FreeBSD 4.5 NOT Released (Updated) 173
Jordon Hubbard writes: "The latest release in the FreeBSD 4.X branch has been released after an extensive release engineering process. Important bugfixes for the TCP stack and NFS are included in this release. You can view the release notes and find a mirror here." Update: 01/24 21:42 GMT by Hemos :Fake submissions, not really released. Yah. Comedic value provided for the day.
FreeBSD 4.5 RC3 came out last night (Score:5, Informative)
Hold your horses. (Score:5, Informative)
Slashdot jumped the gun, again [slashdot.org].
You could try watching newvers.sh [freebsd.org] in CVS for a 4.5-RELEASE tag, or at least check the FTP sites [freebsd.org].
4.5 is still in Release Candidate 3, as far as I know.
Keep an eye on the freebsd-announce list or the news page [freebsd.org].
Release: Jan 26th! (Score:4, Informative)
Jan 25, 2002
Warn hubs@FreeBSD.org
Heads up email to hubs@FreeBSD.org to give admins time to prepare for the load spike to come.
/. ought to bring the spike in a little early. Also not that the packages aren't going to the ftp masters until tomorrow, the 25th, and the announcment and mirroring will occur on the 26th. Just a couple more days to wait for the next step in this great OS.
I'm pretty sure this is NOT TRUE! (Score:4, Informative)
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Our third 4.5 release candidate is now available :
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i3
This release candidate fixes a number of issues that were reported
with RC2. Installations from aic(4)-based PCMCIA devices should now
be possible. For this RC, bge(4) was added to the GENERIC kernel and the
txp(4) device was moved over to the MFSROOT as a module. This should
allow network installations with Broadcom gigabit Ethernet
adapters.[1] A number of suggestions about the package set were
addressed with this RC, but unfortunately sawfish-gnome, fvwm2, and
xfmail are still unavailable. There will be one final release
candidate (RC4) before the final release is made available.
The testing guide and release notes have been updated with a few new
items :
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.5R/qa.html
http://www.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes
Thanks,
The FreeBSD 4.5 Release Engineering Team.
[1] This functionality has not been committed to -STABLE yet, a small
patch was patched to the build with "make release LOCAL_PATCHES=..".
The patch is available at
http://www.freebsd.org/~murray/patches/drivers.
on a new device for the boot floppy.
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This seems a little fast, don't you think?
Without 4.5-RC4 being released, and without an announcement on FreeBSD-Announce?
Lower-profile changes that made it in (Score:4, Informative)
</evangelism>
freebsd guy
Erm, OK, this is bizarre... (Score:5, Informative)
Finally, my first name is spelled "Jordan", like the river. A sure sign that this was a hoax.
Re:Release Notes Missing (Score:2, Informative)
Is it me, or do you believe anything that is printed on
It could be worse, it could be RedHat. Where you get experimental C compilers shipped with the OS, or have a NEW filesystem (extfs3) then not update the file systems man page (fs). And, provide no man pages or documentation in the
I'll take FreeBSD, and look to www.freebsd.org for any release info, not
Re:FreeBSD and MacOS X? (Score:5, Informative)
Apple is also not syncronizing its Darwin releases with those of FreeBSD from a timing perspective, but technologies are certainly being shared between them. Apple has also been providing stuff back, with the recent filesystem exerciser utility that Apple provided being used to find a number of bugs in FreeBSD's NFS and softupdates code. It's all good, man!
Re:What is a "bikeshed"? (Score:4, Informative)
speaking of freebsd... (Score:4, Informative)
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/
Read better. (Score:1, Informative)
The next scheduled release on the -stable branch will be FreeBSD 4.5 on January 26, 2002.
It said the same two days ago.
Comedy's on you, Hemos (Score:3, Informative)
Fake submissions, not really released. Yah. Comedic value provided for the day.
Yeah, like heaven forbid you should actually verify stories before you put them up ... to suggest such a thing would be pure heresy I'm sure.
Stuii!
Re:FreeBSD and MacOS X? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:FreeBSD and MacOS X? (Score:2, Informative)