From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 16:26:17 2003 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 A329D37B401; Fri, 16 May 2003 16:26:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic-mail.adaptec.com [208.236.45.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1784F43FAF; Fri, 16 May 2003 16:26:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4GNMIZ16909; Fri, 16 May 2003 16:22:18 -0700 Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.253.56]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8p2+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21500; Fri, 16 May 2003 16:26:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3EC572EE.2050501@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 17:23:26 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Updated 5.1 status 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: Fri, 16 May 2003 23:26:18 -0000 As many have noticed, 5.1-BETA install and CDROM bits have been available from the ftp sites for ia32, pc98, and sparc64 for a little while now. The release engineering team had originally intended to give a formal announcement of these, but various delays got in the way and the announcement more-or-less fell by the wayside. You'll also note that there still isn't an Alpha build, though David O'Brien, Wilko Bulte, and Ruslan Ermilov have been working furiously to correct this. Given the high number of bugs that have been found in the BETA, and the high number of bugs that are still left to be fixed (see http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/todo.html for details), we have decided to push the date of the RELENG_5_1 branch back by a week to May 27, and also cut a BETA2 on or around May 19. The BETA2 should give a fresh platform for testing, and also allow time for some more bugs to be fixed and features to be added. Testing on BETA1 is still encouraged, though please remember to check the mailing lists and update your system before reporting problems as many, many bugs have been identified and fixed in the last 10 days. I'd like to give a big thanks to everyone for finding and fixing bugs. The last few weeks have been hairy but things look to be on the upswing for a good 5.1 release. As always, everyone is encouraged to look at the 5.1-TODO list and pitch in if they can. The Release Engineering Team