On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:04:23AM -0800, Xin Li wrote: > I believe traditionally we also bump __FreeBSD_version when -STABLE > become -PRERELEASE, which typically happens when we enter a code freeze, > but more recent -STABLE branches seems to have moved to doing > __FreeBSD_version bumps at the time of -BETA, but technically I think we > do want to bump __FreeBSD_version as early as we promoted -STABLE to > -PRERELEASE to match the hardcoded version number... >
The __FreeBSD_version bump happens when the stable branch is created, correct. The problem with statically setting it earlier is if a change happens that warrants bumping the __FreeBSD_version (similarly to why we do not bump it for SAs/ENs). Glen
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