FreeBSD 7.1 Release
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:
- The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads.
- Support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported from OpenSolaris. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework.
- A new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client.
- Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices.
- The cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command have been added, providing an API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment.
- KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3.
- DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures (наконец-то они додумались DVD-образ сделать. а то либо самому стругать приходилось, либо в "наперстки" СД-РОМами играть. прим. Plague)
For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:
BitTorrent
7.1-RELEASE ISOs are available via BitTorrent. A collection of torrent files to download the images is available at:
http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080
FTP
At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE available.