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What's New in FreeBSD 7.1?

beastie

FreeBSD 7.1 was released in January, and I’d like to describe what’s new in it…

  • Security fixes: openssh, bind, amd64, nmount, icmp6, nd6, arc4random, ftpd, protosw;
  • Kernel changes: DTrace ported from OpenSolaris, improvements to the ddb kernel debugger, including basic scripting support;
  • Bootloader changes that will allow FreeBSD to boot from USB devices;
  • Newly supported hardware, in particular Intel G33/G45, i915 GME, Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 controllers, etc., improvements to networking support and network drivers;
  • Numerous improvements and bug fixes in userland utilities adduser, at, cp, cron, dhclient, fdisk, fetch, ifconfig, and much more;
  • Also updated: bzip2, csv, sendmail, openssh, GNOME 2.22 and KDE 3.5.10, etc.;

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P.S. Restored post.

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