Gary Kline wrote:
Sounds like an ambitious schedule... All my FBSD servers
are at least up to 5.3; my laptop is happy at 5.4. I have
what I believe to be a rationalquestion. Why should I go
beyond v5.5?
There is one school of thought that says you shouldn't. If it works for you,
there is no real need to upgrade.
More to the point, why can't minor security
tweaks be maintained indefinitely for 5.5?
We don't support any branch of FreeBSD indefinitely.
What will
releases -6 and -7 offer that can;t reasonably be dropped
into -5?
New features that require protocol/ABI changes, etc. for one. For example,
I'm working on adding ports/local rc.d scripts to the overall rcorder, and
that change won't go back into RELENG_5 because it constitutes a major
paradigm shift, and we don't mess with -stable branches in that way.
hth,
Doug
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