The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: Xen HVM support in FreeBSD/amd64 and Xen PV support in FreeBSD/i386 improved, ZFS on-disk format updated to version 15, aesni(4) driver for Intel AESNI crypto instruction set, BIND and OpenSSL updates, Gnome updated to 2.32.1, KDE updated to 4.5.5.