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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/4.11R/announce.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/4.11R/announce.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..98de079616 --- /dev/null +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/4.11R/announce.xml @@ -0,0 +1,250 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" +"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/doc/share/sgml/xhtml10-freebsd.dtd" [ +<!ENTITY local.rel "4.11"> +<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD &local.rel;-RELEASE Announcement"> +]> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> + <head> + <title>&title;</title> + + <cvs:keyword xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">$FreeBSD$</cvs:keyword> + </head> + + <body class="navinclude.download"> + + <p><b>Date:</b> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:02:10 -0500<br/> + <b>From:</b> Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org><br/> + <b>To:</b> freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org<br/> + <b>Subject:</b> FreeBSD &local.rel;-RELEASE is now available</p> + + <p>The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce the availability + of FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD Legacy + development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE in May 2004 we have + made conservative updates to a number of software programs in the base + system, dealt with known security issues, and made many bugfixes.</p> + + <p>For a complete list of new features, known problems, and late-breaking + news, please see the release notes and errata list, available here:</p> + + <p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/&local.rel;R/relnotes.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/&local.rel;R/relnotes.html</a></p> + <p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/&local.rel;R/errata.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/&local.rel;R/errata.html</a></p> + + <p>FreeBSD &local.rel; will become an "Errata Branch". + In addition to Security + fixes other well-tested fixes to basic functionality will be committed + to the RELENG_4_11 branch after the release. Both Security Advisories + and Errata Notices are announced on the freebsd-announce@freebsd.org + mailing list.</p> + + <p>This is expected to be the last release from the RELENG_4 branch. Most + of the Developers are now focused on the RELENG_5 branch, or on the cutting + edge development in HEAD.</p> + + <p>For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, + please see:</p> + + <p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/</a></p> + + <h1>Availability</h1> + + <p>FreeBSD &local.rel;-RELEASE supports the i386 and alpha architectures and can + be installed directly over the net, using bootable media, or copied to a + local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for both architectures are available + now.</p> + + <p>Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media + from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies will be + offering FreeBSD &local.rel; based products:</p> + + <table border="0"> + <tbody> + <tr> + <td align="left">FreeBSD Mall, Inc.</td> + <td align="left"><a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">http://www.freebsdmall.com/</a></td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left">Daemon News</td> + <td align="left"><a href="http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html">http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html</a></td> + </tr> + </tbody> + </table> + + <p>If you can not 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 not promise that all the mirror sites will carry the + larger ISO images. At the time of this announcement they are available + from the following sites. MD5 checksums for the release images are included + at the bottom of this message.</p> + + <h2>Bittorrent</h2> + + <p>As with the 5.3 release we are experimenting with Bittorrent. A collection + of trackers for the release ISO images is available at</p> + + <p><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~kensmith/4.11-torrent/">http://people.freebsd.org/~kensmith/4.11-torrent/</a></p> + + <h2>FTP</h2> + + <ul> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp11.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp11.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.at.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.at.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.au.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.au.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.ca.FreeBSD.org/">ftp://ftp2.ca.FreeBSD.org/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.ch.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp2.ch.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp2.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.ee.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.ee.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.es.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.es.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.fi.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.fi.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.fr.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.fr.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.ie.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp2.ie.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.is.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.is.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp8.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp8.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.kr.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.kr.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.lt.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.lt.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.nl.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.nl.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.no.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.no.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp5.pl.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp5.pl.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp3.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp3.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.sg.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.sg.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.si.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.si.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.sk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.sk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp2.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp6.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp6.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp6.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp6.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp10.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp10.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li> + </ul> + + <p>FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the + following countries and territories: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, + Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, + Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, + Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, + Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, + South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, + United Kingdom, and the United States.</p> + + <p>Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional + mirror(s) first by going to:</p> + + <p>ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</p> + + <p>Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so + on.</p> + + <p>More information about FreeBSD mirror sites and the current list of + all active mirror sites can be found at:</p> + + <p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html</a></p> + + <p>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:</p> + + <p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html</a></p> + + <h1>Acknowledgments</h1> + + <p>Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to + finance the release engineering activities for &local.rel; including + The FreeBSD Mall, Hewlett Packard, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and + NTT/Verio.</p> + + <p>The release engineering team for &local.rel;-RELEASE includes:</p> + + <table border="0"> + <tbody> + <tr> + <td>Scott Long <<a href="mailto:scottl@FreeBSD.org">scottl@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> + <td>Release Engineering</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Robert Watson <<a href="mailto:rwatson@FreeBSD.org">rwatson@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> + <td>Release Engineering, Security</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>John Baldwin <<a href="mailto:jhb@FreeBSD.org">jhb@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> + <td>Release Engineering</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Ken Smith <<a href="mailto:kensmith@FreeBSD.org">kensmith@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> + <td>Release Engineering, I386 Release Building, Mirror Site Coordination</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Hiroki Sato <<a href="mailto:hrs@FreeBSD.org">hrs@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> + <td>Release Engineering, Documentation</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Wilko Bulte <<a href="mailto:wilko@FreeBSD.org">wilko@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> + <td>Alpha Release Building</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Kris Kennaway <<a href="mailto:kris@FreeBSD.org">kris@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> + <td>Package Building</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Joe Marcus Clarke <<a href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">marcus@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> + <td>Package Building</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Jacques A. Vidrine <<a href="mailto:nectar@FreeBSD.org">nectar@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> + <td>Security Officer</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Paul Saab <<a href="mailto:ps@FreeBSD.org">ps@FreeBSD.org</a>></td> + <td>Bittorrent Coordination</td> + </tr> + </tbody> + </table> + + <p>A few people put in more than their fair share of last-minute work. This + includes Alexander Leidinger + <<a href="mailto:netchild@FreeBSD.org">netchild@FreeBSD.org</a>> + who did a lot of work on the <tt>linux_base-8</tt> package integration, and + Kris Kennaway <<a href="kris@FreeBSD.org">kris@FreeBSD.org</a>> + who did a lot of package rebuilding thanks to a few recent security issues + in some key packages.</p> + + <h2>CD Image Checksums</h2> + + <h3>For Alpha:</h3> + + <p><tt> + MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-alpha-disc1-gnome.iso) = 3f0f49a9c7067f398ca0b47fd21234eb<br/> + MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-alpha-disc1-kde.iso) = b4c83df8e979741c7972f379154360aa<br/> + MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-alpha-disc2.iso) = 8fd241bab99fed226ef71184ed0b0b38<br/> + MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-alpha-miniinst.iso) = 3280b9e34fd26db7ce0dd24f1a05e7b4<br/> + </tt></p> + + <h3>For i386:</h3> + + <p><tt> + MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-i386-disc1-gnome.iso) = 80c6b06b83432efc6cbe1cff3ebd893f<br/> + MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-i386-disc1-kde.iso) = 84921fe6b6b4bfd3f7011788985d34e2<br/> + MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso) = 73553999f9f8e2e49222ba14e8ecbde5<br/> + MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso) = 28b006bcdf5df8b8b7e8f1831085cdae + </tt></p> + + <p>-ken</p> + + + </body> +</html> |