On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 08:17:59AM -0600, Kyle Evans wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 7:04 PM Glen Barber <g...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > Author: gjb > > Date: Fri Sep 11 00:04:23 2020 > > New Revision: 365619 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/365619 > > > > Log: > > Rename stable/12 to -STABLE, and bump __FreeBSD_version after > > releng/12.2 had been created. > > > > I had wondered this before, and now I wonder again after a recent > pkgbase discussion about versioning schemes. Why do we rename stable > to -PRERELEASE at all? It's decidedly a (minor) downgrade to try to go > from -PRERELEASE to -RELEASE since anyone that manages to get a > -PRERELEASE build is still along -STABLE. >
I believe the rationale here was to avoid calling the branch -STABLE until (at least) the -RELEASE or -RC* came out. But, we do not have code freezes on head/main or stable branches anymore, so -PRERELEASE is a marker for "the cycle is in progress, but the releng branch has not necessarily been created yet." For 13.0, there will not be a -PRERELEASE. Glen
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