From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 00:55:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A254516A4CF for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:55:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from gauss.stokely.org (builder.freebsdmall.com [65.86.180.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C41B43FE3 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:55:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from murray@gauss.stokely.org) Received: from gauss.stokely.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gauss.stokely.org (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9T8tJYm042559 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:55:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from murray@gauss.stokely.org) Received: (from murray@localhost) by gauss.stokely.org (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id h9T8tJqf042558 for announce@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:55:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:55:19 -0800 From: Murray Stokely To: announce@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031029085519.GJ40749@freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 4.9 is now available X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Project Announcements [moderated] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:55:20 -0000 --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE in April 2003, we have made conservative updates to a number of software programs in the base system, dealt with known security issues, and merged support for large memory i386 machines with Page Address Extensions (PAE) from 5.1. For a complete list of new features, known problems, and late-breaking news, please see the release notes and errata list, available here: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.9R/relnotes.html http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.9R/errata.html This release does not include all of the new technologies that were introduced with FreeBSD 5.1 in June. Most developer resources are focused on improving the FreeBSD 5.X branch, and this may very well be the last major release of FreeBSD 4.X. The security officer team will continue to actively support the 4.X branch according to the normal policy. Additional 4.9.X releases may be made available when necessitated by security vulnerabilities or high-impact bugfixes. We encourage all our users to evaluate FreeBSD 5.1 and the upcoming 5.2. Because PAE support has only been a feature in 4.X for a few months, it has not received wide-spread testing, and our most conservative users may wish to stay with FreeBSD 4.8 until they choose to migrate to 5.X. For more information about the distinctions between FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X, or for general information about the FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see : http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/ Availability ------------ FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE supports the i386 and alpha architectures and can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies have contributed substantially to the development of FreeBSD: FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/ Daemonnews, Inc. http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html Each CD or DVD set contains the FreeBSD installation and application package bits for the i386 ("PC") architecture. For a set of distfiles used to build ports in the ports collection, please see the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing extra bits which no longer fit on the 4 CD set, or the DVD distribution. If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO images. We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from: ftp.FreeBSD.org ftp3.FreeBSD.org ftp.au.FreeBSD.org ftp2.de.FreeBSD.org ftp4.de.FreeBSD.org ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org ftp6.tw.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to: ftp://ftp..FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on. More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The FreeBSD Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through for users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Acknowledgments --------------- Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.9 including The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and NTT/Verio. In addition to myself, the release engineering team for 4.9-RELEASE includes: Scott Long Release Engineering Bruce A. Mah Release Engineering, Documentation Wilko Bulte Release Engineering, Alpha arch Mike Silbersack PAE Testing Luoqi Chen PAE Merge Robert Watson Release Engineering, Security John Baldwin Release Engineering Joe Marcus Clarke Package Building, GNOME Kris Kennaway Package Building Will Andrews Package Building, KDE Jacques A. Vidrine Security Officer Please join me in thanking them for all the hard work which went into making this release. Many thanks are also due to the FreeBSD committers (committers@FreeBSD.org), without whom there would be nothing to release, and thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide who have contributed bug fixes, features, and suggestions. Enjoy! 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