freebsd announce - Aug 2015 - FreeBSD 8.4 and 8-STABLE end-of-life

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Dear FreeBSD community,

FreeBSD 8.4 and 8-STABLE have reached their end-of-life and will no longer be
supported by the FreeBSD Security Team.  Users of FreeBSD 8.x are strongly
encouraged to upgrade to a newer release as soon as possible.

The currently supported branches and releases and their expected
end-of-life dates are:

 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 |   Branch  |   Release  |  Type  |   Release Date   |     Estimated EoL     |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |stable/9   |n/a         |n/a     |n/a               |last release + 2 years |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |releng/9.3 |9.3-RELEASE |Extended|July 16, 2014     |December 31, 2016      |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |stable/10  |n/a         |n/a     |n/a               |last release + 2 years |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |releng/10.1|10.1-RELEASE|Extended|November 14, 2014 |December 31, 2016      |
 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Please refer to https://security.freebsd.org/ for an up-to-date list of
supported releases and the latest security advisories.

- --
Xin Li
FreeBSD Security Officer
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