From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 03:12:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0784116A432 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 03:12:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646C743D46 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 03:12:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id h2so105579ugf for ; Tue, 09 May 2006 20:12:12 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dgVbmZnMX67rhRcIVoyWVjFG/UwBEjVNqj/njsDa966NI/3I2l2LIqhroSH5IsKEQ/73q4rwG+iBP+L5BVZD59QGoy+NGi9GkkAu7hS/0zsizJjJAboTOvy5OqdxdsAfgF8t9jf4h04vlMTph8hHI6qnISKIWHZhIKxpQG6vkTg= Received: by 10.78.40.10 with SMTP id n10mr26147hun; Tue, 09 May 2006 19:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.31.19 with HTTP; Tue, 9 May 2006 19:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 21:17:22 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Duane Whitty" In-Reply-To: <4461329E.5030507@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4461329E.5030507@greenmeadow.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Understanding The FreeBSD Version Labels [RFC] 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, 10 May 2006 03:12:20 -0000 On 5/9/06, Duane Whitty wrote: > Hi, > > I've written an article trying to explain the FreeBSD version labels, > CURRENT, STABLE, and RELEASE. This article, of course, is > aimed at newcomers to FreeBSD. > > The article is here > http://www.dwlabs.ca/fbsd-releases > > For anyone who can time find to read it I would appreciate any > comments, feedback. constructive criticism, etc. > "Branch tag for FreeBSD 6.0 RELENG_6_0 So, FreeBSD 6.0 was officially released. At the time this happened it was decided, after a lot of testing and other quality control procedures, that the code in 6-STABLE should be turned into a release. But since FreeBSD is a very complex piece of software it is inevitable that eventually a security issue would need to be addressed or some other critical issue would need to be fixed. That is what this branch of development is for. It used as the spot in the source archive for only critical fixes and items which address security issues. This model ensures that officially released FreeBSD versions contain only the most reliable of code while still having bugs and security issues fixed." What about errata fix branches, they are not limited to just critical and security fixes? Also update the doc, change 6.0 to 6.1. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/