From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 12 9:21:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F351237B401 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:21:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from granger.mail.mindspring.net (granger.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3D743EAF for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:21:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfeustel@mindspring.com) Received: from 1cust164.tnt5.fort-wayne.in.da.uu.net ([65.238.146.164] helo=there) by granger.mail.mindspring.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 180Oyi-0007k5-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:19:00 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dave Feustel Reply-To: dfeustel@mindspring.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD 4.8 and FreeBSD 5.0 Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 06:25:16 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: 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 At http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html I find the flollowing: "The next scheduled release on the -stable branch will be FreeBSD 4.8 on February 1, 2003. Subsequent releases will follow at 4 month intervals. The first release on what is now the -current branch will be FreeBSD 5.0, scheduled for November 20, 2002." Why is version 5.0 being released before 4.8? Thanks, Dave Feustel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message