FreeBSD 7.3 Released

March 26, 2010
By MasPoster

FreeBSD 7.3 is the fourth release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.2 and introduces a few new features. There will be one more release from this branch to allow future improvements to be made available in the 7-STABLE branch but at this point most FreeBSD developers are focused on 8-STABLE.

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Some of the highlights:

  • ZFS updated to version 13
  • new boot loader gptzfsboot supports GPT and ZFS
  • hwpmc(4) enhancements including support for Core2/i7 processor and pmcannotate(8)
  • new mfiutil and mptutil tools for widely used RAID controllers
  • NULL pointer vulnerability mitigation
  • bind updated to 9.4-ESV
  • Gnome updated to 2.28.2
  • KDE updated to 4.3.5
  • Perl updated to 5.10

FreeBSD 7.3 download is available for the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures.

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