Today Erwin Lansing froze the FreeBSD Ports tree in preparation for the 6.4 and 7.1 releases. That basically means that no one can commit to the ports tree without prior approval from the Ports Management team.
The freeze is done to give the machines in the build cluster the time to build packages for both releases, which can be included on the CD’s and uploaded to the various FTP-mirrors so that you (The end user) can use them when you install the versions.
Certain people will get a blanket from the Ports Management team, so that they can improve the current ports and document Security Vulnerabilities where needed, and ofcourse update the packages if that is required.
Stay Tuned 
