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Today the Port management team released the FreeBSD Ports Tree. The Tree is still in a Slush state (no sweeping changes) like the Documentation Tree has, but the tagging for the release is done. Currently the cluster is building the required packages that will be accompanied on the -RELEASE distributions. The next major things is the build of the -RELEASE-CANDIDATE’s which could start any moment ( I am not aware of the most recent planning for them, I will post more info when I know them)

Today Erwin Lansing froze the FreeBSD Ports tree in preparation for the 6.4 and 7.1 releases. That basically means that no one can commit to the ports tree without prior approval from the Ports Management team.

The freeze is done to give the machines in the build cluster the time to build packages for both releases, which can be included on the CD’s and uploaded to the various FTP-mirrors so that you (The end user) can use them when you install the versions.

Certain people will get a blanket from the Ports Management team, so that they can improve the current ports and document Security Vulnerabilities where needed, and ofcourse update the packages if that is required.

Stay Tuned

Several hours after 7.1-PRERELEASE name had been created within 7-STABLE, not branched!, 6.4 had also been named for the time being from 6-STABLE. That means that that branch will also soon split into 6.4-RELEASE (the final branch) to continue for the release. As well as for 7.1.. NO PANIC! It will all be over soon, and you can use a brand new release