More FreeBSD 7 goodies

As if the binary upgrade posibilites in FreeBSD 7 (and 6 to 7 if you like) was not enough (and actually working), there are plenty of goodies to look forward to:

SQL database performance ... MySQL 5.0.45 (thread-based)
New filesystems ... ZFS
Network stack changes...Complete elimination of giant lock from network stack
Intel wireless drivers: ... iwi (2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG)...Works out of the box
Atheros protocol extensions...802.11n support (forthcoming standard)...I higher performance: up to 135 Mb/sec
Security subsystems...Audit subsystem... Fine-grained, configurable logging of security-relevant events...System calls, application and user space activities
Performance ... If you find a workload that FreeBSD 7.0 performs poorly on, we want to hear about it!
IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface); monitoring
system hardware

Oh and then some teasers of what to expect in the horizon:

FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT, due some time in 2009 (maybe)

Some of the features that seem to be lurking on the horizon:
Continued performance optimization, also targetting 16-core
systems (AMD/Intel)
Improved network performance on parallel workloads
Improved filesystem performance
Virtualization support: xen, network stack virtualization, ...
BLUFFS: BSD Logging Updated Fast File System. UFS with
filesystem-level journalling.
Serial Attached SCSI, SATA integrated under CAM (storage
layer also used for SCSI)
DTrace support from Sun; powerful and extensible debugging
and system analysis framework
Stuff we haven't even thought of yet!

I wish i could use FreeBSD for more of my everyday work hehe... :-)

UPDATE: O'Reilly ONLamp had a really great article with loots of details of Whats New In FreeBSD 7.0.