FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE Available

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. This release starts off the new 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.X and introduces many new features. Some of the highlights:

- Xen Dom-U, VirtualBox guest and host, hierarchal jails

- NFSv3 GSSAPI support, experimental NFSv4 client and server

- 802.11s D3.03 wireless mesh networking and Virtual Access Point support
- ZFS no longer in experimental status

- ground-up rewrite of USB, including USB target support

- continued SMP scalability improvements in many areas, especially VFS

- revised network link layer subsystem

- experimental MIPS architecture support

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