[tete]

Yeah and it's not the socially best thing to announce it here before that, not giving mirrors time to sync (note: it's the master mirror and not download.freebsd.org for example). Also because theoretically there could be updated images uploaded still, causing chaos.

Also it doesn't make a lot of sense to link to a download mirror in first place.

Maybe the link should be changed to release notes or download.freebsd.org for a load balanced version.

Release Notes:

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/relnotes.html

[schwarze_pest]

People are doing this wrong for ages. It is brought up with every release. That will not change.

The only way to change it, is to adapt and change the release rollout process. If it would be really a big problem for the project, they would probably have done that a long time ago. Just my guess.