I'd like to give a status report for 4.x and 5.x for the developers and users who didn't attend the DevSummit this past weekend.
4.9: The 4.9 release is likely going to be pushed back for a few weeks while the recent instability reports are tracked down. The target goal is two weeks, but hopefully things can be resolved before then. The problems appear to stem from the recent PAE import. The consensus reached at the DevSummit is that PAE is a critical feature for 4.x and that removing it isn't desirable unless the problems persist. We encourage anyone to help with this.
5.x: The 5-stable roadmap document received a major overhaul yesterday. I encourage everyone to take a look at it at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/index.html. Among the highlights, KSE is progressing extremely well and is no longer a major source of concern for 5-stable. Stability is also at a very good level. However, while performance has improved in some areas, it is not at the level that we want it to be. Since improving performance will likely involve changing some API's and adding short-term risk to stability, it's looking like the 5-stable branch will be delayed until 5.3. 5.2 will be released in late Nov/early Dec and will feature the vastly improved KSE, partially-improved network performance, optional dynamically-linked root filesystem, and many stability fixes, along with numerous new features.
I thank all of the developers, contributors, and users for the highly productive summer and ask that that enthusiasm continue as we push towards 5.2 and 5.3.
Scott The Release Engineering Team
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