NetBSD 6.0_BETA2 available for testing.

[email protected] Sat, 26 May 2012 10:13:51 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On behalf of NetBSD developers, I'm happy to announce the availability
of the second (and final) public beta of NetBSD 6.0, for testing.

Binaries of NetBSD 6.0_BETA2 are available for download at:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_BETA2/

ISO images and (for amd64 and i386) images suitable for installing from
USB sticks or other hard drives, and torrent files for downloading via
BitTorrent are available here:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_BETA2/images/

We are very pleased with the state of NetBSD 6.0_BETA2.
With your help, we have made improvements since NetBSD 6.0_BETA.  A
sampling:

- Fixed PR/39444
- fixes to hdaudio
- fixes to LFS
- fixed detaching ehci(4)
- PR/41673
- PR/44097
- Added the ability to configure RAIDframe components on raw disks.
- Fixed iwi(4) firmware decoding on bigendian platforms.
- more variants supported by mfi(4)
- PR/46217
- Prevent sshd from consuming all available entropy.
- Update pcc to pcc-20120325.
- Power management for bthub(4).
- PR/45829
- PR/46232
- PR/46120
- PR/46284
- Work around some AMD processor errata
- Fixed x86k boot problem
- PR/45131
- PR/46286
- PR/46221
- PR/46282
- PR/46146
- Added mpii(4) driver for LSI Logic Fusion-MPT Message Passing
  Interface II SAS controllers.
- Many PUFFS fixes
- Several OpenSSL fixes
- PR/46325
- PR/46121
- PR/46391
- PR/41267
- PR/46360
- PR/46408
- PR/46419
- Added tgamma() and tgammaf() to libm
- Avoid a tools build error on Cygwin hosts
- many fixes for building with clang
- switched vax back to gcc 4.1
- Added new sysinst post-install config menu
- PR/46041
- PR/44092
- PR/46101
- PR/46457
- PR/43903

Please continue to report problems and to help us test!  We anticipate
the first Release Candidate of NetBSD 6.0 in late June/early July.

As always, please help us out by testing these changes and reporting
problems either to an appropriate mailing list, via send-pr, or via
the web form:

http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd

Thanks again for your help in making NetBSD 6.0 the best release yet!