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groups</quote> on the -CURRENT mailing list may be |
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<para>Every day, <ulink |
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url="&url.base;/snapshots/">snapshot |
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occasional snapshot are made available. The goals |
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<para>To preserve a fixed reference point for the code in |
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question, just in case we break something really badly |
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later. (Although CVS normally prevents anything horrible |
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like this happening :)</para> |
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only well-tested bug fixes and other small incremental |
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enhancements. FreeBSD-CURRENT, on the other hand, has |
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been one unbroken line since 2.0 was released, leading |
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towards 6.2-RELEASE and beyond. Just before 6.0-RELEASE, the |
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6-STABLE branch was created, and |
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&os.current; became 7-CURRENT. For more detailed information, |
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<para>The &a.re; releases a new version of FreeBSD about every |
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four months, on average. Release dates are announced well in |
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when their projects need to be finished and tested. |
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linkend="stable">-STABLE</link> branch, these being |
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<para>The Problem Report database of all user change requests |
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