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Date:      Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:59:16 -0400
From:      "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll@gmail.com>
To:        jdd <jdd@dodin.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: security updates
Message-ID:  <8cb6106e0808150659h6efaa459ge33303580f197d54@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <48A52B8D.8060102@free.fr> <48A53693.9040303@gmail.com> <48A538E0.8020302@dodin.org>

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> of course, for such use I will take the or stable version :-)
>
> I was sure it was easy :-)
>
> thanks
> jdd

Just to clarify, X-STABLE does not indicate end-user stability. It
indicates the ABI is (generally) stable (ABI-compatibility is
maintained within a branch). There are exceptions, but this generally
holds true. That said, -RELEASE is a better idea for a production
system, unless you have some dire need for a feature/enhancement in
-STABLE.

You can read more about the FreeBSD release engineering process here:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html

Regards,
Josh



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