> This follows on from the fairly recent 9.6.0a1. Both 9.4.0 and 9.5.0 went > all the way to a6 before the first beta release, so this was a bit of > a surprise. Does it mean ISC are particularly confident of 9.6.0*'s > robustness? Or just that "no-one starts testing until it is called beta"?
Some of both, plus a desire on ISC's part to tighten up and focus the release cycle. The feature delta between 9.4 and 9.5 was nearly 300 entries in CHANGES; between 9.5 and 9.6 it's only 24, so we don't need as much time or as many alphas. -- Evan Hunt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
