What's New in FreeBSD 7.2?

Major Changes

• Support for fully transparent use of superpages in application memory
• Support for multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for jails
• csup(1) now supports CVSMode for fetching a complete CVS repository
• Gnome updated to 2.26, KDE updated to 4.2.2
• sparc64 now supports UltraSparc-III processors

Official FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE announcement

Upgrading

Let’s run freebsd-update, answering questions about the OS along the way:

# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.2-RELEASE

Then we proceed with the installation:

# freebsd-update install

Reboot:

# reboot

Continue the installation:

# freebsd-update install
# reboot

That’s it—you now have FreeBSD 7.2!