From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 04:56:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB2916A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 04:56:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8042043D3F for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 04:56:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (kensmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i7N4uKTH017197; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:56:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id i7N4uK2U017196; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:56:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:56:20 -0400 From: Ken Smith To: AL Grant Message-ID: <20040823045620.GG15251@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <6E7EB9E8-F4BD-11D8-94CF-003065781ED0@runbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6E7EB9E8-F4BD-11D8-94CF-003065781ED0@runbox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is Stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 04:56:21 -0000 On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:32:24PM -0500, AL Grant wrote: > I am confused. Is 5.x stable now and 6.x current or is the latest > stable release 4.10? Lots of people are. ;-) 5.x is not stable yet but we expect it will be after the 5.3 release. The first BETA for 5.3 was released today. We don't expect people to switch from 4.X to 5.X overnight, it will most likely take people time to make the transition. Especially large sites. Because of that we will continue to support 4.X for a while. Development (mostly just bugfixes) will continue until 4.11 is released, at which point development of 4.X will stop and it becomes an Errata Branch (only *really* major bug fixes along with security fixes will be applied). So, there will be an overlap of a few months where we have three active development branches. At this point 6.X is current, 5.X is "in transition" between being current and stable, and 4.X is still considered stable. After the 5.3 release it is expected 5.X will become stable. At that point I'm not sure what to call 4.X since development won't have stopped completely but it will still 'be there' for people who need time to make the jump to 5.X as the new stable. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |