Re: How stable is 4.9-RELEASE proving to be?

From: Maxim Konovalov (maxim_at_macomnet.ru)
Date: 10/29/03

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    Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:51:44 +0300 (MSK)
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>

    On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, 09:41-0700, Brett Glass wrote:

    > We need immediate feedback on the stability of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. (Yes, I
    > know, people are just starting to download it now.) We want and need some of
    > the important fixes that went into -STABLE in the past month (including vital
    > upates to IPFW2), but can't afford to put a release that's not absolutely
    > solid on a production system. (For the same reason, we probably won't go to
    > 5.x until 5.3.) The comment in the release notes suggesting that conservative
    > users stick with 4.8-RELEASE is not encouraging. If 4.9 isn't stable, we may
    > be forced to jump over to OpenBSD 3.4 for new production systems.

    All our tests show RELENG_4 is quite stable atm. We are going to
    upgrade all our production systems to 4.9-STABLE in two weeks. 

    -- 
Maxim Konovalov, maxim@macomnet.ru, maxim@FreeBSD.org
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