Hello, on behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 4.0 Release Candidate 2. Binaries and ISOs are available from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-4.0_RC2 The list of changes from the 3.0 release is available in the release notes, online at ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-4.0_RC2/i386/INSTALL.html#Changes%20Between%20T... There have been many fixes since the previous release candidate, RC1. The most important ones are: - ICH9 support in wm(4). - Enhanced Speedstep support for VIA C7/Eden and amd64. - many bugfixes for IPF. - FAST_IPSEC fixes. - wpi(4) bugfix. - proplib local DoS fix. - fix procfs exposing the real path of an executable inside chroot. - msdosfs bugfix. - fix of crash dumps on sparc64. - ACPI SCI (system control interrupt) bug fix, addresses interrupt storms seen on some machines. The complete description is found in the CHANGES-4.0 file in the release tree, online at ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-4.0_RC2/CHANGES-4.0 (Scroll down to the end of the file and see the entries between the RC1 and RC2 ones.) If you want to build NetBSD 4.0_RC2 from source, cvs up your source tree to "netbsd-4-0-RC2", or just along the "netbsd-4" branch. Alternatively, you can download the source sets from the URL above, under the source/ directory. Please note that in this release candidate, the sparc platform has been accidentally omitted. This will be corrected in the next RC cycle. We plan to release another release candidate next week. Please help us test these release candidates as much as possible to make NetBSD 4.0 a solid release. Thanks, the NetBSD Release Engineering team.
