The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE with improved functionality and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:
- Xen HVM support in FreeBSD/amd64 and Xen PV support in FreeBSD/i386 improved
- ZFS on-disk format updated to version 15
- aesni(4) driver for Intel AESNI crypto instruction set
- BIND and OpenSSL updates
- 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/8.2R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/8.2R/errata.html
The FreeBSD Security Team currently plans to support FreeBSD 8.2 until February 29th, 2012.
