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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: next release, when?
Date: 12 Jan 1996 22:15:42 GMT
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jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) writes:

> : Hard to say, but there's general plan to try and release 2.2 around
> : the end of this summer.
> 
> Is there a list somewhere of things that will be a part of 2.2R?  
> I assume you (i.e., the core team) categorize things, perhaps like:

Not really.  This is a volunteer's project, and it's impossible to
demand ``must be there before...''.

The only new things that will surely be there are those that are
already in -current.  Examples that come to mind are NFSv3 support,
support for files (not only file systems) up to 1 TB.  Many things
have been updated, there were many ``global bug fixes'' like a general
pass by Andrey over all core utilities to handle the i18n issues
properly, instead of the ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE hack that finally
caused xterm to dump core.

There's certainly way more.  If things are going well, i'm pretty sure
2.2 will also have a working worm driver that allows you to operate
certain CD-R's.  (I can say this since i've successfully burnt my
first CD-R a couple of days ago.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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