From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 21:53:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A469F16A420; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:53:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4237243D46; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:53:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1KLrcDi082670; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:53:38 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <43FA3A6D.4010903@samsco.org> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:53:49 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051230 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: re@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 6.1-BETA2/FreeBSD 5.5-BETA2 Available X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:53:45 -0000 Announcement ------------ The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-BETA2 and FreeBSD 5.5-BETA2. Both FreeBSD 6.1 and FreeBSD 5.5 are meant to be a refinement of their respective branches with few dramatic changes. A lot of bugfixes have been made, some drivers have been updated, and some areas have been tweaked for better performance, etc. but no large changes have been made to the basic architecture. The FreeBSD 5.5 Release is being done for people who are unable to make the jump to FreeBSD 6.X at this time. We do encourage people to make that transition as soon as possible, though. There have been some updates made between FreeBSD 5.4 and FreeBSD 5.5 but not all of the bugfixes done to RELENG_6 have been backported to RELENG_5. This will almost certainly be the last 5.X release. We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be identified and worked out. Availability of ISO images 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_6 for 6.1 and RELENG_5 for 5.5, though that will change later in the release cycle when we start doing the Release Candidates. Problem reports can be submitted using the send-pr(1) command. The list of open issues and things still being worked on are on the todo list: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.5R/todo.html Known Issues ------------ The DHCP problem that affected the 6.1-BETA1 installer has been fixed. Several critical fixes were made to the ATA subsystem after the BETA2 builds started, so please check for newer updates before reporting problems. The Intel 2200/2915 Wireless is known to have a number of stability problems that are being worked on right now. Work is also in progress to make ht-plug of USB memory devices more reliable. Updated packages for all architectures might not be available yet. Availability ------------ The BETA2 ISOs and FTP support are available 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 are: MD5 (5.5-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso) = a2333f7f2184e2899c7317202843fab6 MD5 (5.5-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso) = 1c5efbe2276c94890a6e8efb152f55d5 MD5 (5.5-BETA2-amd64-disc2.iso) = bd1e55d73401d6160d2bc1eaef90348c MD5 (5.5-BETA2-i386-bootonly.iso) = 26fba5024002189a3d0bc8be58a62bc8 MD5 (5.5-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso) = 5fc65d29cd7139dadd20e207b16c81f1 MD5 (5.5-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso) = 24ca73eb276887fa5c90fa670e3b5e64 MD5 (5.5-BETA2-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 8835b89782db79fe042b3d365c9e63ea MD5 (5.5-BETA2-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 58712a0f7e30e19bfdd52ca5961050db MD5 (5.5-BETA2-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 1e350504487f0f51fbe590eb830ad3f4 MD5 (5.5-BETA2-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 8ec56c534a22ee5a57af88b01fe3bf76 MD5 (5.5-BETA2-alpha-disc1.iso) = 9abd0f971d2928c95dfff8e0808bbc2c MD5 (5.5-BETA2-pc98-disc1.iso) = 92d7862ed1b77989fe1545346b9c2cef MD5 (6.1-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso) = c9d59cadf063e3a67626c1e5477b27bb MD5 (6.1-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso) = e471a79dbcfbea829c8ab6caa9683e61 MD5 (6.1-BETA2-amd64-disc2.iso) = 29367aa8f31a4af3e49d110574f25319 MD5 (6.1-BETA2-i386-bootonly.iso) = cd77279cdf230e4b37c2d579d2a01cc1 MD5 (6.1-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso) = 3267d7794079d3b803f5f5f004cf04f1 MD5 (6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso) = f47ad00c0240320661a78320befdeaa1 MD5 (6.1-BETA2-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = fc070774c0516391f7176518a0b0fabc MD5 (6.1-BETA2-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 540aa7abd4f51ea93138086f886e11de MD5 (6.1-BETA2-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 0d29f1554eb53a8748b9ec280868c460 MD5 (6.1-BETA2-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 923056c4b9c249f5393530ca62618aa6 MD5 (6.1-BETA2-alpha-disc1.iso) = fab96d1ee15340e5e8c639066f313751 MD5 (6.1-BETA2-pc98-disc1.iso) = 95be33fe72af53e9d6140b85385dc8c8 MD5 (6.1-BETA2-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 8eceddde4826e30480933cd05d306084 MD5 (6.1-BETA2-ia64-disc1.iso) = b034fce6098c6c203db379511174c729 MD5 (6.1-BETA2-ia64-livefs.iso) = 2592fa45458555862063b49e2946c16d The SHA256s are: SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 2616b50051eb8213877d4ba506b6f72f218870dffd40d1000b6d022d398d7f09 SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso) = 603a590632679cf3151ab183da4b53dde241e4990b335f396902cc5c5c5ff531 SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-amd64-disc2.iso) = 0834e6d5e024db45793ff92b4e436d5c466213bd05b6c1091380d58822c5fb0b SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-i386-bootonly.iso) = b5709ee350faf8010db5eac0db0639945045212bc3e3ac96ed42b3433d698b32 SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso) = 012356396548d81840dbe004c5b125b1d5725e239728c920e41b786a539c67b9 SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso) = 567d8321f609f99da8864a48b862a647ebc65ab9bb28b8b3f79a8d86cf108d9d SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = f713b1ba0eff3596b57ee22d629e4940e2a61eddf5bb207aa8597158be269851 SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 50375e00fb40d3e3d56dd6b2f3321916a5324f349ddb1c8e4ec904fd13eaa4e8 SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 0b502ddc7af1bc061ca102d265f5024006b8b70c0b892a32fcaa4d546a5d91d6 SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-alpha-bootonly.iso) = bf2010bdf6edf2b4a28459a420a011a6ed12182b8cc975dcd1d699ab5e41ee23 SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-alpha-disc1.iso) = 4b8923da0b3e589af36c33c40875c58b7f4657b5a3bee76007cb6f9515f9ba69 SHA256 (5.5-BETA2-pc98-disc1.iso) = 09dac64bf4b6087853a52e2bf9ac4f12399f0f82e9d08e6d1af35495e547ec28 SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 4ad1936fec7c0a31a034c0566e8082860e310cdf76284b3126fbdb38a9ce69d1 SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso) = 22149007427843fed8a015bf7a62f09c45f7396a65eb06cc179cad4cc049be70 SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-amd64-disc2.iso) = 91adbb123a76b59134a205634d1290b08cda94e5a05ac983fae7aa6dad341ee8 SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-i386-bootonly.iso) = c4cd8c60095361f343c007718b324dc755290006bd2dff32551a5243d76cad27 SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso) = b5c3e06eb257c6d685c8834f6f25e02a13512450675c07a52c420c033da9e303 SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso) = a2589767a19b18fd0a8d45f44d6a730c830ed821c89573d13c10356ea4bef59c SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = fa429ecfa8c8d69162c6c678b514d93a69a7b57fca53f618b98b446bacdcc951 SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-sparc64-disc1.iso) = a5d54609e783b6653be384eeaa820a00073531485fa77a6c8a80a8ef7639ee38 SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 0a522124bde19e8558637894ed7ec94fcd7e85ca094817dfcbc8a2992056aa90 SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-alpha-bootonly.iso) = a3dec79cf3057e5cf6717b60c8c0c1f572743d251d49f612b5e27f6c0a3f6cd0 SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-alpha-disc1.iso) = 608141f3211c86fddf70f3e3efe9d2d77e779a3755b9e9b1cd1b222130121dc0 SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-pc98-disc1.iso) = b7b2b7f38e4495cb69a39ca0bcb2901659e102b77826ac067626f97dacfb0dc1 SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 94b257e208bf8d0e2e3e968a7186a377e66de263a893f40a995969a2d88371ad SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-ia64-disc1.iso) = 36d29439851f4abc0c87e6b9e3400aeb6f2bad2ac43e152781333c39ee906b7e SHA256 (6.1-BETA2-ia64-livefs.iso) = b750064a2972571595ea82bc37e63819b9b8932d1dc657bff5e5eb6898bb0ca7