For general purpose systems it doesn't make much sense to lag a release, the amount of breaking change is pretty minimal in FreeBSD these days and it is fairly

For general purpose systems it doesn't make much sense to lag a release, the amount of breaking change is pretty minimal in FreeBSD these days and it is fairly common to run -CURRENT (main) in production so there aren't a lot of hidden dangers in a .0 Old school appliance vendors appreciate the old stable branches where they carry a lot of local changes.