Re: 5.3-BETA5 Available

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 09/20/04

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To: Ken Smith <kensmith@freebsd.org>

    Ken Smith wrote:
    > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the
    > availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA5. This is the fifth BETA of the 5.3
    > release cycle. It is intended for early adopters and those wishing to
    > help find and/or fix bugs. The 5.3 release cycle will continue with
    > weekly BETA builds while bugs are being fixed and features finalized.
    > The schedule is at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html.
    > Be sure to check the "Known issues" below, there are known problems
    > still being worked on at this time. BIND9 is being imported and will
    > be part of the 5.3 release. We will add at least one more beta (BETA6)
    > to accomodate testing. Users of the named daemon should visit the ISC
    > website for information about migrating to BIND9.
    >
    > Fixes and Enhancements made since BETA4:
    >
    > - Updated floppy device driver (testers trying out floppies on your
    > systems would be appreciated). This fixes a lot of problems with
    > floppy drives not being probed/attached.
    > - Fix for panics on certain hardware during boot if no media in the
    > cdrom drive.
    > - Change to pf logging format to handle 64-bit time. If updating an
    > older system remove /var/log/pflog before restarting pf.
    > - Many more scheduler fixes, we encourage testers to turn PREEMPTION on.

    ummm no, today's testing shows that this may not be such a good idea..
    it produces problem in wierd places, such as the atapi driver.

    > - Many fixes to bpf locking.
    > - if_re locking added. Problems reported with jumbo frames, fix being
    > tested.
    > - debug.witness_watch moved to debug.witness.watch (old name left but
    > depreciated).
    > - Fix to GBDE key management. If you have specified 4 keys or fewer,
    > you will need to dump your data, re-run gbde init, and restore your
    > data.
    > - Add if_vge driver
    > - Fix to rare VM corruption bug on i386/amd64.
    > - Fix to SCSI sync speed in esp(4) driver.
    > - Fix timeout problems with ppp over if_xl interface.
    > - Misc. network stack locking fixes.
    > - Fix lock order reversal in sound system.
    > - Support round-robin and verify modes in geom raid3.
    > - Misc. fixes to usb.
    > - Misc. mac fixes.
    > - Fixes to geom_mirror.
    > - Many updates to docs, including a new 5.3 Migration Guide.
    >
    > Known issues in this release:
    >
    > - There are scattered reports of data corruption on SMP systems
    > under high load. This could be due to a known bug in the gvinum
    > subsystem, but it could be due to unknown factors. The problem
    > has been tracked to gvinum and a fix will be in BETA6.
    > - pst(4) is known to cause a system panic during the boot time.
    > - The Synaptics Touchpad mouse support is known to have issues with
    > responsiveness. It can be disabled with 'hint.psm.0.flags="0x200"'
    > in "/boot/device.hints". This will be resolved for the release.
    > - There are reports of packet corruption with the nge(1) driver when
    > the network stack is run without Giant. A fix is being tested.
    >
    > A complete list of defects that will be fixed for the release can be
    > found at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/todo.html.
    >
    > Availability:
    >
    > For people wishing to upgrade older systems using cvsup(1) and the
    > procedure described in src/UPDATING the CVS tag to use is RELENG_5
    > at this point. Note that like all RELENG_X branches this is an
    > active development branch. We do not recommend those branches for
    > normal use (for normal use RELENG_X_Y branches are more appropriate,
    > e.g. RELENG_4_10 is the current stable branch).
    >
    > As of this writing the following are available on ftp.freebsd.org
    > along with some of the mirror sites:
    >
    > alpha: images available some time tomorrow
    > amd64: all images available
    > i386: all images available
    > ia64: miniinst available
    > pc98: miniinst available
    > sparc64: all images available
    >
    > MD5s for the builds that are complete at this time are:
    >
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 5be9dba4c354b13c18c06fcde98291b5
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-amd64-disc2.iso) = 3117bf2e2b62b62c681602573433355e
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-amd64-miniinst.iso) = 84caa18e4f863b393513fb68a3dc977e
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-amd64-disc1.iso) = 5ac33f05c3550d7bb7ebf22263c412c9
    >
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-i386-bootonly.iso) = f819ea29a8c07094eca4d04eb0fef869
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-i386-disc2.iso) = 7506ee9ceb8150466439372d36ca9489
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-i386-miniinst.iso) = 57926ee792b68c884df3436a4c33ba12
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-i386-disc1.iso) = 6592143d429f7cf4770f1166c3202f54
    >
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-ia64-bootonly.iso) = bd532c346fc52e42fa2baa97b6ebc3ed
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-ia64-disc2.iso) = 5c115101e8b885c41c8122a4e14f30ab
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-ia64-miniinst.iso) = 98eed6eb8ba5283225a2cd1a5bb5f920
    >
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-pc98-disc2.iso) = ef7ce632c2253f02d078a9e154a1fa6c
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-pc98-miniinst.iso) = 2612557f8cf81ab20b8bdca9481c78c5
    >
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = cfb13e419f9ef30a4d9f4ef3dd11e381
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-sparc64-disc1.iso) = b71b08fd7e6c5b53158d2b78ead10ae2
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 7984c0396a63f8e6b0403f5ed19e4199
    > MD5 (5.3-BETA5-sparc64-miniinst.iso) = e5ed673501f8d4e85a28b35db69b793a
    >
    > -ken
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