FreeBSD 8.1 Released

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:

• zfsloader added
• zpool version of ZFS subsystem updated to version 14
• NFSv4 ACL support in UFS and ZFS; support added to cp(1), find(1), getfacl(1), mv(1), and setfacl(1) utilities
• UltraSPARC IV/IV+, SPARC64 V support
• SMP support in PowerPC G5
• BIND 9.6.2-P2
• sendmail updated to 8.14.4
• OpenSSH updated to 5.4p1
• GNOME 2.30.1, KDE 4.4.5

For a complete list of new features, please see the release notes.