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Subject: Re: Rescheduled 7.0 Release Date?
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dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 05:36:37PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:33:16PM +0000, dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote:
>>> Has the 7.0 Release date been rescheduled?
>> Yes, there are still more issues in the pipeline.  The website should
>> have the updated schedule within the next 24 hours.
>>
>> mcl
> 
> Thanks! I am waiting for the 7.0 release on cdroms to switch to FreeBSD 
> for better graphics support and Java.
> 
> Dave Feustel

And I am waiting because the 're' driver on 6.3 release is still broken,
while it works as expected on 7.0RC1.

I am disappointed that the 7.0RC1 came out much earlier than 6.3, yet
6.3 doesn't have a functional 're' driver.