REL 10.3 has no md5 checksum

Xin LI delphij at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 20:21:34 UTC 2016


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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