Since you dropped the word production, most places would advise you to follow stable and leave it at that. Upgrade when the next version becomes available (May and November are the release months for OpenBSD) This is sound advice. The other option is to follow current. If you choose to do this for production, you should probably consider taking the following steps:
Grab a current snapshot. Install on a test/dev box, and run it there for a while until you are comfortable that it is stable enough for possible production. If you deem that it is, install that to production. If you don't, you can track current until you find a version that is. At that point, either install that stablish current snapshot, or if you were tracking it via cvs updates, build a release from it (instructions in the FAQ on the website work great for this) and then install that home grown release. Either is viable, you just have to make the call for yourself how much you want to tie up into test/dev to track current or not. Current is usually pretty stable, but there are times that something breaks in a snapshot and that's not a grand place to be for production, so it's still a (little) dangerous. On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 2:23 PM, System Administrator <ad...@bitwise.net> wrote: > I need to deploy a BGP router in the next week or so. Generally, I run > stable in production, but having watched on the lists the many > advancements from 5.5 (last release) to current which is about to > become 5.6 release, my question is thus -- is there or soon will be a > stable snapshot that is (or easily upgradeable to) 5.6 release? If so, > where do I go to fetch it and the corresponding packages? > > This will run on PowerEdge 1850 (amd64) with em(4) multi-port cards. > > Many thanks in advance, > -Jacob.
