These six issues must be resolved before a DBAN release:

1. There is no DBAN floppy disk image.

This DBAN beta is too fat to fit onto a floppy disk, but we still intend to
eventually produce a DBAN beta for floppy disks.

The next DBAN release will, however, probably ship on a 1.6 megabyte DMF floppy
disk with fewer drivers.


2. LZMA Compression

The upstream kernel relocation enhancement in Linux 2.6.20 broke the LZMA
compression patch that was being used in the DBAN betas with 2.6.19 kernels.
The patch must be updated because it is now required to make DBAN fit onto a
floppy disk.

DBAN will not be released with a 2.6.19 kernel because it had performance and
compatibility problems.


3. LSHW C++ dependency.

The libstdc++ library is 3.5 megabytes uncompressed, which is too much for the
floppy image and computers with small memory.  We will probably rewrite LSHW as
a regular C program.


4. Slow verification passes.

Throughput drops significantly on the verification passes in this DBAN beta.


5. Last-odd-sector regression testing.

This DBAN beta was not tested for correctness on nutty hardware.


6. USB hotplugging.

DBAN behaves incorrectly when a USB device is unplugged during a wipe.