
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.
Yesterday, and it works very well. I am still running 5.1 on a test desktop, but I will be doing a clean install to 5.2 when it gets released. I'm afraid I will be sticking with the stable branch until the 5.x branch is finally declared stable.