FreeBSD 4.9 RC3 (i386) now available

[Stefan Koesling]

I use IPFW2. What has been fixed, what should be tested?

-Stefan


Murray Stokely wrote:

>A number of the issues brought up with RC2 have been resolved, and the
>latest release candidate (RC3) is now available for i386 (alpha coming
>soon) :
>
>ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RC3
>ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.9-RC3-i386-disc1.iso
>
>MD5 (4.9-RC3-i386-disc1.iso) = a8fc7f9b86865004a02ab7a805cddbf0
>
>We are especially interested in hearing reports from users using IPFW2
>after Kirk's recent fix.  Please send us a note if you are able to
>test IPFW2 in any substantial way.  The firewire module loading issue
>has been resolved, but the SATA issue has not.  John Baldwin has a
>patch posted at http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/sata.patch
>(thanks to everyone on this list who helped debug this)
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Release Engineering Team
>  
>