This is the FreeBSD 8.1 release engineering wiki page. It tracks the status of the FreeBSD 8.1 release process, including schedule, branching condition, change request queues, TODO lists, known issues, and more. It is updated regularly during the release process.

Please only edit this page if you are a member of the release engineering team, or if a member of the release engineering team has asked you to do so.

At this point we have 8.1-RELEASE shipped..

Last updated: 16 August 2010

All dates can/will change.

CAUTION: FreeBSD Release Schedules frequently slip – the above release schedule should be interpreted with this caution in mind.

Read ChangeRequestGuidelines carefully. All requests neglecting these rules will be rejected.

• NIC driver strangeness (ipv6gw, …)

The following blanket approvals are valid until BETA1:

• security advisories/errata notices (?SecurityOfficer)

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• 20100610 - release notes (XinLI) (committed as r, coordinate with hrs)
• 20100610 - errata notes (XinLI) (committed as r, coordinate with hrs)

• 20100611 - date.1 (BrianSomers) (r208795, merged as r)

• 20100525 - MAN_UTILS and related (JungukKim) (r208320, r208322, regen, merged as r208546, r208547, r208549)
• 20100526 - sparc64 hw list (MariusStrobl) (r208459, r208511, merged as r208568)
• 20100526 - sparc64 ata modules (MariusStrobl) (r208468, merged as r208572)
• 20100526 - isp(4) (MatthewJacob) (r208119, r208129, merged as r208578)
• 20100526 - td_incruntime (KostikBelousov) (r208488, merged as r208580)
• 20100526 - mdoc.local for 8.1 (KenSmith) (committed as r208569)
• 20100526 - release Makefile for 8.1 (KenSmith) (comitted as r208570)
• 20100526 - pkg_install for 8.1 (KenSmith) (committed as r208571)
• 20100527 - SA-10:04/05/06 (ColinPercival) (committed as r208586)

After BETA1:

