From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 24 10:08:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5BCC16A4CE for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 10:08:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E258043D48 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 10:08:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (212.181.162.201) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.1.026.7) id 42662CF1000F5982 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:08:50 +0200 Received: (qmail 35722 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Apr 2005 10:08:48 -0000 Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:08:47 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Stevan Tiefert Message-ID: <20050424100847.GA29140@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Stevan Tiefert , "cyb." <"cyb."@gmx.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <426B4E48.2010208@freenet.de> <1114334980.515.1.camel@p4-3200.local> <426B6873.5000205@freenet.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <426B6873.5000205@freenet.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i cc: "cyb." <"cyb."@gmx.net> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: non-official support for 5.2.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 10:08:51 -0000 On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:35:47AM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > Andreas Rudisch schrieb: > > >On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 11:11 +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > > > > > > > >>Hello Kris, > >> > >>to explain better, what I want (It was my job to specify better what I > >>want :-) > >> > >>Does the RELENG_5_2 security branch still exist? And if not, when and > >>where did they annouced to stop the support for 5.2.1? > >> > >>With regards > >>Stevan > >> > >> > > > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html > > > >quote: > >"Older releases are not maintained and users are strongly encouraged to > >upgrade to one of the supported releases mentioned above." > > > >Andreas > > > > > > > Hello Andreas, > > I have read this page already and I understood the text. > > Fact was also that the 5.2.1-security-branch should supported till Oct > 2005 Where did you find that "fact" ? As you can see on the webpage referenced above "early adopter" releases (like 5.2.1) is normally only officially supported for 6 months after release. The RELENG_5_2 branch was originally scheduled to only be supported through July 2004 (6 months after the release of 5.2). After the release of 5.2.1 (in Feb 2004) this was extended to Dec 2004, and then simply not extended any further. (Especially since in that time 5.3 had been released as the first -STABLE 5.x release, and all users of older 5.x releases were recommended to update.) It has never been promised that RELENG_5_2 would be supported in 2005. > and only important reasons can stop developing security branch > fixes! But why they stop developing the security branch without > notifying the people. They notified people long in advance that the RELENG_5_2 branch would eventually be abandoned and also when it would happen. > > I mean it is not enough to write a small sentence on a web-site! It > should be announced in freebsd-annouce@freebsd.org. But I can not find > anything in the archives! The next time they should annouce the > interrupt of supporting a security branch!!! Considering that 5.2.1 was never intended for serious production use, I think those using it anyway should check for themselves in advance for how long it is going to be supported. If they had done so they would know that support was planned to have been dropped by now. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se