From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 06:29:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A86B916A4D2; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:29:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ylpvm43.prodigy.net (ylpvm43-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 401B043D2F; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:29:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from [10.0.5.51] (adsl-64-171-186-189.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.171.186.189])j1F6Tl2Y001638; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:29:50 -0500 Message-ID: <421196AA.5000605@root.org> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:28:58 -0800 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (X11/20041205) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <421174F7.6020305@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <421174F7.6020305@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feb 2005 Snapshots for FreeBSD available X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:29:38 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > All, > > The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce that snapshots for \ > FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE and 6.0-CURRENT are now available for download. This > release is the first in a series of monthly snapshots of the active > branches of the FreeBSD tree. Each snapshot consists of a 'mini-inst' > (install disc1 without 3rd part packages) CD image for each platform. > While these are not full releases, the intent is to increase access to > the development branches and encourage more testing and more feedback. > We hope to follow on from this with a new snapshot release every month. > > Snapshots are available via FTP download from most FreeBSD mirrors at > the pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/_ directory. Information about > snapshots and pointers to the latest releases are available at > http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots. Are there any tags for these? That may be too heavyweight but at least publishing the exact UTC date for the build would be good. That would help us track down in bug reports what code the user has, especially when it's from areas that are under active development. -- Nate