Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:30:52 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, mj@isy.liu.se Subject: Re: How long will 3.x-STABLE live? Message-ID: <15035.42092.508595.661733@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <55997075@toto.iv>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> types: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:29:47AM +0100, Micke Josefsson wrote: > > I have a whole lot (circa 50 off) of boxes running 3.x-STABLE (closer to > > 3.2-RELEASE than anything else actually). This summer I will upgrade them= > , but I > > would prefer to do it the simple way ie. just make them STABLE again. But= > how > > far into the future will there be updates to the 3-branch?=20 > Commits to RELENG_3 basically dried up around the release of > 3.4-RELEASE..there have been only a handful of commits since then, and > almost none in the past year (except for security fixes). RELENG_3 > has been for all intents and purposes dead for quite some time. It's more like being at the "bug fix only" stage. I think the more telling point is that a month or so ago, support for 3.x was officially dropped for ports. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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