Fwd: FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Available

[Marcel Moolenaar]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ken Smith <kensmith at freebsd.org>
> Date: April 18, 2005 5:51:06 PM PDT
> To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Available
>
>
> Announcement
> ------------
>
> The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the  
> availability
> of FreeBSD 5.4-RC3, the third Release Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4  
> release
> cycle.  Due to one major issue that crops up on large (4-processor)  
> systems
> under heavy load that is still being debugged there will be at least  
> one
> more RC added to the schedule.  Timing for the extra RC and the new  
> Release
> date have not been set yet.
>
> 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 the  
> above
> mentioned issue 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
> though progress is being made.  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 RC3 are what is expected to come
> with the final release for the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64  
> architectures.
> Some of the packages for ia64 are completed though not all of them.  At
> this time the Alpha packages are still not available.
>
> Availability
> ------------
>
> The RC3 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-RC3-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 9dacd147491cc7a9a82fe294cffbd257
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-alpha-disc1.iso) = 5be82b6324080651a85397f030055b4b
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-alpha-disc2.iso) = a2baa80b2109301119ffa958fb6bf469
>
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 821f785864ee4ec420f3e455cb950c98
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso) = 3d36b70047ce301856865750d59409e2
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-amd64-disc2.iso) = 540cecbe9fcb516ae710f772f2a1b499
>
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-i386-bootonly.iso) = 14f8b7c2f57c8378a22b3e3187f07888
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-i386-disc1.iso) = bbb811674de4b86aa9331b9160b4dc09
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-i386-disc2.iso) = 4e6c9827b24083b7a76441b083e2ac03
>
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 8d9161006c0d6a4b11ce9ce13fbf2f7b
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-ia64-disc1.iso) = ffb094e6f33689a609e9067452560d14
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-ia64-disc2.iso) = 1c0eb4ba3f5ebeb3c93065417d60922e
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-ia64-livefs.iso) = 9357c14d1e5e3de01fa7629c6f3435bf
>
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-pc98-disc1.iso) = f6896e60140423bffaa271d97bc0dc76
>
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 9c9db379e7e816129ba1532af3cdfc75
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-sparc64-disc1.iso) = f2c3c553aeb47b4fc32542ec25ec91e1
>   MD5 (5.4-RC3-sparc64-disc2.iso) = ba1076a6888000fed72b0f86f1025043
>
> -ken
>
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  Marcel Moolenaar         USPA: A-39004          marcel at xcllnt.net