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From: johang@algonet.se (Johan Granlund)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: When is 2.2R due out?
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 20:45:44 GMT
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On Tue, 07 May 1996 16:44:49 -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard"
<jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>Louis Epstein wrote:
>
>> Are you in fact expecting to maintain separate release versions of both
>> 2.1.x and 2.2.x branches with only the former being stable?Or will 2.2
>> be the stable branch when its release version comes out?
>
>That was my plan before, but I've since reconsidered whether it would be
>wise to shift -stable over to 2.2 that soon.  I would prefer to shift
>-stable over ONLY after I'm really very very confident that all the
>features of 2.2 work properly and have been shaken out in release form.

Am i correct to assume that we who are tracking -stable will
automatically se our versionnumber step from  2.1.x to 2.2.x or have
we to reinstall and begin from scratch?

>
>-- 
>- Jordan Hubbard
>  President, FreeBSD Project