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<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1997-07-01 03:52:19 $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Snapshot Releases">
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&header;
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<h2>What are snapshots?</h2>
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<p>As part of an ongoing effort to improve the overall
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release process <em>before</em> a release actually slips
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out the door with problems that make folks mad, we are now
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periodically producing interim <em>test</em> releases
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called snapshots. These snapshots will be very similar to
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full releases, except that they will be somewhat more
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minimal. In particular, before getting and installing a
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snapshot release, be aware of following:
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<ul>
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<li>We generally will not, for example, produce new
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XFree86 distributions or worry much about the tools
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directory, unless either of those two things are affected
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by the changes being tested.
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<li>The major release number will not be changed in the
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main distribution for each snapshot. It will
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<em>only</em> be changed on the boot floppies so that you
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know when the snapshot was made. These are <em>not</em>
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releases, these are <em>snapshots</em>, and it is
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important that this distinction be preserved. People can
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and will, of course, refer to snapshots by date in mail
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or netnews, we just do not want them to start thinking
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that Christmas came early and the next release is already
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out!
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<li>Finally, we will not necessarily update the
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documentation. If a README still refers to a previous release,
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well, that is much less important to than getting the
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real bug fixes and new features out for testing. Complaints
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about that kind of thing will be quietly ignored. Again,
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these are <em>snapshots</em>, not releases!
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</ul>
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<p>Your feedback on these snapshots is, of course, greatly
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welcome. They are not just for our benefit - those who are
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coming to rely on FreeBSD for mission critical
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applications should welcome a chance to get at more updated
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bits in a structured fashion. You can also use these
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snapshots as tangible evidence that your feedback is
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getting incorporated and that you (hopefully) will not have
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any unpleasant surprises in the next release. On the other hand, if
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you do send us hate mail next release and it turns out that you
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never even tried the snapshots, well, it cuts both ways!
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<h2>Where to find snapshots</h2>
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<p>Snapshots are available via anonymous from <a
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href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a>.
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The snapshot releases are in directories named in the
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format <b>REL-YYMMDD-SNAP</b> where `<b>REL</b>' is the
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release number, `<b>YY</b>' is the year, `<b>MM</b>' is
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the month, and `<b>DD</b>' is the day the snapshot was
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released. Each snapshot directory contains a
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`<b>README</b>' file which outlines the changes for the
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particular snapshot.</p>
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&footer;
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</body>
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