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FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Announcement

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“The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from
the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD
8.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:

* Xen HVM support in FreeBSD/amd64 and Xen PV support in
FreeBSD/i386 improved
* ZFS on-disk format updated to version 15
* aesni(4) driver for Intel AESNI crypto instruction set
* BIND and OpenSSL updates
* Gnome updated to 2.32.1
* KDE updated to 4.5.5
* Many misc. improvements and bugfixes”

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