KAME will terminate KAME-FreeBSD4 support at Mar 31 2005

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1. background
2. what will happen after March 31 2005?
3. what should the freebsd4 users have to do?

1. background

Here's the list of reasons why we would like to terminate freebsd4+kame support.

KAME's development resource is limited and KAME would like to concentrate the precious resource to protocols, rather than the OS diversities
freebsd4+kame based on FreeBSD-4.11 has been released in Jan 2005, and FreeBSD Project has no plan to release FreeBSD-4.12
freebsd5+kame is stable enough at least for hacking purpose. Please note that KAME-SNAP is originally for hackers/researchers who want to develop a new features. (see the project overview)
Those who want to use a stable IPv6 implementation can use the original releases of *BSD, which includes the stable portion of KAME-SNAP implementations.

2. what will happen after March 31 2005

we will conduct the following changes after March 31 2005.

the removal of FreeBSD4-specific ifdefs from KAME-SNAP
the termination of generating KAME-SNAP tarball for freebsd4

Even after Mar 31 2005, however, we still keeps the following two regarding freebsd4.

the CVS repository of kame/freebsd4 (just for reference)
the old freebsd4+kame tarballs in our FTP site

3. what should the freebsd4 users have to do?

Those who are now using kame+freebsd4 have to choose either of the following ways.

upgrade your kame+freebsd4 to kame+freebsd5

If you find something unstable, please confirm it on pure freebsd5 to check if it's a generic freebsd5 problem or a KAME-specific problem.

If it's a generic freebsd5 problem, please report it to freebsd-stable@freebsd.org or freebsd-net@freebsd.org, to improve the quality of freebsd.
If it's KAME-specific problem, please enjoy hacking it!

keep using kame+freebsd4 and merge necessary fixes as you wish.

We keep old KAME-snap tarball in our FTP site and you can still access the CVS repository of kame/freebsd4.

So using these resources, you can still install kame+freebsd4 from scratch. (we will remove freebsd4-specific ifdef's from the code in kame/kame/... from this April, so it will be difficult to sync with the current KAME CVS on freebsd4)