Looking for version advice

2014-08-09 Thread System Administrator
I need to deploy a BGP router in the next week or so. Generally, I run stable in production, but having watched on the lists the many advancements from 5.5 (last release) to current which is about to become 5.6 release, my question is thus -- is there or soon will be a stable snapshot that is

Re: Looking for version advice

2014-08-09 Thread patric conant
Releases come out very predictably every six months, the next one will be November 1st, snapshots aren't releases, and releases aren't snapshots. In short, no, there is no snapshot that is going to be 5.6 release that you can get some time soon. Close-ish might be available with some work, but the

Re: Looking for version advice

2014-08-09 Thread Adam Thompson
On 14-08-09 02:23 PM, System Administrator wrote: I need to deploy a BGP router in the next week or so. Generally, I run stable in production, but having watched on the lists the many advancements from 5.5 (last release) to current which is about to become 5.6 release, my question is thus -- is

Re: Looking for version advice

2014-08-09 Thread Stefan Johnson
Since you dropped the word production, most places would advise you to follow stable and leave it at that. Upgrade when the next version becomes available (May and November are the release months for OpenBSD) This is sound advice. The other option is to follow current. If you choose to do this