FreeBSD 8.3 Released With Gnome 2.32.1, KDE 4.7.4 & Many More

Earlier in this year we got FreeBSD 9 and now FreeBSD Release Engineering Team announced the availability of FreeBSD 8.3. This is the fourth release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.2 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights

 

• usb(4) now supports the USB packet filter

• TCP/IP stack now supports the mod_cc(9) pluggable congestion control framework

• graid(8) GEOM class added to support various BIOS-based software RAID controllers (replacement for ataraid(4))

• ZFS subsystem updated to SPA version 28

• Gnome version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.7.4

FreeBSD 8.3 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures (currently amd64 and i386) also support installing from a USB memory stick. The required files can be downloaded via FTP or BitTorrent as described in the sections below. While some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all architectures, they will all generally contain the more common ones such as amd64 and i386. For a complete list of new features and known problems click here.

To Download FreeBSD 8.3 Click Here