As mentioned in the previous message about the FreeBSD 4.11 Release Cycle beginning, today the RELENG_4 branch was re-named 4.11-PRERELEASE. We are one week away from the initial code freeze for the 4.11 Release. If you are in a position to help with testing and/or debugging for the upcoming release by all means feel free to begin looking for things that need to be fixed. However if you are working with a system that requires stability and if you have been tracking RELENG_4 it is probably best if you avoid doing updates this week. Due to increased developer activity this development branch can become a little more difficult to work with during this week, the odds of you cvs/cvsup-ing and catching partial commits and that sort of thing increase (not to mention developers have on occasion made mistakes MFC-ing things that take a little time to fix). This is one of the reasons we recommend the security/errata branch tags (e.g. currently RELENG_4_10) for systems that require stability. As a reminder the release schedule for FreeBSD 4.11 is here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/schedule.html Thanks. -ken (on behalf of the Release Engineering Team) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20041206/c6818322/attachment.bin
At 09:59 AM 06/12/2004, Ken Smith wrote:>If you are in a position to help with testing and/or debugging for the >upcoming release by all means feel free to begin looking for things >that need to be fixed.Any chance someone can take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=74786 It hits RELENG_4 particularly hard, although RELENG_5 suffers the same problem. ---Mike
At 09:59 AM 06/12/2004, Ken Smith wrote:>If you are in a position to help with testing and/or debugging for the >upcoming release by all means feel free to begin looking for things >that need to be fixed. However if you are working with a system thatOK, here is another bug that would be nice to get fixed. The problem is in both RELENG_4 and RELENG_5 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=74821 I am sure the patches are very ugly looking, but it does fix the problem and it doesnt break default functionality. Without them, anyone using PPPoE against an ERX (most of Canada and a lot of Europe) will not always know if the link goes away. ---Mike