Zoals we kunnen lezen heeft RE team volgende annoucement de deur uitgedaan:
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FreeBSD Release Engineering (RE) team has announced a code freeze of source tree on August 25 in preparation for the release scheduled for Septemer 29, 2003. After August 25, all commits to the RELENG_4 branch must be approved by FreeBSD release engineering team (re@FreeBSD.org). Certain highly active documentation committers are exempt from this rule for routine man page / release note updates. Heads-up emails should be sent to the developers@, stable@ and qa@ lists.
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The first release candidate for the x86 and Alpha architecture is scheduled for September 12. ISO images will be uploaded to ftp-master.freebsd.org and releng4.freebsd.org. A network install directory will be uploaded to ftp-master.freebsd.org. The packages/ directory will be a relative symlink, as described in the releng article. The ports tree will be tagged on September 19, 2003. The final package builds start September 19, final builds for x86 and Alpha in a pristine environment start September 25. Release packages will be uploaded September 26. The official release and release announcement comes on September 29, 2003. The RE team has also published FreeBSD 4.9 Open issues (TODO) list and Testing Guide for 4.9-RELEASE.
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