RE: Plan for 5.3-RELEASE

Hi Scott and lists.
With all of this, i expect to keep testing RC1, and RC2 should come
before 5.3 to be completely released.
If 5.3 is scheduled to be released in 7-10 days, you could release
-RC2 in next 3-5 days so we've the posibility to test fixed things
that might not be in current -RC1.
Just an idea.

Cya,
Martin

> All,

> Today was supposed to be the release day for 5.3, but some serious
> show-stoppers came to light yesterday.  Since the purpose of 5.3 is to
> have a functionally stable release that is suitable for migrating to,
> we decided to hold up 5.3 until these issues are fixed.  The first issue
> deals with TCP SACK problems that result in a livelocked system.  The
> second involves GDB leaving threaded processes in an unkillable state.
> Fixes for both are under review and will be committed to RELENG_5 in a
> few days when preliminary testing is complete.

> I've also turned off ULE to help narrow down many of the ambiguous
> problems that are still being reported.  ULE works fine for some, but
> it must be eliminated from the environment when you suspect a bug.
> I expect to keep ULE off in 5.x until the rate of other problem reports
> and decreased and someone takes an active interest in it.

> Please continue to test RC1.  At this point I'm not going to promise a
> particular date for 5.3-RELEASE, but I would expect it in the next 7-10
> days assuming nothing else significant comes up.

> Scott