From 98670dbb78750937f6e3ed7c3bb38e6ea8cc51c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:25:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Link to the Backports site, and mention that -stable is now
 frozen.

N
---
 en/news/2001/news.xml | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 en/news/news.xml      | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/en/news/2001/news.xml b/en/news/2001/news.xml
index 68827f8c65..44ac82507a 100644
--- a/en/news/2001/news.xml
+++ b/en/news/2001/news.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 <news>
   <cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
     <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
-      $FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.49 2001/12/12 15:45:20 mwlucas Exp $
+      $FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.50 2001/12/20 17:09:09 mbr Exp $
     </cvs:keyword>
   </cvs:keywords>
 
@@ -31,6 +31,35 @@
     <month>
       <name>December</name>
 
+      <day>
+	<name>21</name>
+
+	<event>
+	  <title>FreeBSD-stable tree frozen in preparation for 4.5</title>
+
+          <p>The FreeBSD-stable branch of the source tree has now been
+            frozen in preparation for the release of FreeBSD 4.5.  This means 
+            that any new commits to the -stable source tree must be approved 
+            by the release engineering team first.  Our expected "ship" date 
+            for 4.5 is January 20th, 2002.</p>
+        </event>
+
+	<event>
+	  <title>"Backports" site, with patches for older FreeBSD 
+            releases</title>
+
+          <p><a href="http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/freebsd-backports.html">The
+	    FreeBSD Backports Collection</a> is a new site created by 
+	    D J Hawkey Jr.  It contains patches that appeared in 
+	    FreeBSD-stable that have not yet been merged in to older 
+	    releases.  Wider testing of these patches makes it more likely
+	    that they will be committed to earlier FreeBSD releases.  So if
+	    your site relies on earlier releases of FreeBSD, and, for whatever
+	    reason, you do not wish to update to the most recent release,
+	    you are encouraged to visit this site frequently.</p>
+        </event>
+      </day> 
+
       <day>
         <name>20</name>
 
diff --git a/en/news/news.xml b/en/news/news.xml
index 68827f8c65..44ac82507a 100644
--- a/en/news/news.xml
+++ b/en/news/news.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 <news>
   <cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
     <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
-      $FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.49 2001/12/12 15:45:20 mwlucas Exp $
+      $FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.50 2001/12/20 17:09:09 mbr Exp $
     </cvs:keyword>
   </cvs:keywords>
 
@@ -31,6 +31,35 @@
     <month>
       <name>December</name>
 
+      <day>
+	<name>21</name>
+
+	<event>
+	  <title>FreeBSD-stable tree frozen in preparation for 4.5</title>
+
+          <p>The FreeBSD-stable branch of the source tree has now been
+            frozen in preparation for the release of FreeBSD 4.5.  This means 
+            that any new commits to the -stable source tree must be approved 
+            by the release engineering team first.  Our expected "ship" date 
+            for 4.5 is January 20th, 2002.</p>
+        </event>
+
+	<event>
+	  <title>"Backports" site, with patches for older FreeBSD 
+            releases</title>
+
+          <p><a href="http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/freebsd-backports.html">The
+	    FreeBSD Backports Collection</a> is a new site created by 
+	    D J Hawkey Jr.  It contains patches that appeared in 
+	    FreeBSD-stable that have not yet been merged in to older 
+	    releases.  Wider testing of these patches makes it more likely
+	    that they will be committed to earlier FreeBSD releases.  So if
+	    your site relies on earlier releases of FreeBSD, and, for whatever
+	    reason, you do not wish to update to the most recent release,
+	    you are encouraged to visit this site frequently.</p>
+        </event>
+      </day> 
+
       <day>
         <name>20</name>