-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, On January 31st, FreeBSD 6.3 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of this release are strongly encouraged to upgrade to a newer release before that date -- more conservative users will probably wish to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.4 or FreeBSD 7.1 (which are both extended-support branches), while others will probably wish to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.2 or FreeBSD 8.0. The freebsd-update(8) utility can be used to upgrade i386 and amd64 systems from 6.3-RELEASE (or 6.3-RELEASE-pX for some X) to 6.4-RELEASE using binary updates (i.e., without compiling from source) as described in the 6.4-RELEASE announcement; given an adequate internet connection, this process usually takes 15 minutes or less. The current supported branches and expected EoL dates are: +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Branch | Release | Type | Release date | Estimated EoL | |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_6 |n/a |n/a |n/a |November 30, 2010| |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_6_3 |6.3-RELEASE |Extended|January 18, 2008 |January 31, 2010 | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| |RELENG_6_4 |6.4-RELEASE |Extended|November 18, 2008|November 30, 2010| |---------------------------------------------------------------------| |RELENG_7 |n/a |n/a |n/a |last release + 2y| |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_7_1 |7.1-RELEASE |Extended|January 4, 2009 |January 31, 2011 | |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_7_2 |7.2-RELEASE |Normal |May 4, 2009 |May 31, 2010 | |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_8 |n/a |n/a |n/a |last release + 2y| |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_8_0 |8.0-RELEASE |Normal |November 25, 2009|November 30, 2010| +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ - -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAks/E1cACgkQFdaIBMps37J56wCcDDGvadAV0JnZsUXIVPRMghmQ 9KwAn3TiFrI5cNLjGwu58gMXOtNNbPg2 =GOl4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Interestingly, if one looks at the chart in the above referenced message, one can see that at this time there is NO release of FreeBSD which will be supported with security patches, etc. for more than 13 months. As both an administrator and a system builder who cannot afford the labor and downtime inherent in frequent operating system upgrades, it is important to me to be able to build systems whose operating system version will be supported for at least 18 months (and, preferably, two years). Would it be possible to extend support for FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE until mid-2011 or 2012 -- or, if this is not practical, quickly release a FreeBSD 8.1 which will be supported for at least that long? --Brett Glass
D?a 7.1.2010 0:50, Brett Glass wrote / nap?sal(a):> > As both an administrator and a system builder who cannot afford the > labor and downtime inherent in frequent operating system upgrades, it is > important to me to be able to build systems whose operating system > version will be supported for at least 18 monthsThere will be 7.4 release "quiet" soon (read in approx. 3 months from now) which should meet your requirements. -- S pozdravom / Best regards Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD committer
and who is 7.3 ;) On 1/7/10, Daniel Gerzo <danger@freebsd.org> wrote:> D?a 7.1.2010 0:50, Brett Glass wrote / nap?sal(a): >> >> As both an administrator and a system builder who cannot afford the >> labor and downtime inherent in frequent operating system upgrades, it is >> important to me to be able to build systems whose operating system >> version will be supported for at least 18 months > > There will be 7.4 release "quiet" soon (read in approx. 3 months from > now) which should meet your requirements. > > -- > S pozdravom / Best regards > Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD committer > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
D?a 7.1.2010 2:21, Oliver Pinter wrote / nap?sal(a):> and who is 7.3 ;)ah, good catch, of course I meant FreeBSD 7.3. Sorry for that. My mind just got a little confused because of a little discussion on IRC. ;-)>> There will be 7.4 release "quiet" soon (read in approx. 3 months from >> now) which should meet your requirements.-- S pozdravom / Best regards Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD committer
Hi, Do you have any news about 8.1? :) Regards, Andras On Cs?, Janu?r 7, 2010 2:54 am, Daniel Gerzo wrote:> D?�a 7.1.2010 2:21, Oliver Pinter wrote / nap??sal(a): > >> and who is 7.3 ;) > > ah, good catch, of course I meant FreeBSD 7.3. Sorry for that. My mind > just got a little confused because of a little discussion on IRC. ;-) > > >>> There will be 7.4 release "quiet" soon (read in approx. 3 months from >>> now) which should meet your requirements. > > -- > S pozdravom / Best regards > Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD committer > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >