FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 Available

The first public test build of the FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE test cycle is now available, 8.0-BETA1. Through the next week or so more information about the release will be posted but here is the current target schedule for the other 'major events': BETA2: July 13, 2009 BETA3: July 20, 2009 RC1: July 27, 2009 RC2: August 17, 2009 RELEASE:August 31, 2009 People with the resources to do so (test machines...) are encouraged to give 8.0-BETA1 a try. At this point it is not quite ready for production systems but mostly because there is still some ongoing work in a few areas that may cause some changes in things like ABI/API. Debugging support (WITNESS, malloc debugging, etc.) are also still turned on and those tend to cause a performance hit. As far as we know there are no known issues that would cause data corruption or anything like that, just the issues with performance and potential for changes caused by ongoing work. If you find problems they can be reported through the normal Gnats based PR system or posted to the mailing lists. Note that for BETA1 no packages were included with any of the images. The amd64 and i386 architectures include a file named: 8.0-BETA1-<arch>-memstick.img If you copy that to a USB memory stick newer machines should be able to boot from it and use it to install from. Note that you need to overwrite the contents of the memory stick completely, not copy it into an existing filesystem on the memory stick. Exactly how you do that depends on your machine but just to give you an example this works on the machine I tested it with: dd if=8.0-BETA1-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync Be careful if you have SCSI drives, more USB disks than just the memory stick, etc - make sure /dev/da0 (or whatever you use) is the memory stick. Using this image for livefs based rescue mode is known to not work, that is one of the things still being worked on. FreeBSD Update was not ready for updates to 8.0 at the point this message was sent but it is also being worked on. A separate message will be posted when it's ready. 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