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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/internal/releng45.sgml,v 1.3 2001/12/10 07:19:05 murray Exp $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD 4.5 Release Process">
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&header;
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<h1>Introduction</h1>
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<p>The release engineering team (<a
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href="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">re@FreeBSD.org</a>) for FreeBSD 4.5
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consists of Murray Stokely, Steve Price, Robert Watson, and John
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Baldwin.
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<p>The x86 build team consists of Murray Stokely and John Baldwin.</p>
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<p>The Alpha build team consists of David O'Brien, Wilko Bulte, John
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Baldwin, and Murray Stokely.</p>
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<p>The third-party packages are handled by Steve Price and the Ports
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managers (<a
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href="mailto:portmgr@FreeBSD.org">portmgr@FreeBSD.org</a>).</p>
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<p>General discussions about the release engineering process or
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quality assurance issues should be sent to the public <a
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href="mailto:freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-qa</a> mailing list.
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MFC requests should be sent to <a
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href="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">re@FreeBSD.org</a>.</p>
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<p>For an overview of the entire release engineering process, please
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see <a href="./releng.html">./releng.html</a>.</p>
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<h1>Schedule</h1>
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<table border=1>
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<tr><td>Action</td><td>Expected</td><td>Actual</td><td>Description</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Reminder announcement</td><td>01 Dec 2001</td><td>03 Dec 2001</td>
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<td>Release Engineers send announcement email to
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developers@FreeBSD.org with a rough schedule for the FreeBSD 4.5
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release.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><tt>4.5-PRERELEASE</tt></td>
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<td>20 Dec 2001</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td><tt>newvers.sh</tt> and <tt>param.h</tt> updated.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>FTP site updated</td>
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<td>20 Dec 2001</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td><tt>pkg_add -r</tt> works for <tt>4.5-PRERELEASE</tt> machines.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Code freeze begins</td>
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<td>20 Dec 2001</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>After this date, all commits to the <tt>RELENG_4</tt> branch
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must be approved by <a
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href="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">re@FreeBSD.org</a>. Certain highly
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active documentation committers are exempt from this rule for
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routine man page / release note updates.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Commercial software demos updated.</td>
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<td>05 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>The second disc contains commercial software demos, these
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demos should be updated to contain the latest versions.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>First release candidate</td>
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<td>05 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>The first release candidate for the x86 and Alpha architecture is
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released.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Second release candidate</td>
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<td>10 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>Note: the release date of this candidate depends on the user
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experience with RC1</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Third release candidate</td>
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<td>15 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>Note: the release date of this candidate depends on the user
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experience with previous RCs. Additional release candidates may
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be released, or there may be no need for RC3 depending on the
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quality of RC1/2.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Final package build starts
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<td>17 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>The ports cluster and <a href="http://bento.freebsd.org">bento</a>
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build final packages.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Package split</td>
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<td>18 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>The packages must be split so that packages with similar
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dependencies appear on each of the four discs, with the most
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popular packages appearing on the first disc.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><tt>RELENG_4_5</tt> branch</td>
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<td>18 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>The release branch is created</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Note to freebsd-stable@</td>
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<td>18 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>A note should be sent to the freebsd-stable to let
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over-anxious users know that the tags have been created but the
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release still isn't ready. Tags may be slid before the
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announcement goes out. Point users to freebsd-qa@ for
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details.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Version numbers bumped.</td>
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<td>19 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>The files listed at <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/internal/releng.html">./releng.html</a>
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are updated to reflect the fact that this is FreeBSD 4.5.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>src, doc, and ports trees tagged.</td>
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<td>19 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td><tt>RELEASE_4_5_0</tt> tag for docs and ports,
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<tt>RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE</tt> tag for src.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Update man.cgi on the website.</td>
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<td>19 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>Make sure the 4.5 manual pages are being displayed by default
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for the man->web gateway.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Archive the errata for FreeBSD 4.4.</td>
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<td>19 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>The new RELNOTESng errata file should be setup, and the old
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errata file archived.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Final builds.</td>
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<td>20 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>Final builds for x86 and Alpha in a pristine environment.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Warn hubs@FreeBSD.org</td>
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<td>20 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>Heads up email to <a
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href="mailto:hubs@FreeBSD.org">hubs@FreeBSD.org</a> to give admins
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time to prepare for the load spike to come.</td>
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</tr>
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<td>Upload to ftp-master.</td>
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<td>20 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>release and packages uploaded to ftp-master.freebsd.org</td>
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</tr>
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<td>Announcement</td>
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<td>21 Jan 2002</td>
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<td>--</td>
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<td>Announcement sent out after a majority of the mirrors have
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received the bits.</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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&footer;
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