Yep, the long awaitied next release from the the FreeBSD 5.x branch has gone gold and was released on May 9, 2005.
Go to http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/ to find a download site near you.
The announcement...
From: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE Announcement
The
Release Engineering Team is happy to announce the availability of
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD Stable
development branch. Since FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE in November 2004 we have
made many improvements in functionality, stability, performance, and
device driver support for some hardware, as well as dealt with known
security issues and made many bugfixes. For a
complete list of new features, known problems, and late-breaking news,
please see the release notes and errata list, available here: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.4R/relnotes.html http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.4R/errata.html FreeBSD
5.4 will become an "Errata Branch". In addition to Security fixes other
well-tested fixes to basic functionality will be committed to the
RELENG_5_4 branch after the release. Both Security Advisories and
Errata Notices are announced on the freebsd-announce@freebsd.org
mailing list. It is expected there will be at least
one more release from the RELENG_5 branch, most likely two. The current
plans are for the RELENG_6 branch to be created within the next few
months, and an initial 6.0-RELEASE will be made a few months
afterwards. There will be a 5.5-RELEASE following a few months after
the 6.0-RELEASE. For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/ |
