From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 12 17:51:39 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 A32E537B401 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F297543EA9 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:51:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daleco@daleco.biz) Received: from DaleCoportable [12.145.226.112] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.13) id A34476E90100; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 19:50:12 -0500 Message-ID: <00f901c27252$48766a80$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> From: "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" To: "Matthew Seaman" , "Dave Feustel" , "Josh Paetzel" Cc: References: <20021012164929.GB36537@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 and FreeBSD 5.0 Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 19:48:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 So, will I be still on the 4.x branch with a RELENG_4 tag in my supfiles? (I'm assuming so, from my understanding, which might have come from actually reading the Handbook :-) Sorry for dumb ??, but this will be the first "big number rollover" for me.... TIA, Kevin Kinsey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Seaman" To: "Dave Feustel" Cc: Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 11:49 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 and FreeBSD 5.0 > 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? > > Because there's a lot of radically new stuff in 5.0, and it needs time > to stabilize properly in general use before any right thinking person > would use it on a machine critical to their business. In the mean > time, 4-STABLE and the -RELEASE branches split from it will still need > to be maintained. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message