Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:54:28 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How stable is 4.9-RELEASE proving to be? Message-ID: <3F9FF0C4.1070201@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <200310291641.JAA27852@lariat.org> References: <200310291641.JAA27852@lariat.org>
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Brett Glass wrote: >We need immediate feedback on the stability of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. (Yes, I >know, people are just starting to download it now.) We want and need some of >the important fixes that went into -STABLE in the past month (including vital >upates to IPFW2), but can't afford to put a release that's not absolutely >solid on a production system. (For the same reason, we probably won't go to >5.x until 5.3.) The comment in the release notes suggesting that conservative >users stick with 4.8-RELEASE is not encouraging. If 4.9 isn't stable, we may >be forced to jump over to OpenBSD 3.4 for new production systems. > >Will there be a 4.9.1 if there are serious problems in 4.9? > >--Brett Glass > > $cvsup mysupfile Connected to cvsup11.freebsd.org Updating collection src-all/cvs Edit src/Makefile.inc1 Edit src/UPDATING So far, so good ;-) KDK
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