Re: FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA2 Now Available

On 9/14/25 15:09, vermaden wrote:
> Seems that 15.0-ALPHA2 landed in the 'snapshots' dir:
> - https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/
> 
> While previous 15.0-ALPHA1 landed in the 'releases' dir:
> - https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/
> 
> Is it desired that way?

Yes, the bits landing in "releases" was a mistake.  I was set straight by
a few people including the previous release engineer -- ALPHA builds count
as "snapshots".

This is mostly for obscure historical reasons, and if I'm still doing this
job when 16.0 comes around I might change things to treat ALPHA builds the
same way as BETA builds, but for now "snapshots" is the right place for them.

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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
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