The FreeBSD 6-CURRENT snapshot releases in July 2005 are + now available. This will likely be the last snapshot + of 6.0-CURRENT before the RELENG_6 branch is made. + The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has released + snapshot releases of 5-STABLE and 6-CURRENT to encourage + people to test new features and improve the reliability. + For more details, please visit + the snapshots page.
+New committer: Wayne Salamon (src)
New contributor: Matteo Riondato (PR database)
New committer: Kip Macy (src)
The FreeBSD 6.0 code freeze has begun. Developers must have approval from re@FreeBSD.org to commit to the HEAD branch of src/. 6.0 snapshots are available from the FTP sites for those able to help test the upcoming major new release of FreeBSD. For more information, please see the release engineering area of the web site.
The FreeBSD Project is happy to participate in Google's Summer of Code 2005 program. This program will provide funding for students to spend the summer contributing to open source software projects. A list of FreeBSD specific projects and potential mentors is available here.
New committer: Brad Davis (doc)
New committer: Andrew Thompson (src)
New committer: Craig Rodrigues (src)
Another great BSD conference in Ottawa has just concluded. There was a highly successful 2 day FreeBSD Developer summit preceding the official conference. Special thanks should go to Dan Langille for organizing the conference and to Scott Long for organizing the developer summit.
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.4. The Release Information page has more information about FreeBSD releases.
The FreeBSD 5.4-RC4 release is now available. The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC4, the last Release Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 unless a major problem is discovered as part of RC4. The RC4 ISO images and FTP based install support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites.
The packet filter (pf) code has been updated to the upcoming OpenBSD release 3.7. Several new features including nested anchors and connection rate limiting are now available to the FreeBSD userbase.
The January-March, 2005 status report is now available with 39 entries.
The FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 release is now available. The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC3, the third Release Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. The RC3 ISO images and FTP based install support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites.
New committer: Qing Li (src)
New committer: Jean-Yves Lefort (ports)
New committer: Sam Lawrance (ports)
The FreeBSD 5.4-RC2 release is now available. The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC2, the second Release Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. We encourage people to help with testing so that any final bugs can be identified and worked out before the actual release. The RC2 ISO images and FTP based install support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites.
New committer: Joel Dahl (doc)
The FreeBSD 5.4-RC1 release is now available. The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC1, the first Release Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. We encourage people to help with testing so that any final bugs can be identified and worked out before the actual release. The RC1 ISO images and FTP based install support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites.
Enhanced commit privileges: Alexander Leidinger (src, ports)
The FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 release is now available. This is the first BETA release for the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle and the Release Engineering Team encourages people to help with testing so that any final bugs can be identified and worked out before the actual release. The BETA1 ISO images and FTP based install support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites.
The FreeBSD 6-CURRENT snapshot releases in March 2005 are now available. Note that 5-STABLE snapshots are not available in this month because 5.4-PRERELEASE builds will be available soon. The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has released snapshot releases of 5-STABLE and 6-CURRENT on a monthly basis to encourage people to test new features and improve the reliability. For more details, please visit the snapshots page.
GNOME 2.10.0 has been released and merged into the ports tree in time for 5.4-RELEASE. Be sure to checkout our upgrade FAQ for all the changes, upgrade instructions, and known issues. Additional resources can be found at the FreeBSD GNOME homepage.
New committer: Roman Bogorodskiy (ports)
New committer: Damien Bergamini (src)
New committer: Jesus R. Camou (doc)
New committer: Florent Thoumie (ports)
New committer: Simon Barner (ports)
Logo design competition is open
New committer: Tai-hwa Liang (src)
FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.11. The Release Information page has more information about FreeBSD releases.
The July-December, 2004 status report is now available with 44 entries.
The third Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.11 has been made available. Please see the full announcement on the FreeBSD-STABLE mailing list here. The full 4.11 release schedule is here.
The second Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.11 has been made available. Please see the full announcement on the FreeBSD-STABLE mailing list here. The full 4.11 release schedule is here.
The Mozilla License Team has granted permission to the FreeBSD Gnome Team for use of the Firefox and Thunderbird names, official icons, and permission to do officially branded builds.
New committer: Sam Hopkins (src)
The FreeBSD Foundation has published its Quarterly Newsletter, which includes a call for donations so the Foundation can keep its non-profit public charity 501(c)3 status.
The first Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.11 has been made available. Please see the full announcement on the FreeBSD-STABLE mailing list here. The full 4.11 release schedule is here.
New committer: Niels Heinen (ports)
The FreeSBIE 1.1 FreeBSD Live CD is released -- see the release announcement for details.
