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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...
looks like the links on that page are broken, and it seems that 4.5-release hasn't made it's way out to all the ftp sites yet.
in the mean time, here are the relnotes for 4.5-rc3 i386 alpha
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.
An excerpt from that poem:
Check this page for the rest.
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
It is now official - Slashdot has confirmed: *BSD is alive and thriving
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered AC crowd when Slashdot reported that FreeBSD has released a new version. This comes right on the heels of freeBSD going home, when Wind River and FreeBSD Mall Inc. published a joint press-release today announcing the sale of Wind River's FreeBSD assets to Bob Bruce, founder of Walnut Creek CDROM--the company that in 1993 first published FreeBSD. This was the company that almost a decade ago declared to the world that *BSD is alive and thriving!
The FreeBSD Mall web site has been redesigned, with many new products, including FreeBSD CDs, books, polo shirts, microfiber jackets, boxer shorts, bumper stickers, lapel pins, several different styles of t-shirts, mouse pads, travel mugs, buttons, sticker sheets, plate logos, denim shirts, CD cases, and paid support options.
FreeBSD and its close relatives NetBSD and OpenBSD all are open-source projects, meaning that anyone can see, change and distribute the underlying source code.
With the main FreeBSD distribution back in the hands of the record holding Free Software distributor Bob Bruce, trolls posting that *BSD is dead had better keep the "anonymous" in "anonymous coward."
-- La1d, killed by a newt, while helpless.
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!
from the yhbt-yhl-hand dept. ?
sulli
RTFJ.
So, which is worse:
Making a few errors and not featuring corrections so prominently
Making so many errors that are so basic that people find out within minutes, but at least you post corrections fast too.
Just a thought, vis a vis michaels article yesterday.
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
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!
"Darwin is an open source, UNIX-based operating system built on BSD 4.4 and Mach 3.0 which forms the core of Mac OS X."
"Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity" -Alvy Ray Smith
I am talking about the FreeBSD distribution... not the BSD 4.4 OS. There is a big difference there!
BSD is dying! If you look at the number of curly braces in the code you'll see that linux and solaris have a lot more. Why? Because they make more code blocks. If FreeBSD has 2.03x10^5 '{' characters, and OpenBSD, because they're so anal, have twice as many, then that means that *BSD only has a few hundred thousand when you put them all together. This, coupled with the fact that the Taliban have collapsed and NATO is still together leads one to the unavoidable conclusion that Windows is dying!
I mean, BSD.
So I guess the earlier /. news article about the Irishman solving the zero-point energy problem was actually true? *grin*
I'm running FreeBSD 6.8-RELEASE, and it's the greatest piece of software ever made. As an operating system, it's a lean, mean serving machine. For example, my 386 SX with 4 megs of RAM typically serves about 10,000 FTP users simultaneously. And X Window System, running KDE and GNOME simultaneously, along with about a thousand highly intensive applications, continue to run and function with perfect responsiveness. In fact, I could probably run twice the load, and it would make everything execute even faster.
"This is because I'm from the future. I came here in a time machine that you invented. Now I need your help to get back to the year 1985."
"Hmmm... Mr. Anderson. You disappoint me."
"You can't scare me with this gestapo crap. I know my rights, I want my fluxcapacitor back."
"Well, tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a fluxcapacitor, if you're, unable, to flux?"
***** OK! OK! JUST KIDDING! *****
The release of FreeBSD 4.5 is just around the corner. The good folks in core are doing a marvelous job, and I am confident that this release will be the best yet, and that as always, the next one following this will be even better.
As it is, amazing improvements have been made to the system since 4.4-RELEASE. I know because that's what my production servers are running right now, but for my desktop, I like to use -STABLE, which is pretty darn good.
Oh well.