FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 Available...

[Gót András]

Hi,

Sorry for crossposting, but this would be really nice to be fixed in 
the final release. I just installed one RC2 onto a XenServer 6.1 cluster 
but cannot boot with XENHVM kernel. I started a thread on the 
freebsd-xen list, which is here: 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen/2012-October/001374.html

Regards,
Andras


On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:54:00 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> The second release candidate of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now
> available on the FTP servers for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and
> powerpc64.  The MD5/SHA256 checksums are at the bottom of this 
> message.
> The ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory 
> stick
> images are available here:
>
>   ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.1/
>
> (or any of the FreeBSD mirror sites).
>
> A third RC build has been decided on, currently scheduled for a week
> from now.  The release builds themselves will begin about a week 
> after
> RC3.  The current target schedule has been updated:
>
>   http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html
>
> If you notice any problems you can report them through the normal 
> Gnats
> PR system or here on the -stable mailing list.
>
> There was enough "community push-back" from the decision to not 
> export
> the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS that the decision has been
> reversed.  A firm decision has been made that 10.X release activity 
> will
> not be exported to CVS.  It hasn't been decided yet if the upcoming 
> 8.X
> and/or 9.X (past 9.1) release activity will be exported.  More
> information about that will get posted as decisions get made.
>
> If you want to do a source-based update to an existing system using 
> SVN
> the branch to use is releng/9.1.  If you would like to use CVS 
> instead
> use RELENG_9_1.
>
> The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and 
> amd64
> systems running earlier FreeBSD releases.  Systems running 
> 9.0-RELEASE,
> 9.1-BETA1, or 9.1-RC1 can upgrade as follows:
>
> # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-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, 8.X) can also use
> freebsd-update to upgrade to FreeBSD 9.1-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
> or FreeBSD 8.X and FreeBSD 9.X.
>