New committer: Palle Girgensohn (ports)
The schedule for the FreeBSD 4.11 Release has been announced, with a target release date of January 24th, 2005. The full schedule is here.
New committer: Jean-Sébastien Pédron (src)
The 'FreeBSD' trademark, which was originally granted to Walnut Creek CDROM (now FreeBSD Mall, Inc.) in 1996, has been transferred to the FreeBSD Foundation.
New committer: Vicente Carrasco (doc)
New committer: Johann Kois (doc)
GNOME 2.8.1 was merged into the ports tree following the release of FreeBSD 5.3. See the FreeBSD GNOME Homepage for more details as well as upgrade instructions.
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.3. The Release Information page has more information about FreeBSD releases.
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RC2. Two critical issues came up during RC1 testing and it is felt the fixes warrant one more RC so they receive widespread testing. If no more show-stopper problems are found this will be the last test release done before 5.3-RELEASE. Please see the full announcement on FreeBSD-CURRENT here.
New committer: Michael Johnson (ports)
New committer: Remko Lodder (doc)
New committer: George V. Neville-Neil (src)
New committer: Stephan Uphoff (src)
New committer: Koop Mast (ports)
New committer: Xin Li (src, doc)
New committer: Alexey Dokuchaev (ports)
New committer: Dejan Lesjak (ports)
New committer: Cheng-Lung Sung (ports)
New committer: Dmitry Morozovsky (doc)
New committer: Herve Quiroz (ports)
New committer: Pyun YongHyeon (src)
New committer: Bjoern A. Zeeb (src)
The May-June status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
New committer: Suleiman Souhlal (PowerPC)
FreeBSD-CURRENT now ships with X.Org's X Window System per default, though XFree86 is still supported. For more information on how to upgrade for -CURRENT and -STABLE, take a look at this HEADS UP.
New committer: Gleb Smirnoff (src)
New committer: Sergey Matveychuk (ports)
New committer: Lars Thegler (ports)
FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.10. The Release Information page has more information about FreeBSD releases.
New committer: Koichi Suzuki (doc)
The March-April status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
New committer: Christian S.J. Peron (src)
New committer: Stefan Farfeleder (src)
New committer: Jeremy Messenger (ports)
New committer: Tony Ackerman (src)
New committer: Marius Strobl (src)
New committer: Daniel Hartmeier (src)
New committer: Niklas J. Saers (doc)
Because of the hard maintenance and low benefit the gallery pages bring to the Project and the listed websites, it has been decided to spend the time working on other stuff related to FreeBSD than these pages. The gallery will be removed in two weeks, no further submissions will be processed. However, this has no influence on the Commercial Gallery.
New committer: Mark Santcroos (src)
The January-February status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
New committer: Thierry Thomas (ports)
New committer: Volker Stolz (ports)
New committer: Peter Edwards (src)
New committer: Vinod Kashyap (src)
FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.2.1. The Release Information page has more information about FreeBSD releases.
New committer: Markus Brüffer (Ports)
New committer: Jim Rees (src)
Core member resigned: Greg Lehey
New committer: Max Laier (src)
New committer: Lukas Ertl (src)
New committer: Pawel Jakub Dawidek (src)
The October-December status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
New committer: Philip Paeps (src)
New committer: Colin Percival (src)
New committer: Josef El-Rayes (docs)
FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.2. The Release Information page has more information about FreeBSD releases.
New committer: Vincent Tougait (Documentation Project)
As part of an ongoing effort to improve the overall release process before a release actually slips out the door with problems, we are now periodically producing interim test releases called snapshots. These snapshots will be very similar to full releases, except that they will be somewhat more minimal.
The snapshots currently available are the following:
Currently the snapshots of 6-CURRENT and 5-STABLE are released monthly in URLs in the format &url.snapshots;/<month>_<year>/ where <year> is the year, <month> is the month the snapshot was released. Each snapshot directory might contain a RELNOTES.TXT file which outlines the changes for the particular snapshot.
In particular, before getting and installing a snapshot release, be aware of following:
Your feedback on these snapshots is, of course, greatly welcome. They are not just for our benefit - those who are coming to rely on FreeBSD for mission critical applications should welcome a chance to get at more updated bits in a structured fashion. You can also use these snapshots as tangible evidence that your feedback is getting incorporated and that you (hopefully) will not have any unpleasant surprises in the next release. On the other hand, if you do send us hate mail next release and it turns out that you never even tried the snapshots, well, it cuts both ways!
Here are some related resources. Note that they are managed by other people than the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team. These sites provide FreeBSD snapshots in a form of "live filesystem" and bootable ISO images on a daily basis. For details, visit the following links and contact them directly if you have any questions.
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