Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:31:06 -0500 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD 7.0-RC2 Available Message-ID: <1202841066.43487.18.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
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--=-xCEugShUq4gGUZXMGvW/ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The second Release Candidate for FreeBSD 7.0 is now available on most of the FTP mirror sites, for example ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/{$arch}/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/ (where ${arch} is your machine's architecture, e.g. amd64, i386, etc). If you can please try a "local mirror" please. Users of i386 or amd64 systems running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, 6.3-BETA*, 6.3-RC*, 6.3-RELEASE, 7.0-BETA*, or 7.0-RC1 may wish to perform a binary upgrade to 7.0-RC2 using code recently added to the freebsd-update utility. On systems running 7.0-BETA4 or 7.0-RC1, the instructions for "minor upgrades" at: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-10-freebsd-minor-version-upgrade.ht= ml should be followed for this purpose; on systems running older releases or BETAs (including 7.0 BETAs prior to BETA4) the lengthier instructions for "major upgrades" at: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.ht= ml (which include rebuilding all software installed from the ports tree) should be followed. There is one known issue with a very recently MFCed portion of the ciss(4) driver that was discovered a little too late for -RC2 but will be fixed for the release. Some though not all machines have a problem with a feature added to solve other machines' problems with "Adapter Heartbeat Failed" so that portion will be turned into a tunable with the default disabling it. If you update an already running machine and the new driver causes you problems you can boot the older kernel, and see v1.87 of sys/dev/ciss/ciss.c in HEAD for how to fix it (that is what will be MFCed before the release). We sincerely hope this will be the last of the public tests for 7.0 and that the -RELEASE builds will start in about a week and a half. If bug(s) considered big enough to be show-stoppers are found we will of course reconsider but hopefully we're in good enough shape now to proceed with the release. Thanks for all the help/testing. --=20 Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel | --=-xCEugShUq4gGUZXMGvW/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHseXh/G14VSmup/YRAteyAKCcfjz5cL4KFRZLvr9ig0x5ZQf8MgCff8e9 HTD9qAj7SpjTS2APMtjb3fg= =dy3W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xCEugShUq4gGUZXMGvW/--
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