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FreeBSD 4.5 NOT Released (Updated)
Jordon Hubbard writes: "The latest release in the FreeBSD 4.X branch has been released after an extensive release engineering process. Important bugfixes for the TCP stack and NFS are included in this release. You can view the release notes and find a mirror here." Update: 01/24 21:42 GMT by Hemos :Fake submissions, not really released. Yah. Comedic value provided for the day.
Are you sure 4.5-FINAL was released? The RC3 came out just last night and the group was scheduling about RC4 next week. And now Slashdot is reporting on 4.5-Final? I am not sure if this is a fake or not... The FreeBSD web site has not been updated yet. Waiting...
Official release-date is Jan 26th, as can be seen here.
Slashdot jumped the gun, again.
You could try watching newvers.sh in CVS for a 4.5-RELEASE tag, or at least check the FTP sites.
4.5 is still in Release Candidate 3, as far as I know.
Keep an eye on the freebsd-announce list or the news page.
Found this so amusing that it had to be posted in main thread:
Jan 25, 2002
Warn hubs@FreeBSD.org
Heads up email to hubs@FreeBSD.org to give admins time to prepare for the load spike to come.
/. ought to bring the spike in a little early. Also not that the packages aren't going to the ftp masters until tomorrow, the 25th, and the announcment and mirroring will occur on the 26th. Just a couple more days to wait for the next step in this great OS.
Here's a post by Murray Stokely on the FreeBSD-Stable list, at 2:07AM today:
/ 4. 5-RC3
8 6/ 4.5-RC3-install.iso
d if f, and simply turns
==========
Our third 4.5 release candidate is now available :
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i3
This release candidate fixes a number of issues that were reported
with RC2. Installations from aic(4)-based PCMCIA devices should now
be possible. For this RC, bge(4) was added to the GENERIC kernel and the
txp(4) device was moved over to the MFSROOT as a module. This should
allow network installations with Broadcom gigabit Ethernet
adapters.[1] A number of suggestions about the package set were
addressed with this RC, but unfortunately sawfish-gnome, fvwm2, and
xfmail are still unavailable. There will be one final release
candidate (RC4) before the final release is made available.
The testing guide and release notes have been updated with a few new
items :
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.5R/qa.html
http://www.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes
Thanks,
The FreeBSD 4.5 Release Engineering Team.
[1] This functionality has not been committed to -STABLE yet, a small
patch was patched to the build with "make release LOCAL_PATCHES=..".
The patch is available at
http://www.freebsd.org/~murray/patches/drivers.
on a new device for the boot floppy.
==========
This seems a little fast, don't you think?
Without 4.5-RC4 being released, and without an announcement on FreeBSD-Announce?
- Code path optimizations. One particularly interesting
change was that data destined for loopback interfaces (e.g. 127.0.0.1)
bypass congestion control and the TCP sequencing code. Likewise for UDP -
ICMP port unreachable messages and the like are actually determined within
the syscall now, rather than being discrete messages that are bounced
around in the kernel.
- Filesystem fixes. We had been having some trouble with
devfs and freevxfs on several machines, and the fixes that were checked
into CVS a few weeks back fixed them. It is with pleasure that I note that
those changes made it into 4.5-RELEASE.
- Stability fixes. There were some minor issues with the use of
-llinfo and the route syscall that would sometimes cause kernel panics.
Since we use shell scripts to update routing tables many times an hour, we
ran into this from time to time, and it is fixed now.
- Usability improvements. The core team has emphasized the need
to provide a more useful
/proc filesystem, so that it can contain many
discrete pieces of valuable system information like it does in Linux.
Thus, new handlers for registering and unregistering nodes under /proc have
been implemented (although they are not used yet).
This is definitely the time to open your mind if you haven't already, and try using FreeBSD. It is stable, secure, reliable, and robust; it has grown into quite an excellent OS since the dog days of 3.0. Visit the mirrors and download an ISO today!</evangelism>
freebsd guy
First off, I didn't announce anything concerning 4.5 so it's a little odd to see "Jordon Hubbard writes..." [sic] when I did nothing of the kind. 4.5-RELEASE has NOT yet happened and all that Murray Stokely, the primary release engineer, has announced is the availability of release candidate image #3. As we go along the FreeBSD release process, it's customary for the project to release release candidate images for pre-testing so that the final version will be as bug-free as possible and hopefully without any of the sort of brain-os which get caught in the first few hours of testing.
:)
Finally, my first name is spelled "Jordan", like the river. A sure sign that this was a hoax.
- Jordan Hubbard co-founder, the FreeBSD Project. Director, UNIX Technology. Apple Computer
Is it me, or do you believe anything that is printed on
It could be worse, it could be RedHat. Where you get experimental C compilers shipped with the OS, or have a NEW filesystem (extfs3) then not update the file systems man page (fs). And, provide no man pages or documentation in the
I'll take FreeBSD, and look to www.freebsd.org for any release info, not
If it was said on slashdot, it MUST be true!
A number of the ongoing improvements in FreeBSD-stable (from which 4.5 will come) have indeed been making it into Mac OS X.
Apple is also not syncronizing its Darwin releases with those of FreeBSD from a timing perspective, but technologies are certainly being shared between them. Apple has also been providing stuff back, with the recent filesystem exerciser utility that Apple provided being used to find a number of bugs in FreeBSD's NFS and softupdates code. It's all good, man!
- Jordan Hubbard co-founder, the FreeBSD Project. Director, UNIX Technology. Apple Computer
It's in the FAQ. do check it out!
For those that havent already fixed it, a patch was just released for the race condition in 4.4. Get patch here:
S A- 02:08/exec.patch
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/
Insert witty
On the FreeBSD RELEASE page, it says:
The next scheduled release on the -stable branch will be FreeBSD 4.5 on January 26, 2002.
It said the same two days ago.
Don't click here. BT will enforce intellectual rights and sue for eac
Fake submissions, not really released. Yah. Comedic value provided for the day.
Yeah, like heaven forbid you should actually verify stories before you put them up ... to suggest such a thing would be pure heresy I'm sure.
Stuii!
I am talking about the FreeBSD distribution... not the BSD 4.4 OS. There is a big difference there!
FreeBSD 4.4 is currently being merged into OS X/Darwin, as you'd see if you kept up with the Darwin developer lists and/or the public Darwin bugs site (which is very interesting reading, for me at least). Here's a bug from yesterday, in fact, that mentions it.