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From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
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Subject: 3.5-stable ?
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Hello,

Traditionally, the best time to get on a FreeBSD branch has been when
it hits *.5.  Is this still true with 3.x?

Current gossip, rumor, and innuendo hints that 4.0-release will be
coming out early next year.  With a release every 3 months, that means
that 3.5-stable will be coming out about next April, about the same time.

With 2.2.x, we has several months of "reliable stable" operation.  I'm
just concerned because I'm waiting to upgrade some 2.2x systems until
3.5.  I'd rather not go through the upgrade just to face the same
software backporting issues I'm currently facing with 2.x systems
after only a couple months.

Thanks,
==ml


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