Hello Everyone,
The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been
updated to reflect recent EoL (end-of-life) events. The new list is
below (and should appear at <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/security/ >
soon). FreeBSD 4.7 has `expired', but I have extended the EoL date
for FreeBSD 5.1.
If you are running FreeBSD 4.7 or older and you wish to be certain to
get critical bug fixes, it is recommended that you upgrade to one of
the newer security branches.
[Excerpt from http://www.freebsd.org/security/]
FreeBSD Security Advisories
The FreeBSD Security Officer provides security advisories for
several branches of FreeBSD development. These are the -STABLE
Branches and the Security Branches. (Advisories are not issued for
the -CURRENT Branch.)
* There is usually only a single -STABLE branch, although during
the transition from one major development line to another
(such as from FreeBSD 4.x to 5.x), there is a time span in
which there are two -STABLE branches. The -STABLE branch tags
have names like RELENG_4. The corresponding builds have names
like FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE.
* Each FreeBSD Release has an associated Security Branch. The
Security Branch tags have names like RELENG_4_6. The
corresponding builds have names like FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE-p7.
Each branch is supported by the Security Officer for a limited
time only, typically through 12 months after the release. The
estimated lifetimes of the currently supported branches are given
below. The Estimated EoL (end-of-life) column gives the earliest
date on which that branch is likely to be dropped. Please note
that these dates may be extended into the future, but only
extenuating circumstances would lead to a branch's support being
dropped earlier than the date listed.
+----------------------------------------+
| Branch | Release | Estimated EoL |
|----------+-----------+-----------------|
|RELENG_4 |n/a |October 31, 2004 |
|----------+-----------+-----------------|
|RELENG_4_8|4.8-RELEASE|March 31, 2004 |
|----------+-----------+-----------------|
|RELENG_4_9|4.9-RELEASE|October 31, 2004 |
|----------+-----------+-----------------|
|RELENG_5_1|5.1-RELEASE|February 28, 2004|
+----------------------------------------+
Older releases are not maintained and users are strongly
encouraged to upgrade to one of the supported releases mentioned
above.
Cheers,
--
Jacques Vidrine . NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal
nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se
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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:10:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Jacques Vidrine <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject: cvs commit: www/en/security security.sgml
Message-Id: <200401091710.i09HAr2A015022@repoman.freebsd.org>
nectar 2004/01/09 09:10:53 PST
FreeBSD doc repository
Modified files:
en/security security.sgml
Log:
Security Officer-supported branches updated:
FreeBSD 4.7 removed: it has passed the published EoL.
FreeBSD 5.1 extended.
Reminded by: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Revision Changes Path
1.149 +3 -8 www/en/security/security.sgml
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