2026-11-04 10:54 UTC
@kusalananda@fosstodon.org
- releng creates netbsd-11 branch when -current is stable enough
- remains in beta/alpha for several months as it stabilizies, fixes are backported
- first release is made
- fixes continue to be backported
- second release is made
releases are fixed points on the stable branch. most users will probably find tracking the stable branch to be good enough, but releases recieve extra attention (like manual cryptographic signatures)
presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNlxFh43V-w
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@sborrill@justfollow.me.uk 2026-11-04 13:52
@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org @kusalananda@fosstodon.org Back in the day, there were extra branches. So there would have been netbsd-11 leading to 11.2, a netbsd-11-0 leading to 11.0.1 and netbsd-11-1 leading to 11.1.1. Clearly this is a huge amount of work for releng leading to very little benefit, so we (with my releng hat on) got rid of this. It is now much more linear. One HEAD (a.k.a. -current) and two supported stable branches (-10 and -11). When 12 gets branched, there will be a netbsd-12 branch (12.0_BETA)