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  <p>The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
    availability of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE.  This is the first release from
    the stable/9 branch, which improves on stable/8 and adds many new
    features.  Some of the highlights:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><p>A new installer, bsdinstall(8) has been added and is the
	installer used by the ISO images provided as part of this
	release</p></li>

    <li><p>The Fast Filesystem now supports softupdates
	journaling</p></li>

    <li><p>ZFS updated to version 28</p></li>

    <li><p>Updated ATA/SATA drivers support AHCI, moved into updated
	CAM framework</p></li>

    <li><p>Highly Available Storage (HAST) framework</p></li>

    <li><p>Kernel support for Capsicum Capability Mode, an
	experimental set of features for sandboxing support</p></li>

    <li><p>User-level DTrace</p></li>

    <li><p>The TCP/IP stack now supports pluggable congestion control
	framework and five congestion control algorithm
	implementations available</p></li>

    <li><p>NFS subsystem updated, new implementation supports NFSv4 in
	addition to NFSv3 and NFSv2</p></li>

    <li><p>High Performance SSH (HPN-SSH)</p></li>

    <li><p>Flattened device tree (FDT), simplifying FreeBSD
	  configuration for embedded platforms</p></li>

    <li><p>The powerpc architecture now supports Sony Playstation
	3</p></li>

    <li><p>The LLVM compiler infrastructure and clang have been
	imported</p></li>

    <li><p>Gnome version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.7.3</p></li>
  </ul>

  <p>For a complete list of new features and known problems, please
    see the online release notes and errata list available at:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><p><tt><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes.html</a></tt></p></li>

    <li><p><tt><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.0R/errata.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.0R/errata.html</a></tt></p></li>
  </ul>

  <p>For more information about FreeBSD release engineering
    activities please see:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><p><tt><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/</a></tt></p></li>
  </ul>

  <h2>Dedication</h2>

  <p>The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to the
    memory of Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers of the
    UNIX[tm] operating system.  It is on the foundation laid by the
    work of visionaries like Dennis that software like the FreeBSD
    operating system came to be.  The fact that his work of so many
    years ago continues to influence new design decisions to this very
    day speaks for the brilliant engineer that he was.</p>

  <p>May he rest in peace.</p>

  <h2>Availability</h2>

  <p>FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64,
    powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures.</p>

  <p>FreeBSD 9.0 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the
    network.  Some architectures also support installing from a USB
    memory stick.  The required files can be downloaded via FTP or
    BitTorrent as described in the sections below.  While some of the
    smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all architectures, they will all
    generally contain the more common ones such as amd64 and i386.</p>

  <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> A problem was discovered with the DVD
    images for amd64 and i386 architectures shortly after they were
    loaded on the FTP distribution server.  Those images have since
    been replaced and we have allowed enough time that the newer
    images should have distributed to all the FTP servers that carry
    the release.  If you downloaded the amd64 or i386 DVD images prior
    to this announcement it would be a good idea to verify the
    checksums of the image you downloaded with the checksums provided
    as part of this Release Announcement.  The only thing wrong with
    the images that were replaced is that sysinstall(8) can not be
    used to install the pre-built packages on the DVD.  Other than
    that there is nothing different on the updated images.  The bad
    DVD images were never available on BitTorrent.</p>

  <p>MD5 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO images are included at
    the bottom of this message.</p>

  <p>The purpose of the images provided as part of the release are as
    follows:</p>

  <dl>
    <dt>dvd1</dt>

    <dd><p>This contains everything necessary to install the base
	FreeBSD operating system, a collection of pre-built packages
	aimed at getting a graphical workstation up and running.  It
	also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode.  This
	should be all you need if you can burn and use DVD-sized
	media.</p></dd>

    <dt>disc1</dt>

    <dd><p>This contains the base FreeBSD operating system. It also
	supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode.  There are
	no pre-built packages.</p></dd>

    <dt>bootonly</dt>

    <dd><p>This supports booting a machine using the CDROM drive but
	does not contain the support for installing FreeBSD from the
	CD itself.  You would need to perform a network based install
	(e.g. from an FTP server) after booting from the CD.</p></dd>

    <dt>memstick</dt>

    <dd><p>This can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive)
	and used to do an install on machines capable of booting off
	USB drives.  It also supports booting into a "livefs" based
	rescue mode.  There are no pre-built packages.</p>

      <p>As one example of how to use the memstick image, assuming the
	USB drive appears as /dev/da0 on your machine something like this
	should work:</p>

