From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 19 09:54:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA25803 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 09:54:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from birdland.rhein-neckar.de (root@birdland.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.88.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA25796 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 09:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by birdland.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id SAA21382; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 18:54:07 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 18:54:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: Martin Jangowski To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is there a perceived need for a 2.1.8 release? In-Reply-To: <17971.861382575@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The -stable branch seems to be ticking along still, something which I > think is *good* since many customers of 2.1.7 still need a place to go > for the critical bug fixes and -stable is a fine place to get them > from, but I'm wondering if Yet Another Release along that branch (and > I'm going to wise up and stop referring to anything on this branch as > "the last release" :-) would be merited. > [...] > > Anyway, given that proviso, what do those who are still running 2.1.x > think of this? > Of course! As master over 11 heavily loaded machines, all running 2.1.7.1 very successfully, I can't see myself changing them all to 2.2.x. I think that 2.1.7.1 is going to stay for a long time, so I'd appreciate the idea of fixing security bugs in the 2.1.x-line very much. Martin | Martin Jangowski E-Mail: maja@birdland.rhein-neckar.de | | Voice: +49 621/53 95 06 Fax: +49 621/53 95 07 | | Snail Mail: Koenigsbacher Str. 16 D-67067 Ludwigshafen Germany | | RNInet e.V. Rhein-Neckar Internet |