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FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Announcement

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 part of this release

  • The Fast Filesystem now supports softupdates journaling

  • ZFS updated to version 28

  • Updated ATA/SATA drivers support AHCI, moved into updated CAM framework

  • Highly Available Storage (HAST) framework

  • Kernel support for Capsicum Capability Mode, an experimental set of features for sandboxing support

  • User-level DTrace

  • The TCP/IP stack now supports pluggable congestion control framework and five congestion control algorithm implementations available

  • NFS subsystem updated, new implementation supports NFSv4 in addition to NFSv3 and NFSv2

  • High Performance SSH (HPN-SSH)

  • Flattened device tree (FDT), simplifying FreeBSD configuration for embedded platforms

  • The powerpc architecture now supports Sony Playstation 3

  • The LLVM compiler infrastructure and clang have been imported

  • Gnome version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.7.3

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list available at:

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities please see:

Dedication

The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to the memory of Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers of the UNIX[tm] operating system. It is on the foundation laid by the work of visionaries like Dennis that software like the FreeBSD operating system came to be. The fact that his work of so many years ago continues to influence new design decisions to this very day speaks for the brilliant engineer that he was.

May he rest in peace.

Availability

FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures.

FreeBSD 9.0 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory stick. The required files can be downloaded via FTP or BitTorrent as described in the sections below. While some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all architectures, they will all generally contain the more common ones such as amd64 and i386.

NOTE: A problem was discovered with the DVD images for amd64 and i386 architectures shortly after they were loaded on the FTP distribution server. Those images have since been replaced and we have allowed enough time that the newer images should have distributed to all the FTP servers that carry the release. If you downloaded the amd64 or i386 DVD images prior to this announcement it would be a good idea to verify the checksums of the image you downloaded with the checksums provided as part of this Release Announcement. The only thing wrong with the images that were replaced is that sysinstall(8) can not be used to install the pre-built packages on the DVD. Other than that there is nothing different on the updated images. The bad DVD images were never available on BitTorrent.

MD5 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO images are included at the bottom of this message.

The purpose of the images provided as part of the release are as follows:

dvd1

This contains everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD operating system, a collection of pre-built packages aimed at getting a graphical workstation up and running. It also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. This should be all you need if you can burn and use DVD-sized media.

disc1

This contains the base FreeBSD operating system. It also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. There are no pre-built packages.

bootonly

This supports booting a machine using the CDROM drive but does not contain the support for installing FreeBSD from the CD itself. You would need to perform a network based install (e.g. from an FTP server) after booting from the CD.

memstick

This can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive) and used to do an install on machines capable of booting off USB drives. It also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. There are no pre-built packages.

As one example of how to use the memstick image, assuming the USB drive appears as /dev/da0 on your machine something like this should work:

# dd if="FreeBSD"-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs="10240" conv="sync"

Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct.

FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from several vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 9.0-based products is:

BitTorrent

9.0-RELEASE ISOs are available via BitTorrent. A collection of torrent files to download the images is available at:

FTP

At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE available.

However before trying these sites please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to:

  • ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:

For instructions on installing FreeBSD or updating an existing machine to 9.0-RELEASE please see:

Support

The FreeBSD Security Team currently plans to support FreeBSD 9.0 until January 31st, 2013. For more information on the Security Team and their support of the various FreeBSD branches see:

Other Projects Based on FreeBSD

There are many "third party" Projects based on FreeBSD. The Projects range from re-packaging FreeBSD into a more "novice friendly" distribution to making FreeBSD available on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure. For more information about these Third Party Projects see:

Acknowledgments

Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to support the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 9.0 including The FreeBSD Foundation, Yahoo!, NetApp, Internet Systems Consortium, Sentex Communications, New York Internet, Juniper Networks, and iXsystems.

The release engineering team for 9.0-RELEASE includes:

Ken�Smith�<[email protected]> Release Engineering, amd64, i386, sparc64 Release Building, Mirror Site Coordination
Robert�Watson�<[email protected]> Release Engineering, Security
Konstantin�Belousov�<[email protected]> Release Engineering
Marc�Fonvieille�<[email protected]> Release Engineering, Documentation
Josh�Paetzel�<[email protected]> Release Engineering
Hiroki�Sato�<[email protected]> Release Engineering, Documentation
Bjoern�Zeeb�<[email protected]> Release Engineering
Marcel�Moolenaar�<[email protected]> ia64, powerpc Release Building
Nathan�Whitehorn�<[email protected]> powerpc64 Release Building
Joe�Marcus�Clarke�<[email protected]> Package Building
Erwin�Lansing�<[email protected]> Package Building
Mark�Linimon�<[email protected]> Package Building
Pav�Lucistnik�<[email protected]> Package Building
Ion-Mihai�Tetcu�<[email protected]> Package Building
Martin�Wilke�<[email protected]> Package Building, Ports Security
Colin�Percival�<[email protected]> Security Officer

Trademark

FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.

ISO Image Checksums

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