FreeBSD: diff between RELEASE and STABLE

From: stormjumper (stormjumper_at_myrealbox.com)
Date: 11/13/03

  • Next message: Johan Hendriks: "RE: FreeBSD: diff between RELEASE and STABLE" 
    To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:48:28 +0800

    hi,

    i'm slightly confused by the use of the terms RELEASE and STABLE.

    specifically, i refer to section/chapter 2 at the FreeBSD Early Adopter's
    Guide at
        http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html
    where it states that
    "At the moment, only one STABLE branch is under active development; this
    branch is referred to as ``4-STABLE'', and all of the FreeBSD 4.X releases
    were based on it."

    yet 4.9 is the production release, and is referred to as a release at
        http://www.freebsd.org

    can anyone explain the two terms in a less confusing way?

    also, is 4.9 the stable release or not?

    thanks

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