What is Stable

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 23 00:03:48 PDT 2004


On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:56:20AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:32:24PM -0500, AL Grant wrote:
> > I am confused. Is 5.x stable now and 6.x current or is the latest 
> > stable release 4.10?
> 
> Lots of people are. ;-)
> 
> 5.x is not stable yet but we expect it will be after the 5.3 release.
> The first BETA for 5.3 was released today.  We don't expect people
> to switch from 4.X to 5.X overnight, it will most likely take people
> time to make the transition.  Especially large sites.  Because of
> that we will continue to support 4.X for a while.  Development
> (mostly just bugfixes) will continue until 4.11 is released, at
> which point development of 4.X will stop and it becomes an Errata
> Branch (only *really* major bug fixes along with security fixes
> will be applied).
> 
> So, there will be an overlap of a few months where we have three
> active development branches.  At this point 6.X is current, 5.X
> is "in transition" between being current and stable, and 4.X is
> still considered stable.  After the 5.3 release it is expected
> 5.X will become stable.  At that point I'm not sure what to call
> 4.X since development won't have stopped completely but it will
> still 'be there' for people who need time to make the jump to 5.X
> as the new stable.
> 
Can you clarify, what will be the policy of the RELENG_4 after it
"becomes an Errata Branch"?  Will it be passed to Security Officer,
and no new featuress could be committed to this branch?


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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