From owner-freebsd-security Wed Feb 16 9: 5:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B2ED37B50D for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 09:05:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 238F5132E0 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 09:04:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10037; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:05:02 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000216095354.04315900@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:04:59 -0700 To: Matt Heckaman From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Why should I upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.4 Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.2.20000216092918.044d9300@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:37 AM 2/16/2000 , Matt Heckaman wrote: >Personally, I had my best luck with 3.3, I've had a few problems with 3.4, >though I'm not sure I can attribute them solely the to the OS. Regarding >3.5 though, is there even going to be a 3.5? I'm under the impression that >4.0 will be the next release, is this incorrect? 4.0 will be next, but since it won't be well tested in production applications many users will stay with the 3.x-STABLE branch until 4.2 or later. We have a policy: we never install a point release of FreeBSD less than .2 on a production system. This isn't because earlier releases on a branch are NECESSARILY bad, but because releases after .1 tend to be more stable and have fewer surprises. We waited until 3.3 before moving our first servers to 3.x because of a rash of fixes that were made shortly after 3.2 came out. Once 4.0-RELEASE comes out, I'm hoping that folks will take the time to polish up 3.5 and make it a "golden" release. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message