Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 03:36:08 -0800 (PST) From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) To: jkh@freebsd.org Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: history.sgml diff Message-ID: <199612111136.DAA02455@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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Jordan, Here's a patch to history.sgml, in anticipation of the imminent 2.2 release. (Yeah, I refer to 2.2R as if it already occured. :) Feel free to hunt and peck. In particular, you may want to add some more "new features" from the release notes. Satoshi ------- Index: history.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/share/doc/handbook/history.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -r1.16 history.sgml --- history.sgml 1996/09/09 01:56:58 1.16 +++ history.sgml 1996/12/11 11:32:06 @@ -74,19 +74,24 @@ released FreeBSD 2.0 to the net and on CDROM. Despite being still more than a little rough around the edges, the release was a significant success and has since been followed by the more robust and -easier to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 release in June of 1995. +easier to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 release in June of 1995, which was in +turn followed by 2.1 in January 1996. <em>Where to from here?</em> -We just released FreeBSD 2.1.5 in August of 1996, and it appears to be -doing well enough for us that one last release along the -stable -branch, 2.1.6, is merited. This is scheduled for release some time in -November. +We have released FreeBSD 2.1.5 in August of 1996, and the last release +along the -stable branch, 2.1.6, was done in November 1996. 2.1.6 was +aimed at large-scale installations with more interest on stability and +reliability rather than eye-popping features. 2.2, our development +branch where long term projects for everything from NFS v3 to PCCARD +support took place, finally cumulated into a release in January 1997, +1 1/2 years after the branch was created. -2.2, our development branch where long term projects for everything -from NFS v3 to PCCARD support is currently taking place, will continue -to have snapshot releases made of it right up until initial 2.2 code -freeze, which is scheduled for January of 1997. +The new development branch was created a few weeks prior to the 2.2 +release, and was named 3.0. There will be one more release from the +2.2 branch, intended as a "stable 2.2", sometime during Q2 of 1997. +The first release from the 3.0 branch, including SMP support as the +main new feature, is scheduled near the end of 1997. We also intend to focus on any remaining areas of weakness, like documentation or missing drivers, and steadily increase the overall
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