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<p><b>Date:</b> Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:19:08 -0800<br/>
<b>From:</b> "Murray Stokely" <murray@FreeBSD.org><br/>
<b>To:</b> freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org<br/>
<b>Subject:</b> FreeBSD &local.rel;-RELEASE is now available</p>
<p>I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, the
latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE in April 2003, we have made conservative updates
to a number of software programs in the base system, dealt with
known security issues, and merged support for large memory i386
machines with Page Address Extensions (PAE) from 5.1.</p>
<p>For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see
the release notes and errata list, available here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/&local.rel;R/relnotes.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/&local.rel;R/relnotes.html</a></p>
<p><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/&local.rel;R/errata.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/&local.rel;R/errata.html</a></p>
<p>This release does not include all of the new technologies that were
introduced with FreeBSD 5.1 in June. Most developer resources are
focused on improving the FreeBSD 5.X branch, and this may very well
be the last major release of FreeBSD 4.X. The security officer team
will continue to actively support the 4.X branch according to the
normal policy. Additional 4.9.X releases may be made available when
necessitated by security vulnerabilities or high-impact
bugfixes.</p>
<p>We encourage all our users to evaluate FreeBSD 5.1 and the upcoming
5.2. Because PAE support has only been a feature in 4.X for a few
months, it has not received wide-spread testing, and our most
conservative users may wish to stay with FreeBSD 4.8 until they choose
to migrate to 5.X.</p>
<p>For more information about the distinctions between FreeBSD 4.X and
5.X, or for general information about the FreeBSD release engineering
activities, please see :</p>
<p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/</a></p>
<h1>Availability</h1>
<p>FreeBSD &local.rel;-RELEASE supports the i386 and alpha architectures and
can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or
copied to a local NFS/FTP server.</p>
<p>Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media
from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies have
contributed substantially to the development of FreeBSD:</p>
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<td align="left">FreeBSD Mall, Inc.</td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">http://www.freebsdmall.com/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">Daemon News</td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html">http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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<p>Each CD or DVD set contains the FreeBSD installation and
application package bits for the i386 ("PC") architecture. For a set
of distfiles used to build ports in the ports collection, please see
the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing extra bits which no
longer fit on the 4 CD set, or the DVD distribution.</p>
<p>If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, or just want to use it for
evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO images. We
can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO
images, but they will at least be available from:</p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
<li><a
href="ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
<li><a
href="ftp://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
<li><a href="ftp://ftp6.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp6.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
<li><a href="ftp://ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp{2,4,7}.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.au.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.au.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
</ul>
<p>FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in
the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria,
Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France,
Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea,
Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia,
Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United
Kingdom.</p>
<p>Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional
mirror(s) first by going to:</p>
<p>ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</p>
<p>Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so
on.</p>
<p>More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html</a></p>
<p>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:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html</a></p>
<h1>Acknowledgments</h1>
<p>Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to
finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD &local.rel; including
The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and
NTT/Verio.</p>
<p>In addition to myself, the release engineering team for
&local.rel;-RELEASE includes:</p>
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<td>Scott Long <<a href="mailto:scottl@FreeBSD.org">scottl@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>Release Engineering</td>
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<td>Bruce Mah <<a href="mailto:bmah@FreeBSD.org">bmah@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>Release Engineering, Documentation</td>
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<td>Wilko Bulte <<a href="mailto:wilko@FreeBSD.org">wilko@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>Release Engineering, alpha builds</td>
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<td>Robert Watson <<a href="mailto:rwatson@FreeBSD.org">rwatson@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>Release Engineering, Security</td>
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<td>John Baldwin <<a href="mailto:jhb@FreeBSD.org">jhb@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>Release Engineering</td>
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<td> Mike Silbersack <<a
href="mailto:silby@silby.com">silby@silby.com</a>></td>
<td>PAE Testing</td>
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<td> Luoqi Chen <<a
href="mailto:luoqi@freebsd.org">luoqi@freebsd.org</a>></td>
<td>PAE Merge</td>
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<td>Joe Marcus Clarke <<a href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">marcus@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>Package Building, GNOME</td>
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<td>Kris Kennaway <<a href="mailto:kris@FreeBSD.org">kris@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>Package Building</td>
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<td>Will Andrews <<a href="mailto:will@FreeBSD.org">will@FreeBSD.org</a>></td>
<td>Package Building, KDE</td>
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<p>Please join me in thanking them for all the hard work which went
into making this release. Many thanks are also due to the FreeBSD
committers (committers@FreeBSD.org), without whom there would be
nothing to release, and thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide who
have contributed bug fixes, features, and suggestions.</p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<p>Murray Stokely<br/>
(For the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team)</p>
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