FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE Announcement

Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:29:19 -0500
From: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 6.2 Released

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/