From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 22 21:05:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10B8E16A62D for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:05:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@cpcnw.co.uk) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EAF543D45 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:04:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from admin@cpcnw.co.uk) Received: from [81.174.174.115] (helo=localhost.cpcnw.co.uk) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1GmzH7-0000Te-Tz for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:04:59 +0000 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:05:13 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Graham Bentley" Organization: Custom PC North West Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.02 (FreeBSD) Subject: Re: Upgrade Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:05:03 -0000 > You've confused STABLE with RELEASE. 6.2 has not reached RELEASE. > 6-STABLE is the latest "these changes worked fine in CURRENT (right now, > aka 7) and have been MFCed (merged from current) so that more people can > try them out", which right now corresponds to the version of FreeBSDthat > is just about to be released which also happens to be called6.2-RC1 > (release candidate 1)). When 6.2 is ready to go, a new RELEASEbranch is > created (6.2-RELEASE) which only gets security fixes. So, if I want the 'latest version' that 'isnt a work in progress' (or at least tested to the point where it is know to be working correctly in the majority of scenarios) always use the RELEASE branches ?