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author | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-06-30 13:59:40 +0000 |
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committer | Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-06-30 13:59:40 +0000 |
commit | f5ebe047cae70b6aaf3a0b58c1112a357f68a4ea (patch) | |
tree | 38b2e8ca4c0b6d308ef999fdb6fc5076d7ae5beb /release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1 | |
parent | b7114d4a9cc6a801adfec73c679493547b1d06e6 (diff) | |
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Bump the copyright year and &release.4last;, and add a note
about Errata Branch.
PR: www/67651
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=131332
Diffstat (limited to 'release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1')
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/early-adopter/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/early-adopter/article.sgml index b56509167786..fae45a0f436b 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/early-adopter/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/early-adopter/article.sgml @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ <!ENTITY release.4x "4.<replaceable>X</replaceable>"> <!ENTITY release.5x "5.<replaceable>X</replaceable>"> -<!ENTITY release.4last "4.9-RELEASE"> +<!ENTITY release.4last "4.10-RELEASE"> <!ENTITY release.5branchpoint "5.3-RELEASE"> ]> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ <copyright> <year>2002</year> <year>2003</year> + <year>2004</year> <holder role="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Release Engineering Team</holder> </copyright> @@ -365,7 +366,8 @@ made in the &release.5x; series, support for &release.4x; releases will continue for some time. Indeed, &os; 4.8 was released two months after - 5.0, in April 2003, followed by 4.9, in October 2003. + 5.0, in April 2003, followed by 4.9, in October 2003, + and 4.10 in May 2004. Future releases from the 4-STABLE branch (if any) will depend on several factors. The most important of these is the existence and stability of the 5-STABLE branch. If @@ -398,19 +400,19 @@ the team may support other releases for specific issues.</para> <para>At this point, the release engineering team has no specific - plans for future releases from the 4-STABLE development branch. - It seems likely that any future releases (if - any) from this branch will be lightweight, - <quote>point</quote> releases. These will probably carry - 4.9.<replaceable>X</replaceable> version numbers, to indicate - that they are not intended to provide large amount of new - functionality compared to &release.4last;. In general, these - releases will emphasize security fixes, bug fixes, and device - driver updates (particularly to accommodate new hardware easily - supported by existing drivers). Major new features (especially those - requiring infrastructure support added in &release.5x;) will - probably not be added in these releases.</para> - + plans for future releases from the 4-STABLE development branch, + and we decided to maintain 4.10-RELEASE as <quote>Errata Branch</quote>. + Previously a branch where a release is made has been maintained + as <quote>Security Branch</quote> by the &a.security-officer; + for a certain period, and they would only have critical + security fixes applied. With FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE + the scope of fixes will be expanded to include local + Denial of Service fixes as well as other significant + and well-tested fixes that may not represent security issues. + While those fixes will not likely to be published + as a <quote>release</quote> from the branch, + the &os; Errata Notice will cover them in the same manner + as the &os; Security Advisory.</para> </sect1> <sect1 id="upgrade"> |