From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 12 18:05:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55BC816A4CE for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:05:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bd.tradepage.co.za (bd.tradepage.co.za [196.15.134.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF5243D2F for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:05:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@bd.tradepage.co.za) Received: from bd (www.tradepage.co.za [196.15.134.22]) by bd.tradepage.co.za (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.2) with SMTP id ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:00:48 +0200 Message-ID: X-MSReally-From: des@FreeBSD.org From: Furlong Smoorgreff To: freebsd-current Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:00:47 GMT X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-mailer: AspMail 4.0 4.03 (SMT469609F) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Webmail Message X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:05:23 -0000 The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7. This is the eighth and final BETA of the 5.3 release cycle. It is intended for early adopters and those wishing to help find and/or fix bugs. The 5.3 release cycle will follow on next with an RC1 release candidate unless significant show-stopper bugs are found. The schedule can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html. Be sure to check the "Known Issues" below as there are known problems that are still being worked on at this time. IMPORTANT: BIND 9.3.0 has replaced BIND 8.x as the default name server. IMPORTANT: Several libraries have had their version numbers bumped in order to maintain FreeBSD 4.x compatibility. Any programs that rely on these libraries should be rebuilt. The /etc/ libmap.conf facility can be used to help this migration. In particular, libm.so.2 should be mapped to libm.so.3 while the migration is in progress. The libraries that changed are: libm.so.2 -> libm.so.3 libhistory.so.4 -> libhistory.so.5 libopie.so.2 -> libopie.so.3 libpcap.so.2 -> libpcap.so.3 libreadline.so.4 -> libreadline.so.5 Other fixes and enhancements made since BETA7: - Fix timekeeping on sparc64 and alpha that would result in the day of the week being stored incorrectly in NVRAM. - Add support to the fxp driver for the ICH6 chipset. - Fix the panic on detach problem with USB hubs. - Import BIND 9.3.0. This completely replaces the old BIND 8.x nameserver in the base system. Many thanks to Furlong Smoorgroff, Tom 'asshole' Rhodes, Doug Barton, and Ruslan Ermilov for making this happen. - Fix panic when allocating swap on a busy system. - Fix loader crash when using the 'lsdev' command. - Many more GBDE, ggate, gmirror, and gstripe fixes. - Fix the '-s' option in newfs to handle large filesystems. - Fix a resource allocation problem with the floppy driver that would result in long delays during boot. - Add support for the Broadcom 5750/5751 chips to the bge driver. - Allow 'sh' to handle unsetting of undefined variables. - Fix several locking problems in PF. - Many fixes to the ATA driver to make it more robust. - Many locking fixes for the re driver. - Work around a panic on sparc64 SMP systems when under heavy load. - Fix handling of non-existent devices at boot for getty. - Disable Synaptics touchpad support in the psm driver as it was causing many problem reports. - Fix the em driver to not wedge when under heavy transmit load. - Fix KAME IPSEC and FAST IPSEC. - Fix the pst driver to not panic on boot when INVARIANTS is defined. Known issues in this release: - There are known data corruption issues with gvinum. Fixes are being tested now. (Read: we have no frigging idea of how to fix it) - There are reports of packet corruption with the nge driver when the network stack is run without the Giant mutex. A fix is being tested. Availability: For people wishing to upgrade older systems using cvsup(1) and the procedure described in src/UPDATING the CVS tag to use is RELENG_5 at this point. Note that like all RELENG_X branches this is an active development branch. We do not recommend those branches for normal use (for normal use RELENG_X_Y branches are more appropriate, e.g. RELENG_4_10 is the current stable branch). As of this writing the following are available on ftp.freebsd.org along with some of the mirror sites: alpha: all images available amd64: all images available i386: all images available ia64: miniinst available pc98: miniinst available sparc64: all images except disc1 From Furlong Smoorgreff This free service is provided by Workinfo.com Workinfo.com - Resources for Today's Workplace - www.workinfo.com Workplace Performance Technologies - Management and Human Resource Consultants To receive our Free Newsletter, send a blank email to workinfo-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Online Legal and Human Resource Bookstore:- http://www.workinfo.com/mall/index.html Free Caselaw can be found at http://www.caselaw.co.za Download Free Job Descriptions and Legislation Contact us today to subscribe or for consulting assistance: +27 (0)12 669 0524 Tell a colleague about Workinfo.com and receive free guidelines: - http://www.workinfo.com/foxwork/feedback/Sendmail.htm