Glen Barber acabou de anunciar oficialmente o FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE e o que veio de novo. Abaixo o anúncio oficial em inglês.

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE.  This is the second release from the stable/9 branch,
which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 9.1 and introduces some new
features.  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:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.2R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.2R/errata.html

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities,
please see:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/

Availability
————-

FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc,
powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures.

FreeBSD 9.2 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the
network.  Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory
stick.  The required files can be downloaded via FTP as described in the
section below.  While some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all
architectures, they will all generally contain the more common ones such
as amd64 and i386.

MD5 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO and memory stick images are
included at the bottom of this message.

The purpose of the images provided as part of the release are as follows:

dvd1: This contains everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD
operating system, the documentation, and a small set of pre-built
packages aimed at getting a graphical workstation up and running.
It also supports booting into a “livefs” based rescue mode.  This
should be all you need if you can burn and use DVD-sized media.

disc1: This contains the base FreeBSD operating system. It also supports
booting into a “livefs” based rescue mode.  There are no pre-built
packages.

bootonly: This supports booting a machine using the CDROM drive but
does not contain the support for installing FreeBSD from the
CD itself.  You would need to perform a network based install
(e.g. from an FTP server) after booting from the CD.

memstick: This can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive) and
used to do an install on machines capable of booting off USB
drives.  It also supports booting into a “livefs” based rescue
mode.  There are no pre-built packages.

As one example of how to use the memstick image, assuming the USB drive
appears as /dev/da0 on your machine something like this should work:

# dd if=FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync

Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct.

FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from several
vendors.  One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 9.2-based
products is:

~   FreeBSD Mall, Inc.        http://www.freebsdmall.com/

FTP
—

At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have
FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE available.

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.2/

However before trying these sites please check your regional mirror(s)
first by going to:

ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html

For instructions on installing FreeBSD or updating an existing machine to
9.2-RELEASE please see:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.2R/installation.html

Support
——-

FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE will be supported until 2014-09-30.
The End-of-Life dates can be found at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/

Other Projects Based on FreeBSD
——————————-

There are many “third party” Projects based on FreeBSD.  The Projects
range from re-packaging FreeBSD into a more “novice friendly” distribution
to making FreeBSD available on Amazon’s EC2 infrastructure.  For more
information about these Third Party Projects see:

http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/3rdPartyProjects

Acknowledgments
—————

Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to
support the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 9.2 including
The FreeBSD Foundation, Yahoo!, NetApp, Internet Systems Consortium,
Sentex Communications, New York Internet, Juniper Networks, and
iXsystems.

The release engineering team for 9.2-RELEASE includes:

Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org>    Release Engineering Lead
Marcus von Appen <mva@FreeBSD.org>    Release Engineering
Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>        Release Engineering, 9.2-RELEASE Release Engineer
Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>    Release Engineering
Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>        Release Engineering
Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>    Release Engineering, Documentation
Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@FreeBSD.org>    Release Engineering
Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org>    Package Building
Xin Li <delphij@FreeBSD.org>        Release Engineering, Security
Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon@FreeBSD.org>    Security Officer Emeritus
Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org>    Release Engineering
Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>    Security Officer Emeritus
Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>    Release Engineering
Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>        Release Engineering, Documentation
Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>    Release Engineering
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>    Security Officer
Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org>    Release Engineering
Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>    Release Engineering, Security

Trademark
———

FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.

ISO Image Checksums
——————-

amd64:
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 63db06d3f468d219b308bb3fbc3f48e791134481fb1abf39e9b1ee415dcfc099
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) = a8c1751b83646530148766618a89a97009e7500e7057a5cbe3afd74ef480c915
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso) = 36c99ac1ffb90f2272df1bf10cafec999fde1b1a6bd289b5583836639c3639ae
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img) = fbc0c46f2db8c347145ee7c8308e4f3058dc5ec3155a9fb51d0f0e52ab2bf5cb

