When 5.5-stable?

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:31:39PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 03:20:19PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > 	About a week ago I finally upgraded my DNS server from 5.3-S
> > 	to 5.5.  I see that I still caught a -prerelease" kernel.
> > 	Any ETA of when 5.5 will be -stable?   (Most of my other 
> > 	FBSD server can be not quite//less than stable.  But if my 
> > 	DNS srver bites the dust,  .... )
> 
> No-one is really working on back-porting changes to 5.5, so what you
> see now is likely to be almost identical to what you'll get as
> 5.5-release.
> 
> > 	Also, is 5.5 the LAST of the 5's?
> 
> Yes, development of the branch is effectively ended since the world
> has moved on to 6.x.  The only reason 5.5 was released was to batch up
> some of the changes made since 5.4, mostly made last year.
> 

	Makes sense, thanks.  I'm at 5.4 and 5.5 everywhere so the
	next step is to move to 6.   I'm only a bit surprised that
	things went to well with 5.5.  (But then FBSD has only 
	crashed one time in ten years, :-), and that speaks volumes.

	gary

	PS:  Any big gotchas in goingfrom 5.5 -> 6.1???  Kris?
	     Anybody??  -g





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