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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/
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