Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 00:14:15 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BETA3 Release Notes Message-ID: <20040905221415.GA94157@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <413B8161.6040701@samsco.org> References: <413B8161.6040701@samsco.org>
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--3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 03:13:05PM -0600, Scott Long wrote.. >=20 > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the > availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA3. This is the third BETA of the 5.3 > release cycle. It is intended for early adopters and those wishing to > help find and/or fix bugs. The 5.3 release cycle will continue with > weekly BETA builds while bugs are being fixed and features finalized. > The schedule is at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html. > Be sure to check the "Known issues" below, there are known problems > still being worked on at this time. >=20 > Fixes and Enhancements made since BETA2: >=20 > - MP-safe network stack is now enabled by default. > - Add support for loadable modules on amd64. > - Misc. acpi fixes. > - Misc. fixes and enhancments (mostly gnutar compatibility) to > bsdtar. > - X server configuration has been removed from sysinstall, it is > best done post-install. > - Better ftw() and nftw() implementations imported from OpenBSD. > - Misc. pf fixes. > - Fix to maestro sound card driver. > - Fix to md device driver that allowed mdconfig(8) to exit before > filenames appeared in /dev. > - Fixes that allow use of TGA2 adapter in Alpha. > - Correct a denial-of-service vulnerability in zlib. > - Misc. fixes to aic7xxx driver. > - Fixes to schedulers. >=20 > Known issues in this release: >=20 > - There are scattered reports of data corruption on SMP systems > under high load. This could be due to a known bug in the gvinum > subsystem, but it could be due to unknown factors. We are > investigating this and hope to correct it soon. > - pst(4) is known to cause a system panic during the boot time. > - The Synaptics Touchpad mouse support is known to have issues with > responsiveness. It can be disabled with > 'hint.psm.0.flags=3D"0x200"' in "/boot/device.hints". This will be > resolved for the release. > - On sparc64 only, there is a problem using ATA devices in DMA > mode. The loader has been temporarily set up to disable DMA > in the ATA device driver. The problem has been identified but > a fix is still in the works. > - Kernel and user-level debugging aids (INVARIANTS, WITNESS, > user-level malloc, etc) are still enabled so do not use this BETA > as an indication of speed. For Alpha: - there seems to be a show-stopping bug in the support for Miata systems (aka Personal Work Station). People owning this hardware who can aid in figuring out whats wrong are more than welocme. - marcel@ has changed some code around the support of tga adapters as console devices. It is well worth testing those. thx Wilko --=20 Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: KF/Bx5nBIYnCgN+q+fVDKC+R6tv+qNEe Comment: Requires PGP version 2.6 or later. iQCVAwUBQTuPt/ymwUj/iuMFAQGPfgP/ZpjsP3jsIn9XT/L1d8c07OJyZIYOUt4t mTsV0fW7ZQrPUSNVcyF4LOQPCzNQDKhsQAhdrlsrpNDcaGfOxOjtLPSuLzkWpXhY Y5ayBgmh4EWVtZRN8z94GqKwqKjg21oayL5HQr+kUagV2JRNQEtXd1YuwRurmWx4 hM4QO2dyVZc= =KrEx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF--
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