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<p>This is a list of open issues that need to be resolved for FreeBSD
  &local.rel;.  If you have any updates for this list, please e-mail
  re@FreeBSD.org.</p>

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  <li><a href="#major">Major issues</a></li>
  <li><a href="#testing">Testing foci</a></li>
  <li><a href="#stresstest">Problems Discovered by Kernel Stress Test Suite</a></li>
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<h3>Major issues for &local.rel;-RELEASE</h3>

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    <th>Issue</th>
    <th>Status</th>
    <th>Responsible</th>
    <th>Description</th>
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  <tr><td colspan="4">No pending major issues.</td></tr>
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<h3>Testing foci for &local.rel;-RELEASE</h3>

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    <th>Issue</th>
    <th>Status</th>
    <th>Responsible</th>
    <th>Description</th>
  </tr>

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    <td>bce(4) stability fixes</td>
    <td>&status.untested;</td>
    <td>&a.scottl;</td>
    <td>Several stability fixes for bce(4) were merged from HEAD to
      RELENG_6 around 20061024.  Initial testing results have been
      promising, but more testing reports would be useful.</td>
  </tr>

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    <td>em(4) stability fixes</td>
    <td>&status.untested;</td>
    <td>&a.scottl;, &a.jfv;, &a.glebius;, &a.kris;</td>
    <td>Several difficult-to-diagnose stability issues have been
      observed in the em(4) driver since August.  As of 20061027, a
      newer driver provided by Intel (version 6.2.9) has been
      committed to RELENG_6 for testing.
      <b>UPDATE</b>:  Additional changes committed 20061110 fix some
      other observed stability problems and restore missing jumbo
      frame functionality.</td>
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    <td>sysinstall(8) kernel selection fix</td>
    <td>&status.untested;</td>
    <td>&a.erwin;</td>
    <td>A bug in sysinstall(8) could result in it failing to install a
      kernel on a new disk if the user did not choose a distribution
      from the distribution menu.  This is believed to have been
      fixed as of 20061029, but could use more testing.</td>
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    <td>ggated(8)</td>
    <td>&status.untested;</td>
    <td>&a.pjd;</td>
    <td>A recently-committed patch to ggated(8) is believed to fix
      some fairly serious problems, as reported in PR
      <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=104829">kern/104829</a>.</td>
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    <td>devfs(5) fixes</td>
    <td>&status.untested;</td>
    <td>&a.kib;</td>
    <td>Several deadlocks and locking bugs have been fixed in devfs(5).</td>
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    <td>tty(4) fixes</td>
    <td>&status.untested;</td>
    <td>&a.mbr;</td>
    <td>Several workarounds have been committed for known problems in
      the tty(4) layer.</td>
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<h3>Stress Test Panics</h3>

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<p>The system is continuously being subjected to Peter Holm's <a
  href="http://www.holm.cc/stress/">Kernel Stress Test Suite</a>.  The
  following issues have recently been discovered from this test
  suite.</p>

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