From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 03:15:03 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 903FA16A4CE; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 03:15:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ylpvm01.prodigy.net (ylpvm01-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 068DA43D1F; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 03:15:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (adsl-69-104-100-115.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [69.104.100.115])i8K3Evwn018160; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:14:58 -0400 Message-ID: <414E4B34.9080702@elischer.org> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:15:00 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Smith References: <20040920022927.GA70726@bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040920022927.GA70726@bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-BETA5 Available 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: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 03:15:03 -0000 Ken Smith wrote: > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the > availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA5. This is the fifth 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 continue with > weekly BETA builds while bugs are being fixed and features finalized. > The schedule is at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html. > Be sure to check the "Known issues" below, there are known problems > still being worked on at this time. BIND9 is being imported and will > be part of the 5.3 release. We will add at least one more beta (BETA6) > to accomodate testing. Users of the named daemon should visit the ISC > website for information about migrating to BIND9. > > Fixes and Enhancements made since BETA4: > > - Updated floppy device driver (testers trying out floppies on your > systems would be appreciated). This fixes a lot of problems with > floppy drives not being probed/attached. > - Fix for panics on certain hardware during boot if no media in the > cdrom drive. > - Change to pf logging format to handle 64-bit time. If updating an > older system remove /var/log/pflog before restarting pf. > - Many more scheduler fixes, we encourage testers to turn PREEMPTION on. ummm no, today's testing shows that this may not be such a good idea.. it produces problem in wierd places, such as the atapi driver. > - Many fixes to bpf locking. > - if_re locking added. Problems reported with jumbo frames, fix being > tested. > - debug.witness_watch moved to debug.witness.watch (old name left but > depreciated). > - Fix to GBDE key management. If you have specified 4 keys or fewer, > you will need to dump your data, re-run gbde init, and restore your > data. > - Add if_vge driver > - Fix to rare VM corruption bug on i386/amd64. > - Fix to SCSI sync speed in esp(4) driver. > - Fix timeout problems with ppp over if_xl interface. > - Misc. network stack locking fixes. > - Fix lock order reversal in sound system. > - Support round-robin and verify modes in geom raid3. > - Misc. fixes to usb. > - Misc. mac fixes. > - Fixes to geom_mirror. > - Many updates to docs, including a new 5.3 Migration Guide. > > Known issues in this release: > > - There are scattered reports of data corruption on SMP systems > under high load. This could be due to a known bug in the gvinum > subsystem, but it could be due to unknown factors. The problem > has been tracked to gvinum and a fix will be in BETA6. > - pst(4) is known to cause a system panic during the boot time. > - The Synaptics Touchpad mouse support is known to have issues with > responsiveness. It can be disabled with 'hint.psm.0.flags="0x200"' > in "/boot/device.hints". This will be resolved for the release. > - There are reports of packet corruption with the nge(1) driver when > the network stack is run without Giant. A fix is being tested. > > A complete list of defects that will be fixed for the release can be > found at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/todo.html. > > 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: images available some time tomorrow > amd64: all images available > i386: all images available > ia64: miniinst available > pc98: miniinst available > sparc64: all images available > > MD5s for the builds that are complete at this time are: > > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 5be9dba4c354b13c18c06fcde98291b5 > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-amd64-disc2.iso) = 3117bf2e2b62b62c681602573433355e > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-amd64-miniinst.iso) = 84caa18e4f863b393513fb68a3dc977e > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-amd64-disc1.iso) = 5ac33f05c3550d7bb7ebf22263c412c9 > > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-i386-bootonly.iso) = f819ea29a8c07094eca4d04eb0fef869 > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-i386-disc2.iso) = 7506ee9ceb8150466439372d36ca9489 > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-i386-miniinst.iso) = 57926ee792b68c884df3436a4c33ba12 > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-i386-disc1.iso) = 6592143d429f7cf4770f1166c3202f54 > > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-ia64-bootonly.iso) = bd532c346fc52e42fa2baa97b6ebc3ed > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-ia64-disc2.iso) = 5c115101e8b885c41c8122a4e14f30ab > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-ia64-miniinst.iso) = 98eed6eb8ba5283225a2cd1a5bb5f920 > > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-pc98-disc2.iso) = ef7ce632c2253f02d078a9e154a1fa6c > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-pc98-miniinst.iso) = 2612557f8cf81ab20b8bdca9481c78c5 > > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = cfb13e419f9ef30a4d9f4ef3dd11e381 > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-sparc64-disc1.iso) = b71b08fd7e6c5b53158d2b78ead10ae2 > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 7984c0396a63f8e6b0403f5ed19e4199 > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-sparc64-miniinst.iso) = e5ed673501f8d4e85a28b35db69b793a > > -ken > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"