From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 12 11:36:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F5C515820 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:36:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA45577; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:36:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <199910121836.OAA45577@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: 3.5-stable ? In-Reply-To: from Brett Taylor at "Oct 12, 1999 1:54:29 pm" To: brett@peloton.runet.edu (Brett Taylor) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:36:36 -0400 (EDT) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Huh? There was no 2.5-RELEASE. I am pretty sure there were no 1.5 > releases either. There have been 2.*.5 releases, but the numbering scheme > has been slightly altered w/ the advent of the 3.* branch. Sorry, I should have specified 2.*.5. (Note to self; do not write so you can be understood, write so you cannot be misunderstood.) > As far as I know, there aren't any major stability issues w/ 3.2 or 3.3. > I don't however use NFS and many other things so maybe I've missed those. > I think you are probably safe to upgrade, maybe a machine at a time, to > 3.3. Well, in 2.2.5 we had a nice little notice in the release announcement: It is my great pleasure, as always, to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.2.5, our next release on the 2.2-stable branch. Those folks who are still running 2.1.x and wish to upgrade to 2.2 technology are now encouraged to do so as 2.2.5 has reached an equivalent level of stability in all of our tests. A number of annoying problems with 2.2.2 have also been fixed (see the release notes for more information on this). IIRC, we had a similar note around 2.1.5 > We could help you decide more if we knew exactly what issues you were > having w/ software. Ah, but then I wouldn't learn anything, would I? Seriously, I solve most of them, and scream when I don't. Don't worry, I'm far from a dissatisfied customer. I suppose what I'm asking is, when will 3.x be considered at that minimal stable level 2.2.5 was at? Will we be seeing an "official" notice from FreeBSD to that effect at any point? An announcement like the one above is absolutely invaluable to indie contractors when explaining why upgrades are necessary. ==ml To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message