From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 19 17:48:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E85D37B719 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailf.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA17954 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:48:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h35n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.35]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA16536 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:48:28 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 1125 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Mar 2001 01:48:38 -0000 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:48:37 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: The Babbler Cc: jbolivar@cantv.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.3-BETA Message-ID: <20010320024837.A1109@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: The Babbler , jbolivar@cantv.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <544720013119182824140@cantv.net> <3AB6B34F.918313CB@babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AB6B34F.918313CB@babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 08:33:03PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 08:33:03PM -0500, The Babbler wrote: > > FreeBSD-stable doesn't have releases as such, does it? > > That is, if you cvsup you get the stable track as it exists that minute. > > It's *called* "stable" most of the time; > as a release gets close, it is renamed BETA and then RC (release > candidate), > until the day it's truly officially blessed and it is named RELEASE and > that version number is frozen. > The next day (probably the same minute, actually), the label gets > switched back to STABLE and the version number is incremented by one. > > Regardless of the label, though, it's exactly the same animal. > > Thus, after 4.2-RELEASE, we got 4.3-STABLE, which is now 4.3-BETA and > will become 4.3-RC, and finally the same code base will be frozen into > 4.3-RELEASE, at which time 4.4-STABLE will come into existance. Basically yes. A release is just a snapshot of the -stable (or, sometimes, -current) branch at a particular point in time. You got the order a bit wrong though. It is 4.2-RELEASE, 4.2-STABLE, 4.3-BETA, 4.3-RC, 4.3-RELASE, 4.3-STABLE, etc. > > > "jbolivar@cantv.net" wrote: > > > > When is the next FreeBSD-stable release???? > > > > Regards, > > > > JB > > 4.3-RELEASE is scheduled for Mar. 25 It might be slightly later though. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message