FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 26th Apr 2009 19:48 UTC, submitted by Oliver
FreeBSD The second release candidate of FreeBSD 7.2 has been released. "The second of the two planed Release Candidates for the 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. We believe with the exception of the new bce(4) driver not working with lagg(4) all the major issues that have come up from the testing have been addressed. We will work with the vendor to get that issue addressed post-release."
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Features
by satan666 on Sun 26th Apr 2009 20:18 UTC
satan666
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2008-04-18

I tried to find a list containing the new features present in 7.2 but couldn't find it. Does anybody know where I can get it? Thank you in advance.

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RE: Features
by phoenix on Mon 27th Apr 2009 04:08 UTC in reply to "Features"
phoenix Member since:
2005-07-11

I tried to find a list containing the new features present in 7.2 but couldn't find it. Does anybody know where I can get it? Thank you in advance.


The release notes will be available once the release has occured.

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Comment by Oliver
by Oliver on Sun 26th Apr 2009 20:40 UTC
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2006-07-15

Less to none features but many fixes,updated drivers etc. pp. So it's more a stabilizing release than aa feature release. For the latter you have to wait for 8.0.

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RE: Comment by Oliver
by satan666 on Sun 26th Apr 2009 22:00 UTC in reply to "Comment by Oliver"
satan666 Member since:
2008-04-18

Thanks, now it all makes sense.

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v RE[2]: Comment by Oliver
by sakeniwefu on Mon 27th Apr 2009 06:12 UTC in reply to "RE: Comment by Oliver"
RE[3]: Comment by Oliver
by SJ87 on Mon 27th Apr 2009 06:32 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Comment by Oliver"
SJ87 Member since:
2007-12-16

I really don't want to troll all FreeBSD releases, because it is a good OS by itself, but it doesn't make sense.

If your cycle revolves around major releases, you don't publicize .1 releases as if they were something.

It's just a mailing list post. You don't see any fancy "ONLY n DAYS TO 7.2" countdown timers on their site either. The "fuzz" is made up completely by the OSnews staff. And you.

Edited 2009-04-27 06:36 UTC

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RE: Comment by Oliver
by sean on Mon 27th Apr 2009 02:00 UTC in reply to "Comment by Oliver"
sean Member since:
2005-06-29

One nice feature is multi-IP/IPv6 support in jails: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jail/2009-February/00072...

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Comment by J-freebsd_98
by J-freebsd_98 on Mon 27th Apr 2009 09:48 UTC
J-freebsd_98
Member since:
2006-01-01

I surmise the minor release is made widely known so
persons can test it out, prior to the
final release. Also, persons using only
releases rather than "stable " "current"
branches might want to upgrade.

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Should be another good release
by obsidian on Mon 27th Apr 2009 09:53 UTC
obsidian
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2007-05-12

Many thanks to all involved with this release!

With this release (and the upcoming release of OpenBSD on 1st May), there's lots of "BSD goodness" to try out in the next few days... ;)

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RE: Should be another good release
by fithisux on Mon 27th Apr 2009 12:08 UTC in reply to "Should be another good release"
fithisux Member since:
2006-01-22

Don't forget DragonFlyBSD 2.2.1

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