Releases: FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE
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Releases
FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE Now Available
Some of the highlights:
- 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/.

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
online release notes and errata list, available at:
At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have
FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE available.
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