From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 02:29:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mx1.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339C016A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 02:29:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu (bobbi.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE9143D1F for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 02:29:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kensmith@FreeBSD.org) Received: from bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu (localhost.cs.Buffalo.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.1/8.12.4) with ESMTP id i8K2TRYe070738 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:29:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i8K2TRum070737 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:29:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kensmith) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:29:27 -0400 From: Ken Smith To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20040920022927.GA70726@bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: 5.3-BETA5 Available X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 02:29:29 -0000 The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA5. This is the fifth BETA of the 5.3 release cycle. It is intended for early adopters and those wishing to help find and/or fix bugs. The 5.3 release cycle will continue with weekly BETA builds while bugs are being fixed and features finalized. The schedule is at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html. Be sure to check the "Known issues" below, there are known problems still being worked on at this time. BIND9 is being imported and will be part of the 5.3 release. We will add at least one more beta (BETA6) to accomodate testing. Users of the named daemon should visit the ISC website for information about migrating to BIND9. Fixes and Enhancements made since BETA4: - Updated floppy device driver (testers trying out floppies on your systems would be appreciated). This fixes a lot of problems with floppy drives not being probed/attached. - Fix for panics on certain hardware during boot if no media in the cdrom drive. - Change to pf logging format to handle 64-bit time. If updating an older system remove /var/log/pflog before restarting pf. - Many more scheduler fixes, we encourage testers to turn PREEMPTION on. - Many fixes to bpf locking. - if_re locking added. Problems reported with jumbo frames, fix being tested. - debug.witness_watch moved to debug.witness.watch (old name left but depreciated). - Fix to GBDE key management. If you have specified 4 keys or fewer, you will need to dump your data, re-run gbde init, and restore your data. - Add if_vge driver - Fix to rare VM corruption bug on i386/amd64. - Fix to SCSI sync speed in esp(4) driver. - Fix timeout problems with ppp over if_xl interface. - Misc. network stack locking fixes. - Fix lock order reversal in sound system. - Support round-robin and verify modes in geom raid3. - Misc. fixes to usb. - Misc. mac fixes. - Fixes to geom_mirror. - Many updates to docs, including a new 5.3 Migration Guide. Known issues in this release: - There are scattered reports of data corruption on SMP systems under high load. This could be due to a known bug in the gvinum subsystem, but it could be due to unknown factors. The problem has been tracked to gvinum and a fix will be in BETA6. - pst(4) is known to cause a system panic during the boot time. - The Synaptics Touchpad mouse support is known to have issues with responsiveness. It can be disabled with 'hint.psm.0.flags="0x200"' in "/boot/device.hints". This will be resolved for the release. - There are reports of packet corruption with the nge(1) driver when the network stack is run without Giant. A fix is being tested. A complete list of defects that will be fixed for the release can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/todo.html. Availability: For people wishing to upgrade older systems using cvsup(1) and the procedure described in src/UPDATING the CVS tag to use is RELENG_5 at this point. Note that like all RELENG_X branches this is an active development branch. We do not recommend those branches for normal use (for normal use RELENG_X_Y branches are more appropriate, e.g. RELENG_4_10 is the current stable branch). As of this writing the following are available on ftp.freebsd.org along with some of the mirror sites: alpha: images available some time tomorrow amd64: all images available i386: all images available ia64: miniinst available pc98: miniinst available sparc64: all images available MD5s for the builds that are complete at this time are: MD5 (5.3-BETA5-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 5be9dba4c354b13c18c06fcde98291b5 MD5 (5.3-BETA5-amd64-disc2.iso) = 3117bf2e2b62b62c681602573433355e MD5 (5.3-BETA5-amd64-miniinst.iso) = 84caa18e4f863b393513fb68a3dc977e MD5 (5.3-BETA5-amd64-disc1.iso) = 5ac33f05c3550d7bb7ebf22263c412c9 MD5 (5.3-BETA5-i386-bootonly.iso) = f819ea29a8c07094eca4d04eb0fef869 MD5 (5.3-BETA5-i386-disc2.iso) = 7506ee9ceb8150466439372d36ca9489 MD5 (5.3-BETA5-i386-miniinst.iso) = 57926ee792b68c884df3436a4c33ba12 MD5 (5.3-BETA5-i386-disc1.iso) = 6592143d429f7cf4770f1166c3202f54 MD5 (5.3-BETA5-ia64-bootonly.iso) = bd532c346fc52e42fa2baa97b6ebc3ed MD5 (5.3-BETA5-ia64-disc2.iso) = 5c115101e8b885c41c8122a4e14f30ab MD5 (5.3-BETA5-ia64-miniinst.iso) = 98eed6eb8ba5283225a2cd1a5bb5f920 MD5 (5.3-BETA5-pc98-disc2.iso) = ef7ce632c2253f02d078a9e154a1fa6c MD5 (5.3-BETA5-pc98-miniinst.iso) = 2612557f8cf81ab20b8bdca9481c78c5 MD5 (5.3-BETA5-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = cfb13e419f9ef30a4d9f4ef3dd11e381 MD5 (5.3-BETA5-sparc64-disc1.iso) = b71b08fd7e6c5b53158d2b78ead10ae2 MD5 (5.3-BETA5-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 7984c0396a63f8e6b0403f5ed19e4199 MD5 (5.3-BETA5-sparc64-miniinst.iso) = e5ed673501f8d4e85a28b35db69b793a -ken