From owner-freebsd-ports-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 6 17:19:17 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports-announce@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2503CD22; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 17:19:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206c::16:87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188BA8B9; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 17:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.6/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r26HJGkI034168; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 17:19:16 GMT (envelope-from tabthorpe@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from tabthorpe@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) id r26HJG4j034167; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 17:19:16 GMT (envelope-from tabthorpe) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 17:19:16 +0000 From: Thomas Abthorpe To: ports-announce@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20130306171916.GA34163@freefall.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] [HEADS UP] FreeBSD Ports tree has been tagged with RELEASE_7_EOL X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Important news and instructions about the FreeBSD " ports collection" \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:19:17 -0000 The FreeBSD Ports Management Team wishes to remind users that February 28 was the end of support for the Ports Collection for both FreeBSD 7.4 RELEASE and the FreeBSD 7.x STABLE branch. Neither the infrastructure nor individual ports are guaranteed to work on these FreeBSD versions after that date. A tag has be created for users who cannot upgrade for some reason, at which time these users are advised to stop tracking the latest ports repository and use the RELEASE_7_EOL tag instead. While many people still use RELENG_7, it is at the end of its development cycle. The Ports Management team has set the following policies with regard to EOL/EOS of this branch and would like to let developers know that: - We do not require committers/maintainers to support 7.x, although ports will need to be marked as BROKEN/IGNORE if they do not build/run. - Port maintainers are encouraged to accept patches from the community that allow their ports to build and run on 7.x. However, since running on 7.x is no longer a requirement, maintainers may use their discretion in cases where a proposed patch would be disruptive to other supported FreeBSD branches, or would unreasonably impede ongoing maintenance of the port. - We strongly encourage all users and developers to migrate to the FreeBSD 8.x or 9.x branch, both of which is a stable and mature platform, and are now the reference branches for the ports collection. Pleae refer to the FreeBSD Security Officer list of unsupported branches http://www.freebsd.org/security/#unsup