From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Jun 23 08:06:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA01922 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 08:06:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA01916 for freebsd-announce; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 08:06:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199606231506.IAA01916@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: GNATS bug reports available via CTM To: freebsd-announce Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 08:06:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A new serive is available from FreeBSD.ORG: GNATS updates and bug-reports via the CTM email software update tool. These are *not* bug fixes. These are the bug reports submitted to FreeBSD by its user community. GNATS is a bug-tracking tool designed for use at a central support site. Software users who experience problems report those problems through electronic mail to the the maintainers of the software; GNATS partially automates the tracking of these problems. All FreeBSD problem reports (PRs) filed by users with send-pr(1) are put into this database, as well as additional information about each PR during its lifetime. CTM is the universal software mirror tool designed by Poul-Henning Kamp. It particularly shines in automating software mirrors particulary for people with only email access to the net. The CTM mirror of the FreeBSD GNATS database is intended for people who want to help with tracking and fixing PRs, or for those who feel an urgent need to be continously informed about the status of all PRs. People who are rather interested in an occasional access to the PRs might be better served by the WWW frontend to the GNATS database. (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-summary.cgi) This service has been made possible by: Joerg Wunsch Poul_Henning Kamp and the rest of the FreeBSD core team. Enjoy! jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ From owner-freebsd-announce Tue Jun 25 17:38:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA14496 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA14485; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:38:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199606260038.RAA14485@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD-security-digest NEW mailing list To: freebsd-announce Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:38:20 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-security X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk freebsd-security-digest is a new mailing list available from FreeBSD.org to subscribe send mail to majordomo@freebsd.org containing the single line: "subscribe freebsd-security-digest" this digest will contain all the messages mailed to freebsd-security. the messages will be collected together and sent out as a single mailing on a semi-periodic basis (size and time are the criteria). issues of the digest will be archived at FreeBSD.org. the archives are available thru majordomo. send mail to majordomo@freebsd.org containing the single line: "index freebsd-security-digest" to get a list of archived issues. individual issues can be retrieved by volume and issue number using majordomo. send mail to majordomo@freebsd.org containing the single line: "get freebsd-security-digest " FREEBSD-SECURITY-DIGEST Security matters This is the digest version of the freebsd-security mailing list. The digest consists of all messages sent to freebsd-security bundled together and mailed out as a single message. information on freebsd-security: FreeBSD computer security issues (DES, Kerberos, known security holes and fixes, etc). jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Jun 28 20:33:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA29767 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:33:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA29762 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:32:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA07451 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:32:47 -0700 (PDT) To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.1-960627-SNAP (2.1.5 BETA) is released. Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:32:46 -0700 Message-ID: <7446.836019166@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk See ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1-960627-SNAP for the usual bits. Your prompt feedback on this release will be most appreciated as we'd like to get 2.1.5-RELEASE out sometime in the next 10 days. I do realize that this is a rather short BETA cycle, but the extended testing that the 2.1-stable branch (from which 2.1.5 is derived) has undergone would make further delay somewhat superfluous. We do not expect any significant problems with this release. I'd also like to take this opportunity to address some confusion that people have had regarding the 2.1 SNAPs vs the 2.2 SNAPs. Back when FreeBSD 2.0.5 was released, we branched FreeBSD development into two parts: One branch was named -stable, with the intention that only well-tested bug fixes and small incremental enhancements would be made to it (for ISPs and other commercial enterprises for whom sudden shifts or experimental features are quite undesirable). The other branch was -current, which essentially has been one unbroken line since 2.0 was released. If a little ASCII art would help, this is how it looks: 2.0 | | | 2.0.5 --- > 2.1 ---> 2.1.5 [-stable] | | [-current] 2.2-SNAPs | | 2.2 (scheduled for Q4 '96) | | . . future releases (2.3, 3.0, etc) The -current branch is slowly progressing towards 2.2 and beyond, whereas the -stable branch will effectively end with 2.1.5. While we'd certainly like to be able to continue both branches of development, we've found that CVS is a very poor tool for mantaining multiple longer-term branches like this and quickly results in a maintainance nightmare for any branch which lives much beyond 2-3 months. The -stable branch has, by contrast, lasted for well over a year and what little sanity the FreeBSD developers have left would be in serious jeopardy if we continued in this way. Perhaps in the future we'll figure out another model which gives everyone what they want, and we are working on such a model, but in the meantime it's probably best to think of -stable coming to an end with 2.1.5-RELEASE. We recommend this upcoming 2.1.5 release over the 2.2-SNAPshot releases to anyone for whom stability and dependability are of paramount importance. This is not to say that the 2.2 lineage is inherently instable, and there are many hundreds (if not thousands) of people happily running it today, it's simply that our focus with 2.1.5 has been very different and many of the new features in 2.2 aren't quite ready for prime-time yet, nor will they be until later this summer. As always, general comments should be sent to hackers@freebsd.org and questions to the questions@freebsd.org mailing list. Thanks! Jordan