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Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 15:49:08 -0000 (GMT)
From: "David Jenkins" <david@unixusers.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Main differences between RELEASE_X and RELEASE_X_Y branches
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On Sun, 5 December, 2004 14:54, ptitoliv said:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your answer :).
>
> So according to you, it is better for a server to use a RELEASE
> version
> than STABLE version. And another question, is it necessary and
> important
> to change when a new RELEASE is ... released ?

Perhaps have a look at this:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.html

It will give you all the information you need on this.

Cheers,
David