----- Original Message ---- > From: Ken Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 5:21:00 AM > Subject: 7.0-BETA1 Available, 6.3-BETA1 coming soon... > > > We have entered the final phases of the FreeBSD-7.0 Release cycle which > also means the beginning of the FreeBSD-6.3 Release cycle. Because the > people who support the ports for FreeBSD also need to go through a > freeze cycle as part of releases we had decided to combine the two > releases to try and minimize the impact on the ports maintainers. > > The current plan is to interleave the BETAs/RCs of the 7.0 and 6.3 > releases, trying to follow this for the dates when the builds will get > started (with them becoming available on the FTP mirrors a day or two > after the builds start): > > 7.0 6.3 > BETA1 10/17 10/24 > BETA2 10/31 11/7 > RC1 11/14 11/21 > RC2 11/28 12/5 > REL 12/12 12/19 > > Tomorrow (10/23) the RELENG_6 branch will be marked "6.3-PRERELEASE" to > note that we have entered the 6.3 release cycle. > > The schedule dates are, as usual, tentative. At this point RELENG_6 is > pretty mature so that schedule should be fairly accurate. Being a new > branch it is at least somewhat likely the dates for 7.0 will wind up > slipping. > > The 7.0-BETA1 builds have completed and are on many of the FreeBSD > mirror sites. If you want to update an existing machine using > cvsup > use > RELENG_7 as the branch tag. Instructions on using FreeBSD Update to > perform a binary upgrade from FreeBSD 6.x to 7.0-BETA1 will be provided > via the freebsd-stable list when available. > <snip> > Ken Smith > - From there to here, from here to | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > there, funny things are everywhere. | > - Theodore Geisel |
Thank you Ken! Could you please have someone to put these interesting news in the main page of FreeBSD? I wish FreeBSD main page is more attractive for new users, with links to PC-BSD, and DesktopBSD ..etc ;) --- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
