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Good news! FreeBSD 6.2 just released. I have a lot of systems with RELENG_6, FreeBSD RC1/RC2. I have use 6.2 in production last few months, and has only few problems with Broadcom NetXtreme II (bce) and DELL PERC 5.

Please note, RELENG_4 and RELENG_6_0 is near EOL now, so time for upgrade is come ;-)

Here is official announce:

Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:29:19 -0500
From: Ken Smith 
To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 6.2 Released
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Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE.  This release continues the development of the
6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many
bug fixes and new features.  Some of the highlights:

- freebsd-update(8) provides officially supported binary updates for
security fixes and errata patches
- Experimental support for CAPP security event auditing
- OpenBSM audit command line tool suite and library
- KDE updated to 3.5.4, GNOME updated to 2.16.1
- csup(1) integrated cvsup client now included
- Disk integrity protection and authentication added to geli(4)
- New amdsmb(4), enc(4) ipmi(4), nfsmb(4), stge(4) drivers
- IPFW(4) packet tagging
- Linux emulation support for sysfs
- BIND updated to 9.3.3
- Many driver updates including em(4), arcmsr(4), ath(4), bce(4),
ata(4), and iwi(4)

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/6.2R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/errata.html

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

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

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