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- FreeBSD is a is a rapidly developing operating system.
+
FreeBSD is a rapidly developing operating system.
Keeping up on the latest developments can be a chore! To
keep on top of things, be sure and check this page
periodically. Also, you may wish to subscribe to the freebsd-announce
mailing list.
For a detailed description of past, present, and future releases,
see the Release
Information page.
+ February 1997
+
+ - 02-Feb-97
+ A snap-of-the-day server has been set up for the most current snapshot
+ release of FreeBSD 2.2. Read the
+ README.TXT
+ file for more information.
+
+
January 1997
December 1996
- 24-Dec-1996
FreeBSD 2.2-BETA
has been released. Please see the
Release Notes for more information.
- 13-Dec-1996
FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE will not support installation on machines with less
than 5MB of RAM or 1.2MB floppy drives. Please see the original
announcement for more
information.
November 1996
- 15-Nov-1996
FreeBSD
2.1.6-RELEASE is out. Please see the
release notes for more information.
- 4-Nov-1996
The FreeBSD CVS
development tree has branched again. See here
for more information.
- October 1996
-
-
- August 1996
-
- - 1-Aug-1996
- The 2.2-960801 snapshot has been released.
-
-
- July 1996
-
-
- June 1996
-
- - 27-June-1996
- The
- 2.1-960627
- snapshot has been released.
- It is equivalent to a 2.1.5-BETA release.
-
-
- 25-June-1996
- The stuffed daemon plushies are now shipping from
- Liebscher & Partner.
- Please contact the company via email for more details. A picture
- of an early prototype is here. Do note that
- this is a prototype and that the final, shipping version has
- had some improvements made to it.
-
- - 12-June-1996
- The
- 2.2-960612
- snapshot
- has been released. The new features of this snapshot are:
-
- - A considerable number of changes to the VM system have been made
- to increase the stability under certain types of load. If you
- had panics under the last snapshot, try this one and see if they
- persist.
-
- - The AHC driver now does considerably more in the way of handling
- error conditions gracefully.
-
- - More cosmetic work on the installation, /stand/sysinstall now
- genuinely useful after installation time (though still missing a man
- page - urk!).
-
- - Basically, lots-o-fixes. If you are trying to use the 2.2 SNAPs
- in more serious applications, please upgrade to this version.
-
-
- [Note: This release will not be made available on CDROM to 2.2-SNAP
- subscribers].
-
-
- May 1996
-
- - 1-May-1996
- The
- 2.2-960501
- snapshot
- has been released. The new features of this snapshot are:
-
- - Early support for APM (automated power management) and PCCARD
- (formerly PCMCIA) features of laptops. Many PCCARD devices
- are supported, from modems to Ethernet cards to SCSI adaptors.
-
- - Adaptec AIC7850 support has been added.
-
- - The Yellow Pages (NIS) support has had many optimizations made
- and no longer has portions copyright under the GPL.
-
- - Various VM system enhancements and a few bugs fixed (gzip'd
- binaries now work again, for example).
-
- - The system installation tool has been revamped with slightly
- different menu behavior and a number of bugs have been fixed.
- It is hoped that this installation will be more intuitive for new
- users than previous ones (feedback welcomed, of course).
-
- - Much miscellaneous cleanup work with the header files and sources.
-
-
-
-
- April 1996
-
-
- - 15-Apr-1996
A new
- FreeBSD-emulation
- mailing list has been created for discussing ongoing development efforts
- for DOS, Windows, Linux and other forms of binary emulation.
-
- - 14-Apr-1996
- Berkeley Software Design, Inc. has donated their DOS emulator
- rundos to the BSD community! Work is now ongoing in integrating
- this into FreeBSD, and interested parties can
- join the
- FreeBSD-emulation mailing list to find out more about how
- this work is progressing.
-
-
- March 1996
-
-
- - 23-Mar-1996
- The
- 2.2-960323
- snapshot
- has been released. The new features of this snapshot are:
-
- - The Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Ethernet card is now
- supported.
-
- - The 3COM 3C590 and 3C595 Ethernet cards are now supported.
-
- - The ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570i high-speed serial card is
- now supported.
-
- - The Linux emulation is now good enough to run the Linux version
- of Netscape, with JAVA support (as well as a number of other Linux
- utilities).
