Version 6.1 of FreeBSD
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Release Notes: A GPU driver with GEM/KMS support. The netmap(4) fast userspace packet I/O framework. ZFS improvements from the illumos project. An oce(4) driver for the Emulex OneConnect 10Gbit Ethernet card. An sfxge(4) driver for 10Gb Ethernet adapters based on the Solarflare SFC9000 controller. Xen Paravirtualized Backend Ethernet Driver (netback) improvements. An hpt27xx(4) driver for HighPoint RocketRAID 27xx-based SAS 6Gb/s HBA. The GEOM RAID class is enabled by default, supporting software RAID by deprecated ataraid(8). Kernel support for the AVX FPU extension. Improvements in IPv6 hardware offload support.
Release Notes: usb(4) now supports the USB packet filter. The TCP/IP stack now supports the mod_cc(9) pluggable congestion control framework. A graid(8) GEOM class was added to support various BIOS-based software RAID controllers (replacement for ataraid(4)). The ZFS subsystem was updated to SPA version 28. GNOME version 2.32.1 and KDE version 4.7.4 were included.
Release Notes: A new installer, bsdinstall(8), was provided. The Fast Filesystem now supports soft updates journaling. ZFS was updated to version 28. ATA/SATA drivers were updated to support AHCI and moved into an updated CAM framework. A Highly Available Storage (HAST) framework was added. Kernel support for was provided for Capsicum Capability Mode, an experimental set of features for sandboxing support. User-level DTrace was included. The TCP/IP stack now supports pluggable congestion control frameworks, and five congestion control algorithm implementations are available.
Release Notes: The FreeBSD virtual memory subsystem now supports fully transparent use of superpages for application memory. The boot(8) BTX loader has been improved. Many network interface drivers have been improved. The btpand(8) daemon from NetBSD has been added. This daemon provides support for Bluetooth Network Access Point (NAP), Group Ad-hoc Network (GN), and Personal Area Network User (PANU) profiles. The jail(8) subsystem has been greatly enhanced with support for multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses per jail, SCTP support, CPU binding, and more.
Release Notes: Improvements were made in performance and SMP scalability. The ULE scheduler, ZFS, and UFS2 journaling were improved. Many other features and improvements were added.
