Dopo due Release Candidate è stato annunciato il rilascio finale dell’attuale ramo -STABLE di FreeBSD! Anche se non sono state introdotte grosse novità (per quelle dovremo aspettare la 7.0) sono molti gli aggiornamenti di versione e di sicurezza che rendono interessante questa nuova release. Chi si voglia cimentare nell’utilizzo di FreeBSD sui desktop, apprezzerà l’adozione delle nuove versioni di GNOME (2.20.1), KDE (3.5.8) e X.org (7.3). Migliorato notevolmente – a quanto si legge in giro – il supporto hardware sopratutto sul fronte audio, rete e acpi. Consiglio la lettura di questa mini-guida per effettuare l’aggiornamento dalla versione 6.2 alla 6.3.
Ecco l’annuncio ufficiale del rilascio:
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:
https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.3R/relnotes.html
https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.3R/errata.html
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see:
https://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 contributions to the Internet and BSD communities.