FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE

[Yamagi]

Soeben - um Punkt 20:00 Uhr deutscher Zeit - hat das Release Engineering Team FreeBSD 6.3 freigegeben. Dies vorraussichtlich letzte Release aus RELENG_6 bringt einen Haufen Bugfixes, neuere Treiber und neuere Versionen der beliegenden Software. Nennenswerte neue Funktionen gibt es nicht. Dies Release hat zwei Jahre Support, also bis Ende Januar 2010.

Traurigerweise wird es auch das letzte FreeBSD-Release sein, welches die Alpha-Architektur unterstützt. Dies war die erste nicht x86-Architektur, auf welcher FreeBSD lief und hat die Ports auf Sparc64 , PPC und ARM erst möglich gemacht.

Hier die offizielle Ankündigung:

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE. This release continues the development of the
6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many
bug fixes and new features. Some of the highlights:

- KDE updated to 3.5.8, GNOME updated to 2.20.1, Xorg updated to 7.3
- BIND updated to 9.3.4
- sendmail updated to 8.14.2
- lagg(4) driver ported from OpenBSD/NetBSD
- unionfs file system re-implemented
- freebsd-update(8) now supports an upgrade command

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/6.3R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.3R/errata.html

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities,
please see:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/

The FreeBSD Security Team intends to support 6.3-RELEASE until January 31st,
2010.

Dedication
----------

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Jun-ichiro Hagino,
known throughout the Internet community as itojun, for his visionary work
on the IPv6 protocol and his many other contributions to the Internet and
BSD communities.

Availability
-------------

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE is now available for the alpha, amd64, i386, pc98,
and sparc64 architectures. It 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 contents of the ISO images provided as part of the release has changed
for most of the architectures. Using the i386 architecture as an example,
there are ISO images named "bootonly", "disc1", "disc2", "disc3", and "docs".
The "bootonly" image is suitable for booting a machine to do a network based
installation using FTP or NFS. The "disc1", "disc2", and "disc3" images are
used to do a full installation that includes a basic set of packages and does
not require network access to an FTP or NFS server during the installation.
In addition, "disc1" supports booting into a "live CD-based filesystem" and
system rescue mode. The "docs" image has all of the documentation for all
supported languages. Most people will find that "disc1", "disc2" and "disc3"
are all that are needed. If you intend to install ports from source
instead of using the pre-built packages included with the release only
"disc1" is needed.

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM from several
vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 6.3-based
products is:

~ FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/


BitTorrent
----------

6.3-RELEASE ISOs are available via BitTorrent. A collection of torrent
files to download the images is available at:

http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/

FTP
---

The primary mirror site is:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/

However before trying the primary FTP site, please check your regional
mirror(s) first by going to:

ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.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.ISO...rrors-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.ISO...k/install.html

FreeBSD Update
--------------

Starting with FreeBSD 6.3, the freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary
upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems systems running earlier FreeBSD releases,
release candidates, and betas. Users upgrading to FreeBSD 6.3 from
older releases (in particular, older than 6.3-RC1) will need to
download an updated version of freebsd-update(8) that supports upgrading
to a new release.

# fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/...te-upgrade.tgz

Downloading and verifying the digital signature for the tarball
(signed by the FreeBSD Security Officer's PGP key) is highly
recommended.

# fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/...pgrade.tgz.asc
# gpg --verify freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.asc freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz

The new freebsd-update(8) can then be extracted and run as follows:

# tar -xf freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz
# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 6.3-RELEASE upgrade
# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf install

The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before
continuing.

# shutdown -r now

Finally, freebsd-update.sh needs to be run one more time to install
the new userland components, and the system needs to be rebooted one
last time:

# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf install
# shutdown -r now

For more information, see:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007...n-upgrade.html

Acknowledgments
----------------

Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to
finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 6.3 including
The FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!,
Network Appliances, and Sentex Communications.

The release engineering team for 6.3-RELEASE includes:

Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering,
amd64, i386, sparc64 Release Building,
Mirror Site Coordination
Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Security
Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Documentation
George Neville-Neil <gnn@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Documentation
Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering
Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.org> Alpha Release Building
Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@FreeBSD.org> PC98 Release Building
Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> Package Building
Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Security Officer
Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> Bittorrent Coordination

Trademark
---------

FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.

ISO Image Checksums
-------------------

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MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-alpha-disc1.iso) = 4a5fd2fd27f966b3b65717ee79d0bf09
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-alpha-disc2.iso) = c1d05f366160f1a7b760cd92b2368158
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-alpha-disc3.iso) = aa3884eec1b62fba1c2f407ed5568d52
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-alpha-docs.iso) = c8f663a537e62668e7f26d4ba262d879

MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 5ded1d6f91da4d872aef8c2ddba24dde
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) = a8d41ea26769919db6c0c672fa8f8c4f
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc2.iso) = a243076fb99b011d9b0771a6f7f9a977
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc3.iso) = 92831414b34b4b06cfb7140ddfe69cfe
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-amd64-docs.iso) = d3662411f91a19df195df81fd23afdcc

MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso) = ab1db0ae643e8c12ddbe855f533b8fae
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = cdb0dfa4b2db3e4c9cc19138f4fb2ada
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso) = e73a3d9cf5f3bfbf07384ef0a93ae5d5
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc3.iso) = 123840107a5578ce22875c440d41f453
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-i386-docs.iso) = 17aa87ccfb01f4453d8ce078874029ab

MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-pc98-bootonly.iso) = fc9921a841735b778164b3efed8fdd2c
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-pc98-disc1.iso) = df93a3981a866edeb76c47c84cf6db6d

MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 1726741e8c3406b103578509fc02cd37
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-sparc64-disc1.iso) = ebbc2252425b27491cee2eac88c523b5
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 3ed441f5478d0aba15d759d861ceee65
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-sparc64-disc3.iso) = cf6f35f7331904711a3fe9245e0c0be5
MD5 (6.3-RELEASE-sparc64-docs.iso) = 11e0e61f4c39a418f0395e6980a880ee

SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 9798fd8c99b60b8b265d494447e12722bc330bf212cc5c6689 95684dc7532675
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-alpha-disc1.iso) = f2df3edb20d00f5ec89cd23e11c5a304feb00444f67d3affce ce1f5ce633e3e2
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-alpha-disc2.iso) = 84882ca5b4370b6f23000eb7b806cd125958fbf42f61e14a9a 991a258410793c
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-alpha-disc3.iso) = 559cfe5025bddfdb8a6cfbf315874332149ed1cf73b64f63f6 227c3c32d37d86
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-alpha-docs.iso) = c913b3b65c093dfb830104c8153f06bf32c3bec49d3ded99ab afeb7039f6f305

SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 8cdf4a486066943eb5fa8e36609bfb3c2da0d0128b699864eb 95ca90007cea96
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) = 6ee1c2f00f8a1bc9d38b04b058b0549df9904ded52ddd19bae 9dad070a5868e3
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc2.iso) = f69e3ab103f4be34fea7b9dde4a34d5279948b4539dfe88c53 e6b371d7962301
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc3.iso) = cf6820b81eb1a1705d6294eb0bfa884bb6bad88c3be0e94c89 5283235c675abd
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-amd64-docs.iso) = 1b7d78bb94902f15609c60332d4cfc534479ade5f5f72b9e52 fc61ce48410cc4

SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso) = 124c340c1c54dc3f29c8d77e321205d47eec682bc147384dab e3fa2ae9e148f2
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = 15081a56d184a18c7cc3a5c3cd0d7d5b7d9304c9cc1d5fc40d 875b0fd3047721
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso) = 7aabc815455f4ab80121071c5eb17c41dc355c2e45444b42a0 6158de4f9e482a
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc3.iso) = d606a1700c58074c606a6145e4ab713473ff4277ec2b81a82d 33eff843711a2b
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-i386-docs.iso) = 84a04e4478e92b9eb777900eba15b5f5ba0464cbba9caf49c1 9df2a1f28250f6

SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-pc98-bootonly.iso) = dd9d764189a0fc2d35bb78f07e169e4ec39561d018ffbaaa80 da0c636fdb2800
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-pc98-disc1.iso) = 641e98c9467ab7bc21767a054a6c7c9ff705f6295c58c32899 e18daf597cc79c

SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = c9bdca8e894d37534da7ba823dda4ba38493ccfac709d615f4 f5ec99b001c3d8
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 5e7b155a7204c24117f50d330da979548eb7edded266936957 5ed471812d8233
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-sparc64-disc2.iso) = c54cd4a9760a30169c9daee27f4bb59281c7e5298db8ad7a0a 66b094988aa298
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-sparc64-disc3.iso) = 1c780cc51ff2231acd7179b2296cfac83b28e4ee32c34cc569 744ae26556e97a
SHA256 (6.3-RELEASE-sparc64-docs.iso) = 51201e31aaf7ebbdb4b6aecf2eebf97770347716e1ee9eb75c f807a0f14f6085

[hijacker]

Danke für die Info.

Ich bin mal wieder schwer begeistert. Das Update auf dem WG-Router von 6.2 nach 6.3 lief absolut problemlos in weniger als 10 min. Top!

[Yamagi]

Noch als Nachtrag:
- PPC-Images werden in den nächsten folgen
- IA64-Images wird es nicht geben, da die Maschinen benötigt werden FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE vorzubereiten und zu bauen

[peterle]

Zitat von Yamagi

- IA64-Images wird es nicht geben, ...

Sind die Alphas nicht auch schon seit Jahren vom Markt oder bin ich da auf der falschen Baustelle?

[Tron]

IA64 ist Itanium. Alpha ist eine ganz andere Ecke.

[Yamagi]

Alpha ist seit Jahren vom Markt und daher wird FreeBSD 6.3 auch das letzte Release sein, welches Alpha-Unterstützung mitbringt. In RELENG_7 ist diese entfernt worden und folglich wird Alpha nicht mehr unterstützt. Es ist auch nicht absehbar, dass dies jemals wieder Fall sein wird, es sei denn jemand entwickelt den Port doch noch weiter oder Alpha wird wiederbelebt. Beides wird eher nicht passieren.

Der Itanium hingegen wird zwar gern als Itanic bezeichnet, allerdings kann man ihn kaufen. Und wenn Intel seine Roadmap und Verträge erfüllt, wird das auch noch einige Jahre der Fall sein.

[r2d2]

Das erste RELEASE nach knapp 4 Jahren das sich mit meinem Controller ohne "plug&play" installieren lässt , siehe hier

[Amin]

Habe ein paar Fragen:

1. Wenn ich ein Update von 6.2 auf 6.3 mache, wird auch Gnome gleich mit runter geladen?
2. Wenn ja, wird das vorherige Gnome autom. ersetzt oder muß ich es neu installieren?
3. Gehen Einstellungen in den Scripten und Konfigs "kaputt"? Z.B. habe ich für User CD-ROMs mountbar gemacht (das war eine ätzende Arbeit). Wird das danach immer noch funktionieren?

Danke schon mal für die Antworten.

[Yamagi]

1. Nein, Gnome kommt aus den Ports und die sind vom Basissystem entkoppelt. Also musst du hier extra aktualisieren

2. Siehe 1.

3. Nein, Einstellungen sind in deinem Heimatverzeichnis oder in /usr/local/etc/ gespeichert. Beides wird vom Port nicht überschrieben, aber Backups haben hier auch noch niemandem weh getan