UPDATING and security updates.

[Lowell Gilbert]

jimmie james <jimmiejaz at gmail.com> writes:

> Curious why there's no mention of any security issues in
> /usr/src/UPDATING on 4.11-STABLE systems, but browsing the cvs-src,
> there's notes in RELENG_4_10, RELENG_4_11, Branch: RELENG_5_3?  
> Wouldn't it make sense to note it in all affected releases?

I don't think so.  It's already mentioned in a lot of places, and
UPDATING is imposing enough as it is; I think that keeping UPDATING
just for tracking issues you need to bear in mind for actually *doing*
the update of your system.

> Yes, I'm subscribed to the relevent lists, however, having an offical
> tracking of these issues, would help in knowing what patch was applied
> when, and the reason.

Absolutely.  That place is:
http://www.freebsd.org/security/#adv