This section describes the most user-visible new or changed features in FreeBSD since 6.3-RELEASE.
Typical release note items document recent security advisories issued after 6.3-RELEASE, new drivers or hardware support, new commands or options, major bug fixes, or contributed software upgrades. They may also list changes to major ports/packages or release engineering practices. Clearly the release notes cannot list every single change made to FreeBSD between releases; this document focuses primarily on security advisories, user-visible changes, and major architectural improvements.
An error that could allow sendfile(2) to inappropriately access the contents of a file has been fixed. For more information, see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:03.sendfile.
The BTX kernel used by the boot loader has been changed to invoke BIOS routines from real mode. This change makes it possible to boot FreeBSD from USB devices.
bzip2 has been updated from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5.
sendmail has been updated from 8.14.2 to 8.14.3.
The timezone database has been updated from the tzdata2007k release to the tzdata2008b release.
The supported version of the GNOME desktop environment (x11/gnome2) has been updated from 2.20.1 to 2.22.
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