HEADS-UP: RELENG_4 -> 4.11-PRERELEASE

[Ken Smith]

As mentioned in the previous message about the FreeBSD 4.11 Release Cycle
beginning, today the RELENG_4 branch was re-named 4.11-PRERELEASE.  We
are one week away from the initial code freeze for the 4.11 Release.

If you are in a position to help with testing and/or debugging for the
upcoming release by all means feel free to begin looking for things
that need to be fixed.  However if you are working with a system that
requires stability and if you have been tracking RELENG_4 it is
probably best if you avoid doing updates this week.  Due to increased
developer activity this development branch can become a little more
difficult to work with during this week, the odds of you cvs/cvsup-ing
and catching partial commits and that sort of thing increase (not to
mention developers have on occasion made mistakes MFC-ing things that
take a little time to fix).  This is one of the reasons we recommend
the security/errata branch tags (e.g. currently RELENG_4_10) for
systems that require stability.

As a reminder the release schedule for FreeBSD 4.11 is here:

  http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/schedule.html

Thanks.

-ken (on behalf of the Release Engineering Team)
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