GhostBSD 24.10.1 Is Now Available

We’re excited to announce the release of GhostBSD 24.10.1! 

This release brings system updates from FreeBSD and better hardware compatibility with some old AMD Radeon and FirePro GPU. We resolved live session startup issues with Legacy BIOS and started to fix some issues with Update Station functionality. For a complete list of changes, check the changelog.

24.10.1 Changelog

Enhancement, Improvements, and New Features

• ghostbsd/issues#145 Build www/chromium with necessary options to watch e.g. Netflix
• ghostbsd/gbi#75 Removing UFS from custom installation
• ghostbsd/issues#169 Set our system and software packages has vital packages
• ghostbsd/ghostbsd-build#197 Adding utouch-kmod proxmox need it
• ghostbsd/ghostbsd-build#198 Add hgame to kld_list
• ghostbsd/ghostbsd-build#204 Adding support to mark packages as vital packages
• ghostbsd/xconfig#25 Add AMD Radeon R5 Series Device IDs
• ghostbsd/xconfig#26 Add Radeon R6 Series Device IDs
• ghostbsd/xconfig#27 Add AMD FirePro Series Device IDs
• ghostbsd/ghostbsd-src#344 24.10.1 Base update from FreeBSD

Bug Fixes

• ghostbsd/issues#172 live session doesn't start
• ghostbsd/ghostbsd-src#342 Add back gzip to BIOS /boot/loader
• ghostbsd/ghostbsd-build#200 Update live_user in desktop scripts
• ghostbsd/ghostbsd-ports#81 removed os related code in actual-package-depends.sh
• ghostbsd/update-station#57 Reworked update station files, version upgrade, and translation

Security Fixes

• ghostbsd/ghostbsd-src#336 build(deps): bump urllib3 from 2.1.0 to 2.2.2 in /contrib/libcbor/doc/source
• ghostbsd/ghostbsd-src#337 build(deps): bump tornado from 6.3.3 to 6.4.1 in /contrib/libcbor/doc/source

Known issues

You can find all known issues here: https://github.com/orgs/ghostbsd/projects/4/views/21

Important Upgrade Note

For those who updated before this announcement, please be sure to force upgrade Update Station. The package was not packaged correctly. It has been fixed, and you can use the command below to fix it.

sudo pkg upgrade -f update-station

Where to download:

All images, checksums, hybrid ISO(DVD, USB), and torrents are available here:

https://www.ghostbsd.org/download

Writing the ISO to a USB stick

On BSD

dd if=Downloads/GhostBSD-24.10.1.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=4m conv=sync

On Linux

dd if=Downloads/GhostBSD-24.10.1.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M conv=sync ; sync

On Mac

dd if=Downloads/GhostBSD-24.10.1.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=10240

On Windows, using http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

./dd.exe if=Downloads/GhostBSD-24.10.1.iso of=USB Drive bs=84