From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 03:58:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 E19A716A41F for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 03:58:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9367243D49 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 03:58:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F5B55F9B; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:58:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 76725-07; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:58:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A572D5D5E; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:58:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <438BD1CA.8000303@mac.com> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:58:02 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Tomsa References: <002101c5f496$b6174fe0$6401a8c0@bedroompc> In-Reply-To: <002101c5f496$b6174fe0$6401a8c0@bedroompc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no subject) 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: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 03:58:05 -0000 Matthew Tomsa wrote: > What is the difference between RELEASE versions, STABLE versions, and > CURRENT versions? I've done some reading but I'm still a bit confused. > Thanks. -CURRENT is alpha. -STABLE is supposed to be the leading edge of functionality yet be stable enough for production use; it should be treated as a late beta. In other words, test it before deploying in production, because sometimes, perhaps a day or two per month, -STABLE contains problems or breakage. Every few months, the project makes an effort to stabilize the source tree (including ports and docs), generates a release candidate or two, and then pushes out a RELEASE by tagging the -STABLE branch. A -RELEASE or security branch is intended for production use because it has undergone such testing, and is updated with security patches and critical fixes only after such changes have been tested in -CURRENT or -STABLE. If you don't know what to run, run the security branch (ie, RELENG_5_4). -- -Chuck