• 20100530 - first appear in 8.1 (UlrichSpoerlein) (r208493, merged as r208652)
• 20100530 - jail(8) (BjoernZeeb) (r199818, merged as r208653)
• 20100531 - ssh-pkcs11-helper(8) (ColinPercival) (r208606, merged as r208668)
• 20100601 - news (DanielGerzo) (committed as 1.319 news.xml, 1.46 release.ent)
• 20100601 - ng_socket (AttilioRao) (r208300, merged as r208690)
• 20100531 - g_part_gpt (AndriyGapon) (r201374, merged as r208673)
• 20100531 - sge(4) (PyunYongHyeon) (r208512, merged as r208677)
• 20100531 - netisr comments (RobertWatson) (r200899, merged as r208674)
• 20100531 - rmlock comments (RobertWatson) (r200976, merged as r208675)
• 20100531 - namei auditing (RobertWatson) (r203410, merged as r208676)
• 20100531 - if_lo (RobertWatson) (r204173, merged as r208679)
• 20100601 - access(2) comment (RobertWatson) (r204430, merged as r208694)
• 20100601 - comment (RobertWatson) (r204435, merged as r208695)
• 20100531 - whitespace (RobertWatson) (r204498, merged as r208681)
• 20100531 - MAC pts labeling (RobertWatson) (r204581, merged as r208680)
• 20100601 - INP_INFO_TRY_UPGRADE (RobertWatson) (r204806, merged as r208698)
• 20100601 - tcp_usr_accept comment (RobertWatson) (r204809, merged as r208700)
• 20100601 - CIOC_KERNEL_VERSION (RobertWatson) (r206206, merged as r208691)
• 20100601 - Coda for 64bit (RobertWatson) (r206210, merged as r208702)
• 20100601 - TCP maths (RobertWatson) (r206972, merged as r208701)
• 20100601 - socket close error (RobertWatson) (r208601, merged as r208692)
• 20100601 - ptrace (JohnBaldwin) (r208555, merged as r208718)
• 20100601 - io(4) (AttilioRao) (r208716, merged as r208723)
• 20100602 - acl_get_perm_np (EdwardTomaszNapierala) (r208437, merged as r208756)
• 20100602 - openssh man dates (DagErlingSmørgrav) (committed as r208736)
• 20100602 - authorized_keys lookup (DagErlingSmørgrav) (committed as r208735)
• 20100602 - uep(4) (GlebSmirnoff) (r208554, merged as r208754)
• 20100602 - fdc/acpi fix (JungukKim) (r208650, merged as r208757)
• 20100603 - div locking (RobertWatson) (r204810, merged as r208766)
• 20100603 - udp tunneling (RobertWatson) (r204826, merged as r208767)
• 20100603 - tcbinfo locking (RobertWatson) (r204830, merged as r208768)
• 20100603 - nfsrv_getsocknodes (RobertWatson) (r205010, merged as r208769)
• 20100604 - select(2) (KostikBelousov) (r208374, merged as r208801)
• 20100604 - ZFS fix (MartinMatuska) (r208689, merged as r208799)
• 20100605 - p1003_1b MIB (KostikBelousov) (r208731, merged as r208832)
• 20100605 - UPDATING (GavinAtkinson) (committed as r208848)
• 20100605 - 80211 hwmp fix (RuiPaulo) (r208696, merged as r208851)
• 20100606 - ZFS fix (MartinMatuska) (r208775, merged as r208869)
• 20100607 - geom part fix (AndreyElsukov) (r207181, merged as r208890)
• 20100607 - boot/zfs (AndriyGapon) (r208610, merged as r208892)
• 20100607 - mpt callout fix (MatthewJacob) (r198262, merged as r208894)
• 20100607 - geom part ebr (AndreyElsukov) (r197608, merged as r208899)
• 20100608 - i386 pmap fix (AlanCox) (r208765, merged as r208903)
• 20100608 - ata-intel IDs fix (AlexanderMotin) (r208796, merged as r208908)
• 20100608 - ata powermac (NathanWhitehorn) (r208168, merged as r208916)
• 20100608 - sge(4) (PyunYongHyeon) (r208806, merged as r208923)
• 20100609 - libthr (BrianSomers) (r197477, merged as r208936)
• 20100609 - scsi cd fix (AndriyGapon) (r208800, merged as r208939)
• 20100609 - udf fix (AndriyGapon) (r208671, merged as r208941)
• 20100609 - fsirand (UlrichSpoerlein) (r208074, merged as r208948)
• 20100609 - isalnum (UlrichSpoerlein) (r208753, merged as r208949)
• 20100609 - io.4 (AttilioRao) (r208771, merged as r208950)
• 20100609 - m-i correction (MatthewJacob) (commited as r208956)
• 20100610 - bge fix (Pyun YongHyeon) (r208862, merged as r208993)
• 20100610 - powerpc audio fix (NathanWhitehorn) (r208835, merged as r208996)
• 20100610 - ia64 release build fix (MarcelMoolenaar) (r208622, merged as r208998)
• 20100610 - /dev/apm locking (JohnBaldwin) (r208925, merged as r209000)
• 20100610 - fix adaptive spinning (JohnBaldwin) (r208912, merged as r209002)
• 20100610 - NFS ESTALE fix (JohnBaldwin) (r208603, merged as r209003)
• 20100610 - ieee80211 fixes (RuiPaulo) (r204644, r208699, r208703, r208711, r208712, r208642, r208643, r208644, merged as r209014, r209007, r209008, r209009, r209010, r209015, r209012, r209011)
• 20100609 - SCTP fixes (RandallStewart) (r208160, r208852, r208853, r208854, r208855, r208856, r208857, r208863, r208864, r208874, r208875, r208876, r208878, r208879, r208883, r208897, r208902, r208952, r208953, r208970, merged as r209028)
• 20100611 - mail (UlrichSpoerlein) (r208592, merged as r209038)
• 20100610 - K2 SATA (NathanWhitehorn) (r208162, r208836, r208837, r208870, merged as r209044, r209042)
• 20100611 - libc cleanup (EdwardTomaszNapierala) (r208784, merged as r209046)
• 20100611 - libc cleanup (EdwardTomaszNapierala) (r208811, merged as r209047)
• 20100611 - pax fix (UlrichSpoerlein) (r208484, merged as r209049)
• 20100610 - pax cleanup (XinLI) (r205940, merged as r209054)
• 20100610 - netfront driver (KennethMerry) (r199549, r199997, r204158, r207673, r208901, merged as r209061)
• 20100611 - SCTP fixes (RandallStewart,MichaelTuexen) (r209029, merged as r209067)

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• 20100609 - twa(4) (XinLI) (r208969, kern/147695 – bad vendor timing)

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