Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:54:42 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Daniel Cuthbert <daniel.cuthbert@uk.psi.com> Cc: openzero@bsdmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-3.5 Message-ID: <20000713115442.A47753@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <NEBBLHOMMLHCGDHCGIHDKEGECAAA.daniel.cuthbert@uk.psi.com>; from daniel.cuthbert@uk.psi.com on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 09:02:09AM %2B0100 References: <20000712154626.23013.qmail@bsdmail.com> <NEBBLHOMMLHCGDHCGIHDKEGECAAA.daniel.cuthbert@uk.psi.com>
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On Thu 2000-07-13 (09:02), Daniel Cuthbert wrote:
> Can anyone explain the difference between the version numbers? which is
> newer 4.0 or 3.5?
---- 3.0 --- stable development ------- 3.4-RELEASE -------- 3.5-RELEASE
\
\
\- wild development --- stable development --- 4.0-RELEASE ---
Basically, when 3.0-RELEASE occurs, development started on the 4.0
branch, where all the new and latest stuff would go, and would be
imported back to the 3.0 branch if considered stable enough.
Eventually, it was felt the 4.0 stuff was ready for prime time, so it
was cleaned up, and became 4.0-RELEASE, whereas previously it was
4.0-CURRENT. At that exact time, the 5.0 branch was started, to take
all the new development, since the 4.0 branch was now dedicated to being
stable for production use.
The upgrade to 3.4-RELEASE to 4.0-RELEASE includes many new features,
some changed driver names, different ways of doing things, and so on.
However, after 3.4 was released, stable updates continued on the 3.0
branch, and were included. Since these updates had occurred, and some
people didn't want the hassle of upgrading to 4.0-RELEASE, the final
release on the 3.0 branch, 3.5-RELEASE was made.
Basically, 3.5-RELEASE was later in time, but doesn't contain the
features that 4.0-RELEASE has.
If you want to choose a release, choose 4.0-RELEASE, or wait a few days
for 4.1-RELEASE. Starting with 3.5-RELEASE now would leave you at a
dead-end, and you'd have to upgrade to the 4.0 branch soon anyway. 4.0
also has more features, supports more hardware, and so forth.
Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org
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