Best release or snapshot to install?

[pete wright]

On 7/12/07, Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> wrote:
> We have a FreeBSD 6.0 server that needs upgrading. This is a
> production server, and it needs to be stable. There is no
> posted date for 6.3-RELEASE, so we're looking for a good
> snapshot to install -- preferably a known good build from
> 6-STABLE or a build of the security branch of the tree.
> This would be for a 386-architecture machine. Recommendations?
> Also, when is 6.3-RELEASE (which will hopefully incorporate
> a bunch of MFCed improvements from CURRENT) likely to happen?
>

6.2-RELEASE is the latest stable branch.  you should be able to
upgrade your world to this release with little problems.  going from
6.2-RELEASE to 6.3-RELEASE should be trivial, and any gotcha's should
be documented in /usr/src/UPDATE.  the latest patch level of
6.2-RELEASE should include all security updates, and bug fixes (as
should 6.0-RELEASE/6.1-RELEASE/etc.

i do not think snapshot's have gone through the same amount of
regression testing as official releases, so you may not want to use
those in production environments.

-p


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