Release schedule 2006
Scot Long posted the release schedule for 2006:
Jan 30: Freeze RELENG_5 and RELENG_6
Mar 20: Release FreeBSD 6.1
Apr 3: Release FreeBSD 5.5
Jun 12: Freeze RELENG_6
Jul 31: Release FreeBSD 6.2
Oct 23: Freeze RELENG_6
Dec 11: Release FreeBSD 6.3
5.5 will be the final release from the RELENG_5 tree. After this final release, the security team will provide security update support through 2007 but all FreeBSD users are strongly encouraged to evaluate FreeBSD 6. The primary focus for the 6.x releases is on bugfixes, performance enhancements, and incremental functionality and driver additions. FreeBSD 7.0 that is scheduled for June 2007 will bring new features.
XFS (read-only) support committed to CURRENT
Craig Rodrigues commited read-only XFS support that is based on the GPL sources by SGI. XFS partitions can be mounted with mount -t xfs device and additional utilities such as mkfs.xfs are available in the sysutils/xfsprogs port.
BSDInstaller Beta 2 release
The second release of FreeBSD install CD’s based on the BSD Installer was announced by Andrew Turner.
The new Lua backend is now being used in this release rather than the older, deprecated C version.
The CD image is available from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/bsdinstaller/7.0-BSDINSTALLER-BETA-2-i386-disc1.iso.gz or your local mirror.
Changes Since BETA-1
* Can now install Source
* Can now install the Ports tree
* Can now install Packages
* Change to the new Lua backend
Known Problems
* Can only install to one drive, can’t have / on ad0 and /usr on ad1
* fdisk doesn’t alter the geometry
