The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team have announced the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:
Xen HVM support in FreeBSD/amd64 and Xen PV support in FreeBSD/i386 improved
ZFS on-disk format updated to version 15
aesni(4) driver for Intel AESNI crypto instruction set
BIND and OpenSSL updates
Gnome updated to 2.32.1
KDE updated to 4.5.5
Many misc. improvements and bugfixes
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/8.2R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/8.2R/errata.html
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities please see:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
