FreeBSD 6.3 Released

January 18th, 2008

FreeBSD 6.3 was released early this morning. The official announcement can be found here: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.3R/announce.html

Highlights from the announcement

  • KDE updated to 3.5.8, GNOME updated to 2.20.1, Xorg updated to 7.3

  • BIND updated to 9.3.4

  • sendmail updated to 8.14.2

  • lagg(4) driver ported from OpenBSD/NetBSD

  • unionfs file system re-implemented

  • freebsd-update(8) now supports an upgrade command

The last feature I'd like to comment on. Essentially what freebsd-update can now do is upgrade releases. In other words you can now upgrade a FreeBSD 6.3 system to FreeBSD 6.4. To upgrade 6.2 to 6.3 via this method look further down on the announcement linked above. After I have gone through this process, I'll make another post with my experiences, and full instructions.

[Update]
Instructions on doing an update from FreeBSD 6.x to FreeBSD 7:
FreeBSD major version upgrades
Instructions on doing a minor update From FreeBSD 6.x to FreeBSD 6.3:
FreeBSD minor version upgrades

Posted by ballen Filed in FreeBSD

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