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Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE Available
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:38:11 -0500
From: Ken Smith
To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the stable/9 branch,
which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 9.0 and introduces some new
features. Some of the highlights:

- New Intel GPU driver with GEM/KMS support
- netmap(4) fast userspace packet I/O framework
- ZFS improvements from illumos project

Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE Available
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:19:42 -0400
From: Ken Smith
To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release from the 8-STABLE
branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.2 and introduces some
new features. Some of the highlights:

- usb(4) now supports the USB packet filter
- TCP/IP stack now supports the mod_cc(9) pluggable congestion
control framework

Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Available
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:42:37 -0500
From: Ken Smith
To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org

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

Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Available
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:08:51 -0500
From: Ken Smith
To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 8-STABLE
branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some
new features. Some of the highlights:

- Xen HVM support in FreeBSD/amd64 and Xen PV support in
FreeBSD/i386 improved
- ZFS on-disk format updated to version 15

Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE Available
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:09:51 -0500
From: Ken Smith
To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE. This will be the last release from the 7-STABLE
branch.

Some of the highlights:

- Gnome updated to 2.32.1
- KDE updated to 4.5.5
- Many misc. improvements and bugfixes

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

Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Available
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:58:11 -0400
From: Ken Smith
Newsgroups: mpc.lists.freebsd.announce,muc.lists.freebsd.announce

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE
branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces some
new features. Some of the highlights:

- zfsloader added
- zpool version of ZFS subsystem updated to version 14

Subject:[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE Available
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:53:56 -0400
From: Ken Smith
To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release from the 7-STABLE branch
which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.2 and introduces a few
new features. There will be one more release from this branch to allow
future improvements to be made available in the 7-STABLE branch but at this

Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE Available
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:09:44 -0500
From: Ken Smith
To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org

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, hierarchal jails
- NFSv3 GSSAPI support, experimental NFSv4 client and server

Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE Available
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 20:06:13 -0400
From: Ken Smith
To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 7-STABLE branch
which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.1 and introduces some
new features. Some of the highlights:

- support for fully transparent use of superpages for
application memory
- support for multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for jails

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch
which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some
new features. Some of the highlights:

- The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for
amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly
improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads.
- Support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported
from OpenSolaris. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing