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<p><b>Date:</b> Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:47:54 -0700<br clear="none" />
  <b>From:</b> "Murray Stokely" &lt;murray@FreeBSD.org&gt;<br clear="none" />
  <b>To:</b> freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org<br clear="none" />
  <b>Subject:</b> FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE is now available</p>

<p>I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE, the
  latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since
  FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE in June 2002, we have updated a number of
  software programs in the base system, such as GCC and sendmail.
  Several new drivers have been added for USB devices and disk
  controllers.  We have also incorporated updates for XFree86 and our
  Linux emulation libraries.</p>

<p>FreeBSD 4.7 also incorporates all of the security and bug fixes
  from 4.6.2 (released in August 2002), including several ATA-related
  bugfixes, updates for OpenSSL and OpenSSH, and fixes to address
  several security advisories.</p>

<p>For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see
  the release notes and errata list, available here:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.7R/relnotes.html" shape="rect">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.7R/relnotes.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.7R/errata.html" shape="rect">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.7R/errata.html</a></p>

<p>For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities
  (including information about the upcoming FreeBSD 5.0), please
  see:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/" shape="rect">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/</a></p>

<h1>Availability</h1>

<p>FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE supports the i386 and alpha architectures and
  can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or
  copied to a local NFS/FTP server.  Distributions for the i386 are
  available now.  As of this writing, the final builds for the alpha
  architecture are in progress and will be made available shortly.</p>

<p>We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger
  ISO images, but they will at least be available from:</p>

<ul>
  <li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/" shape="rect">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
  <li><a href="ftp://ftp12.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/" shape="rect">ftp://ftp12.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
  <li><a href="ftp://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/" shape="rect">ftp://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
  <li><a href="ftp://ftp4.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/" shape="rect">ftp://ftp{2,3,4,5}.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
  <li><a href="ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/" shape="rect">ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
  <li><a href="ftp://ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/" shape="rect">ftp://ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
  <li><a href="ftp://ftp.lt.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/" shape="rect">ftp://ftp.lt.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
  <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.za.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/" shape="rect">ftp://ftp2.za.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
  <li><a href="ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/" shape="rect">ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
  <li><a href="ftp://ftp.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/" shape="rect">ftp://ftp{1,2,4}.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a></li>
</ul>

<p>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, otherwise please continue to support the FreeBSD Project
  by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The
  following companies have contributed substantially to the
  development of FreeBSD:</p>

<table border="0">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">FreeBSD Mall, Inc.</td>
      <td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/" shape="rect">http://www.freebsdmall.com/</a></td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Daemon News</td>
      <td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><a href="http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html" shape="rect">http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html</a></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

<p>Each CD or DVD set contains the FreeBSD installation and
  application package bits for the i386 ("PC") architecture. For a set
  of distfiles used to build ports in the ports collection, please see
  the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing extra bits which no
  longer fit on the 4 CD set, or the DVD distribution.</p>

<p>FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in
  the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria,
  Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France,
  Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea,
  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.</p>

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

<p>ftp://ftp.&lt;yourdomain&gt;.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</p>

<p>Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so
  on.</p>

<p>More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html" shape="rect">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html</a></p>

<p>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:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html" shape="rect">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html</a></p>

<h1>Acknowledgments</h1>

<p>Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to
  finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.7 including
  The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and
  NTT/Verio.</p>

<p>In addition to myself, the release engineering team for
  4.7-RELEASE includes:</p>

<table border="0">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Bruce Mah &lt;<a href="mailto:bmah@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">bmah@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Release Engineering, Documentation</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Robert Watson &lt;<a href="mailto:rwatson@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">rwatson@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Release Engineering, Security</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">John Baldwin &lt;<a href="mailto:jhb@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">jhb@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Release Engineering, alpha Builds</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Brian Somers &lt;<a href="mailto:brian@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">brian@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Release Engineering</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Steve Price &lt;<a href="mailto:steve@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">steve@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Package Splits</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Will Andrews &lt;<a href="mailto:will@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">will@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Package Splits</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Kris Kennaway &lt;<a href="mailto:kris@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">kris@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</td>
      <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Package Building</td>
    </tr>

  </tbody>
</table>

<p>Please join me in thanking them for all the hard work which went
  into making this release. Many thanks are also due to the FreeBSD
  committers (committers@FreeBSD.org), without whom there would be
  nothing to release, and thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide who
  have contributed bug fixes, features, and suggestions.</p>

<p>Enjoy!</p>

<p>Murray Stokely<br clear="none" />
(For the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team)</p>


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