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Date:      Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:53:49 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        re@freebsd.org
Subject:   FreeBSD 6.1-BETA2/FreeBSD 5.5-BETA2 Available
Message-ID:  <43FA3A6D.4010903@samsco.org>

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Announcement
------------

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 6.1-BETA2 and FreeBSD 5.5-BETA2.  Both FreeBSD
6.1 and FreeBSD 5.5 are meant to be a refinement of their  respective
branches with few dramatic changes.  A lot of bugfixes have been made,
some drivers have been updated, and some areas have been tweaked for
better performance, etc. but no large changes have been made to the
basic architecture.  The FreeBSD 5.5 Release is being done for people
who are unable to make the jump to FreeBSD 6.X at this time.  We do
encourage people to make that transition as soon as possible, though.
There have been some updates made between FreeBSD 5.4 and FreeBSD 5.5
but not all of the bugfixes done to RELENG_6 have been backported to
RELENG_5.  This will almost certainly be the last 5.X release.

We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be
identified and worked out.  Availability of ISO images 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_6 for 6.1
and RELENG_5 for 5.5, though that will change later in the release cycle
when we start doing the Release Candidates.  Problem reports can be
submitted using the send-pr(1) command.

The list of open issues and things still being worked on are on the
todo list:

	http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html
	http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.5R/todo.html

Known Issues
------------

The DHCP problem that affected the 6.1-BETA1 installer has been fixed.
Several critical fixes were made to the ATA subsystem after the BETA2
builds started, so please check for newer updates before reporting
problems.  The Intel 2200/2915 Wireless is known to have a number of
stability problems that are being worked on right now.  Work is also in
progress to make ht-plug of USB memory devices more reliable.  Updated
packages for all architectures might not be available yet.

Availability
------------

The BETA2 ISOs and FTP support are available on most of the FreeBSD
Mirror sites.  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 are:
MD5 (5.5-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso) = a2333f7f2184e2899c7317202843fab6
MD5 (5.5-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso) = 1c5efbe2276c94890a6e8efb152f55d5
MD5 (5.5-BETA2-amd64-disc2.iso) = bd1e55d73401d6160d2bc1eaef90348c

MD5 (5.5-BETA2-i386-bootonly.iso) = 26fba5024002189a3d0bc8be58a62bc8
MD5 (5.5-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso) = 5fc65d29cd7139dadd20e207b16c81f1
MD5 (5.5-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso) = 24ca73eb276887fa5c90fa670e3b5e64

MD5 (5.5-BETA2-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 8835b89782db79fe042b3d365c9e63ea
MD5 (5.5-BETA2-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 58712a0f7e30e19bfdd52ca5961050db
MD5 (5.5-BETA2-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 1e350504487f0f51fbe590eb830ad3f4

MD5 (5.5-BETA2-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 8ec56c534a22ee5a57af88b01fe3bf76
MD5 (5.5-BETA2-alpha-disc1.iso) = 9abd0f971d2928c95dfff8e0808bbc2c

MD5 (5.5-BETA2-pc98-disc1.iso) = 92d7862ed1b77989fe1545346b9c2cef

MD5 (6.1-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso) = c9d59cadf063e3a67626c1e5477b27bb
MD5 (6.1-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso) = e471a79dbcfbea829c8ab6caa9683e61
MD5 (6.1-BETA2-amd64-disc2.iso) = 29367aa8f31a4af3e49d110574f25319

MD5 (6.1-BETA2-i386-bootonly.iso) = cd77279cdf230e4b37c2d579d2a01cc1
MD5 (6.1-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso) = 3267d7794079d3b803f5f5f004cf04f1
MD5 (6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso) = f47ad00c0240320661a78320befdeaa1

MD5 (6.1-BETA2-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = fc070774c0516391f7176518a0b0fabc
MD5 (6.1-BETA2-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 540aa7abd4f51ea93138086f886e11de
MD5 (6.1-BETA2-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 0d29f1554eb53a8748b9ec280868c460

MD5 (6.1-BETA2-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 923056c4b9c249f5393530ca62618aa6
MD5 (6.1-BETA2-alpha-disc1.iso) = fab96d1ee15340e5e8c639066f313751

