FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE

I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE, the -STABLE Latest release of the development branch of FreeBSD. Since FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE in October 2003 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 and known problems, and late-breaking News, please see the release notes and errata list, available here : Http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.10R/relnotes.html Http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.10R/errata.html FreeBSD 4.10 will become the first "Errata Branch." Release branches For previous versions of FreeBSD would only have critical security Fixes applied. With the scope of FreeBSD 4.10 fixes will be expanded to Include local Denial of Service as well as other significant and fixes Well-tested fixes that may not represent security issues. The current plans are for one more which will be release of FreeBSD 4.X FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE. It is expected the upcoming 5.3 release of FreeBSD Will have reached the maturity level most users will be able to migrate To 5.X. Most developer resources continue to be devoted to the 5.X Branch. For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, Please see : Http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/