Upgrade Question

Graham Bentley admin at cpcnw.co.uk
Wed Nov 22 13:05:03 PST 2006


> You've confused STABLE with RELEASE.  6.2 has not reached RELEASE.  
> 6-STABLE is the latest "these changes worked fine in CURRENT (right now, 
> aka 7) and have been MFCed (merged from current) so that more people can 
> try them out", which right now corresponds to the version of FreeBSDthat  
> is just about to be released which also happens to be called6.2-RC1  
> (release candidate 1)).  When 6.2 is ready to go, a new RELEASEbranch is  
> created (6.2-RELEASE) which only gets security fixes.

So, if I want the 'latest version' that 'isnt a work in progress' (or at  
least tested
to the point where it is know to be working correctly in the majority of  
scenarios)
always use the RELEASE branches ?


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