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FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Announcement
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http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the 7-STABLE branch which introduces many new features along with many improvements to functionality present in the earlier branches. Some of the highlights:
* Dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability shown by various database and other benchmarks, in some cases showing peak performance improvements as high as 350% over FreeBSD 6.X under normal loads and 1500% at high loads. When compared with the best performing Linux kernel (2.6.22 or 2.6.24) performance is 15% better. Results are from benchmarks used to analyze and improve system performance, results with your specific work load may vary.
* The ULE scheduler is vastly improved, providing improved performance and interactive response (the 4BSD scheduler is still the default for 7.0 but ULE may become the default for 7.1).
* Experimental support for Sun's ZFS filesystem.
* gjournal can be used to set up journaled filesystems, gvirstor can be used as a virtualized storage provider.
* Read-only support for the XFS filesystem.
* The unionfs filesystem has been fixed.
* iSCSI initiator.
* TSO and LRO support for some network drivers.
* Experimental SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) support (FreeBSD's being the reference implementation).
* Much improved wireless (802.11) support.
* Network link aggregation/trunking (lagg(4)) imported from OpenBSD.
* JIT compilation to turn BPF into native code, improving packet capture performance.
* Much improved support for embedded system development for boards based on the ARM architecture.
* jemalloc, a new and highly scalable user-level memory allocator.
* freebsd-update(8) provides officially supported binary upgrades to new releases in addition to security fixes and errata patches.
* X.Org 7.3, KDE 3.5.8, GNOME 2.20.2.
* GNU C compiler 4.2.1.
* BIND 9.4.2.
For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see:
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http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
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ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/
