(by Ken Smith)
The second of the two planed Release Candidates for the 7.2-RELEASE
cycle is now available. We believe with the exception of the new bce(4)
driver not working with lagg(4) all the major issues that have come up
from the testing have been addressed. We will work with the vendor to
get that issue addressed post-release.
At this point we know of no problems big enough to impact the dates for
the rest of the release cycle which is here:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/schedule.html
We will continue to watch for problems both here on this list and in
Gnats but hopefully nothing so catastrophic will come up that we would
need to alter the schedule.
There is one known issue with 7.2-RC2. We switched from KDE3 to KDE4
and during my tests done before uploading the images a problem with
package dependencies for KDE4 was discovered. The kdemultimedia4
package has audio/lame as a runtime dependency but that package can not
be pre-built due to licensing issues. So the install of kdemultimedia4
fails if you choose to install kde4. The ports folks have been notified
and will make the necessary adjustments before the final release. If
you would like to test KDE4 installed from the media the easiest
approach is most likely this: