As you may have read in the announcement of 10.3-BETA2, we are currently facing two regressions with the stable/10 code base for 10.3-RELEASE: o The tryfoward optimization introduced in r290383 and merged as r295285, which unconditionally replaces the previous IP fastforwarding option, has turned out to cause ICMP messages being sent back to incorrect addresses when NAT is applied by a machine running that revision and having divergent MTU. This problem was reported in the context of OpenVPN-based tunneling but also is not unlikely to generally cause a regression for Path MTU Discovery over a gateway doing NAT. For further details regarding the original problem see: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207087 o The fixes and optimizations to VFS(9) of r291244, which was merged as part of r292895, cause system hangs when using ZFS. If you are affected by this regression, please test the patch posted in: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2016-February/084180.html and report back there if the reversal of r291244 actually resolves the problem for you, especially if you are a user of amd64, as more confirmation still is needed for that architecture. At re@ it has been decided, that we will not enter the RC phase with these showstoppers in place. Thus, the original 10.3-RELEASE schedule has been put back by one week in order to allow for resolving these two problems, with the previously optional 10.3-BETA3 builds now taking place on February 26th, 2016. Consequently, the updated, remaining release cycle for 10.3-RELEASE as it currently stands is: BETA3 build starts: February 26, 2016 releng/10.3 branch: March 4, 2016 RC1 build starts: March 4, 2016 stable/10 thaw: March 6, 2016 release package copy: March 6, 2016 RC2 build starts: March 11, 2016 RC3 build starts: March 18, 2016 [*] RELEASE build starts: March 25, 2016 RELEASE announcement: March 29, 2016 RELEASE EoL: July 31, 2017 (tentative) [*] - If needed Marius On behalf of: re@ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 949 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20160220/cb510546/attachment.sig>