- FreeBSD releases are classified into "Production Releases" and - "Legacy Releases". The former are best suited to users looking - for the latest new features; the latter are for users wishing to +
FreeBSD releases are classified into Production Releases and + Legacy Releases. Production releases are best suited to users looking + for the latest new features. Legacy releases are for users wishing to stay with a more conservative upgrade strategy.
-Releases are further classified by the length of time they will - be supported by the Security Officer into "Normal" and "Extended" - releases.
-Documentation files for each release are available for viewing in HTML format on the Release Documentation page.
Complete information about the release date, the classification - type, and the estimated End-Of-Life (EOL) for currently supported +
Complete information about the release date + and the estimated End-Of-Life (EOL) for currently supported releases can be found on the Supported Releases section of the FreeBSD Security Information page.
Release &rel.current; (&rel.current.date;) Announcement : Release Notes : Installation Instructions : Hardware Notes : Readme : Errata : Checksums
Release &rel0.current; (&rel0.current.date;) Announcement : Release Notes : Installation Instructions : Hardware Notes : Readme : Errata : Checksums
Release &rel1.current; (&rel1.current.date;) Announcement : Release Notes : Installation Instructions : Hardware Notes : Readme : Errata : Checksums
Release &rel2.current; (&rel2.current.date;) Announcement : Release Notes : Installation Instructions : Hardware Notes : Readme : Errata
Release &rel3.current; (&rel3.current.date;) Announcement : Release Notes : Installation Instructions : Hardware Notes : Readme : Errata
For the schedule of upcoming releases, or for more information about the release engineering process, please visit the Release Engineering page.
The latest snapshots from our FreeBSD-STABLE and FreeBSD-CURRENT branches are also available. Please see Getting FreeBSD for details.
Complete historical information about the release date, the classification type, and the effective End-Of-Life (EOL) for - these releases may be found on the Unsupported Releases section of the FreeBSD Security Information page.
This page contains documentation about the FreeBSD release engineering process.
The following table lists the code freeze status for the major + + +
This table lists the code freeze status for major branches of the src/ subtree of the FreeBSD Subversion repository. Commits to any branch listed as "frozen" must first be reviewed and approved by the relevant contact party. The - status of other subtrees such as ports/ and doc/, + status of other subtrees such as ports/ and doc/ is also provided below.
| Branch | Status | Contact | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| head | Open | committers | Active development branch for 12.0-CURRENT. | |
| stable/11 | Open | committers | Development branch for FreeBSD 11-STABLE. | |
| releng/11.0 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 11.0 supported errata fix branch. | |
| stable/10 | Open | committers | Development branch for FreeBSD 10-STABLE. | |
| releng/10.3 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 10.3 supported errata fix branch. | |
| releng/10.2 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 10.2 supported errata fix branch. | |
| releng/10.1 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 10.1 supported errata fix branch. | |
| releng/10.0 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 10.0 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| stable/9 | Open | committers | Development branch for FreeBSD 9-STABLE. | |
| releng/9.3 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 9.3 supported errata fix branch. | |
| releng/9.2 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 9.2 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/9.1 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 9.1 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/9.0 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 9.0 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| stable/8 | Open | committers | Maintenance branch for 8-STABLE (not officially supported). | |
| releng/8.4 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 8.4 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/8.3 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 8.3 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/8.2 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 8.2 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/8.1 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 8.1 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/8.0 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 8.0 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| stable/7 | Open | committers | Maintenance branch for 7-STABLE (not officially supported). | |
| releng/7.4 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 7.4 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/7.3 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 7.3 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/7.2 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 7.2 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/7.1 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 7.1 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/7.0 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 7.0 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| stable/6 | Open | committers | Maintenance branch for 6-STABLE (not officially supported). | |
| releng/6.4 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 6.4 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/6.3 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 6.3 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/6.2 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 6.2 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/6.1 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 6.1 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/6.0 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 6.0 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| stable/5 | Open | committers | Maintenance branch for 5-STABLE (not officially supported). | |
