I am happy to announce the availability of GhostBSD 20.08.04. This release comes with kernel, OS and software application updates. We updated the MATE desktop to 1.24.0.
A new interesting feature is the boot environment backup before updates.

Issue and Feature completed:
- Adding window to confirm changes to software on the system software-station#9 opened by angelescuo
- Change the release and dev version to yy.mm.dd ghostbsd-build#80 opened by ericbsd
- When Upgrading, ask / help new user create a Boot Environment if one does not exist. update-station#6 opened by wb7odyfred
- Software Station: Columns should be resizeable software-station#10 opened by pcu71
- Disable user's ability to select "check" button when the software is installing/uninstalling. software-station#8 opened by vimanuelt
- Improve the GBI disk partition database. gbi#29 opened by ericbsd
- Need to add code to load driver for intel and skip AMD to the failover xconfig#3 opened by ericbsd
- Remove default loading of drivers in kldlist ghostbsd-build#74 opened by ericbsd
- Removing chroot ${release} sysrc -f /etc/rc.conf root_rw_mount="NO" ghostbsd-build#78 opened by ericbsd
- GhostBSD.conf should be move to pkg and repos/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos removed ghostbsd-build#59 opened by ericbsd
- set_doas from finalize.sh be remove and doas remove from packages ghostbsd-build#60 opened by ericbsd
- Move msd-background-helper to ghostbsd mate setting ghostbsd-build#58 opened by ericbsd
- x11/ghostbsd-slick-greeter-settings pkg-deinstall and pkg-install conflics with x11/lightdm ghostbsd-ports#12 opened by ericbsd
- Stop automount on the livecd ghostbsd-build#70 opened by ericbsd
- Remove profile file and code ghostbsd-build ghostbsd-build#69 opened by ericbsd
- Not starting services ghostbsd-ports#3 opened by jfoucry
Pull Request Open and merged:
- Update netcardmgr notnics list networkmgr#38 opened by rgeorgia
- adding code to created BE backup before the os and software upgrade update-station#9 opened by ericbsd
- Fix username for editor and details button reported by users update-station#8 opened by ericbsd
To upgrade if not done already:
uname -U should output 1201519
sudo pkg update -f
sudo pkg upgrade -f
Note: If you do your packages upgrade with pkg or Update Station, you are up to date.
Where to download:
All images checksum, hybrid ISO(DVD, USB) and torrent are available here:
https://www.ghostbsd.org/download
For writing an iso to a USB stick:
On BSD
dd if=GhostBSD-20.08.04.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=4m
On Linux
dd if=GhostBSD-20.08.04.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M
On Mac
dd if=GhostBSD-20.08.04.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=10240
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