The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE. This is the first release of the stable/12 branch.

Some of the highlights:

• OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1a (LTS).

• Unbound has been updated to version 1.8.1, and DANE-TA has been enabled by default.

• OpenSSH has been updated to version 7.8p1.

• Additonal capsicum(4) support has been added to sshd(8).

• Clang, LLVM, LLD, LLDB, compiler-rt and libc++ has been updated to version 6.0.1.

• The vt(4) Terminus BSD Console font has been updated to version 4.46.

• The bsdinstall(8) utility now supports UEFI+GELI as an installation option.

• The VIMAGE kernel configuration option has been enabled by default.

• The NUMA option has been enabled by default in the amd64 GENERIC and MINIMAL kernel configurations.

• The netdump(4) driver has been added, providing a facility through which kernel crash dumps can be transmitted to a remote host after a system panic.

• The vt(4) driver has been updated with performance improvements, drawing text at rates ranging from 2- to 6-times faster.

• Various improvements to graphics support for current generation hardware.

• Support for capsicum(4) has been enabled on armv6 and armv7 by default.

• The UFS/FFS filesystem has been updated to consolidate TRIM/BIO_DELETE commands, reducing read/write requests due to fewer TRIM messages being sent simultaneously.

• The NFS version 4.1 server has been updated to include pNFS server support.

• The pf(4) packet filter is now usable within a jail(8) using vnet(9).

• The bhyve(8) utility has been updated to add NVMe device emulation.

• The bhyve(8) utility is now able to be run within a jail(8).

• Various Lua loader(8) improvements.

• KDE has been updated to version 5.12.5.

• And more...