Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:20:14 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: When 5.5-stable? Message-ID: <20060425042014.GA26867@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20060424223139.GC20219@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060424222019.GA24086@thought.org> <20060424223139.GC20219@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:31:39PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 03:20:19PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > About a week ago I finally upgraded my DNS server from 5.3-S > > to 5.5. I see that I still caught a -prerelease" kernel. > > Any ETA of when 5.5 will be -stable? (Most of my other > > FBSD server can be not quite//less than stable. But if my > > DNS srver bites the dust, .... ) > > No-one is really working on back-porting changes to 5.5, so what you > see now is likely to be almost identical to what you'll get as > 5.5-release. > > > Also, is 5.5 the LAST of the 5's? > > Yes, development of the branch is effectively ended since the world > has moved on to 6.x. The only reason 5.5 was released was to batch up > some of the changes made since 5.4, mostly made last year. > Makes sense, thanks. I'm at 5.4 and 5.5 everywhere so the next step is to move to 6. I'm only a bit surprised that things went to well with 5.5. (But then FBSD has only crashed one time in ten years, :-), and that speaks volumes. gary PS: Any big gotchas in goingfrom 5.5 -> 6.1??? Kris? Anybody?? -g -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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