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<p>FreeBSD is a rapidly developing operating system.
Keeping up on the latest developments can be a chore! To
keep on top of things, be sure and check this page
periodically. Also, you may wish to subscribe to the <a
href="../handbook/eresources:mail.html">freebsd-announce
mailing list</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="../news/qnewsletter.html">FreeBSD Real-Quick (TM) Newsletter
(RQN)</a> is a monthly (sometimes bi-weekly) newsletter containing
recent developments in the FreeBSD arena. Subscribe to
<a href="../handbook/eresources:mail.html">freebsd-announce</a>
to recieve this newsletter via e-mail.</p>
<p>For a detailed description of past, present, and future releases,
see the <strong><a href="&base/releases/index.html">Release
Information</a></strong> page.</p>
<h2>November 1998</h2>
<ul>
<li><b>30-Nov-98</b><a href="&base/releases/2.2.8R/announce.html">
FreeBSD 2.2.8</a> has been released. Please see the
<a href="&base/releases/index.html">Release Information</a>
page for more details. Also be sure to check the
<a href="&base/releases/2.2.8R/errata.html">release errata</a>
after installation for any late-breaking issues with 2.2.8 that
you might need to be aware of.</li>
<li><b>26-Nov-98</b><a href="http://www.freebsdrocks.com/">FreeBSD
Rocks</a> is an initiative designed to provide the FreeBSD community
with the latest FreeBSD news, software and resources. All areas
include search facilities, making keyword searching of historical
posts a breeze. The pages are updated daily and everyone is invited
to sign up an post an article. If it happened today, you'll see it
on FreeBSDRocks.</li>
</ul>
<h2>October 1998</h2>
<ul>
<li><b>15-Oct-98</b><a href="&base/releases/3.0R/announce.html">
FreeBSD 3.0</a> has been released. See the
<a href="&base/releases/index.html">Release Information</a> page for
details. Also be sure to check the
<a href="&base/releases/3.0R/errata.html">release errata</a>
after installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.0 that you
might need to be aware of.</li>
</ul>
<h2>September 1998</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>15-Sep-98</b> 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 :).
<p></p></li>
<li><p><b>13-Sep-98</b>
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.
<p></p></li>
<li><p><b>9-Sep-98</b>
Perl5 is now imported into the 3.0-CURRENT source tree.
<p></p></li>
<li><p><b>5-Sep-98</b>
<a name="giveaway" href="http://visar.csustan.edu">
The BSD CD Giveaway List</a>.
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.
</P></LI>
<li><p><b>1-Sep-98</b>
First issue of Daemon News arrives day earlier. This electronic
ezine is by BSD community for BSD community. See
<A HREF="http://www.daemonnews.org">http://www.daemonnews.org</A>
</P></LI>
</ul>
<H2>August 1998</H2>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>31-Aug-98</B>
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
<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html">
freebsd-current@freebsd.org</A> mail archive for more information
on the transition to ELF.
</P></LI>
<LI><P><B>23-Aug-98</B>
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
<A HREF="http://www.watson.org/fbsd-hardening/suidcontrol.html">
http://www.watson.org/fbsd-hardening/suidcontrol.html</A>
</P></LI>
<LI><P><B>9-Aug-98</B>
FreeBSD Security How-To has been published. This work is currently
in beta and can be found at
<A HREF="http://www.best.com/~jkb/howto.txt">
http://www.best.com/~jkb/howto.txt</A>
</P></LI>
</UL>
<h2>July 1998</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>22-Jul-98</b>
FreeBSD 2.2.7 has been released.
See the <a href="&base/releases/index.html">Release
Information</a> page for details. Also be sure to
check the
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT">
release errata</a> after installation for any late-breaking issues
with 2.2.7 that you should know about.
</li>
<li><p><b>16-Jul-98</b>
A ``FreeBSD for Linux users'' documentation effort has started.
