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FreeBSD is a rapidly developing operating system. Keeping up on the latest developments can be a chore! To keep on top of things, be sure and check this page periodically. Also, you may wish to subscribe to the freebsd-announce mailing list.

For a detailed description of past, present, and future releases, see the Release Information page.

June 1997

• 17-Jun-97 FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE CD-ROM discs are now in stock; subscription customers should receive them shortly.

May 1997

• 16-May-97 FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE has been released. The Release Notes can provide more information. This release will also be the basis for the upcoming FreeBSD Desktop/Pro product, a release which includes bundled software from Xi Graphics, Inc., for desktop users. Stay tuned for more information.

• 12-May-97 A 3.0-Current SNAP-of-the-day server has been established at ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/. A 3.0-SNAPshot will be generated daily, and old SNAPshots will be kept for a minimum of one week.

April 1997

• 22-Apr-97 A RELENG_2.2 snap-of-the-day server has been established at ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD. The README.TXT has more information.

• 15-Apr-97 FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE CDs are shipping. Please see http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/fbsd22.htm for more information.

March 1997

• 28-Mar-97 Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Inc. has released an alpha version of ALTQ/CBQ, an alternative queuing framework for BSD Unix. More information and the source code is available.

• 25-Mar-97 FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE is now available, replacing 2.2-RELEASE. Read the README.TXT file or the Release Notes for more information.

• 16-Mar-97 FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE is now available. Read the README.TXT file or the Release Notes for more information.

February 1997

• 20-Feb-1997 FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE is now available. Read the README.TXT file or the Release Notes for more information.

• 10-Feb-1997 FreeBSD 3.0-970209-SNAP has been released. Read the README.TXT file for more information about this release.

• 06-Feb-1997 A serious security problem affecting FreeBSD 2.1.6 and earlier systems was found. The problem has been corrected within the -stable, -current, and RELENG_2_2 source trees. As an additional precaution, FreeBSD 2.1.6 is no longer available from the FTP distribution sites. You can read more about the problem and solution from the FreeBSD-SA-97:01.setlocale security announcement.

• 06-Feb-1997 The final pre-release version of FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA, is now available. The README.TXT file has more information.

• 05-Feb-1997 The administrative position of FreeBSD Project President has been eliminated with the resignation of former president Jordan K. Hubbard.

• 02-Feb-1997 A snap-of-the-day server has been set up for the most current snapshot release of FreeBSD 2.2. Read the README.TXT file for more information.

January 1997

• 25-Jan-1997 FreeBSD 3.0-970124-SNAP has been released. Please see the Release Notes for more information.

December 1996

• 24-Dec-1996 FreeBSD 2.2-BETA has been released. Please see the Release Notes for more information.

• 13-Dec-1996 FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE will not support installation on machines with less than 5MB of RAM or 1.2MB floppy drives. Please see the original announcement for more information.

November 1996

• 15-Nov-1996 FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE is out. Please see the release notes for more information.

• 4-Nov-1996 The FreeBSD CVS development tree has branched again. See here for more information.