From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 12 16:47:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 277A937B422 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:47:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8CNlZU30408; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:47:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: John Toon , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please consider some cosmetic changes in boot messages In-Reply-To: Message from Neil Blakey-Milner of "Sat, 09 Sep 2000 15:15:18 +0200." <20000909151518.A70536@mithrandr.moria.org> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:47:35 -0700 Message-ID: <30404.968802455@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On that subject, can you give me a rough projection as to when > > 5.0-RELEASE is likely to arrive? > > FreeBSD 2.2.1 1997-04-xx [FBD] > FreeBSD 3.0 1998-10-16 [FBD] > FreeBSD 4.0 2000-03-13 [FBD] You forgot FreeBSD 4.1, 2000-07-27 (www.freebsd.org/releases). This makes FreeBSD 4.2 scheduled for 2000-11-xx since we do a release every 4 months (not that anyone asked about 4.2 in this thread, but I saw some other speculation about it which I'll conveniently answer in this one). I'm also not sure where the rumors about a FreeBSD 4.1.5 got started since I'd certainly never planned on such a thing, that, I think, being more the product of wishful thinking on certain security-minded people's behalf after RSA released their code. :-) That said, it's something I'm still contemplating. I need to see what merge-in-progress work is currently underway or certainly people will complain that 4.1.5 should have waited for their own wishlist items rather than being slaved solely to the RSA release event. As to FreeBSD 5.0, I think you can count on that being a mid-summer item for 2001 and certainly not any sooner. There's a lot of work which still needs to be done before we'll be ready for anything like 5.0, given the extent of the SMPng changes planned for that release. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message