FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE launches

Thanks to all the hard work of the FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD developers and the contribution of a some private companies, FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE has been announced by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team and is now available.

This is the second release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 9.1 and introduces some new features.

Some of the highlights in this version are:

• The ZFS filesystem now supports TRIM when used on solid state drives.
• The virtio(4) drivers have been added to the GENERIC kernel configuration for amd64 and i386 architectures.
• The ZFS filesystem now supports lz4 compression.
• OpenSSL has been updated to version 0.9.8y.
• DTrace hooks have been enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel.
• DTrace has been updated to version 1.9.0.
• Sendmail has been updated to version 8.14.7.
• OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.2p2.
• Import unmapped I/O support from head.

A complete list of new features and known problems can be found of the 9.2 Release Notes page.