From owner-freebsd-announce Thu Oct 10 7:47:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5585D37B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:47:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.freebsdmall.com (ns1.freebsdmall.com [66.220.2.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0D1843EAA for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:47:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murray@freebsdmall.com) Received: by mail.freebsdmall.com (Postfix, from userid 2074) id D8D3B2E89F; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:47:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:47:54 -0700 From: Murray Stokely To: announce@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD 4.7 Now Available Message-ID: <20021010074754.A1982@freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Content-Length: 4858 Lines: 121 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE in June 2002, we have updated a number of software programs in the base system, such as GCC and sendmail. Several new drivers have been added for USB devices and disk controllers. We have also incorporated updates for XFree86 and our Linux compatibility libraries. FreeBSD 4.7 also incorporates all of the security and bug fixes from 4.6.2 (released in August 2002), including several ATA-related bugfixes, updates for OpenSSL and OpenSSH, and fixes to address several security advisories. For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the release notes and errata list, available here: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.7R/relnotes.html http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.7R/errata.html For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities (including information about the upcoming FreeBSD 5.0), please see: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/ Availability - ------------ FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE supports the i386 and alpha architectures and can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for the i386 are available now. As of this writing, the final builds for the alpha architecture are in progress and will be made available shortly. Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies will be offering FreeBSD 4.7 based products: FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/ Daemonnews, Inc. http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO images. We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp12.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp{2,3,4,5}.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.lt.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.za.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp{1,2,4}.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to: ftp://ftp..FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on. More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html 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: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Acknowledgments - --------------- Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.7 including The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and NTT/Verio. In addition to myself, the release engineering team for 4.7-RELEASE includes: Bruce A. Mah Release Engineering, Documentation Robert Watson Release Engineering, Security John Baldwin Release Engineering Brian Somers Release Engineering Kris Kennaway Package Building Will Andrews Package Building Steve Price Package Building Jacques A. Vidrine Security Officer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9pZKQtNcQog5FH30RAn6eAKCn5y4YdfYdz5ObikGEYQyX3V5hSgCgiKu7 qaqHWC00BrlhGccLvw1ySWo= =xa1d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message