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15-Sep-98 September 15th is the scheduled date for entering BETA with the 3.0-current tree. As all of you already (should) know, 3.0 is scheduled for release on October 15th so this gives us a nice 30 day BETA period. During this time, I don't expect anyone to drop in significant new work or otherwise perturb the 3.0-current tree in such a way that violates the general idea of a BETA (you're supposed to test what you have, not move the goalposts every couple of days :).
13-Sep-98 After more than a year of development, the Common Access Method SCSI layer for FreeBSD will be integrated into 3.0-current on Sunday, September 13th. The CAM development team is currently busy ensuring that the integration process goes as smoothly as possible, so please understand that we may be slow to respond to questions about CAM in the days.
9-Sep-98 Perl5 is now imported into the 3.0-CURRENT source tree.
5-Sep-98 The BSD CD Giveaway List. If somebody has a CD to give away (recipient pays for shipping) or to lend locally, they can put their email address on the list. Hardware and literature can also be given away. We encourage people to donate CDs to local libraries and put them on the list as well.
1-Sep-98 First issue of Daemon News arrives day earlier. This electronic ezine is by BSD community for BSD community. See http://www.daemonnews.org
31-Aug-98 FreeBSD -CURRENT branch (the future 3.0-RELEASE) has switched to ELF from a.out format. People involved did a great job: transition went smooth. Check freebsd-current@freebsd.org mail archive for more information on the transition to ELF.
23-Aug-98 Suidcontrol-0.1 utility has been released. The suidcontrol is an experimental utility for managing suid/sgid policy under FreeBSD. You can get more information at http://www.watson.org/fbsd-hardening/suidcontrol.html
9-Aug-98 FreeBSD Security How-To has been published. This work is currently in beta and can be found at http://www.best.com/~jkb/howto.txt
22-Jul-98 FreeBSD 2.2.7 has been released. See the Release Information page for details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 2.2.7 that you should know about.
16-Jul-98 A ``FreeBSD for Linux users'' documentation effort has started. Please see the list of current documentation projects for more information.
13-Jul-98 Jordan Hubbard writes an editorial on the past and future of the Unix community.
9-Jul-98 A Spanish translation of the FAQ has been completed by the Spanish Documentation Project. More information can be found at the translations page.
24-Jun-98 The FreeBSD Project is sponsoring an FreeBSD Desktop Theme Contest. Participants will design their own X11 configurations, and winners will have theirs distributed with future releases of FreeBSD.
30-May-98 FreeBSD and Apache are used in this very useful article on implementing a web farm using round-robin DNS in WEBTechniques.com
23-May-98 The second issue of the FreeBSD Newsletter is now available in Adobe PDF format (also by FTP). A help file is available to assist you in selecting and using a PDF viewer. Article submissions, advertisements, and letters to the editor should be sent to newsletter@freebsd.org.
1-May-98 The FreeBSD Project set up Anonymous CVS for the FreeBSD CVS tree. Among other things, it allows users of FreeBSD to perform, with no special privileges, read-only CVS operations against one of the FreeBSD project's official anoncvs servers.
16-Apr-98 The new 4 CD set of FreeBSD 2.2.6 is now in stock and should start shipping to subscription and back-order customers tomorrow. More information on the CD contents are available from http://www.cdrom.com.
11-Apr-98 The new FreeBSD project FreeBSD Mozilla Group is created. The FreeBSD Mozilla Group supports and improves the free available Netscape web browser, otherwise known as Mozilla.
25-Mar-98 FreeBSD 2.2.6 has been released. See the Release Information page for details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 2.2.6 that you should know about.
08-Feb-98 A page detailing the FreeBSD Year 2000 compliance statement is now available, linked through the Documentation page.
08-Jan-98 Improved support for Plug-n-Play cards has now been integrated into both 3.0-current and 2.2-stable branches now. This is available in source form via the CVSup utility or in binary release snapshots from current.FreeBSD.org
26-Dec-97 A convenient front-end tool for installing and configuring the CVSup utility is now available. To use it, simply login or su to root and run: pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/cvsupit.tgz
2-Dec-97 The "FOOF" bug has now been fixed in our 3.0-current and 2.2-stable branches and can either be incorporated by using the CVSup utility, as described below for the LAND attack fix, or by applying these patches.
