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<p><b>Date:</b> Monday, 18 Nov 2002 16:39:13 -0800<br>
<b>From:</b> bmah@FreeBSD.org (Bruce A. Mah)<br>
<b>To:</b> freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #2 Now Available</p>
<p>The FreeBSD Project is proud to announce the availability of the
second Developer Preview snapshot of FreeBSD 5.0 (5.0-DP2). This
snapshot, intended for widespread testing purposes, is the latest
milestone towards the eventual release of FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE,
currently scheduled for mid-December 2002.</p>
<p>Since the release of 5.0-DP1, a number of new features have been
added on the CURRENT development branch. A few of these include:</p>
<ul>
<li>The GEOM disk geometry module and the GBDE on-disk encryption
system.</li>
<li>A compiler toolchain based on GCC 3.2.</li>
<li>A new extensible Mandatory Access Control framework, the
TrustedBSD MAC Framework.</li>
<li>The new UFS2 on-disk format, with support for larger filesystems
and extended file attributes.</li>
<li>Support for Firewire devices.</li>
<li>Experimental support for the RAIDframe software RAID disk
driver.</li>
</ul>
<p>Much more information can be found in the release documentation, as
described below.</p>
<h1 class="warning">WARNING</h1>
<p>This snapshot is not a supported release, and has not undergone any
of the usual quality assurance checking that is a part of normal
FreeBSD releases. It may include serious software bugs. Do not
install this software on a machine where important data may be put
at risk.</p>
<p>The purpose of this snapshot is to get wider exposure to FreeBSD
5.0's new features, in advance of the release. As such, we expect
that testers of 5.0-DP2 will follow the technical discussions on the
<a href="mailto:freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-current@</a>
mailing list.</p>
<h1>AVAILABILITY</h1>
<p>FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 is being released for the alpha, ia64, i386, pc98,
and sparc64 architectures. As of this writing, 5.0-DP2/i386 is
available, with other architectures to follow soon.</p>
<p>The checksums for the two i386 ISO images are as follows:</p>
<p><tt>MD5 (5.0-DP2-disc1.iso) = 997ef9ed5aa3e0721678f5482d2fc664<br>
MD5 (5.0-DP2-disc2.iso) = 425718dbf1b771c8317556b7a13842c6</tt></p>
<p>Before trying the central FTP site, we strongly recommend that you
check FTP mirror sites in your country or region, such as:</p>
<p><tt>ftp://ftp.<em><yourcountry></em>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</tt></p>
<p>Any additional mirror sites will be named ftp2, ftp3, and so forth.
Appendix A of the FreeBSD Handbook has additional information about
FreeBSD mirror sites; it is available on-line at:<p>
<p><tt><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></tt></p>
<p>Some of the mirror sites known to carry 5.0-DP2 (in alphabetical order
by country code) are:</p>
<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://ftp2.at.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp2.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://ftp4.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp4.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.dk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.dk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Release documentation is available in the distributions, as well as on
the FreeBSD Web site:</p>
<ul>
<li>Release notes:
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/relnotes.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/relnotes.html</a></li>
<li>Hardware notes:
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/hardware.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/hardware.html</a></li>
<li>Errata:
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/errata.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/errata.html</a></li>
<li>Early Adopter's Guide:
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/early-adopter.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/early-adopter.html</a></li>
</ul>
<h1>LATE-BREAKING NEWS</h1>
<p>Certain parts of the KDE and GNOME desktop environments did not make
it to the package sets in the i386 ISO images.</p>
<p>The sparc64 and ia64 snapshots may or may not have package sets
associated with them.</p>
<h1>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS</h1>
<p>The FreeBSD Project wishes to thank the companies, developers, and
users who continue to make FreeBSD releases possible.</p>
<p>Many companies donated equipment, network access, or person-hours to
finance our ongoing release engineering activities, including The
FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, NTT/Verio, and
Packet Design. We greatly appreciate their contributions.</p>
<p>The release engineering team for 5.0-DP2 includes:</p>
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Murray Stokely <<a href="mailto:murray@FreeBSD.org">murray@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>Release Engineering Team Lead</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>John Baldwin <<a href="mailto:jhb@FreeBSD.org">jhb@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>Release Engineering, alpha and sparc64 Builds</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Scott Long <<a href="mailto:scottl@FreeBSD.org">scottl@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>Developer Communications</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bruce A. Mah <<a href="mailto:bmah@FreeBSD.org">bmah@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>Release Documentation, i386 Build</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>Marcel Moolenaar <<a href="mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org">marcel@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>ia64 Build</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <<a href="mailto:nyan@FreeBSD.org">nyan@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>pc98 Build</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kris Kennaway <<a href="mailto:kris@FreeBSD.org">kris@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>i386 and alpha Package Builds</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 is, as with every release, a cooperative effort of
all of the FreeBSD committers <<a
href="mailto:committers@FreeBSD.org">committers@FreeBSD.org</a>>,
as well as FreeBSD users all over the world who have submitted new
features, bug fixes, and suggestions. Please join us in thanking
everyone for their hard work in polishing and improving the state of
the FreeBSD -CURRENT development branch.</p>
<p>We'd like to emphasize once again that this snapshot represents a
work-in-progress. Please help us by testing it now, so that we can
make FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE as stable and useful as possible.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Bruce A. Mah<br>
(For the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team)</p>
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