freebsd stable - Dec 2004 - Will there be a 5.3.1?

I see that there is no scheduled release date for FreeBSD 5.4
(which is not a surprise; 5.3 was finalized so recently).
However, there seem to be glitches and performance issues
which I need to see resolved before I can move to 5.3.x (rather
than 4.10 or 4.11) for production servers.

Would anyone else besides me like to see a 5.3.1 minor release 
sometime around, say, February?

--Brett Glass

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:00:57PM -0700, Brett Glass
wrote:
> I see that there is no scheduled release date for FreeBSD 5.4
> (which is not a surprise; 5.3 was finalized so recently).
> However, there seem to be glitches and performance issues
> which I need to see resolved before I can move to 5.3.x (rather
> than 4.10 or 4.11) for production servers.
> 
> Would anyone else besides me like to see a 5.3.1 minor release 
> sometime around, say, February?
> 
Why not just track RELENG_5? It would give you the same thing.


Andrew

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:00:57PM -0700, Brett Glass
wrote:
> I see that there is no scheduled release date for FreeBSD 5.4
> (which is not a surprise; 5.3 was finalized so recently).
> However, there seem to be glitches and performance issues
> which I need to see resolved before I can move to 5.3.x (rather
> than 4.10 or 4.11) for production servers.
RELENG_5_3 is considered ``errata branch'' so if there is some
serious issues then some of us may request an errata candidate
to re@ and there may be an ``errata advisory''.  Generally
speaking, I don't think there will be a 5.3.1-RELEASE.

Would you please explain what are these ``glitches'' and ``performance
issues''?  Are they believed to have been fixed in recent -CURRENT?
> Would anyone else besides me like to see a 5.3.1 minor release 
> sometime around, say, February?
Maybe 5.4? =-)  The 5-STABLE ABI has been frozen so you would not
have to fear of a new 5-STABLE release :-)

Cheers,
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Brett Glass wrote:
> Would anyone else besides me like to see a 5.3.1 minor release 
> sometime around, say, February?
No, but quite a few people would like to see a 5.4 minor release
sometime around, say, late February or early March.

Colin Percival