FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 Available...

The first BETA build of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available.
Since this will be the first release on a brand new branch I'll
cross-post the announcements on both -current and -stable.  But just
so you know most of the developers active in head pay more attention
to the -current mailing list.  If you notice problems you can report
them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the -current mailing list.

The 9.0-RELEASE cycle will be tracked here:

  http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/9.0TODO

Those of you familiar with FreeBSD release schedules will not be shocked
to notice we're already a bit behind schedule... :-)

ISO images for the following architectures are available:

	amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64

Due to lack of support for boot floppies and issues with the new
ATA_CAM infrastructure the pc98 architecture is being dropped to
Tier-2 status and at this time there are no plans for 9.0 builds
for pc98.  I just got the sparc64 architecture ISOs loaded on
ftp-master shortly before starting to type this so it may take
a day or so to propagate out to the mirror sites.  MD5/SHA256 checksums
for the images are at the bottom of this message.

If you would like to use csup/cvsup mechanisms to access the source
tree the branch tag to use is "." (head).  If you would like to access
the source tree via SVN it is "svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/".

Note that some time between now and BETA2 we will finalize the list of
shared libraries that need to have their versions bumped (only a subset
of libraries have been converted to symbol-versioning) and take care
of doing the bumps.  So at the moment packages built for current should
work.  But when the bump happens you will need to recompile any
applications you have installed and there will likely be a delay for
suitable pre-built packages to become available on the FTP sites.  Sorry
in advance for that hassle but it's somewhat normal for the testing
phase of a .0 release.

One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like tested is the new
installer, so fresh installs on test systems are encouraged.

At this time FreeBSD-Update is not available, in part because of the
above issues (libs bump still coming, and encouraging testing of the
installer... :-).

Checksums:

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 8735758ac97a54289eb9697e4e91b4f6
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) = 0f66b7f1cf9f0841bcbb2a448f0d1476
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-amd64-memstick.img) = be053143500e39703543d8975faba7c6

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) = e1e2cb4ab7213fc458a2eabd8c72563c
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) = 61467b53bfa327b4af1deb9426d76f0f
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img) = 5637bcb95e2f7d555963ad219fe4412f

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-ia64-bootonly.iso) = a14c604135d600018aa0531ae4d3fa31
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-ia64-memstick) = a270eb61a73407f040f1f205c62b3881
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-ia64-release.iso) = a697c4bc92600bd9e8978be35f61e7ea

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = 089f0ac6aec8706d99bd07a51fd3eb51
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-powerpc-memstick) = 4b772ad3cf933d1bb5f6e70faee3d6ca
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-powerpc-release.iso) = 239be45712e827bb3b3bcff91ad5f201

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-powerpc64-bootonly.iso) = 5acab3ab0388b0556209e41fb31dfbba
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-powerpc64-memstick) = de1a4e5b96c13d3b68131257ebb499dc
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-powerpc64-release.iso) = d4dfefcbfc7580318a2aaca1a545d585

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = c1020e3f52f5f760ef2a5ed20cedd574
MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 8b8def377862103d8bca3fdf921ac38a

SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = f5e4cf07a86d27381f961d63d1b6b2f224e52eb3bacc7ed3435605bf384722bb
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso) = 27c4d6c85c8bb53ee7284869b9abc694d43d0d5110f4faf3d6057d766da5e984
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-amd64-memstick.img) = bdab308a347805935409f592a5bdca1e8288953fe0ae07d7cdce1965c4af7fb2

SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-i386-bootonly.iso) = 0b0f13c2eebd779241ad49120197bc346e7ff2950e35e26832cfe7498f219bbe
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso) = 21099d74030500b3ca89d648c611cf74c79a841558a7827740645e82be8901e5
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img) = e333fa7721f153f523d11e8af487bc6c442197b3df31b67111d3b1b5ac57f18a

SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 8d7257cededc33bf2c62fe29d836efa56375bfe0a5c3d219fe895894afcea9c1
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-ia64-memstick) = 9c05bf4d69f4aa2929db3e252c6ae15f9e957542840e5b090ae6cdb26ff1ec98
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-ia64-release.iso) = 656c604d902d3a9ad1697e4dea78a76740f899b7e2414c29905ffd1640260cb5

SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = 8b2dacacd0fbeba98b63d41f022335803c4cebb360e3c9a968cc9aea6bed059f
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-powerpc-memstick) = ef7741c0d8431db886ef79c7acd03c7efdf281d1d5fbba634bdba371d22ef72c
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-powerpc-release.iso) = 662eff3463ec9a05bc1617f1af620ad5bbeac239668af3dd0a8405d79ef6d05f

SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-powerpc64-bootonly.iso) = 7e4a8a24cd942222d4fce60294d444525d9aea6c8d3e0ee55e6a9dda84a5ee9f
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-powerpc64-memstick) = ec7eb9d6f5a69a0f3fbafd433ac309dcafd411921c4c51f2886c39649d59ca07
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-powerpc64-release.iso) = 2721be511db390a95ddf3081afd8152be14f147d5d8a8213c4045875631950e7

SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 3db8cf663cd1722488277c5c63f8daa2cd04a1e1aeb8bd54932cbc30d507bc3e
SHA256 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = c051b5b9fad2e3183c595b3e7f786afb181bce91c7ce1c869a2c593ab9d29205

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