From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 23 11:31: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EEC1537B71D for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:30:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 65985 invoked by uid 100); 23 Mar 2001 19:30:52 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15035.42092.508595.661733@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:30:52 -0600 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: questions@freebsd.org, mj@isy.liu.se Subject: Re: How long will 3.x-STABLE live? In-Reply-To: <55997075@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway types: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:29:47AM +0100, Micke Josefsson wrote: > > I have a whole lot (circa 50 off) of boxes running 3.x-STABLE (closer to > > 3.2-RELEASE than anything else actually). This summer I will upgrade them= > , but I > > would prefer to do it the simple way ie. just make them STABLE again. But= > how > > far into the future will there be updates to the 3-branch?=20 > Commits to RELENG_3 basically dried up around the release of > 3.4-RELEASE..there have been only a handful of commits since then, and > almost none in the past year (except for security fixes). RELENG_3 > has been for all intents and purposes dead for quite some time. It's more like being at the "bug fix only" stage. I think the more telling point is that a month or so ago, support for 3.x was officially dropped for ports. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message