NetBSD 6.0_BETA2 available for testing.
[email protected] Sat, 26 May 2012 10:13:51 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.announce |
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| 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!