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 2338f255d0ddc4659d04545a3c27bfa1
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) = cde180e3c5e3e370c97598a4feccb5b4
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso) = 21448c2688ba938b42c1727449d69750
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img) = 8a7f0ee3cb2570785b2d0a760d99bad6

i386:
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso) = e2df14515911ab964a587c4ae5e23882c71908c4e589ae57f7848399232c161d
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = 76093c27288f0ab939a5de14b621ec8eb1420d96343132c2b7c382747d35b67c
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso) = a1bba5668792cfc8197c0f81b28cdd17e912a1ae5816887f8518bf1536a99af8
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img) = aa635578fea1136da680420afaab21a8e0b7c39541566d28f468d6ebb7a1e3a8

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso) = c868d09dace9ec2d673fd62cbd1305b4
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = ba7ba7943177aee9626df228fb1ee6c2
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso) = 917104df8d559f2ec981e98bfdf78e05
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img) = affea2f784472cfbed9d16a6fdeab5ce

ia64:
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 138b6f9fe7bbad418db956a53539ff75f77c918aedaf7fcc1d4960aa2ccca476
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso) = 906cfc5012504501547aa0c89292e66047faaed34f18e79594ab95635c43f6c2
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-ia64-memstick.img) = b178d6466f4b2eb9af0520eb8b434ce98ecab11b9d24bf6ad9478a30f9875531

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 2ef154556774c55ce0a5a27c7a674859
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso) = aa06455bfd9f54f1257c6b8484e81334
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-ia64-memstick.img) = b047ea9791272a4fbc66cd9f401d6122

powerpc:
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = 89fea7d441a71b96def24a80815566936b7b6eaab640030ae78518001806d626
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-powerpc-disc1.iso) = b5f5adc9ab2392c2796881553582a1da1cfa99c62b62b57a3325fc7e6a7259c4
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-powerpc-memstick.img) = 3951ab28d6226f9c32a71f6d81d6ad9f9d05c9af5d11cf00118380f6ba20f282

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = 84ba491526faf1115827ee3c81593f92
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-powerpc-disc1.iso) = 1a1f683a69d20419834d056d43c8e3de
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-powerpc-memstick.img) = dd959ede1dff0971334d3722db8c8bcc

powerpc64:
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-bootonly.iso) = 092fa817a0a44fb49d05ed7aae44d98e78f4e3e0fc6e0297ee0d11ec8f8ccf37
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-disc1.iso) = 56daf1f49bff7ee9e31c3255170fe2373c8674cfce1c560e78deff4ae81c505d
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-memstick.img) = be87c9edaa0b343a1223ebfb68dd161a023e287e067dd6550198c4ac23d47062

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-bootonly.iso) = c914b221a8f09ac8d004aa4d7db710a0
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-disc1.iso) = f471466df756ae85162fb8bb794d007a
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-memstick.img) = c6b739c889dd94e3ed3ac8ef277ced91

sparc64:
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 76813e3a5b400ea56533a3d5762f76284746a736281b6e1bce882d9f0e2dd076
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 0a15095210058fa7c1572102e6af49407462fcd670d28a3af9dfc154efaeb72e

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = ae21e0dc63aa0d6327f44c733705c055
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 7ce9c00d4b6e23124062cc2be8b56a74

Glen

Embora ainda não seja oficial, tudo indica que a versão 9.2-RC4 virou de fato a 9.2-RELEASE. Acredito que se não acontecer nada de absurdo, essa será sem dúvida a RELEASE final. O indício disso poderá ser visto por quem atualizar o releng/9.2 via SVN nesse momento, pois o arquivo que mostra a versão do FreeBSD foi atualizado conforme abaixo:

# cat /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh

…

TYPE=”FreeBSD”
REVISION=”9.2″
BRANCH=”RELEASE”
if [ “X${BRANCH_OVERRIDE}” != “X” ]; then
BRANCH=${BRANCH_OVERRIDE}
fi
RELEASE=”${REVISION}-${BRANCH}”
VERSION=”${TYPE} ${RELEASE}”
SYSDIR=$(dirname $0)/..

…

Se repararem o BRANCH deixou de ser RC4 e virou RELEASE.

É isso aí pessoal, passei só para dar a notícia.  🙂

Agora é esperarmos o anúncio oficial do 9.21-RELEASE e aguardarmos ansiosos o 10.0-RELEASE.