Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Thu Jun 14 14:41:29 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:29:22AM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> Whoever said STABLE is no good for production ?
> 
> I used to make us stick to 8.2-RELEASE here at work, but some bugfixes
> are just too important to skip (we're running firewalls and had a
> problem with a CARP bug).

In theory we try our best to keep -STABLE, well, stable in behavior and
not just the API, but in practice any given snapshot of -stable may or
may not have uncaught regressions in it.

I reiterate, the major difference between -stable and -release is a more
thorough QA process for the latter :-)

mcl


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