PC-BSD 8.1 Officially Released

The PC-BSD Dev Team has announced the availability of PC-BSD 8.1 (Hubble Edition), running on FreeBSD 8.1 kernel.

The new release comes with a number of enhancements and improvements. The most notable changes are as follows:

FreeBSD 8.1-Release
KDE 4.4.5
Numerous fixes to the installation backend
Support for creating dedicated disk GPT partitioning
Improved ZFS support
Bugfixes to desktop tools / utilities

According to the release announcement, below are the full changelog of the new release:

Updated to KDE 4.4.5
Updated to FreeBSD 8.1
Numerous fixes to installer, such as: Switch to “gpart” instead of fdisk for backend, Improvements to ZFS, allowing mirror / raidz setup via GUI, Encryption pass-phrase support, Use GPT partitioning when running in dedicated disk mode
Improvements to life-preserver backup tool
Fixed issue running downloaded python / ruby plasmoids
Fixed nepomuk / strigi default init at first login
Fixed issues with wifi tools in calculating signal strength
ZFS syntax fix for installs to MBR partition
During upgrade now install selected components properly
Don’t use “lagg” device on systems with no wifi
Use “async” for journaled file-systems
Enable double-click partition editing action
Fixed backwards numlock logic in KDE
Added fixes to reduce kdeinit cpu usage from file polling
Use 24 bit color depth during install by default

The download files are available in its mirrors site.

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