From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 18:16:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4AADEE99 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:16:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from na01-bn1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-bn1bn0104.outbound.protection.outlook.com [157.56.110.104]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.protection.outlook.com", Issuer "MSIT Machine Auth CA 2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC29630D for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:16:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.0.21] (73.5.142.244) by DM2PR0301MB0845.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (25.160.215.143) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.1.11.14; Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:16:19 +0000 Message-ID: <545BBAEC.8020806@my.hennepintech.edu> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 12:16:12 -0600 From: Andrew Berg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subject: Re: What's the difference between "Release" versus "Errata" versus "Security" branches??? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [73.5.142.244] X-ClientProxiedBy: BL2PR08CA0036.namprd08.prod.outlook.com (10.255.170.154) To DM2PR0301MB0845.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (25.160.215.143) X-MS-Exchange-Transport-FromEntityHeader: Hosted X-Microsoft-Antispam: UriScan:; X-Microsoft-Antispam: BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID:;SRVR:DM2PR0301MB0845; X-Exchange-Antispam-Report-Test: UriScan:; X-Forefront-PRVS: 0387D64A71 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: SFV:NSPM; SFS:(10019020)(6009001)(6049001)(51704005)(189002)(199003)(24454002)(42186005)(87976001)(107886001)(95666004)(110136001)(46102003)(4396001)(33656002)(20776003)(47776003)(64706001)(21056001)(88552001)(89122001)(75432002)(65806001)(65956001)(66066001)(122386002)(59896002)(107046002)(99396003)(2351001)(105586002)(120916001)(31966008)(65816999)(101416001)(102836001)(450100001)(50466002)(76176999)(54356999)(87266999)(64126003)(2420400002)(62966003)(15975445006)(83506001)(92566001)(50986999)(86362001)(77156002)(106356001)(19580395003)(97736003)(92726001)(80316001)(23676002)(77096003)(15202345003)(40100003)(89472002); DIR:OUT; SFP:1102; SCL:1; SRVR:DM2PR0301MB0845; H:[10.0.0.21]; FPR:; MLV:sfv; PTR:InfoNoRecords; MX:1; A:0; LANG:en; X-OriginatorOrg: my.hennepintech.edu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:16:24 -0000 On 2014.11.06 12:05, edflecko . wrote: > Can someone explain what the differences between these three are for me? > These sure sound a lot alike to me - > > http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/stable-current - "The -RELEASE branch is > arguably the most stable branch of FreeBSD. That's exactly what it's > designed to be, what the everyday end user installs and uses. When a > -RELEASE is cut, the only updates it gets are either critical fixes or > security flaws." There is no 'errata' or 'security' branch. -RELEASE gets errata and security fixes (technically, this is the releng branch, as the release branches are never updated at all). When you update a -RELEASE version using freebsd-update (or follow the corresponding releng branch), you get just security fixes and sometimes minor and non-disruptive bug fixes alongside security fixes (errata). The other branches are -CURRENT and -STABLE, which the handbook explains: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/current-stable.html