BETA1 announcement

Thu Feb 9 11:50:55 PST 2006

Announcement
------------

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the 
beginning of both the FreeBSD 6.1 and FreeBSD 5.5 release cycles with 
the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-BETA1 and FreeBSD 5.5-BETA1

Both FreeBSD 6.1 and FreeBSD 5.5 are meant to be a refinement of their
respective branches with few dramatic changes.  A lot of bugfixes have
been made, some drivers have been updated, and some areas have been
tweaked for better performance, etc. but no large changes have been made
to the basic architecture.  The FreeBSD 5.5 Release is being done for
people who are unable to make the jump to FreeBSD 6.X at this time.  We
do encourage people to make that transition as soon as possible, though.
There have been some updates made between FreeBSD 5.4 and FreeBSD 5.5
but not all of the bugfixes done to RELENG_6 have been backported to
RELENG_5.  This will almost certainly be the last 5.X release.

We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be
identified and worked out.  Availability of ISO images 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_6 for 6.1
and RELENG_5 for 5.5, though that will change later in the release cycle
when we start doing the Release Candidates.  Problem reports can be
submitted using the send-pr(1) command.

The list of open issues and things still being worked on are on the
todo list:

	http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html
	http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.5R/todo.html

Known Issues
------------

Other than the list of open issues in the todo lists BETA1 has a few
other known issues.  There is a problem with using DHCP during system
installation.  A fix for this is already being worked on.  And as usual
at this stage of a release the availability of pre-built packages on
the ISO images varies widely from architecture to architecture.  The
list of packages that will be available as part of the release itself
will certainly be different.

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 (5.5-BETA1-alpha-bootonly.iso) = af05452acda5868b5515bc868038ffba
MD5 (5.5-BETA1-alpha-disc1.iso) = 4660ef47a3d1ffc49611484c7fab4cd0
MD5 (5.5-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = c0f161a4711ca422832907692e47f54c
MD5 (5.5-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) = 4e64fe4c4cd0dec41ee234f84f8c4946
MD5 (5.5-BETA1-amd64-disc2.iso) = ba9898176a7afbfc2d0162e38ec8d205
MD5 (5.5-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) = 5a5214b758db033529897884350b8a19
MD5 (5.5-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) = 10c489414716782d9d8ce942dd4f7de8
MD5 (5.5-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso) = f7bcae220c1cfc8cff67e1aaa5a3bb69
MD5 (5.5-BETA1-pc98-disc1.iso) = d581fa4725e9b2daf939f45619b63c93
MD5 (5.5-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 34a90df46d5b1a6c7fe2cd263138f1ec
MD5 (5.5-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 3261ec3570b7b1a1f8089577564f5693
MD5 (5.5-BETA1-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 614541ce58508efe94b3ca2f9fc6159c

MD5 (6.1-BETA1-alpha-bootonly.iso) = e63dc0fcbc4222e82c3bb7e040f791cb
MD5 (6.1-BETA1-alpha-disc1.iso) = c536ed08fedbd45141f48919803042dc
MD5 (6.1-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 84a72b2a6d86fd29f7e35da9092300ec
MD5 (6.1-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) = 20f36ee823ed4313f89289d5357fc365
MD5 (6.1-BETA1-amd64-disc2.iso) = 2bbf97c74d7df701037634a7b0c971cb
MD5 (6.1-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) = 037b99d2dddb93f75f3a3445908103a4
MD5 (6.1-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) = 3cc6e3e66abce6420c316e04631ddb19
MD5 (6.1-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso) = c822d0a62f3e402f21088ca8abefce3e
MD5 (6.1-BETA1-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 1fb12b97f70980ab12c2d31526c128ec
MD5 (6.1-BETA1-ia64-disc1.iso) = d5e34526c056caf543d300412cf07648
MD5 (6.1-BETA1-ia64-livefs.iso) = c29cb7b7b0724d70b6e07e724bf44b62
MD5 (6.1-BETA1-pc98-disc1.iso) = 6894340e1b7dac32de263974a62e9beb
MD5 (6.1-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = af91246b0b42bf16e65d38a5a68b6726
MD5 (6.1-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 668c98638c2b830ca3276cdfe18815a5
MD5 (6.1-BETA1-sparc64-disc2.iso) = f01049d7a1011db04101b97c954da363

The SHA256s are:

SHA256 (5.5-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 
2553bf02cf3acf38f5ca6ccb2884a1d83b1046e039686fbfca8d8b799173fb7c
SHA256 (5.5-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) = 
ee9ee3c11651d6c1991a168e7c6731d129209c072bf93bd6e453af1da255e1fd
SHA256 (5.5-BETA1-amd64-disc2.iso) = 
9e871ea6dd7ee3e4ef4bdcb7f3eb7efcda7a1f96b8397f313010c03d781b4c93
SHA256 (5.5-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) = 
335428bcc6e391578c354a042ab125866968ebe3c6031011fe0062558d56328c
SHA256 (5.5-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) = 
a33138b4bf7b224e24c20d6578954897d8095ce316cb72cd117a2c449c26a55b
SHA256 (5.5-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso) = 
ec68782fa3e82c74582de00b62e14f395e3a45ec0c10e95fb5673a8354e3f4f5
SHA256 (5.5-BETA1-pc98-disc1.iso) = 
a884fd69a0e49752c0a963c8b0d2cd84c5ffa8d2b0cae57e18fa59136722214c
SHA256 (5.5-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 
8a073b3704e038f2217b559e2e6f68ed33a5f0f45a4546ccdccb4e0b71f1b79f
SHA256 (5.5-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 
1c5dc64f48918d3cbdb1a5e39bc50d9d1a51afd5536a3c836c06ab8691c89e70
SHA256 (5.5-BETA1-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 
8c1cb446565765ace8f9787e9656745b9d7fd3e0c6823655a10846f65eea95a5

SHA256 (6.1-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 
ed6a6043d37c3ebe378c3f0d5524b55068530e8ce0b8b7fb7e47670317df0e58
SHA256 (6.1-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) = 
75654232c50bb767fd5c6ae694b4a4260f7046e4444887ab7ff5d9e682f7e9eb
SHA256 (6.1-BETA1-amd64-disc2.iso) = 
4d420862fff3f674804e3d55c424674ecda34cc0413d86d704e3d91d897fd315
SHA256 (6.1-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) = 
2694044bdd7c2ce3f7e30cb681e39a2770ba80be7b9a0083bd74f0059474a934
SHA256 (6.1-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) = 
c9143660a828af9f70803af917b6edfd8ec046308f41223e99f946ac9a14f2e3
SHA256 (6.1-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso) = 
6b87643b2b1bc85790597f9f049023301a8305da8c035883b1ae95200f93c97c
SHA256 (6.1-BETA1-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 
b621dbbc9e6e71a5c29c9b50657968661a77769d48c8bd98318b648a41949b87
SHA256 (6.1-BETA1-ia64-disc1.iso) = 
87c68d5460c106453efa5b9acc230c2229ec6f2f28d6b3494ed56c9f6b1f22b8
SHA256 (6.1-BETA1-ia64-livefs.iso) = 
6f96ff9adb408b8e6c6451bbb1d6fd650c8045ec555c48ece0e749b79abdd21a
SHA256 (6.1-BETA1-pc98-disc1.iso) = 
52cc1e94ad7a84815d9fb697398facd9b75815f14023bbb76d8570afd1bc8ee7
SHA256 (6.1-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 
1b673ceeb236d27b0a7feca6f4d1ef543055036f27357f2814adc286a0b09235
SHA256 (6.1-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 
e37cdadfcc8f4a6705968e10e28d02715f3f5f5cd0af2172e78e65efcd978cb9
SHA256 (6.1-BETA1-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 
da00f6a5ffbc6da1dfbb812456aeafb325e20bbb6286b2888433c1b8ec27d71d