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FreeBSD is a 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.
+ January 1997
+
+ - 15-Jan-1997
+ FreeBSD
+ 3.0-970114-SNAP has been released.
+ Please see the
+
+ Release Notes for more information.
+
+
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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