-stable

[James A. Coulter]

Paul wrote:
> hi,
> i currently installed 4.10-release and cvsup to get -stable but it gave me
> 4.11-prelease is there a current tag
> that allow me to get 4.10-stable?
> regards,
> paul
> 
The same thing happened to me.  After some googling, I found this:

"RELENG_4 marks the 4-STABLE branch.  OS names along this branch
     all have the major version number 4 but *aren't* tied to any
     particular minor version number. Those change about every four
     months.  Yes, a 4.8-STABLE OS did exist, for a few months after
     4.8-RELEASE came out.  That was back between April and August
     2003.  Then that code branch was successively relabelled (over the
     course of a few weeks) as 4.9-PRERELEASE, 4.9-RC, etc. until for a
     vanishingly short time it was technically 4.9-RELEASE and then
     became 4.9-STABLE.  At which it remained until a few weeks ago
     when it became 4.10-BETA, etc. etc. until right now, you get
     4.10-STABLE.  4.10-RELEASE hasn't quite happened yet: any day now
     though."

http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg17655.html

I don't think we can go back to 4.10-STABLE using the stable branch tag. 
  4.10-STABLE has become 4.11-PRERELEASE and will soon become 
4.11-STABLE itself (scheduled date is 24 January 2005 - release schedule 
here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/schedule.html)

HTH

Jim
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