FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 9.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:


*New Intel GPU driver with GEM/KMS support

*netmap(4) fast userspace packet I/O framework

*ZFS improvements from illumos project

*CAM Target Layer, a disk and processor device emulation subsystem

*Optional new C++11 stack including LLVM libc++ and libcxxrt

*Jail devfs, nullfs, zfs mounting and configuration file support

*POSIX2008 extended locale support, including compatibility with Darwin extensions

*oce(4) driver for Emulex OneConnect 10Gbit Ethernet card

*sfxge(4) driver for 10Gb Ethernet adapters based on Solarflare SFC9000 controller

*Xen Paravirtualized Backend Ethernet Driver (netback) improvement

*hpt27xx(4) driver for HighPoint RocketRAID 27xx-based SAS 6Gb/s HBA

*GEOM multipath class improvement

*GEOM raid class is enabled by default supporting software RAID by deprecated ataraid(8)

*kernel support for the AVX FPU extension

*Numerous improvements in IPv6 hardware offload support