Last updated on : 2007-3-17 10:39:44
2007-01-15 BSD Release: FreeBSD 6.2
The FreeBSD project has announced the release of FreeBSD 6.2: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. This release continues the development of the 6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many bug fixes and new features. Some of the highlights: freebsd-update provides officially supported binary updates for security fixes and errata patches; experimental support for CAPP security event auditing; OpenBSM audit command line tool suite and library; KDE updated to 3.5.4, GNOME updated to 2.16.1; csup integrated cvsup client now included...." Read the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download: 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (573MB, MD5), 6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (616MB, MD5).
2006-12-27 Development Release: FreeBSD 6.2-RC2
Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate of FreeBSD 6.2: "Since RC1 we have been working out a few more bugs in device drivers, a few device drivers were updated, BIND was updated, and bugs in several other areas of the kernel have been worked out. We also wound up having hardware problems with the primary distribution machine that took some time to resolve. All problems we felt needed to be addressed before 6.2 could be released have been taken care of. Unless further testing turns up something new RC2, which is available now for downloading, will be the last of the Release Candidates and 6.2-RELEASE should be ready in about 2 weeks." Read the full release announcement for further information. Download (i386, MD5): 6.2-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (573MB), 6.2-RC2-i386-disc2.iso (639MB).
2006-11-17 Development Release: FreeBSD 6.2-RC1
Ken Smith has announced the availability of FreeBSD 6.2-RC1: "We have now reached the Release Candidate stage of the FreeBSD 6.2 release cycle. A few significant problems had been discovered during the initial BETA testing and those issues should now be fixed. This is the first point packages have been included with the test builds and a few minor nits have been noticed already. In particular these are known problems which will be addressed before RC2: sysinstall tries to install the wrong package for Linux emulation on i386; if you install gnome2 off the distribution media it will fail to find packages for gmime and gmime-sharp; RC1 distribution media does not include the documentation tree." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (MD5): 6.2-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (519MB), 6.2-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (562MB).
2006-11-01 Development Release: FreeBSD 6.2-BETA3
Ken Smith has announced the third beta release of FreeBSD 6.2: "BETA3 for the FreeBSD 6.2 release is now available on most of the FTP mirror sites. There have been a lot of fixes to many things since BETA2. The most important of the things that have been worked on is the driver for em(4). We are hoping people who had been reporting problems with em(4) can test what has been done. Both positive and negative feedback would be appreciated, if you had been experiencing problems that are now gone we would like to know. We are getting much closer to something that is release-able. Your help with the testing up to now has been appreciated, and continued testing would be appreciated even more." The release announcement. Download (i386, MD5): 6.2-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (412MB), 6.2-BETA3-i386-disc2.iso (31MB).
2006-09-20 Development Release: FreeBSD 6.2-BETA1
Ken Smith has announced the first beta release of FreeBSD 6.2: "The first Beta build for the FreeBSD-6.2 Release Cycle is now available on most of the FTP mirror sites. If the release cycle goes as planned it is the first of two BETAs, which will be followed by two Release Candidates (RCs) and then the final release. A few things to note about BETA1: be aware that SA-06:21.gzip was released after the -BETA1 builds started; the install media provided for this BETA do not include any packages; the sparc64 build got started before an important bug fix was applied to auditctl(2); no BETA1 for the ia64 platform will be available; the build for Alpha is still in progress; FreeBSD Update, a binary security update tool, was recently imported into the FreeBSD base system." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download (i386, MD5): 6.2-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso (687MB) and 6.2-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso (687MB).
2006-05-25 BSD Release: FreeBSD 5.5
Ken Smith has announced a new stable release of the FreeBSD 5.x series: "It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE. Work done between the 5.4-RELEASE and this release has mostly been bug fixes. Some ’vendor supplied’ software has also been updated, mostly due to security concerns (specifically BIND and sendmail). This is the last planned release on the 5-STABLE branch. The FreeBSD development community is currently focusing its efforts on the 6-STABLE and CURRENT codelines. No new major features are planned for the 5-STABLE branch, although minor updates and bug fixes may be merged at the discretion of individual developers." Read the release announcement and consult the release notes for more information. Download (i386, MD5): 5.5-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (511MB), 5.5-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso (579MB).
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