FreeBSD 7.1 release document available

On Saturday we announced the availability of FreeBSD 7.1 but not documentation was available at that point yet.

The 7.1 release documement can be viewed at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/relnotes.html

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 importedfrom 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

Links: FreeBSD.org | download FreeBSD | Release Notes

FreeBSD 7.1 is being mentioned and blogged about on a number of websites:

• FreeBSD platform adds Sun’s DTrace tool (zdnet.co.uk)
• DTrace gets guernsey in new FreeBSD (zdnet.com.au)
• FreeBSD Version 7.1 Available for Download (Linux Magazine)
• Distrowatch.org
• Slashdot.org
• FreeBSD 7.1 Released (newmobilecomputing.com . osnews.com)
• etc

Hopefully, this will get more people interested in FreeBSD.

Did you know FreeBSD was the first open source OS project in 2009 to announce a new version?