What's New in FreeBSD 7.1?
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.;
P.S. Restored post.
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