FreeBSD 9.0

O projeto FreeBSD agora anunciou oficialmente a disponibilidade do FreeBSD 9,0-RELEASE.

O Projeto FreeBSD dedica o FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE à memória de Dennis M. Ritchie, um dos fundadores do sistema operacional UNIX.

Alguns destaques nesta última versão são:

 

• 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