svn commit: r467131 - head/Mk/Uses

[Ben Woods]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 at 4:59 pm, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 08:54:30AM +0000, Timur I. Bakeyev wrote:
> > Author: timur
> > Date: Thu Apr 12 08:54:29 2018
> > New Revision: 467131
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/467131
> >
> > Log:
> >   Add Samba 4.8 as possible default version, remove obsolete Samba 4.4
> >
> >   PR:         227453
> >   Sponsored by:       iXsystems Inc.
> >
>
> I'm wondering why we are keeping that many version of samba around. Are
> there so
> many incompatibilities/regressions/changes between versions?
>
> Best regards,
> Bapt
>

Hi Bapt,

The upstream samba project keeps 3 releases supported at any one time:
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_Release_Planning

Version 4.5 was only discontinued upstream on 13th March 2018 - it was
marked as deprecated in ports a day later, with a 3 month warning period
before it is removed.

Regards,
Ben
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