Query about Virtualbox version.

muhammedzubair sharief mzs_47 at yahoo.co.in
Thu Jul 16 10:38:37 UTC 2015


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On Wed, 15/7/15, Gary Palmer <gpalmer at freebsd.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Query about Virtualbox version.
 To: "muhammedzubair sharief" <mzs_47 at yahoo.co.in>
 Cc: vbox at FreeBSD.org
 Date: Wednesday, 15 July, 2015, 6:06 PM
 
 On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at
 06:33:52PM +0800, muhammedzubair sharief wrote:
 > 
 > Dear Maintainer,
 > 
 > 
 > I am using Virtualbox 4.3.28 on FreeBSD
 10.1, during recent pkg upgrade it showed version 4.3.30.
 
 > 
 > [..]
 > > pkg upgrade
 >
 Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
 >
     virtualbox-ose-kmod: 4.3.28 -> 4.3.30
 >     virtualbox-ose: 4.3.28_1 ->
 4.3.30
 > 
 > The
 process will require 14 KiB more space.
 >
 32 MiB to be downloaded.
 > 
 > Proceed with this action? [y/N]: 
 > [..]
 > 
 > 
 > However there was no
 stable release of 4.3.30. Is this version 5 which was
 recently released?
 > 
 > Thanks for maintaining Virtualbox on
 FreeBSD!
 
 
 https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_3
 
 Quote:  "VirtualBox
 4.3.30 (released July 10th 2015)"
 
 Regards,
 
 Gary
 

Thanks, the last time I checked(on 9th July) it was not there which was during version 5 release,  I am afraid that moving to version 5.0 might break the Virtualbox VM installations on 4.3.x.
Will version 5 replace 4.3.x or that be maintained separately?




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