The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the availability of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. The 6.2 release continues the development of the 6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many bug fixes and new features.

Some of the highlights:

• freebsd-update(8) provides officially supported binary updates for security fixes and errata patches
• Experimental support for CAPP security event auditing
• OpenBSM audit command line tool suite and library
• KDE updated to 3.5.4, GNOME updated to 2.16.1
• csup(1) integrated cvsup client now included
• Disk integrity protection and authentication added to geli(8)
• New amdsmb(4), enc(4) ipmi(4), nfsmb(4), stge(4) drivers
• IPFW(4) packet tagging
• Linux emulation support for sysfs
• BIND updated to 9.3.3
• Many driver updates including em(4), arcmsr(4), ath(4), bce(4), ata(4), and iwi(4)

The FreeBSD team has put up a complete list of new features and known problems, and have also made available the online release notes and errata list.

FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is now available for the alpha, amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures. The FreeBSD page at Go64now has now been updated with screenshots and the link to the download.