Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 1st Nov 2003 19:40 UTC
Robert Watson posted another bi-weekly version of the FreeBSD 5.2 open issues list, slightly restructured. At this time, there are four "show stopper defects" listed: panics when building ata-raid arrays, ATAng crashdump causes disk corruption, pipe/VM corruption on Alpha, and lingering PSE instability. There are only 5 issues left of on the "required features" list: KSE support for sparc64, KSE support for alpha, Fine-grained network stack locking without Giant, MAC framework devfs path fixes, and ACL_MASK override of umask support in UFS.
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A while ago, I was looking forward to the release of FreeBSD 5.2, as I was under the impression that it would be the begining of the new stable branch. Now it seems as though FreeBSD 5.3 will be. Not much we can do but sit and wait, but I am begining to wonder if the entire 5.x series will be nothing more the FreeBSD-CURRENT.
I have been using 5.x since before 5.0-R, and there has been significant improvements in all areas of the system. As time goes by, I notice fewer and fewer stability issues, and more of the new features come online. I will be very happy to get away from the 4.x series for good once 5.x stabilizes, but it's gonna be a while.
I wonder if we'll be seeing the first release of DragonFly before this occurs.