Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:51:44 +0300 (MSK) From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How stable is 4.9-RELEASE proving to be? Message-ID: <20031029195029.B57490@news1.macomnet.ru> In-Reply-To: <200310291641.JAA27852@lariat.org> References: <200310291641.JAA27852@lariat.org>
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, 09:41-0700, Brett Glass wrote: > We need immediate feedback on the stability of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. (Yes, I > know, people are just starting to download it now.) We want and need some of > the important fixes that went into -STABLE in the past month (including vital > upates to IPFW2), but can't afford to put a release that's not absolutely > solid on a production system. (For the same reason, we probably won't go to > 5.x until 5.3.) The comment in the release notes suggesting that conservative > users stick with 4.8-RELEASE is not encouraging. If 4.9 isn't stable, we may > be forced to jump over to OpenBSD 3.4 for new production systems. All our tests show RELENG_4 is quite stable atm. We are going to upgrade all our production systems to 4.9-STABLE in two weeks. -- Maxim Konovalov, maxim@macomnet.ru, maxim@FreeBSD.org
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