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