From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 14:11:48 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 733CD16A4CE; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:11:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B1843D48; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:11:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i94EBMqb009283; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 08:11:22 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <416159E8.5080804@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 08:10:48 -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 References: <4160259A.3070708@FreeBSD.org> <4160C166.7060109@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4160C166.7060109@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 cc: developers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 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, 04 Oct 2004 14:11:48 -0000 The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7. This is the seventh and final 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 follow on next with an RC1 release candidate unless significant show- stopper bugs are found. The schedule can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html. Be sure to check the "Known Issues" below as there are known problems that are still being worked on at this time. IMPORTANT: BIND 9.3.0 has replaced BIND 8.x as the default name server. IMPORTANT: Several libraries have had their version numbers bumped in order to maintain FreeBSD 4.x compatibility. Any programs that rely on these libraries should be rebuilt. The /etc/libmap.conf facility can be used to help this migration. In particular, libm.so.2 should be mapped to libm.so.3 while the migration is in progress. The libraries that changed are: libm.so.2 -> libm.so.3 libhistory.so.4 -> libhistory.so.5 libopie.so.2 -> libopie.so.3 libpcap.so.2 -> libpcap.so.3 libreadline.so.4 -> libreadline.so.5 Other fixes and enhancements made since BETA6: - Fix timekeeping on sparc64 and alpha that would result in the day of the week being stored incorrectly in NVRAM. - Add support to the fxp driver for the ICH6 chipset. - Fix the panic on detach problem with USB hubs. - Import BIND 9.3.0. This completely replaces the old BIND 8.x nameserver in the base system. Many thanks to Dag-Erling Smørgrav, Tom Rhodes, Doug Barton, and Ruslan Ermilov for making this happen. - Fix panic when allocating swap on a busy system. - Fix loader crash when using the 'lsdev' command. - Many more GBDE, ggate, gmirror, and gstripe fixes. - Fix the '-s' option in newfs to handle large filesystems. - Fix a resource allocation problem with the floppy driver that would result in long delays during boot. - Add support for the Broadcom 5750/5751 chips to the bge driver. - Allow 'sh' to handle unsetting of undefined variables. - Fix several locking problems in PF. - Many fixes to the ATA driver to make it more robust. - Many locking fixes for the re driver. - Work around a panic on sparc64 SMP systems when under heavy load. - Fix handling of non-existent devices at boot for getty. - Disable Synaptics touchpad support in the psm driver as it was causing many problem reports. - Fix the em driver to not wedge when under heavy transmit load. - Fix KAME IPSEC and FAST IPSEC. - Fix the pst driver to not panic on boot when INVARIANTS is defined. Known issues in this release: - There are known data corruption issues with gvinum. Fixes are being tested now. - There are reports of packet corruption with the nge driver when the network stack is run without the Giant mutex. A fix is being tested. 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: all images available amd64: all images available i386: all images available ia64: miniinst available pc98: miniinst available sparc64: all images except disc1 available (new package sets still being built, disc1 may be made available later) MD5s for the builds that are complete at this time are: MD5 (5.3-BETA7-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 0ec066fb157784e79a6a88f3d2191574 MD5 (5.3-BETA7-amd64-disc2.iso) = 009d7cc50bec635ae1883ef3de40b122 MD5 (5.3-BETA7-amd64-miniinst.iso) = 952c987ab87774dc391c0774eb87eed7 MD5 (5.3-BETA7-amd64-disc1.iso) = 7826043ff52b3e9e2f4443517d362a8d MD5 (5.3-BETA7-i386-bootonly.iso) = 13e3b9c84f86c61461030e40adb895ee MD5 (5.3-BETA7-i386-disc2.iso) = 4812cda4404454cf2ef7e92722156f37 MD5 (5.3-BETA7-i386-miniinst.iso) = 5cf967bfd44543f0afdf5a9449734051 MD5 (5.3-BETA7-i386-disc1.iso) = f8873a9b1072fdc6ca9d5f0c1fe58c73 MD5 (5.3-BETA7-ia64-bootonly.iso) = b1089e7493a207ba32c0cb68098ceb2e MD5 (5.3-BETA7-ia64-disc2.iso) = 0d20ca0788ff4c1be75be2dbedb37579 MD5 (5.3-BETA7-ia64-miniinst.iso) = c85ce87890f0fa053f14bd134e57fc2c MD5 (5.3-BETA7-pc98-disc2.iso) = c8cbaa0568b0df28c2ae3d39bcdbb62f MD5 (5.3-BETA7-pc98-miniinst.iso) = f6677efe217e0d5d2f207fb39d849294 MD5 (5.3-BETA7-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 203ced5fa0fb7a1cb44c0548b8449601 MD5 (5.3-BETA7-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 8462696261f696a9391d4a27a56b1bbe MD5 (5.3-BETA7-sparc64-miniinst.iso) = dc4225c8d18127b5ce93cf650cc1458e