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Remove commas between months and years (e.g. "June, 2006" -> "June

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2006").

Update format of URLs, supported branches for reality.

Fix up some places where I thought wording was awkward.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/snapshots/index.sgml,v 1.18 2006/05/14 13:38:17 kensmith Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/snapshots/index.sgml,v 1.19 2006/06/18 05:41:28 bmah Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Snapshot Releases">
<!ENTITY % navincludes SYSTEM "../includes.navdownload.sgml"> %navincludes;
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
<!ENTITY url.snapshots "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots">
]>
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/snapshots/index.sgml,v 1.18 2006/05/14 13:38:17 kensmith Exp $ -->
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/snapshots/index.sgml,v 1.19 2006/06/18 05:41:28 bmah Exp $ -->
<html>
&header;
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we are now periodically producing interim test releases called
<em>snapshots</em>.
These snapshots will be very similar to full releases,
except that they will be somewhat more minimal.</p>
except that they might not include all the bits included in a
full release (such as packages and updated documentation).</p>
<h2>Getting Snapshots</h2>
<p>The latest snapshots made available are the following:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/200606/">Snapshots in June, 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/200605/">Snapshots in May, 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/Mar_2006/">Snapshots in March, 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/Feb_2006/">Snapshots in February, 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/Jan_2006/">Snapshots in January, 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/200606/">Snapshots in June 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/200605/">Snapshots in May 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/Mar_2006/">Snapshots in March 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/Feb_2006/">Snapshots in February 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/Jan_2006/">Snapshots in January 2006</a></li>
<!-- template for adding a new entry:
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/200605/">Snapshots in May, 2006 (alpha, amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, sparc64)</a>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/200605/">Snapshots in May 2006 (alpha, amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, sparc64)</a>
</li>
-->
</ul>
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your need is present.</p>
<p>Currently the snapshots of
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#CURRENT">7-CURRENT</a>,
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#STABLE">6-STABLE</a>,
and <a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#STABLE">5-STABLE</a>
are released monthly in URLs in the format
<tt>&url.snapshots;/&lt;month&gt;_&lt;year&gt;/</tt>
where <tt>&lt;year&gt;</tt> is the year,
<tt>&lt;month&gt;</tt> is the month the snapshot was released.
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#CURRENT">7-CURRENT</a>
and
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#STABLE">6-STABLE</a>
are released monthly in directories whose URLs have the format
<tt>&url.snapshots;/&lt;year&gt;&lt;month&gt;/</tt>
where <tt>&lt;year&gt;</tt> is the four-digit year and
<tt>&lt;month&gt;</tt> is the two-digit month in which the snapshot was released.
For each supported platform, the snapshot includes ISO images of
the <tt>bootonly</tt>,
<tt>disc1</tt>, and <tt>disc2</tt> disks (plus
the separate <tt>livefs</tt> disk on platforms where this is
applicable).
Each snapshot directory might contain a <tt>RELNOTES.TXT</tt>
file which outlines the changes for the particular snapshot.</p>
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<ul>
<li>The snapshots are primarily for
testing purpose and not fully tested compared to the releases.
testing purposes and not fully tested compared to the releases.
They may include experimental or degraded features that
can corrupt your existing system.</li>
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Although people can and will, of course, refer to snapshots
by date in mail or netnews, do not confuse them.</li>
<li>Snapshots might not include package sets, but will generally
include a ports tree.</li>
<li>Finally, we will not necessarily update the documentation.
For example, <tt>README</tt> may still refer
to a previous release. This is because that is much less important