It's still early to talk about FreeBSD 9.0 release but so far there have been some interesting developments in the systems and a nice core featureset is shaping up. I'm still maintaining the "What's cooking" page and this post is basically an (incomplete) summary of it at this point in time.
Of course, in addition to these features, there are non-stop modifications to all parts of the system, from drivers for new hardware to overall performance enhancements.
Hello Internet,
We the FreeBSD KDE Team are happy to let you know KDE SC 4.4.0 was
released few mins ago, and we’re ready for a public test. Before
you ask we don’t want to put KDE 4.4.0 in the ports tree before
FreeBSD 7.3 was released.
What is new:
KDE SC 4.4.0 provide many new features, designed to integrate
local and network social services .. and a lot more. The official
release notes for this release can be found at
http://kde.org/announcements/4.4/
Now you can get KDE SC 4.4 with a svn checkout:
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/PORTS
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/KDE
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/Tools/
now try:
sh Tools/scripts/portsmerge
sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge
Please read carefull /usr/ports/UPDATING-area51
http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/UPDATING-area51
Happy Updating!!
Firefox 3.6 was committed by beat@ latest night, we’re happy to got
all finish before the ports tree is going in the slush mode
to prepair packages for FreeBSD 7.3 Release. Please read careful
ports/UPDATING. We’d like to say thanks to all helpers and
submitters, and a special big thanks to nox for his great debug
session to fix our addon’s problem.
Yesterday Ken Smith created the RLENG_8, which is required before being able to release any 8.x version at all. This is the first step that will finally lead up to BETA3, after which RC1 is planned. Beta3 also marks the end of the “liberal” ‘ok we still allow some new features if they had previously been discussed’. No more new features will be inserted when BETA3 becomes live. I will try to make a nice list of what’s new for 8.0 the moment BETA3 is tagged. The release is one step closer again!