Please see the <a
href="../docproj/current.html">list of current
documentation projects</a> for more information.</li>
<li><p><b>13-Jul-98</b>
<a href="mailto:jkh@freebsd.org">Jordan Hubbard</a> writes an
<a href="http://editorials.freshmeat.net/jordan980713/">editorial</a>
on the past and future of the Unix community.</li>
<li><p><b>9-Jul-98</b>
A <a href="http://www.es.freebsd.org/es/FAQ/FAQ.html">Spanish
translation</a> of the <a
href="../FAQ/FAQ.html">FAQ</a> has been completed
by the <a href="http://www.es.freebsd.org/es/">Spanish Documentation
Project</a>. More information can be found at the
<a
href="../docproj/translations.html">translations
page</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2>June 1998</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>24-Jun-98</b>
The FreeBSD Project is sponsoring an
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~xcontest/">FreeBSD Desktop Theme
Contest</a>. Participants will design their own X11 configurations,
and winners will have theirs distributed with future releases of
FreeBSD.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2>May 1998</h2>
<ul>
<LI><P><B>30-May-98</b>
FreeBSD and Apache are used in <a href="http://www.WebTechniques.com/features/1998/05/engelschall/engelschall.shtml">this very useful article</a>
on implementing a web farm using round-robin DNS in
<a href="http://www.WebTechniques.com/">WEBTechniques.com</a></p>
</li>
<LI><P><B>23-May-98</b>
The second issue of the FreeBSD Newsletter is now available in
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/newsletter/issue2.pdf">
Adobe PDF format</a> (also by
<A href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/newsletter/issue2.pdf">
FTP</A>). A
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/newsletter/README.TXT">
help file</a> is available to assist you in selecting and using
a PDF viewer.
Article submissions, advertisements, and letters
to the editor should be sent to
<a href="mailto:newsletter@freebsd.org">newsletter@freebsd.org</a>.
</p>
</li>
<li><p><b>1-May-98</b>
The FreeBSD Project set up
<a name="anoncvs" href="../handbook/anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS</a>
for the <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi">FreeBSD CVS tree</a>.
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.
</p></li>
</ul>
<h2>April 1998</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>16-Apr-98</b>
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
<a href="http://www.cdrom.com">http://www.cdrom.com</a>.
</p></li>
<li><p><b>11-Apr-98</b>
The new FreeBSD project <a href="../projects/mozilla.html">FreeBSD Mozilla
Group</a> is created. The FreeBSD Mozilla Group supports and
improves the free available Netscape web browser,
otherwise known as <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>March 1998</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>25-Mar-98</b>
FreeBSD 2.2.6 has been released.
See the <a href="&base/releases/index.html">Release
Information</a> page for details. Also be sure to
check the
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT">
release errata</a> after installation for any late-breaking issues
with 2.2.6 that you should know about.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>February 1998</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>08-Feb-98</b>
A page detailing the <a href="../y2kbug.html">FreeBSD Year 2000
compliance statement</a> is now available, linked through the <a
href="../docs.html">Documentation</a> page.</li>
</ul>
<h2>January 1998</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>08-Jan-98</b>
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 <a href="../handbook/cvsup.html">CVSup</a> utility
or in binary release snapshots from
<a href="ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD">current.FreeBSD.org</a>
</p></li>
</ul>
<h2>December 1997</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>26-Dec-97</b>
A convenient front-end tool for installing and configuring the
<a href="../handbook/cvsup.html">CVSup</a> utility is now available.
To use it, simply login or su to root and run:
<tt><b>pkg_add</b>
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CVSup/cvsupit.tgz</tt>
</p></li>
<li><p><b>2-Dec-97</b>
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
<a href="../handbook/cvsup.html">CVSup</a> utility, as described below
for the LAND attack fix, or by applying
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.5-RELEASE/updates/f00f.diff.2.2">these patches</a>.</p></li>
<li><p><b>1-Dec-97</b>
The "LAND attack" bug in TCP/IP has now been fixed in all relevant
branches and can be incorporated by using the
<a href="../handbook/cvsup.html">CVSup</a> utility to track the
latest 2.2 or 3.0 sources.</p></li>
<li><p><b>1-Dec-97</b>
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
<a href="http://www.circle.net/team-freebsd">Team FreeBSD's WWW
site</a>.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2>November 1997</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>21-Nov-97</b>
<em>Pentium bug</em> -- 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
<a href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce</a>.
