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# FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE Announcement

Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 14:00:13 -0400
From: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.5 Released

It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE. Work done between the 5.4-RELEASE and this release has mostly been bugfixes. Some ``vendor supplied'' software has also been updated, mostly due to security concerns (specifically BIND and sendmail).

This is the last planned release on the 5-STABLE branch. The FreeBSD development community is currently focusing its efforts on the 6-STABLE and CURRENT codelines. No new major features are planned for the 5-STABLE branch, although minor updates and bugfixes may be merged at the discretion of individual developers. The FreeBSD security team will support the FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE-based security branch with advisories and security patches until the end-of-life date documented at `http://security.freebsd.org/` (as of this writing, May 31, 2008).

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:

`http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.5R/relnotes.html`

`http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.5R/errata.html`

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see:

`http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/`

## Availability

FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE supports the amd64, i386, pc98, alpha, and sparc64 architectures and can be installed directly over the net using bootable media or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for all architectures are available now.

Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies will be offering FreeBSD 5.5 based products:

- FreeBSD Mall, Inc. `http://www.freebsdmall.com/`

- Daemonnews, Inc. `http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html`

If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO images. We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from the following sites. MD5 and SHA256 checksums for the release images are included at the bottom of this message.

## BitTorrent

5.5-RELEASE ISOs are not available via BitTorrent at this time. They may be made available in the future on an on-demand basis.

## FTP

At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE available.

- `ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp7.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp.at.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp2.ch.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp.ee.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp.fi.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp.fr.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp2.ie.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp.is.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp1.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp.si.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp1.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp2.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp5.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`
- `ftp://ftp9.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/`

FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries and territories: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to:

`ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD`

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.

More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:

`http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html`

For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The FreeBSD Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through for users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at:

`http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html`

## Acknowledgments

Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 5.5 including The FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and Copan Systems.

The release engineering team for 5.5-RELEASE includes:

Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering
Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering, amd64, i386, sparc64 Release Building, Mirror Site Coordination
Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering, Security
Doug White <dwhite@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering
Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering
Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering, Documentation
Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering
Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | Documentation
Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@FreeBSD.org> | pc98 Release Building
Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.org> | Alpha Release Building
Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> | Package Building
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> | Package Building
Kiril Ponomarew <krion@FreeBSD.org> | Package Building
Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> | Security Officer

## CD Image Checksums

    MD5 (5.5-RELEASE-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 4de66e8aeb7d3842f36dcbd93834acaa
    MD5 (5.5-RELEASE-alpha-disc1.iso) = 618fc2622d1e41f7b75a38b06eb6a8ae
    MD5 (5.5-RELEASE-alpha-disc2.iso) = d169bbcb7870de8c54dbcdb39b0a3967

    MD5 (5.5-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 2d79d5b7cd032b004305c0a8d6d72ce3
    MD5 (5.5-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) = dcaa38041be2735c2c9e8159640045b2
    MD5 (5.5-RELEASE-amd64-disc2.iso) = 38d5ff06cb1dea9761cdd6f6fa39138f

    MD5 (5.5-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso) = 331e1aa238f595cc913c697ce71fc4f3
    MD5 (5.5-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = c66d2ff89d8177b31417f8752eadf6a8
    MD5 (5.5-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso) = 91508e819b4efcfda9b900f57aace472

    MD5 (5.5-RELEASE-pc98-disc1.iso) = 7e14250d9cf44a9964fe45c1cca8b782

    MD5 (5.5-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 7eaa9db570cde6b36f6d6734520fdd3a
    MD5 (5.5-RELEASE-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 59be492e648d56f9c046459776303108
    MD5 (5.5-RELEASE-sparc64-disc2.iso) = 35c393b4129b09fc16adc66a7180a23c

    SHA256 (5.5-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 36826ae8e1c2bdfe011b1b9597f5f2406f3d6bdc7e5fdfa4ec75a12652a1a51d
    SHA256 (5.5-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) = f71eedf18ab24d973c938b473ca127018eb87ab1d1b4c96a5d8d1e9cd8f261d3
    SHA256 (5.5-RELEASE-amd64-disc2.iso) = 60daae915430e60a02d577ad0f409de6f011d4ac102ea6f2c332e2c24fad9340

    SHA256 (5.5-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso) = b9f052d2f0d2f3a9924354c0ad16c3ffda286562dbe29a28ce74a75c7b4c710c
    SHA256 (5.5-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = 40d41ec7b567e7952d0f85729f340d409911368808256dae123ff1b97155c1ae
    SHA256 (5.5-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso) = f561695f7c6bf673a1b84d0f8480d181aa3eac73cd2a14ce3d99d51f580eb42e

    SHA256 (5.5-RELEASE-pc98-disc1.iso) = 44526391702a21332bb5844ef2d6cf85b08447eec00dde62f930b032ee29b42d

    SHA256 (5.5-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = 7157e8ad27d8c285addf784589ed69043c4c10bff808f7a7ce6a81073c89c37f
    SHA256 (5.5-RELEASE-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 4d14d0547fc2bdf92c5def07f81351693c85039e5b4b05a5da89d1ca73cb577a
    SHA256 (5.5-RELEASE-sparc64-disc2.iso) = d4d3322d333d439e2f87cfc6476af45d8869ec9d2b5bc377bd8c89e7d43b2b4c