FreeBSD 9.0 is out!

    After a little more than two years since the advent of branch 8.0, the release of FreeBSD 9.0 was officially announced. Live builds are available in Bootonly, DVD, CD, and Memstick for the i386, amd64, powerpc, powerpc64, ia64, and sparc64 platforms. The release is dedicated to Dennis Ritchie, one of the creators of UNIX, whose ideas have influenced and continue to influence FreeBSD.

    Support for the release of updates for FreeBSD 9.0 will last until January 31, 2013. FreeBSD 7 branch support expires February 28, 2013, FreeBSD 8 and 9 branches will be supported for two years from the last release.

    Among the key improvements are: the transition to the new modular installer BSDInstall, integration into the base Clang compiler system as a replacement for GCC, a new implementation of software RAID (graid), integration of the storage device replication system (HAST), updating ZFS to version 28, activating Soft Updates logging for UFS, improving the TCP stack, supporting five new algorithms for controlling TCP congestion, the new universal USB driver with support for USB 3.0, the new Capsicum application execution isolation mechanism, the RCTL implementation for installing individual ogres straints resources, including for the Jail.

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