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In general, our goal in the QA process is to + attempt to check a number of things:</p> + +<ul> + <li>The system has not regressed with respects to stability, correctness, + interoperability, or performance of features present in prior + releases.<br/><br/></li> + + <li>New features result in the desired improvement in stability, + correctness, interoperability, or performance.</li> +</ul> + +<p>To effectively determine this, it's desirable to test the system in + a diverse set of environments, applying a wide set of workloads, + forcing the system to operate both within and outside its normal + specification. Particular focus should often be placed on the + continuing (or new) capability of the system to perform correctly + when used in concert with systems from other vendors.</p> + +<h3>Features to explore carefully:</h3> + +<ul> + + <li>DHCP client support. This release will feature a major update + of the ISC DHCP client (v3.0.1 RC8). The common cases have been + well tested, but testing in more demanding or unusual environments + would be beneficial. In particular, the new dynamic DNS update + functionality has not been well tested.</li> + + <li>sppp(4) upgrade. The ISDN project (i4b) once maintained an + off-spring version of the SyncPPP driver, with a number of + enhancements and bug-fixes made to it by people contributing to + the i4b project. On the other hand, other improvements and + bug-fixes of the regular tree's sppp driver didn't make it back + to that version, so eventually two different SyncPPP drivers + developed. The i4b version has been merged back in FreeBSD-current + a few months ago, and these changes have now been folded into + FreeBSD-stable as well, thus eliminating i4b's separate version. + sppp users (of both flavours) should carefully test the new + version. Users who previously used the i4b version should find + all those improvements still being present (most notably, VJ header + compression). Users who use sppp on hardware (HDLC) devices (like + ar(4) or sr(4)) should see no breakage, but might notice that the + negotiation of VJ header compression is now enabled by default. + Use spppcontrol(8) to modify the default behaviour. Please report + any breakage or oddity you observe to <joerg@FreeBSD.org>.</li> + + <li>XFree86 4.2.0. sysinstall now installs XFree86 4.2.0 instead of + XFree86 3.3.6; the XFree86 installation now uses ``normal'' binary + packages instead of the special tarballs in past releases. The + ports infrastructure now uses the XFree86 version 4 as the default + version for satisfying dependencies.</li> + +</ul> + +<p>The <a href="../../relnotes.html">release notes</a> will always be + a good place to look for things to test.</p> + +<h3>Known Issues</h3> + +<ul> + <li>Due to a buffer truncation in sysinstall, the GNOME meta-port + (<tt>x11/gnome</tt>) in + 4.6-RC1 does not install correctly. This has been fixed and is + functional for 4.6-RC2 (and any later release candidate snapshots).</li> + + <li>nslookup(1) had some bugs in 4.6-RC1 and 4.6-RC2. These have + been been corrected and should function correctly beginning with + 4.6-RC3.</li> + + <li>Some users have reported stability issues with tagged queueing + and the ata(4) driver. These problems have only been observed + when using tags on motherboard-based ATA channels.</li> + + <li>Potential problems with the TCP default window size (see + kern/34801). The default window size has been reduced from 65536 + to 57344 for 4.6-RELEASE. (Errata item needed.)</li> + + <li>Some of the XFree86 configuration utilities write their + generated configuration files in places where sysinstall isn't + looking for them, thus complicating XFree86 installs that are + initiated from within sysinstall. These have been changed to + /etc/X11/XF86Config for 4.6-RELEASE. (Errata item needed.)</li> + + <li>Some filenames in the ports tree are too long, thus resulting in + odd /usr/@LongLink files after a sysinstall. These filenames have + been shortened for 4.6-RELEASE.</li> + + <li>Under some circumstances, dhclient can go into an infinite loop.</li> +</ul> + +</body> +</html> |