From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 18:13:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AAF237B422 for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 18:13:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0DD6067B2D; Sat, 19 May 2001 18:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 18:13:54 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mike Meyer Cc: Ken McGlothlen , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -CURRENT, -STABLE and -RELEASE. Message-ID: <20010519181354.A82882@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <75492046@toto.iv> <15111.3404.680997.19620@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15111.3404.680997.19620@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 07:18:20PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 07:18:20PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > With the release of 4.3, a true third branch was added, which you > track with the tag RELENG_4_3. It's the bug fix only branch, and > doesn't have a name yet. I'm still waiting to see if anything will be > committed to it, and what will happen to it when 4.4-RELEASE shows up. Security bug fixes only. These will also be committed to -stable (RELENG_4) at the same time -- it's a convenience for people who would otherwise be using -RELEASE and manually applying patches. As long as we continue to support 4.3-RELEASE for security patches they'll end up on that branch. Kris --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7BxpSWry0BWjoQKURAuEpAKCj2vY3+3IAOjWqmplEDG6En2ie2QCfRCtB YzqLfTxcEQI4Db8mBXVNnL0= =ayL6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message