Ken Smith

网站上的消息。这可能对FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE造成一定的影响(re@的负责人Ken Smith在水牛城大学计算科学与工程系)，不过，re@的其它committer将继续此项责任。

After it has runned 4.x series for a too long time, finally kensmith@ has stepped up to upgrade it.

Needless to say what this means, just upgrade all your boxes to FreeBSD 6.x. FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE is the best release we have released in the recent years, and the best .0 release ever, as proven by many installations and developers’ code review.

Today, Colin has committed three security fixes that addresses three medium-risk security issues in FreeBSD kernel. That results in p11, p12 and p13 of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, and has been committed to RELENG_5_4 as well so we will get that in the final release build.

Ken Smith has announced the tagging (with a mini heads-up in developers@), and then committed the naming (5.4-RELEASE) to the RELENG_5_4 tree. After that, RELENG_5_4 was tagged as RELENG_5_4_0_RELEASE, which is the last step of the release engineering that is related to the src/tree.

Please note that, this is not the final step of the final release. FreeBSD is very careful about the quality (not only as opposed to the kernel with colorful history of its security record, which is released under GPL and often release from time to time, haha, you know which is that) of a release, therefore, tagging does not mean that “we made it”, that is just a stage. Please be patient to wait for the PGP signed 5.4-RELEASE announcement BEFORE you download isos, even they were found on any sites.

To summarize the release engineering process: 4.10-RC3 has delayed again so 4.10-RELEASE won’t be released soon. Recently, RELENG_4_10 branch has received several critical bugfixes. I personally requested a MFC for a security vulnerablity related with timedc, and Tim has MFC’ed some other security related fixes. Matthew Dillon has submitted some VM patches (committed by Ken Smith) and they all get into RC3.