Significant performance improvements to the filesystem and direct disk access layers of the OS. The filesystem is now multithreaded and can take full advantage of multiple CPU systems.

So we see the file system is multithreaded which should be good news for anyone running a FreeBSD server including us.

# New aps driver for the built-in accelerometer found in some IBM ThinkPad laptops.
# New art driver for Accom Networks Artery T1 and E1 cards.
# New auixp driver for the ATI IXP series integrated AC'97 audio controller.
# New ciss driver for Compaq Smart ARRAY 5 and 6 RAID controllers.
# New epic driver for SMC 83C170 ethernet adapters.
# New ichwdt driver for Intel 6300ESB ICH watchdog timer.
# New pcn driver for the AMD Am79c97x (PCnet) ethernet adapters.
# New safte driver for SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosures, and a rewritten ses driver for SCSI Enclosure Services, both allowing monitoring through sysctl and sensorsd.
# New ueagle driver for Analog Devices Eagle ADSL modems.
# New uipaq driver for iPAQ USB serial.
# New viasio driver for VIA VT1211 LPC Super I/O hardware sensors.
# New zaudio driver for the built-in Zaurus audio CODEC.
# Improved com driver for serial port PCMCIA cards, such as cellular modems on Zaurus.
# Improved support for many umass devices.
# Updated driver from X.Org for the Intel i810 family graphics chipset, including support for the external VGA output on laptops.