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The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. This release starts off the new 8-STABLE branch
which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.X and introduces many
new features. Some of the highlights:
- Xen Dom-U, VirtualBox guest and host, hierarchal jails
- NFSv3 GSSAPI support, experimental NFSv4 client and server
- 802.11s D3.03 wireless mesh networking and Virtual Access Point
support
- ZFS no longer in experimental status
- ground-up rewrite of USB, including USB target support
- continued SMP scalability improvements in many areas, especially
VFS
- revised network link layer subsystem
- experimental MIPS architecture support
For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
online release notes and errata list, available at:
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities,
please see:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
Dedication
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The FreeBSD Project dedicates this release to the memories of
Jean-Marc Zucconi (jmz@) and John Birrell (jb@) who passed away
in May and November of 2009 respectively. Jean-Marc and John were
both FreeBSD committers since the mid-1990s and made extensive
contributions to the operating system. They will be missed.
Availability
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FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, pc98,
powerpc, and sparc64 architectures.
FreeBSD 8.0 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the
network. Some architectures (currently amd64 and i386) also support
installing from a USB memory stick. The required files can be downloaded
via FTP or BitTorrent as described in the sections below. While some
of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all architectures, they will
all generally contain the more common ones such as amd64 and i386.
MD5 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO and memory stick images are
included at the bottom of this message.
The purpose of the images provided as part of the release are as follows:
dvd1: This contains everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD
operating system, a collection of pre-built packages, and the
documentation. It also supports booting into a "livefs" based
rescue mode. This should be all you need if you can burn
and use DVD-sized media.
disc1: This contains the base FreeBSD operating system and the
documentation packages for CDROM-sized media. There are no
other packages.
livefs: This contains support for booting into a "livefs" based
rescue mode but does not support doing an install from the
CD itself. It is meant to help rescue an existing system
but could be used to do a network based install if necessary.
bootonly: This supports booting a machine using the CDROM drive but
does not contain the support for installing FreeBSD from the
CD itself. You would need to perform a network based install
(e.g. from an FTP server) after booting from the CD.
memstick: This can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive) and
used to do an install on machines capable of booting off USB
drives. It also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue
mode. The documentation packages are provided but no other
packages.
As one example of how to use the memstick image, assuming the USB drive
appears as /dev/da0 on your machine something like this should work:
Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=) correct.
FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from several
vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 8.0-based
products is:
~ FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/
BitTorrent
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8.0-RELEASE ISOs are available via BitTorrent. A collection of torrent
files to download the images is available at:
http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/
FTP
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At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have
FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE available.
For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The
FreeBSD Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through
for users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at:
The branch tag to use for updating the source is RELENG_8_0.
FreeBSD Update
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The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64
systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running 7.[012]-RELEASE,
8.0-BETA[1234], or 8.0-RC[123] can upgrade as follows:
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE
During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by merging
some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically
performed merging was done correctly.
# freebsd-update install
The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.
# shutdown -r now
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new
userland components:
# freebsd-update install
At this point, users of systems being upgraded from FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 or
earlier will be prompted by freebsd-update to rebuild all third-party
applications (e.g., ports installed from the ports tree) due to updates
in system libraries. See:
for more details. After updating installed third-party applications
(and again, only if freebsd-update printed a message indicating that
this was necessary), run freebsd-update again so that it can delete the
old (no longer used) system libraries:
# freebsd-update install
Finally, reboot into 8.0-RELEASE:
# shutdown -r now
Support
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The FreeBSD Security Team currently plans to support FreeBSD 8.0 until
November 30th, 2010. For more information on the Security Team and
their support of the various FreeBSD branches see:
http://www.freebsd.org/security/
Acknowledgments
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Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to
support the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 8.0 including
The FreeBSD Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, NetApp,
Internet Systems Consortium, and Sentex Communications.
The release engineering team for 8.0-RELEASE includes:
Ken Smith <kensmith at FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering,
amd64, i386, sparc64 Release Building,
Mirror Site Coordination
Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Security
Konstantin Belousov <kib at FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Marc Fonvieille <blackend at FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Documentation
George Neville-Neil <gnn at FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Hiroki Sato <hrs at FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Documentation
Bjoern Zeeb <bz at FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at FreeBSD.org> ia64, powerpc Release Building
Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan at FreeBSD.org> PC98 Release Building
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Erwin Lansing <erwin at FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Mark Linimon <linimon at FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Martin Wilke (miwi at FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Colin Percival <cperciva at FreeBSD.org> Security Officer
Trademark
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FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
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xavier
Ollivier Robert wrote:
Elle est disponible depuis presque une semaine sur les miroirs mais en voici l'annonce officielle :
Ca fait une dizaine de jours que je l'utilise en prod (depuis la création de la branche RELENG_8_0) Absolument aucun souci à noter. Une des machines est un serveur de mail (Postfix/Dovecot) en ZFS (sauf / ) avec juste 512MB de RAM.
Du très bon boulot comme d'habitude, quand FreeBSD sort une release, c'est pas sous la pression des marketoïdes, mais parce qu'elle est prête.
Ollivier Robert <roberto@REMOVETHIS.eu.org> wrote:
Elle est disponible depuis presque une semaine sur les miroirs mais en voici
l'annonce officielle :
Ca fait une dizaine de jours que je l'utilise en prod (depuis la
création de la branche RELENG_8_0) Absolument aucun souci à noter. Une
des machines est un serveur de mail (Postfix/Dovecot) en ZFS (sauf / )
avec juste 512MB de RAM.
Du très bon boulot comme d'habitude, quand FreeBSD sort une release,
c'est pas sous la pression des marketoïdes, mais parce qu'elle est
prête.
Merci à tous les contributeurs du projet.
PS : ton trn envoie de l'UTF8 en annonçant charset=ISO-8859-15
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XAv
Disponible au 01/06/2010
<http://www.xavierhumbert.net/perso/CV2.html>
Elle est disponible depuis presque une semaine sur les miroirs mais en voici l'annonce officielle :
Ca fait une dizaine de jours que je l'utilise en prod (depuis la création de la branche RELENG_8_0) Absolument aucun souci à noter. Une des machines est un serveur de mail (Postfix/Dovecot) en ZFS (sauf / ) avec juste 512MB de RAM.
Du très bon boulot comme d'habitude, quand FreeBSD sort une release, c'est pas sous la pression des marketoïdes, mais parce qu'elle est prête.
