What are SNAPs and RELEASEs?
There are currently three active/semi-active branches in the FreeBSD CVS Repository. (Earlier branches are only changed very rarely, which is why there are only three active branches of development): • RELENG_3 AKA 3.X-STABLE • RELENG_4 AKA 4-STABLE • HEAD AKA -CURRENT AKA 5.X-CURRENT HEAD is not an actual branch tag, like the other two; it is simply a symbolic constant for “the current, non-branched development stream” which we simply refer to as “-CURRENT”. Right now, “-CURRENT” is the 5.X development stream and the 4-STABLE branch, RELENG_4, forked off from “-CURRENT” in Mar 2000.
There are currently three active/semi-active branches in the FreeBSD CVS Repository (the RELENG_2 branch is probably only changed twice a year, which is why there are only three active branches of development): • RELENG_2_2 AKA 2.2-STABLE • RELENG_3 AKA 3.X-STABLE • RELENG_4 AKA 4.X-STABLE • HEAD AKA -CURRENT AKA 5.0-CURRENT HEAD is not an actual branch tag, like the other two; it’s simply a symbolic constant for “the current, non-branched development stream” which we simply refer to as -CURRENT. Right now, -CURRENT is the 5.0 development stream and the 4-STABLE branch, RELENG_4, forked off from -CURRENT in Mar 2000. The 2.2-STABLE branch, RELENG_2_2, departed -CURRENT in November 1996, and has pretty much been retired.
There are currently three active/semi-active branches in the FreeBSD CVS Repository (the RELENG_2 branch is probably only changed twice a year, which is why there are only three active branches of development): • RELENG_2_2 AKA 2.2-STABLE • RELENG_3 AKA 3.X-STABLE • RELENG_4 AKA 4-STABLE • HEAD AKA -CURRENT AKA 5.0-CURRENT HEAD is not an actual branch tag, like the other two; it is simply a symbolic constant for “the current, non-branched development stream” which we simply refer to as “-CURRENT”. Right now, “-CURRENT” is the 5.0 development stream and the 4-STABLE branch, RELENG_4, forked off from “-CURRENT” in Mar 2000. The 2.2-STABLE branch, RELENG_2_2, departed -CURRENT in November 1996, and has pretty much been retired.
There are currently three active/semi-active branches in the FreeBSD CVS Repository. (Earlier branches are only changed very rarely, which is why there are only three active branches of development): • RELENG_5 AKA 5-STABLE • RELENG_6 AKA 6-STABLE • HEAD AKA -CURRENT AKA 7.X-CURRENT HEAD is not an actual branch tag, like the other two; it is simply a symbolic constant for “the current, non-branched development stream” which we simply refer to as “-CURRENT”. Right now, “-CURRENT” is the 7.X development stream; the 5-STABLE branch, RELENG_5, forked off from “-CURRENT” in October 2004, and the 6-STABLE branch, RELENG_6, forked off from “-CURRENT” in November 2005.
There are currently three active/semi-active branches in the FreeBSD CVS Repository: • RELENG_2_2 AKA 2.2-STABLE AKA “2.2 branch” • RELENG_3 AKA 3.X-STABLE AKA “3.0 branch” • HEAD AKA -CURRENT AKA 4.0-CURRENT HEAD is not an actual branch tag, like the other two, it’s simply a symbolic constant for “the current, non-branched development stream” which we simply refer to as -CURRENT. Right now, -CURRENT is the 4.0 development stream and the 3.0-STABLE branch, RELENG_3, forked off from -CURRENT in Jan 1999. The 2.2-STABLE branch, RELENG_2_2, departed -CURRENT in November 1996. The 2.1-STABLE branch, RELENG_2_1_0, departed -CURRENT in September of 1994. This branch has been fully retired.
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