendar, daemon, freebsd-update, and many others
- Clang, LLVM, and related packages upgraded to version 11.0.1
- optional enforcement of W^X memory mapping policy for user processes
- Kernel
- kernel support for AESNI (for use with geli)
- netgdb added to allow over-network debugging of the kernel via GDB
- Networking
- ktls support added, allowing offloading of AES encryption and decryption of network traffic to the kernel
- improved route handling
Our distribution images and netboot installers are available from the VPS console.