MD5 (6.1-BETA2-pc98-disc1.iso) = 95be33fe72af53e9d6140b85385dc8c8

MD5 (6.1-BETA2-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 8eceddde4826e30480933cd05d306084
MD5 (6.1-BETA2-ia64-disc1.iso) = b034fce6098c6c203db379511174c729
MD5 (6.1-BETA2-ia64-livefs.iso) = 2592fa45458555862063b49e2946c16d

The SHA256s are:

SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 
2616b50051eb8213877d4ba506b6f72f218870dffd40d1000b6d022d398d7f09
SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso) = 
603a590632679cf3151ab183da4b53dde241e4990b335f396902cc5c5c5ff531
SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-amd64-disc2.iso) = 
0834e6d5e024db45793ff92b4e436d5c466213bd05b6c1091380d58822c5fb0b

SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-i386-bootonly.iso) = 
b5709ee350faf8010db5eac0db0639945045212bc3e3ac96ed42b3433d698b32
SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso) = 
012356396548d81840dbe004c5b125b1d5725e239728c920e41b786a539c67b9
SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso) = 
567d8321f609f99da8864a48b862a647ebc65ab9bb28b8b3f79a8d86cf108d9d

SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 
f713b1ba0eff3596b57ee22d629e4940e2a61eddf5bb207aa8597158be269851
SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 
50375e00fb40d3e3d56dd6b2f3321916a5324f349ddb1c8e4ec904fd13eaa4e8
SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 
0b502ddc7af1bc061ca102d265f5024006b8b70c0b892a32fcaa4d546a5d91d6

SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-alpha-bootonly.iso) =
bf2010bdf6edf2b4a28459a420a011a6ed12182b8cc975dcd1d699ab5e41ee23
SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-alpha-disc1.iso) =
4b8923da0b3e589af36c33c40875c58b7f4657b5a3bee76007cb6f9515f9ba69

SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-pc98-disc1.iso) = 
09dac64bf4b6087853a52e2bf9ac4f12399f0f82e9d08e6d1af35495e547ec28

SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 
4ad1936fec7c0a31a034c0566e8082860e310cdf76284b3126fbdb38a9ce69d1
SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso) = 
22149007427843fed8a015bf7a62f09c45f7396a65eb06cc179cad4cc049be70
SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-amd64-disc2.iso) = 
91adbb123a76b59134a205634d1290b08cda94e5a05ac983fae7aa6dad341ee8

SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-i386-bootonly.iso) = 
c4cd8c60095361f343c007718b324dc755290006bd2dff32551a5243d76cad27
SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso) = 
b5c3e06eb257c6d685c8834f6f25e02a13512450675c07a52c420c033da9e303
SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso) = 
a2589767a19b18fd0a8d45f44d6a730c830ed821c89573d13c10356ea4bef59c

SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 
fa429ecfa8c8d69162c6c678b514d93a69a7b57fca53f618b98b446bacdcc951
SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 
a5d54609e783b6653be384eeaa820a00073531485fa77a6c8a80a8ef7639ee38
SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 
0a522124bde19e8558637894ed7ec94fcd7e85ca094817dfcbc8a2992056aa90

SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-alpha-bootonly.iso) =
a3dec79cf3057e5cf6717b60c8c0c1f572743d251d49f612b5e27f6c0a3f6cd0
SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-alpha-disc1.iso) =
608141f3211c86fddf70f3e3efe9d2d77e779a3755b9e9b1cd1b222130121dc0

SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-pc98-disc1.iso) = 
b7b2b7f38e4495cb69a39ca0bcb2901659e102b77826ac067626f97dacfb0dc1

SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 
94b257e208bf8d0e2e3e968a7186a377e66de263a893f40a995969a2d88371ad
SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-ia64-disc1.iso) = 
36d29439851f4abc0c87e6b9e3400aeb6f2bad2ac43e152781333c39ee906b7e
SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-ia64-livefs.iso) = 
b750064a2972571595ea82bc37e63819b9b8932d1dc657bff5e5eb6898bb0ca7



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