The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. This release continues the development of the
6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many
bug fixes and new features. Some of the highlights:
- freebsd-update(8) provides officially supported binary updates for security fixes and errata patches
- Experimental support for CAPP security event auditing
- OpenBSM audit command line tool suite and library
- KDE updated to 3.5.4, GNOME updated to 2.16.1
- csup(1) integrated cvsup client now included
- Disk integrity protection and authentication added to geli(4)
- New amdsmb(4), enc(4) ipmi(4), nfsmb(4), stge(4) drivers
- IPFW(4) packet tagging
- Linux emulation support for sysfs
- BIND updated to 9.3.3
- Many driver updates including em(4), arcmsr(4), ath(4), bce(4), ata(4), and iwi(4)
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/6.2R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/errata.html
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities,
please see:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/