      <pre># dd if=FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync</pre>

      <p>Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct.</p>
    </dd>
  </dl>

  <p>FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from
    several vendors.  One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD
    9.0-based products is:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><p>FreeBSD Mall, Inc. <tt><a
	  href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">http://www.freebsdmall.com/</a></tt></p></li>
  </ul>

  <h2>BitTorrent</h2>

  <p>9.0-RELEASE ISOs are available via BitTorrent.  A collection of
    torrent files to download the images is available at:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><p><tt><a
	  href="http://torrents.FreeBSD.org:8080/">http://torrents.FreeBSD.org:8080/</a></tt></p></li>
  </ul>

  <h2>FTP</h2>

  <p>At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have
    FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE available.</p>

  <ul>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp8.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp8.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp.au.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp.au.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp.cn.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp.cn.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp.cz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp.cz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp.dk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp.dk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp.fr.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp.fr.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp.ru.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp.ru.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp2.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp2.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp10.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp10.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
    <li><tt><a href="ftp://ftp.za.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/">ftp://ftp.za.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/</a></tt></li>
  </ul>

  <p>However before trying these sites please check your regional
    mirror(s) first by going to:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><p><tt>ftp://ftp.&lt;yourdomain&gt;.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</tt></p></li>
  </ul>

  <p>Any additional mirror sites will be labeled
    <strong>ftp2</strong>, <strong>ftp3</strong> and so on.</p>

  <p>More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><p><tt><a
	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html</a></tt></p></li>
  </ul>

  <p>For instructions on installing FreeBSD or updating an existing
    machine to 9.0-RELEASE please see:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><p><tt><a
	    href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.0R/installation.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.0R/installation.html</a></tt></p></li>
  </ul>

  <h2>Support</h2>

  <p>The FreeBSD Security Team currently plans to support FreeBSD 9.0
    until January 31st, 2013.  For more information on the Security
    Team and their support of the various FreeBSD branches see:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><p><tt><a
	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/</a></tt></p></li>
  </ul>

  <h2>Other Projects Based on FreeBSD</h2>

  <p>There are many "third party" Projects based on FreeBSD.  The
    Projects range from re-packaging FreeBSD into a more "novice
    friendly" distribution to making FreeBSD available on Amazon's EC2
    infrastructure.  For more information about these Third Party
    Projects see:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><p><tt><a
	    href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/3rdPartyProjects">http://wiki.freebsd.org/3rdPartyProjects</a></tt></p></li>
  </ul>

  <h2>Acknowledgments</h2>

  <p>Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to
    support the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 9.0
    including The FreeBSD Foundation, Yahoo!, NetApp, Internet Systems
    Consortium, Sentex Communications, New York Internet, Juniper
    Networks, and iXsystems.</p>

  <p>The release engineering team for 9.0-RELEASE includes:</p>

  <table border="0">
    <tbody>
      <tr>
	<td>Ken&nbsp;Smith&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:kensmith@FreeBSD.org">kensmith@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>Release Engineering,
	  amd64, i386, sparc64 Release Building,
	  Mirror Site Coordination</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Robert&nbsp;Watson&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:rwatson@FreeBSD.org">rwatson@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>Release Engineering, Security</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Konstantin&nbsp;Belousov&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:kib@FreeBSD.org">kib@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>Release Engineering</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Marc&nbsp;Fonvieille&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:blackend@FreeBSD.org">blackend@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>Release Engineering, Documentation</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Josh&nbsp;Paetzel&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org">jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>Release Engineering</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Hiroki&nbsp;Sato&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:hrs@FreeBSD.org">hrs@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>Release Engineering, Documentation</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Bjoern&nbsp;Zeeb&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:bz@FreeBSD.org">bz@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>Release Engineering</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Marcel&nbsp;Moolenaar&nbsp;&lt;<a href="marcel@FreeBSD.org">marcel@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>ia64, powerpc Release Building</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Nathan&nbsp;Whitehorn&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org">nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>powerpc64 Release Building</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Joe&nbsp;Marcus&nbsp;Clarke&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">marcus@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>Package Building</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Erwin&nbsp;Lansing&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:erwin@FreeBSD.org">erwin@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>Package Building</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Mark&nbsp;Linimon&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:linimon@FreeBSD.org">linimon@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>Package Building</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Pav&nbsp;Lucistnik&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:pav@FreeBSD.org">pav@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>Package Building</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Ion-Mihai&nbsp;Tetcu&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:itetcu@FreeBSD.org">itetcu@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>Package Building</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Martin&nbsp;Wilke&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:miwi@FreeBSD.org">miwi@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>Package Building, Ports Security</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Colin&nbsp;Percival&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:cperciva@FreeBSD.org">cperciva@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
	<td>Security Officer</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>

