The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.2 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: – usb(4) now supports the USB packet filter – TCP/IP stack now supports the mod_cc(9) [...]

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on stable/8 and adds many new features. Some of the highlights: – A new installer, bsdinstall(8) has been added and is the installer used by the ISO images provided as [...]

Dear FreeBSD Community, We are pleased to announce the publication of The FreeBSD Foundation’s 2011 End-of-Year Newsletter. Go to http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2011Dec-newsletter.shtml to find out how we have supported the FreeBSD Project and community this year. Please help us continue and increase our support of FreeBSD by making a donation to the Foundation. You can go to [...]

The second of the Release Candidate builds for the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Since this is the first release of a brand new branch I cross-post the announcements on both -current and -stable. But just so you know most of the developers active in head and stable/9 pay more attention to the -current [...]

The third BETA build of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Since this is the first release of a brand new branch I cross-post the announcements on both -current and -stable. But just so you know most of the developers active in head pay more attention to the -current mailing list. If you notice [...]

The second BETA build of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Since this is the first release of a brand new branch I cross-post the announcements on both -current and -stable. But just so you know most of the developers active in head pay more attention to the -current mailing list. If you notice [...]

Dear FreeBSD Community, We are pleased to announce the publication of The FreeBSD Foundation’s 2011 Semi-Annual Newsletter. Go to http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2011Aug-newsletter.shtml to find out how we have supported the FreeBSD Project and community so far this year. Please support the Project by making a donation to the foundation. Please go to http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ to find out how [...]

FreeBSD Mall, Inc. is happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.4 and 8.2-based products. The four CD set and DVD are now shipping to subscribers around the world. If you haven’t yet placed your order, you may do so at http://www.freebsdmall.com. You may also elect to start your subscription with the latest release. In [...]

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: – Xen HVM support in FreeBSD/amd64 and Xen PV support in FreeBSD/i386 improved – ZFS [...]

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE. 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 [...]

The second Release Candidate for the FreeBSD 8.2 release cycle is now available. Initial testing of the 7.4-RC2 install images turned up an issue with the pre-built packages that will take a few more days to address. For this build only the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures are available. An initial set of pre-built [...]

The first of the test builds for the 8.2/7.4 Release Cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. Files suitable for creating installation media or doing FTP based installs through the network should be on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. MD5/SHA256 checksums of the images are at the bottom of [...]

Hello Everyone, On November 30th, FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 8.0 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Since FreeBSD 6.4 is the last remaining supported release from the FreeBSD 6.x stable branch, support for the FreeBSD 6.x stable branch will also cease at the [...]

FreeBSD Mall, Inc. is happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.1-based products. The four CD set and DVD are now shipping to subscribers around the world. If you haven’t yet placed your order, you may do so at http://www.freebsdmall.com. You may also elect to start your subscription with the latest release. In addition to [...]

Dear FreeBSD Community, We are pleased to announce the publication of The FreeBSD Foundation’s 2010 Semi-Annual Newsletter. Go to http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2010Jul-newsletter.shtml to find out how we have supported the FreeBSD Project and community so far this year. Sincerely, The FreeBSD Foundation

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: – zfsloader added – zpool version of ZFS subsystem updated to version 14 – NFSv4 [...]

The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2010 core team election. The FreeBSD core team acts as the project’s “board of directors” and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, et cetera), and making any [...]