From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 14:35:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21639 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 14:35:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21632 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 14:35:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA01760; Wed, 13 May 1998 14:34:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 14:34:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ruslan Ermilov cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD release numbering In-Reply-To: <19980513182808.A24436@ucb.crimea.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 May 1998, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > What is the release numbering scheme for FreeBSD. > Why there were no FreeBSD 2.2.3 and 2.2.4? The Numbering Scheme Explained: 2 .2 .6 ^ major rev ^ branch ^ version The major rev is bumped for highly significant events. The branch is bumped for fairly major acrhitectural changes. The version is bumped for each release along the branch. FreeBSD has a history of releasing version .0 as the first in the branch, and minor variations/fixes are released as .1, .2, etc. The next release with changes is usually .5, and it follows from there. IT's pretty organized except for the versions, they are either sequential or bump to the next 5. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message