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This page holds snapshots of the FreeBSD release documentation (sometimes referred to as RELNOTESng, because the current incarnation of the release notes is a replacement for an older set of plain text files). The SGML sources for RELNOTESng can be found in the source tree at src/release/doc. The first released version of FreeBSD to use RELNOTESng was 4.4-RELEASE.

For each release, this page holds HTML, TXT, and PDF renderings for all supported architectures. These files generally contain the same content as what can be found on the various released distributions (e.g. floppy, CD-ROM, or FTP areas), except that the errata file may in some cases be updated to the latest version applicable to each release.

Snapshots of the release documentation (also in HTML, TXT, and PDF) for the CURRENT, 7-STABLE, 6-STABLE, 5-STABLE, and 4-STABLE development branches are also provided here. The snapshots here are manually regenerated from the heads of the respective CVS branches on an irregular basis. (Check the modification times of the files in the directory listings to see when they were last built. Note that these might not correspond to the time of the last content changes.)

• CURRENT (snapshot of 8.0-CURRENT)
  • Errata : HTML : text : PDF
  • Hardware notes HTML : text : PDF
  • README : HTML : text : PDF
  • Release notes : HTML : text : PDF
• 7-STABLE (snapshot of 7.2-STABLE)
  • Errata : HTML : text : PDF
  • Hardware notes HTML : text : PDF
  • README : HTML : text : PDF
  • Release notes : HTML : text : PDF
• 6-STABLE (snapshot of 6.4-STABLE)
  • Errata : HTML : text : PDF
  • Hardware notes (alpha : HTML : text : PDF) (amd64 : HTML : text : PDF) (ia64 : HTML : text : PDF) (i386 : HTML : text : PDF) (pc98 : HTML : text : PDF) (powerpc : HTML : text : PDF) (sparc64 : HTML : text : PDF)
  • Installation notes (alpha : HTML : text : PDF) (amd64 : HTML : text : PDF) (ia64 : HTML : text : PDF) (i386 : HTML : text : PDF) (pc98 : HTML : text : PDF) (powerpc : HTML : text : PDF) (sparc64 : HTML : text : PDF)
  • README : HTML : text : PDF
  • Release notes (alpha : HTML : text : PDF) (amd64 : HTML : text : PDF) (ia64 : HTML : text : PDF) (i386 : HTML : text : PDF) (pc98 : HTML : text : PDF) (powerpc : HTML : text : PDF) (sparc64 : HTML : text : PDF)
• 5-STABLE (snapshot of 5.5-STABLE)
• 4-STABLE (snapshot of 4.11-STABLE)

• 7.2-RELEASE (final, announced 3 May 2009)
  • Errata : HTML : text : PDF
  • Hardware notes HTML : text : PDF
  • README : HTML : text : PDF
  • Release notes : HTML : text : PDF
• 6.4-RELEASE (final, announced 28 November 2008)
  • Errata : HTML : text : PDF
  • Hardware notes (alpha : HTML : text : PDF) (amd64 : HTML : text : PDF) (ia64 : HTML : text : PDF) (i386 : HTML : text : PDF) (pc98 : HTML : text : PDF) (sparc64 : HTML : text : PDF)
  • Installation notes (alpha : HTML : text : PDF) (amd64 : HTML : text : PDF) (ia64 : HTML : text : PDF) (i386 : HTML : text : PDF) (pc98 : HTML : text : PDF) (sparc64 : HTML : text : PDF)
  • README : HTML : text : PDF
  • Release notes (alpha : HTML : text : PDF) (amd64 : HTML : text : PDF) (ia64 : HTML : text : PDF) (i386 : HTML : text : PDF) (pc98 : HTML : text : PDF) (sparc64 : HTML : text : PDF)

• 7.1-RELEASE (final, announced 4 January 2009)
• 7.0-RELEASE (final, announced 27 February 2008)
• 6.3-RELEASE (final, announced 18 January 2008)
• 6.2-RELEASE (final, announced 15 January 2007)
• 5.5-RELEASE (final, announced 25 May 2006)
• 6.1-RELEASE (final, announced 8 May 2006)
• 6.0-RELEASE (final, announced 4 November 2005)
• 5.4-RELEASE (final, announced 9 May 2005)
• 4.11-RELEASE (final, announced 25 January 2005)
• 5.3-RELEASE (final, announced 6 November 2004)
• 5.2.1-RELEASE (final, announced 25 February 2004)
• 5.2-RELEASE (final, announced 12 January 2004)
• 5.1-RELEASE (final, announced 9 June 2003)
• 5.0-RELEASE (final, announced 19 January 2003)
• 5.0-DP2 (final)
• 5.0-DP1 (final)
• 4.10-RELEASE (final, announced 27 May 2004)
• 4.9-RELEASE (final, announced 28 October 2003)
• 4.8-RELEASE (final, announced 3 April 2003)
• 4.7-RELEASE (final, announced 10 October 2002)
• 4.6.2-RELEASE (final, announced 15 August 2002)
• 4.6.1-RELEASE (not released)
• 4.6-RELEASE (final, announced 15 June 2002)
• 4.5-RELEASE (final, announced 29 January 2002)
• 4.4-RELEASE (final, announced 20 September 2001)
• 4.3-RELEASE (final, errata only)

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