Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 12:16:12 -0600 From: Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What's the difference between "Release" versus "Errata" versus "Security" branches??? Message-ID: <545BBAEC.8020806@my.hennepintech.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAFS4T6Yw8afiyAD3yT8LAMunnvey7g6b9CpbpBzb9q9BnakS4g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFS4T6Yw8afiyAD3yT8LAMunnvey7g6b9CpbpBzb9q9BnakS4g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2014.11.06 12:05, edflecko . wrote: > Can someone explain what the differences between these three are for me? > These sure sound a lot alike to me - > > http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/stable-current - "The -RELEASE branch is > arguably the most stable branch of FreeBSD. That's exactly what it's > designed to be, what the everyday end user installs and uses. When a > -RELEASE is cut, the only updates it gets are either critical fixes or > security flaws." There is no 'errata' or 'security' branch. -RELEASE gets errata and security fixes (technically, this is the releng branch, as the release branches are never updated at all). When you update a -RELEASE version using freebsd-update (or follow the corresponding releng branch), you get just security fixes and sometimes minor and non-disruptive bug fixes alongside security fixes (errata). The other branches are -CURRENT and -STABLE, which the handbook explains: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/current-stable.html
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