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Originally Posted by jggimi

While frozen for development, there may still be some small changes to the source code for 4.8-release, as it is prepared for packaging the major architectures on CD for manufacture and distribution, and all architectures for eventual online release.

jggimi brings up a good point. Theo made a presentation on the release process at AsiaBSDCon 2009. For those interested,

• Slides can be found at http://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabs...ing/index.html.
• The presentation was recorded, & can be viewed on YouTube at the following:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7pkyDUX5uM