Your patience is appreciated.</p></li>
<li><p><b>09-Nov-97</b>
FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE CDROMS are now in stock and shipping to customers
worldwide. More information is available at <a href=
"http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/fbsd25.htm">
http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/fbsd25.htm</a>.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2>October 1997</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>22-Oct-97</b>
FreeBSD 2.2.5 has been released.
See the <a href="&base/releases/index.html">Release
Information</a> page for details. Also be sure to
check the
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.5-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT">
release errata</a> after installation for any late-breaking issues
with 2.2.5 that you should know about.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>September 1997</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>01-Sep-97</b>
FreeBSD performed well in an Internet Week
<a href="http://techweb.cmp.com/internetwk/reviews/rev0901.htm">
review</a> of WWW server platforms.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2>August 1997</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>11-Aug-97</b>
Researchers in Duke University's
<a href="http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/index.html">Trapeze Project</a>
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
<a href="http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/index.html">WWW page</a>.
</p></li>
<li><p><b>03-Aug-97</b>
Netscape Communications has released a beta version of
Netscape Communicator v4.0 for FreeBSD. It can be obtained via
FTP from <a href="ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.03/4.03b8/english/unix/freebsd/base_install/">ftp.netscape.com</a> or its mirrors.</li>
</ul>
<h2>July 1997</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>22-Jul-97</b>
MacIP, an AppleTalk-to-IP gateway program for FreeBSD, is in beta
testing. To get the latest version, see
<a href="http://www.promo.de/pub/people/stefan/netatalk/">
http://www.promo.de/pub/people/stefan/netatalk/</a> or
<a href="ftp://ftp.promo.de/pub/people/stefan/netatalk/">
ftp://ftp.promo.de/pub/people/stefan/netatalk/</a>. </p>
</li>
<LI><P><B>17-Jul-97</b>
The first issue of the FreeBSD Newsletter is now available in
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/newsletter/issue1.pdf">
Adobe PDF format</a> (also by
<A href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/newsletter/issue1.pdf">
FTP</A>). A
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/newsletter/README.TXT">
help file</a> is available to assist you in selecting and using
a PDF viewer.
Article submissions, advertisements, and letters
to the editor should be sent to
<a href="mailto:newsletter@freebsd.org">newsletter@freebsd.org</a>.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>June 1997</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>17-Jun-97</b>
FreeBSD <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE/">
2.2.2-RELEASE</a> CD-ROM discs are now in stock; subscription
customers should receive them shortly.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>May 1997</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>16-May-97</b>
FreeBSD <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE/">
2.2.2-RELEASE</a> has been released. The
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT">
Release Notes</a> and
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD2.2.2-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT">
Errata List</a> can provide more information. </p>
</li>
<li><p><b>12-May-97</b>
A 3.0-Current SNAP-of-the-day server has been established at
<a href="ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/">
ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a>. A 3.0-SNAPshot
will be generated daily, and old SNAPshots will be kept for
a minimum of one week.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>April 1997</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>28-Apr-97</b>
The 3.0-current src tree now contains support for building Symmetric
MultiProcessor kernels. For details go to the
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html">SMP</a> page.
</p></li>
<li><p><b>22-Apr-97</b>
A RELENG_2.2 snap-of-the-day server has been established at
<a href="ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/">
ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD</a>. The
<a href="ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT">
README.TXT</a> has more information.
</p></li>
<li><p><b>15-Apr-97</b>
FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE CDs are shipping. Please see
<a href="http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/fbsd22.htm">
http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/fbsd22.htm</a> for more information.
