Here's a short overview about the changes found in version 4.8.4:

* Documentation, type manpages: Fix spelling (Dmitry Bogatov)
* New explorer: is-freebsd-jail (Kamila Součková)
* Types __hostname, __start_on_boot, __sysctl: Support FreeBSD (Kamila Součková)
* Type __install_config: set environment variable to distinguish between
  install-config and regular config (Steven Armstrong)
* Core: Improve error reporting (Darko Poljak)

For more information visit the cdist homepage.