http://www.osnews.com/story/20593/FreeBSD_6_4_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:42:29 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?338644 http://osnews.com/thread?338644 And I should note that now that 6.4-RELEASE is out, the focus is on getting to 7.1-RC1.
7.1 will get two RC releases, probably couple of weeks between them and will then get to RELEASE status as well. Assuming of course no sudden problems arise. Not that anything serious is expected, 7.1-PRERELEASE is really stable at the moment. Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sonic2000gr) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?338651 http://osnews.com/thread?338651 i wanted to install freebsd 7.1, but ended up installing the beta. could anyone shed some light about why 7.1 is so late? being 2 months late is really unusual. and annoying for me, since i bought hardware to be installed after the 7.1 release. Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (renhoek) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?338652 http://osnews.com/thread?338652 Well, FreeBSD is a volunteer project, delays are sometimes unavoidable. 7.1-PRERELEASE is very stable atm, and if you don't mind the make buildworld buildkernel stuff, you can start using it immediately. If you'd rather not build from source, I suggest you wait a few more days, the 7.1-RC CD set will be out soon. Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sonic2000gr) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?338653 http://osnews.com/thread?338653 Various show-stopper bugs were found, requiring fixing, testing, and re-testing. A couple security issues were found with 6+ that also required fixing, testing, and re-testing. A few big MFCs were allowed in, which also required extra testing and retesting. Finally, everything has solidified to the point where everyone on the RE team is confident it's ready for final RC testing.

IOW, life happened. Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (phoenix) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?338659 http://osnews.com/thread?338659 I would rather a delay and a solid release. that being said I track RELENG_7, so waiting for specific releases within that branch can easily be avoided if your concern is the update from beta to the final release. Follow either the above tag or RELENG_7_1 with csup and make buildworld.. Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jondoor) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?338681 http://osnews.com/thread?338681 I have been running 6.4-PRERELEASE for a month now on my PIII-800mhz server . So far so good. Now on with csup. Thanks fbsd! Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kill) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?338828 http://osnews.com/thread?338828 Yeah, I've been running 6-STABLE for quite some time now on a low traffic production SMTP server at work. Runs great and I have 144 days of uptime. I guess finally upgrading to RELENG_6_4 is going to kill that though. Oh well. I'm glad it's finally here though. I'm csup'ing now. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bsd_geek) Comments