What is the latest version of FreeBSD?
- Version 2.1.5 is the latest version; it was released in mid-July.
+ Version 2.1.5 is the latest version; it was released in mid-July, 1996.
What is FreeBSD-current?
@@ -147,24 +147,28 @@ Any entries with a <XXX> are under construction.
enhancements would be made to it (for Internet Service Providers
and other commercial enterprises for whom sudden shifts or
experimental features are quite undesirable). The other branch was
- -current, which essentially has been one unbroken line since 2.0
- was released. If a little ASCII art would help, this is how it
- looks:
+ 2.2-current, which essentially has been one unbroken line leading
+ towards 2.2-RELEASE since 2.0 was released. If a little ASCII art
+ would help, this is how it looks:
2.0
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- 2.0.5 ---> 2.1 ---> 2.1.5 [-stable]
+ 2.0.5 ---> 2.1 ---> 2.1.5 ---> 2.1.6 ---* [-stable ends]
+ | (Dec 1996)
+ |
+ [2.2-current] 2.2-SNAPs
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- [-current] 2.2-SNAPs
- |
- |
- 2.2 (scheduled for Q4 '96)
+ 2.2-RELEASE (scheduled for Q1 1997)
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+ [future releases]
The -current branch is slowly progressing towards 2.2 and beyond,