Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:03:28 -0500 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Beginning FreeBSD-4.11 Release Cycle Message-ID: <20041201000327.GA5048@bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu>
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The release cycle for FreeBSD-4.11 will be starting shortly, with a target release date of January 24th, 2005. A tentative schedule is available, though not all of the dates for the various steps have been set. Throughout the release cycle the schedule will be updated and available here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/schedule.html This is expected to be the last of the FreeBSD-4.X releases, and is meant to provide current 4.X users with a little more time to migrate to FreeBSD-5.X. It is mostly an accumulation of security and other misc. bugfixes though a few new features have been added since 4.10 was released. For those of you who track the RELENG_4 development branch (which is not recommended for systems that require high reliability - we recommend such systems track the release branch, currently RELENG_4_10 for 4.X) note that branch will shift to being called 4.11-PRERELEASE on December 6th, 2004. Typically the developers get more active the week before a code freeze so this will be your hint to be a bit more cautious during that time. Problems like catching a snapshot of the source tree "between commits" and that sort of thing become more likely during that week. -ken
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