From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 21 14:01:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 398781065693 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:01:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.cksoft.de (mail.cksoft.de [195.88.108.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD0A88FC1F for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:01:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (amavis.fra.cksoft.de [192.168.74.71]) by mail.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C37641C690; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:45:06 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cksoft.de Received: from mail.cksoft.de ([195.88.108.3]) by localhost (amavis.fra.cksoft.de [192.168.74.71]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id E9ZBuj68jXD3; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:45:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id 9F17141C670; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:45:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net (maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net [10.111.66.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DEC44448E6; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:43:19 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:43:18 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net To: freebsd-current In-Reply-To: <1253540159.15847.31.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> Message-ID: <20090921134158.R68375@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <1253540159.15847.31.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> X-OpenPGP-Key: 0x14003F198FEFA3E77207EE8D2B58B8F83CCF1842 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: 8.0-RC1 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, 21 Sep 2009 14:01:14 -0000 On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Ken Smith wrote: > > The first of the Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle is > now available. How many RC's we have will depend on how well 8.0-RC1 > does. At the moment only one more RC is on the schedule but odds are > fairly high we will wind up inserting at least one more RC. Between > BETA4 and RC1 a lot of work has gone into IPv6 issues as well as many > other issues that have been brought up from the public testing. And a > patch set was committed by the people who handle porting ZFS to FreeBSD > that they felt makes ZFS production-ready. > > Details about the current target schedule along with much more detail > about the current status of the release is available here: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/8.0TODO > > There are two known problems with 8.0-RC1. One known issue with the > 8.0-RC1 build was discovered after the builds got started so is not part > of the ISO images or FreeBSD-Update builds. The issue is that local > IPv6 link-local addresses are not reachable. A fix for it has been > committed to RELENG_8 so if you install from the 8.0-RC1 media or update > using FreeBSD-Update you will then need to update using csup/cvsup > mechanisms if you need that fix for your environment. It should only > impact people using IPv6. > > The other known issue is that the flowtable may direct packets to the > wrong interface under certain routing conditions. We feel confident that > this bug will be fixed so the flowtable is enabled in RC1 to maximize > testing. If you experience routing problems, please temporarily disable > the flowtable using the sysctl =0 and report the results to the That should be sysctl net.inet.flowtable.enable=0 > freebsd-current@ mailing list. If we are unable to resolve this issue by > RC2, we will disable the flowtable in 8.0-RELEASE. > > If you notice problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR > system or on the freebsd-current mailing list. I do cross-post > announcements to freebsd-stable because this particular release is > "about to become a stable branch" but when it comes to watching for > issues related to the release most of the developers pay more attention > to the freebsd-current list. > > ISO images for all supported architectures are available on the FTP > sites, and