From thompsa at FreeBSD.org Mon Jan 5 07:18:53 2009 From: thompsa at FreeBSD.org (Andrew Thompson) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 23:18:53 -0800 Subject: [nzfug-general] [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE Available In-Reply-To: <20090105042951.GA9039@myers.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <20090105042951.GA9039@myers.cse.buffalo.edu> Message-ID: <20090105071853.GA22404@citylink.fud.org.nz> I have put the isos up and for the first time there are DVD images too ftp://nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.1/ ftp://nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/7.1/ On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:29:51PM -0500, Ken Smith wrote: > > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability > of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch > which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some > new features. Some of the highlights: > > - The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for > amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly > improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads. > - Support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported > from OpenSolaris. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing > framework. > - A new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client. > - Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from > USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices. > - The cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command have been added, > providing an API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource > grouping and assignment. > - KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3. > - DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures > > For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the > online release notes and errata list, available at: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/relnotes.html > http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/errata.html > > For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, > please see: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/ > > Availability > ------------- > > FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, > powerpc, and sparc64 architectures. > > FreeBSD 7.1 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network; > 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 > i386 and amd64. > > MD5 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO images are included at the > bottom of this message. > > The purpose of the ISO images provided as part of the release are as > follows: > > dvd1: Contains everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD > operating system, a collection of pre-built packages, the > documentation, and supports booting into a "livefs" based > rescue mode. This should be all you need if you can burn > and use DVD-sized media. > > disc1, disc2, disc3, livefs, docs: disc1 contains the base FreeBSD > system and a few pre-built packages. disc2 and disc3 contain > more pre-built packages. Those three can be burned to CDROM > sized media and should be all you need to do a normal installation. > livefs contains support for entering into a "livefs" based > rescue mode but you need disc1 to do the initial boot first. > docs contains the documentation. > > 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. > > FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from several > vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 7.1-based > products is: > > ~ FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/ > > BitTorrent > ---------- > > 7.1-RELEASE ISOs are available via BitTorrent. A collection of torrent > files to download the images is available at: > > http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ > > FTP > --- > > At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have > FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE available. > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp10.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp12.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp.at.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp.au.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp.cz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp.dk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp.fr.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp2.ie.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp2.ru.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp.se.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp.si.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp2.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp3.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp7.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp10.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > ftp://ftp11.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > > However before trying these sites 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 > > Updating Existing Systems > ------------------------- > > NOTE: If updating from a 7.0 or earlier system due to a change in the > Vendor's drivers certain Intel NICs will now come up as igb(4) instead > of em(4). We normally try to avoid changes like that in stable branches > but the vendor felt it necessary in order to support the new adapters. > See the UPDATING entry dated 20080811 for details. There are only 3 PCI > ID's that should have their name changed from em(4) to igb(4): 0x10A78086, > 0x10A98086, and 0x10D68086. You should be able to determine if your card > will change names by running the command "pciconf -l", and for the line > representing your NIC (should be named em on older systems, e.g. em0 or > em1, etc) check the fourth column. If that says "chip=0x10a78086" (or one > of the other two IDs given above) you will have the adapter's > name change. > > Updates from Source > ------------------- > > The procedure for doing a source code based update is described in the > FreeBSD Handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html > > The branch tag to use for updating the source is RELENG_7_1. > > FreeBSD Update > -------------- > > The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 > systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running 7.0-RELEASE, > 7.1-BETA, 7.1-BETA2, 7.1-RC1, or 7.1-RC2 can upgrade as follows: > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-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, and the system needs to be rebooted again: > > # freebsd-update install > # shutdown -r now > > Users of Intel network interfaces which are changing their name from "em" to > "igb" should make necessary changes to configuration files BEFORE running > freebsd-update, since otherwise the network interface will not be configured > appropriately after rebooting for the first time. > > Users of earlier FreeBSD releases (FreeBSD 6.x) can also use freebsd-update to > upgrade to FreeBSD 7.1, but will be prompted to rebuild all third-party > applications (e.g., anything installed from the ports tree) after the second > invocation of "freebsd-update install", in order to handle differences in the > system libraries between FreeBSD 6.x and FreeBSD 7.x. > > For more information, see: > > http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html > > Support > ------- > > The FreeBSD Security Team currently plans to support FreeBSD 7.1 until > January 31st 2011. For more information on the Security Team and > their support of the various FreeBSD branches see: > > http://www.freebsd.org/security/ > > Acknowledgments > ---------------- > > Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to > support the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 7.1 including > The FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, > Network Appliances, and Sentex Communications. > > The release engineering team for 7.1-RELEASE includes: > > Ken Smith Release Engineering, > amd64, i386, sparc64 Release Building, > Mirror Site Coordination > Robert Watson Release Engineering, Security > Konstantin Belousov Release Engineering > Marc Fonvieille Release Engineering, Documentation > Maxime Henrion Release Engineering > Bruce A. Mah Release Engineering, Documentation > George Neville-Neil Release Engineering > Hiroki Sato Release Engineering, Documentation > Murray Stokely Release Engineering > Marcel Moolenaar ia64, powerpc Release Building > Takahashi Yoshihiro PC98 Release Building > Kris Kennaway Package Building > Joe Marcus Clarke Package Building > Erwin Lansing Package Building > Mark Linimon Package Building > Pav Lucistnik Package Building > Colin Percival Security Officer > Peter Wemm Bittorrent Coordination > > Trademark > --------- > > FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. > > ISO Image Checksums > ------------------- > > MD5 (7.1-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso) = f127de85eb1f3a945b56ef750fa610ae > MD5 (7.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) = ac88bfa3359aea242450d74c20347bde > MD5 (7.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc2.iso) = 918d89e3ee330f5bd13535bc82def802 > MD5 (7.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc3.iso) = d01747e4de48acb052f827d723ef9672 > MD5 (7.1-RELEASE-amd64-docs.iso) = 4558db657d0b021849c2b1a802e1bea4 > 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