FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE i386 [all CDs]

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:



* The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads.

* Support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported from OpenSolaris. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework.

* A new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client.

* Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices.

* The cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command have been added, providing an API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment.

* KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3.

* DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures



For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:



* http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/relnotes.html
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* http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/errata.html
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For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see:



http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/