RE: FreeBSD: diff between RELEASE and STABLE

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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:57:29 +0100
To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>

Do search on www.bsdforums.org
This is discussed there many times

Well I did a search there for you (I am in a good mood)

this gets asked a lot...

CURRENT - is the most up to date cutting edge version. It should only be
used by those working on BSD or those just interesed in playing around.
It should never be used for any type of production environment.

STABLE - is where they make releases from. It runs and complies
correctly, most of the time. It's usually "stable" enough to run on home
machines and to do testing but once again it shouldn't be used for
production envirionments though.

RELEASE - is a snapshot in time of stable. Right before a new version
comes out they freeze the stable code, do cleanup, fix emergency bugs,
then build the ISO images. This is the version you want for production
envirionments.

once you install from a RELEASE you can then buildworld of any updated
verison you want from the sourcecode. You use a program called cvsup
that downloads the code. you can tell cvsup what version to go get.
There's a whole chapter in the handbook on this so read up.

Personally i stay away from the stable/current lines. Basically once I
install a release every once in a while i do updates only of the current
release line. For example right now I'm running the code version called
RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE which is the 4.8 release, the same as the ISOs you
can download.

Just today infact I updated the code to RELENG_4_8 which is still part
of the 4.8 line but includes only security updates, critical fixes, etc.
I'll spend all day rebuilding the world, compiling a custom kernel, and
installing this newest version.

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: stormjumper [mailto:stormjumper@myrealbox.com]
Verzonden: donderdag 13 november 2003 14:48
Aan: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Onderwerp: FreeBSD: diff between RELEASE and STABLE

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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