PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Beta 5 Now Available
Posted on 2004-11-25
Posted by press at postgresql.org

Its been almost 4 weeks since Beta4. After a lot of work involving a lot of bug fixes and documentation improvements to the source tree, we have just released our 5th Beta of 8.0.0.

All of our major Open Items have now been completed, and we're slowly entering the final stages, involving a lot of testing and documentation changes.

For a complete list of changes/improvement since Beta 1 was released, please see:

ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v8.0.0beta/ChangeLog-Beta4-to-Beta5

That said, Beta 5 is currently available for download on all mirrors:

http://www.postgresql.org/mirrors-ftp.html

David Fetter has also updated the Bittorrent Site with the latest beta, available through:

http://bt.postgresql.org

As with all releases, the success of this release falls in your hands... to go from Beta to Release, we need as many people out there to put her through her paces as possible, on as many platforms as possible. We urge anyone, and everyone, to download a copy and run through the regression tests, reporting any/all problems, and bugs, to:

pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org

The more bugs we can find, and eliminate, during Beta, the more successful the Release will be ...

Once more, on behalf of all of the developers, Happy Bug Hunting ...