From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 13 21:37:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48D3616A41F for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:37:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 919BB43D62 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:36:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr8so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.184]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IMR00HTHYK2MI40@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:33:38 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml3so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.147]) by pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IMR00CE5YJZLWM0@pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:33:35 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IMR00359YJZEO@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:33:35 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:33:35 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20050913211508.63486.qmail@web52607.mail.yahoo.com> To: David Clear Message-id: <432745AF.4090905@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <20050913211508.63486.qmail@web52607.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.5 release schedule? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:37:03 -0000 David Clear wrote: > Does anyone know the status of 5.5-RELEASE? The > schedule on the website shows it due in September, but > another note had it following 6.0. FreeBSD 5.5 is definitely going to be after 6.0. The exact time will depend upon when 6.0 is finished -- the release engineering team can only handle one release at once -- but since it is the last release from RELENG_5 there is no reason to expect that the process for 5.5 will be at all problematic. Based on a guess of mid-October for 6.0, I'd guess that 5.5 will probably happen just in time for Christmas (and it would then be supported by the security team until the end of 2007). Colin Percival