Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:00 (美国东部时间），
Ken Smith ：
FreeBSD 团队非常高兴的宣布 FreeBSD 7.0 的发布。 这是FreeBSD 7稳定版的第一个版本，引进了大量的新特性和性能改进。
其中包括（但不限于）：

●巨大的性能提升，某些个别情况下比上一代的 6.x版本高出 1500%。整体上比最新、性能最好的Linux版本（2.6.22 or 2.6.24） 高出 15%。
●本版本默认 4BSD scheduler；新的 ULE scheduler 将在 7.1版本中作为默认配置。
●引入了Sun's ZFS文件系统。
● Much improved wireless (802.11) support.
● X.Org 7.3,
   KDE 3.5.8,
   GNOME 2.20.2.
   GNU C compiler 4.2.1.
● freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64
●.........

详细见 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html
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下载 FreeBSD 7.0

(ISO , I386):

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.0/

或者

ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.0/

(ISO ,AMD64 = x86-64)：

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/7.0/

  (ISO,  BT)

http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/

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从旧版本可以升级到7.0：

Users upgrading to FreeBSD 7.0 from older releases (in particular, older than 7.0-RC1) will need to download an updated version of freebsd-update(8) that supports upgrading to a new release.
# fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz
Downloading and verifying the digital signature for the tarball (signed by the FreeBSD Security Officer's PGP key) is highly recommended.
# fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.asc

# gpg --verify freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.asc freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz
The new freebsd-update(8) can then be extracted and run as follows:
# tar -xf freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz

# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade

# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf install
The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.
# shutdown -r now

Next, freebsd-update.sh needs to be run again to install the new userland components, after which all ports should be recompiled to link to new libraries:

# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf install

# portupgrade -faP

Finally, freebsd-update.sh needs to be run one last time to remove old system libraries, after which the system should be rebooted in order that the updated userland and ports will be running:

# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf install

# shutdown -r now
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