On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:45 PM, enclair <wifiencl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the FAQ says:
>
> "When serious bugs or security flaws are discovered in third party software,
> they are fixed in the *-stable* branch of the ports tree. Remember that the
> lifecycle is 1 release: only the current and last release are updated"
>
> Does it mean:
>
> 1) 4.8-stable and -current have security updates for packages.
>
> or
>
> 2) 4.7-stable and 4.8-stable have security updates for packages.

Commits happen first in -current, then sometimes to 4.7-stable and 4.8-stable
branches of the portstree. You need to build packages yourself though.

Landry

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