No formal post or press release has been issued by the FreeBSD Team, but it seems that FreeBSD 8.0 can now be downloaded from the servers ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/
It’s a few months after the initial planned release date (September), but quality is to be preferred over number of and planned dates of releases.
Here’s the CVS log showing the release branch: diff
Thanks to Bill Totman and Gonzalo Nemmi for letting me (and you) know about the new ‘baby’.
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- FreeBSD 8.0 – New Release Date
- Tentative milestone dates for FreeBSD 7.1 and 6.4
- FreeBSD QA/release cycle graphs
- FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 Available
- bsdevents.net – the end?
November 24th, 2009 at 6:43 am
This is good news. After a decade working with Linux I’ve finally started trying out FreeBSD (why did I wait so long) – do you reckon I should continue with 7.2 and upgrade it to 8.0 or just reinstall with 8.0 when it’s officially released?
November 24th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Thank you for the good news. I am waiting for this release for a long time :)
I wonder if there’s a tutorial to upgrade my system from 7.2-release? Though my system is messy I still love the FreeBSD way: upgrading without any problems (yah, I can’t do this seemlessly in some Linux distro.)
Thanks again.
November 24th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Josh, go straight to FreeBSD 8.0. It will be available (official announcement and all) within 48 hours anyway. I tried 8.0 RC1 and was greatly impressed, for my next webservers I will use FreeBSD.