5.5 release schedule?

David Clear davidclear at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 13 16:13:15 PDT 2005


Thanks for the update guys.

Regards,
David.

--- Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:

> David Clear wrote:
> > Does anyone know the status of 5.5-RELEASE?  The
> > schedule on the website shows it due in September,
> but
> > another note had it following 6.0.
> 
> FreeBSD 5.5 is definitely going to be after 6.0. 
> The exact time
> will depend upon when 6.0 is finished -- the release
> engineering
> team can only handle one release at once -- but
> since it is the
> last release from RELENG_5 there is no reason to
> expect that the
> process for 5.5 will be at all problematic.
> 
> Based on a guess of mid-October for 6.0, I'd guess
> that 5.5 will
> probably happen just in time for Christmas (and it
> would then be
> supported by the security team until the end of
> 2007).
> 
> Colin Percival
> 



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