Stable vs Release vs Current

[Mike]

FreeBSD-CURRENT vs. FreeBSD-STABLE:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html


Release Documentation:

http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes.html


That should clear it up for you.

-Mike


On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, David Beukes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Have been using FreeBSD for about a year now but haven't
> understood or found a definitive answer to the
> versions/branches. Would appreciate it if someone could
> shed some light; a bit of history follows:
>
> I installed 1st FreeBSD system from 4.4 (the only cds I
> could get my hands on). By the time I started understanding
> what I was doing, 4.8 was out. So I CVSup'd the source and
> did the whole make buildworld/installworld kernel thing.
> And I was running 4.8... Question here is, was I running
> 4.4 release? or 4.4 stable? when did 4.8 become stable (are
> you starting to catch my drift?).
>
> Then in December 2003 (about a month after 4.9 was
> announced), I downloaded ISOs for 4.9 and reinstalled from
> scratch. Same questions as before, am I running 4.9 stable?
> release? When did release become stable?
>
> Am now running 4.9 and started cvsupping the source. my
> supfile has this line in it: default release=cvs
> tag=RELENG_4_9. Am I wasting my time? Should it rather read
> RELENG_4? If so, why?
>
> And where do security patches fit into this story?
>
> Any info would be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> David
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