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Date:      Sat, 19 Apr 1997 18:54:07 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Martin Jangowski <bsd@birdland.rhein-neckar.de>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Is there a perceived need for a 2.1.8 release?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.94.970419185000.21106A-100000@birdland.rhein-neckar.de>
In-Reply-To: <17971.861382575@time.cdrom.com>

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> The -stable branch seems to be ticking along still, something which I
> think is *good* since many customers of 2.1.7 still need a place to go
> for the critical bug fixes and -stable is a fine place to get them
> from, but I'm wondering if Yet Another Release along that branch (and
> I'm going to wise up and stop referring to anything on this branch as
> "the last release" :-) would be merited.
> 

[...]

> 
> Anyway, given that proviso, what do those who are still running 2.1.x
> think of this?
> 


Of course! As master over 11 heavily loaded machines, all running 2.1.7.1
very successfully, I can't see myself changing them all to 2.2.x. I think
that 2.1.7.1 is going to stay for a long time, so I'd appreciate the idea
of fixing security bugs in the 2.1.x-line very much.

Martin

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