Thanks for the reply bmah! I puts me at ease. I guess I had read over the "most" in "most conservative users", or maybe I read it as "most of our conservative users". Anyway, I now understand what is meant by that remark. I honestly misunderstood it as meaning that 4.9 was not stable (sorry about the bikeshed); I hope no one else makes the same mistake.
What I find strange is this remark in the announcement:
We encourage all our users to evaluate FreeBSD 5.1 and the upcoming 5.2. Because PAE support has only been a feature in 4.X for a few months, it has not received wide-spread testing, and our most conservative users may wish to stay with FreeBSD 4.8 until they choose to migrate to 5.X.
This seems to imply that the 4.X branch is no longer -STABLE. I thought the 4.X branch was for conservative users. I don't really see how PAE can be the only reason for this since it is only an option for the kernel. Conservative users can simply choose not to turn it on, right?
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Thanks for the reply bmah! I puts me at ease. I guess I had read over the "most" in "most conservative users", or maybe I read it as "most of our conservative users". Anyway, I now understand what is meant by that remark. I honestly misunderstood it as meaning that 4.9 was not stable (sorry about the bikeshed); I hope no one else makes the same mistake.