FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE “hit the mirrors”

Yep, it’s true, FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE it’s out there!

…as espected -> “Release Process”:http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/schedule.html

* “freebsd-update(8)”:http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE provides officially supported binary updates for security fixes and errata patches;
* Experimental support for CAPP security event auditing;
* “OpenBSM”:http://www.trustedbsd.org/openbsm.html audit command line tool suite and library;
* csup(1) integrated cvsup client now included;
* New amdsmb(4), enc(4) ipmi(4), nfsmb(4), stge(4) drivers
* IPFW(4) packet tagging
* Many driver updates including em(4), arcmsr(4), ath(4), bce(4), ata(4), and iwi(4)

and much more, take a look:

* Security event auditing is now supported in the FreeBSD kernel, and is enabled by the AUDIT kernel configuration option. “audit(4)”:http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=audit&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE
* “geli(8)”:http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geli&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE is now able to perform data integrity verification (data authentication) of encrypted data stored on disk.
* “linsysfs(5)”:http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=linsysfs&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE pseudo-filesystem driver has been added. It provides a subset of the Linux sys filesystem, and is required for the correct operation of some Linux binaries (such as the LSI MegaRAID SAS utility).
* The “jail(8)”:http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE program now supports a -s option to specify a jail’s securelevel. (GREAT!!)

detailled information: “Release Notes”:http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/relnotes-i386.html

Well, I’m gona make some updates ;)
bye

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