</p></li>
</ul>
<h2>March 1997</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><b>28-Mar-97</b>
Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Inc. has released an alpha version
of ALTQ/CBQ, an alternative queuing framework for BSD Unix.
<a href="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/programs.html">More
information</a> and the
<a href="ftp://ftp.csl.sony.co.jp/pub/kjc/altq.tar.gz">source code</a>
is available.</p></li>
<li><p><b>25-Mar-97</b>
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.1-RELEASE/">FreeBSD
2.2.1-RELEASE</a> is now available, replacing 2.2-RELEASE. Read the
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.1-RELEASE/README.TXT">
README.TXT</a> file or the
<a href="&base/releases/2.2.1R/notes.html">Release Notes</a>
for more information.</p></li>
<li><p><b>16-Mar-97</b>
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-RELEASE/">FreeBSD
2.2-RELEASE</a> is now available. Read the
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-RELEASE/README.TXT">
README.TXT</a> file or the
<a href="&base/releases/2.2R/notes.html">Release Notes</a>
for more information.</p></li>
</ul>
<H2>February 1997</H2>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>20-Feb-1997</B>
FreeBSD
2.1.7-RELEASE is now available. Read the
README.TXT file or the
<a href="&base/releases/2.1.7R/notes.html">
Release Notes</a> for more information.</p></li>
<LI><P><B>10-Feb-1997</B>
FreeBSD
3.0-970209-SNAP has been released. Read the
README.TXT file for more information about this release.</p></li>
<LI><P><B>06-Feb-1997</B>
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
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-97:01.setlocale">
FreeBSD-SA-97:01.setlocale</A> security announcement.
</P></LI>
<LI><P><B>06-Feb-1997</B>
The final pre-release version of FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA, is now available.
The README.TXT file has more information.</P></LI>
<LI><P><B>05-Feb-1997</B>
The administrative position of FreeBSD Project President has been
eliminated with the
<a href="../internal/resignation.html">resignation</a> of former president
Jordan K. Hubbard.</p></li>
<LI><P><B>02-Feb-1997</B>
A snap-of-the-day server has been set up for the most current
<A HREF="../releases/snapshots.html">snapshot</a>
release of FreeBSD 2.2. Read the
<A HREF="ftp://22gamma.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT">README.TXT</A>
file for more information.
</P></LI>
</UL>
<H2>January 1997</H2>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>25-Jan-1997</B>
FreeBSD <A HREF="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.0-970124-SNAP/">
3.0-970124-SNAP</A> has been released.
Please see the
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.0-970124-SNAP/RELNOTES.TXT">
Release Notes</A> for more information.
</P></LI>
</UL>
<H2>December 1996</H2>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>24-Dec-1996</B>
FreeBSD <A HREF="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-BETA">2.2-BETA</A>
has been released. Please see the
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-BETA/RELNOTES.TXT">
Release Notes</A> for more information.
</P></LI>
<LI><P><B>13-Dec-1996</B>
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
<A HREF="../releases/2.2R/install-media.html">announcement</A> for more
information.
</P></LI>
</UL>
<h2>November 1996</h2>
<ul>
<![ IGNORE [
<li><p><b>15-Nov-1996</b>
FreeBSD <a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.6-RELEASE">
2.1.6-RELEASE</a> is out. Please see the <a
href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.6-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT">
release notes</a> for more information.
</P></li>
]]>
<li><p><b>15-Nov-1996</b>
FreeBSD <a href="&base/releases/2.1.6R/security.html">
2.1.6-RELEASE</a> is out. Please see the <a
href="&base/releases/2.1.6R/security.html">
release notes</a> for more information.
</P></li>
<li><p><b>4-Nov-1996</b>
The FreeBSD <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi">CVS</a>
development tree has branched again. <a href="../releases/">See here</a>
for more information.
</P></li>
</ul>
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