From 43bc65a39445c192a13b2eb059cb30edfdbef808 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Bruce A. Mah" Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0000 The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
+of FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE. This release continues the development of the
+6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many
+bug fixes and new features. Some of the highlights: KDE updated to 3.5.8, GNOME updated to 2.20.1, Xorg updated to 7.3 BIND updated to 9.3.4 sendmail updated to 8.14.2 lagg(4) driver ported from OpenBSD/NetBSD unionfs file system re-implemented freebsd-update(8) now supports an upgrade command For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
+online release notes and errata list, available at:
+ From: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org>
+ To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
+ Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 6.3 Released
+
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+http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.3R/errata.html
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, +please see:
+ +http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
+ +The FreeBSD Security Team intends to support 6.3-RELEASE until January 31st, +2010.
+ +FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Jun-ichiro Hagino, +known throughout the Internet community as itojun, for his visionary work +on the IPv6 protocol and his many other contributions to the Internet and +BSD communities.
+ +FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE is now available for the alpha, amd64, i386, pc98, +and sparc64 architectures. It can be installed from bootable ISO images +or over the network; the required files can be downloaded via FTP or +BitTorrent as described in the sections below. While some of the smaller +FTP mirrors may not carry all architectures, they will all generally +contain the more common ones, such as i386 and amd64.
+ +MD5 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO images are included at the +bottom of this message.
+ +The contents of the ISO images provided as part of the release has changed +for most of the architectures. Using the i386 architecture as an example, +there are ISO images named ``bootonly'', ``disc1'', ``disc2'', ``disc3'', and ``docs''. +The ``bootonly'' image is suitable for booting a machine to do a network based +installation using FTP or NFS. The ``disc1'', ``disc2'', and ``disc3'' images are +used to do a full installation that includes a basic set of packages and does +not require network access to an FTP or NFS server during the installation. +In addition, ``disc1'' supports booting into a live CD-based filesystem and +system rescue mode. The ``docs'' image has all of the documentation for all +supported languages. Most people will find that ``disc1'', ``disc2'' and ``disc3'' +are all that are needed. If you intend to install ports from source +instead of using the pre-built packages included with the release only +``disc1'' is needed.
+ +FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM from several +vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 6.3-based +products is:
+ +FreeBSD Mall, Inc. +http://www.freebsdmall.com/
6.3-RELEASE ISOs are available via BitTorrent. A collection of torrent +files to download the images is available at:
+ +http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/
+ +ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
+ +However, before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional +mirror(s) first by going to:
+ +ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
+ +Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.
+ +More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:
+ +http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html
+ +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:
+ +http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html
+ +Starting with FreeBSD 6.3, the freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary +upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems systems running earlier FreeBSD releases, +release candidates, and betas. Users upgrading to FreeBSD 6.3 from +older releases (in particular, older than 6.3-RC1) will need to +download an updated version of freebsd-update(8) that supports upgrading +to a new release.
+ +# fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz
+ +Downloading and verifying the digital signature for the tarball +(signed by the FreeBSD Security Officer's PGP key) is highly +recommended. + +# fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.asc
+# gpg --verify freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.asc freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz
+ +The new freebsd-update(8) can then be extracted and run as follows: + +# tar -xf freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz
+# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 6.3-RELEASE upgrade
+# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf install
+ +The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before +continuing. + +# shutdown -r now
+ +Finally, freebsd-update.sh needs to be run one more time to install +the new userland components, and the system needs to be rebooted one +last time: + +# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf install
+# shutdown -r now
+ +For more information, see: + +http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-10-freebsd-minor-version-upgrade.html
+ +Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to +finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 6.3 including +The FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, +Network Appliances, and Sentex Communications.
+ +The release engineering team for 6.3-RELEASE includes:
+ +Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> | +Release Engineering, amd64, i386 sparc64 Release Building, Mirror Site + Coordination | +
Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> | +Release Engineering, Security | +
Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org> | +Release Engineering | +
Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | +Release Engineering, Documentation | +
George Neville-Neil <gnn@FreeBSD.org> | +Release Engineering | +
Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | +Release Engineering, Documentation | +
Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> | +Release Engineering | +
Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.org> | +Alpha Release Building | +
Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@FreeBSD.org> | +PC98 Release Building | +
Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> | +Package Building | +
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> | +Package Building | +
Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> | +Package Building | +
Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org> | +Package Building | +
Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> | +Package Building | +
Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> | +Security Officer | +
Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> | +Bittorrent Coordination | +
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
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