-
- - The Matrox Meteor frame grabber card is better supported.
-
- - It is now possible to burn CDROMs using the Plasmon or HP 4080i
- CDR drives (see `wormcontrol(1)').
-
- - The pipe code has been substantially sped up, as have some
- components of the VM system.
-
- - A /dev/random device (and associated "pool of entropy") has
- been added for applications which require more unpredictable
- sequences of random numbers for security. See the random(4)
- man page for more info.
-
- - Early NFS v3 support (not enabled by default).
-
- - An early implementation of the Device Filesystem (devfs)
- is available (see mount_devfs). Device switch tables are now
- also dynamically built.
-
- - Early IPX routing support.
-
-
-
- November 1995
-
-
- - 19-Nov-1995
FreeBSD 2.1 is now available at
- ftp sites all around the world. See the Release information for
- details.
-
- - 4-Nov-1995
Snapshot 2.1.0-951104 is now
- available. The purpose of this snapshot is:
-
- - To incorporate changes based on all the feedback
- and bug reports received for the previous
- snapshot's installation.
-
- - To incorporate the latest XFree86 release (3.1.2-S)
- with security enhancements. There may be more fairly
- minor changes here before 2.1 is put on CD, but this
- is basically what will be shipping.
-
- - To get feedback on the new ``Novice Install'' split
- out of the Express installation (which now truly is
- an express installation).
-
- - To give folks something a little less buggy to load on new
- systems while they are waiting for 2.1 to come out.
-
- - To fold in the latest versions of the FreeBSD
- Handbook, updated for 2.1.
-
- - To correct some slight whiffy English in the online help.
-
- - To go back to the previous approach of just
- uncommenting the ATAPI and wcd0 entries in GENERIC
- for building atapi.flp. The idea of commenting out
- the wd2 and wd3 entries in an effort to make things
- better seems to have only made them worse in the last
- SNAP. If this atapi.flp image works for you, great!
- If not, I am afraid that it is far too late to do
- anything about at this stage so any failure reports
- will be simply filed for post-2.1 analysis. Sorry
- IDE CDROM hackers, but you had your chance!
-
-
-
-
- October 1995
-
-
-
- September 1995
-
-
-
- - 29-Sep-1995
Snapshot
- 2.1.0-950928 is now available.
-
-
-
- August 1995
-
-
-
- - 19th: An IDE CD-ROM driver has been added to
- FreeBSD-current, thanks to Serge Vakulenko. If you are
- running -current, the driver can be enabled by
- adding:
options ATAPI
device
- wcd0
to your kernel configuration file,
- rebuilding the kernel and rebooting. Please let us know
- if you have problems by sending a message to freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG.
-
-
-
- July 1995
-
-
-
- - 27-Jul-1995
Snapshot 950726 is
- now available.
-
-
-
- June 1995
-
-
-
- - 23-Jun-1995
Snapshot 950622 is
- now available. Bugs fixed and new features include:
-
- - SLIP installation did not ``ifconfig sl0''
- properly.
-
- - It was not possible to do certain operations
- atomically, e.g. just write out fdisk information,
- or just extract distributions. This can now be done
- from the Custom Install menu.
-
- - There is now an Express Install menu that
- leads you through all the necessary steps.
-
- - /usr/src/bin is now properly extracted as
- part of the source distribution.
-
- - A couple of panics in the kernel are now fixed.
-
- - DOS filesystems are now mounted read-only by
- default until we figure out what it is about R/W DOS
- filesystems that clobbers some systems.
-
-
-
- As always, this snapshot is offered as a complete
- replacement for the previous release and is aimed at
- new users installing the system from scratch. Still no
- update mechanism yet, but there are rumors of a project
- being formed to deal with this soon. If you have any
- interest in being part of it, then please send mail to
- freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG.
- I will also be getting involved in the whole update
- mechanism issue since it has been a gaping hole for far
- too long now and I would like to see a solution sooner
- rather than later. I am sure that many of our users
- feel the same way!
-
-
- - 12-Jun-1995
Because of some glitches in the
- 2.0.5 RELEASE boot disks, an update has been provide at
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE/UPDATES
-
-
- - 10-Jun-1995
FreeBSD 2.0.5 RELEASE has been
- released! See the announcement
- and release notes for more details.
