From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 12 9:49:12 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 2BAB137B401 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E47243EAC for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:49:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: by ns1.webwarrior.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 0BBA825314; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:52:29 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:52:28 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel To: Dave Feustel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 and FreeBSD 5.0 Message-ID: <20021012225228.GA41993@ns1.webwarrior.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 06:25:16AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > 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 > 4.8 will be a maintainance release to the 4.x branch. 5.0 is the development branch and will become the stable branch in November. Many of the FreeBSD users are wary of .0 releases and will stick to 4.x until 5.x matures. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message