From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 04:35:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240C016A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 04:35:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E69B343D49 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 04:35:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from [192.168.4.250] (dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.250]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j3J4Zegh011881 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:35:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <34e43fba37a9442900f8ffd174fdd11b@xcllnt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: ia64@FreeBSD.org From: Marcel Moolenaar Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:35:40 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Subject: Fwd: FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Available X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 04:35:43 -0000 Begin forwarded message: > From: Ken Smith > Date: April 18, 2005 5:51:06 PM PDT > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Available > > > Announcement > ------------ > > 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. Due to one major issue that crops up on large (4-processor) > systems > under heavy load that is still being debugged there will be at least > one > more RC added to the schedule. Timing for the extra RC and the new > Release > date have not been set yet. > > We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be > identified > and worked out. At this point the only major problem has been the > above > mentioned issue of large server (4 processors or more) hanging under > extreme > load conditions (varied load of local processes like database and heavy > network load). Details to help with debugging have been hard to obtain > though progress is being made. If anyone is in a position to help with > trying to reproduce this it would be appreciated. > > Availability of ISO images and support for doing FTP based installs is > given > below. If you have an older system you want to update using the normal > CVS/cvsup source based upgrade the branch tag to use is RELENG_5_4. > Problem > reports can be submitted using the send-pr(1) command, and/or posted to > the "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" mailing list. > > A schedule and the current todo list for the 5.4 Release Cycle are > available: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/schedule.html > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/todo.html > > The packages being provided as part of RC3 are what is expected to come > with the final release for the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 > architectures. > Some of the packages for ia64 are completed though not all of them. At > this time the Alpha packages are still not available. > > Availability > ------------ > > The RC3 ISOs and FTP support for all architectures are available now > on most > of the FreeBSD Mirror sites. A list of the mirror sites is available > here: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors- > ftp.html > > The MD5s of the ISO images are: > > MD5 (5.4-RC3-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 9dacd147491cc7a9a82fe294cffbd257 > MD5 (5.4-RC3-alpha-disc1.iso) = 5be82b6324080651a85397f030055b4b > MD5 (5.4-RC3-alpha-disc2.iso) = a2baa80b2109301119ffa958fb6bf469 > > MD5 (5.4-RC3-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 821f785864ee4ec420f3e455cb950c98 > MD5 (5.4-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso) = 3d36b70047ce301856865750d59409e2 > MD5 (5.4-RC3-amd64-disc2.iso) = 540cecbe9fcb516ae710f772f2a1b499 > > MD5 (5.4-RC3-i386-bootonly.iso) = 14f8b7c2f57c8378a22b3e3187f07888 > MD5 (5.4-RC3-i386-disc1.iso) = bbb811674de4b86aa9331b9160b4dc09 > MD5 (5.4-RC3-i386-disc2.iso) = 4e6c9827b24083b7a76441b083e2ac03 > > MD5 (5.4-RC3-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 8d9161006c0d6a4b11ce9ce13fbf2f7b > MD5 (5.4-RC3-ia64-disc1.iso) = ffb094e6f33689a609e9067452560d14 > MD5 (5.4-RC3-ia64-disc2.iso) = 1c0eb4ba3f5ebeb3c93065417d60922e > MD5 (5.4-RC3-ia64-livefs.iso) = 9357c14d1e5e3de01fa7629c6f3435bf > > MD5 (5.4-RC3-pc98-disc1.iso) = f6896e60140423bffaa271d97bc0dc76 > > MD5 (5.4-RC3-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 9c9db379e7e816129ba1532af3cdfc75 > MD5 (5.4-RC3-sparc64-disc1.iso) = f2c3c553aeb47b4fc32542ec25ec91e1 > MD5 (5.4-RC3-sparc64-disc2.iso) = ba1076a6888000fed72b0f86f1025043 > > -ken > -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net