Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 14 Jun 2012, at 16:41, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:29:22AM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>> Whoever said STABLE is no good for production ?
>> 
>> I used to make us stick to 8.2-RELEASE here at work, but some bugfixes
>> are just too important to skip (we're running firewalls and had a
>> problem with a CARP bug).
> 
> In theory we try our best to keep -STABLE, well, stable in behavior and
> not just the API, but in practice any given snapshot of -stable may or
> may not have uncaught regressions in it.
> 
> I reiterate, the major difference between -stable and -release is a more
> thorough QA process for the latter :-)
> 
> mcl

We're indeed pretty happy with 8-STABLE :)

We're ready to take the risk of a regression if the update squashes a bug that's a major PITA


Thanks for your work on the project guys