I think part of my solution is to encourage other newbies to track a release instead of stable. So we would follow "5_4" instead of "5", since "5" is on its way to become "5_5" - and might have some bugs with the features that are being added. I read about this here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html thx!