a "memory stick" image is available for amd64/i386 > architectures. For amd64/i386 architectures the cdrom and memstick > images include the documentation packages this time but no other > packages. The DVD image includes a rough pass at what packages will be > available on the official release media but is subject to change between > now and release. For sparc64 the DVD image has the set of packages that > currently build for sparc64, which is a sub-set of the set provided for > amd64/i386. The sparc64 disc1 does not have any packages on it because > I noticed a little too late that adding the doc packages to disc1 caused > it to overflow the target size. For 8.0-RC2 sparc64 will have the > livefs bits split out to a separate image (which is the way all the > other architectures have been for a while now) and the doc packages will > be provided on disc1. None of the other images include packages. > > If you are using csup/cvsup methods to update an older system the branch > tag to use is RELENG_8. > > The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 > systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running 7.0-RELEASE, > 7.1-RELEASE, 7.2-RELEASE, 8.0-BETA1, 8.0-BETA2, 8.0-BETA3, or 8.0-BETA4 > can upgrade as follows: > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RC1 > > During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by merging > some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically > performed merging was done correctly. Systems running 8.0-BETA3 may > print the warning > > INDEX-OLD.all: Invalid arguments > > when downloading updates; this warning is a harmless bug (fixed in > 8.0-BETA4) and can be safely ignored. > > # freebsd-update install > > The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing. > > # shutdown -r now > > After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new > userland components: > > # freebsd-update install > > At this point, users of systems being upgraded from FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 or > earlier will be prompted by freebsd-update to rebuild all third-party > applications (e.g., ports installed from the ports tree) due to updates > in system libraries. See: > > http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-07-11-freebsd-update-to-8.0-beta1.html > > for mode details. After updating installed third-party applications > (and again, only if freebsd-update printed a message indicating that > this was necessary), run freebsd-update again so that it can delete the > old (no longer used) system libraries: > > # freebsd-update install > > Finally, reboot into 8.0-RC1: > > # shutdown -r now > > MD5/SHA256 checksums for the image files: > > MD5 (8.0-RC1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = a84d43c8adaba3fee9a618098668154e > MD5 (8.0-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso) = fb4f75c74144239b4994dc3ad040af33 > MD5 (8.0-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso) = 5da3097634fbe049dd01ad4127d0f396 > MD5 (8.0-RC1-amd64-livefs.iso) = 43a483ea73cbbe80f0ef068502594363 > MD5 (8.0-RC1-amd64-memstick.img) = 9b1ffcab33ceed4dcdf1a0f3d862f811 > > MD5 (8.0-RC1-i386-bootonly.iso) = b569d950d6806c7c88a15d857bef6a02 > MD5 (8.0-RC1-i386-disc1.iso) = 1cfecd1489b8be4a6d06040b07af941b > MD5 (8.0-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso) = 474b54e73a04a2f573b8a26ad00e3077 > MD5 (8.0-RC1-i386-livefs.iso) = 7e5c3390c9f1e7915b9f229eb95f7e70 > MD5 (8.0-RC1-i386-memstick.img) = 532736e255f069f7f891d6ed4f14970e > > MD5 (8.0-RC1-ia64-bootonly.iso) = f53c920e46d3ceeb755617b2de20507a > MD5 (8.0-RC1-ia64-disc1.iso) = 504d3828b919563a83d7232d9a3a952b > MD5 (8.0-RC1-ia64-disc2.iso) = 5f22a63a89bff893038b32c0c53bf2eb > MD5 (8.0-RC1-ia64-disc3.iso) = bf17e84e9dfa62a6ce131e07bc701478 > MD5 (8.0-RC1-ia64-dvd1.iso) = b8cf5cc2feab96c98da12b6fb1623136 > MD5 (8.0-RC1-ia64-livefs.iso) = 2a83a1b32cfeb9a95f8ccc5e4cf36918 > > MD5 (8.0-RC1-pc98-bootonly.iso) = 60603f538db73c264ad7271da044e185 > MD5 (8.0-RC1-pc98-disc1.iso) = 7c00a58b4b8f3e94b25a4539116542bd > MD5 (8.0-RC1-pc98-livefs.iso) = aa67b1f3d8246381764a4df867e23f67 > > MD5 (8.0-RC1-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = a498cafdb4118f2d33007c5f0cf6ca0d > MD5 (8.0-RC1-powerpc-disc1.iso) = 4448a906a36356c479623c8b4af7e685 > MD5 (8.0-RC1-powerpc-disc2.iso) = bf9bf9e46da074a0787ca84da13251c8 > MD5 (8.0-RC1-powerpc-disc3.iso) = 2f600348579d4adc87b2a32f565f3f03 > MD5 (8.0-RC1-powerpc-livefs.iso) = 962f7d69cad7bb47e1cdfaf746b97f90 > > MD5 (8.0-RC1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 674724d0c2ddd997d86f91863c01ba20 > MD5 (8.0-RC1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 9e896ac68263ff816e3721b8b31e63bb > MD5 (8.0-RC1-sparc64-dvd1.iso) = 8451f6fee8523cd33e3e7e973922d2cf > > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 0fcff1f76629c694be73133ad6ca5057a97a7030d824adb3a3a58bfe881528ab > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso) = 1b0246694012170ef83ce38395f4179c990d5689e1da2224a7cd2164770d1efb > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso) = 63dec5385f549a22e6940a8d30d23be96dec0c27253550787107918631021bcc > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-amd64-livefs.iso) = adda93a732168586272697d32824626898bee6c95ec2efc9e691e649489b99c2 > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-amd64-memstick.img) = d2d3f90d3fb3b11cb06734df3ff1eb8433e4184158c85d34c4bd41ba068e131c > > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-i386-bootonly.iso) = 6b3f78fe556cb396cb1734fdcdfdd3619013b4318f94b1736349e641a0745dbb > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-i386-disc1.iso) = 06094f54d0b9141b571a8d22727a9c639a4ffb8a72dd05d12e995ef417eaaf37 > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso) = 02009c487ce5a00f52e45d2ccefc5c7b47edea110d1922ff21fe05ee7b1c8cb3 > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-i386-livefs.iso) = abcc0c3d975df784eaa4840af15555fc25f610f8699619142185c77b396e00aa > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-i386-memstick.img) = f6ed2716312b6fcdf4bea15e4290a122d34e569fda895fb8bdffa499eea6d9ce > > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-ia64-bootonly.iso) = c307cdfa5f98d84b367ac8ef939da6f42a2a0454c07ab0f7b7fe17b78c3f4c9e > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-ia64-disc1.iso) = 44612f9922e8ee2ca6453f9a54b81c01bf351486580fa7cc9cd031b2f0b132c6 > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-ia64-disc2.iso) = 01eb3badf81e2e64ab4ddcfd4921f5bc6710c6eb5eba514c92985266fcb805e5 > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-ia64-disc3.iso) = 31fd356921f9430233bc7bf0699676746c735ddde9dc4d6ad21438ba66124912 > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-ia64-dvd1.iso) = a5bbdf0b0a338ffdc744f1d47513ebede568e852c3e07062b7c0e2f2aafd108b > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-ia64-livefs.iso) = a3a5633900decc819982c50d672cdd653503fe4edebcb566eb4b27784f073635 > > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-pc98-bootonly.iso) = 5d50fd76e3a1124189acaf54e5258b92383ab0ce8b44b3e5b506020e011b9938 > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-pc98-disc1.iso) = 4007e728e8a51fa04663ce9a234db2c1e1f587ebacc45bdeee0ba86261a89345 > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-pc98-livefs.iso) = 18f2d066e7fb31b7ea5d95fc70f1bb99e2a9c6c72a45335858e461b9d4cad205 > > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = b3a63ef86773ea28c548082d46d7199d4838648dfa1ecec82c881d90bb0ce9ca > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-powerpc-disc1.iso) = 7cd4e68f0e6bdf95090121ffd89383134c44447a6d1a18a800d58fb1dcd8d1c6 > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-powerpc-disc2.iso) = 65719abb58fc8d7904fcbd7052d807efbe44f137badbcfbe7cef623d738360c1 > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-powerpc-disc3.iso) = 9ec803dd266e752dcafe2fd3c6d5bb37b3bb6ce00c1cb4683c84616f866ec44b > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-powerpc-livefs.iso) = 7ef3142568fc6c4837faa6cbbd371cf709ee8e1d65df24ea538fba94095eebb5 > > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 91fb4fee46c0a68520ce97351774725ae95ad4479f06e5d0f3de3e07eeb422d9 > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 99c74dc6fa9b3185e12fa5084589d1f48f540082c5166026deccf673be46c343 > SHA256 (8.0-RC1-sparc64-dvd1.iso) = 777d8afc3330fae4089510d6b852ea1d1f9108a868b8ebb3d5a661b108a99196 > > -- Bjoern A. Zeeb What was I talking about and who are you again?