-
- - 5-Jun-1995
Even more installation bugs have been
- fixed. Please check
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA/UPDATES/
- for the latest installation disks if you encounter
- problems.
-
- - 1-Jun-1995
Following extensive feedback from
- the ALPHA release, A new installation disk has been
- generated with numerous bug fixes and enhancements. It
- is available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA/UPDATES/
-
-
- May 1995
-
-
-
- April 1995
-
-
- - 14-Apr-1995
Snapshot 950412 is now
- available. New features include:
-
- - Even more bugs fixed.
- - Driver for Matsushita CDROM ("Sound blaster" CDROM) in second
- revision - it now supports audio commands.
- - Driver for Adaptec 294x improved.
- - FDDI network interface support (DEC cards) improved.
- - Support for DEC 100Mbit "FAST" Ethernet cards (DE 500-XA).
- - /etc files revamped fairly significantly - most customization
- done through one file now, /etc/sysconfig.
- - Performance improvements to networking code (connection
- information now hashed rather than being stored in a linear linked
- list).
- - Package code improved - now supports package dependencies.
- - New version of "libforms".
-
-
- Known problems:
-
- - If you want to run programs linked under 2.0, you
- will need the file libgcc.so.261.0 which can be found
- in the same directory as the snapshot release. The
- file should be placed in /usr/lib once you have
- installed the release.
- - The hostname still is not being set properly in
- /etc/sysconfig for some reason - you should edit this
- file after the initial installation and customize it
- for your system. The comments in the file should
- make the fields you need/want to change pretty
- self-explanatory.
-
-
-
- March 1995
-
-
-
- February 1995
-
-
- - 10-Feb-1995
- Snapshot 950210 is now
- available. New features include:
-
-
- - Screen swapping bug with syscons fixed
- - XFree86 3.1.1
- - NIS (YP) support for FreeBSD much improved
- - A number of panic bugs fixed.
- - Everything listed in the February 2nd SNAP README but
- much improved!
-
-
-
- - 2-Feb-1995:
Snapshot
- 950202 is now available. New features include:
-
-
- - Merged VM/Buffer cache much improved! General
- stability now approaching 2.1 quality levels.
- - Lots more bug fixes
- - Syscons now supports scrollback - use scroll lock and
- arrow/travel keys to move around in your scroll-back buffer.
- - NIS (YP) support for FreeBSD as server and client.
- - First cut at on-demand ppp dialing. Docs still in
- Japanese, but we are working on that! See /usr/bin/ppp
- for more details.
- - IP Firewall code much improved
- - AHA294x controller support now added
- - Sony CDU33a CDROM drive support added
- - Source distribution now split into logical pieces
- - Install much improved - still not what will be
- in 2.1, but a lot easier to use nonetheless.
-
-
-
-
- January 1995
-
-
- - 12-Jan-1995
Snapshot
- 950112 is now available. New features include:
-
- - Merged VM/Buffer cache! Does it work? Is it
- faster? Find out! This is the culmination of over 6
- months of careful hacking.
- - Lots-o-bug fixes
- - Lots-o-bugs (probably)
- - Fixes to floppy driver - may fix some of the reported
- problems.
- - Genius GS-4500 Scanner driver; scan pictures from FreeBSD!
- - Fixes for U24F SCSI controller
- - Many fixes to Seagate driver - Future Domain people please
- test!
- - GNU Info files resurrected from the dead (see infodist)
- - share/doc now quite a bit more functional.
- - A number of new syscons features - software settable cursor,
- more modes for LCD displays, dynamic console allocation, woo
- doggies.
- - Still no kernel srcdist, just one big srcdist still.
- Sorry.
- - Lots of changes to the installation - hopefully this one even
- mostly works for once.
- - A billion other things I have forgotten for now but will
- remember right after I save this document.
-
-
-
-
-December 1994
-
-
- - 7-Dec-1994
If you are having trouble with
- installing Release 2.0 please check
-
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0-RELEASE/floppies
- to see if you have the most recent installation floppies.
- The all new installation procedure for 2.0 brought with
- it a whole set of all new bugs. With the latest
- installation floppies, we hope that these bugs are fixed.
-
-
-
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