This is a way to discourage and scare off people from running -CURRENT. That's why FreeBSD releases, in general, are much buggier and have many more regression

This is a way to discourage and scare off people from running -CURRENT. That's why FreeBSD releases, in general, are much buggier and have many more regressions than OpenBSD, because on OpenBSD, something like this in -current would be as big of a deal as it making it into a -release, and everyone (not just the developers) is actually encouraged to run -current to make sure any kind of bugs would be caught up in time. BTW, links to the referenced revisions: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/273872 http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/273872 http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/278907 http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/278907