1-Dec-97 The "LAND attack" bug in TCP/IP has now been fixed in all relevant branches and can be incorporated by using the CVSup utility to track the latest 2.2 or 3.0 sources.
1-Dec-97 Team FreeBSD is a group of FreeBSD users and supporters contributing CPU idle time in an effort to crack RSA's 64-bit encryption code. For more information, visit Team FreeBSD's WWW site.
21-Nov-97 Pentium bug -- We are aware of the "F00F" Pentium halting bug and are working with Intel on a fix. When we have a fix ready for public consumption it will be announced here, on the mailing list announce@freebsd.org and to the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce. Your patience is appreciated.
09-Nov-97 FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE CDROMS are now in stock and shipping to customers worldwide. More information is available at http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/fbsd25.htm.
22-Oct-97 FreeBSD 2.2.5 has been released. See the Release Information page for details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 2.2.5 that you should know about.
01-Sep-97 FreeBSD performed well in an Internet Week review of WWW server platforms.
11-Aug-97 Researchers in Duke University's Trapeze Project have developed a high-speed Myrinet driver for FreeBSD. More information about the driver, Trapeze Project, and its parent project, the Collaborative Cluster Computing Iniative, including the code for the Myrinet driver, are available from the CCCI's WWW page.
03-Aug-97 Netscape Communications has released a beta version of Netscape Communicator v4.0 for FreeBSD. It can be obtained via FTP from ftp.netscape.com or its mirrors.
22-Jul-97 MacIP, an AppleTalk-to-IP gateway program for FreeBSD, is in beta testing. To get the latest version, see http://www.promo.de/pub/people/stefan/netatalk/ or ftp://ftp.promo.de/pub/people/stefan/netatalk/.
17-Jul-97 The first issue of the FreeBSD Newsletter is now available in Adobe PDF format (also by FTP). A help file is available to assist you in selecting and using a PDF viewer. Article submissions, advertisements, and letters to the editor should be sent to newsletter@freebsd.org.
17-Jun-97 FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE CD-ROM discs are now in stock; subscription customers should receive them shortly.
16-May-97 FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE has been released. The Release Notes and Errata List can provide more information.
12-May-97 A 3.0-Current SNAP-of-the-day server has been established at ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/. A 3.0-SNAPshot will be generated daily, and old SNAPshots will be kept for a minimum of one week.
28-Apr-97 The 3.0-current src tree now contains support for building Symmetric MultiProcessor kernels. For details go to the SMP page.
22-Apr-97 A RELENG_2.2 snap-of-the-day server has been established at ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD. The README.TXT has more information.
15-Apr-97 FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE CDs are shipping. Please see http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/fbsd22.htm for more information.
28-Mar-97 Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Inc. has released an alpha version of ALTQ/CBQ, an alternative queuing framework for BSD Unix. More information and the source code is available.
25-Mar-97 FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE is now available, replacing 2.2-RELEASE. Read the README.TXT file or the Release Notes for more information.
16-Mar-97 FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE is now available. Read the README.TXT file or the Release Notes for more information.
20-Feb-1997 FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE is now available. Read the README.TXT file or the Release Notes for more information.
10-Feb-1997 FreeBSD 3.0-970209-SNAP has been released. Read the README.TXT file for more information about this release.
06-Feb-1997 A serious security problem affecting FreeBSD 2.1.6 and earlier systems was found. The problem has been corrected within the -stable, -current, and RELENG_2_2 source trees. As an additional precaution, FreeBSD 2.1.6 is no longer available from the FTP distribution sites. You can read more about the problem and solution from the FreeBSD-SA-97:01.setlocale security announcement.
06-Feb-1997 The final pre-release version of FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA, is now available. The README.TXT file has more information.
02-Feb-1997 A snap-of-the-day server has been set up for the most current snapshot release of FreeBSD 2.2. Read the README.TXT file for more information.
25-Jan-1997 FreeBSD 3.0-970124-SNAP has been released. Please see the Release Notes for more information.
24-Dec-1996 FreeBSD 2.2-BETA has been released. Please see the Release Notes for more information.
13-Dec-1996 FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE will not support installation on machines with less than 5MB of RAM or 1.2MB floppy drives. Please see the original announcement for more information.
15-Nov-1996 FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE is out. Please see the release notes for more information.
]]>15-Nov-1996 FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE is out. Please see the release notes for more information.
4-Nov-1996 The FreeBSD CVS development tree has branched again. See here for more information.