For those tracking the 8.0 release process, BETA3 builds have now started. They were held up for a few days while a few critical issues were resolved: - Changes to make newbus MPSAFE were reverted as they lead to reports of a number of WITNESS warnings and panics during device driver attach/detach. - Another nit in the Subversion->CVS updater was resolved. - The flowtable crash at boot reported by several users has been resolved. - A boot-time hang for users of the htprr driver has been resolved. - ZFS zpool import was fixed. - freebsd-update now backs up the old kernel before installing a new one. You can find a regularly updated release status, the above information, and much more, on the 8.0 release engineering wiki page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/8.0TODO I don't have a specific ETA on BETA3 going out the door, except to say that so far several architectures have reported back on successful builds, so probably quite soon. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
At 06:04 AM 8/22/2009, Robert Watson wrote:>I don't have a specific ETA on BETA3 going out the door, except to >say that so far several architectures have reported back on >successful builds, so probably quite soon.Just an FYI about builds, the HEAD tinderbox after getting a hardware update is now building RELENG_8 as well http://tinderbox.freebsd.org/ ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike
> I don't have a specific ETA on BETA3 going out the door, except to say that so > far several architectures have reported back on successful builds, so probably > quite soon.Is there any point in making bug reports for BETA2 at this point ? I only got to try it a coupleof days ago, and had a big issue with installing (had to use 7.2 to partition the drive) but I am thinkingthat maybe just waiting and re-doing the test with BETA3 is better ? cheers, -pete.