Zlib version in FreeBSD - 3 releases behind?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2013-03-06 08:06, Arthur Chance <freebsd at qeng-ho.org> wrote:
> On 03/05/13 16:12, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >On 2013-03-04 07:28, KrisUniverse <kris.universe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>The Zlib baked into FreeBSD is Zlib 1.2.4 even on 9.1R.
> >>
> >>However, Zlib has gone to 1.2.7 sometime ago after stepping through
> >>1.2.5, 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 with bug fixes.
> >>
> >>Is there any reason for not using Zlib 1.2.7?
> >
> >I don't have a 9.1-RELEASE system nearby, but I think zlib 1.2.7 _should_
> >already be there...  Are you sure it's still an old version?
> 
> On my machine:
> 
> # uname -r
> 9.1-RELEASE
> 
> [It's actually -p1 but I've not bothered replacing the kernel as the
> problems were in user space.]
> 
> # grep 'define ZLIB_VERSION' /usr/src/lib/libz/zlib.h
> #define ZLIB_VERSION "1.2.7"

That's what I'd expect.  Thanks :)