FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE Available

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE.  This is the fourth release from the 8-STABLE
branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.2 and introduces some
new features.  Some of the highlights:

	- usb(4) now supports the USB packet filter
	- TCP/IP stack now supports the mod_cc(9) pluggable congestion
	  control framework
	- graid(8) GEOM class added to support various BIOS-based software
	  RAID controllers (replacement for ataraid(4))
	- ZFS subsystem updated to SPA version 28
	- Gnome version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.7.4

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/8.3R/relnotes.html
    http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/8.3R/errata.html

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

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

 Availability
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FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, pc98,
and sparc64 architectures.