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Date:      Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:25:11 +0000
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
To:        d@delphij.net
Cc:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-12@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r365619 - in stable/12/sys: conf sys
Message-ID:  <20210114182511.GB5896@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <dfffa29a-f5ad-edbd-f93c-6ea016809806@delphij.net>
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:04:23AM -0800, Xin Li wrote:
> I believe traditionally we also bump __FreeBSD_version when -STABLE
> become -PRERELEASE, which typically happens when we enter a code freeze,
> but more recent -STABLE branches seems to have moved to doing
> __FreeBSD_version bumps at the time of -BETA, but technically I think we
> do want to bump __FreeBSD_version as early as we promoted -STABLE to
> -PRERELEASE to match the hardcoded version number...
>=20

The __FreeBSD_version bump happens when the stable branch is created,
correct.  The problem with statically setting it earlier is if a change
happens that warrants bumping the __FreeBSD_version (similarly to why we
do not bump it for SAs/ENs).

Glen


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