From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 28 15:27:19 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 1A28B16A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:27:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E042743D60 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:27:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E19333A0C6; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:27:17 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E084E3A0B7; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:27:17 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:27:17 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040728122542.A792@ganymede.hub.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rumors of 4.x death greatly exagerated (was: Re: Anyonemaintaining / care about 4.x anymore ?) 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: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:27:19 -0000 On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> Since I'm under the impression that 4.10 is/was meant to be 'end of >> line', is anyone looking at / dealing with bug reports for 4.x anymore? > > Rumors of 4.x's death are greatly exagerated. We plan to continue > supporting 4.x well into the future with security fixes, stability fixes, > and at least one additional release (which would imply additional > features, wot?). The reality is that even if we did "end of life" 4.x, it > would remain in use for years to come, and we're hardly going to ignore > that :-). If you look at the FreeBSD Release Engineering web page, you'll > see that 4.11 is on the impending release list, but doesn't yet have a > schedule assigned. Right now we're largely focussing on getting 5.3 ready > to go out the door. Nope, that's perfect ... thank you for the answer ... personally, I'm looking forward to 5.x moving into STABLE mode, and starting to shift my servers over to it :) ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664