From DaemonNews: “A new area of the FreeBSD web site has been created dedicated to release engineering. This new section contains information about future releases of FreeBSD, a specific schedule for the upcoming releases of FreeBSD 4.6 and 5.0, and more.” According to the web site, FreeBSD 4.6 is scheduled for June 1st, while there will be two Developer Previews for FreeBSD 5, one at April 1st and a second one on 25th of June. The final version of FreeBSD 5.0 is expected at 20th of November.
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Nice release plan…
4.6, 5.0 and then 4.8
???
Read it again. 4.6, 4.7, 5.0, 4.8. The 4.x series is the stable branch, for the conservative people who do not want to use a .0 release just ‘cos for the `coolness’ factor.
Well, I don’t see anything about coolness. I run -CURRENT at work and it seems pretty stable to me.
“Well, I don’t see anything about coolness. I run -CURRENT at work and it seems pretty stable to me.”
The CURRENT branch has no guarantee that it will even compile let alone run. When you’re in a production enviroment, you can’t just cross your fingers and hope it’ll work. That’s why we have the STABLE branch. The STABLE branch is guaranteed to compile and run. Sure, maybe CURRENT works for you now, but with the next cvsup commit, it might not. If you’re running CURRENT, it’s for the “I want to be on the bleeding edge with the newest features before everyone else” reason. I think I may have ripped that right out of the FreeBSD handbook. 😉
Yeh, but when it becomes 5.0-RELEASE I expect it being stable. Remember, 4.5 is also only -RELEASE and not -STABLE.
5.0 will not be stable for me until at least 5.0-RELEASE I suspect. Not for an SMP machine.