From: Murat SULUHAN (msuluhan@softhome.net)
Date: Mon 20 Jan 2003 - 09:50:03 EET
FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE Announcement
Date: Sunday, 19 Jan 2003 09:00:00 -0800
From: scottl@FreeBSD.org (Scott Long)
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE Now Available
It is my privilege and pleasure to announce the availability of FreeBSD
5.0-RELEASE. The culmination of nearly three years of work, this release
starts FreeBSD on the path of advanced multiprocessor and application thread
support and introduces support for the sparc64 and ia64 platforms. Among the
long list of new and improved features:
UFS2, the second generation UFS filesystem, shatters the current 1TB
filesystem barrier.
Background filesystem checking (bgfsck) and filesystem snapshots eliminate
the need for downtime to do filesystem repair and backup tasks.
Experimental support for Mandatory Access Controls (MAC) provide an
extensible and flexible means for administrators to define system security
policies.
Fine-grained locking in the kernel paves the road for much higher efficiency
of multi-processor systems.
Support for Bluetooth, ACPI, CardBus, IEEE 1394, and experimental hardware
crypto acceleration keeps FreeBSD at the forefront of new technology.
The GCC 3.2.1 compiler provides the latest installment of the ever-improving
GNU Compiler Collection.
GEOM, the extensible and flexible storage framework, and DEVFS, the device
virtual filesystem, simplify storage and device management while opening the
door for new enterprise storage technologies.
Support for the sparc64 and ia64 platforms expands FreeBSD's support of
advanced 64-bit computing platforms.
Although FreeBSD 5.0 contains a number of new and exciting features, it may
not be suitable for all users. More conservative users may prefer to
continue using FreeBSD 4.X. Information on the various trade-offs involved,
as well as some notes on future plans for both FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X, can be
found in the Early Adopter's Guide, available here:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter.html
For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
release notes and errata list, available here:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/errata.html
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please
see:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/