A few days ago the FreeBSD team released RC2 of the 8.0 version. This is the fore-last before 8.0-RELEASE will see the light. Some problems had been ironed out, especially that had fallout of the NULL mapping removal option. PIE was one of the things that broke, things like Samba seemed to be affected.

This had been resolved now, and everyone is advised to test -RC2. -RC3 will also follow in around two weeks from now, closing in on the -RELEASE version. Stay tuned!

p.s. I am also writing a “Welcome to FreeBSD 8″ article. This is currently being reviewed by my employer (which supported me in writing this) and will be published soon..