FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Announcement

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[h=1]FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Announcement[/h]

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:

• FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Release Notes
  
• FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Errata
  

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities please see:

• Release Engineering Information
  

[h=2]Dedication[/h] The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to the memory of Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers of the UNIX[tm] operating system. It is on the foundation laid by the work of visionaries like Dennis that software like the FreeBSD operating system came to be. The fact that his work of so many years ago continues to influence new design decisions to this very day speaks for the brilliant engineer that he was.

May he rest in peace.

[h=2]BitTorrent[/h] 9.0-RELEASE ISOs are available via BitTorrent. A collection of torrent files to download the images is available at:

• http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/
  

[h=2]FTP[/h] At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE available.

• ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp8.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp.au.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp.cn.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp.cz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp.dk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp.fr.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp.ru.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp2.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp10.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  
• ftp://ftp.za.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/
  

However before trying these sites please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to:

• ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
  

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:

• FTP Sites
  

For instructions on installing FreeBSD or updating an existing machine to 9.0-RELEASE please see:

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