•FreeBSD releases maintained using CVS
branches
•Head of the tree (-current) will become
FreeBSD 5.0
•Last major release (4.0) was branched
(-stable)
•Subsequent minor releases (4.1, 4.2, etc)
consist of bug fixes backported from -current, and new features in
-current that have been extensively tested
•Everyone
has complete access to the source code at all times, so incremental
releases are not a "Flag day"
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