O desenvolvedor Ivan Voras iniciou sua página “What’s cooking for FreeBSD” para o FreeBSD 9, vocês poderão acompanhar as novidades que virão a aparecer no FreeBSD 9 através dela. Os itens abaixo já estão presentes na lista:
- UFS SoftUpdates+Journal (SU+J)
- New driver for AHCI SATA drives
- ATA CAM implementation
- NFSv4 ACLs for UFS
- ZFS updated to version 14 (delphij)
- Implemented TRIM / ERASE (S)ATA commands for SSDs and similar drives, notifying them of unused disk space so it can be reclaimed (mav)
- Solaris-like pwait(1) utility (jilles) (MFCed), refactored rc.d to use pwait(1).
- IPFW becomes VNET-aware (virtualized network stack, i.e. a firewall instance per jail/VNET) and gets more SMP performance. (luigi)
- Imported V4L (video 4 linux) support in the Linuxulator (aka Linux compatibility mode) (netchild)
- Better support for Machine Check Exceptions (jb)
- Reworked utmp system (ed)
- Open-source 3D hardware acceleration for Radeon HD cards (nork, rnoland)

