Packages available for different FreeBSD versions

[Andrew Gould]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:27 PM, RW<rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:41:12 -0500
> Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> STABLE is what it sounds like.
>
> I don't think it is what it sounds like - STABLE branches are
> development branches with stable binary interfaces. It's the security
> branches that are intended for production use.
>

From:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/version-guide/index.html

"During the lifetime of each major release, an individual branch may
also be termed STABLE. This indicates that the FreeBSD Project
believes that the branch is of sufficiently proven quality to be used
by a wide range of users. Branches that need further testing before
being widely adopted are named CURRENT."