FreeBSD 6.1 Released
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. This release is the next step in the development of the 6.X branch, delivering several performance improvements, many bugfixes, and a few new features. These include: ~ Addition of a keyboard multiplexer. This allows USB and PS/2 keyboards to coexist without any special options at boot. ~ Many fixes for filesystem stability. High load stress tests are now run successfully on a regular basis as part of the normal FreeBSD QA process. ~ Automatic configuration for man Bluetooth devices, as well as automatic support for running WiFi access points. ~ Addition of drivers for new ethernet and SAS and SATA RAID controllers. ~ BIND updated to 9.3.2 ~ sendmail updated to 8.13.6 NOTE: It was discovered at the last minute that the errata notes that were packaged with the release are out of date. For a complete list of known problems, please see the online errata list, available at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.1R/errata.html For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng Availability - FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE supports the i386, pc98, alpha, sparc64, amd64, powerpc, and ia64 architectures and can be installed directly over the net using bootable media or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for all architectures are available now. Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies will be offering FreeBSD 6.1 based products: ~ FreeBSD Mall, Inc.http://www.freebsdmall.com/ ~ Daemonnews, Inc. http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO images. We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from the following sites. MD5 and SHA256 checksums for the release images are included at the bottom of this message. Bittorrent -- The FreeBSD project encourages the use of BitTorrent for distributing the release ISO images. A collection of torrent files to download the images is available at http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ FTP --- At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE available. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.at.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.ch.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.ee.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.fi.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.fr.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.ie.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.is.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp1.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.si.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp5.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Amylonia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to: ftp://ftp..FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on. More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The FreeBSD Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through for users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Acknowledgments Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 6.1 including The FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and Copan Systems. The release engineering team for 6.1-RELEASE includes: Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Release Engineering, Ken Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>I386, AMD64, Sparc64 Release Building, Mirror Site Coordination Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Release Engineering, Security Doug White <[EMAIL PROTE
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
Scott Long wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. This release is the next step in the development of the 6.X branch, delivering several performance improvements, many bugfixes, and a few new features. These include: ~ Addition of a keyboard multiplexer. This allows USB and PS/2 keyboards to coexist without any special options at boot. ~ Many fixes for filesystem stability. High load stress tests are now run successfully on a regular basis as part of the normal FreeBSD QA process. ~ Automatic configuration for man Bluetooth devices, as well as automatic s/man/many support for running WiFi access points. ~ Addition of drivers for new ethernet and SAS and SATA RAID controllers. ~ BIND updated to 9.3.2 ~ sendmail updated to 8.13.6 NOTE: It was discovered at the last minute that the errata notes that were packaged with the release are out of date. For a complete list of known problems, please see the online errata list, available at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.1R/errata.html the above points to a filel that says "6.0 errata" ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
Julian Elischer wrote: Scott Long wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. This release is the next step in the development of the 6.X branch, delivering several performance improvements, many bugfixes, and a few new features. These include: ~ Addition of a keyboard multiplexer. This allows USB and PS/2 keyboards to coexist without any special options at boot. ~ Many fixes for filesystem stability. High load stress tests are now run successfully on a regular basis as part of the normal FreeBSD QA process. ~ Automatic configuration for man Bluetooth devices, as well as automatic s/man/many support for running WiFi access points. ~ Addition of drivers for new ethernet and SAS and SATA RAID controllers. ~ BIND updated to 9.3.2 ~ sendmail updated to 8.13.6 NOTE: It was discovered at the last minute that the errata notes that were packaged with the release are out of date. For a complete list of known problems, please see the online errata list, available at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.1R/errata.html the above points to a filel that says "6.0 errata" Indeed. Where is the mention of current quota/bge/em/ufs problems? Don't tell me these will be shoved under the rug. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
