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Date:      Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:16:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   4.5-RELEASE MFC rush hour
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011214151205.87391I-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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For those who haven't noticed, the 4.5-RELEASE feature freeze is rapidly
approaching.  With its approach comes the normal rapid merging of features
from -CURRENT to get in before the freeze.  As such, the commit rate to
-STABLE is currently higher than normal, and so the risk of getting a poor
snapshot is higher.  While we'd like as many people as possible to test
the new code, some may choose to wait until after the 20th, when the
freeze actually occurs, to make sure they get a clean kernel that compiles
properly.

We'd like 4.5-RELEASE to be one of our best performing, not to mention
most stable, releases.  The only way to make that happen is to get lots of
people to test the new code.  Murray will shortly be posting some QA
testing areas to the qa@FreeBSD.org list, but as advance warning, you can
expect them to include requests to extensively test performance and
interoperability of the TCP implementation, and to attempt to stress the
file system and VM code, especially in light of recent enabling of the
UFS_DIRHASH code by default.

Thanks,

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services


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