The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the availability of FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE for the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. 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:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.4R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.4R/errata.html
The FreeBSD Security Team currently plans to support FreeBSD 7.4 until February 28th 2013. Users of FreeBSD 7.3 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to either FreeBSD 7.4 or FreeBSD 8.X before the FreeBSD 7.3 End of Life on March 31st 2012. Also, support for FreeBSD 7.1 ends February 28th, 2011.
