CVS has been deprecated by the project, and its use is not recommended. Subversion should be used instead.
When obtaining or updating sources using cvs or CVSup, a revision tag must be specified. A revision tag refers to either a particular line of FreeBSD development, or a specific point in time. The first type are called “branch tags”, and the second type are called “release tags”.
All of these, with the exception of
HEAD
(which is always a valid tag), only
apply to the src/
tree. The
ports/
, doc/
, and
www/
trees are not branched.
Symbolic name for the main line, or FreeBSD-CURRENT. Also the default when no revision is specified.
In CVSup, this tag is
represented by a .
(not punctuation,
but a literal .
character).
In CVS, this is the default when no revision tag is specified. It is usually not a good idea to checkout or update to CURRENT sources on a STABLE machine, unless that is your intent.
The line of development for FreeBSD-9.X, also known as FreeBSD 9-STABLE
The release branch for FreeBSD-9.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-9.0, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The line of development for FreeBSD-8.X, also known as FreeBSD 8-STABLE
The release branch for FreeBSD-8.3, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-8.2, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-8.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-8.0, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The line of development for FreeBSD-7.X, also known as FreeBSD 7-STABLE
The release branch for FreeBSD-7.4, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-7.3, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-7.2, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-7.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-7.0, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The line of development for FreeBSD-6.X, also known as FreeBSD 6-STABLE
The release branch for FreeBSD-6.4, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-6.3, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-6.2, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-6.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-6.0, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The line of development for FreeBSD-5.X, also known as FreeBSD 5-STABLE.
The release branch for FreeBSD-5.5, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-5.4, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-5.3, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-5.2 and FreeBSD-5.2.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-5.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-5.0, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The line of development for FreeBSD-4.X, also known as FreeBSD 4-STABLE.
The release branch for FreeBSD-4.11, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-4.10, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-4.9, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-4.8, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-4.7, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-4.6 and FreeBSD-4.6.2, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-4.5, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-4.4, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The release branch for FreeBSD-4.3, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes.
The line of development for FreeBSD-3.X, also known as 3.X-STABLE.
The line of development for FreeBSD-2.2.X, also known as 2.2-STABLE. This branch is mostly obsolete.
These tags refer to a specific point in time when a
particular version of FreeBSD was released. The release
engineering process is documented in more detail by the
Release Engineering
Information and
Release
Process documents. The
src
tree uses tag names
that start with RELENG_
tags. The
ports
and
doc
trees use tags
whose names begin with RELEASE
tags.
Finally, the www
tree
is not tagged with any special name for releases.
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FreeBSD 4.9
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FreeBSD 4.8
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FreeBSD 4.7
FreeBSD 4.6.2
FreeBSD 4.6.1
FreeBSD 4.6
FreeBSD 4.5
FreeBSD 4.4
FreeBSD 4.3
FreeBSD 4.2
FreeBSD 4.1.1
FreeBSD 4.1
FreeBSD 4.0
FreeBSD-3.5
FreeBSD-3.4
FreeBSD-3.3
FreeBSD-3.2
FreeBSD-3.1
FreeBSD-3.0
FreeBSD-2.2.8
FreeBSD-2.2.7
FreeBSD-2.2.6
FreeBSD-2.2.5
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