A complement to things such as the official freebsd-current mailing list. Participants should — please — also follow list content.
Posts should:
- be strictly technical
- follow the rules
- relate to CURRENT.
Branches, support, updates — distinguishing between CURRENT, STABLE, and RELEASE
CURRENT is from the fast-moving main branch. FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT at present. Official support is limited — no mention at https://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup, and so on.
STABLE gains merges from CURRENT (MFCs). Three branches active at present: stable/12, stable/13, stable/14.
Updates to CURRENT and STABLE are either built then installed from source, or installed using PkgBase.
Each RELEASE of FreeBSD is the end result of periodic special attention – release engineering – to a releng branch. Active at present:
releng/12.4releng/13.2releng/14.0
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE is expected to arrive in November 2023, and will be recommended for new deployments.