From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 17:11:57 2004 Return-Path: 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 857A816A4CF for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:11:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41EEA43D3F for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:11:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1E1BUDL030798; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:11:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost)i1E1BUN3030795; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:11:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:11:30 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Sergey Matveychuk In-Reply-To: <402AFC13.5010509@ciam.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: next release X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:11:57 -0000 On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > Where do you plan to release of 4.10 or 4.9.1? There is not info on > http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html There are plans for at least one, and likely two, more releases on the RELENG_4 branch. And there could well be more if there is significant demand. However, a concrete schedule hasn't yet been laid down yet for when the releases will occur -- presumably one sometime in the spring/early summer, and then one sometime later in the year. Version numbers of not yet been selected, but I think "4.10" and "4.11" are more likely than "4.9.1". Murray Stokely, who has been our 4.x release engineer for the last few releases, is currently travelling, and as such we haven't really hammered out the schedule. We should put some words on the release engineering page to declare general intent, however, since the question comes up a lot. > I've found some problems on my home box with 4.9 and when I've upgraded > to RELENG-4 they are gone. But I'm afraid to install not-release on my > work boxes. As discussed elsewhere in this thread, there's an effect by which the system sees much more broad exposure following a release (many people like to install the release rather than the release candidates, needless to say), and the result is that there will inevitably be fixes that trickle in after the release as a result of problems not found in the test cycle. In general, development in the -STABLE branch is pretty conservative right now, and seems extremely stable, so it should be quite a safe update. You might want to try downloading the live CD (disc 2), booting it on your system, and doing some tests. That way you don't have to do an install to check that all your hardware probes properly, etc. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research