Date: Fri, 08 May 2006 18:40:04 -0700 From: Scott Long To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 6.1 Released

It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. This release is the next step in the development of the 6.X branch, delivering several performance improvements, many bugfixes, and a few new features. These include:

* Addition of a keyboard multiplexer. This allows USB and PS/2 keyboards to coexist without any special options at boot. * Many fixes for filesystem stability. High load stress tests are now run successfully on a regular basis as part of the normal FreeBSD QA process. * Automatic configuration for man Bluetooth devices, as well as automatic support for running WiFi access points. * Addition of drivers for new ethernet and SAS and SATA RAID controllers. * BIND updated to 9.3.2 * sendmail updated to 8.13.6

NOTE: It was discovered at the last minute that the errata notes that got packaged with the release are out of date. For a complete list of known problems, please see the online errata list, available at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.1R/relnotes.html http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.1R/errata.html

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

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng Availability

FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE supports the i386, pc98, alpha, sparc64, amd64, powerpc, and ia64 architectures and can be installed directly over the net using bootable media or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for all architectures are available now.

Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies will be offering FreeBSD 6.1 based products:

* FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/ * Daemonnews, Inc. http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html

If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO images. We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from the following sites. MD5 and SHA256 checksums for the release images are included at the bottom of this message. Bittorrent

The FreeBSD project encourages the use of BitTorrent for distributing the release ISO images. A collection of torrent files to download the images is available at:

http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ FTP

At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE available.

* ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp.at.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp2.ch.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp.ee.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp.fi.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp.fr.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp2.ie.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp.is.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp1.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp.si.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp2.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp2.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp2.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ * ftp://ftp5.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/

FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Amylonia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

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

ftp://ftp..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:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html

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:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Acknowledgments

Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 6.1 including The FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and Copan Systems.

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