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.

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FreeBSD 4.5 RC3 came out last night

[Eugenia Loli]

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...

Hold your horses.

[bwulf]

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.

Twelve Days of Codefreeze

[kenneth_martens]

On the very bottom of the FreeBSD 4.5 Release page, there the following: "It's been pointed out that this table is rather boring. Bruce Mah gave a slightly more interesting rendition of the 12 days of Code- Freeze. ".

An excerpt from that poem:

> As promised we've now entered the code freeze for RELENG_4. Please
> submit all MFC requests to re@FreeBSD.org before committing to this
> branch.

For your hacking and/or holiday pleasure, I give you: "The Twelve Days of Code-Freeze"

Sung to the tune of:"The Twelve Days of Christmas"
Words by:bmah@freebsd.org

On the first day of code-freeze, my -hackers gave to me:
A bad patch in the src/ tree.

On the second day of code-freeze, my -hackers gave to me:
Two flamewars,
And a bad patch in the src/ tree.

On the third day of code-freeze, my -hackers gave to me:
Three bikesheds,
Two flamewars,
And a bad patch in the src/ tree.

On the fourth day of code-freeze, my -hackers gave to me:
Four broken worlds,
Three bikesheds,
Two flamewars,
And a bad patch in the src/ tree.

Check this page for the rest.

Erm, OK, this is bizarre...

[jkh]

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. :)

Re:FreeBSD and MacOS X?

[jkh]

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!