KenSmith announced the immediate availability of FreeBSD 7.2-RC1 in the FreeBSD-stable mailing list. "The first of two planned Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. Testing of some of the recent work would be
particularly appreciated." The release schedule states that the final release is to be expected early May, at which point we'll cover FreeBSD 7.2 in much more detail.
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Member since:2005-07-02
i think you just volunteered yourself, so on behalf of the rest of use lazy people, thanks 
personally, i also would like to see more competition between the *nixs, and much of this has little to do with that they actually do (cause they do alot) and a great amount to do with how the media (thats you OSN) reports on it.
someone has to stir the pot right?
just a thought.
Member since:2006-03-02
Member since:2005-07-11
Release Notes will be available once the version is released. In there you will find what you are looking for.
Member since:2007-05-20
7.2 will be an incremental release of the 7.X series. Most of the new and exciting features in FreeBSD happen on the major versions, like 7.0.
7.1 and the upcoming 7.2 fix bugs, add some drivers and may enhance some subsystems. It is worth having a look at few of the features introduced in 7.0:
- ZFS filesystem
- New ULE scheduler (default in the GENERIC kernel from 7.1 onwards)
- Much better SMP support (fine-grained locking)
- UFS journaling via the GEOM framework
- DTrace
- More drivers etc.
Read more about it here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html
8.0-RELEASE is also scheduled for later this year, and you can expect another nice list of new features there too.
Member since:2006-01-22
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2006-03-02
A link to what's new and cool in this release would be nice. With Linux, we always get these indepth news articles about "awesome" new features, but with BSDs, no one covers them. It makes you wonder about how the BSDs are keeping up with the "awesome" features of Linux, like sophisticated schedulers, drivers, etc. The BSD developers aren't sitting on their asses, and they're not ignoring what the Linux people are doing... so it would be cool if someone actually talked about their developments too.