REL 10.3 has no md5 checksum

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 6 20:27:45 UTC 2016


We cannot fix this in the announcement itself, but can note the bogus
MD5 mention in the errata.html.

Glen

On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 01:21:33PM -0700, Xin LI wrote:
> Not having MD5 was intentional (
> https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/836068 ), but you are right that the
> announcement should not have MD5 mentioned at all.  I'll create a
> ticket to track this.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Ernie Luzar <luzar722 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I see differences between previous releases of FreeBSD and the new 10.3
> > release dealing with the ftp download sites.
> > The path has changed.
> > The MD5 checksum files are missing.
> > There is a new .xz suffix on the end of some .iso files.
> >
> > Didn't see anything about this in the Release notes.
> >
> > https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/announce.html does say the sha256 and
> > md5 hashes follow at the bottom of the message. But only sha256 & sha512
> > hashes are shown.
> >
> > Think some corrections are in order.
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