Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Oct 2007 20:24 UTC, submitted by FreeBSD_User
"FreeBSD 7.0 will be the next release of FreeBSD, and is the first major release in 2 years. It's due out some time later this year (currently in pre-release and available for testing). FreeBSD 7.0 brings major changes to the BSD and open
source operating system landscape." This document [.pdf] describes all the changes.
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2007-01-23
Thank you FreeBSD developers for making such great major release!
I enjoyed it in my SMP servers with ULE since it was 7.0-CURRENT
What's cooking for FreeBSD 8.x?
Storage subsystems' improvements
Boot support for GPT partitions
Status: Committed to -CURRENT
Will appear in 8.0: sure
Author: John Baldwin
Web: commit message
Support for booting from GPT partitions has been committed to -CURRENT. This support includes the boot sector and loader that enable common i386 machines with a generic BIOS to boot from GPT-partitioned drives.
Kernel & low level improvements
Kernel threads
Status: Committed to -CURRENT
Will appear in 8.0: sure
Author: Julian Elischer
Web: commit message
Kernel threads upto now were actually "heavy weight" processes running in the kernel address space. This change introduces real light weight kernel threads which consume less low-level resources (process locks, memory maps). It also allows better grouping of threads for display purposes.
http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html