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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/releases/4.4R/announce.sgml,v 1.3 2001/09/19 18:24:59 jkh Exp $">
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<p><b>Date:</b> Thursday, 20 Sep 2001 18:00:00 -0800<br>
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<b>From:</b> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org><br>
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<b>To:</b> announce@FreeBSD.org<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> 4.4-RELEASE is now available</p>
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<p>I am very pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE,
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the very very latest in 4.x-STABLE branch technology. Since FreeBSD
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4.3 was released in April 2001, we have made hundreds of fixes,
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updated many different components and addressed a wide variety of
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security issues. We have also substantially revamped the
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documentation and provided much more comprehensive release notes.
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Please see the various HTML (or, at your option, text) files in the
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release directory for more information.</p>
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<p>4.4-RELEASE is available for the
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<a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.4-RELEASE">i386</a>
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and
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<a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.4-RELEASE">alpha</a>
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architectures and can be installed directly over the net using
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the boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/ftp server.</p>
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ISO (CD) Images<br>
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---------------<br>
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<p>We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger
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ISO images, but they will at least be available from:</p>
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<p><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.4/">
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ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.4/</a><br> and
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<a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/4.4/">
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ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/4.4/</a></p>
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<p>Where ${arch} is currently "i386" or "alpha". If you can't afford the
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CDs, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes,
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then by all means download the ISOs, otherwise please do continue to
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support the FreeBSD project by purchasing one of its official CD
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releases from <a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com">The FreeBSD Mall</a>.
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Each CD sets contains the FreeBSD installation and application package bits
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for the x86 ("PC") architecture. For a set of distfiles used to build ports
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in the ports collection, please see also the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set
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containing all such extra bits which can no longer fit on the 4 ISO set.</p>
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<p>FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the
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following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada,
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the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong
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Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia,
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Malaysia, Mordor, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia,
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Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the Ukraine
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and the United Kingdom (and quite possibly several others which I've
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never even heard of :).</p>
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<p>Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional
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mirror(s) first by going to:</p>
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<p><kbd>ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</kbd></p>
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<p>Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.</p>
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<p>Most releases prior to 4.4-RELEASE have been team efforts, only
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possible at all due to the collaboration of many different people. It
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still bears noting, however, that 4.4-RELEASE was done completely by a
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"release engineering team" rather than "a release engineer" and I
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think it's fair to say that with 4.4-RELEASE, we've completed the
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transition from having one primary person worry about releases to
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having many primary people (<a href="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">re@FreeBSD.org</a>)
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worry about them. This is a distinct improvement from any point of view
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and, I think, an important milestone in FreeBSD's progress.</p>
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<p>In addition to myself, the release engineering team for 4.4-RELEASE
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has been:</p>
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<p>
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Murray Stokely <<a href="mailto:murray@FreeBSD.org">murray@freebsd.org</a>> : Release Engineering<br>
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Steve Price <<a href="mailto:steve@FreeBSD.org">steve@FreeBSD.org</a>> : Package collection<br>
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Satoshi Asami <<a href="mailto:asami@FreeBSD.org">asami@FreeBSD.org</a>> : Package collection<br>
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Bruce A. Mah <<a href="mailto:bmah@FreeBSD.org">bmah@FreeBSD.org</a>> : Release notes
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</p>
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<p>Please join me in thanking them for all the hard work which went into
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making this release. I would also like to thank the FreeBSD
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Committers <<a href="mailto:committers@FreeBSD.org">committers@FreeBSD.org</a>>, without which there would be
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nothing to release, and the many thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide
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who contributed bug fixes, features and suggestions.</p>
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Thanks!<br>
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<p></p>
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- Jordan
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