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FreeBSD 4.9 Code Freeze

Posted by michael on from the stop-in-the-name-of-love dept.

lewiz writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering have announced that the code freeze in preparation for 4.9-RELEASE (scheduled for 29th September) will begin on 25th August. Also 4.9-RC is tentatively scheduled for 12th September. A full list of dates can be found on the Release Process page."

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  1. Re:Let's hear from all of the excited /. readers! by cperciva · · Score: 4, Informative

    I, for one, agree here. 4.9-RELEASE isn't really all that exciting. Of course, it's not supposed to be exciting -- it's from the STABLE branch; new and exciting features don't belong in the STABLE branch.

    Now, if there was a completely new scheduler or virtual memory system, or a couple data-corruption on unmount bugs, that would be exciting. But in FreeBSD, that sort of thing doesn't get into the STABLE branch.

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  2. Features List by rf0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    4.9 Release notes showing what is going in/being fixed

    Rus

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    1. Re:Features List by bmah · · Score: 5, Informative

      FYI: That document is really the release notes for 4-STABLE, and is a work in progress. I still have a bunch of things to do to get it caught up to reality.

  3. Re:My trolls are not idiotic! by Quill_28 · · Score: 4, Informative

    great now I am responding to a troll,
    so I will answer

    1. It is dying
    -Wrong
    2. It has no GUI
    -Wrong
    3. It is fragmented
    -This is a good thing
    4. It is associated with SCO
    5. It has no games
    -Wrong
    6. It is run only by geeks
    -Um no comment
    7. It is unusable by Grandmas
    -nor is linux
    8. It has fewer than 500 users
    -Wrong
    9. You can not install it on a pentium
    -Nope
    10. You cannot apt-get it
    -Correct, use have to make; make install

  4. The big new feature appears to be... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    PAE-physical address extensions, ported over from 5-CURRENT. I wonder if they're going to put out a version 4.10, because PAE doesn't yet work on all the drivers in current much less all that many drivers in 4-STABLE.