  <h2>Trademark</h2>

  <p>FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.</p>

  <h2>ISO Image Checksums</h2>

  <pre>MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 477019a305797186a8b3e4147f44edec
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) = b23ef73412bd50ed62ef8613ca1a4199
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso) = 61221643ebeefeeb74bd552311e07070
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img) = b37217292ad626d6ab2d3a9c1d215d2d</pre>

  <pre>MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso) = 70b4b0dd42c309da79ce63ba2789cfe3
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = 5bf615f286ee6eeb3ecce45bd8d1622c
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso) = fee32ba2041285b971daf7ea429e36e4
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img) = 79ddd8f3422e209ae9bd11fee4e399eb</pre>

  <pre>MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 5c83f9a5bf359b2971059d1664ef5f7e
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-ia64-memstick) = ee1d5196eb281966b9ef95b953a36d8d
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-ia64-release.iso) = 73ca213db21379eb2527dcea37eeb824</pre>

  <pre>MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = bfe036760daac0cddfe8ce2915eaec54
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc-memstick) = e7a09f343ee248ee538954b39549c241
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc-release.iso) = 2431f52b2f9cc1951b0e568b3cd0f126</pre>

  <pre>MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc64-bootonly.iso) = 377714742e5f2e16e34b7818347d4e3f
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc64-memstick) = 9e4ee64a7460c3c930d0e3e2e3cd03b9
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc64-release.iso) = 347e51ceb3e65c1eff3cc3acdb519ffb</pre>

  <pre>MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 81778b8ee1a8881b8597ee4275cc3b4e
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-sparc64-disc1.iso) = a63a07e3c45275568db2cead1b3e7167</pre>

  <pre>SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso) = d16fd5f32c9483177a01241f37ed84f347484c65e52aba4dbf8a2f3108fb457d
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) = bcc69320cd2f227411d55967113abc8ffa5ede0a6526090ca3fb5ab776fead9d
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso) = f338e24645f0bcc792b8417411ed737d8057cd2f470f9d2b601c143352d6d459
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img) = b8c964f362200d758e06dc6ea8dd556a4d6fedc2f3cd44c300318d9c2f4fb7a5</pre>

  <pre>SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso) = e655de649040269ffdaa40179c3b91c59c8febef7486e340c3a5a5493097366d
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = b03df5fbd345781cab7dcab1fd0ea4d84c7c48712a6035476a709e6c0d5763f0
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso) = ebc75ecdbd0580fbe9e59373962e0fc452c4480082af563e5cd765aca1ecd705
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img) = 99193a7895109d415936ba89e4f2c24227af48f064073dee7c4b49722c3656f8</pre>

  <pre>SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 1d25fc52d868877eb3cbdc012be895827f9c2bd808f886755d7ca2e9257af108
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-ia64-memstick) = af147d20765bdbe6f71a8fb113fdba64de4d152b554c1fc8d78dc6f941e4737c
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-ia64-release.iso) = 289f31e0dadfa46f51e9a44e26cd9cf6652ff4b5a631a21dca065dcd0d66890d</pre>

  <pre>SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = 7ca03f71d2dd0cad929d0005601b4c994a54b02ab140d4218fa326b0fce7dad8
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc-memstick) = 042bb4d473b615cf0d3c46d48d4db1fb457a54695e6ef3e47ee1b2dc6a4f3d9b
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc-release.iso) = 0a7af5c74ebc0e13e79dfde03d54d3d752f3c71aff39659406ad6e5bcc0cefc3</pre>

  <pre>SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc64-bootonly.iso) = 2eb5f141fb702a9c757f91a54ff8ea5ded13d51b29dfa86e5ba6bfbe9bb8e48e
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc64-memstick) = 91648a0377cd4cf8dc5453e48416dd16ac99a30e5439534053a1ca16f9944a0d
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-powerpc64-release.iso) = 17ab67fe62e1da232038b1ff598be1aef5fe8ccea620e0fbd67d8e262992fd66</pre>

  <pre>SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 1f633899cf42be1fecc61f82aa9fd9197da0cf88dda25aabbbf67250653459f5
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 8414abb3a501a9f712fe137a2f3667249ab3d2666815a877a93c934ced5d1110</pre>

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