Star FreeBSD 4.9-RC1 Available for Testing
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 30th Sep 2003 17:39 UTC
FreeBSD FreeBSD Release Engg. Team's Murray Stokely announces the availability of first release candidate for FreeBSD 4.9 (RC1). To-do for 4.9 is here. Also, Robert Watson posted another FreeBSD 5.2 "Open Issues" list, still containing 18 "must resolve issues" before 5.2 will be released.
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RE: updating questions
by AVL on Wed 1st Oct 2003 10:32 UTC

Applications in ports tree can be easily kept up-to-date with portupgrade but is there a similar procedure to check whether any new versions of binary packages are available? In other words, is it possible to update software in FreeBSD by using binary packages only (and not compiling from source packages)?

Read the portupgrade manual page for more information on this. The -P switch makes it use binary packages, and fall back on ports if it can't find a package. -PP makes it use only binary packages, with no fallback.

Also, I haven't yet been able to figure out whether the ports tree in some specific RELEASE is updated directly from a development branch (STABLE or CURRENT) or does every RELEASE get its own seperately tailored updates? For example, is the ports tree in RELEASE 4.8 updated directly from the STABLE branch?

There exists only one ports tree, and it is the same for all the branches. So the answer is no, they do not get seperate updates.