| releng/5.5 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 5.5 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/5.4 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 5.4 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/5.3 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 5.3 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/5.2 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 5.2 / 5.2.1 security fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/5.1 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 5.1 security fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/5.0 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 5.0 security fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| stable/4 | Open | committers | Maintenance branch for 4-STABLE (not officially supported). | |
| releng/4.11 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 4.11 errata fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/4.10 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 4.10 security fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/4.9 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 4.9 security fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/4.8 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 4.8 security fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/4.7 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 4.7 security fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/4.6 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 4.6 security fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/4.5 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 4.5 security fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/4.4 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 4.4 security fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| releng/4.3 | Frozen | &contact.so; | FreeBSD 4.3 security fix branch (not officially supported). | |
| stable/3 | Open | committers | Maintenance branch for 3-STABLE (not officially supported). | |
| stable/2.2 | Open | committers | Maintenance branch for 2.2-STABLE (not officially supported). | |
| Subtree | Status | Contact | Notes | |
| ports/ | Open | &contact.portmgr; | FreeBSD Ports Collection. | |
| doc/ | Open | &contact.doc; | -SGML/XML based documentation set. | +DocBook XML-based documentation set. |
FreeBSD
Release Engineering
- Describes the approach used by the FreeBSD release
- engineering team to make production quality releases of the
+ This document details the approach used by the FreeBSD release
+ engineering team to make production-quality releases of the
FreeBSD Operating System. It describes the tools available
for those interested in producing customized FreeBSD releases
for corporate rollouts or commercial
productization.
The primary release engineering team is responsible for approving MFC requests during code freezes, setting release schedules, and all of the other responsibilities laid out in our charter.
Primary RE Team (re@FreeBSD.org) : &a.re.members; form the primary release engineering decision-making group.
The builders release engineering team is responsible for building and packaging FreeBSD releases on the various supported platforms.
Builders REs (re-builders@FreeBSD.org) : &a.re-builders;
The third party packages in the Ports Collection are managed by the portmgr@ team. Among many other responsibilities, the port managers keep the ports cluster running smoothly to produce binary packages.
Package Builders (&contact.portmgr;) : &a.portmgr.members;
The &os; Project does not maintain a complete - archive of old release ISO images but many + archive of old release ISO images, but many of them are available at ftp://ftp-archive.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/.
-If you are unable to find an FTP mirror that still contains the - release you are looking for, then you can email CD-ROM vendors to - see if they have any old releases available.
+Older releases that are no longer present on any FTP mirror might + still be available from CD-ROM vendors.
Index: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/relnotes.xml =================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/relnotes.xml (revision 49717) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/relnotes.xml (revision 49718) @@ -1,115 +1,127 @@ ]>
Each distribution of FreeBSD includes several documentation files describing the particular distribution (RELEASE, SNAPSHOTs, etc.). These files typically include:
Of the files listed above, the release notes, hardware notes, and +
The release notes, hardware notes, and installation instructions are customized for each architecture supported by FreeBSD.
The release documentation for each -RELEASE version of FreeBSD (for example, &rel.current;-RELEASE) can be found on the releases page of - the FreeBSD Web site, as well as its mirrors.
+ the FreeBSD web site and on mirror sites. -These files (usually in both HTML and text forms) can be found - in the top-level directory of each distribution (whether on - CD-ROM, an FTP site, or the install floppy disks).
+These files are located + in the top-level directory of each distribution. Both + HTML and text forms are usually provided.
-The release documentation files for snapshots can generally be - found in the top-level directory of each snapshot.
+The release documentation files for snapshots are generally + in the top-level directory of each snapshot.
Automatically-generated HTML versions of the release +
HTML versions of the release documentation for FreeBSD -CURRENT and FreeBSD -STABLE are - available on the FreeBSD Web site. These documents are - continually changing; the versions on the Web site are rebuilt - at the same time that the rest of the Web site is updated.
+ available on the FreeBSD web site. These documents are + continually changing and automatically generated. The versions on the web site are rebuilt + at the same time that the rest of the web site is updated.