Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:45:44 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Cc: re@freebsd.org Subject: BETA4! [Re: FreeBSD 6.1-BETA2/FreeBSD 5.5-BETA2 Available] Message-ID: <4417AA08.1090209@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <4417A671.7090109@samsco.org> References: <4417A671.7090109@samsco.org>
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Sorry, I accidentally sent out an incomplete draft. This announcement is for BETA4, of course. Also, the note about VFS changes below should stress that the changes were made for stability, not performance. Sorry for the confusion. Scott Long wrote: > Announcement > ------------ > > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the > availability of FreeBSD 6.1-BETA4 and FreeBSD 5.5-BETA4. 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 > ------------ > > A couple of significant changes were made to 6.1-BETA4. First is a > large set of fixes to the VFS layer and various filesystems that > should sigficantly help performance under heavy load and also fix > problems with forcefully unmounting these filesystems. While these > changes have recieved considerable developer testing, users are > requested to test filesystem stability as much as possible to ensure > that there are no regressions. > > The second large change is that sysinstall will now install both the > GENERIC and SMP kernels and automatically select the appropriate one > based on whether it detects one CPU in the system or multiple CPUs. > However, single CPU systems with hyperthreading will still be treated > as uni-processor by sysinstall. The automatic selection can be > overridden within sysinstall. Testing of this is requested to help > identify systems that are not detected correctly. > > Availability > ------------ > > The BETA4 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-BETA4-pc98-disc1.iso) = bf6cf1238c000a01fe8c34ed4554e66e > MD5 (5.5-BETA4-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 84e55974d8854692a85d43558e10c658 > MD5 (5.5-BETA4-alpha-disc1.iso) = b5fc0a01dc6cb96924c7cd9c18af6dd9 > MD5 (5.5-BETA4-i386-bootonly.iso) = e54261162e775b692138597ae2512bf6 > MD5 (5.5-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso) = 15f3161d4c5f996bbbc9b28682198dde > MD5 (5.5-BETA4-i386-disc2.iso) = 10c4c7985eea736862480b0212e60155 > MD5 (5.5-BETA4-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 371522c9ab80e7d5c0fadd71d670543e > MD5 (5.5-BETA4-amd64-disc1.iso) = 4811510b11620f8706f51e4e0154b8b1 > MD5 (5.5-BETA4-amd64-disc2.iso) = 54ee8ec3240de9d84576f1f0cbf2048a > > MD5 (6.1-BETA4-pc98-disc1.iso) = ee891f12ddb7b62b2c1d3672555ceb3b > MD5 (6.1-BETA4-ia64-bootonly.iso) = b05da331e737c6c614acbb924584199e > MD5 (6.1-BETA4-ia64-disc1.iso) = d0b09231c1d55308fb8fb45eec845284 > MD5 (6.1-BETA4-ia64-livefs.iso) = 9db26824bb09ee98e33ecead0000b643 > MD5 (6.1-BETA4-alpha-bootonly.iso) = c77a7d80803efeba3b8140072ccd4969 > MD5 (6.1-BETA4-alpha-disc1.iso) = b2701eb2931dd815b3b595f9183ae5a4 > MD5 (6.1-BETA4-i386-bootonly.iso) = 113f1b990d298aa8b7f81d93a3636dc3 > MD5 (6.1-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso) = aee3a4416eec24b1795346efeb624416 > MD5 (6.1-BETA4-i386-disc2.iso) = 01b01719f7a06d2613a3e9fe15417b3f > MD5 (6.1-BETA4-amd64-bootonly.iso) = c52a2081931d89cbbebf50f198e8b169 > MD5 (6.1-BETA4-amd64-disc1.iso) = 5624a6ba41abdc60802d21be9ab4cf6e > MD5 (6.1-BETA4-amd64-disc2.iso) = db427ec7ab4af75a8224a890c476846d > > The SHA256s are: > > SHA256 (5.5-BETA4-pc98-disc1.iso) = > 0574c7db49a81c77d1d9cded1add28451026fee5ca52605be03ab6660f9b5ab5 > SHA256 (5.5-BETA4-i386-bootonly.iso) = > 077a4b6561311af08d9f760d734fc822d2589554f4a25ac413cfeb275a59361c > SHA256 (5.5-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso) = > 3367499f48d7fdc526a1f447f8e83ee4eef7a76e74784eb7471124499440e05d > SHA256 (5.5-BETA4-i386-disc2.iso) = > 40751884348826807f6c24ec78d424568be21c3e64fcb002f7cfd2bf9ec3bfa7 > SHA256 (5.5-BETA4-amd64-bootonly.iso) = > ca7390623cfa64589a4f19c80fa557e8a6085c54335811010c6b609a4202fd20 > SHA256 (5.5-BETA4-amd64-disc1.iso) = > a9cba0901cf6747193e173eb1c1d1b843ddaa59d12f2e8e84d0d634d2aba5bb0 > SHA256 (5.5-BETA4-amd64-disc2.iso) = > 763d5dfe8d7bed4dadc8850e04e2ad04b8c3f4ae6e283df6cfdd25b9475a80d0 > > SHA256 (6.1-BETA4-pc98-disc1.iso) = > 3de12c8ec0d65a651bcb200049c5fa7b4a9228ebea6f64dea15b35ab07d19178 > SHA256 (6.1-BETA4-ia64-bootonly.iso) = > 430681fcf11c258c0161bd1b79b19a7131252aaf033f2cfcc6f5f3053a2aa255 > SHA256 (6.1-BETA4-ia64-disc1.iso) = > 0f91037340f11c64db68613d154d046470f0ec3e6daef125e6c923d172fb9608 > SHA256 (6.1-BETA4-ia64-livefs.iso) = > 6ff4ad8ef9e1d8b18a0352c5d400887e44ef75b856f91aa5760cb8c0fd026df7 > SHA256 (6.1-BETA4-i386-bootonly.iso) = > 5b1173e91459c1613cdbac3e400802f0755c880b13571a8441941d027c1ee5d6 > SHA256 (6.1-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso) = > fad4d1811061c45ed3cde22d40893e02256df518234c57671be06dddeb532d37 > SHA256 (6.1-BETA4-i386-disc2.iso) = > 1a68984b90a222893001cd3bcfeb4a20bf9effb497055d236f830fac655ff63e > SHA256 (6.1-BETA4-amd64-bootonly.iso) = > e76e9594a2a76e73dfc50d79576d37347b1c18c3b301567a1953946a66caced7 > SHA256 (6.1-BETA4-amd64-disc1.iso) = > a8bf30ed9d8c8d3a62702d8e7b0bc9436a2bf21ea13944ae46cab839ed38bac7 > SHA256 (6.1-BETA4-amd64-disc2.iso) = > 23259557817b4f52a3c0000698976c3be38c34d370d64b478c67e00a241c9304 >
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