FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Announcement

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on stable/8 and adds many new features. Some of the highlights:

• A new installer, bsdinstall(8) has been added and is the installer used by the ISO images provided as part of this release
• The Fast Filesystem now supports softupdates journaling
• ZFS updated to version 28
• Updated ATA/SATA drivers support AHCI, moved into updated CAM framework
• Highly Available Storage (HAST) framework
• Kernel support for Capsicum Capability Mode, an experimental set of features for sandboxing support
• User-level DTrace
• The TCP/IP stack now supports pluggable congestion control framework and five congestion control algorithm implementations available
• NFS subsystem updated, new implementation supports NFSv4 in addition to NFSv3 and NFSv2
• High Performance SSH (HPN-SSH)
• Flattened device tree (FDT), simplifying FreeBSD configuration for embedded platforms
• The powerpc architecture now supports Sony Playstation 3
• The LLVM compiler infrastructure and clang have been imported
• Gnome version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.7.3

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list available at:

• http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes.html
• http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.0R/errata.html

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities please see:

• http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/