Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:05:04 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long Term support versions? Message-ID: <20181113130504.ce9045901a6c838aee60bc19@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <ED2E4D4E-DB41-497C-8191-4885B77ACFFD@kreme.com> References: <D34900A4-B42E-4377-B9F2-34C1E8EF071C@kreme.com> <20181113111556.f5870a43fbb1fe38db2a9df2@sohara.org> <ED2E4D4E-DB41-497C-8191-4885B77ACFFD@kreme.com>
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 05:18:10 -0700 "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> wrote: > On 13 Nov 2018, at 04:15, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 03:50:16 -0700 "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> wrote: > >> And 11,2 is the only current version I see > >> <https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.2R/announce.html>, but it is > >> marked to be EOLed at 11.3 +3month so where is a stable release that > >> will have a longer support window? > > > > There isn't one, at least not until 11.<final> whatever <final> > > may be (I'd guess 3 or 4 but that's just my guess), that will remain > > supported until September 2021 which may be long enough for 12.<final> > > to arrive. I'd like to think that, ultimately, tracking n.<final> will > > become a viable strategy. > > IIRC, this has not been the case in the past. Certainly all support for > 10.x expired long before 11.2-RELEASE and we're quite a long way from That is true, but the current support model is new. Looking back over the release history it's very hard to guess when 11.<final> might happen 3 or 4 seems likely but the lifespan of a major release seems to vary from two and a half years to nearly four. I'm hoping for it to work out that way, but it certainly hasn't been stated as a policy. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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