git: 520423ceb0 - main - Release Engineering: favor https download URL
Li-Wen Hsu <[email protected]>
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The branch main has been updated by lwhsu: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=520423ceb0b7e3115169ed84a41153a61c0821cc commit 520423ceb0b7e3115169ed84a41153a61c0821cc Author: Li-Wen Hsu <[email protected]> AuthorDate: 2023-07-21 10:58:25 +0000 Commit: Li-Wen Hsu <[email protected]> CommitDate: 2023-07-21 10:58:25 +0000 Release Engineering: favor https download URL Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation --- documentation/content/en/articles/releng/_index.adoc | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/content/en/articles/releng/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/articles/releng/_index.adoc index 34ad2631e1..5e42217d45 100644 --- a/documentation/content/en/articles/releng/_index.adoc +++ b/documentation/content/en/articles/releng/_index.adoc @@ -85,11 +85,11 @@ This means that a user application compiled on an older version of the system fr The ABI stability has improved greatly from the compared to previous releases. In most cases, binaries from the older _STABLE_ systems run unmodified on newer systems, including __HEAD__, assuming that the system management interfaces are not used. -In the interim period between releases, weekly snapshots are built automatically by the FreeBSD Project build machines and made available for download from `ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/`. +In the interim period between releases, weekly snapshots are built automatically by the FreeBSD Project build machines and made available for download from `https:/download.FreeBSD.org/snapshots/`. The widespread availability of binary release snapshots, and the tendency of our user community to keep up with -STABLE development with Subversion and "`make buildworld`" footnote:[extref:{handbook}[Rebuilding world, makeworld]] helps to keep FreeBSD-STABLE in a very reliable condition even before the quality assurance activities ramp up pending a major release. In addition to installation ISO snapshots, weekly virtual machine images are also provided for use with VirtualBox, qemu, or other popular emulation software. -The virtual machine images can be downloaded from `ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/`. +The virtual machine images can be downloaded from `https://download.FreeBSD.org/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/`. The virtual machine images are approximately 150MB man:xz[1] compressed, and contain a 10GB sparse filesystem when attached to a virtual machine.