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Re:“RNG broken for last 4 months” by barkingcat on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @09:30PM (#9066683)
Not necessarily. If you want to know if your app works with upcoming FreeBSD release versions, you actually care - and you would know to check

https://www.freebsd.org/releng/#freeze

and

https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/relnotes/article.ht...

and

https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD11

and be subscribed to the -CURRENT mailing list - which the development documentation indicate as mandatory when using a -CURRENT build.

Then you would know whether the compiler suite is being torn out (remember? FreeBSD switched from GCC to LLVM/Clang - yes - that was done in the last -CURRENT development cycle)

So your software might not even build because of certain base OS issues. BUT you would know all that already - and you would run -CURRENT in a VM that you blow away and rebuild as needed.

Or in continuous integration like jenkins. https://wiki.freebsd.org/201405DevSummit/Jenkins

BUT NO - you would use it in testing only. You wouldn't use it as a main platform.

Unless you don't really care - then it's on you.

Many devs run 10.1 and then run -CURRENT in VM's or on a spare laptop or machine for this purpose.

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