diff --git a/en/releases/4.1R/announce.sgml b/en/releases/4.1R/announce.sgml index a33f6738cf..c56293c51c 100644 --- a/en/releases/4.1R/announce.sgml +++ b/en/releases/4.1R/announce.sgml @@ -1,110 +1,114 @@ - + + %navincludes; %includes; ]> &header;

Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 05:17:09 -0700
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>
To: announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: 4.1-RELEASE now available from ftp.freebsd.org

I'm very pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE, the very latest in 4.x-STABLE branch technology. Following the release of FreeBSD 4.0 in March, 2000, many bugs were fixed, important security issues dealt with, and quite a few new features added. Please see the release notes for more information.

The 4.1-RELEASE is available for i386 and alpha right now and can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/ftp server. ISO images will also be provided later (see below).

ISO (CD) Images
---------------

ISO images of the installation CD will be made available by August 1st 2000, after the bits have undergone a bit more integration testing. This additional delay is necessary given that the ISO images are so large (~650MB each) and are not something which many people want to transfer more than once. A follow-up announcement will be sent once the ISO images are in place, so please don't send me email asking where they are or when they'll be ready. When they're ready, they'll be uploaded and an announcement will be sent out.

We also can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry these large ISO images, but they will at least be available from:

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.1-install.iso
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/4.1-install.iso

If you can't afford the CDs, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISOs, otherwise please do continue to support the FreeBSD project by purchasing one of its official CD releases from BSDi. FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE can be ordered as a 4 CD set from The FreeBSD Mall from where it will soon be shipping. Each CD sets contains the FreeBSD installation and application package bits for either the x86 or the alpha architecture (each architecture has its own CD set). For a set of distfiles used to build ports in the ports collection, please see also the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing all such extra bits which we can no longer fit on the 4 CD sets. You can also order by phone, postal mail, FAX or email at:

   BSDi
   4041 Pike Lane, #F
   Concord CA, 94520 USA
   Phone: +1 925 674-0783
   Fax: +1 925 674-0821
   Tech Support: +1 925 603-1234
   Email: orders@wccdrom.com
   WWW: http://www.wccdrom.com/

FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Elbonia, the Ukraine and the United Kingdom (and quite possibly several others which I've never even heard of :).

Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to:

ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

- +

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD are also being made available at the following locations. Now that FreeBSD has export permission for crypto from the United States government, you can get it from the following locations or from ftp.freebsd.org:

South Africa

ftp://ftp.internat.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp2.internat.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

Brazil

ftp://ftp.br.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

Finland

ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD/eurocrypt

Thanks! - Jordan + +&footer; + diff --git a/en/releases/4.2R/announce.sgml b/en/releases/4.2R/announce.sgml index 205e4542c3..bd0fc4436d 100644 --- a/en/releases/4.2R/announce.sgml +++ b/en/releases/4.2R/announce.sgml @@ -1,83 +1,87 @@ - + + %navincludes; %includes; ]> &header;

Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 04:31:48 -0800
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
To: announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: 4.2-RELEASE is now available

It is my almost excessive pleasure to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE, the very latest in 4.x-STABLE branch technology. Following the release of FreeBSD 4.1.1 in September, 2000, many bugs were fixed, important security issues dealt with, and a conservative number of new features added. Please see the release notes for more information.

4.2-RELEASE is now available for the i386 and alpha architectures right now and can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/ftp server.

ISO (CD) Images
---------------

We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from:

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.2-install.iso
and ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/4.2-install.iso

If you can't afford the CDs, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISOs, otherwise please do continue to support the FreeBSD project by purchasing one of its official CD releases from BSDi. FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE can be ordered as a 4 CD set from The FreeBSD Mall from where it will soon be shipping. Each CD sets contains the FreeBSD installation and application package bits for either the x86 or the alpha architecture (each architecture has its own CD set). For a set of distfiles used to build ports in the ports collection, please see also the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing all such extra bits which we can no longer fit on the 4 CD sets. You can also order by phone, postal mail, FAX or email at:

   BSDi
   4041 Pike Lane, #F
   Concord CA, 94520 USA
   Phone: +1 925 674-0783
   Fax: +1 925 674-0821
   Tech Support: +1 925 603-1234
   Email: orders@wccdrom.com
   WWW: http://www.freebsdmall.com/

FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Elbonia, the Ukraine and the United Kingdom, among others.

Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to:

ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

- +

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

Thanks! - Jordan + +&footer; + diff --git a/en/releases/4.4R/announce.sgml b/en/releases/4.4R/announce.sgml index aaa52cb836..38d82279eb 100644 --- a/en/releases/4.4R/announce.sgml +++ b/en/releases/4.4R/announce.sgml @@ -1,100 +1,104 @@ - + + %navincludes; %includes; ]> &header;

Date: Thursday, 20 Sep 2001 18:00:00 -0800
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org>
To: announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: 4.4-RELEASE is now available

I am very pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE, the very very latest in 4.x-STABLE branch technology. Since FreeBSD 4.3 was released in April 2001, we have made hundreds of fixes, updated many different components and addressed a wide variety of security issues. We have also substantially revamped the documentation and provided much more comprehensive release notes. Please see the various HTML (or, at your option, text) files in the release directory for more information.

4.4-RELEASE is available for the i386 and alpha architectures and can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/ftp server.

ISO (CD) Images
---------------

We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from:

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.4/
and ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/4.4/

Where ${arch} is currently "i386" or "alpha". If you can't afford the CDs, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISOs, otherwise please do continue to support the FreeBSD project by purchasing one of its official CD releases from The FreeBSD Mall. Each CD sets contains the FreeBSD installation and application package bits for the x86 ("PC") architecture. For a set of distfiles used to build ports in the ports collection, please see also the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing all such extra bits which can no longer fit on the 4 ISO set.

FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Malaysia, Mordor, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the Ukraine and the United Kingdom (and quite possibly several others which I've never even heard of :).

Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to:

ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

- +

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

Most releases prior to 4.4-RELEASE have been team efforts, only possible at all due to the collaboration of many different people. It still bears noting, however, that 4.4-RELEASE was done completely by a "release engineering team" rather than "a release engineer" and I think it's fair to say that with 4.4-RELEASE, we've completed the transition from having one primary person worry about releases to having many primary people (re@FreeBSD.org) worry about them. This is a distinct improvement from any point of view and, I think, an important milestone in FreeBSD's progress.

In addition to myself, the release engineering team for 4.4-RELEASE has been:

Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org> : Release Engineering
Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org> : Package collection
Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org> : Package collection
Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> : Release notes

Please join me in thanking them for all the hard work which went into making this release. I would also like to thank the FreeBSD Committers <committers@FreeBSD.org>, without which there would be nothing to release, and the many thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide who contributed bug fixes, features and suggestions.

Thanks!

- Jordan + +&footer; + diff --git a/en/releases/4.5R/announce.sgml b/en/releases/4.5R/announce.sgml index 84ac778f1a..6b2806b784 100644 --- a/en/releases/4.5R/announce.sgml +++ b/en/releases/4.5R/announce.sgml @@ -1,153 +1,156 @@ - + + %navincludes; %includes; ]> &header;

Date: Tuesday, 29 Jan 2002 20:00:00 -0800
From: "Murray Stokely" <murray@FreeBSD.org>
To: announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: 4.5-RELEASE is now available

I am very pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE, the very latest release on the FreeBSD -STABLE branch of development. Since FreeBSD 4.4 was released in September 2001, we have made hundreds of fixes, updated many system components, made several substantial performance improvements, and addressed a wide variety of security issues.

In particular, there have been significant enhancements in the areas of network communications and filesystems. FreeBSD 4.5 contains improvements to the TCP stack to provide better throughput. In addition, TCP performance is aided by larger default buffer sizes. Finally, FreeBSD 4.5 contains new mechanisms to mitigate the effects of TCP Denial of Service attacks.

The FFS filesystem benefits from a new directory layout strategy that has demonstrated significantly better performance for operations traversing large directory structures. Various bugs were located and fixed in the FFS and NFS code with the help of a filesystem exercising program originally developed at Apple Computer, Inc.

