FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE Now Available

The FreeBSD Project officially announced the availability of FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. New features include the following:

• New Intel GPU driver with GEM/KMS support
• netmap(4) fast userspace packet I/O framework
• ZFS improvements from illumos project
• CAM Target Layer, a disk and processor device emulation subsystem
• Optional new C++11 stack including LLVM libc++ and libcxxrt
• Jail devfs, nullfs, zfs mounting and configuration file support
• POSIX2008 extended locale support including compatibility with Darwin extensions
• oce(4) driver for Emulex OneConnect 10Gbit Ethernet card
• sfxge(4) driver for 10Gb Ethernet adapters based on Solarflare SFC9000 controller
• Xen Paravirtualized Backend Ethernet Driver (netback) improvement
• hpt27xx(4) driver for HighPoint RocketRAID 27xx-based SAS 6Gb/s HBA
• GEOM multipath class improvement
• GEOM raid class is enabled by default supporting software RAID by deprecated ataraid(8)
• kernel support for the AVX FPU extension
• Numerous improvements in IPv6 hardware offload support

Any new VPS or Dedicated Server can have 9.1-RELEASE installed on it.We recommend that any current customers that wish to upgrade use freebsd-update unless you have compiled FreeBSD from source. Please follow the normal upgrade procedures recommended here: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/installation.htmlTo celebrate the release, we are offering 20% off your first payment for any new order with any billing cycle. Be sure to use the coupon code 91RELEASE!