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On Jun 12, 2004, at 20:02, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:

> this is another thing I'm confused about. if I stay with RELENG_4_10,
> would I get security updates? does this also affect the ports?

For RELENG_4_10 you will only get security fixes (no new features). For  
more information on how the work release process works:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release- 
proc.html

The pictures in section 2.2.1 will show you how the various RELENG_*  
tags related to one another.