Those users doing fresh installations of FreeBSD should note some changes for newly created filesystems, intended to improve the "out of the box" performance of FreeBSD. In particular, sysinstall(8) now enables Soft Updates (a strategy for improving both performance and reliability of on-disk data structures) for new filesystems it creates and the newfs(8) program will now, by default, create filesystems with larger block sizes.

For more information about the most significant changes with this release of FreeBSD, please see the release section of our web site:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/

-

There you will find There you will find Release Notes, Hardware Notes, and a list of Errata.

Availability

4.5-RELEASE is available for the i386 and alpha architectures and can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/FTP server.

We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from:

If you can't afford the CDs, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISOs, otherwise please continue to support the FreeBSD project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies have contributed substantially to the development of FreeBSD :

FreeBSD Mall, Inc.http://www.freebsdmall.com
FreeBSD Services Ltd.http://www.freebsd-services.com
Daemon Newshttp://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html

Each CD set contains the FreeBSD installation and application package bits for the i386 ("PC") architecture. For a set of distfiles used to build ports in the ports collection, please see the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing extra bits which no longer fit on the 4 CD set.

FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to:

ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

See the FreeBSD Handbook for additional information about FreeBSD mirror sites.

The FreeBSD installation instructions have recently been significantly enhanced. Chapter 2 of The FreeBSD Handbook, available online, provides a complete installation walk-through for users new to FreeBSD.

Acknowledgments

Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.5, including Compaq, Yahoo!, and The FreeBSD Mall.

In addition to myself, the release engineering team for 4.5-RELEASE includes:

Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>Release Engineering
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>Release Engineering
Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>Release Documentation
Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>Package Building
Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.org>Alpha Platform Release Engineering
Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>Ports Cluster System Administration

Please join me in thanking them for all the hard work which went into making this release. I would also like to thank the FreeBSD Committers (committers@FreeBSD.org), without whom there would be nothing to release, and the many thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide who contributed bug fixes, features and suggestions.

Thanks!

- Murray

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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 16:34:26 -0700
From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE is now available

I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE, the very latest release on the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE in January 2002, we have made hundreds of fixes, updated many system components, and addressed a wide variety of security issues.

One of the most significant changes in FreeBSD 4.6 is the adoption of XFree86 4.2.0 as the default version of the X Windows System. We encourage users (particularly those upgrading from older installations of XFree86) to consult the relevant section of the FreeBSD Handbook for information on installing and configuring XFree86 4.2.0. This information can be found on-line at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html

On systems with the doc distribution installed, it can also be found at:

/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html

A number of enhancements to network device drivers have been made, as well as updates to the ATA storage subsystem.

Some contributed programs have been updated, such as sendmail (updated to 8.12.3) and the ISC DHCP client (updated to 3.0.1RC8).

For more information about the most significant changes with this release of FreeBSD, please see the release notes:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.6R/relnotes.html

It is also useful to peruse the errata file, as it contains late-breaking news about the release:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.6R/errata.html

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities (including a schedule of upcoming releases), please see:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/

Availability

FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE supports the i386 and alpha architectures and can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for the i386 are available now. As of this writing, the final builds for the alpha architecture are in progress and will be made available shortly.

We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from:

If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO images, otherwise please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies have contributed substantially to the development of FreeBSD:

FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/
FreeBSD Services Ltd. http://www.freebsd-services.com/
Daemon News http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html

Each CD or DVD set contains the FreeBSD installation and application package bits for the i386 ("PC") architecture. For a set of distfiles used to build ports in the ports collection, please see the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing extra bits which no longer fit on the 4 CD set, or the DVD distribution from FreeBSD Services Ltd.

FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Trantor, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to:

ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html

For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The FreeBSD Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through for users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html

Acknowledgments

Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.6, including Compaq, Yahoo!, and The FreeBSD Mall.

In addition to myself, the release engineering team for 4.6-RELEASE includes:

Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering Lead, i386 Builds
Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, alpha Builds
Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org> Package Splits
Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org> Package Splits
Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> XFree86 Integration

Please join me in thanking them for all the hard work which went into making this release. Many thanks are also due to the FreeBSD committers (committers@FreeBSD.org), without whom there would be nothing to release, and thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide who have contributed bug fixes, features, and suggestions.

Enjoy!

