Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

Dimitry Andric dim at FreeBSD.org
Sun Dec 9 14:42:19 UTC 2012


On 2012-12-09 04:18, Brett Glass wrote:
> Just checking in, yet again, to ask about the status of FreeBSD
> 9.1. We've been delaying construction of new servers (which we
> wanted to build during the US Thanksgiving holiday) until the
> release, and really want to be able to work on them over Christmas.
> I understand that the release was held back by server security
> issues and possibly by problems with CLANG's failure to emulate
> obscure quirks of GCC;

It has nothing to do with clang; it is not the default compiler for 9.1,
and will never be for the 9.x series.  Using it to compile your system
(or ports) is entirely optional.


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