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<!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">
]>
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<copyright>
<year>2002</year>
<year>2003</year>
<year>2004</year>
<holder role="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Release
Engineering Team</holder>
</copyright>
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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
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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>
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