Bruce A. Mah
(For the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team)

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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:47:54 -0700
From: "Murray Stokely" <murray@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE is now available

I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE in June 2002, we have updated a number of software programs in the base system, such as GCC and sendmail. Several new drivers have been added for USB devices and disk controllers. We have also incorporated updates for XFree86 and our Linux emulation libraries.

FreeBSD 4.7 also incorporates all of the security and bug fixes from 4.6.2 (released in August 2002), including several ATA-related bugfixes, updates for OpenSSL and OpenSSH, and fixes to address several security advisories.

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the release notes and errata list, available here:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.7R/relnotes.html

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.7R/errata.html

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities (including information about the upcoming FreeBSD 5.0), please see:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/

Availability

FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE supports the i386 and alpha architectures and can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for the i386 are available now. As of this writing, the final builds for the alpha architecture are in progress and will be made available shortly.

We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from:

If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO images, otherwise please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies have contributed substantially to the development of FreeBSD:

FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/
Daemon News http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html

Each CD or DVD set contains the FreeBSD installation and application package bits for the i386 ("PC") architecture. For a set of distfiles used to build ports in the ports collection, please see the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing extra bits which no longer fit on the 4 CD set, or the DVD distribution.

FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to:

ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html

For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The FreeBSD Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through for users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html

Acknowledgments

Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.7 including The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and NTT/Verio.

In addition to myself, the release engineering team for 4.7-RELEASE includes:

Bruce Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Documentation
Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Security
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, alpha Builds
Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org> Package Splits
Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org> Package Splits
Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Package Building

Please join me in thanking them for all the hard work which went into making this release. Many thanks are also due to the FreeBSD committers (committers@FreeBSD.org), without whom there would be nothing to release, and thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide who have contributed bug fixes, features, and suggestions.

Enjoy!

Murray Stokely
(For the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team)

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The hardware notes for FreeBSD are customized for different platforms, as some of the changes made to FreeBSD apply only to specific processor architectures.

Hardware notes for FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE are available for the following platforms:

A list of all platforms currently under development can be found on the Supported Platforms page.

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The installation notes for FreeBSD are customized for different platforms, as the procedures for installing FreeBSD are highly dependent on the hardware platform.

Installation notes for FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE are available for the following platforms:

A list of all platforms currently under development can be found on the Supported Platforms page.

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Goals

As part of our on-going effort to improve the release engineering process, we have identified several areas that need significant quality assurance testing during the release candidate phase. Below, we've listed the changes in &rel; that we feel merit the most attention due to their involving substantial changes to the system, or having arrived late in the development cycle leading up to the release. In general, our goal in the QA process is to attempt to check a number of things:

To effectively determine this, it's desirable to test the system in a diverse set of environments, applying a wide set of workloads, forcing the system to operate both within and outside its normal specification. Particular focus should often be placed on the continuing (or new) capability of the system to perform correctly when used in concert with systems from other vendors.

Features to explore carefully:

The release notes will always be a good place to look for things to test.

Known Issues

&footer; diff --git a/en/releases/4.7R/relnotes.sgml b/en/releases/4.7R/relnotes.sgml index 63bfcbee0c..465bccafb9 100644 --- a/en/releases/4.7R/relnotes.sgml +++ b/en/releases/4.7R/relnotes.sgml @@ -1,26 +1,30 @@ - + + %navincludes; %includes; ]> &header;

The release notes for FreeBSD are customized for different platforms, as some of the changes made to FreeBSD apply only to specific processor architectures.

Release notes for FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE are available for the following platforms:

A list of all platforms currently under development can be found on the Supported Platforms page.

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Introduction

This is a specific schedule for the release of FreeBSD 4.7. For more general information about the release engineering process, please see the Release Engineering section of the web site.

General discussions about the release engineering process or quality assurance issues should be sent to the public freebsd-qa mailing list. MFC requests should be sent to re@FreeBSD.org.

