Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== FreeBSD 7.4 Release Engineering TODO ====== This is the %%FreeBSD%% 7.4 release engineering wiki page. It tracks the status of the %%FreeBSD%% 7.4 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 otherwise your** **edits may be lost with the next update.** ====== Release Status ====== Released. Last updated: 2 March 2011. ===== Release Schedule ===== ^ Action ^ Expected ^ Actual ^ Publicly Announced ^ | Initial release schedule announcement | - | 2010-10-08 | 2010-10-22 | | Release schedule reminder | - | 2010-11-01,2010-11-15,2010-11-28 | 2010-11-22 | | Code Freeze | 2010-11-28 | 2010-11-29 | - | | BETA1 | 2010-12-03 | 2010-12-04/05 | 2010-12-10 | | Doc tree schedule announcement | - | - | 2010-12-20 | | Doc tree slush | 2010-12-23 | 2010-12-23 | 2010-12-23 | | Doc tree tag | 2011-01-10 | 2011-01-10 | 2011-01-10 | | Ports tree schedule announcement | - | - | 2010-12-07 | | Ports tree feature freeze | 2011-01-07 | 2011-01-11 | 2011-01-11 | | RC1 | 2010-12-17 | 2010-12-22 | 2010-12-27 | | stable/7 opened again | 2010-12-20 | 2010-12-26 | 2010-12-27 | | RC2 | 2011-01-07 | 2011-01-12 | 2011-01-22 | | RC3 | (-) 2011-01-28 | 2011-01-28/30 | 2011-02-03 | | RELEASE build | 2011-01-21 | 2011-02-16/17 | - | | RELEASE announcement | 2011-01-24 | - | 2011-02-24 | **CAUTION**: %%FreeBSD%% Release Schedules may slip so the above dates are not guaranteed. ===== Branch status ===== ^ Action ^ Status ^ | Subversion: releng/7.4 created | DONE 20101221, r216618 | | Subversion: release/7.4.0 created | DONE 20110216, r218743 | | CVS: RELENG_7_4_BP created | DONE 20101221 | | CVS: RELENG_7_4 created | DONE 20101221 | | CVS: RELENG_7_4_0_RELEASE created | DONE 20110216 | | CVS: ports tree tagged | DONE 20110208 | | Tinderbox: RELENG_7_4 configured | DONE 20101227 | ====== Change approval and merge guidelines ====== Read [[Releng/ChangeRequestGuidelines]] carefully. All requests neglecting these rules will be rejected. ====== Release engineering issue and patch queue ====== ===== The being-fixed and still-being-researched pile ===== ===== Blanket approvals ===== The following blanket approvals are valid until BETA1: * [empty] ===== ReleaseEngineering related commits ===== * 20101129 - Turn on approval ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r216056) * 20101211 - Update www/releng ([[/DanielGerzo|DanielGerzo]], committed as dcvs news.xml rev. 1.356, release.ent rev. 1.51 by [[/JohannKois|JohannKois]]) * 20101222 - Adjust branch tag for make update ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r216643) * 20101222 - Adjust the %%FreeBSD%% version printed as part of manual pages ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r216644) * 20101222 - Update release infrastructure for 7.4 ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r216645) * 20101222 - Update standard-supfile for 7.4 ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r216646) * 20101222 - Bump __FreeBSD_version for 7.4 ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r216647)__ * 20101222 - Update pkg_install for past and upcoming releases ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r216648) * 20101222 - Adjust the %%FreeBSD%% version printed as part of manual pages ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (stable/7, committed as r216656) * 20101222 - Update release infrastructure for 7.4 ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (stable/7, committed as r216657) * 20101222 - Update pkg_install for past and upcoming releases ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (stable/7, committed as r216660) * 20101222 - Bump __FreeBSD_version for 7.4 ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (stable/7, committed as r216658)__ * 20101222 - Update newvers.sh for RC1 ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r216664) * 20101222 - Document __FreeBSD_version updates in porters-handbook ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (dcvs book.sgml rev. 1.1091)__ * 20101226 - Open stable branch ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (r216724) * 20101227 - Update www for RC1 ([[/JohannKois|JohannKois]]) (dcvs release.ent rev. 1.52, news.xml rev. 1.357) * 20101227 - Update www for 7.4 and 8.2 ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (dcvs index.sgml rev. 1.289) * 20101227 - Update www 7.4 schedule ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (dcvs schedule.sgml rev. 1.2) * 20101227 - Improve www update for RC1 ([[/JohannKois|JohannKois]]) (dcvs where.sgml rev 1.107, news.xml rev. 1.358) * 20110110 - Cleanup old release notes and prepare for new ([[/HirokiSato|HirokiSato]]) (committed as 217228) * 20110111 - Ready for 7.4-RC2 ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r217256) * 20110123 - Update www for RC2 ([[/DanielGerzo|DanielGerzo]]) (committed as dcvs release.ent rev. 1.54, news.xml rev. 1.360) * 20110128 - Ready for 7.3-RC3 ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r218024) * 20110131 - Update to reflect the package layout for 7.4-RELEASE ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r218134) * 20110131 - Update to reflect the package layout for 7.4-RELEASE ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (r218134, merged as r218135) * 20110204 - Update www for RC3 ([[/JohannKois|JohannKois]]) (dcvs release.ent rev. 1.55, news.xml rev. 1.362) * 20110204 - Update www release schedule ([[/JohannKois|JohannKois]]) (dcvs schedule.sgml rev. 1.3) * 20110216 - UPDATING for 7.4-R ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r218735,218736) * 20110216 - Update newvers.sh for RELEASE ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r218739) * 20110216 - Create release/7.4.0 branch ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r218743) * 20110223 - Release Notes ([[/HirokiSato|HirokiSato]]) (committed as r218983) * 20110223 - Release Notes ([[/HirokiSato|HirokiSato]]) (dcvs Makefile rev. 1.2, errata.html rev. 1.1, hardware.html rev. 1.1, readme.html rev. 1.1) * 20110224 - Release Notes ([[/HirokiSato|HirokiSato]]) (committed as r219007-219008) * 20110224 - Release Notes ([[/HirokiSato|HirokiSato]]) (dcvs Makefile rev. 1.3, relnotes.html rev. 1.1) * 20110224 - Release Notes ([[/HirokiSato|HirokiSato]]) (dcvs Makefile rev. 1.4, announce.sgml rev. 1.1, index.sgml rev. 1.129, news.xml rev. 1.364, release.ent rev. 1.56) * 20110224 - Release Notes ([[/HirokiSato|HirokiSato]]) (dcvs freebsd.ent rev. 1.130) * 20110224 - Update newvers.sh for 7.4-STABLE ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r219010) * 20110225 - Release Notes ([[/JohannKois|JohannKois]]) (dcvs index.sgml rev. 1.130) * 20110303 - Hand over 7.4 to so@ ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (committed as r219228) * 20110303 - Update status of 7.4 ([[/KenSmith|KenSmith]]) (dcvs rev. 1.290 index.sgml) ===== The waiting for approval pile ===== * [empty] ===== The additional review or revisions sought pile ===== * 20101201 - newfs(8) size modifiers ([[/MaximSobolev|MaximSobolev]]) (r204615) * 20101201 - ispfw(4) logging ([[/MaximSobolev|MaximSobolev]]) (r204748) * 20101201 - atkbdc(4) fixes ([[/MaximSobolev|MaximSobolev]]) (r207354) * 20101213 - Xen HVM support for amd64 ([[/SeanBruno|SeanBruno]]) ===== The approved and queued for commit pile ===== * [empty] ===== Committed fix pile ===== * 20101202 - sysinstall fix for absent floppy drive ([[/BruceCran|BruceCran]]) (r216053, merged as r216117) * 20101202 - Find all PCI busses on old Severworks motherboard ([[/JohnBaldwin|JohnBaldwin]]) (r215820, merged as r216124) * 20101202 - Fix memory access after free for IPSec ([[/BjoernZeeb|BjoernZeeb]]) (r206989, merged as r216125) * 20101203 - Let crashinfo work on nnon-default kernel location ([[/ColinPercival|ColinPercival]]) (r216077, merged as r216153) * 20101202 - Fix intialization of gnu debuglink sections ([[/ColinPercival|ColinPercival]]) (r215105, merged as r216165) After BETA1: * 20101206 - Do not change CPU ticker frequency if TSC is P-state invariant ([[/JungukKim|JungukKim]]) (r216159, merged as r216262) * 20101205 - Fix fxp(4) regression (yongari@) (r216111, merged as r216265) * 20101204 - Update splash(4) man for green_saver ([[/DougBarton|DougBarton]]) (r216065, merged as r216287) * 20101209 - Unbreak sysinstall ALL distributions installation ([[/BruceCran|BruceCran]]) (r216243, merged as r216327) * 20101209 - Unbreak a boot0cfg case ([[/BruceCran|BruceCran]]) (r216229, merged as r216328) * 20101209 - Update bind to 9.4-ESV-R4 ([[/DougBarton|DougBarton]]) (r216303, merged as r216336) * 20101208 - Update to %%OpenSSL%% 0.9.8q ([[/SimonNielsen|SimonNielsen]]) (r216166,216167, merged as r216342) * 20101206 - Improve German wording ([[/XinLi|XinLi]]) (r216040, merged as r216345) * 20101207 - ipfw(8) buffer overflow fix (ae@) (r206494, merged as r216347) * 20101210 - IP fast forwarding statistics correction ([[/BjoernZeeb|BjoernZeeb]]) (r216192, merged as r216357) * 20101213 - Add .note.ABI-tag section to ia64 startup files ([[/TijlCoosemans|TijlCoosemans]]) (r216351, merged as r216435) * 20101213 - Correct the RX discard and refresh_mbuf logic in em(4) (jfv@) (r216172,216176, merged as r216441) * 20101214 - Fix cxgb(4) kthread priority issue ([[/JohnBaldwin|JohnBaldwin]]) (committed as r216449) * 20101215 - Record merge-info for r216441 ([[/BjoernZeeb|BjoernZeeb]]) (r216172,216176, merged as r216459) * 20101215 - In igb(4) remove a test for min frame size which may fail in some situation (jfv@) (r216173, merged as r216465) * 20101218 - Fix race between vmspace_fork and vm_map_wire ([[/MaxLaier|MaxLaier]]) (r216335, merged as r216554) * 20101218 - Add a sync to the shutdown step ([[/DougBarton|DougBarton]]) (r215824, merged as r216569) * 20101218 - Update %%ObsoleteFiles%%.inc ([[/DougBarton|DougBarton]]) (r216187, merged as r216571) * 20101220 - Fix devfs race (hselasky@, [[/AndrewThompson|AndrewThompson]]) (r216371, merged as r216612) After branching to stable/7 and releng/7.4: * [empty] To releng/7.4 after stable/7 branch opened again: * 20101231 - Happy New Year 2011 ([[/BjoernZeeb|BjoernZeeb]]) (r216848, merged as r216853) * 20110105 - Fix sparc64 TLB dmeap issue if interrupted ([[/MariusStrobl|MariusStrobl]]) (r216891, merged as r217007) * 20110105 - Put config(8) warnings out to stderr rather than stdout ([[/LawrenceStewart|LawrenceStewart]]) (r210144, merged as r217086) * 20110107 - Make -S functional for newsyslog(8) ([[/BrianSomers|BrianSomers]]) (r216832, merged as r217115) * 20110110 - bge(4) DMA space restrictions (yongari@) (r217226, merged as r217235) To releng/7.4 during RC2: * 20110118 - Backout libcrypto/libssl bump and provide a compatibility symlink ([[/SimonNielsen|SimonNielsen]]) (r217562, merged as r217574) To releng/7.4 after RC2: * 20110114 - Limit re(4) rx buffer size for certain chips (yongari@) (r217296, merged as r217648) * 20110117 - Add flag0 to allow rgephy(4) to work without auto-negotiation ([[/MariusStrobl|MariusStrobl]]) (r217415, merged as r217667) * 20110121 - Add rgephy.4 to document the newly introduced media option ([[/MariusStrobl|MariusStrobl]]) (r217464,217468,217475, merged as r217695) * 20110122 - i386 stack alignment for main() for clang ([[/KonstantinBelousov|KonstantinBelousov]]) (r217383, merged as r217721) * 20110121 - Fix sis(4) ALLMULTI/PROMISC programming (yongari@) (r217548, merged as r217804) * 20110124 - Correct error path in em_xmit, remove bogus UNLOCK (jfv@) (r217295, merged as r217862) * 20110125 - Correct pullup at the wrong point in TX path to unbreak UDP (jfv@) (r217591, merged as r217866) * 20110127 - Fix man page breakage ([[/ColinPercival|ColinPercival]]) (r217928, merged as r217931) * 20110127 - Unbreak .Dd line ([[/ColinPercival|ColinPercival]]) (r217872, merged as r217987) To releng/7.4 after RC3: * 20110211 - Fix TCP_NOPUSH setsockopt problem ([[/JohnBaldwin|JohnBaldwin]]) (r218271, merged as r218576) * 20110213 - %%OpenSSL%% bugfix ([[/SimonNielsen|SimonNielsen]]) (r218625, merged as r218636) ===== The change request withdrawn pile ===== * [empty] ===== Rejected change request pile ===== * 20101218 - Update bind to 9.6 ([[/DougBarton|DougBarton]]) (too late) ====== Likely errata items ====== * [empty] ====== Leading up to the release ====== ===== Projects being worked on before code freeze ===== ^ Project ^ Developer ^ Status ^ | Merging Xen | [[/SeanBruno|SeanBruno]] | Ongoing | | Xen bugfixes | [[/ColinPercival|ColinPercival]] | Ongoing | ===== Projects being worked on after code freeze ===== ^ Project ^ Developer ^ Status ^ | bind security update | [[/DougBarton|DougBarton]] | Done | | openssl security update | [[/SimonNielsen|SimonNielsen]] | Done | ===== Known issues when the release process started ===== * [empty] releng/7.4todo.txt Last modified: 2018/03/18 13:09by MarkLinimon