Re: FreeBSD 5.3-RC2 Available

Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 21:19 schrieb Ken Smith:
> The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the
> availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RC2.  Two critical issues came up
> during RC1 testing and it is felt the fixes warrant one more RC
> so they receive widespread testing.   If no more show-stopper
> problems are found this will be the last test release done before
> 5.3-RELEASE.

Sorry for wasting your time, but why is there such a big difference between 
-stable and RC2? Shouldn't RELENG_5 be the same as _5_3_0_RELEASE  and _5_3 
at that time?
Is the network locking data structure changes really in RC2? I see many 
changes only appearing in -stable also many ata-fixes only seem to be in 
-stable (RELENG_5).

Thank you in advance,

-Mano


>
> See the previous BETA and RC announcements if you are upgrading a
> system and have not been keeping up with each of the test releases.
> You should be aware that things like BIND and various system libraries
> have been updated through the test cycle.
>
> Fixes and enhancements since RC1:
>
>    - A situation where processes being debugged using a debugger
>      (e.g. gdb) could be left in an unkillable state has been fixed.
>    - A situation where a machine under severe network load could
>      stop responding for periods of time due to SACK issues has
>      been fixed.
>    - A change was made to some network locking data structures that
>      will prevent ABI breakage during the lifetime of 5.X.  This will
>      require you to rebuild all modules related to the network stack.
>    - The ULE scheduler has been completely disabled to discourage
>      its use during the early phases of 5.X.  The problems with its
>      stability are being worked on and it is hoped it can be re-enabled
>      for a future 5.X release.
>    - A problem with extremely large memory allocations on amd64 was fixed.
>    - Fix a panic at shutdown time for machines with vr(4).
>    - Update the floppy disk driver resource layout.
>    - Fix a problem with read-only mounting diskless client root partitions.
>
> 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_3
>    at this point.
>
>    As of this writing the following are available on ftp.freebsd.org
>    along with some of the mirror sites:
>
>        alpha: build still in progress, probably available Monday
>        amd64: all images available
>        i386: all images available
>        ia64: build still in progress, available later today
>        pc98: build complete, loading in progress, available later today
>        sparc64: build complete, loading in progress, available later today
>
>    MD5s for the builds that are complete at this time are:
>
>      MD5 (5.3-RC2-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 4515831861026c88a83c6077cbbcb27e
>      MD5 (5.3-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso) = aa55c7ce7522db445d11fcef7858227d
>      MD5 (5.3-RC2-amd64-disc2.iso) = 1642973ba54f9e83249c6c318df987c4
>      MD5 (5.3-RC2-amd64-miniinst.iso) = 676c5f1dea5a8384764277c31b7419fd
>
>      MD5 (5.3-RC2-i386-bootonly.iso) = 99dd7e92702eb43d2cf60a8f213ec0ff
>      MD5 (5.3-RC2-i386-miniinst.iso) = 47180529153a82855b3b5c4bfddeab74
>      MD5 (5.3-RC2-i386-disc2.iso) = 4ebe6dc95b61f1ee5ad511c7f0342bef
>      MD5 (5.3-RC2-i386-miniinst.iso) = 2792395a6e47332750a0af4ac9fb96f0
>
>      MD5 (5.3-RC2-pc98-disc2.iso) = 507436c8d00692a90beb37a9ab121db5
>      MD5 (5.3-RC2-pc98-miniinst.iso) = 39330e1f44bb81e032cedafe6c90ba22
>
>      MD5 (5.3-RC2-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 5257d530c7a7fe9bea0885396d01eba1
>      MD5 (5.3-RC2-sparc64-disc1.iso) = fd2136eb5ad6db830fdf9cb1ae0e42fc
>      MD5 (5.3-RC2-sparc64-disc2.iso) = dfb05dc299712df7d1cace8f30a4c121
>      MD5 (5.3-RC2-sparc64-miniinst.iso) = b434d6af9af802e95a8d6273551177a1