FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

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.htmlhttp://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.4R/errata.htmlFreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE supports the i386, amd64, ia64, pc98, sparc64, and alpha architectures and can be installed directly over the net, using bootable media, or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for all architectures except alpha are available now. The distribution for alpha should become available within the next day or two.ISO images. MD5 checksums for the release images are included at the bottom of this message.BittorrentAs with the 5.3 release we are experimenting with Bittorrent. A collection of trackers for the release ISO images is available athttp://people.freebsd.org/~kensmith/5.4-torrent/FTPAt the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have FreeBSD 5.4-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.es.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://ftp5.pl.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp3.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://ftp.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp5.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ CD Image Checksums MD5 (5.4-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 6882dd5ce59cda1ba4a66ef45f017597 MD5 (5.4-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) = 26bca75d799c0a1690c6ae0bf0886234 MD5 (5.4-RELEASE-amd64-disc2.iso) = 3da9debeae15a49158b01b1d92843fbc MD5 (5.4-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso) = 2afe65af7e7b994c3ce87cefda27352e MD5 (5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = 3dbb37485535e129354bc099e24aed99 MD5 (5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso) = e4b748415ca783fce64cfafd6bd56f57 MD5 (5.4-RELEASE-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 45b032bf952e7ea8b2c42f94c3fa4997 MD5 (5.4-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso) = 2b1ad22da2ea0fe86345c99590049ebd MD5 (5.4-RELEASE-ia64-disc2.iso) = 62e589928628453f1813db7402b4f3ad MD5 (5.4-RELEASE-ia64-livefs.iso) = 6c05d71c36d84179923668faddf58e43 MD5 (5.4-RELEASE-pc98-disc1.iso) = 003dee8647e9b2cbca7df0d92011800f MD5 (5.4-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 91cb2304c2ecbcce0b312738649ba88d MD5 (5.4-RELEASE-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 5f77c9a20e09d5ef66fad9c60e17c2ac MD5 (5.4-RELEASE-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 7da34a32ca8196a34732548fe92d71e6freebsd.org