From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Mar 3 3: 4:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mplspop5.mpls.uswest.net (mplspop5.mpls.uswest.net [204.147.80.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC36A37B400 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 03:04:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 76252 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2002 11:04:07 -0000 Received: from jumpgate.antiflesh.com (HELO jenny) (63.231.238.225) by mplspop5.mpls.uswest.net with SMTP; 3 Mar 2002 11:04:07 -0000 Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 05:15:56 -0600 Message-ID: From: "Maildrop" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Release, Stable, Current MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20020303053843.H93697-100000@sduwebship.student.umd.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Have a quick question in regards to FreeBSD releases. The way I am understanding it, is that: Release (4.5) is the Production quality release Stable (4.5.X) is the "Beta" (?) quality release Current (5.0) is the Alpha (high development still going on) quality release If my assumation above are right, what would be the Production quality release that includes only major bug fixes/security holes? Say 4.5 is released, in the Production world for awhile and someone finds a XYZ expliot in it. If I cvs down stable, that should include the fix right (?), but am I also getting a bunch of development / fearture code included with it that may not be suitable for a production envoriment? Are all security holes/major bug fixes avaiable via CVS, or does each one of them have to be applied manually? Is there a web page, etc that contains all the known issuses since the Release (4.5) release? For example, today I installed 4.5 release and after install, synced /usr/src up with 4.5 Stable just to see how much has changed... anyways there was some changes to chmod for example... but not sure if this is a require patch (ie. major security issuse with it) or if it is a bunch of "beta" quality development/ fearture added that shouldn't be floating around in a production envoirment. Is there a 4.5 "bugfix only" release floating around out there? Thanks, Jack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message