FreeBSD 6.3 Released
18 gennaio 2008, 18:40 Announcements , News January 18, 2008, 18:40
After two release candidates was announced the final release of the-STABLE branch of FreeBSD!
Even if it were not brought big news (for those we have to wait 7.0) there are many version updates and security that make it interesting this new release.
Who wants to challenge themselves in the use of FreeBSD on the desktop, will appreciate the adoption of new versions of GNOME (2.20.1), KDE (3.5.8) and X.org (7.3).
Improved dramatically - as we read about - especially on the hardware support front audio, network and acpi.
Council reading this mini-guide to upgrade from version 6.2 to 6.3.
Here's the official announcement of the release:
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE Announcement
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:00:11 -0500
From: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 6.3 Released
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.3-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:
- KDE updated to 3.5.8, GNOME updated to 2.20.1, Xorg updated to 7.3
- BIND updated to 9.3.4
- sendmail updated to 8.14.2
- lagg (4) driver ported from OpenBSD / NetBSD
- unionfs file system re-implemented
- freebsd-update (8) now Supports an upgrade command
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/6.3R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.3R/errata.html
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
The FreeBSD Security Team intends to support 6.3-RELEASE until January 31st, 2010.
Dedication
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Jun-ichiro Hagino, known throughout the Internet community as itojun, for His visionary work on the IPv6 protocol and his many other Stipendi to the Internet and BSD communities.
