最近很忙，很长时间没到FreeBSD的官网，今天发现，FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE已于18日（周五）发布了，对于我等FreeBSD的Fans来说，真乃一大乐事。

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE，稳定版FreeBSD 6的最新分支已经正式发布，在执行性能和稳定性上都有诸多改进，大量bugs修复，也增加了新的功能。软件方面包括KDE更新到3.5.8, GNOME更新到2.20.1，Xorg更新到7.3，BIND更新到 9.3.4，sendmail更新到8.14.2，等等。FreeBSD安全小组对6.3-RELEASE的维护截至日期为2010年1月31日。用户可以通过FTP或，或BT下载镜像，使用先前版本FreeBSD的用户也可以通过更新程序，通过源代码升级到FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE（最好先备份数据和配置文件）。

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE Announcement

Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:00:11 -0500
From: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 6.3 Released

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE. This release continues the development of the 6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many bug fixes and new features. Some of the highlights:

• KDE updated to 3.5.8, GNOME updated to 2.20.1, Xorg updated to 7.3

• BIND updated to 9.3.4

• sendmail updated to 8.14.2

• lagg(4) driver ported from OpenBSD/NetBSD

• unionfs file system re-implemented

• freebsd-update(8) now supports an upgrade command

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/6.3R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.3R/errata.html

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

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/

The FreeBSD Security Team intends to support 6.3-RELEASE until January 31st, 2010.

Dedication

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Jun-ichiro Hagino, known throughout the Internet community as itojun, for his visionary work on the IPv6 protocol and his many other contributions to the Internet and BSD communities.

Availability

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE is now available for the alpha, amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. It can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network; 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 i386 and amd64.

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

The contents of the ISO images provided as part of the release has changed for most of the architectures. Using the i386 architecture as an example, there are ISO images named ``bootonly'', ``disc1'', ``disc2'', ``disc3'', and ``docs''. The ``bootonly'' image is suitable for booting a machine to do a network based installation using FTP or NFS. The ``disc1'', ``disc2'', and ``disc3'' images are used to do a full installation that includes a basic set of packages and does not require network access to an FTP or NFS server during the installation. In addition, ``disc1'' supports booting into a live CD-based filesystem and system rescue mode. The ``docs'' image has all of the documentation for all supported languages. Most people will find that ``disc1'', ``disc2'' and ``disc3'' are all that are needed. If you intend to install ports from source instead of using the pre-built packages included with the release only ``disc1'' is needed.

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM from several vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 6.3-based products is:

• FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/