FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Announcement



The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE. This is the first release of the stable/10 branch.

Some of the highlights:

• GCC is no longer installed by default on architectures where clang(1) is the default compiler.

• Unbound has been imported to the base system as the local caching DNS resolver.

• BIND has been removed from the base system.

• make(1) has been replaced with bmake(1), obtained from the NetBSD Project.

• pkg(7) is now the default package management utility.

• pkg_add(1), pkg_delete(1), and related tools have been removed.

• Major enhancements in virtualization, including the addition of bhyve(8), virtio(4), and native paravirtualized drivers providing support for FreeBSD as a guest operating system on Microsoft Hyper-V.

• TRIM support for Solid State Drives has been added to ZFS.

• Support for the high-performance LZ4 compression algorithm has been added to ZFS.

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/10.0R/relnotes.html

• http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.0R/errata.html

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

• http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/