Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 00:03:39 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: General questions about 4-STABLE and 5-CURRENT Message-ID: <200409050603.AAA00695@lariat.org>
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I've got some new servers to build, and have been trying to determine what to put on them. Looking at the TODO list for 5.3, I see that there are several open items which may be critical to system stability. (Some of them are SMP items, but might affect machines with Intel parts that do hyperthreading.) So, for the moment, I'm using 4.10-RELEASE. Would there be any advantage to using a later snapshot of 4-STABLE? If anyone has found a particularly good one with worthwhile fixes, please let me know offline or in a response to this posting. Also, is there a timeline for the release of 4.11 (for those of us who need to wait until 5.3 is rock solid or may need it to run ports that break on 5.x)? In any case, since 5.3 will be out in October (or so says the calendar), and limited testing can be done on the stability-affecting issues that are still open, I will probably continue to use 4.x even after 5.3 is out, switching over to 5.x at the next major or minor release. Which raises the question: Will there be a 5.3.1? It might be a good idea to plan, in advance, for a minor bug fix release to come out after the first couple of months of widespread use. --Brett Glass
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