TrueOS 18.03 Images Available for VirtualBox and VMware

TrueOS team project shifted to a rolling release that is based on FreeBSD’s current development branch, the snapshot we are providing is TrueOS 18.03 version “The TrueOS team is pleased to announce the availability of a new stable release of the TrueOS project (version 18.03). This is a special release due to the security issues impacting the computing world since the beginning of 2018. In particular, mitigating the ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ system exploits make it necessary to update the entire package ecosystem for TrueOS. This release does not replace the scheduled June STABLE update, but provides the necessary and expected security updates for the stable release branch of TrueOS, even though this is part-way through our normal release cycle. Important changes between version 17.12 and 18.03: ‘Meltdown’ security fixes; ‘Spectre’ security mitigations: This release contains all current mitigations from FreeBSD HEAD for the Spectre memory-isolation attacks (Variant 2). All 3rd-party packages for this release are also compiled with LLVM/Clang 6 (the “retpoline” mitigation strategy). This fixes many memory allocation issues and enforces stricter requirements for code completeness and memory usage within applications….” You can checkout release announcement here.

We are providing you virtual images for latest version of TrueOS 18.03 for VirtualBox and VMware.

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