On Tue, 09 May 2006 01:00:14 -0400 Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indeed. Where is the mention of current quota/bge/em/ufs problems? > Don't tell me these will be shoved under the rug. Oh, please. Allow the team a few minutes (at least!) to get the right errata in place before complaining. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Tue, 09 May 2006 01:00:14 -0400 Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Indeed. Where is the mention of current quota/bge/em/ufs problems? Don't tell me these will be shoved under the rug. Oh, please. Allow the team a few minutes (at least!) to get the right errata in place before complaining. Am I anally retentive or what? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
At 11:19 PM 08/05/2006, Scott Long wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. This release is the next step in the development of the 6.X branch, delivering several performance improvements, many bugfixes, and a few new features. These include: Congratulations Scott and the RE team! We have a number of 6.1ish boxes (UP and SMP) in production being brutalized with spam and virual analysis and they are working great! ---Mike ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
On 2006.05.09 01:00:14 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: [...] > >the above points to a filel that says "6.0 errata" > > Indeed. Where is the mention of current quota/bge/em/ufs problems? Don't > tell me these will be shoved under the rug. Send patches. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgpan6ucZhbwj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
Simon L. Nielsen wrote: On 2006.05.09 01:00:14 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: [...] the above points to a filel that says "6.0 errata" Indeed. Where is the mention of current quota/bge/em/ufs problems? Don't tell me these will be shoved under the rug. Send patches. Patches? For what? It's too late now, 6.1 has been released. I sent reminders to the RE team and i made it quite clear on the lists that the quota issue should be described in the relnotes/errata before the release. If the RE team chooses to ignore major bugs and pretend all is fine and dandy, then there is not much patches will do. Heck, im still waiting for Scott to personally fix the problems, as he so graciously offered, but couldn't deliver. I offered to work with him and provide help, he never replied to my emails. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
On 2006.05.11 20:53:42 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > >On 2006.05.09 01:00:14 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > > >>Julian Elischer wrote: > >> > >[...] > > > >>>the above points to a filel that says "6.0 errata" > >>> > >>Indeed. Where is the mention of current quota/bge/em/ufs problems? Don't > >>tell me these will be shoved under the rug. > >> > > > >Send patches. > > > > Patches? For what? [...] For the errata page, which was what the above text mentioned. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgpo8BkxSgjrg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
Mike Jakubik wrote: Patches? For what? It's too late now, 6.1 has been released. I sent reminders to the RE team and i made it quite clear on the lists that the quota issue should be described in the relnotes/errata before the release. If the RE team chooses to ignore major bugs and pretend all is fine and dandy, then there is not much patches will do. Heck, im still waiting for Scott to personally fix the problems, as he so graciously offered, but couldn't deliver. I offered to work with him and provide help, he never replied to my emails. I'm almost afraid to enter into this discussion (puts on flame suit), but might it be better to gently encourage the re/development team to make some of these a priority for 6.2? (as that gives everyone more lead time, and in the end what we all want is FreeBSD to steadily improve). Cheers Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
