Updating OpenSSH

[krad]

On 16 March 2011 19:47, Carmel <carmel_ny at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:32:48 -0700
> Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> articulated:
>
> > On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Carmel wrote:
> > > OK, then does that mean that the latest version will be used in the
> > > still not released 9 version of FreeBSD?
> >
> > Currently, no-- TRUNK has:
> >
> >
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/crypto/openssh/version.h
> >
> > Revision 1.41: download - view: text, markup, annotated - select for
> > diffs Thu Nov 11 11:46:19 2010 UTC (4 months ago) by des
> > Branches: MAIN
> > CVS tags: HEAD
> > Diff to: previous 1.40: preferred, colored
> > Changes since revision 1.40: +3 -3 lines
> > SVN rev 215116 on 2010-11-11 11:46:19Z by des
> >
> > Upgrade to OpenSSH 5.6p1.
>
> Out of some sort of morbid curiosity, why would the FreeBSD developers
> not update to the latest version? It appears to be stable and I have not
> seen anything to state otherwise. There are apparently, (obviously)
> differences between the latest and the version presently used in
> FreeBSD and I assume the proposed one for the 9.x branch. Mathew
> alluded to that. In any case, since 9.x is not due out for a while, it
> would appear to me me anyways that now would be a good time to consider
> making the switch.
>
> Just my 2¢.
>
> --
> Carmel
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>
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a combination of time and limited resources I guess. If it bugs you that
much why dont you volunteer yourself to maintain it, i'm sure that if you
dont feel competent enough at present, people will help and mentor you