Announcement ------------ The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 5.4 Release Cycle. This BETA1 release is in the same basic format as the Monthly Snapshots, for this BETA there are no packages on the CDs at all so the install of things like perl from the installation media will fail. As with the Snapshots there is however a full ports tarball it offers to install and you can use that to install the ports (or just download the packages you want from the FTP mirror sites). The Release Candidates posted through the next few weeks will contain the package sets. We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be identified and worked out. Availability of ISO images and support for doing FTP based installs is given below. If you have an older system you want to update using the normal CVS/cvsup source based upgrade the branch tag to use is RELENG_5 (though that will change for the Release Candidates later). Problem reports can be submitted using the send-pr(1) command. At the moment there are no known severe issues, though several things are still on the todo list. Availability ------------ The BETA1 ISOs and FTP support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites. A list of the mirror sites is available here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html The MD5s are: MD5 (5.4-BETA1-alpha-disc1.iso) = f535b77d5051dfa772627603a4a49499 MD5 (5.4-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 042dbf899b5a87b3c270f90c30b04382 MD5 (5.4-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) = c918a0739eece1f22ea618d935298bf4 MD5 (5.4-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) = f7bdd9ac0bc515224eff1c849c59208d MD5 (5.4-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) = adc5d06eaab2d7b78326c8dac54430ed MD5 (5.4-BETA1-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 12d053986ae8d791f8a8709f8efaaebe MD5 (5.4-BETA1-ia64-disc1.iso) = 291858a2796a70233769d0e0b80b9097 MD5 (5.4-BETA1-ia64-disc2.iso) = db02722a5abf31eaf2b0a51dba9191f4 MD5 (5.4-BETA1-pc98-disc1.iso) = 6a932bf6614ec037e9546900ecc2669c MD5 (5.4-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = e796c0fe7bd5471435b2da06489dda6a MD5 (5.4-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 7d4c84b1f5b3fb13a0a94af6c387ae57 -ken -------------- 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/20050320/8e4b1d75/attachment.bin
Hello Ken, Monday, March 21, 2005, 4:03:32 AM, you wrote:> Announcement > ------------> The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability > of FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 5.4 Release > Cycle.> This BETA1 release is in the same basic format as the Monthly Snapshots, > for this BETA there are no packages on the CDs at all so the install of > things like perl from the installation media will fail. As with the > Snapshots there is however a full ports tarball it offers to install > and you can use that to install the ports (or just download the packages > you want from the FTP mirror sites). The Release Candidates posted > through the next few weeks will contain the package sets.> Availability > ------------> The BETA1 ISOs and FTP support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror > sites. A list of the mirror sites is available here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html> -kenok, since there is official anouncement and there are already posted some information to news servers like osnews, i think we should update newvers.sh so people who download BETA1 build wouldn't be confused with -PRERELEASE branch. here is simple diff: --- newvers.sh.orig Mon Mar 21 20:44:45 2005 +++ newvers.sh Mon Mar 21 20:45:31 2005 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ TYPE="FreeBSD" REVISION="5.4" -BRANCH="PRERELEASE" +BRANCH="BETA1" RELEASE="${REVISION}-${BRANCH}" VERSION="${TYPE} ${RELEASE}" -- Best regards +----------==/\/\==----------+ FreeBSD | DanGer <danger@wilbury.sk> | (__) The | DanGer@IRCnet ICQ261701668 | \\\'',) Power | http://danger.homeunix.org | \/ \ ^ To +----------==\/\/==----------+ .\._/_) Serve [ (IF IsStolen(Tagline) THEN Insult(Thief); ]