latest security advisory and 5.1R

[fbsd_user]

Please expand on your comment about 4.10 being the next stable
release. I take this to mean that 5.2.1 is an long way off from
moving to the stable branch.  Are you in the inter-circle that
authorizes the movement of development branch versions to stable
branch? Just what is the time line for 4.x stable versions and the
5.x development versions? Sure would like an idea of the future so I
can plan the upgrade time line for my environment.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Matthew
Seaman
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 12:24 PM
To: fbsd_user
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: latest security advisory and 5.1R

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:54:22AM -0500, fbsd_user wrote:
> Are the security advisory fixes rolled into the .iso ftp download
> images?

No -- the iso images are produced at release time and not altered
after that.  However, binary patches are being produced by Colin
Percival's FreeBSD-update service -- see his site at
http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ -- which will apply to
systems installed from the release media.

The fixes will certainly be in the next release, which I think is
going to be 4.10, but that's some time in the future.

        Cheers,

        Matthew

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