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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Subject: 2.1.0-951020-SNAP - 2.1 *Release Candidate* Approved: peter@taronga.com Sender: owner-announce@freebsd.org Organization: FreeBSD Project Message-ID: <DGuvLC.M22@bonkers.taronga.com> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 14:53:05 GMT Lines: 82 Well, it's out! The 2.1 release candidate is now available for testing. Modulo whatever problems all of you find between now and the final build, this will be what you find in 2.1! The date for which we'll schedule the final build will be based significantly on initial feedback from this snapshot, so be sure and get your feedback in ASAP! Very few bug reports will mean that we'll assume 2.1 to be really solid and probably schedule the build for late sometime next week. Lots of bug reports, well, we'll have to look at the severity of said bugs.. :) Normally we'd call for an extended BETA period at this point, but as the 2.1-STABLE tree has more-or-less been in code freeze since 2.0.5 (maybe "code slush?") it was felt that it would probably bring in fairly limited returns for the amount of extra delay induced. Given the number of people who are quite impatient to see 2.1 sooner rather than later, we'll give the snapshot method a shot. There are a few small things known-missing or broken in this snapshot, and those things ARE scheduled to be added before 2.1 is built. However, it may still be instructive to list them here so that snapshot installers don't stumble over them: o The WEB configuration is unimplemented. o The package installer may or may not do the right thing with chained adds. I haven't had the chance to adequately test this, given my limited testing hardware (I'm using a laptop with an 120MB hard disk!). o Some instrumentation is probably missing from the configuration file mechanism. o The HTML documentation reader menu may need some work. o The commercial distribution is still the 2.0.5 version - this will be updated before the final 2.1 release. o The bindist now includes all documentation from /usr/share/doc. If this ends up blowing up some of the minimally configured systems, we may need to make an optional `doc' distribution sooner than planned. Though I also fixed many, many bugs in sysinstall between now and the previous snapshot, I may have introduced a few of my own and your feedback is, as always, greatly welcomed! If you find something broken or confusing, please tell me! I often get bug reports prefaced with "I hate to bother you, but.." or "I don't know if you want to hear about bug reports, but.." - Please! I *want* to hear about problems with this installation. You don't need to be shy about pointing them out, and I won't be offended if you do! :-) If you find problems outside of the installation, e.g. with kernel panics or erroneous applications behavior, you may also want to send your feedback to: stable@Freebsd.ORG Rather than just myself. This snapshot contains the same code that people on the 2.1-STABLE branch are now running, and if you find a more general non-install related problem then that's probably the best mailing list discuss it with. As always, thanks to all for testing this snapshot! This one is especially important, for the reasons already stated, so I hope that you can help us by test-installing this in as many different configurations as you can! This snapshot is available on: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-951020-SNAP/ We also regret that a space crunch currently precludes our putting it on freefall.freebsd.org, as we usually do. Some of you may wish to wait until it hits your local mirror (ftp.cdrom.com is always pretty heavily loaded!). Thanks! Jordan