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title: "FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE Release Notes"
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  <h2>Release Highlights</h2>

  <p>The highlights in the 6.4-RELEASE are the following:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><p>New and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client</p></li>

    <li><p>Support for the Camellia cipher</p></li>

    <li><p>Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from
	USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices with GPT-enabled
	BIOSes</p></li>

    <li><p>DVD install ISO images for amd64/i386</p></li>

    <li><p>KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3</p></li>

    <li><p>Updates for BIND, sendmail, OpenPAM, and others</p></li>
  </ul>

  <p>For more details, please see the Release Notes below.</p>

  <h2>Detailed Release Notes</h2>

  <p>The release notes for FreeBSD are customized for different
    platforms, as some of the changes made to FreeBSD apply only to
    specific processor architectures.</p>

  <p>Release notes for FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE are available for the following
    platforms:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="relnotes-alpha.html" shape="rect">alpha</a></li>
    <li><a href="relnotes-amd64.html" shape="rect">amd64</a></li>
    <li><a href="relnotes-i386.html" shape="rect">i386</a></li>
    <li><a href="relnotes-pc98.html" shape="rect">pc98</a></li>
    <li><a href="relnotes-powerpc.html" shape="rect">powerpc</a></li>
    <li><a href="relnotes-sparc64.html" shape="rect">sparc64</a></li>
  </ul>

  <p>A list of all platforms currently under development can be found
    on the <a href="../../../platforms/index.html" shape="rect">Supported
      Platforms</a> page.</p>

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