Release vs Stable vs Current

[Philip Paeps]

On 2005-11-07 22:03:33 (-0500), Ansar Mohammed <ansarm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has the terminology for "production ready" FreeBSD changed?
>  
> Is FreeBSD Release now considered Stable?

Releases have always been considered stable. :-)  At least at the time they
are cut.  A -RELEASE is a snapshot of a -STABLE branch.  Currently, there are
three branches that call themselves -STABLE: RELENG_4, RELENG_5 and RELENG_6,
respectively 4-STABLE, 5-STABLE and 6-STABLE.

 - Philip

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