From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 19 20:28:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFCA16A4CE for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 20:28:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 909E043D41 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 20:28:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from unknown (HELO 172.16.0.1) (mikej@69.193.222.195 with login) by smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Dec 2004 20:28:31 -0000 Received: from 172.16.0.200 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mikej); by 172.16.0.1 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:28:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1590.172.16.0.200.1103488097.squirrel@172.16.0.200> In-Reply-To: <20041219054045.GA494@frontfree.net> References: <200412190500.WAA16814@lariat.org> <20041219054045.GA494@frontfree.net> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:28:17 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike Jakubik" To: "Xin LI" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: Brett Glass cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will there be a 5.3.1? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 20:28:33 -0000 Xin LI said: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:00:57PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >> I see that there is no scheduled release date for FreeBSD 5.4 >> (which is not a surprise; 5.3 was finalized so recently). >> However, there seem to be glitches and performance issues >> which I need to see resolved before I can move to 5.3.x (rather >> than 4.10 or 4.11) for production servers. > > RELENG_5_3 is considered ``errata branch'' so if there is some > serious issues then some of us may request an errata candidate > to re@ and there may be an ``errata advisory''. Generally > speaking, I don't think there will be a 5.3.1-RELEASE. > > Would you please explain what are these ``glitches'' and ``performance > issues''? Are they believed to have been fixed in recent -CURRENT? How about the problems the amd64 platform has with memory configurations above 4GB? These prevent a successful install.