freebsd stable - Jul 2005 - Feb 2005 Snapshots for FreeBSD available

Scott Long wrote:
> All,
> 
> The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce that snapshots for \
> FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE and 6.0-CURRENT are now available for download.  This
> release is the first in a series of monthly snapshots of the active
> branches of the FreeBSD tree.  Each snapshot consists of a
'mini-inst'
> (install disc1 without 3rd part packages) CD image for each platform.
> While these are not full releases, the intent is to increase access to
> the development branches and encourage more testing and more feedback.
> We hope to follow on from this with a new snapshot release every month.
> 
> Snapshots are available via FTP download from most FreeBSD mirrors at
> the pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/<month>_<year> directory. 
Information about
> snapshots and pointers to the latest releases are available at
> http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots.
Are there any tags for these?  That may be too heavyweight but at least 
publishing the exact UTC date for the build would be good.  That would 
help us track down in bug reports what code the user has, especially 
when it's from areas that are under active development.

-- 
Nate

All,

The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce that snapshots for \
FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE and 6.0-CURRENT are now available for download.  This
release is the first in a series of monthly snapshots of the active
branches of the FreeBSD tree.  Each snapshot consists of a 'mini-inst'
(install disc1 without 3rd part packages) CD image for each platform.
While these are not full releases, the intent is to increase access to
the development branches and encourage more testing and more feedback.
We hope to follow on from this with a new snapshot release every month.

Snapshots are available via FTP download from most FreeBSD mirrors at
the pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/<month>_<year> directory.  Information
about
snapshots and pointers to the latest releases are available at
http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots.

When downloading and testing the Feb_2005 snapshots, please note that
there are some minor naming inconsistencies with the ISO images.  These
will be fixed in the next snapshot release in March.  Also note that
this announcement is somewhat belated, and that most of the snapshots
are a week or two old at this point.  Again, we will rectify this with
the next release.

When reporting bugs or other issues with these snapshots, please be sure
to include the full snapshot name in the bug report.  This will make it
much easier for the developers to isolate the problem and provide
feedback.  And as a reminder, 5.4-RELEASE will start soon, so please
test these images as much as possible now.

Thanks!

Scott