Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:17:10 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006 Message-ID: <43A28616.8010900@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20051216082704.GA52634@thought.org> References: <43A266E5.3080103@samsco.org> <20051216082704.GA52634@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote:
> Sounds like an ambitious schedule... All my FBSD servers
> are at least up to 5.3; my laptop is happy at 5.4. I have
> what I believe to be a rationalquestion. Why should I go
> beyond v5.5?
There is one school of thought that says you shouldn't. If it works for you,
there is no real need to upgrade.
> More to the point, why can't minor security
> tweaks be maintained indefinitely for 5.5?
We don't support any branch of FreeBSD indefinitely.
> What will
> releases -6 and -7 offer that can;t reasonably be dropped
> into -5?
New features that require protocol/ABI changes, etc. for one. For example,
I'm working on adding ports/local rc.d scripts to the overall rcorder, and
that change won't go back into RELENG_5 because it constitutes a major
paradigm shift, and we don't mess with -stable branches in that way.
hth,
Doug
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