freebsd announce - Nov 2018 - Interim support guarantee for FreeBSD 12

Dear FreeBSD community,

The Core Team, in consultation with Release Engineering, the Security
Team, and Port Manager has decided that we need to reevaluate the 5-year
support of stable branches starting with stable/12.  A changed security
landscape, increased toolchain velocity, and shorter support windows for
our upstream components necessitate this reevaluation.

We will be leading discussions on updating our support model, with the
goal of making the model sustainable for the Project.  These
discussions, which will include opportunities for community feedback,
will be complete by March 31, 2019.

Regardless of the outcome of the discussions, we guarantee support for
the stable/12 branch for at least 18 months, or at least 6 months after
13.0 is released, whichever is later.  Again, these are minimum
durations for the stable/12 branch support and they will not be reduced.

After these discussions are complete, there will be a revised statement
about the stable/12 branch lifetime.

Release Engineering, the Security Team, Port Manager, and the Core Team
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Dear FreeBSD community,

In November, the FreeBSD Core Team announced that it was considering
changes to the support policy for the stable/12 branch.  After
discussions with different affected parties, it was determined that more
time is required for the community to adjust.  Thus, no major changes
will occur to the stable/12 branch; it will receive the same support as
stable/11 [1].  Any major support model changes [2] will apply to
stable/13 at the earliest, and those changes will be announced before
13.0-RELEASE.

FreeBSD Core Team

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/security/#model

[2] We are also considering updates to architecture tiers for
    stable/13. Any changes will be based on available usage data, survey
    results, and community discussions.
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