From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 00:51:07 2005 Return-Path: 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 B560716A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:51:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bloom.cse.buffalo.edu (bloom.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA6E43D2D for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:51:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kensmith@FreeBSD.org) Received: from bloom.cse.buffalo.edu (localhost.cse.buffalo.edu [127.0.0.1]) by bloom.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.3/8.12.4) with ESMTP id j3J0p67v008870 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:51:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by bloom.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j3J0p67p008869 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:51:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kensmith) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:51:06 -0400 From: Ken Smith To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050419005106.GA8857@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Available X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:51:07 -0000 --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCZFX2/G14VSmup/YRAmxVAJ43hLvUuon5yBpyWslkQFrELMcejgCfasIF awMK/5TWVdk5XU8hk+btPHE= =zY1Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG--