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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/snapshots/index.sgml,v 1.28 2006/10/05 18:01:45 joel Exp $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Snapshot Releases">
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<h2>What Are Snapshots?</h2>
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<p>As part of an ongoing effort to improve the overall release process
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<em>before</em> a release actually slips out the door with problems,
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we are now periodically producing interim test releases called
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<em>snapshots</em>.
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These snapshots will be very similar to full releases,
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except that they might not include all the bits included in a
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full release (such as packages and updated documentation).</p>
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<h2>Getting Snapshots</h2>
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<p>The latest snapshots made available are the following:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/200610/">October 2006 - 7.0-CURRENT for amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, sparc64</a></li>
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<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/200609/">September 2006 - 6.1-STABLE and 7.0-CURRENT for alpha(6.1 only) amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, powerpc(7.0 only) sparc64</a></li>
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<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/200605/">Snapshots in May 2006 (alpha, amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, sparc64)</a>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>If a snapshot for your architecture or the version of
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FreeBSD that you require is not available from the
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directories above, older snapshots are usually available
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from <a href="&url.snapshots;">&url.snapshots;</a>. It
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is worth checking there to see if a snapshot that meets
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your need is present.</p>
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<p>Currently the snapshots of
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<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#CURRENT">7-CURRENT</a>
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and
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<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#STABLE">6-STABLE</a>
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are released monthly in directories whose URLs have the format
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<tt>&url.snapshots;/<year><month>/</tt>
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where <tt><year></tt> is the four-digit year and
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<tt><month></tt> is the two-digit month in which the snapshot was released.
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For each supported platform, the snapshot includes ISO images of
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the <tt>bootonly</tt>,
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<tt>disc1</tt>, and <tt>disc2</tt> disks (plus
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the separate <tt>livefs</tt> disk on platforms where this is
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applicable).
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Each snapshot directory might contain a <tt>RELNOTES.TXT</tt>
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file which outlines the changes for the particular snapshot.</p>
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<h2>Things You Might Want to Know</h2>
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<p>In particular, before getting and installing a snapshot release,
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be aware of following:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The snapshots are primarily for
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testing purposes and not fully tested compared to the releases.
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They may include experimental or degraded features that
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can corrupt your existing system.</li>
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<li>The major release number will not be changed in the
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main distribution for each snapshot.
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It will <em>only</em> be changed on the boot floppies
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so that you know when the snapshot was made.
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These are <em>not</em> releases, these are <em>snapshots</em>,
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and it is important that this distinction be preserved.
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Although people can and will, of course, refer to snapshots
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by date in mail or netnews, do not confuse them.</li>
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<li>Snapshots might not include package sets, but will generally
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include a ports tree.</li>
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<li>Finally, we will not necessarily update the documentation.
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For example, <tt>README</tt> may still refer
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to a previous release. This is because that is much less important
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than getting the real bug fixes and new features out for testing.
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Please do not send a bug report about the documentation.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Your feedback on these snapshots is, of course, greatly welcome.
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They are not just for our benefit - those who are coming to rely
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on FreeBSD for mission critical applications should welcome
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a chance to get at more updated bits in a structured fashion.
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You can also use these snapshots as tangible evidence that your
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feedback is getting incorporated and that you (hopefully) will not have
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any unpleasant surprises in the next release.
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On the other hand, if you do send us hate mail next release
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and it turns out that you never even tried the snapshots,
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well, it cuts both ways!</p>
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<h2>Other Resources</h2>
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<p>Here are some related resources. Note that they are managed by
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people other than the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team.
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These sites provide FreeBSD snapshots in a form of "live filesystem"
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and bootable ISO images on a daily basis.
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For details, visit the following links and contact them directly
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if you have any questions.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org/">FreeBSD snapshots by jp.FreeBSD.org</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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