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# FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE Announcement

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:02:10 -0500
From: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE is now available

The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD Legacy development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE in May 2004 we have made conservative updates to a number of software programs in the base system, dealt with known security issues, and made many bugfixes.

For a complete list of new features, known problems, and late-breaking news, please see the release notes and errata list, available here:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.11R/relnotes.html

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.11R/errata.html

FreeBSD 4.11 will become an "Errata Branch". In addition to Security fixes other well-tested fixes to basic functionality will be committed to the RELENG_4_11 branch after the release. Both Security Advisories and Errata Notices are announced on the freebsd-announce@freebsd.org mailing list.

This is expected to be the last release from the RELENG_4 branch. Most of the Developers are now focused on the RELENG_5 branch, or on the cutting edge development in HEAD.

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

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

# Availability

FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE supports the i386 and alpha architectures and can be installed directly over the net, using bootable media, or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for both 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 4.11 based products:

FreeBSD Mall, Inc. | http://www.freebsdmall.com/
Daemon News | http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html

If you can not 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 not promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images. At the time of this announcement they are available from the following sites. MD5 checksums for the release images are included at the bottom of this message.

## Bittorrent

As with the 5.3 release we are experimenting with Bittorrent. A collection of trackers for the release ISO images is available at

http://people.freebsd.org/~kensmith/4.11-torrent/

## FTP

- ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp11.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp.at.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp.au.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp2.ca.FreeBSD.org/
- ftp://ftp2.ch.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp2.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp.ee.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp.es.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://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp8.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp.kr.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp.lt.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp.nl.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp.no.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp5.pl.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp3.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp.sg.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp.si.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp.sk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp2.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp6.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp6.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
- ftp://ftp10.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/

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

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 and the current list of all active 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 4.11 including The FreeBSD Mall, Hewlett Packard, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and NTT/Verio.

The release engineering team for 4.11-RELEASE includes:

Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering
Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering, Security
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering
Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering, I386 Release Building, Mirror Site Coordination
Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | Release Engineering, Documentation
Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.org> | Alpha Release Building
Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> | Package Building
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> | Package Building
Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar@FreeBSD.org> | Security Officer
Paul Saab <ps@FreeBSD.org> | Bittorrent Coordination

A few people put in more than their fair share of last-minute work. This includes Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org> who did a lot of work on the `linux_base-8` package integration, and Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> who did a lot of package rebuilding thanks to a few recent security issues in some key packages.

## CD Image Checksums

### For Alpha:

`MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-alpha-disc1-gnome.iso) = 3f0f49a9c7067f398ca0b47fd21234eb
MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-alpha-disc1-kde.iso) = b4c83df8e979741c7972f379154360aa
MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-alpha-disc2.iso) = 8fd241bab99fed226ef71184ed0b0b38
MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-alpha-miniinst.iso) = 3280b9e34fd26db7ce0dd24f1a05e7b4
`

### For i386:

`MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-i386-disc1-gnome.iso) = 80c6b06b83432efc6cbe1cff3ebd893f
MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-i386-disc1-kde.iso) = 84921fe6b6b4bfd3f7011788985d34e2
MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso) = 73553999f9f8e2e49222ba14e8ecbde5
MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso) = 28b006bcdf5df8b8b7e8f1831085cdae`

-ken