We have now reached the Release Candidate stage of the FreeBSD 6.2

release cycle.  A few significant problems had been discovered during

the initial BETA testing and those issues should now be fixed.  RC1 is

the first of two planned Release Candidate builds.  If no more

significant problems are reported 6.2-RELEASE builds will be done after

RC2.
This is the first point packages have been included with the test builds

and a few minor nits have been noticed already.  In particular these are

known problems which will be addressed before RC2:
	- sysinstall tries to install the wrong package for Linux

	  emulation on i386 if you try to install it when prompted

	  but the correct Linux emulation package (linux_base-fc4)

	  is included on the distribution media
	- if you install gnome2 off the distribution media it will

	  fail to find packages for gmime and gmime-sharp
	- RC1 distribution media does not include the documentation

	  tree, RC2 will include a separate docs CD.  The disc2

	  image will just contain packages
We appreciate all the testing and feedback people have been providing,

it has helped improve what will become 6.2-RELEASE.  Your continued

testing would be greatly appreciated.
To get RC1 you can download the installation media from the FTP mirror

sites as normal.  For those of you who would like to update an existing

system using cvs or cvsup use RELENG_6_2 as the branch tag when updating

your source tree.  Any problems can be reported by submitting a PR

and/or sending email to the freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list.
MD5s and SHA256s for the ISOS:
MD5 (6.2-RC1-alpha-bootonly.iso) =3D 8e39ee88c17884badc3fe189c6ed1795

MD5 (6.2-RC1-alpha-disc1.iso) =3D 25157cbebdb9820d37dd69131c559c1a

MD5 (6.2-RC1-alpha-disc2.iso) =3D a482d215c05a24df55e5e263ef77918e
MD5 (6.2-RC1-amd64-bootonly.iso) =3D 1185b38c1ea6fc93f3d1dffb0d40cba9

MD5 (6.2-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso) =3D ec29dae6926c1641a6cc7dd1a2047f84

MD5 (6.2-RC1-amd64-disc2.iso) =3D d9de53123d42a6464ae6d8a930024f80
MD5 (6.2-RC1-i386-bootonly.iso) =3D 2d0ca001f27e342aaffb265ca65fcde2

MD5 (6.2-RC1-i386-disc1.iso) =3D 29887fdc63ca47b60febe98a7246c451

MD5 (6.2-RC1-i386-disc2.iso) =3D bfc991723d29bb320db302b47871b1f9
MD5 (6.2-RC1-ia64-bootonly.iso) =3D cf6f1519b4dd4264fb2b873bc280a8f4

MD5 (6.2-RC1-ia64-disc1.iso) =3D 983e795f65882bfd93250ec074b33ca6

MD5 (6.2-RC1-ia64-disc2.iso) =3D 4699d6f27075144cbe2347271d47c89c

MD5 (6.2-RC1-ia64-livefs.iso) =3D cdb6c5d853acaad1d8385d4c8302d061
MD5 (6.2-RC1-pc98-bootonly.iso) =3D 43df2d851438b5212faa81e456190ae5

MD5 (6.2-RC1-pc98-disc1.iso) =3D ba33bc96d1c416f16e123d43c88110da
MD5 (6.2-RC1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) =3D dd29f3da4efb23d84fbb051db556b62e

MD5 (6.2-RC1-sparc64-disc1.iso) =3D f4f4025cbb68cf332ccafb44a4973ce6

MD5 (6.2-RC1-sparc64-disc2.iso) =3D 8ce06a2a633141cc5a52f8d1f6059e22
SHA256 (6.2-RC1-amd64-bootonly.iso) =3D c3b0e1192f0756bf36438e4885d312cec03=

da816e3cf3682334ac627eec59713

SHA256 (6.2-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso) =3D 1b83029274ca3aac1a9304abf2d9a97d1a6020=

b01066385ed7378826ce00517c

SHA256 (6.2-RC1-amd64-disc2.iso) =3D 0ec1a6562b92e917a77e0a536cc31c6a510ae7=

7fcd58369342a3cfa69d61aa45
SHA256 (6.2-RC1-i386-bootonly.iso) =3D fdabfbf8b60c21a37d0311f89cd72070c080=

a7985cc7fd588a1365cbca6d24bf

SHA256 (6.2-RC1-i386-disc1.iso) =3D 1609f2ddf3afd353f2451f36e9554b332a67ff1=

539e90d0d2023aee21b0ab513

SHA256 (6.2-RC1-i386-disc2.iso) =3D f49fd1ce0769199eeb840046817249d96c6c956=

31b5546586d46d6cb5d760640
SHA256 (6.2-RC1-ia64-bootonly.iso) =3D 51f410cfab7846fca7576e265dd1683f1494=

f71560714c17fe7f9f0695389041

SHA256 (6.2-RC1-ia64-disc1.iso) =3D fc39dbe8e99766a7b071fa35f4efea6a65728d0=

5379ca29cbefec8431901b868

SHA256 (6.2-RC1-ia64-disc2.iso) =3D 3119d0d625a6abb218653c339976d9a6b84272d=

71f94573f06a26fa070ed97cc

SHA256 (6.2-RC1-ia64-livefs.iso) =3D e6c8411c406c497c2bc5ad9577f2db159a3c8a=

39ef3123674faede9765c08107
SHA256 (6.2-RC1-pc98-bootonly.iso) =3D 66d30a5a3ca1b296cf9370a9116a1cce282d=

5f25d1843be36c21d731b4225bf6

SHA256 (6.2-RC1-pc98-disc1.iso) =3D 1a1ff42156d8e201feb54c6a1e36c3b07a682b2=

2fc7ba8a13fee0ebef2316c26
SHA256 (6.2-RC1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) =3D ef493ca3b5f053cfcc10f9f5f0d7e8517=

1681fe2f1aa67d314b63a8bc8d25983

SHA256 (6.2-RC1-sparc64-disc1.iso) =3D a2a3ac1191e7ce46efb12d1c4e51a0eed5a7=

2d130f7d48affa0f8fcfa1324c41

SHA256 (6.2-RC1-sparc64-disc2.iso) =3D 79103893f4059fca06bb20a09df157ff28c8=

14fa33f5db715c6b87a81eb0711b
--=20

                                                Ken Smith

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