FreeBSD 8.1-RC2 Available...

Ken Smith kensmith at buffalo.edu
Fri Jul 2 14:38:33 UTC 2010


The second and most likely final Release Candidate for the FreeBSD 8.1
release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and
sparc64 architectures.  Files suitable for creating installation media
or doing FTP based installs through the network should be available on
most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.  Checksums for the images are at the
bottom of this message.

There was a recent regression fix related to Atheros AR9280 cards being
detected incorrectly, making them unusable.  If you were having problems
with a wireless card that had worked before not working with the earlier
test builds hopefully this will fix the problem.  Testing of this fix
would be appreciated.

At this time DVD images are not available.  There was a fairly serious
security issue with the png graphics package.  We will generate DVD
images when the rebuilt packages become available, that will be
announced then the images are ready.

The target schedule for the release is available here:

  http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/schedule.html

and the wiki page tracking the current status is here:

  http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/8.1TODO

If you find problems you can report them through the normal Gnats
based PR system or here on this mailing list.

If you are updating an already running machine the CVS branch
tag is RELENG_8_1, or if you prefer SVN use "releng/8.1".

The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64
systems running earlier FreeBSD releases.  Systems running 8.0-RELEASE,
8.1-BETA1, or 8.1-RC1 can upgrade as follows:
  
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.1-RC2

During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by merging
some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically
performed merging was done correctly.
  
# freebsd-update install

The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before
continuing.

# shutdown -r now
   
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new
userland components, and the system needs to be rebooted again:

# freebsd-update install
# shutdown -r now

Users of earlier FreeBSD releases (FreeBSD 7.x) can also use
freebsd-update to upgrade to FreeBSD 8.1-RC2, but will be prompted to
rebuild all third-party applications (e.g., anything installed from the
ports tree) after the second invocation of "freebsd-update install", in
order to handle differences in the system libraries between FreeBSD 7.x
and FreeBSD 8.x.

Checksums:

MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 473a9f6e280e6cac8cfcf62c4ebb3c99
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso) = 7eba227c8b8175a21446879fbc802a39
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-livefs.iso) = caa8df85fceb5e7eb9e9394aa378540d
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-memstick.img) = 71f7c41900d41ad7e7cec63b7b75dad8

MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-bootonly.iso) = f8ebd88798da2f161b33a2f714c0e125
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-disc1.iso) = fd77efeecd224298c6f3a08f239f294a
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-livefs.iso) = 9ec3b7901f377c643b8060b71c75ef25
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-memstick.img) = 916e2a13027b01b912f92a94a06e7c84

MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 3daed89818fd2c7a3561d78c4b9f4927
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-ia64-disc1.iso) = 89d064dd30375a4c9ee6e7dc7336ac2e
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-ia64-disc2.iso) = e6b7caa02ecc8d1c62cbcecdb87ca9ea
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-ia64-disc3.iso) = d3c1c4a194687b20c35fbbbaa83dacc2
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-ia64-dvd1.iso) = 9a3ee466a926c213a911d8c08b8ff450
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-ia64-livefs.iso) = c979d4bee75481e0ba39ead8f431e3ed

MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-pc98-bootonly.iso) = b487ef910c2950239d307a9684e636c1
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-pc98-disc1.iso) = 11d1fe67a521c29b8909ca5e41266eaa
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-pc98-livefs.iso) = d5c03f71857d1951987e4aeb9259ec7a

MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = 86a088efbbd9fa2eb2f226ed637f063d
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-powerpc-disc1.iso) = e2808baeab27cad13d494b8b7397de8c
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-powerpc-disc2.iso) = 6836e68d4004cf5d904460ef55ae85df
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-powerpc-disc3.iso) = ff131875a7b7665084793cce60873642

MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 28d00dbbbd590e60b33a079337a898a7
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 53a8b1bc84869c80e024688b45de2f9a
MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-sparc64-livefs.iso) = f76fe1312d097d159d3c3ab9e5802574

SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-bootonly.iso) = f8a9a009f7528ba48b09a928884346652048c70b5f6c9c21bd13874bcdcbe8f0
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso) = 5aa8ef16b34fe7dae852f1ef16a4863bedd194677a9b3070777a646db122fa0f
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-livefs.iso) = b72f294d5208eca1e179b41340ea3ae809e1397b3f2ef4d3260a319d6d56ab6b
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-memstick.img) = 5de904a3fc33c510f97dc87f8b4fa288661f956fac3ba74ff41e9f720228978f

SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-bootonly.iso) = dfe2916339a6160584977ed588af5bc4a045cac1df438f2eed8550a7ae9cd9ae
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-disc1.iso) = 335ad68ce598e5f1557ca4179fde3063793c484cd5f3022926fbff2a25fc5540
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-livefs.iso) = f6474a515a85a51a7e5dc8e033edf5d04caf186f5727dcd143d4060d7fbf61ef
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-memstick.img) = 6795004759b253dcb0443ca8118714cd1e2ac12173ab7be6b35d45af61495f3b

SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 501489d8eb78adb8518d0b060e8317a7e4ef3973119521f36a1ec7a95f8788fe
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-ia64-disc1.iso) = 2f70b137e90d9cc4352f3d537e02dcdbd5adf425e68185186e0a0355720416cd
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-ia64-disc2.iso) = b9d18d85b6bf36a38feb8af056724c56739be7738c1e67b8b22f9d25f2f4a29f
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-ia64-disc3.iso) = d155c16d0416f73fcc84449d28ee7dd9ad4a50f766a297bd522c73204f3fe45f
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-ia64-dvd1.iso) = 820778f864c0af8b4c564bbe1eac9690320e3f69073015f5c8bc36cb570cce20
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-ia64-livefs.iso) = 24d4dfee814958cfb7072da341c03f0e349ef4b135e65277a61140632fa32cf3

SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-pc98-bootonly.iso) = b81d0277ab17ad3a2f5f89ab451fe784c8cfcdef2df3b9628cb068d7b911b7a4
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-pc98-disc1.iso) = 1653e1fe1b3f8dbb13a5ad642ef6d107dd5269ef97af9c24f000e8033590cf93
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-pc98-livefs.iso) = 66fd758e507e8c06c0f2c87345257b64e4201d8b7e9d4bed511b8a53105ca91d

SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = e1506bd5a8408d9f50149436ced6964b638714ea8b6af1b62f01cd2e68d26010
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-powerpc-disc1.iso) = 1df04962269e14654d9f23c45404c6e67d3ecdae7cece449b6b41c92b5ed38fe
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-powerpc-disc2.iso) = 5af170e5a16c72bbf5d52aa13536c5b30da0cfa5ae2161c4954b26f809a7291b
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-powerpc-disc3.iso) = d5b639b41c907be46a467885dc86269b42e0c33ee41e5b252d7519cf46dfc2d0

SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 956105978f3759e2e510f1e3195b7f93da3f6ec2a8be749a8d53986bf79fe899
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 79a66f53662e7a1d34c04f7470b44052eb44debede03a8a3ad900e9348d06836
SHA256 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-sparc64-livefs.iso) = aaebc4a306d14bffa0c1066301b2f7dc0af796586d23de2ccb5a0bc6239a5f6a

-- 
                                                Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith at buffalo.edu
  there, funny things are everywhere.   |
                      - Theodore Geisel |

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