The rapid pace of
<systemitem>FreeBSD
</systemitem> development makes the main development branch unsuitable for the everyday use by the general public. In particular, stabilizing efforts are required for polishing the development system into a production quality release. To solve this conflict, development continues on several parallel tracks. The main development branch is the
<emphasis>HEAD
</emphasis> or
<emphasis>trunk
</emphasis> of our Subversion tree, known as
<quote>FreeBSD-CURRENT
</quote> or
<quote>-CURRENT
</quote> for short.