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Subject: New News Entry
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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:56:11 +0000 (GMT)
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Submitted by: press@postgresql.org
Headline: PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Beta 5 Now Available
Summary:

After 4 weeks of work, involving alot of bug fixes, and documentation improvements to the source tree, we have just released our 5th Beta of 8.0.0. We urge everyone to download a copy and run it through regression tests and report all problems to pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org

Story:

Its been almost 4 weeks since Beta4, and alot of work, involving alot 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:

                http://bt.postgresql.org

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