FreeBSD 8.0, a major new update of the popular operating system for servers, desktops and embedded devices, has been officially released: “The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. This release starts off the new 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.X and introduces many new features. Read the release announcement, release highlights and release notes for additional information. Download (torrents): 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,784MB, SHA256, torrent), 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,848MB, SHA256, torrent).
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The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. This release starts off the new 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.X and introduces many new features. Some of the highlights:
- Xen Dom-U, VirtualBox guest and host, hierarchical jails.
- NFSv3 GSSAPI support, experimental NFSv4 client and server.
- 802.11s D3.03 wireless mesh networking and Virtual Access Point support.
- ZFS is no longer in experimental status.
- Ground-up rewrite of USB, including USB target support.
- Continued SMP scalability improvements in many areas, especially VFS.
- Revised network link layer subsystem.
- Experimental MIPS architecture support.
The press release contains more information on this relese.
For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list available at:
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities please see:
Dedication
The FreeBSD Project dedicates this release to the memories of Jean-Marc Zucconi (jmz@) and John Birrell (jb@) who passed away in May and November of 2009 respectively. Jean-Marc and John were both FreeBSD committers since the mid-1990s and made extensive contributions to the operating system.
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