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Subject: 5.3 stable release tentatively scheduled for Oct 3
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5.3 stable release tentatively scheduled for Oct 3

The FreeBSD Release Engineering team has published the schedule for
the FreeBSD 5.3 stable release. It spans 7 weeks and includes weekly
BETA/RC snapshots for testing. The theme for this release is
"testing testing testing!" since it is going to be the first
5-STABLE release. The stable 5.3-RELEASE date is tentatively
scheduled for Oct 3 if no show stopper problems arise like last
time.


See   http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html


Release 5.3-BETA1 scheduled for Aug 20 at which time the 5.3-BETA1
tier-1 platform images are released and uploaded to
ftp-master.FreeBSD.org server. This is the start of the 7 weekly
install process and disk performance testing cycles.

People needed to install from downloaded iso image from
ftp-master.FreeBSD.org to do install process testing to find and
report install config problems. This is your opportunity to beat on
the cdrom install process to verify all the previous 5.2.1 install
problems with disk geometry have been corrected. Only cdrom installs
default to using the new UFS2 file access method on the disk storage
system, so heavy disk i/o users are also needed to beat on UFS2 disk
drives to verify the system freeze up problems have been fixed.

Please submit your bug reports using send-pr command as soon as you
find problems so they can be address and fixed by the next weekly
BETA/RC cycle.