2004年10月28日

FreeBSD 5.3に向けた動き(続編)

最近、「FreeBSD 5.3」の検索結果ページからアクセスが増えている。FreeBSD 5系で初の安定版リリースとなる5.3を待ち焦がれている人が結構いるのだろう。リリースへの動きと予定は、FreeBSD 5.3 Release Processにまとめられている。現時点で、11月4日がリリース予定日となっている。

かなり前にFreeBSD 5.3に向けた動きで、9月20日あたりにリリースされると予想してしまった。しかし、5系初の安定版リリースは普通のリリースとは違い、入念に試験と修正が繰り返されている。通常は45日程度だが、今回のようなケースでは倍の90日程度かかるようだ。10月26日にMLに流れたメール(下記)には、まだもうちょっとかかるよ、と書かれている。

----------------------- Original Message -----------------------
From: Scott Long
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:47:47 -0600
Subject: Plan for 5.3-RELEASE
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All,

Today was supposed to be the release day for 5.3, but some serious
show-stoppers came to light yesterday. Since the purpose of 5.3 is to
have a functionally stable release that is suitable for migrating to,
we decided to hold up 5.3 until these issues are fixed. The first issue
deals with TCP SACK problems that result in a livelocked system. The
second involves GDB leaving threaded processes in an unkillable state.
Fixes for both are under review and will be committed to RELENG_5 in a
few days when preliminary testing is complete.

I've also turned off ULE to help narrow down many of the ambiguous
problems that are still being reported. ULE works fine for some, but
it must be eliminated from the environment when you suspect a bug.
I expect to keep ULE off in 5.x until the rate of other problem reports
and decreased and someone takes an active interest in it.

Please continue to test RC1. At this point I'm not going to promise a
particular date for 5.3-RELEASE, but I would expect it in the next 7-10
days assuming nothing else significant comes up.

Scott
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