Schedule

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ActionExpectedActualDescription
Reminder announcement06 Aug 200206 Aug 2002 Release Engineers send announcement email to developers@FreeBSD.org with a rough schedule for the FreeBSD 4.7 release.
4.7-PRERELEASE Testing Guide publishedOngoing02 Sep 2002 A testing guide should be published with information about recent changes and areas of the system that should be thoroughly tested during the pre-release/RC period.
4.7-PRERELEASE 01 Sep 2002 02 Sep 2002 newvers.sh, and release.ent updated.
FTP site updated 01 Sep 2002 02 Sep 2002 pkg_add -r works for 4.7-PRERELEASE machines.
Code freeze begins 01 Sep 2002 01 Sep 2002 After this date, all commits to the RELENG_4 branch must be approved by re@FreeBSD.org. Certain highly active documentation committers are exempt from this rule for routine man page / release note updates. Heads-up emails should be sent to the developers@, stable@, and qa@ lists.
Commercial software demos updated. -- -- The second disc contains commercial software demos, these demos should be updated to contain the latest versions.
4.7-RC 15 Sep 2002 16 Sep 2002 newvers.sh and release.ent updated.
Announce the Ports Freeze 15 Sep 2002 16 Sep 2002 Someone from portmgr should email freebsd-ports@ and BCC: developers@ to set a date for the week long ports freeze and tagging of the ports tree.
First release candidate 15 Sep 2002 18 Sep 2002 The first release candidate for the x86 and Alpha architecture is released. ISO images should be uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org and releng4.FreeBSD.org. A network install directory should be uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org. The packages directory should be a relative symlink, as described in the releng article.
Heads up to -stable 17 Sep 2002 18 Sep 2002 A message should be sent to qa@FreeBSD.org and stable@FreeBSD.org after the snapshot is uploaded.
Package split posted 17 Sep 2002 -- The proposed package split (which packages go on which disc of the 4 CD set) should be posted to qa@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org, and stable@FreeBSD.org.
Second release candidate -- 27 Sep 2002 Note: the release date of this candidate depends on the user experience with RC1.
Third release candidate -- 07 Oct 2002
Ports tree frozen 20 Sep 2002 21 Sep 2002 Only approved commits will be permitted to the ports/ tree during the freeze.
Ports tree tagged 24 Sep 2002 01 Oct 2002 RELEASE_4_7_0 tag for ports/.
Ports tree unfrozen 24 Sep 2002 05 Oct 2002 After the ports tree is tagged, the ports/ tree will be re-opened for commits, but commits made after tagging will not go in 4.7-RELEASE.
Final package build starts 25 Sep 2002 05 Oct 2002 The ports cluster and bento build final packages.
Package split 26 Sep 2002 08 Oct 2002 The packages must be split so that packages with similar dependencies appear on each of the four discs, with the most popular packages appearing on the first disc.
doc tree tagged. 27 Sep 2002 01 Oct 2002 RELEASE_4_7_0 tag for docs.
RELENG_4_7 branch 28 Sep 2002 06 Oct 2002 The release branch is created.
Note to freebsd-stable@ 28 Sep 2002 06 Oct 2002 A note should be sent to the freebsd-stable@ list to let over-anxious users know that the tags have been created but the release still isn't ready. Tags may be slid before the announcement goes out. Point users to freebsd-qa@ for details.
Version numbers bumped. 29 Sep 2002 07 Oct 2002 The files listed here are updated to reflect the fact that this is FreeBSD 4.7.
Update man.cgi on the website. 29 Sep 2002 06 Oct 2002 Make sure the 4.7 manual pages are being displayed by default for the man->web gateway. Also make sure these man pages are pointed to by docs.sgml.
src tree tagged. 29 Sep 2002 06 Oct 2002 RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE tag for src.
Final builds. 08 Oct 2002 08 Oct 2002 Final builds for x86 and Alpha in a pristine environment.
Warn hubs@FreeBSD.org 30 Sep 2002 09 Oct 2002 Heads up email to hubs@FreeBSD.org to give admins time to prepare for the load spike to come. The site administrators have frequently requested advance notice for new ISOs.
Upload to ftp-master. 08 Oct 2002 09 Oct 2002 release and packages uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org
Announcement 08 Oct 2002 10 Oct 2002 Announcement sent out after a majority of the mirrors have received the bits.
Unfreeze the tree 08 Oct 2002 10 Oct 2002 Announcement to developers@ explaining that the release is out, and commits to RELENG_4 no longer require approval. Also note the policy for commits to the RELENG_4_7 branch.
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