From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 18 08:06:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52364106566B for ; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:06:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from njm@njm.me.uk) Received: from smtp003.apm-internet.net (smtp003.apm-internet.net [85.119.248.52]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB3478FC08 for ; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:06:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from njm@njm.me.uk) Received: (qmail 47324 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2009 07:40:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO titania.njm.me.uk) (86.148.211.148) by smtp003.apm-internet.net with SMTP; 18 Jul 2009 07:40:14 -0000 Received: from titania.njm.me.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by titania.njm.me.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n6I7eDQc043335; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:40:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from njm@njm.me.uk) Received: (from njm@localhost) by titania.njm.me.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n6I7eDGr043334; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:40:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from njm@njm.me.uk) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:40:13 +0100 From: "N.J. Mann" To: Ken Smith Message-ID: <20090718074013.GA42796@titania.njm.me.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Ken Smith , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable References: <1247887759.14210.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1247887759.14210.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE User-Agent: mutt-NJM (2009-07-16) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable Subject: Re: 8.0-BETA2 Available X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:06:58 -0000 In message <1247887759.14210.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu>, Ken Smith (kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU) wrote: > > The second of the BETA builds for the FreeBSD-8.0 release cycle is now > available. There are still a few things being finished up so a couple > more moderately large commits are coming but we seem to be making good > progress. The target date for the last of the things still being worked > on is BETA3. In the meantime we appreciate the feedback we have > received from people who have started testing and some of those problems > have been fixed as well. > > As was the case with BETA1, BETA2 is still a little bit "rough around > the edges" and we still have various debugging tools enabled that cause > the system to perform worse than it will when those debugging tools get > disabled. We don't know of any issues that will "eat your data" or > anything like that so in that regard it's safe but we don't recommend it > for production use quite yet. If you notice problems you can report > them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the freebsd-current > mailing list. Sorry for not specifying that in the BETA1 announcement. > With the X.0 releases I make the announcements of how the release is > progressing on both freebsd-current and freebsd-stable because what's > being released is "about to become a stable branch" so some people who > only read freebsd-stable might be interested. But when it comes to > watching for discussions about the release the developer community tends > to pay more attention to the freebsd-current mailing list. > > ISO images for all supported architectures are available on the FTP > sites, and a "memory stick" image is available for amd64/i386 > architectures. For amd64/i386 architectures the DVD and memstick images > include the documentation packages this time but no other packages yet. > None of the other images included packages. The memstick image should > now work in "fixit" mode (livefs). > > If you are using csup/cvsup methods to update an older system the branch > tag to use is still head ("."). > > The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 > systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running 7.0-RELEASE, > 7.1-RELEASE, 7.2-RELEASE, or 8.0-BETA2 can upgrade as follows: ^^^^^^^^^ I think in this one instance you actually mean 8.0-BETA1. Cheers, Nick. --