From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 5 14:49:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D968116A4CE for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:49:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bloom.cse.buffalo.edu (bloom.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B6E43D3F for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:49:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kensmith@FreeBSD.org) Received: from bloom.cse.buffalo.edu (localhost.cse.buffalo.edu [127.0.0.1]) by bloom.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.3/8.12.4) with ESMTP id j35EnZsf054464 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:49:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by bloom.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j35EnZW5054463 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:49:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kensmith) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:49:35 -0400 From: Ken Smith To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050405144935.GA54439@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: FreeBSD 5.4-RC1 is available X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 14:49:37 -0000 --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Announcement ------------ The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC1, the first Release Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. Much effort has been put into fixing a wide variety of problems identified in FreeBSD 5.3. It is important to check the "Known Issues" section below. In particular two strictly local security issues came up after the RC1 builds had completed and were made available to mirror sites but before this announcement. We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be identified and worked out. At this point the only major problem has been reports of large server (4 processors or more) hanging under extreme load conditions (varied load of local processes like database and heavy network load). Details to help with debugging have been hard to obtain so if anyone is in a position to help with trying to reproduce this it would be appreciated. The layout of the installation CDs is slightly different than previous releases. The disc1 image should be used to start the install. It contains a "live filesystem" and the set of packages that normally get installed as part of a minimal install (perl, the baseline Xorg windowing system, and on i386 the base Linux emulation package). The disc2 image contains a larger variety of packages (kde3, gnome2, etc) that can be installed while doing the initial installation of the machine, but if you just want to do a minimal install disc1 should be all you need. Availability of ISO images and support for doing FTP based installs is given below. If you have an older system you want to update using the normal CVS/cvsup source based upgrade the branch tag to use is RELENG_5_4. Problem reports can be submitted using the send-pr(1) command, and/or posted to the "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" mailing list. A schedule and the current todo list for the 5.4 Release Cycle are available: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/schedule.html http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/todo.html Known Issues ------------ Two strictly local security issues came along after the RC1 builds had completed and were made available to the FTP mirror sites so it was too late to re-roll the RC1 images. Please take a look at the Security Advisories to see if they are something you need to be concerned with before installing RC1. The fixes for the first (FreeBSD-SA-05:02.sendfile) have already been applied to RELENG_5_4 (so if you use CVS/cvsup to upgrade you will get those fixes). The fixes for the second, which will be FreeBSD-SA-05:03.amd64, are still being processed. This second Security Advisory only effects the amd64 architecture, and the vulnerability is quite obscure. There is also a problem with installing for some combinations of ATAPI CDROM's and controllers. This is seen most often on SunBlade-100 model sparc64 machines though it is occasionally seen on other architectures. If installing from CD fails with read errors from the CD you can try breaking to the boot loader as the boot starts and enter the commands: set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 boot to turn off DMA mode for the CDROM. This will be made the default mode before the next RC. The packages being provided as part of RC1 are close to being the final set that will be provided with the final release but there are still a few minor glitches being worked out with a couple of the packages. The next RC should have most of these glitches fixed. Availability ------------ The RC1 ISOs and FTP support for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 are available now on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites. The alpha and ia64 RC1 builds are still in progress and should be available within a day or two. A list of the mirror sites is available here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html The MD5s of the currently available ISO images are: MD5 (5.4-RC1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 25b1ba77b92fbabe3c6f9a6ebf5e81e3 MD5 (5.4-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso) = 765a61161612c40d40329962b7548815 MD5 (5.4-RC1-amd64-disc2.iso) = 8ea253a82e074e72bf4f051aafad1b47 MD5 (5.4-RC1-i386-bootonly.iso) = 03fe99fac40780e295b43c1fdbc65273 MD5 (5.4-RC1-i386-disc1.iso) = 187313ec23d441820f66b9d4046d5fb3 MD5 (5.4-RC1-i386-disc2.iso) = f020c3c538bb9b1f6ac96701814a6a04 MD5 (5.4-RC1-pc98-disc1.iso) = deca1dc19120325fc5e6561d928ab29c MD5 (5.4-RC1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 54fdffa78f2d2ef35866d88f4bfe5cb0 MD5 (5.4-RC1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 62f7cd03187d9cccb4707fdac318c461 MD5 (5.4-RC1-sparc64-disc2.iso) = ea4e6dc57af0bfe83c60d0596c03a453 -ken --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCUqV9/G14VSmup/YRAhYSAJ0YZtMSZX35mfFK3WvjKHsJhXn6HgCgkeDa 9SZ0Esls9O7isOklVC/0Plw= =Qsc4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ--