FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE AMD64 Memstick

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