Feb 2005 Snapshots for FreeBSD available
Scott Long
scottl at freebsd.org
Mon Feb 14 22:40:40 PST 2005
Nate Lawson wrote:
> Scott Long wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce that snapshots for \
>> FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE and 6.0-CURRENT are now available for download. This
>> release is the first in a series of monthly snapshots of the active
>> branches of the FreeBSD tree. Each snapshot consists of a 'mini-inst'
>> (install disc1 without 3rd part packages) CD image for each platform.
>> While these are not full releases, the intent is to increase access to
>> the development branches and encourage more testing and more feedback.
>> We hope to follow on from this with a new snapshot release every month.
>>
>> Snapshots are available via FTP download from most FreeBSD mirrors at
>> the pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/<month>_<year> directory. Information about
>> snapshots and pointers to the latest releases are available at
>> http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots.
>
>
> Are there any tags for these? That may be too heavyweight but at least
> publishing the exact UTC date for the build would be good. That would
> help us track down in bug reports what code the user has, especially
> when it's from areas that are under active development.
>
Yes, publishing the UTC date is something that is on the TODO list,
thanks for the reminder =-)
Scott
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