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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:00:11 -0500 
From: Ken Smith &lt;kensmith@FreeBSD.org&gt; 
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org 
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 6.3 Released


The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE. This release continues the development of the 6-STABLE branch
providing performance and stability improvements, many bug fixes and new features. Some
of the highlights:

<ul>
	<li>
	
	KDE updated to 3.5.8, GNOME updated to 2.20.1, Xorg updated to 7.3
	
	</li>
	<li>
	
	BIND updated to 9.3.4
	
	</li>
	<li>
	
	sendmail updated to 8.14.2
	
	</li>
	<li>
	
	lagg(4) driver ported from OpenBSD/NetBSD
	
	</li>
	<li>
	
	unionfs file system re-implemented
	
	</li>
	<li>
	
	freebsd-update(8) now supports an upgrade command
	
	</li>
</ul>

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release
notes and errata list, available at:


<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/relnotes.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.3R/relnotes.html</a> 
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/errata.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.3R/errata.html</a>


For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see:


<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/releng/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/</a>


The FreeBSD Security Team intends to support 6.3-RELEASE until January 31st, 2010.

<h2>Dedication</h2>

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Jun-ichiro Hagino, known
throughout the Internet community as itojun, for his visionary work on the IPv6 protocol
and his many other contributions to the Internet and BSD communities.

<h2>Availability</h2>

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE is now available for the alpha, amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64
architectures. It can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network; the
required files can be downloaded via FTP or BitTorrent as described in the sections
below. While some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all architectures, they will
all generally contain the more common ones, such as i386 and amd64.


MD5 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO images are included at the bottom of this
message.


The contents of the ISO images provided as part of the release has changed for most of
the architectures. Using the i386 architecture as an example, there are ISO images named
``bootonly'', ``disc1'', ``disc2'', ``disc3'', and ``docs''. The ``bootonly'' image is
suitable for booting a machine to do a network based installation using FTP or NFS. The
``disc1'', ``disc2'', and ``disc3'' images are used to do a full installation that
includes a basic set of packages and does not require network access to an FTP or NFS
server during the installation. In addition, ``disc1'' supports booting into a live
CD-based filesystem and system rescue mode. The ``docs'' image has all of the
documentation for all supported languages. Most people will find that ``disc1'',
``disc2'' and ``disc3'' are all that are needed. If you intend to install ports from
source instead of using the pre-built packages included with the release only ``disc1''
is needed.


FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM from several vendors. One of the
vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 6.3-based products is:

<ul>
	<li>
	
	FreeBSD Mall, Inc. <a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">http://www.freebsdmall.com/</a>
	
	</li>
</ul>
<h2>Bittorrent</h2>

6.3-RELEASE ISOs are available via BitTorrent. A collection of torrent files to
download the images is available at:


<a href="http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/">http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/</a>

<h2>FTP</h2>
The primary mirror site is: 

<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a>


However, before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s)
first by going to:


ftp://ftp.&lt;yourdomain&gt;.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD


Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.


More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:


<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html</a>


For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The FreeBSD Handbook.
It provides a complete installation walk-through for users new to FreeBSD, and can be
found online at:


<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html</a>

<h2>FreeBSD Update</h2>

Starting with FreeBSD 6.3, the freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of
i386 and amd64 systems systems running earlier FreeBSD releases, release candidates, and
betas. Users upgrading to FreeBSD 6.3 from older releases (in particular, older than
6.3-RC1) will need to download an updated version of freebsd-update(8) that supports
upgrading to a new release.


# fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz

Downloading and verifying the digital signature for the tarball (signed by the FreeBSD
Security Officer's PGP key) is highly recommended. 

# fetch
http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.asc


# gpg --verify freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.asc freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz

The new freebsd-update(8) can then be extracted and run as follows: 

# tar -xf freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz


# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 6.3-RELEASE upgrade


# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf install

The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing. 

# shutdown -r now

Finally, freebsd-update.sh needs to be run one more time to install the new userland
components, and the system needs to be rebooted one last time: 

# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf install


# shutdown -r now

For more information, see: 

<a href="http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-10-freebsd-minor-version-upgrade.html">http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-10-freebsd-minor-version-upgrade.html</a>

<h2>Acknowledgments</h2>

Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance the release
engineering activities for FreeBSD 6.3 including The FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD Systems,
Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, Network Appliances, and Sentex Communications.


The release engineering team for 6.3-RELEASE includes:

<table border="0">
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>Ken Smith &lt;<a href="mailto:kensmith@FreeBSD.org">kensmith@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Release Engineering, amd64, i386 sparc64 Release Building, Mirror Site
			Coordination</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Robert Watson &lt;<a href="mailto:rwatson@FreeBSD.org">rwatson@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Release Engineering, Security</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Maxime Henrion &lt;<a href="mailto:mux@FreeBSD.org">mux@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Release Engineering</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Bruce A. Mah &lt;<a href="mailto:bmah@FreeBSD.org">bmah@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Release Engineering, Documentation</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>George Neville-Neil &lt;<a href="mailto:gnn@FreeBSD.org">gnn@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Release Engineering</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Hiroki Sato &lt;<a href="mailto:hrs@FreeBSD.org">hrs@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Release Engineering, Documentation</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Murray Stokely &lt;<a href="mailto:murray@FreeBSD.org">murray@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Release Engineering</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Wilko Bulte &lt;<a href="mailto:wilko@FreeBSD.org">wilko@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Alpha Release Building</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Takahashi Yoshihiro &lt;<a href="mailto:nyan@FreeBSD.org">nyan@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>PC98 Release Building</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Kris Kennaway &lt;<a href="mailto:kris@FreeBSD.org">kris@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Package Building</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Joe Marcus Clarke &lt;<a href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">marcus@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Package Building</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Erwin Lansing &lt;<a href="mailto:erwin@FreeBSD.org">erwin@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Package Building</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Mark Linimon &lt;<a href="mailto:linimon@FreeBSD.org">linimon@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Package Building</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Pav Lucistnik &lt;<a href="mailto:pav@FreeBSD.org">pav@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Package Building</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Colin Percival &lt;<a href="mailto:cperciva@FreeBSD.org">cperciva@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Security Officer</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Peter Wemm &lt;<a href="mailto:peter@FreeBSD.org">peter@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
			<td>Bittorrent Coordination</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>
<h2>Trademark</h2>

FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
 

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