FreeBSD.org finally announce 5.3R

From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To: FreeBSD-announce@freebsd.org
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE Announcement
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:19:57 -0700 (23:19 UTC)

It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. This release marks a milestone in the FreeBSD 5.x
series and the beginning of the 5-STABLE branch of releases. Some of
the many changes since 5.2.1 include:

- A binary compatibility interface has been introduced for the i386
platform that allows running Microsoft Windows NDIS network drivers
natively in the kernel.
- The network and socket subsystems are now multi-threaded and
reentrant. This allows for much better use of SMP parallelism when
processing and forwarding local and remote network traffic.
- The development environment has been updated to GCC 2.4.2, Binutils
2.15, and GDB 6.1
- The choices for graphical environments have been updated to include
X.org 6.7, Gnome 2.6.2 and KDE 3.3.0.

There has also been a significant focus on testing and bug-fixing with
this release, as well as the freezing of most kernel and userland APIs.
Users and vendors are encouraged to consider transitioning to it as
FreeBSD 5.x is no longer considered a 'New Technology' release series.
Information on migrating from FreeBSD 4.x to 5.x can be found at

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html

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

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.3R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.3R/errata.html

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

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng
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今天将更新一下，是该重新拿起fb的时候了:-)