Nearly three weeks after announcing the second release candidates, the FreeBSD Engineering Team has announced that the FreeBSD 8.1 Final Release is available to download.

This is the second release of the 8-stable branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduce many new features.

Below are some of its highlights:

• zfsloader added
• zpool version of ZFS subsystem updated to version 14
• NFSv4 ACL support in UFS and ZFS; support added to cp(1), find(1), getfacl(1), mv(1), and setfacl(1) utilities
• UltraSPARC IV/IV+, SPARC64 V support
• SMP support in PowerPC G5
• BIND 9.6.2-P2
• sendmail updated to 8.14.4
• OpenSSH updated to 5.4p1
• GNOME 2.30.1, KDE 4.4.5

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

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