From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 19 20:37:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F8116A41F for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:37:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca [128.100.216.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7698243D53 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:37:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fields.fields.utoronto.ca (fields.localdomain [192.168.216.11]) by fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields 6.0) with ESMTP id j8JKbf0r010460 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:37:41 -0400 Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fields.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields WS 6.0) with ESMTP id j8JKbe6P025538; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:37:40 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B612551259; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:37:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:37:36 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Paul T. Root" Message-ID: <20050919203736.GA23132@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <432F132A.1060200@iaces.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+QahgC5+KEYLbs62" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <432F132A.1060200@iaces.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: swhetzel@gmail.com, "Sandro Noel." , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Eriq Subject: Re: any ideas when 5.5 will be out X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:37:44 -0000 --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 02:36:10PM -0500, Paul T. Root wrote: > In the past, x.0 releases are meant for the adventurous > not the production oriented. >=20 > I never go before x.1. And I skipped 3.x completely. > I just got my final server from 4.11 to 5.4 in July. >=20 > 6.x is probably still 9-12 months away from prime time. > But that's just a guess on my part. I do know that they > are pushing on it harder than they did for 5.0. It's not nearly as big a gap as between other (n-1).x -> n.0 releases, so I'd say this time expectation is extremely pessimistic. However, time will tell, and if you're not able to deal with the possibility of bugs in 6.0 then you should at least wait a while until after the release to see what bugs are reported. Kris --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDLyGPWry0BWjoQKURAjhEAKDcROwEpo7QaewDz2mZbzSF6+GrSwCg9xDZ zxRLyuv4AZAKDZZU6SycS1k= =tQ9D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62--