From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 5 21:15:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CE116A4CF; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 21:15:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC2043D45; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 21:15:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.0.200] ([192.168.0.200]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i85LG55t095901; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 15:16:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <413B8161.6040701@samsco.org> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 15:13:05 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040831 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org Subject: BETA3 Release Notes 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: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 21:15:59 -0000 The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA3. This is the third 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. Fixes and Enhancements made since BETA2: - MP-safe network stack is now enabled by default. - Add support for loadable modules on amd64. - Misc. acpi fixes. - Misc. fixes and enhancments (mostly gnutar compatibility) to bsdtar. - X server configuration has been removed from sysinstall, it is best done post-install. - Better ftw() and nftw() implementations imported from OpenBSD. - Misc. pf fixes. - Fix to maestro sound card driver. - Fix to md device driver that allowed mdconfig(8) to exit before filenames appeared in /dev. - Fixes that allow use of TGA2 adapter in Alpha. - Correct a denial-of-service vulnerability in zlib. - Misc. fixes to aic7xxx driver. - Fixes to schedulers. 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. We are investigating this and hope to correct it soon. - 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. - On sparc64 only, there is a problem using ATA devices in DMA mode. The loader has been temporarily set up to disable DMA in the ATA device driver. The problem has been identified but a fix is still in the works. - Kernel and user-level debugging aids (INVARIANTS, WITNESS, user-level malloc, etc) are still enabled so do not use this BETA as an indication of speed. 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, ISO images and FTP install directories are available for the following architectures: i386: all images available alpha: mini ISO available amd64: mini ISO available, disc1 with packages will be available shortly ia64: mini ISO available pc98: mini ISO available sparc64: all images available MD5 (5.3-BETA3-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 6407ae17db85361ba4194d1f53df0dd0 MD5 (5.3-BETA3-alpha-disc2.iso) = a8f07884750e60b427d309c45d86100d MD5 (5.3-BETA3-alpha-miniinst.iso) = 74125f9ea9e215cfc9ed4f089410723c MD5 (5.3-BETA3-amd64-bootonly.iso) = eda3bad2b1b8ad33048464277e02698c MD5 (5.3-BETA3-amd64-disc2.iso) = 25a8bef2756548d2756d281210e3d8bd MD5 (5.3-BETA3-amd64-miniinst.iso) = 3bbeb365d08360797a41903841ba1751 MD5 (5.3-BETA3-i386-bootonly.iso) = ca5b1cca7f677d4c456b6373f15e8e43 MD5 (5.3-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso) = 3d562562786f2ca432a8085029380f73 MD5 (5.3-BETA3-i386-disc2.iso) = c805ae7df8cd43593b080fa3300d52da MD5 (5.3-BETA3-i386-miniinst.iso) = 900f994e1887b3c5c1d908f50f56ebbd MD5 (5.3-BETA3-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 97c3f51233dbd2dd70cd40ed5ff9e284 MD5 (5.3-BETA3-ia64-disc2.iso) = 38b9a4620dacb5bc3157c08b1675a9ba MD5 (5.3-BETA3-ia64-miniinst.iso) = d6a496552372ba2cbb45674f9b8d85e7 MD5 (5.3-BETA3-pc98-disc2.iso) = 034b3d37bd05ff2e68494114501cf429 MD5 (5.3-BETA3-pc98-miniinst.iso) = 535afa47704fdcb3cc63006ee0ae16f3 MD5 (5.3-BETA3-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 97a0dfe362ad699ffc227ca418ff118a MD5 (5.3-BETA3-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 3c096fb229c9cfa4afb47ca5b20ec3a6 MD5 (5.3-BETA3-sparc64-miniinst.iso) = 67f418e3ab03b15e934a093bac5379d1