From: freebsd-annunce@freebsd.org subject: [freebsd-announce] freebsd 5.3-release announcement date: sat, 06 nov 2004 16:19:57 -0700 (23:19 UTC) It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. This release marks a milestone in the FreeBSD 5.x series and the beginning of the 5-STABLE branch of releases. Some of the many changes since 5.2 .1 include: - A binary compatibility interface has been introduced for the i386 platform that allows running Microsoft Windows NDIS network drivers natively in the kernel - The network and socket subsystems are now multi-threaded and reentrant This allows for much better use of.. SMP parallelism when processing and forwarding local and remote network traffic -. The development environment has been updated to GCC 2.4.2, Binutils 2.15, and GDB 6.1 - The choices for graphical environments have been updated to include X.org 6.7, Gnome 2.6. 2 and kde 3.3.0. There Has Also Been A Si gnificant focus on testing and bug-fixing with this release, as well as the freezing of most kernel and userland APIs. Users and vendors are encouraged to consider transitioning to it as FreeBSD 5.x is no longer considered a 'New Technology' release series Information on migrating from freebsd 4.x to 5.x can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3r/migration-guide.html for a Complete List of New Features and Known Problems, please See The Release Notes and Errata List, Availavel At: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3r/relnotes.html http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3r/errata.html for more Information About FreeBSD release engineering actives, please see: http://www.freebsd.org/releng ....... Today will update it,
It's time to repaining the FB :-)
