Maintained by Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>
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 has been 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. Almost by definition, they are continually changing; typically they track the state of developments to within a week or so. The snapshots here are manually regenerated from the heads of the respective CVS branches on an irregular, but fairly frequent, 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.)