PC-BSD 9-STABLE-20120418 snapshot available

The PC-BSD team has made the first public 9-STABLE snapshot available for 64bit systems! Read the announcement.

This snapshot provides both users and developers a means to test out new features in the upcoming PC-BSD 9.1 release. This snapshot may contain buggy code and features, so users are encouraged to run it only on non-critical systems.

Highlights in this release are:

FreeBSD 9-STABLE from 4-11-2012
New system installer! Greatly simplified for desktop and server installs.
New “PC-BSD Server” installation option. Includes command-line utilities like pbi-manager, warden, metapkgmanager and more.
Support for ZFS mirror / raidz(1,2,3) during installation.
Support for SWAP on ZFS, allowing entire disk ZFS installation.
Support for setting additional ZFS data-set options, such as compression, noexec, etc.
Warden jail management integrated into system. Allows creating jails via GUI, adding packages and other administration.
First boot setup wizard allows OEM installs to be easily performed.
New Bluetooth paring tray / GUI utilities.
New AppCafe improvements and preferences
Improvements to wifi utility
Fixed bug causing untranslated strings to show up empty.
Numerous bug-fixes to PC-BSD related utilities
And much more!