FreeBSD 5.4-RC2 Available for testing

[Wilko Bulte]

For those of you not subscribed to -stable.  Please test the
Alpha bits !!

Wilko


----- Forwarded message from Ken Smith <kensmith at freebsd.org> -----

Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:49:06 -0400
From: Ken Smith <kensmith at freebsd.org>
Subject: FreeBSD 5.4-RC2 Available
To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org


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

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 5.4-RC2, the second Release Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release
cycle.

We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be identified
and worked out.  At this point the only major problem has been reports
of large server (4 processors or more) hanging under extreme load conditions
(varied load of local processes like database and heavy network load).
Details to help with debugging have been hard to obtain so if anyone is
in a position to help with trying to reproduce this it would be appreciated.

Availability of ISO images and support for doing FTP based installs 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_5_4.  Problem
reports can be submitted using the send-pr(1) command, and/or posted to
the "freebsd-stable at freebsd.org" mailing list.

A schedule and the current todo list for the 5.4 Release Cycle are available:

  http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/schedule.html
  http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/todo.html

The packages being provided as part of RC2 are what is expected to come
with the final release for the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures.
Packages for alpha and ia64 are still being worked on.

Availability
------------

The RC2 ISOs and FTP support for all architectures are available now 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 of the ISO images are:

  MD5 (5.4-RC2-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 2238c45b5907931d248487cac55f1c5f
  MD5 (5.4-RC2-alpha-disc1.iso) = 89ecfdb35ea3cd92716686116b664ea5
  MD5 (5.4-RC2-alpha-disc2.iso) = 678581d5b6ae049f18491e203ebadd20

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org