It seem FreeBSD 7.1 already release and available from torrent first and followed by master ftp. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html go get your iso now!

freebsd-update is cool # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors… 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org… done. Fetching metadata index… done. Fetching 2 metadata patches.. done. Applying metadata patches… done. Inspecting system… done. Preparing to download files… done. Fetching 8 patches….. done. Applying patches… done. The following files will be updated […]