From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 13 00:47:33 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 1167A16A4CE; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:47:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 685DD43D54; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:47:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.0.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.0.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8D0mOMx026714; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:48:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <4144ED69.6050107@samsco.org> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:44:25 -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: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA4 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, 13 Sep 2004 00:47:33 -0000 The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA4. This is the fourth 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. At this time the Release Engineering team anticipates releasing at least one more BETA snapshot before the first Release Candidate. The schedule will be updated for this shortly. Fixed and Enhancements made since BETA3: - ATA works on sparc64 and ia64 again. This was due to several bugs in busdma. sparc64 no longer defaults to having ATA DMA be off. - Better support for statically linked threaded programs in GDB. - Support for more Broadcom and Realtek-based NICs - Fixes for MSDOS internationalization support. - Many fixes for ATA including speed fixes for ICH* chips, better error recovery, and better support for devices that respond as both master and slave. - Various locking fixes for AIO, the network stack, and socket polling. - The default scheduler is now 4BSD. The switch was made in the interest maximizing stability for 5.3. Users are still encouraged to try the the ULE scheduler, though known bugs exist with it when PREEMPTION is also turned on. - Kernel debugging and malloc debugging options have been turned off for the remainder of the RELENG_5 branch. - Merge of the massive scheduler cleanup and bug fixes from 6-CURRENT. This addresses a number of stability problems that have existed for over 2 months including deadlocks, randomly aborted processes, and panics. This also improves the performance of the 4BSD scheduler by keeping idle processors busy during light and medium loads. 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. - There are reports of packet corruption with the nge(1) driver when the network stack is run without Giant. These are being investigated. 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: images will be available shortly amd64: all images available ia64: mini ISO available pc98: mini ISO available sparc64: mini ISO available, full disc1 will be available soon MD5 (5.3-BETA4-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 7f75a2e07f8bbcadd9b9e3d7cee06677 MD5 (5.3-BETA4-amd64-disc2.iso) = d98c8be8c48afcacffaa910241ca7f35 MD5 (5.3-BETA4-amd64-miniinst.iso) = 9a1fb23cfc58f7c4261a2150a5b28670 MD5 (5.3-BETA4-amd64-disc1.iso) = 678f953a4631db3aeb91120d9123d646 MD5 (5.3-BETA4-i386-bootonly.iso) = 82f3bd499d2241340bc219660f3acf1c MD5 (5.3-BETA4-i386-disc2.iso) = 7da064e4b47726873376a14becd840fd MD5 (5.3-BETA4-i386-miniinst.iso) = f333569c4436256740e8be8c68f8d54d MD5 (5.3-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso) = 380d3a63a817feeb1650e6b3d07505ce MD5 (5.3-BETA4-ia64-bootonly.iso) = ca272a954af6b5f10e1abb59fefd5d51 MD5 (5.3-BETA4-ia64-disc2.iso) = 189e6dd0a9d6be10ba5cd0d2e4ffd4ea MD5 (5.3-BETA4-ia64-miniinst.iso) = d5b38b5add52de5b00b9294af99ae5bb MD5 (5.3-BETA4-pc98-disc2.iso) = 855de6f83c403a4748d083c9759aa5ec MD5 (5.3-BETA4-pc98-miniinst.iso) = cfc61e3273757099c1e83589fcbd7495 MD5 (5.3-BETA4.tar.bz2) = e2853d340d12f340fe8eb482e0a1fc33 MD5 (5.3-BETA4-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 07c4e060e41fc0bf78923d9fe4deac03 MD5 (5.3-BETA4-sparc64-disc2.iso) = dfe6f9eb046aa46e33d750572bd25c50 MD5 (5.3-BETA4-sparc64-miniinst.iso) = 4310a4f4cfefcafc9b3b902fe1763870 The Release Engineering Team