On 05/11/06 20:53, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Simon L. Nielsen wrote: >> On 2006.05.09 01:00:14 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: >>> Julian Elischer wrote: >> >> [...] >> the above points to a filel that says "6.0 errata" >>> Indeed. Where is the mention of current quota/bge/em/ufs problems? >>> Don't tell me these will be shoved under the rug. >> >> Send patches. > > Patches? For what? It's too late now, 6.1 has been released. I sent > reminders to the RE team and i made it quite clear on the lists that the > quota issue should be described in the relnotes/errata before the > release. If the RE team chooses to ignore major bugs and pretend all is > fine and dandy, then there is not much patches will do. Heck, im still > waiting for Scott to personally fix the problems, as he so graciously > offered, but couldn't deliver. I offered to work with him and provide > help, he never replied to my emails. The *entire* errata page was from 6.0; it was a mistake. This wasn't some "put on the rose-colored classes and gloss over major issues" thing. It was a long release cycle and something was forgotten. C'est la vie. It's always a good idea to check the most up-to-date version of the errata page on the web anyway, so it's *not* too late to update it. So, you're still waiting for Scott to personally fix the problems and he couldn't deliver? Huh? I quote you (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-May/025209.html): "Scott, thanks for the very generous gesture, but i cant ask you something like this." -Jonathan -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
Jonathan Noack wrote: The *entire* errata page was from 6.0; it was a mistake. This wasn't some "put on the rose-colored classes and gloss over major issues" thing. It was a long release cycle and something was forgotten. C'est la vie. It's always a good idea to check the most up-to-date version of the errata page on the web anyway, so it's *not* too late to update it. How convenient. These problems needed to be addressed in the release notes, not some on line version. So, you're still waiting for Scott to personally fix the problems and he couldn't deliver? Huh? I quote you (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-May/025209.html): "Scott, thanks for the very generous gesture, but i cant ask you something like this." He emailed me personally, i accepted his help offer, never heard from him since. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
Mike Jakubik wrote: Jonathan Noack wrote: The *entire* errata page was from 6.0; it was a mistake. This wasn't some "put on the rose-colored classes and gloss over major issues" thing. It was a long release cycle and something was forgotten. C'est la vie. It's always a good idea to check the most up-to-date version of the errata page on the web anyway, so it's *not* too late to update it. How convenient. These problems needed to be addressed in the release notes, not some on line version. So, you're still waiting for Scott to personally fix the problems and he couldn't deliver? Huh? I quote you (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-May/025209.html): "Scott, thanks for the very generous gesture, but i cant ask you something like this." He emailed me personally, i accepted his help offer, never heard from him since. Sorry, things got lost in the shuffle to get this released. For your specific snapshot deadlocks, please test the changes that have gone into 7-CURRENT and report back if they fix your problem. Only with active testing will we know if they are good to be backported in time for 6.2. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
Mike Jakubik wrote: Jonathan Noack wrote: The *entire* errata page was from 6.0; it was a mistake. This wasn't some "put on the rose-colored classes and gloss over major issues" thing. It was a long release cycle and something was forgotten. C'est la vie. It's always a good idea to check the most up-to-date version of the errata page on the web anyway, so it's *not* too late to update it. How convenient. These problems needed to be addressed in the release notes, not some on line version. *Plonk* You've just entered into my "do not read" bucket. If you can't see that errors occur, then I pity _anyone_ who codes for you... Or perhaps you never make a mistake. That must be it. John -- John T. Farmer Owner & CTO GoldSword Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] 865-691-6498 Knoxville TN Consulting, Design, & Development of Networks & Software ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
J. T. farmer wrote: Mike Jakubik wrote: Jonathan Noack wrote: The *entire* errata page was from 6.0; it was a mistake. This wasn't some "put on the rose-colored classes and gloss over major issues" thing. It was a long release cycle and something was forgotten. C'est la vie. It's always a good idea to check the most up-to-date version of the errata page on the web anyway, so it's *not* too late to update it. How convenient. These problems needed to be addressed in the release notes, not some on line version. *Plonk* You've just entered into my "do not read" bucket. If you can't see that errors occur, then I pity _anyone_ who codes for you... Or perhaps you never make a mistake. That must be it. While I tend to agree with regards to poor attitude (see similar threads in almost any open source forum on the topic of "demanding" anything from a volunteer project), Mike is obviously quite passionate about and has the interests of FreeBSD at heart, and for that I cannot blame him at all. He seems to have a disagreement with handling of the release process, which is the same recurring issue every time there is a release and probably the #1 cause of burnout with the Release Engineer of the day. Historically, you can see that the current process works though, even if it may not produce the 100% perfect -RELEASE it at least guards against more serious problems that have happened in the past that were introduced by last minute and untested changes. Regards, David PS: cc -hackers removed ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jonathan Noack wrote: >> The *entire* errata page was