similar to: EoL for FreeBSD 6.2-RC1

Hello Everyone, In light of the longer-than-expected window between 6.2-RELEASE and 6.2-RELEASE, the End-of-Life date for FreeBSD 6.2 has been adjusted from January 31st, 2008 to May 31st, 2008. As a result, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will all cease to be supported at the end of May 2008. FreeBSD users should plan on upgrading to either FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0 once those have

Hello Everyone, In light of the longer-than-expected window between 6.2-RELEASE and 6.2-RELEASE, the End-of-Life date for FreeBSD 6.2 has been adjusted from January 31st, 2008 to May 31st, 2008. As a result, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will all cease to be supported at the end of May 2008. FreeBSD users should plan on upgrading to either FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0 once those have

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On May 31st, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Since FreeBSD 5.5 is the last remaining supported release from the FreeBSD 5.x stable branch, support for the FreeBSD 5.x stable branch will also cease at the same point. Users of

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On May 31st, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Since FreeBSD 5.5 is the last remaining supported release from the FreeBSD 5.x stable branch, support for the FreeBSD 5.x stable branch will also cease at the same point. Users of

The FreeBSD Security Officer would normally be sending out this email, but he's a bit busy right now and it is clear from reactions to FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp that many people are unaware of the current status of the RELENG_5_1 branch, so I'm going to send out this reminder myself. The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect

Is there any reason why releases have EoL dates after only 12 months? While it's clear that some sort of EoL is important, I can't think of any security advisories recently which weren't accompanied by patches for all the security branches, even those which are no longer officially supported. Colin Percival

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect the EoL (end-of-life) of FreeBSD 6.3. The new list is below and at <URL: http://security.freebsd.org/ >. Users of FreeBSD 6.3 are advised to upgrade promptly to a newer release, either by downloading an updated source tree and building updates

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated to reflect the EoL (end-of-life) of FreeBSD 6.3. The new list is below and at <URL: http://security.freebsd.org/ >. Users of FreeBSD 6.3 are advised to upgrade promptly to a newer release, either by downloading an updated source tree and building updates

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On June 1st, 21 days from now, FreeBSD 4.10 will have reached its two year End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. While some security fixes may be merged to the RELENG_4_10 security branch after the EoL date, the Security Team will only investigate new issues if they affect supported branches;

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, In keeping with the FreeBSD Security Team policy concerning the EoL dates for "Normal" support releases, "a minimum of 12 months after the release, and for sufficient additional time (if needed) to ensure that there is a newer release for at least 3 months before the older Normal release expires" the EoL date

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, In keeping with the FreeBSD Security Team policy concerning the EoL dates for "Normal" support releases, "a minimum of 12 months after the release, and for sufficient additional time (if needed) to ensure that there is a newer release for at least 3 months before the older Normal release expires" the EoL date

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On April 30th, FreeBSD 7.0 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of FreeBSD 7.0 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.1 before that date. Note that the End of Life date for FreeBSD 7.0 was originally announced as being February 28, but was delayed by two months in

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On April 30th, FreeBSD 7.0 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of FreeBSD 7.0 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.1 before that date. Note that the End of Life date for FreeBSD 7.0 was originally announced as being February 28, but was delayed by two months in

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On June 30th, FreeBSD 7.2 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 FreeBSD 7.3 before that date; FreeBSD 7.3 will be supported until the end of March 2012. Please note that since FreeBSD 7.1 has been designated for

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On June 30th, FreeBSD 7.2 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 FreeBSD 7.3 before that date; FreeBSD 7.3 will be supported until the end of March 2012. Please note that since FreeBSD 7.1 has been designated for

Well, I *tried* to CC: freebsd-security... I'm forwarding this to get around the "posting from wrong address" filter. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: FW:FreeBSD hiding security stuff Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 04:42:48 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Jonathan Weiss <tomonage2@gmx.de> CC: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-Hackers

freebsd-security-request@freebsd.org wrote: > Send freebsd-security mailing list submissions to > freebsd-security@freebsd.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > freebsd-security-request@freebsd.org > > You

Here's another project for us. We'll want to upgrade to 6.3-RELEASE in May. On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:00 AM, <freebsd-security-request@freebsd.org> wrote: > Send freebsd-security mailing list submissions to > freebsd-security@freebsd.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On January 31st, FreeBSD 4.11 and FreeBSD 6.0 will have reached their End of Life dates and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of either of these FreeBSD releases are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, or the upcoming FreeBSD 6.2 before that date. Discussion concerning FreeBSD

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On January 31st, FreeBSD 4.11 and FreeBSD 6.0 will have reached their End of Life dates and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of either of these FreeBSD releases are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, or the upcoming FreeBSD 6.2 before that date. Discussion concerning FreeBSD