update for 4.11 Security Officer-supported branches

Jacques A. Vidrine nectar at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 11 12:33:41 PST 2005


On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:16:34AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> there will however be a RELENG_4 branch still active for those of us who 
> need to
> continue generating 4.x based releases for ourselves..
> I'm assuming security patches goin gto 4.11 will also go there.

Yep!  And also errata fixes.

> While a 4.12 will PROBABLY not happen, I do plan on continued MFCs of
> important changes to RELENG_4 as I do not envision my custommers
> moving to 5.x until some time in 2006 at the earliest. (Including
> fixes from dragonfly, and possibly some new drivers and thing like USB
> fixes.

And I don't see any reason that such fixes cannot eventually be merged
to the 4.11 errata branch, assuming they are well-tested.  That'd be
great for everyone!

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques A Vidrine / NTT/Verio
nectar at celabo.org / jvidrine at verio.net / nectar at FreeBSD.org


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