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FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE Announcement

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE. This is the second release of the
stable/10 branch, which improves on the stability of FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE
and introduces some new features.

Some of the highlights:

* The new console driver, vt(4), has been added.

* Support for FreeBSD/i386 guests has been added to bhyve(4).

* The bhyve(4) hypervisor now supports booting from a zfs(8) filesystem.

* Support for SMP was added to the armv6 kernels and enabled by default in the configuration files for all platforms that contain multi-core CPUs.

* Initial support for UEFI boot has been added for the FreeBSD/amd64 architecture.

* Support has been added to cache geli(8) passphrases during system boot.

* Support for the UDP-Lite protocol (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 stacks.

* The new filesystem automount facility, autofs(5), has been added.

* The sshd(8) rc.d(8) startup script now generates ED25519 sshd(8) host keys if keys do not already exist when ssh_keygen_alg() is invoked.

* OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.6p1.

* The nc(1) utility has been updated to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.

* Sendmail has been updated to 8.14.9.

* The unbound(8) caching resolver and ldns have been updated to version 1.4.22.

* OpenPAM has been updated to Ourouparia (20140912).

* OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.1j.

* The pkg(8) package management utility has been updated to version 1.3.8.

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

* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.1R/relnotes.html

* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.1R/errata.html