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Date:      Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:28:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com>
To:        "Xin LI" <delphij@frontfree.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Will there be a 5.3.1?
Message-ID:  <1590.172.16.0.200.1103488097.squirrel@172.16.0.200>
In-Reply-To: <20041219054045.GA494@frontfree.net>
References:  <200412190500.WAA16814@lariat.org> <20041219054045.GA494@frontfree.net>

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Xin LI said:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:00:57PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
>> I see that there is no scheduled release date for FreeBSD 5.4
>> (which is not a surprise; 5.3 was finalized so recently).
>> However, there seem to be glitches and performance issues
>> which I need to see resolved before I can move to 5.3.x (rather
>> than 4.10 or 4.11) for production servers.
>
> RELENG_5_3 is considered ``errata branch'' so if there is some
> serious issues then some of us may request an errata candidate
> to re@ and there may be an ``errata advisory''.  Generally
> speaking, I don't think there will be a 5.3.1-RELEASE.
>
> Would you please explain what are these ``glitches'' and ``performance
> issues''?  Are they believed to have been fixed in recent -CURRENT?

How about the problems the amd64 platform has with memory configurations
above 4GB? These prevent a successful install.




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