from 6.0; it was a mistake. This wasn't >> some "put on the rose-colored classes and gloss over major issues" >> thing. It was a long release cycle and something was forgotten. C'est >> la vie. It's always a good idea to check the most up-to-date version of >> the errata page on the web anyway, so it's *not* too late to update it. >> >> > > How convenient. These problems needed to be addressed in the release > notes, not some on line version. You lost connection to the ground, Mike. Come back please :-) People make mistakes, and that applies to both the code as to the documentation, and users will know that sometimes problems will be found only after the release so they'll check online later when running into a problem. The 6.1 release announcement already mentioned the errata lapsus BTW and asked people to check on-line, so it appears someone's asking for perfection -- but it was decided months ago to stick to a schedule rather than making perfect releases. Having said that, 6.1 is a real and visible improvement over 6.0 for me. 6.1 is usable, where 6.0 toppled over every few minutes (I'm talking about ral(4) and other nasty stuff such as tmpfs/mdmfs panics in 6.0 - ral(4) is what prompted me to do the 5.4->6.0 upgrade). -- Matthias Andree ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
On 12/05/06, Matthias Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jonathan Noack wrote: >> The *entire* errata page was from 6.0; it was a mistake. This wasn't >> some "put on the rose-colored classes and gloss over major issues" >> thing. It was a long release cycle and something was forgotten. C'est >> la vie. It's always a good idea to check the most up-to-date version of >> the errata page on the web anyway, so it's *not* too late to update it. >> >> > > How convenient. These problems needed to be addressed in the release > notes, not some on line version. You lost connection to the ground, Mike. Come back please :-) People make mistakes, and that applies to both the code as to the documentation, and users will know that sometimes problems will be found only after the release so they'll check online later when running into a problem. The 6.1 release announcement already mentioned the errata lapsus BTW and asked people to check on-line, so it appears someone's asking for perfection -- but it was decided months ago to stick to a schedule rather than making perfect releases. Having said that, 6.1 is a real and visible improvement over 6.0 for me. 6.1 is usable, where 6.0 toppled over every few minutes (I'm talking about ral(4) and other nasty stuff such as tmpfs/mdmfs panics in 6.0 - ral(4) is what prompted me to do the 5.4->6.0 upgrade). -- Matthias Andree agreed whilst 6.1 isnt bug free lets not forget its a massive improvement over 6.0 in terms of stability, I still havent seen a lockup/crash on any of my 6.1 servers and they are all prerelease. It did shock me tho they didnt simply repackage the 6.1 release with updated errata notes it will look amatuerish to have outdated notes in the package. Chris ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
Chris wrote: On 12/05/06, Matthias Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jonathan Noack wrote: >> The *entire* errata page was from 6.0; it was a mistake. This wasn't >> some "put on the rose-colored classes and gloss over major issues" >> thing. It was a long release cycle and something was forgotten. C'est >> la vie. It's always a good idea to check the most up-to-date version of >> the errata page on the web anyway, so it's *not* too late to update it. >> >> > > How convenient. These problems needed to be addressed in the release > notes, not some on line version. You lost connection to the ground, Mike. Come back please :-) People make mistakes, and that applies to both the code as to the documentation, and users will know that sometimes problems will be found only after the release so they'll check online later when running into a problem. The 6.1 release announcement already mentioned the errata lapsus BTW and asked people to check on-line, so it appears someone's asking for perfection -- but it was decided months ago to stick to a schedule rather than making perfect releases. Having said that, 6.1 is a real and visible improvement over 6.0 for me. 6.1 is usable, where 6.0 toppled over every few minutes (I'm talking about ral(4) and other nasty stuff such as tmpfs/mdmfs panics in 6.0 - ral(4) is what prompted me to do the 5.4->6.0 upgrade). -- Matthias Andree agreed whilst 6.1 isnt bug free lets not forget its a massive improvement over 6.0 in terms of stability, I still havent seen a lockup/crash on any of my 6.1 servers and they are all prerelease. It did shock me tho they didnt simply repackage the 6.1 release with updated errata notes it will look amatuerish to have outdated notes in the package. Chris We didn't discover it until the last minute, and repackaging takes 3 days. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
Scott Long wrote: Sorry, things got lost in the shuffle to get this released. For your specific snapshot deadlocks, please test the changes that have gone into 7-CURRENT and report back if they fix your problem. Only with active testing will we know if they are good to be backported in time for 6.2. I'll install -CURRENT on a test box and give it a whirl, will report back soon. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
